person. then she vanished. i called the police. something is wrong. and something was. days passed, then months, no leads, no clues, no progress. we ve got to get going. we ve got to get moving on this. enter the a-team. a band of tough guy privatize. yes something to hide. a brief encounter with the mysterious stranger. on the train coming home, she had met this woman. did that hold the answer? she s talking about how someone is trying to assume her identity. a chilling case of a daughter in danger. somebody was after her. welcome to dateline. i m lester holt. she was beautiful, talented, trusting, and sometimes troubled. a young woman from a prominent family finally grabbing the promise and life right up to the day she vanished. when the police seemed unable to find her, her family had to plan, and the usual strategy to solve the mystery. here is keith morrison. it began on the bright morning in may. slipped from its platform in washington stat
surroundings, you just never know. it started with a frightening horror movie from the 80s. this movie is we re gonna take some women into the wood and they will be hunted down. decades later something truly frightening it was happening for real. a strange vanishing in the forest. immediately, we knew something was wrong. then your heart just broke. surely, then meredith, two women missing and desperate efforts to find them. she could be alive and we just can t let up. could this old movie hold the key to these new cases? a little blood, sex, violence. a film fantasy turn chilling reality. if someone has her, she is afraid. who could be behind this and how with this real life story and? she was a blue belt in judo. if anybody could survive it was there it is. our national forests are places of refuge for folks who want to get away from the city and have a sense of peace, commune with nature but you have to be aware of your surroundings all th
another week of shows. we re so grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, nicolle. welcome to the booet. joe biden just sat down for an msnbc exclusive. they just if he in the tapes. what you re seeing just happened. and you will only hear this exclusive on msnbc tonight, including starting this hour when stephanie joins us live with the first excerpt. there is no bigger inview in american government or politics. and we and stephanie have you covered with that coming up. i also have more on the expanding scandals, swirling around clarence thomas and his controversial activist wife. new evidence about her secret payments provided from a republican kecked insider. so we re going to get into that and what has become basically a pile of questions for not only clarence thomas but his colleagues on the court. what are they going to do about it. we ll get into that later tonight. it is one of those very newsy fridays. from the supreme court all the way over to the
that the wife had been murdered in the pisgah national forest. dennis murphy (voiceover): that detective was working an unsolved case that had cops in north carolina bewildered. david mahoney, a sheriff of transylvania county, a beautiful place with an ominous name that has nothing to do with fangs dripping blood. we have some wonderful attractions here. all of those things, along with the slower pace of life, is what brings folks and keeps folks here. dennis murphy (voiceover): folks like john and irene bryant, who, after raising a family, retired here, far from the brutal winters of upstate new york and close to the hiking trails they loved. holly bryant is the youngest of their four children. they love the outdoors. when they were first married, they used to go out hiking in the mountains. they would take us hiking. and as they got older, they d take the grandchildren out hiking, too. dennis murphy (voiceover): the bryants had a lifetime of outdoors experience, had hiked all over th
on the van came from this photo taken by a hiker in the blood mountain parking lot the night before meredith emerson went missing. a be on the lookout advisory went out for the guy driving a white van accompanied by his reddish dog. it is going to be a white male between the ages of 50 and 60 years old, approximately 160 pounds. it was described as he has bad dental. he had a dark reddish colored retriever. we put out that information through the media in atlanta and actually got a call from someone who said i think i know who this is. dennis murphy (voiceover): coming up, this mysterious stranger would prove to be stranger than anyone expected. i just turned white at one point. i felt the blood leave my face. dennis murphy (voiceover): meredith emerson had not been the only one missing in the forest. if she s still alive and someone has her, she s afraid. dennis murphy (voiceover): when mystery on blood mountain continues.