watson carried the knowledge. very down deep. it festered. eight away at her. if i never said a word to anybody, how do i look my daughter in the eye? and live the rest of my life? knowing what i know. and keeping that. rosemary said that the seeds of this dark secret first took root in august of 2000. the night linda disappeared. she of course had been her husband s alibi. told investigators that he was home with her all night. but she told us that that wasn t entirely true. in the middle of the night, she said, she actually woke up. and dave was not in bed. and i got up and i walked through the house and i did not see him. and i went and i laid back down. i fell back asleep. sometime later, she said, she woke up again. and he was not in bed with me again. and i was looking for him, and through the house, peeking out
you re calling ally now? right? it is a lie. and in the last seven years is the truth, right? i came forward. and told the truth. i understand they are completely different versions of that night. yes? they are. one of them is a complete lie? yes? yes. the defense in a nutshell, help have no fury like a woman scorned. so she s wanting to stick it to her ex? that s your theory? exactly right. appointed defense drove home in closing arguments. she s a liar! when you have a blatant, full face liar like that. you cannot consider the testimony. you have to throw it out. the prosecution argued that the jury should believe rosemary. and not the wild theories floated by the defense. the truth is, folks, august of 2000, that man killed linda lawton.
attention. if her friend was happy then so itchy until the phone rang one morning in august of 2000. this phone call i think was one of the lines in the sand where your life was different thereafter? absolutely. change their. everything changed from there on out. and just got uglier, and uglier. coming up! on the phone, linda s mother with a question. she said, marnell it s marilyn. is linda with you? with you? why would she be with you? strangest call of my life. but things get much stranger! the backdoor was found unlocked. and broke in the entryway. we got there. the car is there. she was not home. when dateline continues! when dateline continues
lake mead. and if this worst-case scenario that michael alluded to just a moment ago actually occurs next autumn, we are going to see the most severe water cuts for the southwestern u.s. in history. in fact, it wouldn t just stretch from agriculture. it would stretch into house holds and industries as well. you can imagine how impactful that would be. look at satellite imagery. august of 2000, fast forward about 20 years to august 2021. look how that concontradiction of lake mead. that is the water levels being depleted going fast forward in time or back in time. it s not just lake mead. it s other roeservoirs that supply agriculture. it is forecast to persist and get worse through the summer. anywhere you see that shading of brown stretching through california right through the
loss. when we talk about the psychological first, you had a guest on earlier that talked about the psychological effect from a russian perspective, which is very insightful. there is more to it that he didn t cover. first off, the russian prestige, the navy prestige has been badly damaged by this. this is the largest tonnage loss since world war ii for the russian navy. the russians are completely shocked by that, quite frankly. i ll get to that point in a moment. finally on the psychological side, you have to go back to august of 2000 when they lost the submarine, nuclear submarine kirsk in the baron sea. it caused a lot of devastation, it caused a lot of rippling in the ranks of the russian navy. now, on the practical side, there is a couple of things. first, command and control has to be transferred to a lesser capable ship, lesser communication, lesser sensors, and so the black sea fleet operations that are blockading