he married the woman of his dreams, beautiful and sweet. she was just angelic. and was folded into her tight-knit family headed by an elderly religious matriarch. you were either part of their family or you weren t. together they had a little girl, sydney. when their marriage fell apart, her family closed ranks. in their view, sydney was their property. one day he went to pick up his little girl for a visit and was never seen alive again. he died right there. dad?ut who would kill a devoted the unbelievable choice, his golden girl wife or the gracious family matriarch? they seemed so loving, but was there another side. it s a monster that comes out of a closet. it s very ugly. how dark is that side? murderous. but which one was the killer? hello and welcome to dateline. he was a man suddenly confronted with something monstrous, evil at the door. this story is a mystery about a father of two young daughters. one night he left to pick up one of them an
the word divorce being thrown around. from the beginning they had one suspect, it was chris. there was another purse here that could ve done this, and it was german. that would be a motive for murder. that was a concern. you see it on tv happening to other people, but you don t think it will happen to you. two shots were fired. and then 1001 questions. you just don t think that things will happen in a small town to good people. and it did. reporter: it was, this was where happiness lived. happiness, memories, and desire. wishes and dreams just out of reach. its name is spider lake, one of those thousands of lakes that filled up the rocky gouges and glaciers left behind. maybe that s why they sparkle the way they do. why this one in minnesota spread out every which way. and here, near the tip of its northern is the spider lake resort. family cabins. it calls itself one of northern minnesota s best kept secrets. secrets. the word that will certainly apply
a perfect life and the perfect wife until the day he says he found her dead. valentine s day! yuck my wife my wife i think my wife is just, debt. she had enemies. there were calls that were made to scare her. so imagine everyone shocked when they charged him with murder. he just couldn t have done it. sure they ve had their problems. there was a huge number. and i m talking close to 100 phone calls to this phone number back and forth. but he did love her. i told some people at the clinic, i wish i had someone that would look at me the way jon looks at susan. the question for the jury was did he love her to death. the motive was love lost. hello and welcome to dateline. if you re a fan of fictional courtroom dramas you might think that every criminal trial and with a bombshell. maybe it s a surprise witness or an 11th hour confession. well, that kind of thing rarely happens in a real trial. but it did in the story. one last unexpected twist in a cas
and it sees dateline . i just knew something horrible happened. she was a small town girl with big dreams. and they were all coming through in vegas. a career at the casino, and a fiancée then, she vanished. i remember going to church every day and saying days later, police did. murder, blood on her collar, a struggle at her house, and clues from a camisole. what had happened? i can t arrest until it solved. her friends will not quit. her parents will not stop. i am a pain. and i am a nuisance. but i am a mother. can dateline s own team of investigators help? nothing is missing from this house. hello, and welcome to dateline it s a puzzle police have struggled to soften more than a decade. what happened to a small town girl who had moved to the big city of las vegas? it was there that theresa insana found a new career and a new life, but then suddenly, she vanished. within days, police would find her body. but finding who killed her, that would
person. the supervisor ask to interview a girl named crystal. we didn t really have any idea who she was. blood all of the floor. i saw blood up the wall. she told us what you start cleaning up? i started picking things that were blood splattered. this woman knew about the murder, covered up. the things that were thrown into the fire by me or the belongings from kelsey s house. she could have stopped this from happening. he had a hold on her that he totally exploited. this whole thing is crazy. it took my breath away. was there any blood on the tv, do you remember? yes, there is blood on the tv. okay. there was blood on the chairs. there is blood on the table. there was bloody on the hobby lobby bag sitting there. reporter: you re witnessing something highly unusual. a woman at the center of a murder investigation reconstructing the scene of the gruesome crime. can you tell me what you saw in here and what you cleaned up? there was a lo