dropped out of sight. did not take her car, did not take her purse. we realized something was wrong. they could not possibly have guessed how wrong. there is another level of evil here, the person who did this was trying to create a vanishing. good do such a thing? first thing you look is who is closest to her, romantic lee or geographically. the list was long. they boyfriend, an ex and fellow students. had somebody been studying more than textbooks? but he would ask people, how would you commit the perfect murder? his roommates said he thought he was smarter than everybody else. smart, maybe. but had he slipped up? what they had found told us everything we needed to know. a confounding case that would come down into a damning piece of video that no one was supposed to see. sick, twisted. what was it like to see that? i knew that we had him. hello, and welcome to dateline. lauren giddings spooked south to law school, and immediately felt ri
weekend, right now president joe biden is in uvalde, texas. addressing privately those who ve lost loved ones and last week s horrific school shootings. at robb elementary school. all afternoon we ve watched the president, and first lady, a physical and emotional aftermath of that day. visiting, the towns memorial to the slain principle, and superintendent and attending catholic mass before sitting with the families of the two teachers that 19 students killed, and last wednesday s attack. america remains in shock as to what has been revealed about what happened in robb elementary. the growing firestorm over where, and how local police failed, corroborated by frantic emergency calls for children, literally trapped in a killing field. and the justice department just announcing today, a federal review of the law enforcement response. but that shot cannot take precedent over two things, remembrance which is the debt we owe the grieving. and the taking. and action which is the p
if i commit a little speed limit. over the speed limit, they will stop you. you have 20 cars searching you down. but they could not go in there and break that effing door? they are darn cowards? cowards. they let those kids get slaughtered. texas officials say officers waited outside the barricaded classroom for nearly an hour while trapped students frantically called 9-1-1. joining me from the town square, nbc s liz maclachlan. liz, we ve seen long lines at the memorial in uvalde today where i am standing near robb elementary. the lions are wrapped around the corner. what are you hearing from people coming to pay their respects? alicia the crowd here has also been growing all day, people waiting in the hot sun to pay their respects to lay flowers in front of their 21 crosses here. 22, actually 21 for the victims of the shooting and another cross added for the husband of one of the teachers who died from a heart attack just a couple of days later. a lot of people from t
started stalking her. we were talking late at night. she got really panicked and said, i think there s someone outside. watching her every move. knowing where she is at her house, which lights were on. making disturbing calls with a disguised voice. suddenly, rachael disappeared and a desperate search began. you can see the vastness and all the various places that you can conceal a body. months went by. the case stalled. and then, the case became darker and bigger than they ever could have guessed. this is very tantalizing. absolutely. my spurs but it was out of a hitchcock movie, a moment of pure evil. a moment of pure evil. he had a lock on his feel that i could describe as satan. and just maybe a second woman in the crosshairs. if the stories were true, then you had married a stranger. hello, and welcome to dateline. the story are about to hear begins with and all too familiar tragedy. a vivaciously woman disappears and police put them in her
rifle. that he was able to legally purchase, just like the gunman here and eovaldi. the vice president and the second gentleman will be in buffalo later today to attend the funeral of one of the victims of that massacre. meanwhile, as authorities we can continue to piece together the events of the tragedy here in uvalde, the nra is holding the second day of its annual convention in houston, just 270 miles east of here. joining me now, nbc news national security and intelligence correspondent, candlelight ian and, correspondent sam brock live in uvalde texas. can, the timeline of events of tuesday s tragedy keeps shifting. what has changed over the past few days in law enforcement s account of just what happened? good morning alicia well. you really had a shift from the department of public safety from defending the law enforcement response and saying that actually saved lives, to yesterday laying out a timeline that really made it clear that there was a series of colossal mis