concerned about his kids. in the midst of a nasty divorce with a bitter acts. he just said that his wife was putting him there s so much. but soon, he bounce back. a new life with a gorgeous, new field say. that is when it started. he felt threatened. he says, i m afraid for my life. haunted. i said, you re being melodramatic. he said, no, this is really happening. ambush from inside his million dollar dream house. suddenly, he started to scrape. shot to death. a crime of passion, said police. somebody wanted this man dead very, very badly. the question was, who? his ex? she was losing everything. or someone else? the arrest was startling. the strategy in the courtroom, that was the biggest surprise of all. he was overweight, but if shape, to that, too sick. yes. hello, welcome to dateline. a devoted father got down in his own home by someone on the stairs. it was a case that made national news because of its unusual defense. the accused ar
one moment, she had her whole life in front of her, the next it s a gun at your neck. abducted by strangers. she said, don t move, don t scream. this u.s. citizen taking deep into the wilderness, chained to a tree, pulled there might be worst in-store, her family out of their mind and worry. i could not believe it. the american embassy leaping into action. this is going to be a long process, not to be salt overnight. but could she do something to save herself? with a suppressing to, she set in motion a daring plan you would unlock the lock while no one was guarding you. and then one night in the darkness i started seeing flashlights. was the nightmare over or about to start all over again? hello and welcome to dateline. this is an extraordinary story of survival. a young woman who was adopted, as family and investigators raced to save her, she was putting to save herself. she gave it everything she had with bravery and a belief in herself a
i m craig melvin. and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. i just collapsed. she s dead because she was my friend. first melissa disappeared. where s melissa? that s the million dollar question. i knew right then she absolutely never made it into her house. left behind in her garage signs of a struggle and a strange orange mist, then her boss went missing too. who is he afraid of am. he might have been afraid he s next. he left behind a bigger mess. we three kings be stealing the gold. a missing fortune. ballpark a billion, billion and a half dollars. a missing woman. we have know clue, no leads. some wonder was there a link? this had a twist to it. two crimes, one for money, one supposedly for love, and behind both, a lingering mystery. it s just so ugly and so wrong, and i can t fix it. welcome to dateline. hotshot florida attorney melissa lewis was living large in fort lauderdale dale, but then her seemingly charged life ended
refusing to fast track the immunity claim surrounding one donald j. trump, rejecting for now a timeline of special counsel jack smith if was pushing. so where is all of this going? we ll ask former attorney general bill barr because he s here. but first, to the holiday hustle. everybody s a little anxious, people are worried about after last year s travel experience, this year s travel experience. might as well get some. gifts for my wife. be patient. that s it. that a s all you can be. you can t be mad at anybody. i was [inaudible] i ll be glad when i make it through it. [laughter] i just want to get to my, i just want to get home. neil: well, hopefully they will get home. fox on top of travelers on the run and last minute hoppers on the hunt. ho, ho, no, and away we go. neil: welcome, everybody. glad to have you. merry christmas. and we re on top of the hunt for gifts and the hunt to be just get out of town. at lot easier said than done. a lot of procrastinato
wrong. he said your family was in an accident. and my world just dropped down from underneath me. the scene told the story why did you find? something i don t want to see again. yuck a deadly crash on a dark road. two gone, one barely alive. to a tragic accident. but look closer. can all of the broken glass and twisted metal, was there a clue to a crime? the last thing i wanted to have was to have to take a double fatality and not treat it as a homicide. murder. and no one saw coming. two families in torment. i couldn t deal with it. we were both just a small town trial with big emotions. you took it. you did it. and the verdict that would shake them all. hello, and welcome to dateline. a dangerous highway in big sky country. that was a setting for a deadly crash that would seem to unite to families in shock and heartbreak. except they were about to find out that the truth about what. . ,. happened on that fateful night might b