eyes. the river that runs through all of this is with money. very much so. now it s time to find out the truth. i just kind of froze and i said, is that what i think it is? she looked at me and said. you know you can t ever leave now. right? hello and welcome to dateline! colorado rancher jake loved tending the land, riding his harley, and hanging out with a type group of guys. then suddenly he stopped answering calls and texts. his friends feared the worst. but years would pass before a series of clues exposed a truth far darker than even they imagined. here is josh mann koen s with trouble at the 7-11 ranch! home on the range. sometimes here in western colorado it is so quiet that all you can hear is the wind. beautiful meadows that wave in the breeze, it s a lovely part of the valley. it is beautiful, no doubt. at the same time, that lovely lonely valley can be unforgiving place to live. it can drive some people to extremes. no one understood that bet
that meant, a motive for murder. and, did one kill the other to steal his wife? i wouldn t do that to my brother. in court it all came out. scandalous passions, jealousy, greed, lust. he said, he was the black sheep of the family. a family saga, turned riveting courtroom drama. i cried the whole time. the time we received the call was around three. effingham 9-1-1? help, please. what s wrong? gun. shot. you re shot? yes. where you at? the sheriff s office 9-1-1 operator, could barely understand the voice on the other end of the call. how did you get shot ma am? i don t know. you don t know? no. andré, get james, 10-18, hurry up. the dispatcher, calling for sergeant james to help out. where did you get shot at? face. in your face? yes. it was difficult to hear what she was saying. you could hear her gargling, due to blood in her throat. it sounded as though, she was not the only victim. husband. shot. too. your husband s
no one could explain. then, across town, another scare. i felt a gun to the back of my head. a teenager in danger. he said, you have to come in the room or i m going to kill you. two young lives, strangely length. had police put the two things together? i said i will do whatever i can to help find your son. can they help unravel this mystery in time? don t you understand, every minute counts right now? hello, and welcome to dateline. it s a story of young dreams interrupted, a talented drummer who was aiming for rock and roll stardom finally disappeared. his parents immediately since he was in danger, and they were forced into a race to find him in time, here is dennis murphy with taken. matt landry from the detroit suburbs was a regular guy. i can t who delivered the pizza that you ordered, he was on the skateboard, and cracked up his friends with jack ask style stunts. it was never a dull moment, he always had something crazy to do. but if you want to
marriage to her police officer husband. he told me, she may have tried to clean my gun, and it may have accidentally got off. police are suspicious, the victims own mother wasn t. she was so opposed to anybody even exploring the idea that her only daughter had been murdered. as the years went by, the case grew cold. until a reporter heated it up again. it was [inaudible] reading that file. it was astonishing. it turned out there was a lot less to the marriage than meets the eye. he cheated on vicky the day before they got married, and the day after they got married. but not every cheating heart hides a killer. you could hear members of the jury gasp. hello, and welcome to dateline. when it comes to solving a crime, time can be the enemy. this is the story of a murder that after seven years might never have been solved. the victim a new mother had been forgotten about everyone. except a complete stranger determined to find justice. in the lawyer of
behind the trees and he shot me. what in the world was going on? that s what i wanted to know. this wife was brutally beaten. did he hire somebody? we just don t know. her husband had an alibi and something else, hala, a lover. it was shocking. we would have never expected it. and as police got closer to the truth he says i think i know who did it. the truth got closer to home. he just told me, hold on, it s about to get a lot more crazy. you won t find it on the map, but if close neighbors, good schools, and plain old civility is what you are looking for in a place called home, you can do worse than settle in grovetown, georgia. she has lived here for 14 years. you see the children outside, playing, having a good time. just a nice quiet place that you want to move and take your family to. the way we think america used to be, and seems to be, harder and harder to find. the army s fort gordon is just down the road. and a number of the city s 1