thank you for watching. i m craig melvin. and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline! he said he couldn t handle talking about it. i was angry at him. if you re not going to tell me what happened, then you re going to dance around the issue and tell three different stories, what are you hiding? it started as a teen romance. two of my girlfriends are like, there s this guy, and you need to meet him. i was in love, yes. it ended in one of the strangest love stories you ll ever hear. i felt like i got hit by a bus. right before their wedding, her mother and his father got married. they told us, we ran off, we eloped. who does that? two families and a small town left stunned. but it was nothing compared to what happened next. he looks like he s been shot. he said someone broke in last night. a deadly attack in the dark of night. her mother murdered. i realized that last conversation i had with her, that was it. his father bruised and bewildered.
bus. right before their wedding, her mother and his father got married. they told us, we ran off, we eloped. who does that? two families and a small town left stunned. but it was nothing compared to what happened next. he looks like he s been shot. he said someone broke in last night. a deadly attack in the dark of night. her mother murdered. i realized that last conversation i had with her, that was it. his father bruised and bewildered. i don t remember anything else, other than waking up in the morning. was it a robbery? the television s on. was it darker? you re always going to look at the closest people to the victim. or was it something much darker? you were 11 years old when your mother disappeared. a missing woman, a murdered woman, and a lie. i didn t get through more than a page and a half, and i threw it. i could barely stomach to finish it. but the family was rocked by scandal and then murder. aaron s father was found at the cri
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and he would know you re looking for fingerprints of these home invaders. well, yes. but what if they didn t find any fingerprints besides his and pam s? well, in his letter written a few days later, ralph provided a new detail that accounted for that possibility. all of a sudden, now his attackers, he remembered that they wore gloves with l. e. d. lights on them. which would explain why no one else s prints would be on the knobs of the drawers. have you ever heard of gloves with l. e. d. lights? we researched it, because i had never heard of that. they do exist. in the letter, ralph also changed the time of pam s death, backed it up by more than 24 hours. why? could that perhaps have been a response to this investigator s challenge? she didn t die at 3:00 in the morning. it had to be earlier than that. we ll know after today. we ll know that. okay.
the drawers. have you ever heard of gloves with l. e. d. lights? we researched it, because i had never heard of that. they do exist. in the letter, ralph also changed the time of pam s death, backed it up by more than 24 hours. why? could that perhaps have been a response to this investigator s challenge? she didn t die at 3:00 in the morning. it had to be earlier than that. we ll know after today. we ll know that. okay. and that s going to come back to you. okay. but that s when ralph reported the invaders were in his house just a few hours. now in his letter, he remembered the ordeal lasting nearly two days. and do you remember we mentioned it a while back that broken glass in the back door? the thing was, the glass fell out the door, not in, as you