i heard this god awful scream. was this an accident? there was absolutely no allegation of evil intent. or something else? i m with more to her dead than i am alive. hello, and welcome to dateline. to outsiders, every marriage is a mystery. some who knew the couple in our story sought to people in love, others a marriage in trouble. but, all agree this husband and wife did have one thing going for them, they both loved hunting. they were also both excellent shots, so good they rarely missed whatever the target. here s keith moore with as darkness fell. twilight, the day going fast now, the meadow, a while in blackwood. what did she know, now as she studied, herself was it hours ago on did she know already back at the camp in the morning? where was it later, much later that they showed her the evidence, and darkness that swallowed them all. they call it the rock, this gorgeous island with this fishing and cove and mile after mile of woods. a place to fall in lo
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i don t know how to go without him. i think we are done. investigators left mary beth to grieve, and of course to call the family with the awful news. mary beth s first call was to her friend match. she says, marcus dead. he was shot. i asked her who shot him. she said, i did. she was crying so hard. it was difficult to make out what she was saying. i said have you told anyone? she says no, i m calling your first. mary got on the phone as well, not to his father or brother or sisters, he called his wife linda, and asked her to deliver the news. linda called me, and said mark s gone. i said what do you mean mark is gone? and she said, mary beth shot
did you ever have a moment where you thought, i m trespassing on my brother s life? my brother is gone. he is no longer his life. i do not feel that way. trespassing? no. never looked at it that way. by this time, family relationships were very sour. yes they were. because what? they knew you suspected her? well they knew that i couldn t accept the fact that things happened the way they did, it was just an accident, i couldn t except that. which is why since the mounties did not seem to interested, they took their suspicions to a police force closer to home. i went to pennsylvania state police, and they intern and they detective there, he related to the mounties in canada. it was
he was really happy with things. of course, nothing is perfect, marks other older brother had issues with mary beth. it might have been mutual. anyway, all things considered, mark was a happy man as he told his sister. if i die tomorrow, i have lived a good life. then in the summer of 2006, mark and mary beth plan the ideal vacation. ideal for them anyway, a hunting trip, to one of their favorite and frequent destinations. newfoundland. you know, the night before they left for newfoundland, he told me, he said you should see mary beth shoot that rifle. he said, you know, these little plastic pill bottles, she can hit one of those in 250 yards at the rifle. and, that is pretty fine shooting. it was september 2006, they packed up the truck, took their baby boy and four-year-old