Im jesse l. Martin. Thank you for watching. Good night. You know, its about appreciating every moment for me, you know, cause weve been through so much, and as your career kind of. Im not an old man, but you know, you start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel is much brighter than the one at the beginning of the tunnel. So its really about appreciating every day as it comes, you know, every game, every win, every loss, every practice. Its just soaking every day in. Hello and welcome. Im jesse l. Martin. Kobe bryant was just 18 years old when he took the nba by storm. Over his 20 years in the league, he was an 18time all star, fivetime champion, and twotime olympic gold medalist. His achievements off the court were just as lauded. He was an accomplished writer, Academy Award winner, and a selfdescribed girl dad of four beautiful daughters. At 41, bryant had reached the pinnacle of his success, until one foggy january morning. This is how it really happened. [ Crowd Chanting kobe ]
Who would want to murder you . And i just kind of looked at him like, what . I couldnt believe it. Was he watching me . That fire was set. Very calculating. Years before his wife killed herself. Yes. He claimed she committed suicide days before she was due to give birth to her first child. She was extremely excited for that baby. She wanted to be a mom. This wasnt somebody thinking about suicide. Exactly. It made me wonder was he a murderer . You are trying to prove a very old murder with pretty much no evidence. Correct. Is he kind of gloating he got away with it . He is thinking, well, catch me if you can. We are going to do her and her family justice. We are going to solve this murder. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Meg purk was a young mom to be, over the moon to be having her first child. Then, just days before her due date, she died of an apparent suicide. Her family struggled to understand why, but in a strange twist, a house fire set decades later would point to a possible ans
You know, its about appreciating every moment for me, you know, cause weve been through so much, and as your career kind of. Im not an old man, but you know, you start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel is much brighter than the one at the beginning of the tunnel. So its really about appreciating every day as it comes, you know, every game, every win, every loss, every practice. Its just soaking every day in. Hello and welcome. Im jesse l. Martin. Kobe bryant was just 18 years old when he took the nba by storm. Over his 20 years in the league, he was an 18time all star, fivetime champion, and twotime olympic gold medalist. His achievements off the court were just as lauded. He was an accomplished writer, Academy Award winner, and a selfdescribed girl dad of four beautiful daughters. At 41, bryant had reached the pinnacle of his success, until one foggy january morning. This is how it really happened. [ Crowd Chanting kobe ] smith kobe wanted to be the best. He wanted to be the b
Its hard to go from the bottom to the top, but its even harder, when youre already at the top, you, its, its hard to go from the bottom to tau its even harder when you already at the top to go to the bottom and then look back up at that moment again, knowing that you just climb, didnt know his struggles and hard work that you had to go through to look at it and say cloud that thing again hello and welcome im Jesse You Martin kobe bryant. Life had many acts his ontrade to the nba is a skinny teen his ascension to superstardom. And postretirement, a new focus on his family and creative Projects Cobie is relaunch and entertainment could have been more impactful than his career on the court until a routine flight on a foggy january morning changed his Destiny Forever this is how it really happened the combination of Celebrity Aviation Mystery in fear is very compelling to people you know whats interesting is you can connect to die directly between what happened to john f. Kennedy jr. And w
you just wonder how this could happen. it seems very surreal. a quiet night at home shattered by a gunshot. she came out of the shower and i heard a pop. and there s blood. a young life dying on the floor. she wasn t talking at all. i m asking, what happened here? i was utterly confuse. so many different stories about what might have happened. he said many things that night. maybe someone shot something at the house. at one point he said it was 80% suicide. police had their own theory. i thought, oh, man, there s something going on here. we don t see a lot of women commit suicide naked. his stories weren t adding up. but something else was it adding up either. a key piece of evidence. we went to the house and we walked in and we think, ha. would in the stake in measurement send an innocent man to prison? or free a guilty one? we thought it was over. we thought this was settled. one suspect, so many stories, only one of them could be true.