Or her . And who would take the fall for evil . Hello. Welcome to dateline. Attorney Larry Mcnabney had been living fast and loose but things were finally slowing down for him. He had a thriving law practice, a wife he adored, and plenty of money. Then a new friend entered the picture and a love triangle took shape. The murder was a who done it involving three tangled lives, one of them was hide ago secret identity, but to untangle this mystery, Police Needed to know who was the mastermind pulling the strings . Here is Keith Morrison with poison. Reporter it was september 11th, 2001. About everyone knows where they were that awful day. Like the glamorous trio who was traveling north through Yosemite National park, even as the rest of the tworlds attention was focused on new york city, they were intentk on their own urge need, their desires, their fears, their deadly love triangle. So they probably didnt appreciate the passing wonders, the astonishing cliffs and waterfall and anyone tha
because she was so afraid of elisa. island of ending up just like larry. a theory that even prosecutor thomas testa found, well, believable. when i first got this case, people in my office will tell you that s exactly what i was saying. walking up and down the hall. for sara, she s the victim. she s just an aider and abettor. but as i got deeper in the case i totally turned around on this. i started with a very mindset. as testa review the evidence in preparation for trial, he became convinced that sarah dutra was in fact, the woman in charge. did sarah not like larry. she always is accused him of being full of himself. talking about himself all the time. self-centered. she didn t like him. so larry did it was zero around. sarah did not like larry. you know? this sounds to me like to people who both love elisa and what the other out of the way. that s it. that s exactly eight. it was a love triangle and one
sheriff s office. sarah told addicted detectives that she and elisa had become close friends and so, she, sarah certainly notice how erratic elisa the came after larry went missing. things were starting to not seem right. like, you know, elisa wouldn t come to work all the time. you know? sara confirmed what ginger miller said. that elisa kept changing her explanations for larry s whereabouts. sara said she signed saw a elisa signing larry s name on checks and day-to-day business transactions. i figured it she s keeping this business going for him. so he can go play and do whatever. in early january, 2002, said sarah, elisa planned a trip to arizona to attend a horse show. and in the absence of larry, invited sarah to go along. i was going to fly down the next day and then she told me, your tickets been paid.
of questioning, sarah dutra was arrested and charged with larry s murder. it was a classic crime story. two killers, mutual finger-pointing. and prosecutors knew they could use each woman s testimony against the other, and easy checkmate. that s unless, that is until alicia took herself off the board. a few days after her arrest, a jailer found her hanging by the neck in her cell. a suicide. 1 million questions for alyssa. and now, that door has been slammed shut. and now, sara left holding the bag. but facing murder charges alone. coming up, you can try only one defendant, it s very easy as it was for sara dutra to point the finger at the one who was not there. when dateline continues.
sheet. and then we carried him downstairs and i m like, what are you doing? i we have to call the police. this is not right. she said, we are not calling the police. if you call the police you ll be so sorry you did. this was the heart of sara s version, she went along with a whole awful, crazy thing for one reason. she said, she was definitely afraid of elissa. wow i didn t want to end up like him. was it possible? an innocent young woman in the thrall of a con artist and killer? sara dutra seems so frightened, so emotional. and yet, that the detectives i thought a little bit over the top? she was a little over the? top yes. wow [inaudible] you mean she was acting? putting it on? i believe so. after more than nine hours