a perfect life and the perfect wife until the day he says he found her dead. valentine s day! yuck my wife my wife i think my wife is just, debt. she had enemies. there were calls that were made to scare her. so imagine everyone shocked when they charged him with murder. he just couldn t have done it. sure they ve had their problems. there was a huge number. and i m talking close to 100 phone calls to this phone number back and forth. but he did love her. i told some people at the clinic, i wish i had someone that would look at me the way jon looks at susan. the question for the jury was did he love her to death. the motive was love lost. hello and welcome to dateline. if you re a fan of fictional courtroom dramas you might think that every criminal trial and with a bombshell. maybe it s a surprise witness or an 11th hour confession. well, that kind of thing rarely happens in a real trial. but it did in the story. one last unexpected twist in a cas
learned that first, the 12-year-old, she who was there the beginning when the family secret was born. not something we like to talk about. why did it get started? i honestly didn t know what else to do. why did she keep it so long? she was all i had. well evil did its work. the things he had walked away, we couldn t even stand it. what with that secret do? everybody has a secret or two, but this? hello, welcome to dateline. it wasn t uncommon for him to be gone for days at a time. he was a long haul truck driver, after all. or did he run off with another woman? when lloyd for disappeared, it was almost anyone s guess where he went, at least two people knew and it was a secret they carted for 27 years. but the terrible truth was about to be revealed. here is keith morrison with, the family secret. yes, families. i suppose you could say this one, the family, not the secret, got started in the middle of nowhere, which is what they like to call it here and a
i don t mean that angry and better because then i d be like her, but that is not my mom. my mom left a long time ago. the house on clark street sits empty. the backyard, overgrown. the secret, the deadly secret, bound the family almost three decades. the unraveling, torn apart forever. that s all for this edition of dateline. i m andrea canning. thank you for watching. tching hello, i m andrea canning. and this is dateline. he was a wealthy doctor with