He received a surprise package from one. This man sent my dad a bomb. We were there for a surprise phone call from another. Can i get it . Reporter its Josh Mankiewicz from dateline. Is there anything you wanna say . Reporter no shortage of suspects. Just a shortage of detectives. Reporter all kinds of things go wrong in Murder Investigations, but the Police Department running outta money is usually not one of the things you think of. No. I pressed on. I did what i had to do. Reporter would she ever find justice . Its your father. Your father was murdered, youre not gonna give up. Reporter im lester holt and this is dateline. Heres Josh Mankiewicz with Something Sweet. Reporter the course of true love takes some strange twists and turns, particularly when it flows out of an Online Dating site. Occasionally, a cyberfling blossoms into a marriage. This is the story of one of those marriages. What went right. And what did not. Back in 2002 ray kotomski was a 60yearold, happily retired, fo
The ballard neighborhood. Its an upscale area once known for sawmills and commercial fishing, and just down the road is one mans strange inheritance and a story with a hollywood ending. My names barry martin. I inherited a tiny, hundredyearold house from a little old lady. If there ever was a realestate niche, this is one. Hi, barry. Im jamie. In frons little house. Yep, this is it his strange inheritance. Its just 600 square feet, and its now surrounded by a huge Shopping Mall a mall that the unlikely heir in this story helped build. Who leaves this to somebody . Well, edith left it to me. Edith . Yep. Love to learn more. Okay. Come on. Barry explains that when this house was built over a hundred years ago, ballard, washington, was the shinglemill capital of the world, with 20 mills producing 3 million shingles a day. There was fishing on elliot bay there, and the shinglemill industry, all along shilshole avenue here. Cass ocallaghan from the Ballard Historical Society tells me more.
He received a surprise package from one. This man sent my dad a bomb. We were there for a surprise phone call from another. Can i get it . Reporter its Josh Mankiewicz from dateline. Is there anything you wanna say . Reporter no shortage of suspects. Just a shortage of detectives. Reporter all kinds of things go wrong in Murder Investigations, but the Police Department running outta money is usually not one of the things you think of. No. I pressed on. I did what i had to do. Reporter would she ever find justice . Its your father. Your father was murdered, youre not gonna give up. Reporter im lester holt and this is dateline. Heres Josh Mankiewicz with Something Sweet. Reporter the course of true love takes some strange twists and turns, particularly when it flows out of an Online Dating site. Occasionally, a cyberfling blossoms into a marriage. This is the story of one of those marriages. What went right. And what did not. Back in 2002 ray kotomski was a 60yearold, happily retired, fo
Im jamie colby, and, today, im driving into key west, florida, in search of treasure. You know, years ago, spanish galleons and pirate ships sailed upon and sank in these waters. More recently, the islands been home to the heirs of a man who became rich and famous searching for the treasure left behind. My name is taffi fisher abt, and i inherited a wreck. I mean literally a wreck, a spanish shipwreck. Its an incredible archeological find, and we keep bringing up more treasure all the time. You must be taffi. Welcome to the mel fisher Maritime Heritage society. Taffis father, mel fisher, salvaged tons of treasure from the sea. Oh, yeah. Solid gold. This is an emerald cross and ring that was found in 1982. Some of his most precious artifacts are in the museum he founded here in key west. He must have loved the adventure. He did. He was an awful lot like tom sawyer. Tom sawyer had the mississippi. Indiana native mel fisher dreams up his childhood adventures on lake michigan. He would go
This man sent my dad a bomb. We were there for a surprise phone call from another. [ phone ringing ] can i get it . Reporter its Josh Mankiewicz from dateline. Is there anything you wanna say . No shortage of suspects. Just a shortage of detectives. Reporter all kinds of things go wrong in Murder Investigations, but the Police Department running out of money is usually not one of the things you think of. No. I pressed on. I did what i had to do. Would she ever find justice . Its your father. Your father was murdered, youre not gonna give up. Im lester holt and this is dateline. Heres Josh Mankiewicz with Something Sweet. Reporter the course of true love takes some strange twists and turns, particularly when it flows out of an Online Dating site. Occasionally, a cyberfling blossoms into a marriage. This is the story of one of those marriages what went right, and what did not. Back in 2002, ray kotomski was a 60yearold, happily retired, former corrections officer, living comfortably by h