and the clues came pouring out. blood in the bushes. this was the hotspot. this was your crime scene. craig melvin: a stunner of a surveillance tape. jeff wilbert: a tarp, a rope. everything you might need for a murder. exactly. craig melvin: and what just may be the most sinister mother daughter conversation you ve ever overheard. these are not the same people that the public thinks that they are. you realize how cold this family is. it s pretty twisted. very twisted. [music playing] hello, and welcome to dateline. stephen moore was a champion speed skater who was fast on the track but slow to find direction in life. that is, until he fell for kindergarten teacher kathleen dorsett. soon came a marriage, a career, and a baby. when stephen disappeared, detectives wondered if there was trouble in his seemingly normal life. but even they could not have imagined the sinister scheme at the heart of this case. here s andrea canning with shattered bonds. [music playing] andrea
Was he into drugs, anything that would get him into trouble? no, not that we re aware of. financial issues? no. andrea canning: but when police looked at his checking account, it showed something, two debit charges posted on monday afternoon. i found out that there was a transaction at a local quickchek on that date for like $9. and then there was another transaction later on that day at a chipotle in eatontown, which is in the same town that he works in. this is after he dropped off his daughter at kathleen s. correct, correct. andrea canning: so whatever happened to stephen could well have happened later on monday. another day went by, no stephen. then, in the early morning hours of wednesday, august 18, a 9-1-1 call came into dispatch. [ominous music] andrea canning: a car fire had erupted in a lonely section of long branch, new jersey, not far from the dorsett s tidy, peaceful, little street.
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