it s just slowly snowballing. it was like a punch in the gut! reporter: sins and secrets! i m mean! i m gonna hurtchoo! i m like, damn! what did this lady do? this is just like something you d see in a movie reporter: carrollton, texas, just north of dallas, is the kind of place where the upwardly mobile go to buy their dreams. the schools are good. golf courses dot the landscape. and churches are more ubiquitous than starbucks. there s not a whole lot of violent crime in that area. great area to raise kids and a family. reporter: but travel east a hundred miles or so and you enter the piney woods of east texas. jobs are not as plentiful here, dreams are deferred and some keep bail bondsmen on speed dial. all the people we re dealing here with are poor. there s a lot of drugs, lotta methamphetamine out there. reporter: different cultures worlds apart. and yet one summer those two worlds collided in a most unlikely way. this is the story of that sum
it s just slowly snowballing. it was like a punch in the gut! reporter: sins and secrets! i m mean! i m gonna hurtchoo! i m like, damn! what did this lady do? this is just like something you d see in a movie reporter: carrollton, texas, just north of dallas, is the kind of place where the upwardly mobile go to buy their dreams. the schools are good. golf courses dot the landscape. and churches are more ubiquitous than starbucks. there s not a whole lot of violent crime in that area. great area to raise kids and a family. reporter: but travel east a hundred miles or so and you enter the piney woods of east texas. jobs are not as plentiful here, dreams are deferred and some keep bail bondsmen on speed dial. all the people we re dealing here with are poor. there s a lot of drugs, lotta methamphetamine out there. reporter: different cultures worlds apart. and yet one summer those two worlds collided in a most unlikely way. this is the story of that sum
it s just slowly snowballing. it was like a punch in the gut! reporter: sins and secrets! i m mean! i m gonna hurtchoo! i m like, damn! what did this lady do? this is just like something you d see in a movie reporter: carrollton, texas, just north of dallas, is the kind of place where the upwardly mobile go to buy their dreams. the schools are good. golf courses dot the landscape. and churches are more ubiquitous than starbucks. there s not a whole lot of violent crime in that area. great area to raise kids and a family. reporter: but travel east a hundred miles or so and you enter the piney woods of east texas. jobs are not as plentiful here, dreams are deferred and some keep bail bondsmen on speed dial. all the people we re dealing here with are poor. there s a lot of drugs, lotta methamphetamine out there. reporter: different cultures worlds apart. and yet one summer those two worlds collided in a most unlikely way. this is the story of that sum
miracle. i didn t know if i would live. was this some awful random crime? or did someone want her dead? that was mystery number one. someone was out there. yeah, we were scared. mystery number two, a secret 1600 miles away. there were several text messages. it s slowly snowballing. it was like a punch in the gut. mystery number three. i m gonna hurt you. who did they turnout to be? what did this lady do? fate, temptation and the twist the size of texas. let s be very clear. justice needs to be served. i don t think it has been. carol strollton, texas, nort dallas, where the upwardly mobile go to buy their dreams. schools are good, golf courses got the landscape, and churches are more ubiquitous than starbucks. there s not a lot of crime in that area. it s a great area to raise kids and a family. but travel east 100 miles or so, and you enter the piney woods of east texas. jobs are not as plentiful here. dreams are deferred. and some keep bail
yeah. we were scared. reporter: mystery number two, a secret 1600 miles away. there were several text messages. it s just slowly snowballing. it was like a punch in the gut! reporter: and mystery number three? i m mean! i m gonna hurt you! reporter: who would they turn out to be?! i m like, what did this lady do? reporter: faith, temptation. and a twist the size of texas! let s be very clear, justice needs to be served. i don t think it has been. reporter: i m lester holt and this is dateline. tonight, andrea canning with the carrollton plot. reporter: carrollton, texas, just north of dallas, is the kind of place where the upwardly mobile go to buy their dreams. the schools are good. golf courses dot the landscape. and churches are more ubiquitous than starbucks. there s not a whole lot of violent crime in that area. it s a great area to raise kids and a family. reporter: but travel east a hundred miles or so and you enter the piney woods o