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Where would it lead . A twisted case of betrayal and greed. The finger is being pointed at me. Her own daughter, a suspect from the start. You pull the knife out and you tell the police, oh, youre going to find my fingerprints on the knife. Her soninlaw, who seemed so devoted. They interrogated us for eight hours. Or maybe someone else with a Million Dollar motive . Whats going on here . How many people are involved in this . Devious. Its an evil mind. What pushed you this far . Im lester holt, and this is dateline. Someone just doesnt turn into a murderer. Heres Josh Mankiewicz with the evil to come. Reporter it was hard to look away when peggy was in the picture. Her beauty was captivating, but she was also smart, ambitious, and she loved that little girl. Peggy nadells image survives in home movies and in memory from the days when she was relishing motherhood blissfully u ....
reporter: police even looked into susanne s shopping habits and found something that intrigued them. susanne bought her groceries at a nearby shoprite, a big supermarket chain. in fact, she was a creature of habit, visiting there 22 times in the month prior to peggy s murder. but on the 23rd time, the night before peggy s murder, susanne shopped at a different store, the one near her mother s house. what did she buy? she bought cleaning supplies, rubber gloves and some other items like that. reporter: had the crime scene been cleaned up? detectives didn t think so. but still found it suspicious. just before your mother was murdered, you go to the shoprite. not the one near your house. the one near your mother s house. mm-hmm. reporter: and you buy rubber gloves and cleaning supplies. i did. i mean, i buy cleaning supplies all the time. i have a cleaning girl. she probably needed rubber gloves. she probably needed floor cleaner. that s interesting. ....
Four days after peggy nadell s murder, family and friends gathered for her funeral. for peggy s daughter susanne, it was all a blur. what s it like to process both the fact that your mom was actually murdered and that you re the suspect? it was horrible. horrible. i lost my mother. i lost my best friend. and now the finger is being pointed at me. as 80-year-old peggy nadell was laid to rest today, her daughter suzanne scaccio has hired a lawyer. people in the area, it s all they talked about. reporter: susanne s friend, darcy greenberg, was hearing it almost every day. there were people who said she did it. oh, she did it. even i heard a neighbor yelled out, when are you going to arrest her for killing her mother? ....
i m glad everything s okay. we ll disregard for you. have a good night. reporter: it was probably the last time peggy s voice was heard by anyone except her killer. police were convinced still are convinced peggy was letting in someone that she knew. susanne? maybe. but why would she use a tracfone to get her mom to open the door in the middle of the night? she wouldn t have to let me in. i have a key. and i know the how to work the alarm. reporter: right. so if you wanted to kill her, you could have waited until she went to sleep and went in. reporter: unlocked the door and went in. reporter: disarm the alarm. there you go. there you go. reporter: police had warrants for all the family members phones. and a few weeks later they had boxes of records to comb through. detectives analyzed susanne s first. what could you tell about susanne from her cell phone records? a lot. reporter: investigator robyn arias from the westchester county d.a. s office spe ....
They knew what i bought. reporter: and detectives wanted to know more about who peggy might have had contact with in the hours before her murder. so they made this list of numbers they found on peggy s home phone. and as they looked at them, one stood out. it was a call from an odd area code, and it came in at 1:17 in the morning. that was from what turned out to be a tracfone. they re commonly referred to as burner phones or throwaway phones. reporter: these are the phones used by drug dealers, killers, cheating spouses? exactly. reporter: a few minutes after that tracfone call, the alarm at peggy s front door was tripped. and at 1:23 a.m., the alarm company called. hello? this is the monitoring center with bullet security. this is peggy nadell. the code word is max, i m sorry. that s okay, ma am. everything s fine. ....