it was getting dark as the hunter pulled the trigger, the shape someone said looked like a bear wasn t. i heard this god awful scream. but was this an accident? there was absolutely no allegation of evil intent. or something else? he says i m worth more to her dead than i am alive. hello, and welcome to dateline. to outsiders, every marriage is a mystery. some who knew the couple in our story saw two people in love, others a marriage in trouble. but all agreed this husband and wife had one thing going for them, they both loved hunting. they were also both excellent shots, so good they rarely missed whatever the target. here s keith morrison with as darkness fell. twilight, the day going that s, now the night eating up the wild black fast now, the meadow, wild blackwood. what did she know, now as she studied herself in the truck bed, was it hours ago did she know already back at the camp in the morning? or was it later, much later, when they showed her th
i heard this god awful scream. was this an accident? there was absolutely no allegation of evil intent. or something else? i m with more to her dead than i am alive. hello, and welcome to dateline. to outsiders, every marriage is a mystery. some who knew the couple in our story sought to people in love, others a marriage in trouble. but, all agree this husband and wife did have one thing going for them, they both loved hunting. they were also both excellent shots, so good they rarely missed whatever the target. here s keith moore with as darkness fell. twilight, the day going fast now, the meadow, a while in blackwood. what did she know, now as she studied, herself was it hours ago on did she know already back at the camp in the morning? where was it later, much later that they showed her the evidence, and darkness that swallowed them all. they call it the rock, this gorgeous island with this fishing and cove and mile after mile of woods. a place to fall in lo
i saw a clear bear. what you re telling me as you saw a bear? with the scope, and might make it i. my scope magnified, it and i looked, and it was a bear. and then she said, for this conclusion. i think it was too dark to shoot. i should not have taken the shot. you didn t get a clear picture? i thought i had a clear picture, but obviously not. so, now the question all too familiar to cops everywhere mary beth, you and mark, ever had any marital issues or problems? we had the perfect life, the perfect, marriage the perfect family. i loved him so much. he was my everything. i could not wait for him not as what i live for. we had a great life. we had so much in common.
if not exactly common, an unfortunate reality. then, the cops got back to headquarters, and all hell broke loose. bombarded, and phone calls. now this calls for mark s family, mostly demanding that police do something, so many calls. they asked very to tell them to stop. they re handed me a satellite phone, they said perform their duties. there was of course, a reason for all of those calls. everybody would find out about that soon enough. back in pennsylvania, mark s family was shocked, but there was something else as well. coming up. immediately, we had that instant that this wasn t an accident. when dateline continues. continues
the mounties was, still, local cops requested the mounties were trying to put a case together, and by september 2007, the pennsylvania cops had dug up, enough mostly material from mary beth path to lure two mounties down to the u.s.. they were surprised that she did have a troubled past, and a lot of the things i did not know about. it was for example an incident back in 1992, mary beth was convicted of assault in a day of the mounties accepted a stack of investigative material from investigators. they would take that back, and they determined what would be the proper charge to charge her with. still, months went by, as mary beth awaited her fate. it has taken quite a toll on her to know that his family feels she is totally and