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Transcripts For MSNBC Dateline 20240707



than anything i d ever seen in my life. i cried for my dad. was this a murder? every day i think of that. all i could think of was my kids. what about my kids. it was in the dark that the fear began, in the dark, and it grew. it terrorized our family, our friends. who was out there, in the dark? here, miles and miles in the woods. so far from safety. from civilized protection. they could just come, onto our property, and invade our lives. but on the summer night, deep in the california sierra, the terror came out of the dark. came after them. to take everything. the terrible, desperate chase. it s awful. and now the question, what really happened, out there in the dark? i still feel like i need to go help him. it looks so innocent now. closed up, quiet, empty. here in its place at the end of 100 yard dirt track, that sneaks off this lonely country road. deep in the sierra nevada but this was not how it was. or was ever meant to be. no. before it ha ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline 20240604 07:43:00

how important was that video? it gave the cherry, a true understanding. of the horror that happened that night. we ve got one man s with his leg propped up, in the tourniquet, there we have were maguire in the back seat with a horrible head injury, that is something i cannot capture inwards. lewis, the man you met earlier, was a key witness for the, state remember that bullet from chance ar-15, shredded his like. he was luckily to keep the leg, and survived the night. did you see the defendant sitting over there in the courtroom? i only looked at him once or twice, my heart kind of jumped, and i knew it was him. lewis s been a nervous wreck since all of this happened. in court he was no less nervous as he told the jury about seeing a ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline 20240604 06:42:00

Gunman. instead, they found shooting victims. three of them. severely wounded. somebody makes their way over towards the car, and says, let me see your hands. he can be seen in the footage here. shot in the right leg. bleeding profusely. the bill to use as a tourniquet placed just above his knee, possibly saved his life. at that point it s pretty obvious that it s my leg, i m not sure how long went, by maybe an hour and a half. there were other victims, bloody in baffling seen. who were these people, how did they provoke a violent confrontation with army vet chad, read chad and his family said they were terrorized, but that was not the story, louis had to tell. are we lewis s version began an hours drive away in susan ville california, population almost 18,000. home to two state prisons, to movie theaters, and ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline 20240604 06:43:00

On july 4th weekend 2011, to restless young men, in search of fun. it was lewis of course, and his very best friend, a 20-year-old junior college student named rory mcguire. he was the center of attention, wherever he went. all eyes were on rory. in fact right from the start. that amazing shock of red hair at birth, surprising even his own mother carol. his name was going to be colin. and then he came out with the red hair, and i had to look through a baby name book, and i found the name rory which means red king and irish. and so, hence rory colin mcguire. in that red hair came with the personality to match. there is only one rory, and everyone knew it was. he was vivaciously, he was creative. he was exciting. he was funny. he was the life of the party. entrepreneurial too, trying to start a mobile car washing business with a friend. worry at all the equipment, hid printed out business cards. he was passing out fliers, we ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline 20240604 06:58:00

Odd. remember, chad told the police that the young man shot at him during the chase. did you, ever that night say why are you shooting at me in the car? or you shot at me in the car? anything like that? no nothing. nothing like. that did you have a gun? no. did anybody in the cardigan? . no did you own a gun? no. the authorities looking for a car, we just couldn t take his word for. it but neither could they. nor could we ignore one more big discrepancy between lewis s story, and chad s. remember, in his interview chat said he told lewis and his friends when he left the meadow that he was going to get help. i said that i was going to go call the share. but that is not what s know he said he remembered quite clearly what s their assailant said. just before he got into his truck. he said, if i ever see any one of you, i m going to kill ....

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