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she was brave. she was incredibly brave. why didn t i know that she needed me and that she was alone and that she was hurt? nothing was the same after that. nothing. they found her at the soccer field. the straight arrow student killed by a single bullet. i just hit the floor. i remember the pain. every time i talk about it the pain comes rushing back. that someone would shoot my child. like, why? this is a small town whodunit. oh, yeah we were afraid. what had happened that night? was the answer somewhere in her circle of friends? we re trying to find out why! i would never hurt halee. they came and talked to me. it was four fbi agents. he s there. he s got a gun. how could it not have been him? then a secret spills out in court! that s a bombshell. that definitely was. i felt like i had gotten my heart ripped out. for that mother to get on that stand. it was absolute silence. hello and welcome to dateline. halee rathgeber was ba ....
oh, yeah we were afraid. what had happened that night? was the answer somewhere in her circle of friends? we re trying to find out why! i would never hurt halee. they came and talked to me. it was four fbi agents. he s there. he s got a gun. how could it not have been him? then a secret spills out in court! that s a bombshell. that definitely was. i felt like i had gotten my heart ripped out. for that mother to get on that stand. it was absolute silence. hello and welcome to dateline. halee rathgeber was barely out of her teens. halee enjoyed taking care of others. it made sense to them she was studying to become a nurse. what made no sense was that anyone could want her dead. the crime scene told investigators little, but a jaw dropping moment in the courtroom spoke volumes. here s andrea canning with on the outskirts of town. i m miles from my family in new york. but i m driving, oddly enough, through a place that feels like home. quai ....
this is a small town whodunit. oh, yeah we were afraid. what had happened that night? was the answer somewhere in her circle of friends? we re trying to find out why! i would never hurt halee. they came and talked to me. it was four fbi agents. he s there. he s got a gun. how could it not have been him? then a secret spills out in court! that s a bombshell. that definitely was. i felt like i had gotten my heart ripped out. for that mother to get on that stand. it was absolute silence. hello and welcome to dateline. halee rathgeber was barely out of her teens. halee enjoyed taking care of others. it made sense to them she was studying to become a nurse. what made no sense was that anyone could want her dead. the crime scene told investigators little, but a jaw dropping moment in the courtroom spoke volumes. here s on the outskirts of town. i m miles from my family in new york. but i m driving, oddly enough, through a place that feels li ....
every time i talk about it the pain comes rushing back. that someone would shoot my child. like, why? reporter: this is a small town whodunit. oh, yeah we were afraid. reporter: what had happened that night? was the answer somewhere in her circle of friends? we re trying to find out why! i would never hurt halee. they came and talked to me. it was four fbi agents. he s there. he s got a gun. reporter: how could it not have been him? then a secret spills out in court! that s a bombshell. that definitely was. i felt like i had gotten my heart ripped out. for that mother to get on that stand. reporter: it was absolute silence. hello and welcome to dateline. halee rathgeber was barely out of her teens. halee enjoyed taking care of others. it made sense to them she was studying to become a nurse. what made no sense was that anyone could want her dead. the crime scene told investigators little, but a jaw dropping moment in the courtroom spoke vol ....
Sitting right there. like, as soon as you walked into the door, the diaper bag was sitting right by the couch. it didn t look like the diaper bag had fallen down the stairs, like what thad had said. so you re thinking, we might ve just caught thaddeus in a big lie? yeah. after two days on life support, jaxon died. grief-stricken, halee agonized over whether she should tell police about her suspicions. she had said, you know, what if they wanna talk to me? i m like, you talk, you know? but the more halee s mom thought about it, the more she worried what might happen to halee if she spoke out. thaddeus had a bad reputation around town. halee could be poking a hornet s nest. she absolutely could have. if she starts making ....