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Restrictions apply. Hi.

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I'm Josh Monkowitz from Dateline with a special

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preview of our new podcast asked internal

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affairs. It's a story about bad

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choices and fatal consequences.

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Take alyssa. It

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was dark when the killer shut off

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the engine. Only

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the soft ticks of cooling metal

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broke the silence. it

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was still warm and toasty inside the truck.

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Outside, where mounds of

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snow lined the alley. Tempts

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were in the teens. A

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quick wardrobe check, and the killer

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would be ready. Black robe,

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black gloves, black gun.

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One can imagine a short, steadying

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breath before the killer pulled

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on the Halloween mask. It

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was a grim reaper number. Black

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mesh allowed the wearer to see

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out, but no one to see in.

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It

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came with a black peaked hood attached,

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All

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of it cost a couple of bucks at Walmart.

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Up to this instant, it would have been

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easy to drive away, easy

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to do nothing, to melt

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into the city and become

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one of the faceless. Oh,

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but now, No. Now

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the killer was committed.

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Pressure had been building like steam in

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a boiling teapot for weeks.

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No months really. The killer

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knew the target's routine, knew

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the woman would be locking up and stepping

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into the parking lot any minute now

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The thing had to be done, and

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it had to be done right now.

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the grim reaper open the truck door

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and walk briskly to the kill

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zone. a

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good set

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of emergency? Twenty 505 eleventh

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Avenue. Twenty sixth Street in Colorado Avenue?

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Yeah. There we go. Somebody's been

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shy Yeah. Well, no. She's on the ground

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right now. This well, somebody walked out of me,

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ruined my wife in the mouth and just

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shot her in the room. Didn't

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see him?

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didn't

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see their face, didn't see their

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hands. You don't have often that someone

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puts on a grim reaper mask and comes down

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the alley and picks somebody out. everywhere.

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Yeah. And you're sure she's not bringing it all.

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Is she bringing it? What was it

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that caused the killer to get out of the truck

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that night to confront a

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woman who was walking with co workers to

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her car and then pulled a

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trigger. Was it money?

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Was it love? Was

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it pride? When people have

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had affairs and mistakes and stuff like that? I'll

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pay a heavy, heavy, heavy price.

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Here we put you so.

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This is a story of men and women. who

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considered themselves to be good and decent.

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They were people who pursued truth at

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work, while

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living lies at home. I

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think there are many villains in this.

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I

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think everybody that turned a blind eye

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is a villain. You'll

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hear plenty about villains in our story.

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But really, this could be a story about

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anyone,

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anyone who ignores their better angels

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and their better instincts and becomes

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caught in the tentacles of circumstance.

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I mean,

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when you're deceptive, when you betray

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a trust, sometimes there's a consequence

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and sometimes the consequences one you can't even

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predict.

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Sergeant and mister Smith,

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you're gonna love this house.

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bunk beds in a closet.

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There's no field manual for finding the

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right home. But when

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you do, USAA homeowners insurance

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can help protect it the right way. Restrictions

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apply.