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A Haunting Stretch of Road

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

While investigating the disappearance of a Washington D.C. woman, detectives discover a puzzling connection to a Virginia woman who vanished two decades earlier. Dennis Murphy reports. If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or visit www.thehotline.org.

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0:00.0

I'm Lester Holt. Tonight on Dadeline, a double mystery, could solving one untangle the other.

0:08.0

There were questions, really strange things about her disappearance.

0:13.0

Something just wasn't right. We just have no idea what happened at Pam.

0:18.0

New twists and turns in a heartbreaking story.

0:23.0

When you watch the video, framed by frame, you start to see little things that don't make sense.

0:30.0

A couple of text messages came in that we need to look at the brother Derek.

0:34.0

It's awkward to have to ask somebody, did you kill your sister?

0:38.0

She told me that she met Jose. I knew that this was pretty serious.

0:42.0

On a first take, how does Jose come across?

0:44.0

Works hard, serve this country.

0:47.0

You knew something bad had happened. I wanted to find Pam.

0:51.0

When they were on the scene, someone remembered that six-mile south from there, they had found some other remains.

0:59.0

His first wife, Marta, who's disappeared off the face of the earth.

1:03.0

We have wife number one missing and now Pam Butler missing.

1:07.0

He was named as a beneficiary in her will. Is there possible mode of there?

1:12.0

Some pulses take longer than others.

1:15.0

Pam's cell phone pinged, so is Pam alive? Or is this the day we find her body?

1:32.0

Here's Dennis Murphy with a haunting stretch of road.

1:38.0

These grainy nighttime images are some of the last known moments in the life of a successful woman, a person who simply vanished without a trace from her home.

1:50.0

What happened inside that house?

1:53.0

You might know some of her story, but solving what happened to her opened up an entirely new saga you don't know about another missing woman.

2:01.0

It's a big puzzle.

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