A Long, Dark Stretch of Road

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🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

A well-known defense attorney and his wife of nearly 30 years live a comfortable life with their children. One night, that life is torn apart when they are both shot on the side of the road leaving one of them dead. Could it be an angry former client, or something much more twisted? Dennis Murphy reports in this Dateline classic. Originally aired on NBC on April 24, 2009.

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0:00.0	How quickly life can tumble from candlelit dinner to this.
0:10.0	9-1 at your height.
0:12.0	Oh, you've got shots.
0:14.0	You got anywhere to live in.
0:15.0	Open your life by shot.
0:16.0	The long-married couple's date night in Manhattan
0:19.0	wasn't supposed to end this way, not on a dark road,
0:22.0	not with a gunman beside a window of their Mitsubishi,
0:26.0	not with the crack of gunfire.
0:28.0	I'm telling you, I'm going to go through my hospital.
0:30.0	I'm looking for you.
0:32.0	I'm looking for you.
0:34.0	I'm looking for you.
0:36.0	I'm going to shoot.
0:41.0	The day had begun like so many other lazy Saturday mornings
0:45.0	in a well-heeled New York City suburb of good homes,
0:48.0	good schools, and solid families.
0:51.0	Carlos Perez-Alevo, 58, a well-known criminal defense attorney,
0:55.0	was puttering around the family's two-story
0:58.0	Cobalt Blue Center Hall, Cologne.
1:00.0	Just three doors down from their very famous neighbors,
1:03.0	Bill and Hillary Clinton, in the desirable village of Chapacol.
	...

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