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4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, an atheist and a born-again preacher set out on the project of their lives, but no one thought that Satan might come a long for the ride. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on August 20, 2010.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The first crash could have happened to anybody, but the second accident that one had people

0:11.1

talking.

0:12.1

We had a couple calls, I think, for people who had their suspicions.

0:15.7

Same driver, a popular preacher, same passenger, a wealthy farmer, but this time he was dead.

0:23.6

I knew instantly that it was murder.

0:25.6

Murder?

0:26.6

Committed by a man of God?

0:28.4

Why?

0:29.4

I can't find a motive, I really can't.

0:32.2

But maybe someone else could.

0:34.5

They had come to realize there were some funny stuff going on with the money.

0:37.8

Money, mystery, and murder.

0:40.1

Evil is not that sophisticated, evil is not that smart, and Doug Porter was an evil man.

0:47.6

Two lives, God in a deadly current.

0:56.9

He took them down to the river, and one that ran past their farms in orchards that kept

1:01.3

the valley alive.

1:02.8

But today you're saying to the world that I'm not my first focus anymore, the Christy.

1:09.0

And there as the cleansing waters flowed around them, he baptized them in the name of the

1:13.6

father and the son and the Holy Spirit.

1:16.2

His fine, simple man, his charismatic preacher, Pastor Doug.

1:23.6

So here what they say, later, of course, the whispers, the arched eyebrows, the shock

1:28.1

that came with discovery, but not yet.

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