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Dateline NBC

Endgame

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Rod Covlin calls 911 after his young daughter finds his estranged wife, Shele Danishefsky, unconscious in the bathtub. Soon after her mysterious death, Shele’s loved ones would come to suspect that what happened was no accident. Andrea Canning reports. Originally aired on NBC on June 12, 2020.

Transcript

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0:00.0

A New Year's Eve mystery that would take the next nine years to solve.

0:05.0

I'm Lester Holt and this is Deadline.

0:10.0

Rod Coplin calls 911 and says that his wife appears dead.

0:15.0

He said that Anna found her in the bathtub.

0:18.0

I've never seen my son shell-shocked.

0:21.0

I'm reading the death certificate and I saw that the cause of death was undetermined.

0:27.0

This is a really sensational case. You have this beautiful woman, a tall handsome guy, greed and fidelity.

0:35.0

People were telling us things that were very worrying.

0:38.0

He's sleeping around with other women.

0:40.0

We believed it was a staged accident.

0:42.0

Case bothered me for a long time.

0:45.0

He was adamant about his innocence.

0:48.0

They just don't have direct attitudes.

0:51.0

First thing I thought it was chicken funnily rest.

1:05.0

Here's Andrea Canning with Endgame.

1:09.0

If you had to pick one place that screams New York City, it's usually this.

1:22.0

Time Square is the city's heart and soul and normally full of noise and lights and people rushing somewhere.

1:28.0

Or nowhere.

1:31.0

Take a short walk uptown however, maybe 25 minutes on foot.

1:35.0

And the endless wreckage of tourist hotspots and commerce gives way to a quiet or vibe.

1:41.0

Here you find the tree-lined streets and cozy apartments of the Upper West Side.

1:47.0

I started my own family here on the Upper West Side, just steps from Central Park.

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