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Finding Venus

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

A mother of two mysteriously vanishes from her parents' home in Michigan while going to check the mailbox, leaving her phone and identification behind. Police declare her dead before they even find her body. The disappearance and complicated investigation takes years for detectives to unravel. Dennis Murphy reports on the most recent developments in the case. Originally aired on NBC on January 20, 2019.

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0:00.0

Venus was my friend, my coworker, and she was family.

0:04.0

It just makes you sick, thinking about it.

0:07.0

It's like, you want to know where she is,

0:09.0

but at the same time, you do not want to know.

0:12.0

It's the dramatic, new ending to an eight-year mystery.

0:18.0

She was a good mom.

0:21.0

She was a real good mom.

0:22.0

The case was never closed.

0:24.0

It was consuming all of us.

0:26.0

The young mom, who walked out the front door

0:29.0

and was never seen again.

0:31.0

This woman had gone out to get the mail and disappeared in her pajamas.

0:34.0

We might have a crime scene here.

0:36.0

The hair in the back of my neck stood up.

0:37.0

It's a stunner of a case,

0:39.0

and the plot right out of the movies.

0:42.0

The individual was wearing a baseball cap,

0:44.0

hoodie with the hood pulled up,

0:46.0

and large, mirrored sunglasses.

0:49.0

I'm like, no, dude, I can't do this.

0:51.0

It was like a game.

0:52.0

It was a part of this game.

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