Graduation Night

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4.4 • 38K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

When a woman attempts to connect with old neighborhood friends on Facebook, she has no idea it will dredge up a shocking, long buried truth. Keith Morrison reports in this Dateline classic. Originally aired on NBC on April 4, 2014.

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0:00.0	I tell people it's the miracle of Facebook.
0:03.0	I did was put one sentence, just one sentence.
0:07.0	It's not often that you get to be a hero.
0:10.0	I got halfway through this scan just went, oh my God.
0:17.0	The murder happened in seconds.
0:19.0	One was coming straight for me in gym, with a gun leveled at us.
0:24.0	I've never ran so fast in my life.
0:26.0	The truth took decades.
0:28.0	I said, you know what?
0:30.0	Give me a lie detector test.
0:31.0	I never believed it for one minute, never.
0:34.0	Did someone have it all wrong?
0:37.0	Or innocent man in prison for a murder, they didn't commit.
0:41.0	A 22-year mystery until Facebook helped old friends find each other and justice.
0:48.0	Could you ever imagine you would actually cause such a thing?
0:51.0	Not in a million years.
0:53.0	Together they uncovered an almost unbelievable truth.
0:57.0	It all made sense.
0:59.0	None of us knew what happened that night.
1:02.0	This all made sense.
1:04.0	Somebody seen it, somebody knew.
1:07.0	All right.
	...

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