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Dateline NBC

Love Lay Dying

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, Keith Morrison reports on the story of a creative woman who fell in love with a young, successful surgeon. They seemed to need each other, but also developed another kind of need that culminated in a fatal weekend that raised the question, was the doctor also a killer? Originally aired on NBC on April 25, 2008.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Love can be so unpredictable, gentle, caring, or a passionate fire out of control, scorching

0:15.3

what it touches, consuming the lives of the lovers, pulled back for more.

0:23.7

Such was the romance and its fate at the heart of our story.

0:27.7

A story you'll hear in part through a raw and shocking tape, which captures the most

0:36.5

private of moments, you're in this beautiful, like, scene of a little picture.

0:51.5

They loved each other as much as they seemed to hate each other or as much as they loved

0:56.7

to argue.

0:58.7

Tara is talking about the toxic love affair which had consumed her sister, the head turning

1:04.4

Lisa Buchanan 35 years old.

1:07.4

They had grown up together, Lisa the younger of the two, in Dayton, Ohio.

1:13.5

One of the memories I have of her is she was always wanting to fight for the underdog and

1:18.0

fight for the people she cared about.

1:20.7

Lisa married at a daughter named Jessie but wanted more.

1:24.8

She began modeling and often for Cincinnati photographer Gary Kessler.

1:29.4

Lisa was great, she was very vivacious and bubbly and full of life and had big plans.

1:37.6

Lisa wanted to write movies and star in movies and she created a script.

1:43.6

Lisa just had a lot of hopes for the future.

1:47.0

And so she divorced her husband, and left Jessie with her ex while she set out to conquer

1:52.0

Hollywood.

1:53.9

After enduring a succession of odd jobs and rejections, Lisa headed for the center of

1:59.3

another kind of fame.

2:01.4

She went to Nashville.

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