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Return to Poplar River

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, the small town of Poplar, Montana is shaken when police find the battered body of 17-year-old Kim Nees on the outskirts of town. Keith Morrison reports.

Transcript

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She was the well-liked valedictorian at Poplar High and one summer night, down by the river.

0:09.0

I could hear all these girls saying get her a taste in her.

0:14.0

Drag her.

0:15.0

A horrible scream.

0:17.0

Some in town claim this was a murder by a gang of mean girls.

0:21.0

Though he's the one who was convicted, sent to prison.

0:25.0

I did not kill Kim Nese.

0:27.0

You have my promise.

0:28.0

Sent it to 100 years.

0:31.0

Kill me as George.

0:32.0

Not one moment of doubt.

0:35.0

But did he really commit this crime?

0:37.0

That's the question that drew us to this case and drove us to investigate.

0:42.0

After the date line piece with these witnesses had the courage to come forth.

0:47.0

And a dramatic new development.

0:50.0

A whole new ending.

0:52.0

It was the last thing we ever anticipated happening.

0:55.0

I'm Lester Holdt and this is Date Live.

0:58.0

Here's Keith Morrison with a return to Poplar River.

1:06.0

There is a common misconception that momentous events occur in great cities.

1:12.0

The justices handed down true and pure from marble palaces.

1:17.0

But what would Lady just to say about the story you're going to hear now?

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