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Dateline NBC

Secrets of the Snake River

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, strange, unsettling things were happening to Rachael. Then, the young mother vanishes. What could have happened? Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on January 9, 2015.

Transcript

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0:00.0

When I found out my mom was missing, I fought tooth and nail.

0:06.8

We searched that entire summer day and night.

0:10.8

I even got hypnotized once to try to communicate with my mom to have her tell me where she was.

0:15.8

I did everything I could possibly do.

0:20.5

Rachel Anderson had one great passion.

0:23.7

She would have had a child every year if she could.

0:26.1

She just loved being a mom so much.

0:28.8

And with kids at home, it was extra scary when someone started stalking her.

0:34.0

We were talking late at night and she got real panic and she said, I think there's somebody

0:38.5

outside.

0:39.5

Watching her every move.

0:41.8

Knowing where she's at in her house, which lights were on.

0:44.9

Making disturbing calls with a disguised voice.

0:48.5

It's only matter of time.

0:49.9

Suddenly, Rachel disappeared and a desperate search began.

0:54.7

You can see the vastness in all the various places that you could conceal a body.

0:59.6

Months went by.

1:00.6

The case stalled.

1:02.2

Then investigators learned that the plot might be bigger and darker than they ever could

1:07.4

have guessed.

1:08.4

This is a very tantalizing thread that comes together, Pat.

1:11.8

Whisper's that Rachel was the victim of something out of a Hitchcock movie, a moment of pure

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