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Dateline NBC

The Carrollton Plot

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, Frank Howard, a high flying accountant from Carrollton, Texas, learns that his wife has been brutally attacked in their home while he’s away on business in California. Andrea Canning reports. Originally aired on NBC on October 17, 2014.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Suddenly, there was a man with his arm around my neck and it went to my head.

0:06.0

I shoved my person to his chest and I said, Jesus saved me.

0:11.3

And the bullet shot me right in the head and I went down.

0:22.0

It came out of nowhere, a sweet stay at home mom from a strong family of faith.

0:27.4

Shot point blank at her own garage door.

0:30.6

My dad was like collapsed on the ground.

0:32.8

It was very traumatic to see very emotional time.

0:37.7

Her survival seemed like a miracle.

0:40.8

I didn't know if I would live.

0:42.7

Was this some awful random crime or did someone want her dead?

0:47.5

That was mystery number one.

0:49.1

Someone was out there.

0:50.3

Yeah, we were scared.

0:51.6

Mystery number two, a secret, 1600 miles away.

0:56.8

There were several text messages that's just slowly snowballing.

1:00.3

It was like a punch in the gut.

1:02.4

And mystery number three.

1:03.9

I mean, I'm a hard, who would they turn out to be?

1:07.9

I was like, damn, what did this lady do?

1:10.9

Faith, temptation and a twist, a size of Texas.

1:16.4

Let's be very clear.

1:18.2

Justice needs to be served.

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