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Dateline NBC

The Detective's Daughter

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, a sheriff detective's daughter -- who'd been kidnapped -- did what she'd been taught. She called 911. So did her husband. So did horrified witnesses. They all thought help would be on the way. They were wrong. Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on July 26, 2009.

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0:00.0

It was bad enough that it happened at all, the horrible thing.

0:10.8

But doubly shocking for a West Florida community that no one was able to stop it.

0:15.6

The young mother, abducted from her home, driven down busy roads, winding through residential

0:20.7

neighborhoods in broad daylight, screaming for her life.

0:24.6

People saw her for sure, 911 centers lit up, including one call from a driver giving

0:32.9

play by play of a nightmare of a crime in real time.

0:38.5

And even one call from the victim herself, who was able to put out an alert as her kidnapper

0:46.8

was at the wheel.

0:49.2

Call 911.

0:50.2

That's what we're all trained to do, isn't it?

0:52.7

Or lungs only blew it.

0:55.7

And I say, we, because I'm part of that sheriff's office.

1:01.3

Young Denise Amber Lee never wanted to be known as anything but a loving mom and devoted

1:06.0

wife.

1:07.0

Oh my goodness.

1:08.7

She was a 21-year-old, truly happily married woman.

1:12.2

She met her future husband, Nate Lee, in high school.

1:14.8

He hung with the cool kids, the ball players.

1:17.4

Denise was more the studious type, a bookworm, and math ace.

1:21.6

And she finally overcame her shyness senior year.

1:24.3

And was bold enough to ask out the guy who caught her interest, they both learned that opposites

1:29.0

really did attract.

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