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Dateline NBC

The House on Badger Lane

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, the three young children of a couple who live in a gated community in California hear a thump one morning that becomes the first clue in a mystery that will expose family secrets. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on January 31, 2016.

Transcript

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0:00.0

He was coming towards me with his arms raised.

0:05.0

I started pushing back.

0:09.0

He grabbed me.

0:12.0

I was shaking.

0:15.0

I said, stop, stop.

0:18.0

What are you doing? Stop.

0:21.0

She was a good mom. She was really involved with her kids.

0:24.0

He wanted a lifestyle where he could be there for his family.

0:27.0

Those kids always came first.

0:31.0

They found a body upstairs in the master bedroom.

0:34.0

The victim was clearly shot with a handgun.

0:37.0

The kids were missing. Julie was missing.

0:39.0

This is our neighbor. These are our friends.

0:41.0

You're just in the other shop.

0:44.0

Wait, you're our pool f*** to get out.

0:48.0

I didn't want my family to know. I didn't want my neighbors to know.

0:52.0

No. Devious and manipulative. In my wildest dreams, I would have never expected that.

0:58.0

This is our best friend.

1:01.0

It didn't have to end like this.

1:09.0

Grief, like the ocean.

1:11.0

Rolled into their lives and waves.

1:14.0

Ride the waves or sink, it seemed to say ride them again and again.

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