The Mystery in Effingham County

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🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Publicly, they were a prominent family, highly respected. Privately, a jury would hear something else in a case -- that pit father against son, husband against wife, brother against brother. And at the heart of it all was a terrible family secret. Dennis Murphy reports in this Dateline classic. Originally aired on NBC on April 1, 2011.

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0:00.0	They were very, very popular in that moment.
0:03.3	They were an impeccable family, victims of an improbable crime.
0:08.0	Mother, father, son shot in the dead of night.
0:12.0	It felt like an ambush.
0:13.6	Investigators searched for clues, but what they found were secrets,
0:18.0	a forbidden love affair right in the family.
0:21.0	One son sleeping with the other son's wife.
0:24.5	He said if I was going to have an affair,
0:27.0	he would have been with anybody else except his brother.
0:30.0	Bad blood between brothers had that been a motive for murder,
0:34.0	had one kill the other to steal his wife.
0:37.0	I couldn't do that to my brother.
0:39.0	In court, it all came out, scandalous passions, jealousy, greed, lust.
0:45.0	He said that he was the black sheep of the family.
0:48.0	A family saga turns riveting courtroom drama.
0:52.0	I cried the whole time.
1:07.0	The time we received the call was around 3am.
1:10.0	F-9-9-1, how?
1:12.0	What's wrong?
1:15.0	I'm on my...
1:17.0	You're shot.
1:19.0	Yes, we do it.
	...

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