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The Overlook

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Two young women are shot and left for dead on a beach in Texas. After one miraculously survives, she is determined to find out who the attacker is. When a young man is eventually convicted, the long road to justice seems to be complete until a stunning twist raises a question - could the wrong man be in prison? Josh Mankiewicz reports.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Lester Holt and this is Date Line.

0:04.4

Two women were attacked so brutally.

0:07.4

I would want the guy that did it too.

0:09.6

But you think they got the wrong guy?

0:11.0

I'm positive they have the wrong guy.

0:13.0

It started with a savage assault.

0:15.4

I could see two girls laying there.

0:17.0

It was horrifying.

0:18.0

There was duct tape on their mouths, on their hands.

0:20.8

I couldn't fathom who would do this to them.

0:23.8

One girl dead.

0:25.4

But miraculously, the other survived.

0:28.4

I'm just like praying, please God, don't let me die.

0:31.8

The hunt for their attacker went nowhere.

0:34.6

Then a mysterious message.

0:37.0

The letter is written from the perspective of a hitman.

0:40.0

We moved to an arrest very quickly.

0:41.8

If you looked at it, it would probably think him capable of this.

0:46.2

But he certainly lost.

0:47.8

Was he?

0:48.8

Some said a critical crime scene clue was ignored.

0:52.4

Let's presume that we came from the person who attacked them.

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