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Dateline NBC

The Promise Kept

Dateline NBC

NBC News

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, Cathy Torrez was a beautiful, smart and responsible 20-year-old student. So why didn't she come home after work like she was supposed to? Josh Mankiewicz reports. Originally aired on NBC on April 24, 2015.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're still holding on to the hope that she's going to come running in through that back door.

0:07.0

You didn't want it to be dark because you wanted to keep looking.

0:13.8

She was a mom full of pain looking for her baby and her baby hadn't come home.

0:21.4

My mom asked her what happened.

0:25.9

Did you find her? He looked at my mom and he said I'm sorry.

0:30.5

She'd been stabbed multiple times and there was blood within the interior of the car.

0:35.5

She was a targeted victim.

0:38.8

We had no witness. We had no confession. We had no DNA.

0:42.4

They still had to keep looking for what I had lost.

0:45.3

My first daughter was born and I remember going to Mary and I say I know, I know now, how you feel.

0:55.1

I put a lot of faith in God. Darren was his tool.

0:59.5

This was everything to her. I fulfilled my promise.

1:08.1

In the wee small hours of the morning while the whole wide world is fast asleep,

1:14.5

Mary Bennett is awake, not because she wants to be,

1:19.5

but because something stay with you, whether you want them to or not.

1:24.7

And for Mary Bennett, it's the time 3.40 am.

1:30.1

Every day I wake up around that time. It's embedded in my brain.

1:34.7

For more than two decades, that particular time has stabbed her in the heart, pulled her awake.

1:41.5

It's an internal clock permanently set to the worst day of her life.

1:46.7

It began with a phone call, then a knock on the door,

1:50.7

and news of something that should never have happened to this family, to this girl.

1:55.9

When she would come inside the house, her favorite thing was,

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