Too Fat to Kill?

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4.4 • 38K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, a devoted father is gunned down in his New Jersey home. An unusual defense brought the case into the national spotlight when the suspect agued he was simply too obese to carry out the killing. Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on April 23, 2010.

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0:00.0	I felt like it was a Hollywood movie.
0:02.5	He was a wealthy executive and doding dad.
0:05.9	He was very loving and concerned about his kids.
0:08.7	In the midst of a nasty divorce with a bitter ex.
0:12.5	He just said that his wife was putting him through so much.
0:19.5	But soon, he bounced back, a new life with a gorgeous new fiance.
0:24.5	And that's when it started.
0:26.5	He felt threatened.
0:27.8	He says I'm afraid for my life.
0:29.8	Haunted.
0:30.8	I said you're being melodramatic and he said now this is really happening.
0:35.8	Ambushed from inside his million dollar dream house.
0:39.8	Suddenly he started to scream.
0:41.8	Shot to death.
0:42.8	A crime of passion said police.
0:45.8	Somebody wanted this man dead very, very badly.
0:48.8	The question was who?
0:50.8	His ex?
0:51.8	She was losing everything.
0:53.8	Or someone else.
0:54.8	The arrest was startling.
0:56.8	Look at that.
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