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Jun 2022
39m 48s

Justice for Sparkle

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A young woman leaves home, hoping for a bright future. She falls in love, has a baby, and begins life as a mother. But soon, her parents get a dreadful phone call: Sparkle Rai has been killed. Keith Morrison reports in a Dateline classic originally aired on NBC on February 6, 2009.

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