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Jul 2022
40m 4s

Murder in the Family

NBC NEWS
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After a wife and mother is found dead in her Coral Gables home, police had one suspect from the beginning. But there was also undeniable proof that he couldn’t have done it. Dennis Murphy reports in this Dateline classic. Originally aired on NBC on August 21, 2009. 
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