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Jan 2023
20m 44s

The Crossbow Incident

NBC NEWS
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A wife and mother is found dead in her Virginia beach home, shot through the back by a crossbow. Her husband insists it was an accident, but the prosecutor calls it murder. Keith Morrison reports in this Dateline classic. Originally aired on NBC on September 8, 2008. 
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