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May 2024
1h 23m

If These Walls Could Talk

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A Southern California woman's fall down the stairs initially appears to be a fatal accident, but when deputies arrest her husband, his story unravels. Keith Morrison reports. Keith Morrison and Josh Mankiewicz go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’: Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/3VyiGcQ Listen on Spotify: https://open.s ... Show More
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