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Jun 2024
40m 51s

The Secret in Black Rock Canyon

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When police retrace the final hours of 16-year-old Cassie Jo Stoddart, they uncover evidence including a homemade horror film that points to her killers. Keith Morrison reports.

 

Keith Morrison and Andrea Canning go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’:

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