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Jan 2020
42m 9s

As Night Fell

NBC NEWS
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In this Dateline classic, a young woman is shot in her home just outside Salt Lake City, Utah. Was it an accident? Or something far more sinister? Josh Mankiewicz reports. Originally aired on NBC on June 23, 2017. 
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