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Jan 2020
41m 8s

Nightfall

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In this Dateline classic, investigators scramble to find a killer after a young mother is found dead 40 miles from Knoxville, Tennessee on the side of a country road. Andrea Canning reports. Originally aired on NBC on April 14, 2017. 
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