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Oct 2020
1h 22m

Burning Suspicion

NBC NEWS
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In this Dateline classic, investigators question what went wrong when a young wife and mother is found dead after a house fire in a small Kansas town. Was it an act of murder? Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on October 11, 2013. 
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