executive. but as your career was on the rise. her marriage was on the rocks. sydney i still wanted this marriage to work, i did not give up. soon he was gone, vanished without a word or a trace. he left the young daughter behind. he left the house. was this a husband who did not want to be found? or could this be something else. detectives are not an undercover operation. that would lead to a long hard to say ready for that? i know that it has to happen. disappearance in the desert. could it be the perfect crime. i can t imagine what would be like to keep that. welcome to dateline. i m lester holt. for eight years it was a mystery, a husband who had simply vanished. on the surface it didn t make sense. he had a wife, a lucrative job, a daughter he loved. but investigators were told he also had a secret. so was he missing or was he hiding? that question would lead detectives to a dark discovery because someone else had a secret to. here s josh michael it s.
handsome police officer. a young, beautiful wife. someone i talked to almost every day is gone. it does not make sense. when you hear suicide? no, no way. things about it started stinking. she had met another man? yes, a big, messy triangle. how many other women besides you was he having an affair with? ten. ten? you ve got so many girlfriends. i know. she had told her boss that she had done something bad. i think the last statement within her diary said it all. we knew we would get here. we just knew that we had a lot of hurdles to get over. i will never forgive myself. never. the life of a police officer. it s full of danger. and stress. they have rough days at work. and they end up holding it in. they re our first responders. it is hard. it is hard work. from one call to the next, you don t know what s going to happen. but our story is about what happened when a first responder had to face a crisis in his own home.
it felt like law & order . the fire broke out before dawn. in the daylight, they found this mother of two young children dead. she lived a very courageous life. she was very bold in the things she did. but after the smoke cleared, a mystery lingered. we knew she did not die in that fire, she died before the fire. who do you look to as the suspect? obviously the spouse is the first person you look to. but her husband had a clear alibi and he passed a lie detector test. eventually, the case grew cold until this witness came forward. with a tale of love and lust gone wrong. he finally just took the sweat shirt and wrapped it around her neck. but could she be believed? i was sleeping around. i think i slept with half the town. was she out for justice or revenge? is it a perfect world, no? will she get hers, yes? and she does. what was the lie? and what was the truth? how could you miss it? he wasn t there! hello and welcome to dateline . paul and c
what she was settling with from the outset. my dreams were calling at night. i dreamt of camilla the whole time. obsessed with camilla, totally. she adored prince charles. she wanted to be part of the royal family, to be a credit to the monarchy. she wanted to show the world, and she wanted to show camilla, look who i am, look what he s got. the true diana came out. she has a backbone. she knows she s being seen by camilla. i m about to marry the future king of england. diana frances, wilt thou have this man to thy wedded husband? i have made it. i m here. you re there. i won. you lost. on monday we d gone to st. paul s for our last rehearsal, and that s when the camera lights were on full. a crowd of about 3,000 have built up. their enthusiasm unmistakable. prince charles was so relaxed, he nearly came to grief on the top step. and when it was over, prince charles clasped lady diana s hand reassuringly and unaffectedly. she was photogenic. she was young
and they flat out said it this week. the problem the republican party has is they got really stupid people and vote in their primaries really stupid people demand to have really stupid leaders that way. the republican party is now the problem is the voters. they are the people who deliver donald trump to the electoral college victory really the party that has the house, the senate and the presidency thinks the voters are the problem. maybe it s the democratic policies that have led to devastating losses and hardship across the country, whether it be overdoses from drugs flooding through our border or the rampant crime in major cities or the inflation you experience every day, they are doing nothing to solve any of it. we ll get to more of that in a moment. but for the left to blame americans for putting donald trump in office is asinine. they should be thanking the voters who did that because we got to see what policies actually work and improve our standard of living. the fa