i heard this god awful scream. was this an accident? there was absolutely no allegation of evil intent. or something else? i m with more to her dead than i am alive. hello, and welcome to dateline. to outsiders, every marriage is a mystery. some who knew the couple in our story sought to people in love, others a marriage in trouble. but, all agree this husband and wife did have one thing going for them, they both loved hunting. they were also both excellent shots, so good they rarely missed whatever the target. here s keith moore with as darkness fell. twilight, the day going fast now, the meadow, a while in blackwood. what did she know, now as she studied, herself was it hours ago on did she know already back at the camp in the morning? where was it later, much later that they showed her the evidence, and darkness that swallowed them all. they call it the rock, this gorgeous island with this fishing and cove and mile after mile of woods. a place to fall in lo
dean who right after the shooting, and dean who heard that investigators went out to the very spot with the best shot, mark and conducted a reenactment. the results, inconclusive. it was possible at least that a mary beth could have mistaken mark there. though of course, another conclusion was also possible. by this time, with some help from the family, pennsylvania media had gotten wind of his death, and local gossip feasted on what was a juicy story, accident, or not? it would be pretty hard to mistake a human for a bear. mary beth, she kept her mouth shut, at least in public. the, she did fight hard eventually successfully to pry the very successful insurance money from first refused to pay. she started competing again, in local shooting contests. and, when it came to the kids, mary beth claimed the family
i saw a clear bear. what you re telling me as you saw a bear? with the scope, and might make it i. my scope magnified, it and i looked, and it was a bear. and then she said, for this conclusion. i think it was too dark to shoot. i should not have taken the shot. you didn t get a clear picture? i thought i had a clear picture, but obviously not. so, now the question all too familiar to cops everywhere mary beth, you and mark, ever had any marital issues or problems? we had the perfect life, the perfect, marriage the perfect family. i loved him so much. he was my everything. i could not wait for him not as what i live for. we had a great life. we had so much in common.
sort of foul play, and calculated deliberate killing, my a woman they did not like, or trust, not one bit. especially when he lived briefly with mark and mary beth, did not end well. i fell in bad favor with mary beth. she couldn t control me, she got really intense to the dominating in her manners. he saw disturbing things during his short unhappy stay with the couple. mary beth would fly off the handle, i saw her just violent. slap? slap to his lips were bleeding. and, ask him why he wasn t afraid sometime she threatened to kill him. and, he said, our love for each other is so strong, and should be losing the best thing that ever happen. he said he thought his
out murder, or any crime. when they sent me back home with the very, the funeral was to say the least, awkward, tense. almost as if some state of that side. i don t even know where his ashes were scattered, i do not know that. well, they may not have been scattered at all, actually. here is the urn on a shelf mark built for mary beth. and, that might have been the end of, it really, except of course, with a deep freeze that now split the family. but, it wasn t the end of it. because, not long after, said dean, a strange thing would happen. two of mark s friends came forward, claiming mark once made an unsettling prediction. i think she s going to shoot me. mark hesitated, and added, and