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he was the infamous claim pin who inspired fear among criminals and law enforcement on both sides of the border. his name was el chapo. for over a decade, they are third -- builders muddy safehouses. the one man was determined to capture the fugitive and would lead his team to great lengths, even risk his own life to get the job done. here is a lester holt with inside the hunt for el chapo. >> he was hiding so. somewhere in these four pitting mountains. or in this sprawling city. or in this sun splashed beach resort. somewhere, somewhere in mexico. he was the most wanted drug lord in the world, implicated in hundreds of murders and

finding him became dangerous mission of this man and a team of u.s. and mexican law enforcement agents. >> i'm pretty sure i've never started off an interview about -- they were chasing some really bad people with really long memories. what do you doing talking to me in front of these cameras? >> originally, i started out under an alias. >> for the first time ever, this former dea agent was coming out of the shadows, despite fears for his life. >> the dangers, aerial. really, i've got to watch my back the same way. whether it was under nearly as or using my real name. >> is it a calculated risk? >> i've always calculated, always. i was time to really step up and be proud of what i have ten, what's my teammates had time. >> his name is andrew hogan. facing incredible odds. he and the team twitter lives on the line to stop and elusive

pray. we go inside coups hunt as he pursues el chapo from safehouse to save house and finally comes face to face. >> not just story about one man. it's larger than that. it's two countries, coming together, accomplishing something that everyone thought was impossible. >> he recounts that journey in his putt. hunting el chapo. in the book, for security reasons, he changed the names of some people and places. i blurred the faces of others. who are still working in the field because for all of them, danger lurked around every curve in the road. >> her always going to have that in the back of your mind. but it is where you do without fear. >> but he did was obsess over el chapo's whereabouts. >> it was nonstop. nonstop, where we dream about it. it totally consumed my life.

>> through hogan's international garcia in the hunt for el chapo started far from mexico's narco killing fields. a small town midwest where he played high school football and dreamt of going into law enforcement. >> first shot of carrying a patch was a local sheriff deputy? correct >>. i loved working the street. one day, i was with a former police officer and he said hey, why don't you just going to chicago and try with the da? >> they theory, the united states drug enforcement administration. who joined in 2007 at age 25. his new job brought into a border city in the southwestern united states. his first order of business was to learn about the mexican narco culture. which included songs like abu -- unbelievable el chapo. his mentor wasn't undercover agent drew called in the book, diego. >> he was translating meant to be, i started to understand

really low was behind the songs. really connected thoughts for me. kind of who's who in that world. >> bautista modern-day outlaws? >> oh yeah, absolutely. and chapel was at the very top. >> toronto. el chapo. real name, tua keen guzman. the city of chicago named him public enemy number one for his role in bringing in tons of drugs that were sold on the streets of the u.s.. crews coauthor. >> chapas very ruthless and numerous guy. let's not sugarcoat at. he rose to power ortiz bloom you you both of cocaine and he was the guy who delivered. he invented the narco tunnel. >> they're narco tunnel. the tunnels buried under the u.s. mexico border that cartels used to smuggle vast quantities of drugs into the u.s.. his rise from abject poverty

one -- of the most powerful drug syndicates not lana, which had thousands of members that span the globe made el chapo a full hero in mexican culture. >> he's a little boy that sold oranges on the street and then rises from absolute nothingness. can't read or write, he's completely illiterate, to being a billionaire. that's extremely captivating as a methodical tree for poor working people and a very proficient country. >> he started in a truck trade in 1970s and was arrested in 1993. but el chapo was able to run his cartel from a high security mexican prison for eight years. then, and 2001, his election cruel when he escaped, headed in the laundry cart. >> the way he escaped was like movie. >> this reporter has covered mexico struck wars and el chapo for years. >> him being able to embarrass

authorities, i think that's what made him. it's pure gold. for a legend, right? >> el chapo was the master bribery. we spent millions of dollars a year, secretly totaling out cash to every branch of the mexican government. so officials will turn a blind eye to his criminal enterprise. >> with all trapped, the truth of the realities that more than 200,000 people have died because of this world drugs and but it has people have disappeared. >> lift free for years and seemed untouchable by the time true hogan to -- join the da. >> there had been so many failed attempts throughout the years that chapo escaped backdoor. >> he was wired into law enforcement? >> absolutely. at every level. >> the u.s. and mexican agents never gave up on capturing el chapo. a 30-year veteran of the a, derek malt ran the special

operations division and oversaw his efforts to bring the drug lord to justice. >> even though they were unsuccessful in the sense of capturing chapo guzman, they were very successful and developing intelligence and knowledge of how these cartels we're operating. >> drew hogan and diego first really hot with doing. move >> by infiltrating the cartel. >> when did he get on your radar and away that, i think i might be able to get it? >> who would've been 2010 and 2011. where diego and i started moving sinaloa cartel move money. >> he worked as part of a task force. diego was a local detective, not a federal agent like true. these are photos taken during their operations. diego passed himself off as a big time operator has drew coordinated behind the scenes by doing this, they were risking their lives.

>> you guys were playing the rule of money launderers? >> right. diego is in his undercover role, posing as director of operations every covert criminal network that had access to airplanes, trucks, yachts. we can move millions of dollars at a time in town cohen cities of drugs at any point. that was our were sales pitch. >> that was their pitch and they were successful. for instance, see those fedex boxes? they could take did nearly one point $2 million destined for el chapo's operations. drew nba go we're getting inside the belly of the beast. >> coming up. >> we actually reading their texts? >> everything in one of them. >> crew hogan moves closer to el chapo and his family moves it deeper into danger. >> my wife you everything that we got themselves into. >> when dateline continues.

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was part of the hunt for drunken pin, el chapo. drew and his task force partner diego infiltrated el chapo's sinaloa cartel. these are photos of their undercover operations. they acted as money launderers

and each step of the way, as they move cash, they found a new target to exploit. getting them closer to the top. >> diego and i landed in a new location, we would immediately hit the streets. we would go out that night, hitting the different bars and hotels and clubs to -- >> try not to look locations. >> exactly. >> they were playing a very dangerous game. andrew was becoming obsessed, obsessed with tracking down el chapo. >> drew felt he went as far as he could in the u.s.. he needed to immerse himself south of the border. made a decision to move to mexico city with his young family. >> i had a talk with my family extensively. she knew everything we were getting ourselves into and she told me that, but your target? and i said to go. to go.

let's do it. >> leaving pa go back in the states, two and his family arrived in mexico city in may, 2012. he and the team were now stalking one of the most powerful criminals in the world on el chapo's own turf. >> it's just like, who's watching me? it could be anybody from chapas people to the local cartel around mexico city to the street tugs or even the mexican government. >> he worked in a cluttered cubicles at the u.s. embassy in mexico city. during long days and nights, he barely saw halves family. crews attention was focused on the mountain range far to the west. the sierra moderate. it's known as mexico's a lawless land. el chapo's home base, the mexican state of sinaloa comprised as part of it. the biggest city there is truly a can. the reputed nautical capital of

mexico and el chapo essentially old town. >> it would be like in the heyday of prohibition when alcohol in completely own chicago to somebody to just come in and throw handcuffs on. component they get shot. >> it was a place where king pins and -- were placed in large ornate tombs. they seemed to stand as reminders of the violence and the danger that had engulfed those product. what drew rely ciulacan spectrum was tremendous. french turns, just before he arrived in mexico, he came upon a treasure trove of evidence. el chapo had left his safe even ciulacan for this mansion in. it was raided by mexican law enforcement. el chapo got away but there were key scraps of paper, notebooks and phones left behind. with phone numbers that drew

could target. >> you can't just target man himself. you have to target his entire infrastructure. that means his pilots, his facilitators, his core years, his wife, his girlfriends, his sons. down to his made and his cook. but it began with his two most trusted pilots. >> pilots who would swoop el chapo in and out of his hideout under cover of darkness. it was a big discovery. drew learned and aging from homeland security investigations back in the states, who he calls brady had also uncovered the pilots numbers. >> he came back and said that, oh my god, this could be a gold mine. and we just began vowing intelligence back and forth. hi him up in the states and me down in mexico. >> true and the team new el chapo usually didn't carry a phone himself but was always

with an underling who did. with an underling who did. so they thought if they could track the phones of el chapo's closest associates, they would find el chapo himself. but making things more difficult was that el chapo's people kept changing what are called burner phones, disposable phones used a short time and then tossed away. >> don't you have to go back to square one every time they toss them? >> if they drop their phones all at the same time, yes. but there's -- there's hundreds of people in this organization. and they're not all dropping their phones at the same time. >> i toss my phone now. she tosses her phone tomorrow. you're three days later. that was their weakness? >> right. >> it's not registered in anyone's name, how were you able to identify where these communications were coming from? >> through the names that they were using. they were very open in their communications. >> it was a big mistake by el chapo's operation. drew and the team could now track them, and the cartel operatives had no idea. >> they didn't think that those communications could be

intercepted by u.s. law enforcement. >> were you actually reading their texts? >> every single one of'em. >> could you tell where they were coming from and whether you were in fact seeing communications directly from el chapo? >> yes. it took us awhile to infiltrate this mirror structure that they had set up. >> a mirror structure, a ladder of phones belonging to el chapo's underlings, climbing to the top, from third tier, maybe a runner, to second tier, perhaps a driver, and so on. >> you essentially cracked the code? >> cracked the code. >> it was a high point in the search, after years of hunting, el chapo was in their sights. at last. coming up -- >> chapo knew instantly somebody was corrupt. >> drew hogan smells a rate and makes a move. >> we had to go into enemy territory and root him out. >> a bold strike with deadly

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drug lord, el chapo. by tracing the burner phones used by el chapo's underlings, the dea's drew hogan was zeroing in on his target. >> all that mattered throughout this entire time was his location. where was he at? that's the only question i wanted answered. >> as you're realizing that you were building this ladder potentially to el chapo, what was that like? and you're reading -- >> -- piecing together -- >> -- the messages? >> reading the messages, piecing together chapo's day-to-day structure of his organization, his day-to-day operations. >> that must have been an eye-opener. >> yeah, it was like reading a novel that you couldn't put down. >> was he more sophisticated,

less sophisticated than you thought? >> he was more involved in the to continue the hunt. he worked with brady, his colleague from romantic unity investigations back in the states. together, they tracked front of i'll transposed closest with what and plotting their locations on google maps. . >> we had seen him come down out of culiacan to a remote location. and we were trying to pinpoint it. and after hours of searching on google maps, we found it. >> it was a location where they saw tiny shelters called palapas in the middle of nowhere. el chapo was camped out at a place known for duck hunting. >> where he would come down, meet with his most trusted

lieutenants or his sons just for a few hours, and then he would head back to the city. once we had that location, it was our x. and i nicknamed it duck dynasty. >> drew now knew el chapo was venturing outside his fortress city of culiacan. this was the best shot they may ever have. he and his partners pushed their superiors, and a decision was made. they would grab el chapo at duck dynasty. so now you've got him in your sights. but i'm assuming this is not an operation you can pull off by yourselves. >> no, we cannot do anything as the united states government without the host nation. from the beginning, i didn't know who we'd be able to trust with this. i hadn't shared anything with the mexican government. i wanted to pinpoint chapo's location, have it ironclad, wrap it up in a big red bow, and walk into the mexican government and deliver the

package and say, do you want chapo? and the only unit that i could do that with that i had some level of trust in was the mexican marines, semar. >> they're the elite? >> they're the elite. >> semar, the mexican marines, had a sterling reputation for integrity and the ability to keep a secret. but this time, something went wrong. >> as soon as we met, i provided chapo's location. i provided this duck dynasty location to them. but the second they moved resources up to sinaloa, chapo knew instantly. >> you saw that in your intercepts? >> yes. >> how did you feel? >> devastated. you knew somebody was corrupt, somebody that you had just shared your most prized and protected intelligence with, has just leaked that. out to chapo's people. it was an eerie feeling. our next meeting walking in, sitting down with the admiral and his folks, you didn't know, it could have been somebody in that room. >> the team had been betrayed. but no one knew who did it or why. but you still wanted him? was plan b to refocus on culiacan? >> so the heat in around duck dynasty deterred him from coming out. he stayed holed up in his safe house, where he

spent 90% of his time there in culiacan. and he wasn't coming out. >> and it's the last place you want to have to go and get him? >> right. >> brady had flown to mexico to join drew in person. the clock was ticking because of the leak, el chapo now knew something big was about to go down. the team had no choice. >> we had to make a move. and that move was to go into enemy territory and root him out. >> the task force leaders approved a bold action, to do what they didn't want to do, and strike at el chapo in his fortress city, culiacan. you went in with the mexican marines into culiacan. once again, you had to trust them? >> right. >> drew was recording on his cellphone as the operation began. >> this particular operation in february of 2014 was the first time that the mexican marines had ever done an operation on the ground in this area because of the danger and the compromises and the risks involved. >> laser-focused on their

mission, drew and brady and the team had narrowed down el chapo's location to a one-block radius. but they needed to find the right house, and a specific door to get at him. >> so, we sent our teams down there to do that. and they spent 24 hours in that city, alone trying to pinpoint that door. >> drew and the rest of the team waited at a nearby military base for the call to come in that el chapo's location had been pinpointed. in the meantime, culiacan was abuzz. fear hung in the air. rumors and text messages were flying among the people who lived there. >> the city is lighting up. it's on fire. the lookouts all throughout the city were alerting everyone that something is not right, that there are people in the neighborhood that don't belong.

>> they were right. the mexican marines were about to pounce. >> coming up -- inside especially el chapo's lair. >> you slept in one of his beds. >> i did. i slept in his bed, i ate the food out of his refrigerator. >> a jewelled gun, a jaw-dropping stash, a tunnel under the tub. >> mentally, had you almost caught him at that point? >> we were so close i could taste it. >> when "inside the hunt for el chapo continues." ms want to save that dough. hold onto that green. enough with the puns! land o'frost premium. fresh look. same great taste. pain? yeah. here. aspercreme with max-strength* lidocaine. works fast and lasts. keep it. you're gonna need it. kick pain in the aspercreme do we really need a sign to live, laugh, and love? -yes. -the answer is no.

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now back to "dateline extra." >> he and his colleagues are narrow the search to cool yukon mexico, it down deep inside enemy territory. now, a team of mexican marines and u.s. agents was on the ground determined to strike before he could escape again. here again is leicester hope, with inside the hunt for el chapo. february 16, 2014. as drew was waiting at a military base 150 miles away, members of the mexican u.s. team had entered the hornet's nest in search of cartel kingpin el chapo guzman. they'd been on the ground, exposed, for 24 hours and still hadn't located the exact safe

house el chapo was holed up in. >> so, i got a call from the ground team. and they said, "look, this isn't workin'. everyone's tired, hungry. we're exhausted." >> time was running out. >> we've got one option left. chapo's most-trusted courier. go find him. >> they did. and sure enough, he flipped on his boss and agreed to lead them to el chapo's five safe houses. a squad of more than fifty mexican marines and u.s. agents swarmed the area. drew and brady flew in from the base with another contingent of mexican marines. drew caught much of the operation on his phone. >> i said, "perfect." he's done, he is done. >> what followed was a tense cat and mouse game as the mexican marines raided el chapo's safe houses and stash pads throughout culiacan in search of their prize. >> first message that comes in from my guy says, "cameras

everywhere. the place is a fortress." >> drew understood that when he and brady arrived at one of the safe houses. >> and i see the steel-reinforced door that's about six inches thick, taken the marines probably 10 to 15 minutes to get through that door. >> these never-before-seen images inside those safe houses revealed details about el chapo's drug operation and his life underground. like these fake green bananas that drew says the cartel filled with cocaine and smuggled across the border. they also found tons of drugs and scores of weapons. including el chapo's prized possession -- this jewel-encrusted handgun with his initials on it. that's drew holding it. >> and drew uncovered another of chapo's signature items. you write in the book that you help yourself to one of his hats. >> i did. i found one, going through one of his safe houses, up in the closet. essentially,

my only souvenir of the hunt. >> what was your impression of the safe houses and the way he was living? >> i was surprised. he really afforded himself no luxuries. each safe house was the same type of construction, very basic. walmart style plastic tables. >> not the lavish trappings of a drug kingpin. >> no, not at all. >> and there was something else all the safe houses had in common. >> every single one of'em had a tunnel underneath the bathtub, which connected to the city sewer system. >> when they saw the tunnels, they knew. >> he's gone. i don't know where he's at. >> it was a crushing blow. a low point. tunnels. el chapo's trademark. expertly engineered. accessed by a secret switch that activated hydraulic lifts under the bathtub. here's video of drew and brady inside one of those tunnels. el chapo was

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to brady and i said, this is our drop. this is our drop. chapo's in mazatlan right now. >> you're actually seeing the location where that phone is? >> yes. >> and you see it go from culiacan to mazatlã¡n quickly and then return? >> right. right. >> no other mission other than to -- to take el chapo to safety? >> right. >> mazatlan, the famous beach resort on the mexican coast that attracts thousands of u.s. tourists a year. it was just a two-hour drive from culiacan. drew hogan and the team were ready to go, but they needed a plan first. >> we couldn't take 300 marines down there. he would know we were coming in an instant. >> instead they would sneak into mazatlan under the radar of el chapo's vast network of lookouts. his alcones, hawks. >> we buy civilian clothes, t-shirts and shorts and flip-flops and we're tourists. >> you're trying not to look like an invading army, at this point? >> right. we all left at different times out of the city

from different locations. >> they still didn't know just where in mazatlan el chapo was holed up. >> we're about halfway to mazatlã¡n. and hsi finds that new top-tier number. and we ping it from the backseat. and it's on the coast. >> and what's it pointing to? >> it's pointing to a place called -- called miramar, it's in the middle of the city. like this is it. this is where he's at. >> they had tracked el chapo's top-tier underling to this apartment building, miramar. they would soon find out if el chapo was with him. >> we set the operation for, 5:30 in the morning. >> more than a decade of collective investigative work had come down to a predawn raid in the tourist heart of the city. the whole team suited back up in military gear. >> tell me how it went from that point. >> we came in. right up to the front of the hotel. got out. the marines began filtering

inside. and i was standing out front in camouflage, wearing a black ski mask. at this time i had -- had chapo's black ball cap on my head. >> they determined el chapo was likely holed up on the fourth floor. knowing he and his bodyguards were most certainly armed, the team was worried the operation would turn into a firefight, catching civilians in and around the apartment building in the deadly crossfire. >> i was worried about our perimeter. we didn't have enough manpower. so i wanted to stay outside. >> drew watched as lights flicked on in the building -- the mexican marines had begun to make their entry. >> and that's when i heard the excited radio chatter, when i ran up to the guy that had the radio. and i said, "what did they say? " he said, "they've got the target. they have got him." >> him. el chapo. drew had

spent four years hunting el chapo. he had weathered the danger and the anxiety of stalking him on his own turf. had sacrificed countless hours with his family. and now, finally, he was about to come face-to-face with the object of his obsession. drew drove his armored car into the garage. >> you're about to pick up el chapo. >> right. i run over to him and i jump into his face. and the first thing that comes to my mind, i go, "what's up, chapo? " and his eyes kind of bulged out of his head and we locked eyes there just for a split second. and they put him into my vehicle into the back seat. and that's when i told him to turn around and look at me, took a couple of pictures and that was it. he was done. >> how did he look to you? stunned, defiant? >> he was stunned, frightened. he had no idea what hit him. >> as i listen to you tell the story i find myself shocked

that this wasn't a blood bath, that there was no dramatic shootout. in fact, there were no shots fired at all, were there? >> none. >> surprise you? >> i couldn't believe it. i could not believe it. i mean we could have ended up in a gunfight at every door, every raid, driving around every corner. and it didn't happen. >> a mexican marine helicopter met the convoy and picked up their prized catch, flying him to a nearby military base. >> yeah, baby! >> drew and brady recorded their celebration on drew's phone. >> this is how we do it! >> back at the base, drew again pulled out his phone. here he is with brady, posing next to a blindfolded el chapo. and drew caught a few moments of el chapo's interrogation by the mexican marines. (speaking spanish) >> hard to believe, but here is >> hard to believe, but here is the world's most dangerous drug lord complaining about his teeth. and with "el chapo"

finally in custody, there was one person drew wanted to talk to, his wife. >> i didn't talk to her in days. and i grabbed my phone and i sent a quick text. and i said i got him. and she writes back, no way. and i said, yeah, i'm coming home. >> job was over. >> that was it. >> tonight the world's top drug lord is in custody after decades on the run. >> the news of el chapo's captured reverberated around the world. >> he's like the harry houdini invading law enforcement every single time he got close, chapo guzman would escape. basically it was amazing success for everyone. >> drew flew back to mexico city, mission accomplished. but then the unthinkable. coming up.

>> i just felt a wave wash over me. >> one more houdini move. >> he's always one step ahead. >> you see him just walking back and forth inside the cell, and then you suddenly stop seeing him. he just disappears. >> and one wild last stand when "inside the hunt for el chapo" continues. means... world dom! hide our skin? not us. because dupixent targets a root cause of eczema, it helps heal your skin from within, keeping you one step ahead of it. and for kids ages 6 and up, that means clearer skin, and noticeably less itch. hide my skin? not me. by helping to control eczema with dupixent, you can change how their skin looks and feels. and that's the kind of change you notice. hide my skin? not me. don't use if you're allergic to dupixent.

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extraordinary capture of el chapo, dea agent drew hogan returned to his desk at the u.s. embassy. >> i had this feeling, just this empty feeling. i was completely hallow. and i expected to be doing cartwheels up and down the hall, but i wasn't. >> drew could not understand why he was suddenly depressed. >> i felt almost like i was placed at dea to do this, and then once it was done, that was it, it was time for me to go. >> eight months later special agent drew hogan walked away from the dea and left mexico with his family. he got a job in the private sector and that was supposed to be the end of a story. then 17 months after el chapo's capture. >> i was in the backseat of a taxicab in rome on my way to

the airport headed to new york city to meet with my literary agent about this story when my wife sent me a text. she writes, "c is out, he just escaped." >> c, chapo. he had escaped from prison again. drew's head was spinning. >> and i just felt a wave wash over me there in the backseat of that taxicab not knowing what was right anymore. i couldn't believe it. he was always one step ahead. >> turns out it was all caught on tape. mexican authorities had installed a security camera in el chapo's cell as a precaution. >> you see el chapo just walking back and forth inside the cell, and then you suddenly stop seeing him. he just disappears off the frame, and

that's when he left. >> as the world learned, el chapo escaped through a tunnel dug right under the prison and up in into his cell. the job to retake him was now in the hands of the mexican marines and virtually the same group of u.s. agents minus drew. but this time they weren't starting from scratch. >> they understood his organization. they understood the network. they understood the movements. he wasn't as clever as he thought. >> learning from and building on the 2014 playbook, the mexican and u.s. team cornered el chapo on january 8th, 2016, just six months after he escaped. but this time he didn't go down without a fight. and it was wild. this helmet cam footage shot by a mexican marine captured the operation as it quickly devolved into a

shootout, killing one of el chapo's man and injuring one marine. el chapo was once again in custody. and this time quietly extradited to the united states. in february 2019, guzman was convicted on all ten charges against him including engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit murder. he was sentenced to life plus 30 years in an american prison. he has filed an appeal, but the drug wars rage on. el chapo's arrest did not stem the flow of narcotics across the u.s. border, and there were nearly 30,000 murders in mexico in 2017. at the time, a record for that country. most of the killings were linked to drug violence, and the cartels are evolving, becoming key suppliers of the fentanyl that is wreaking havoc on the streets of america. >> enforcement is only one piece of the problem, right?

i'm very confident that we've made a difference. but the reality is, is that unless you stop the demand, these young kids that are getting addicted that have no idea what they're taking, this is going to be a very long battle. it starts with the schools, the educators. we need to have a full court blitz on this problem. >> even though he left the dea in 2014, drew still has security concerns. >> afraid? >> no. i wouldn't say afraid. just hyperaware, ready for anything. >> and ready for his place in law enforcement history. a dea agent who was obsessed with the hunt for the most wanted drug lord in the world. >> i think that's where people had gotten caught up before is they just become almost infatuated with the man, with the legend, with the myth. and for me that was never the case. it was about the challenge, it was about the hunt. that's all that mattered. âa âa > i was tied up and tortured. these people almost murdered me.

>> that is all for this edition of dateline. i'm natalie, thank you for watching. i just looked unlike really would. i noticed him lying at the base of the bed. face down. then i saw zip ties tyrone her, -- i still can't wrap my head around it. he was >> she was always helping others, now, she needed help. >> cnn ambulance fast. >> his beautiful wife, dead