you watch the video of it theover day and i saw a hit off of it. >> tom: did you buy into it? >> john: i don't know. to me, you know, your bat doesn't stay through the hitting zone a long time. do you have power? absolutely? but, you know, would it work for everyone? like chris one ball

one strike. that one cleanly. >> john: all they need is to break his finger. >> tom: that would not sit well. >> john: no. that's right.

her he's the fastest. >> john: he caught it with a split fingered grip. lead-off. spun back. the guy in front of us with the jersey on got that one. didn't quite play it cleanly. ginnie m . >> tom: you see michael demarre, a little q and a.

this will be my three-game winning streak. then i broke that up. >> tom: we did not hader struggle at all last weekend in milwaukee. but he has struggled after striking out the first two batt batters in this inning. >> john: since he hit the rocket back, he's not thrown the same. looked like he tried to throw a change-up there. >> tom: runners go. the pitch is hopped up. he's angry at himself and the inning is over.

the phillies lead two in the eighth inning. we will head to the ninth. the phils trying for their third consecutive victory. we'll be back right after this. combo deal. it's your sanctuary, your home court. it's where everything happens. this is your home, your car, your memories, and you want to be sure they're protected with home and auto insurance. as your state farm agent, i get it. it's why i'm here. here to help life go right. talk to a state farm agent today.

>> tom: top of the ninth inning the phillies are on top

6-1. they scored two in the first by freddy galvis and four in the sixth inning. freddy had a home run through but it was tommy joseph's two. hector neris is going to come into this ball game. >> john: if he doesn't get hurt during the warmup. >> tom: what happened there? >> john: working on his balk. hector's numbers starting to get a little more presentable. he struggled early. >> tom: he'll face travis shaw to start things off. here in the top of the ninth inning. there has to be some growing concern if you're milwaukee. losers of five straight. the lead which was 5 1/2 is whittled

down to 1 1/2 right now. could be back to one with a loss today. with more than the cubs breathing down their neck. that one's rolled over on shallow right. one out. we watched the brewers back in 2008 implode. that was in september. we were in milwaukee last week and there was an article in the paper about the brewers being 5 1/2 games up, ten games over .500, largest lead at the all-star break but the one paragraph said brewers fans know 2008. it wasn't too long ago. i should say 2009 wasn't too long ago.

two balls, no strikes. in the air to left center field. that's well hit. odubel is on the run, back to the wall, has room, and he makes the catch. two outs. whoo. >> john: i thought that ball got in a little bit on perez. i don't think he hit it off the sweet spot of the bat. it's supposed to be a pitch away. look where it runs. it ends up in. no. it looks like he caught it off the end of the bat. he caught it off the barrel. he caught it off the top of the bat and that's why it didn't go out. his launch angle was a tad off. >> tom: here's pina.

now, the brewers did eventually make it to the postseason in 2008 after having the season sort of unravel. he took over for ned yost and they lost to the phils in the division series. 0-2. manny pina. a swing and a miss and the fifrls have won three consecutive gameses they have defeated the brewers here at citizens bank park and have handed milwaukee its sixth consecutive loss. this is a good week to be a phil. tommy joseph, a couple rbis tonight. this is the third time this year the phillies have won

three consecutive games, but their winning streaks have been few and far between. but they'll enjoy this one. our w.b. mason deliveries of the game, it begins with freddy galvis back to the first inning. >> john: cesar hernandez off and running. he said, you can slow up. i'll handle this. just trot with me. two-run homer to get the phillies on the board in the first and tommy joseph after daniel nava hops one into second base on a base hit. second and third. it's a scorching line drive off the center field bench to score both blanco and nava and flip the game out of reach. those are our w.b. mason deliveries of the game. >> tom: it's turned out to be a good night for the phils not only because they turned out to be 7-6 and his e.r.a. continues to get lower and lower with each passing

start but offensively the phils with runs on eight base hits and clutch hits once again. really no one had a clutch hit like tommy joseph. >> gregg: it certainly was the big hit in the ball game. they broke it open. they were able to run it away. . what's your thought process? are you trying for a thought process? >> yeah. trying to stay in the middle of the field. >> gregg: i kind of like that. >> after that, i had to stay within myself. from there, they continue to put good at-bats together. he said when you hit that, it was like one of those you don't feel. is that true? >> yeah. i hadn't hit a ball like that in a while. that was good. the most important thing was

nola tonight. he went out there and was himself. he did a good job. outside of that ambush solo homer, he was lights out and he's one of the best in the game for a reason. >> gregg: you messaged putting good at-bats together. one of the things you did in miami was doing all the little things, scoring on the sac fly, odubel and nola doing what he does. obviously when you do those kinds of things, the wins will start to pile up. >> yeah. so we knew when we came in what we were expecting after just playing them. like you said, in miami, we did a lot of good things offensively, good things defensively, and we've been throwing the ball great. when those things start to come together, you get to see what the team is made up. >> gregg: three in a row. this is fun. >> yeah. >> gregg: back to you guys upstairs. >> tom: thanks, gregg. appreciate that. time for our chevrolet play of the game. this is a sigh of relief he's

pitching so well. >> john: yeah. he was up early in the game, but once he settled in like all really good pitchers, great pitchers, once he settled in, he kept the milwaukee team off balance. not only swinging but looking. fastballs, 95 miles an hour, running it on both sides of the plate. the breaking ball which we know is devastating. that is why aaron nola is our player of the game. >> tom: last eight starts for nola. e.r.a. 3.42. the celebration. what was better? probably the dance. we'll take both though. (♪ ) (♪ )

final score tonight, phillies, 6, brewers, 1. for milwaukee, sixth consecutive loss. their longest losing streak since last year at the end of august. our next telecast will be tomorrow night, game two of the weekend series. jeremy hellickson takes the

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i heard somebody yell, that's his wife. leave her alone. and i get down to where he's at. and he's alive. >> reporter: do you say anything to him? >> i was just in shock. and he kept telling me, i can't breathe, vieja. and i told him calm down, dad. calm down. >> reporter: bill had internal injuries. whatever happened, the wreck was so severe it even knocked his boots off. >> sierra 4, here comes your bird. >> reporter: they took him away in the helicopter. >> they got a gurney. and he grabbed my arm. and he goes, vieja, come with me. i go, i'm coming, dad. and they take him. and i remember he told them, she needs to come with me. >> reporter: but officers wouldn't allow frances in the chopper, wouldn't allow her to go anywhere, in fact. >> and i told the officer, i'm his wife. and he said, turn around. and he handcuffed me, put me in the back and they left with bill. >> reporter: it was only then,

frances says, that it all came together in her mind. the thump, the broken window, somehow bill's bike and her escalade must have collided. i think some people might find it hard to believe that you wouldn't realize that you had hit a motor bike. >> i didn't feel anything. i heard a thump. i thought it was in piece of granite. >> reporter: police detained her for questioning while the rest of the family took up a vigil at the hospital. bill's cousin was hopeful he'd pull through. >> we had been in so many wrecks on bikes and stuff. i said, he'll be all right. he had worse accidents than that, so -- >> reporter: but bill wouldn't be all right, not this time. >> when they told us that he had passed away, it was just complete shock. >> i kind of screamed out and i just couldn't believe it. i didn't want to believe it. >> reporter: frances was still in the back of the patrol car when she got the news. >> i noticed three people come to me wearing suits, and one of

them tells me that he hadn't made it. and i was like, you're full of it. i go, no, he did. i go, just go check. they come back and tell me, miss hall, your husband didn't make it. >> reporter: with bill dead, frances was not only a grieving widow, she was now clearly a suspect. police took her to the station for questioning, but she wasn't ready to answer anything. >> i completely understand, okay. >> i'm terrified. >> reporter: frances appeared to be in denial. >> bill, please. bill, come back. >> reporter: but if frances wasn't talking to the police, the other woman in bill's life was. and she said bill's death was no accident. coming up -- bonnie's story, terrifying. >> i'm driving, and i feel

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bill hall was staying with neither of them knowing that frances, quite by chance, was coming from the opposite direction. but bonnie's version of events would differ sharply from the tale frances told. >> he's driving, i'm driving. somewhere along the way we stopped at a light, and he pulls up beside me in the other lane. he tells me, i love you so much, gorda. i'm so happy. and that was the last time i

heard his voice. >> reporter: the light turned the green and everything changed. >> he was in front of me and i'm driving and i feel somebody hit me from behind. at first i thought it was an accident. >> reporter: a sudden jolt, then another. >> i feel another hit. and i said, what the hell? and i looked in my rearview mirror, and it was frances. >> reporter: bill's wife. they'd spoken by phone but never met. bonnie said she never saw frances on the road before she felt those jolts, never taunted her with her middle finger, as frances claimed. now, bonnie said frances wasn't just chasing her. she was actually repeatedly ramming her cadillac escalade into the back of the range rover. >> i started screaming because she wouldn't stop hitting me. she kept ramming her vehicle into me. >> reporter: she said frances' story that bonnie kept slamming on her brakes was nonsense.

you were accused of brake checking her. >> no, i was trying to get away from that woman. so i started speeding up. and she kept ramming me from behind. and she through me into oncoming traffic. >> reporter: bonnie said she was hit so hard her purse fell off the front seat. >> and my stuff flew to the floor. >> reporter: and here, another significant difference from frances' version. bonnie says that when she swerved back into her lane, she looked in her rearview mirror and saw bill was now riding behind her between the two suvs. >> and i see her coming up behind bill, and i'm yelling at the top of my lungs. and i see her hit bill, and i see bill fly, then i see the bike fly. >> reporter: according to bonnie, she saw frances deliberately hit bill from behind, then keep chasing her. >> i was shaking, and i was in shock. i didn't understand why she hadn't stopped when she hit bill. i couldn't understand it. i still don't understand it. i felt like stopping, but i didn't know if she had a gun.

and my first instinct is to make a quick u-turn. >> reporter: so she does a u-turn too? >> right. she continues to hit me. we even pass the scene of where bill was clinging to his life, and even at that she didn't bother to stop hitting me. >> reporter: bonnie eventually made her way back to where bill lay by the road. >> and i see just hecticness everywhere. police cars, detectives, ambulance. >> reporter: she said she tried to get to bill, but the officers wouldn't let her near him. >> i wanted to hug him. i wanted to hug him. i wanted to tell him everything was going to be okay. >> reporter: bonnie watched the helicopter take bill away. hours later, a police officer gave her the news she was dreading. >> he goes, bill has passed away. and i just let out a big old scream. >> reporter: so there was bonnie's version. this was no accident. frances purposefully rammed her

repeatedly and fatally knocked bill off the road. is there only one person to blame for this, in your eyes? >> of course. it's frances. she started that high speed chase. she chose to turn around. why? you know you're going to cause some sort of trouble. >> reporter: and when investigators looked at the evidence and heard bonnie's version of events, they came to the same conclusion. nico lahood. >> we do not support this behavior. >> reporter: frances was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. and for the death of her husband, bill hall jr., she was charged with murder. >> we felt there was an attempt at an aggravated assault and at that point life was loss, which gives felony murder. >> reporter: but frances said the real aggressor was bonnie,

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frances hall was out on bail, facing a murder charge for the high speed chase that ended with the death of her husband, bill. the key witness against her, bill's mistress, bonnie contreras. but according to frances and her daughter, if anyone should be blamed for what happened, it was bonnie. >> she has a lot of responsibility or full responsibility in causing this. she ruined a family. >> reporter: the way the hall family tells it, bonnie was a golddigger, a stalker and a liar who had been manipulating and threatening bill for years. frances said that after she

learned about the affair, she learned the truth about bonnie from bill himself. >> he laid it all out. he said, i'm going to tell you everything, vieja. >> reporter: the family insists bonnie told frances about the affair because she was angry over, of all things, a manicure. >> she was upset because my father wouldn't give her $100 to get her nails done. >> reporter: they said bill told them that bonnie had been stalking their whole family on facebook. >> she had created a fake account with a fake profile picture and friend requested the entire family. everyone accepted. my mom had her, i had her. aunts, uncles, cousins. >> reporter: the family said bill told them that's how bonnie gathered information, that she would use to manipulate him. >> if we went on a trip as a family or if he took my mother to las vegas, immediately after, he would have to take her somewhere. >> reporter: according to frances and nikki, bill said he wanted to break up with bonnie, but she threatened to air their affair all over the internet. >> he goes, i can't get rid of

this person. she had over 2,000 pictures. in my 34 years of knowing bill, i don't have that many pictures. who does that? >> reporter: frances said bill told her bonnie also stalked her and her family. >> she knew where my kids lived. she knew my schedule. he said that i would go to my grocery store, and she'd be there following me. >> reporter: even, said the halls, followed her and bill into a movie theater. >> bonnie tracked them and was sitting three rows behind them. she was kind of like a fatal attraction. just, or -- or psycho. >> reporter: she claims that she was in love with bill, that he was going to leave you, they were going to start a family, they were going to be married. >> she got an abortion. tell me if she was starting a family. she got an abortion. >> reporter: bill wanted bonnie to have an abortion, said frances. but bonnie wouldn't do it unless bill gave her something in return. >> the only way she'd get an abortion, if he bought her

breast implants. which he did. she got rid of the baby. >> i despise her. and she has not stopped embarrassing our family. it's like, can you just go away? can you just leave us alone? go find another married man. because this is what she does for a living. she strips or -- she gets with married men. >> reporter: in the end, said the halls, bonnie told frances about the affair as a final act of desperation. an attempt to hold onto bill, who was about to drop her. >> i think she finally thought, hey, i'm losing this man. i'm losing my bread and butter here. her sugar daddy. this girl was not in love with bill. i don't even think she knows what the word "love" means. >> reporter: of course, bonnie sees things very differently. they've really gone after you with names. >> of course. and i understand where the halls are coming from. it's a pretty big pill to swallow when your husband wants to divorce you after 32 years. and of course, they're never going to say anything good about

me. >> reporter: do you want to clear it up? were you an exotic dancer? >> i worked at a strip club, yes. and that was way -- >> reporter: as a dancer? >> yes. and that was a mistake. i mean, i regret that. no one's perfect. >> reporter: but the fake facebook account? stalking frances? the abortion in exchange for breast implants? none of that ever happened, said bonnie. >> for her to sit there and say that i switched a baby's life that was growing inside of me coming from a man that i love dearly for a breast augmentation? ridiculousness. >> reporter: each woman clung to her truth. the battle for bill raged. >> he couldn't stop bonnie, and he really couldn't stop frances really, you know? >> reporter: it sounds like two hurricanes. >> oh yeah. >> reporter: then, about a week before bill's death, the hurricanes collided. not on the road. not yet. this war was waged via text. you're getting text messages from bonnie of the two of them having sex? >> mm-hmm.

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the battle over bill hall jr. had gone on for weeks. and it all led up to a confrontation about a week before his death. bill and frances met at this hotel. she said they were trying to work things out. but then bonnie showed up at the front desk. >> saying she was his wife and she needed to get access to his room. and my dad told him, no, she's not my wife. my wife is here with me. >> reporter: security asked bonnie to leave. though she insists she never

claimed to be bill's wife. but all parties agree. that night an all-out war began via text. you're getting text messages from bonnie. of the two of them having sex? >> uh-huh. pictures of sexual positions. >> reporter: photos with captions like -- this is what he really likes, you fat old woman. normally the mistress keeps a very low profile. >> she wanted to make sure i knew now she was in the picture. >> reporter: did she ever. many of the messages are too graphic to show, but you can get a good sense of them from these excerpts. "let me know if you want some good juicy pics of me and your hubby. you stupid old person, keep fixing yourself up, maybe he'll find you more attractive. what's the worst text message she sent you? >> the hollow bitch. >> reporter: she actually called you hollow. >> hollow. >> reporter: because -- >> of my hysterectomy. >> reporter: complete with a

diagram to reinforce the point. bonnie admits she sent those nasty texts. you have to imagine though that people are going to see this and they're going to think that some of those text messages are cruel. >> never sent her pictures of my and bill having sexual intercourse. what i did send her pictures of was three butt pics of me. and that's because she infuriated me. because she told me that my butt looked like a broken saddle bag. it looked like a broken toilet seat. trust me, she was going at me very hard. >> reporter: in fact, bonnie says it was frances who started the text war. >> plain and simple, i was defending myself. >> reporter: the text that frances said hurt her the most was the one where you called her hollow and sent the diagram of a woman who had had a hysterectomy. that is -- >> cruel. >> reporter: that would hit a woman hard. >> and i'm not happy about that. >> reporter: why did you do it? >> because i was pissed at her. she was telling me vicious, ugly things. >> reporter: did you send any back to her that were nasty as well? >> not really.

no. >> reporter: because it would be hard not to engage. >> well, yeah. i started to at the hotel. i think i did one or two. >> reporter: "had him in the palm of your hand and couldn't keep him" frances wrote to bonnie. "keep sending. fatal attraction." "cops need all the pics." >> and, i mean, i couldn't keep up. i text slow. this girl's young. she knows technology. >> reporter: bonnie says frances more than held her own. "don't flatter yourself. he's been cheating on you with me." but, says frances, the nastier texts bonnie received didn't come from her. she says, bill sent them. >> bill grabbed the phone, and he said, let me take care of her. >> no, he didn't. that was her. it was her sending those text messages. bill wouldn't have never disrespected me like that. >> reporter: but if there was any doubt that she'd been following the halls, she seemed to confirm it herself by sending photos of their house and frances' car. why were you sending those pictures? >> to piss her off. to defend myself. >> reporter: what are you -- i

mean, you're the one -- but, but -- >> her telling me that bill didn't love me. her telling me that bill was using me. >> reporter: but bonnie, you're the one who is having the affair with bill. so why are you attacking his wife? >> because she was attacking me. and i will defend myself. >> reporter: one week after that text message feud came the car chase that left bill hall dead. nearly three years after that frances hall went on trial for murder. prosecutors stephanie paulissen and scott simpson laid out the case for the jury. >> we understand why she was angry. but that's not justification to go attempt to run down your husband's mistress and kill him in the process. >> reporter: the star witness for the prosecution, bonnie contreras. >> i start to get hit from behind. >> reporter: bonnie told the jury how she watched with horror as she believed frances deliberately knocked bill off the road. >> i see her hit bill with the truck. and i see him fly off the motorcycle. >> reporter: bonnie said she

later discovered frances' daughter, nikki hall, had left a message on her voice mail during the car chase. a message that seemed to speak to frances' intent that evening. >> told you to watch your back you [ bleep ] stupid [ bleep ]. >> what does that tell you? that they were out to cause harm to somebody. >> this is not an accident. >> reporter: tim lovett was the state's collision reconstruction expert. he said the evidence showed frances chased and hit bonnie. >> that escalade definitely hit that range rover at least two, maybe three times. >> reporter: but frances' defense attorneys, leigh cutter and jean brown, said investigators made a big mistake when they bought into the story of bonnie contreras. >> everyone got their information from one person at the scene. and that's bonnie. and bonnie lied her ass off. >> reporter: defense accident reconstructionist charles ruble said there was no physical evidence to back up bonnie's claims that frances had hit her over and over again. no evidence, he said, the suvs

had even touched. >> not even once. >> reporter: and remember how bonnie said her purse flew forward off the seat when frances hit her? >> this is her purse in her car. i get hit from the rear. where's my purse go? it doesn't dump in the front. that's simple physics. >> reporter: in fact, he said, the purse falling forward supports frances' claims that bonnie was repeatedly slamming on her brakes. >> she does a sudden brake, and she's moving like this. then the purse would go into the floorboard. bonnie contreras is not telling the truth. >> reporter: what's more, both defense and prosecution agreed bonnie was wrong about her contention that bill's motorcycle was struck from behind. evidence showed the motorcycle actually collided with the side of frances' suv. >> you can't believe a damn thing she said on there. >> reporter: in closing arguments the defense said bill's death was simply a terrible accident. and frances hall had suffered enough. >> she's been living in hell for

three years. let her go home. let her be with her family. and let her mourn her husband. >> reporter: but the prosecution told the jury frances must be held accountable for her actions. >> of course, the defendant hated bonnie contreras. we don't blame her for that. any wife would. what we do blame her for is getting in her escalade, chasing after bonnie and then veering into bill. there's your felony murder. >> reporter: the jury deliberated into the night. who would they believe? coming up -- the verdict. >> we the jury find the defendant -- adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well.

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as the jury deciding frances hall's fate deliberated into the evening hours of september 8, 2016, neither side felt confident. >> as time passes, you get more worried. >> reporter: did you have a gut feeling which way white go? >> no. >> reporter: nothing? >> i didn't want to think about it. i didn't want to think about it. >> reporter: then just before 8:45 p.m., the jury had its verdict. >> we, the jury, find the defendant, frances hall, guilty of murder. >> reporter: guilty of murder and aggravated assault. frances' friends and family were shocked. >> it was the worst feeling in my life. >> reporter: it was a moment frances herself did not seem

prepared for. you were found guilty. and you were facing possibly life behind bars. >> yes, i was. i didn't want to be there. i wanted to go home to bill. i was like, i can't do this. >> reporter: but things weren't over yet for frances. there was still a second phase of trial -- sentencing. texas law allows the defendant to be sentenced by either the judge or the jury. frances chose the jury, the same one that found her guilty. four days after the verdict, the players returned to the courtroom for the final act of this real-life soap opera. the defense believed it had found a secret weapon in the texas criminal code. >> we said, this caveat, this was written for frances hall, if anyone, ever. >> reporter: the law calls it sudden passion. essential, that the defendant was immediately provoked to a degree of anger that would make an ordinary person incapable of

cool reflection. the defense told the jury, sudden passion gripped frances when she spotted bill and bonnie on the road. >> she sees this woman who has not let up and tried to ruin her life for the last month. >> reporter: the stakes were enormous. a finding of sudden passion could drastically reduce frances' sentence, from possible life in prison to a maximum of 20 years and a minimum of just 2. relatives of frances and bill hall begged the jury to be lenient. >> if there's any way that you can find in your heart to give her a lighter sentence, i'm begging you. >> reporter: and then, for the first time, the jury heard from frances hall directly. >> you don't understand. i loved this man heart and soul. i gave him my life. i would have never hurt him, never. >> reporter: in her final arguments, defense attorney

leigh cutter insisted frances hall's actions were a textbook example of sudden passion. >> the text messages, the calls, the taunting. those would probably make you really hate someone. but never having seen them until they drive by in your car, if that's not sudden passion where you're incapable of thinking clearly, i don't know what is. >> reporter: but prosecutor scott simpson told jurors not to be swayed by emotion. >> you shouldn't, for one second, feel ashamed or bad for doing what you believe to be right. >> reporter: after about three hours of deliberations, the jury was ready. all eyes were on bonnie contreras when she arrived to hear the sentence. and on frances hall, too. would she get life in prison or a chance at freedom? >> we unanimously find the defendant caused the death of bill hall under the immediate influence of sudden passion. we assess her punishment for a term of two years. >> reporter: two years.

the absolute minimum sentence. what is going through your mind when you hear that? because things were looking bad. >> oh, yes. i was like, thank you, jesus. i can do this. >> reporter: the criminal trial may be over. but the battle between these two women is as heated as ever. does two years fit? >> no. two years for a life you take? absolutely not. >> reporter: bonnie is suing frances, for bodily injury and emotional distress. frances' attorney says those allegations are without merit. >> bill's never coming back. why? because she decided to make a very irresponsible decision and cause this. >> reporter: a decision which bonnie said cut short her dream of a future with bill. do you think there was any chance that he was playing both of you? >> no. >> reporter: he wanted his cake and eat it, too? >> no. he wanted out of his marriage. >> reporter: do you regret now

ever meeting bill? >> no, i don't. i don't regret loving him. i don't regret still loving him. i will always carry that man in my heart. i love him so much. >> reporter: as for frances, she said she does regret her decision to make a u-turn that october evening. >> it was my choice that i turned around. and for that i am so remorseful. and i will live with that for the rest of my life. >> reporter: but as she serves out her sentence in a texas state prison, frances says make no mistake, there's only one true love story here -- the 32-year marriage of frances and bill hall. >> i pity her because she has to continue living and looking for the right man. i've had the best man in my life. i will never love another man like i loved bill. once you have the best, no looking back. >> reporter: except for he cheated on you. >> he had this much bad, but he had this much good.

and he might have done what he did, but i know he loved me. call me ignorant. call me stupid. but i loved bill hall jr. till the day i die. that's all for this edition of "dateline." we'll see you again next friday at 10:00, 9:00 central. and of course i'll see you each week night for nbc "nightly news." for all of us at nbdz, good night. nbdz, good night. bnbdz, good night. cnbdz, good night. nbdz, good right now at 11:00. dangerous heat and storms. when to deliver a one-two punch. caught on camera. a man stealing high end sunglasses and used two babies to get away with it. emergency landing. a plane forced to drop right in

the middle of a river but wait until you see the video from a passenger's point of view. >> announcer: nbc10 news starts now. i'm jim rosenfield. only nbc10 is speaking with the bucks county district attorney about the killing spree that captured the region and the country. >> from the beginning of the investigation we were preaching let's hold on to hope until there's no roop for it left. investigators found the bodies of three of the four missing men inside a 12 foot hole at this solebury township farm but they needed the accused killer to find them where to find the last missing victim. deanna durante sat down with the d.a. for an exclusive interview today. he shared emotional moments during the investigation including when he had to deliver difficult news to the victims' families. >> i never heard of a case like this around here. >> reporter: it was an intense week plus