(NBC News) — Tonight on “Dateline”, when Meghan Verikas falls in love with successful Houston doctor Leon Jacob, the relationship ends up taking a turn for the worse. After she breaks up with him, she finds out she might be the target of a murder-for-hire plot.
The episode “Twisted in Texas” features interviews with Meghan Verikas, Meghan’s ex-boyfriend Leon Jacobs and more.
Here’s a preview of Andrea Canning’s report:
In the beginning, it was heady, fun.
MEGHAN VERIKAS: he is very charming.
She was swept away.
MEGHAN VERIKAS: I don’t think I’ve ever had somebody tell me I’m beautiful that much.
But without warning, it all turned from love story to crime story.
MAGGIE WHITLEY: He’s a relentless tsunami.
SAMANTHA KNECHT: He doesn’t care who he affects.
ANDREA CANNING: This is, like, out of a movie?
MEGHAN VERIKAS: It is. It is.
A thriller.
AERIAL WASHINGTON: I ran across the street yelling, “Leave her alone.”
With secret recordings.
LEON JACOB: I want her gone.
A fake death, and another death, that was all too real.
ANGELA HUDSON: Awful. Never should’ve happened, none of it.
Watch “Dateline: Twisted in Texas” tonight on NBC4 at 10 p.m., followed by “NBC4 at 11.”
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