48 Hours
The Long Road
TV-14
S21 • E17 Mar 1, 2008 60mThe 1986 wedding pictures of Dyke and Karen Rhoads show a predictably joyous young couple, ready for a wonderful life together in the small town of Paris, Ill.
Karen was 24 when they married, and had a job as an office assistant at a factory; Dyke worked in landscaping. There was no hint that just months after their wedding their lives would come to a violent end.
As correspondent Susan Spencer reports, in the early morning hours of July 6, 1986, a fire engulfed their home.
Karen was 24 when they married, and had a job as an office assistant at a factory; Dyke worked in landscaping. There was no hint that just months after their wedding their lives would come to a violent end.
As correspondent Susan Spencer reports, in the early morning hours of July 6, 1986, a fire engulfed their home.