here again is keith morrison. >> reporter: las vegas, nevada. the great glittering temples to gambling will happily take your money, of course, and perhaps you'll leave the city a little poorer, and if you want to bet your heart in las vegas, well, you can put that on the line, too if you're in a betting mood, and debra newell was. >> i felt very adored and very loved, and i thought, "well, if he's the love of my life. i'm ready." >> reporter: they'd been dating two months when she went to vegas on business in december, 2014. john meehan went along. and -- >> we went to a courthouse, and just got married before a judge. >> reporter: like that? >> just like that. >> reporter: married. nobody there but them and their secret. they decided, said debra, they wouldn't tell anyone. >> i knew my family would be not very happy with me. >> reporter: what did it feel like? >> very mixed emotions. a little empty, knowing that they're not onboard with this. >> reporter: but that's all on that one side. on the other side, there's this rush of happiness and go

here's keith morrison >> it was his secret that started it, a secret gift. it was christmas eve in the year 2006. a little farm not far from a little town called buffalo. buffalo, missouri. and on that farm in the fine, new house brad and lisa jennings had built for their family, the stockings were hung, the children were snug in their beds, and lisa was sitting up very late, drinking wine and crying. meaning? well, who knew. but for one thing, with lisa in the way brad couldn't sneak that secret of his into her stocking, which is what started it, the flaring argument, the slamming doors, the sudden silence. before amanda woke up to the sound of her dad on 911. >> and he's very hysterical, you know. he's -- he's crying, can't really say anything other than get here quick, get here quick. i heard that two or three times. >> such a complicated tale with its secrets and lies and shifting loyalties, and here, of all places, this throwback to an idealized past. >> we hunted mushrooms, we picked up walnuts. >> they were inseparable children, brad and his older sis

here again is keith morrison. >>> the autopsy came in. the one for jarrae estepp, the girl on the conveyer belt. >> it's bad, it was bad. it was bad. >> reporter: strangled, beaten, sexually assaulted. viciously, according to deputy d.a. larry yellin. >> should have been a college girl. should be worrying about grades and boyfriends, and football games and -- and those things. >> reporter: one wrong turn, and you never know, huh? >> yeah. >> reporter: but almost three weeks in, detective julissa trapp seemed stuck. >> i think she got a little frustrated, and got a little desperate, and came up with the idea of using the computer database. >> reporter: that is the computer database of sex offenders. if they had a serial killer on their hands, there was at least a chance he'd already run afoul of the law at some point. it was a bit like just poking a finger into the haystack frankly and hoping to encounter a needle. but worth a try. so trapp called this woman. sexual assault detective laura lomeli. >> all sex offenders on parole, they will

here again is keith morrison. >> reporter: two keys that demand attention. one of them was stuck in the front door the night bill mclaughlin was murdered. the other was dropped on a mat outside. the person who killed bill had obtained those keys somehow, which meant whoever it was, was in his inner circle or had access to it. now police began looking very closely for relationships, like maybe secret ones. >> what is your involvement or relationship? >> nanette is a pretty good friend of mine. >> reporter: that's how they found eric naposki, who was living in a "melrose place" kind of complex, just not quite as nice. naposki had played football, but his promising career as a linebacker had fizzled, too many injuries, hours on the bench. by the early '90s he was trying to figure out what to do next. >> i was in seattle with the seahawks when i retired, when i left. and i drove down the coast and it was a great place to land. >> kind of nirvana for a guy like you. >> it was. >> big, good-looking ex-football player like him? it was easy to get work. and women, i

here again is keith morrison. >> reporter: two keys that demanded attention. one of them was stuck in the front door the night bill mclaughlin was murdered. the other was dropped on a mat outside. the person who killed bill had obtained those keys somehow, which meant whoever it was, was in his inner circle or had access to it. now police began looking very closely for relationships, like maybe secret ones. >> what is your involvement or relationship? >> nanette is a pretty good friend of mine. >> reporter: that's how they found eric naposki, who was living in a studio apartment in one of those southern california "melrose place" sort of complexes, just not quite as nice. naposki had played football, but his promising career as a linebacker had fizzled, too many injuries, hours on the bench. by the early '90s he was trying to figure out what to do next. >> i was in seattle with the seahawks when i retired, when i left. and i drove down the coast and it was a great place to land. >> kind of nirvana for a guy like you. >> it was. >> big, good-looking ex-football

here again is keith morrison. >> reporter: the autopsy came in. the one for jarrae estepp, the girl on the conveyor belt. >> it's bad. it was bad. it was bad. >> reporter: strangled, beaten, sexually assaulted viciously according to then deputy d.a. larry yellen. >> should have been a college girl, should have been worried about grades and boyfriends and football games and those things. >> one wrong turn, and you never know, huh? >> yeah. >> reporter: but almost three weeks in, detective julissa trapp seemed stuck. >> i think she got a little frustrated and got a little desperate and came up with the idea of using the computer database. >> reporter: that is, the computer database of sex offenders. if they had a serial killer on their hands, there was at least a chance he'd already run afoul of the law at some point. it was a bit like just poking a finger into the haystack, frankly, and hoping to encounter a needle. but worth a try. so trapp called this woman. >> all sex offenders on parole, they will have an anklet, gps monitor. >> trap asked lome

here is keith morrison with "swept away." >> who can say what lurks out there past the horizon, waiting utterly at random as thousands of lives tick to their unknowning end. and simple coincidence, a young man from middle america made a single decision. >> could you imagine back there in indiana that you're about to make your life flip on its head? >> no, never. >> how could he know that on the other side of the world a young woman made exactly the same decision or that they'd meet practically on the eve of one of the biggest natural disasters in recent memory? or how could he know that in the middle of disaster he'd lose her. >> i wouldn't know what i would do without her. >> so coincidence, love, disaster. there is no fairness about these things, they just are. zach brannon turned 23 in 2010. i just picked up a degree in history from a college in indiana, no idea what to do next. and then he saw an offer for a job in japan, a two-year stint teaching english to elementary school kids, no japanese language skills required. >> why japan of all places? >> i don't think there's any rhyme o

here's keith morrison. >> how do you measure a mother's love? or gauge the ferocity of her impulse to protect. >> to love her as much as i could was about the only thing. >> how to measure love as visceral as the beating heart in her own body. >> she was my first-born. she was my best friend. >> how to understand the four mothers and their connection. one that not one of them would ever have thought possible. not in a million years. any more than they would have expected to meet her. their guardian angel. >> if i don't bring her home, who will? >> reporter: its a rare mystery that's truly a confrontation of good and evil. >> we have to go to the dark places in order to find answers. >> reporter: a rare mystery that needed an urgent answer, before the evil struck again. it was march 14th, 2014, early morning. an army of garbage trucks made their growling, clanking way around the thousands of trash bins and dumpsters in anaheim, california. their destination, a landfill that is also a literal mountain of garbage 500 feet high. and then midmorning,

here's keith morrison with more. >> reporter: on the afternoon of july 15th, 49 days after michelle le disappeared, we stumbled over a human bone in the same area where michelle's cell phone had briefly pinged off a nearby tower. >> there are shorts here. >> reporter: but as the searchers scoured the immediate area, they understood it couldn't be her. the bits of clothing weren't right. and the bone was bleached by the sun, must have been there a long time. and, when they looked closer. >> that's a six-foot something it's not a 5'5" female. >> reporter: appalling, some other poor soul wound up here. but relief, too. it wasn't michelle. so the search and the mystery wore on for days and then for weeks and by the middle of august it all looked to be losing steam. on a typical san francisco summer afternoon as the fog rolled in krystine and michael brought us up to date on their efforts to find michelle. >> reporter: how long has it been now? >> twenty-seven -- it's been over two months. it's been about 72 days. >> reporter: how are you doing, the two of you, with all of this? i mean, how

here's keith morrison. >> reporter: there is a kind of peace here, here in her own chosen exile. the vast pacific for company. how else to live with what's impossible to understand or forget. what began that sunny afternoon far away in southern california's san fernando valley, early may 2012. >> something was really wrong, but a lot more wrong than i could imagine. >> reporter: it was the boy who knew it first, knew something was wrong. his dad was supposed to take him to school that morning. but after school -- >> i was to go to the school and pick him up after basketball practice. when i showed up, he said, "daddy didn't pick me up this morning." and i said, "what?" he said, "daddy didn't show up this morning." >> reporter: it can happen. busy families. people forget. the boy got to school some other way. >> he said he called a friend from around the corner. >> reporter: or sometimes things fall apart. >> the situation sounded too crazy. love affairs, love triangles, drug dealers. it just sounded too outlandish. >> reporter: once those stable, loving pieces have flown apart, h

keith morrison (voiceover): who ever heard of such a thing? letters from a purported killer, plus a diagram >>> who ever heard of such a thing? letters from a purported killer, plus a diagram of what certainly looked like the actual bomb that killed roberto ayala. was it real? a ruse? a lucky guess? if it was for real, who sent it? was it from the lead suspect, peter moore? or a hit man as the letter claimed, or was it from somebody who wasn't even on detective salm's radar? whoever it was, five weeks into the case it was about the only lead investigators had. so they played along with the guy, placed an ad as requested in the sacramento bee. and, sure enough. somebody responded. cops rushed to see him. perhaps arrest him. >> he was pretty surprised when he got a visit. >> false alarm. it was just an unlucky guy looking for a job. the killer though? the killer never called. so the whole ms-13 thing, the mexico deal gone wrong was just some sort of game. the real bomber was playing it. the trouble was, nobody knew the rules or the purpose or wh

here's keith morrison. >> a hot august night in texas, 2014. the lone figure knew where to go, know where the store kept the cash, grabbed $18,000. and was gone. but it was only money. and no one got hurt. not that time. anyway. >> the story begins here in ft. worth, texas, which turned out to be the perfect growing up place for a rough and tumble free spirit named ashle harris. >> i was around 10 when she was born, so perfect age to pretend she was my baby. >> melissa is ashlea's eldest sister. >> she marched to the beat of a different drum. she would wear just things that did not match. her hair was just -- didn't seem combs. >> she was never the little princess type. >> no, no. >> there were three girls in the family. ashlea was the baby. their mom, monica, remembers how she loved sports and music and art. and bingo. >> it was our mom and daughter bonding time. she just would get all giddy and excited. >> by the time she got to high school, ashlea had lots of friends. even a boyfriend. and she was devoted to her two dads. her father tommy an

here again is keith morrison. there a >> reporter: three months after the bombing, the fbi dive team found the electrical box in which the bomb had been placed. but after months of sitting in water and mud there was no trace of dna or fingerprints. the only story this peeled metal told was -- >> this case is going nowhere. >> reporter: now with little hope of finding the key piece of evidence that would put the case away, the detectives tried that good old-fashioned tool of policing, shoe leather and tire tread. round-the-clock surveillance of peter and paul moore. aided by tracking devices with a particularly helpful app. >> they're called geo fences. i put a geo fence around where i live, i put a geo fence around the sheriff's department. >> reporter: protection he felt he needed after someone targeted law enforcement with those spikes on the road. >> if the vehicle or the gps monitor travels into those locations, you get an alert. >> reporter: in addition detective salm would routinely log in to check on the wh

here's keith morrison. >> reporter: you never think it's gonna be you. >> oh, no. no. no. no. >> reporter: no. the young man is right. in fact, this is the kind of thing that just doesn't happen to anyone. >> no. never. never would've thought i would have ever seen anything like this. >> reporter: no one, not here, not in this neighborhood, in this house. but certainly not, surely not, at the very moment when at least three policemen were just outside the front door. and just over the backyard wall, not more than 30 feet away. >> we had to be told a few times just to get it in our heads what happened. >> reporter: what happened here in broad daylight under the very noses of the cops? was murder. long beach, california. a town that may have been cheated a little in the city pride department. >> a lot of people assume it's like l.a. but it's not. it's different. it has its own identity. >> you think it's different culturally? >> i think so. i think long beach is sort of its own beast. >> sure. >> it's a little more working class. >> yes. and it's one of those '50s suburbs in

once again, here's keith morrison. >> michelle le had been missing for weeks. no break in the case at all. and then, just before we sat down for an interview with a private investigator named michael fromme, his phone rang with a tip from an inmate who claimed to know where michelle could be found. >> so who do you think is involved in michelle's disappearance? >> what is this guy saying? that he -- what can he tell you? >> he said he has information as to a potential site where michelle may be. >> fromme made the trip out to the jail for a face-to-face interview. >> the parolee's information was that she had been abducted and was being held at a house in hayward. and it turned out, unfortunately, that this information was related to another criminal act and had nothing to do with michelle's disappearance. >> back in hayward, the police might have been accomplishing something, but they were saying nothing beyond their belief that michelle was dead. and as far as the family could tell, the police investigation seemed to be getting nowhere. now the family's own p

here's keith morrison with dark valley. >> will is kind of peace here in the vast pacific company. what began in southern california in the san ver nondough valley, early may, 2012. >> something was really wrong. a lot more wrong than i could imagine. >> his dad was supposed to go to school. >> but after school? >> when i showed up at basketball practice, he said daddy didn't pick me up this morning. i said what? he said daddy didn't show up this morning. >> it can happen. busy families, people forget. the boy got to school some other way. he called a friend from around the corner. >> or sometimes things fall apart. >> love affairs, drug deals, it sounded too outlandish. >> how do they come together when they have flown apart? >> somebody is going to walk away from this who maybe you wish wasn't going to walk away. >> exactly. >> how do people sleep at night? how do they live with themselves? >> but that afternoon lisa smiblg knew instantly something must be wrong. her husband gavin was a dedicated father. >> nothing would keep him from picking up his kid ever. >> because gavin was

here's keith morrison with "the women & dirty john." ♪ >> reporter: in the beginning was desire, natural human desire for connection, for love. and so she aimed her arrow at that online ocean of intimate strangers and found -- him. >> newport beach 911. do you need police fire or paramedics? >> hi. i need an ambulance right away and the police. >> reporter: it was summertime when the awful climax came. a late afternoon, a marmalade sun beating down on the parking lot of a rental apartment complex in newport beach, california. that's when they heard it. >> and she says this woman's just screaming. >> all right. >> reporter: whole complex must have heard it. terrified howling, desperate. >> is she okay? >> reporter: there was a man down there. they could see him. he had a knife. he was stabbing the screaming woman. and nobody was helping her. >> it's really bad -- >> all right. i understand. we have officers on the way. >> too late. too late. >> oh, the ambulance is here. they're doing cpr on somebody. >> the bloody ending. but the story, the whole terrible tale, is much deeper than that o

here's keith morrison. "deadly conspiracy." >> reporter: the game is called "mousetrap." a little ball on its track. the tiny taunting mice which, unless every lever works in unison, will not be caught. and how often things go wrong to allow the mice to get away. so odd that what really happened could so eerily mimic a children's game. >> oh how nice! >> reporter: these are the people it happened to, the jessee clan of orange county, california. they vacation together -- >> i'm tired, i'm ready to go home. >> reporter: shared birthdays -- >> this one's for bev. >> happy new year! >> reporter: even got together for a monthly game of 10-pins. what these grainy home videos don't show is what is yet to come. which is murder, conspiracy. one branch of the family against the other. a game so twisted, mice so clever, that crafting a trap to catch the plotters just might be impossible. to begin with, it was 1998. "shakespeare in love" won the oscar. monica lewinsky was freshly famous. it was a sweltering august night, hottest of the year, when cheryl deedham got a strange call fr

here's keith morrison. >> there is an eden in the american west. a wide flat earthen cornucopia whose bounty daily fills the bellies of millions, whose great farms employ legions of workers, and enriched with their profits families that pass the land down, father to son, generation after generation. they live modestly here in california's central valley. multi-millionaires in crop dusters and battered pickup trucks, deeply conservative, self-reliant, tough enough to thrive in a dangerous business that takes guts and brains, and too often lives. here among the churning, thrashing machinery the high-voltage power that helps grow the food of life, death can take a man unawares, even on a sleepy summer day. >> we just looked up and there he was. >> like today. a little boy burst from the field of sun flowers next to brandy's place. >> he was beet red, sweaty, he was just covered in mud head to toe. he had his tennis shoes in his hand. >> carrying his shoes. you mean he'd been running barefoot? >> he said he took them off. i think he got stuck in the mu

here's keith morrison. >> the night forest was profoundly dark. below its thick canopy of trees even the meager moonlight was shut out. as the driver rushed too fast down the twisting stomach-churning track, inches from yawning inky black depths, desperate to save the passenger's life. what were they doing up here, so far from civilization, from safety? what answers did the fire consume? as one of them was launched on a path as dark and twisted as the mountain road itself. one evil begetting another and another until -- >> this whole story is a mixture of murder and blood and failings and grace and heaven and god and -- there's some real craziness to it. >> but to begin, 2,500 miles west of that remote mountain trail in georgia is one of the more civilized places on earth -- napa, california. world famous wineries, michelin starred restaurants. here lived a beautiful woman, who loved four admiring men. her father, the prominent artist. her husband, the ex-fighter pilot and pharmaceutical executive. her lover, the handyman, former marine and firear

here's keith morrison with more. >>> i really thought it was a random act. a home invasion. >> so during the course of that day, you were completely buffaloed? >> correct. >> while the investigation raced forward, the polk county sheriff's office told justin michael's family virtually nothing. didn't tell them they'd found the man who sold the murder weapon, nor that they had to figure out who he actually sold it to. because surely whoever bought the gun must have been the killer. >> i asked him at that point to look at the photo line-ups. the first set of six photographs i showed him contained the photograph of david moffitt. mr. bahlmann looked at it and he said, "i can't be 100% certain." he said, "the guy had a hat on, had sunglasses on." he goes, i wish i would have had him take it off. then he pointed at the picture of david moffitt and said, i'm 90% sure that's the person that i sold the gun to. >> what happened when he looked at the picture involving andy wegener? >> when i showed him the photo line-up with andy wegener, he looked at it and immediate

here's keith morrison with "suspicion." >> 7:00 a.m., november 15th, 2007, dawn in salt lake city, it ut. sky, begin tooling brighten, sun not quite up and there they were, the voices, the terror, the nightmare beginning. >> 911. what's is your emergency? >> it stands in stark contrast. was converted to loft aparmt business nor bust. and the sometime of living and location drew a distinct crowd. beoncau brooks frrks example, raised in ireland and africa. she came here in august 2006 to viz at friend. >> i came on holiday and i met christopher and just hit it off. >> christopher right lived in the same loft building as bionca's friend. in one night you knew? >> yeah. yeah. >> to anyone watching t was an obvious perfect match. >> he is so lovely and she's kind of quirky and i think she brought that playfulness out in chris. >> he was ecstatic after. >> it was true blind passionate love that drove beoncau to give up everything and move there utaught to be with chris where six months after the first moment they laid eyes on ooech other, they were married. her protector and incurable roman

here again is keith morrison with secrets in the mist. >> deputy d.a. and the torrence police department cold case team believed mike killed his wife carol back in 1981. but they had one big problem. they couldn't prove carol was dead. >> the biggest assumption is going to be well how do you know she's not just out of the country or across the country or changed her identity. >> kind of an important question with no answer. and then in january 2011, jim wallace got the flu. lucky break. no really. >> and i was laying in bed and my wife came in and unfortunately when you work these cases all you talk about is we're a dedicated cold case team. you're talking about the case you were working. i'm sure she was tired of hearing it. but she said why don't you establish a facebook account for carol? i thought that could actually accomplish a great deal. >> of course back in 1981 is when carol disappeared facebook creator mark zuckerberg wasn't even born yet. but he knew social media's ability to connect people around the globe instantly could determine whether

here's keith morrison with "secrets on the emerald coast." >> reporter: what a negs of puzzles. what happened to marie carlson, where did she go? or did she go anywhere? what about grace, the baby she left behind? who, for example, was the father? churches tend to be beehives of gossip, so the detectives asked around. >> she had a boyfriend, was involved in an abusive relationship, she was beat up. >> reporter: this is a member of the cavalry emerald coast church. >> she found out she was pregnant. and she didn't want to go back to the guy, and didn't want to keep the child. >> reporter: in other words, she was going to have an abortion. but pastor flanders and his wife had strong views about abortion. and when they discovered her situation, they offered to help solve her dilemma. >> they were gonna adopt the baby. >> reporter: the flanders had an older daughter, always wanted another child. but one miscarriage after another. and so, as this church elder told the detectives, the pastor and his wife came to an arrangement with marie. >> she would stay three months to nurse the ba

here is more with keith morrison with "secrets in the snow." >>> it's horrible. i mean, it's -- i -- i don't even know how to explain having a microscope go into your world. it's surreal. >> there are few secrets in a person's life that will escape the attention of a determined homicide detective. >> everything comes out. absolutely everything. >> dale and stephanie, it turned out, had their share of secrets. like the weird thing, one chilly morning six weeks before stephanie was murdered as stephanie told her friend, jennifer. >> she heard spanking and she told me she counted at least eight spanks before she got up the stairs and down the hall to the kitchen. >> well, my boy was acting out far beyond, you know, the norm. and i said, come on. >> that was a wednesday morning. stephanie was furious about the spanking and stormed off to work and that very day was laid off from her county job. and then still upset with dale, stephanie went to see a judge and filed a restraining order against him, sought advice from her friend, bill. >> honestly, i was a little bit su

here's keith morrison with "the knock at the door." ♪ >> reporter: it was a monday afternoon. a baking sun. a school bus made its methodical way among the residential streets of punta gorda, florida. stopped and started and stopped again. it was inland now, miles from the the harbor, the peace river, the center of the town whose warmth had drawn them to the gulf coast. the bus stopped in the middle of a quiet neighborhood. driver opened the door. it was 3:45 p.m. >> we got off the bus and walked home. >> reporter: "we" means veronica ord, then almost 14 years old, and her younger brother, paul. >> and i remember halfway down the road, remembering that i forget my key. but the closer we got to the house, i had seen my sister's car. so i said, "oh, okay, cool." you know, i don't -- i don't need the key. you know, she's home. >> reporter: then she noticed -- the door wasn't quite closed. >> it was closed, but it wasn't latched. like you could just pull on it and the door would open. i remember walking in and oprah was on the tv. >> what did you assume when you saw the door open a

here again is keith morrison with who killed the radio star. >> reporter: it was september 2006 when a smooth-talking stranger walked into pete's auto dealership in great falls, montana and got himself a job as a used car salesman. >> he was quite the character. wasn't your typical car salesman persona. >> reporter: joe parsetich was the finance manager at pete's auto. he was at the dealership the day the new guy started. >> he was very sure of himself to the point of a little bit smug. in montana, where you have a lot of down-to-earth meat-and-potatoes people, where they're very friendly towards one another, having somebody with a smug, cocky attitude isn't going to go over very well at times. >> reporter: still, joe was friendly in the way montanans are known for. he gave the guy the benefit of the doubt. one sunday evening, they got to talking. joe says the new salesman told him how he used to be a successful stockbroker, had a beautiful lakefront home in texas. they even looked up his property on google earth. so why on earth, joe asked, would someone leave all that and come to g

here again is keith morrison. >> >> reporter: in the end, bones and a few teeth were all they found. there was every reason to think tara was murdered, and then dumped in the woods. but murdered how? by whom? sharon's attorney called her as soon as she heard the news. >> she was obviously distraught, devastated, hysterical, crying. now what? find out the killers and make them pay for the crime. >> reporter: prosecutor dan feinberg got the autopsy results. they were not helpful. >> only half of the bones in her body were recovered. and some of the more important bones like the hyoid bone which would show whether or not there might been a choking or strangulation was not recovered. >> reporter: the medical examiner, though, found evidence that four of tara's ribs were fractured. >> a perimortem fracture, a fracture that occurred at the time of death. >> so there's a big, big slam into her ribs somehow. >> the medical examiner clearly found that there was evidence of a violent struggle. there was evidence of blunt force trauma and that would contribute to her death. >> reporter: detecti

here's keith morrison with "while they were sleeping." >> reporter: it was cold the night the full moon rose. february cold. in the desert valley that spilled down from reno, nevada.y and in that moonlight all silvee pale, the wind in the dead of in night worried that gray ends of winter grass, whipped and crieda up the driveway around the corner of the house, whistled he past the unlocked door. something evil afoot, something here inside. when the moon peered through the window and into the master bedroom, a little after 3:00 in the morning. >> it's really, really bad. >> what's really bad? >> my husband. >> reporter: strange, the things that happen to people under a full moon. good people, not so good people. under that moon that night it was hard to tell which was which, who was who. >> this is a case built on lies and deception and cat and mouse. who knew what it was? but the story when it began back in 2005 was about love. or what certainly felt like it. in fact, fair to say it was two kinds of love. there was what happened to ben when he met melissa. >> as soon as he met melissa,

once again, here is keith morrison. >> reporter: police suspected that fred shockner was the mastermind behind the murder plot of his estranged wife, lynn. they still didn't have enough evidence to make an arrest. the detectives kept dropping in on fred, all very nonthreatening. and then finally, they asked him if he happened to know anyone in the port hueneme area. that's where the hitman, nick harvey lived. and fred said yes, he did. the man he knew, he said, was frank jaramillo. just a guy he met when frank managed a gym in long beach. in fact, said fred, he'd bought a used bmw from frank for $25,000. and frank was going to deliver the car when he returned from an overseas business trip in new delhi. of course, from phone records, the cops knew perfectly well that frank, aka, el cubano, was in fact at home, about 50 miles north of long beach in woodland hills. but fred kept talking and, ever more chatty, volunteered that he'd lent frank more than $100,000. which made sense, given what detectives had already learned about frank. >> he had a fetish for watches and living the lifestyle

here again is keith morrison with "poison." >> there is a purity to confession, a real cleansing of the soul. now after months on the lam, elisa mcnabney, aka laren sims, was offloading the secrets of a lifetime. didn't hold back yes, she killed larry. her husband of nearly seven years, she said. but it wasn't her idea. >> i said, i don't know what i'm going to do. and she said, we have to kill him. and i said, i can't kill him. >> she said? who was this other woman who pushed elisa to commit murder? turned out detectives had already talked with her. remember sarah dutra, the young secretary elisa's friend who came back with her little dog who had been so helpful after elisa disappeared? now saying that killing larry was sarah's idea. >> i never would have done it on my own. >> elisa told the story this way. larry was a heavy drinker and drug user. he was abusive, she claimed and feared for her life. one day he divided in her young friend, sarah, and sarah said there was just one thing to do, kill larry mcnabney. now in this three-hour long interview elisa went into detail after gruesom

once again, here's keith morrison. >> and that is? >> moffitt. >> so finally angie remembered the name, the name of the man she dated just before she met justin michael. david moffitt. and who was he? a sometimes local accountant for one thing but also the scion of a wealthy iowa farm family. and not very memorable, said angie. just a guy who liked having fun. though there was, she said, this one remarkable coincidence. a couple months after she stopped seeing david and just before she got engaged to justin, david got a job in the same small unit of the same department of the same wells fargo office building as justin. david left under some kind of cloud, said angie, months before the murder. but, really, what were the chances? their desks were just feet apart. >> and did he know that justin was dating you? >> he figured out that justin was dating me. >> justin told his parents about it. >> he just said it was an awkward situation but there was no problem. the alignment of that is -- >> in a company of -- >> -- astronomical. >> -- 10,

morrison from dateline nbc and then we'll talk about the new book with author talk don't be evil. tonight jefferson is a longtime critic for newsweek and new york times the winner of the national book critics circle award for her book negro land. jefferson mp one - - pick me will speak for about 45 minutes after which they will take if you questions from the audience please welcome me to join our guests. [applause] >> i know everyone has something better to do. >> they don't think so. >> i don't either. >> hello. good evening. there with me. one of the first things that interested me about this book everyone talks about the rage the pessimism you notice the james baldwin back then you are in berlin. you move across generations and as a young man in certain ways but this book deliberately joins the cultural criticism that i think many of us that know you first and best for with the sustained political reportage and scholarship. so you have two novels of black literature and tradition and in 2014 came the black vote so what led you so fully and richly from literally in cultural writ

here's keith morrison with buried secrets. >> it's a strange thing. the soft soil here in coastal florida. things have a way of coming up. things buried in the ground in the past. it was july 2003, beaches quite, snow birds back up north so no one noticed at first in a town called pembroke pines where donna, threes months a detecti, a rookie really had just been assigned to a brand new cold case unit. >> the sergeant came into the office and dropped a box of papers right on my desk and said here, see what you can do with this and i began to wonder, is this a test to see can she really do this. >> but the case was a challenge was an understatement. now all but forgotten mystery. the disappearance 15 years earlier of a young man named david jackson. and the file offered no hints, no pointers, nothing really beyond the basic file. even the rookie cop knew she would have toco learn about the victim. so she began with something easy. she found david jackson's mother,da judy carlson. she found judy's son, actually. >> he said are you sitting? i said yes. he

here's keith morrison with "the women & dirty john." >> after being unlucky in love, she thought she found the one when she met a handsome doctor. her daughter suspected bhinds his good looks looked something sinister. the sisters dug into his past. what they found threatened to tear the family apart and put their live ins danger. ♪ >> reporter: in the beginning was desire, natural human desire for connection, for love. and so she aimed her arrow at that online ocean of intimate strangers and found -- him. >> newport beach 911. do you need police fire or paramedics? >> hi. i need an ambulance right away and the police. >> reporter: it was summertime when the awful climax came. a late afternoon, a marmalade sun beating down on the parking lot of a rental apartment complex in newport beach, california. that's when they heard it. >> and she says this woman's just screaming. >> all right. >> whole complex must have heard it, terrified, howling, desperate. >> is she ok? >> reporter: there was a man down there, they could see him. he had a knife. he was stabbing the screaming woman and n

here's keith morrison with "robert durst: the lost years." >> reporter: there is a letter written more than 60 years ago. a prophecy? perhaps. a warning, certainly. a doctor writing about a very troubled 10-year-old boy suffering from hostility issues sufficient to produce a personality decomposition and possibly even schizophrenia. the troubled little boy? his name is well known. robert durst. by now you've heard the bizarre saga. the multi-millionaire scion of a new york real estate empire. the disappeared wife, the dead friend, the dismembered neighbor. he's been the subject of several "dateline" episodes and the star, though not in the way he intended of hbo's "the jinx." but do you, does anyone, know the truth about robert durst? the story behind the story. the trail we followed, the revelations we encountered, the personal account he wrote and we were given, which have led us into a very weird place, the lost years of the infamous robert durst. the tale is like quicksand. it sucks you in. >> bob is endlessly fascinating and -- and always surprises me. >> reporter: he has certainl

lieutenant colonel vin minh superior to morrison testified that he was concerned the call would leak and be misused in washington's political process but he did not believe that anything discussed on the call was illegal or improper much has also been made about president trump's reference on the july 25th call to hunter biden's position on the board of barisan a corrupt ukrainian energy company and the actions of certain ukrainian officials in the run up to the 2016 election democrats dismiss these comparisons conspiracy theories to suggest that the president has no legitimate reason other than his own political interests to raise these issues with president selenski the evidence however shows that there are legitimate questions about both issues with respect to barisan. assistant secretary george can't testified that the company had a reputation for corruption the company was founded by me collazo cesky served as ukraine's minister of ecology and natural resources when so cesky served in that role his company received oil exploration licenses without public options resume a brought

they were not shared by general keith kellogg who listens on the call, lieutenant general kellogg said in the statement "i heard nothing wrong or improper on the call. i had and have no concerns. lieutenant colonel vindman superior, tim morrison testified that he was concerned of the call would leak and be misused in washington's political process. but he did not believe that anything discussed on the call was illegal or improper. much has also been made about president trump's reference on the july 25th call to hunter biden's position on the board of burisma. of a corrupt ukrainian energy company and the actions of certain ukrainian officials on the run-up to the 2016 election. democrats dismissed these conspiracy theories to suggest that the president has no legitimate reason other than his own political interest to raise these issues with president zelensky. the evidence, however, shows there are legitimate questions about both issues. deputy assistant secretary george counts testified that the company had a reputation for corruption. the company was founded served as ukraine's mini

lieutenant colonel vindman's superior, tim morrison, testified that he was concerned the call would leak and be misused in washington's political process. but he did not believe anything discussed on the call was illegal or improper. much has also been made about president trump's reference on the july 25th call to hunter biden's position on the bored of burisma. a corrupt ukrainian energy company. and the actions of certain juk juk officials in the runup to the 2016 election. democrats dismissed these conspiracy theories to suggest the president has no legitimate reason, other than his own political interest, to raise these issues with president zelensky. null the evidence, however, shows there are legitimate questions about both issues. with respect to burisma, deputy assistant secretary george kent testified that the company had a reputation for corruption. the company was founded by mykola zlochevsky. burisma brought hunter biden onto its board of directors, according to "the new york times," as part of a broad effort by burisma to bring in well-connected democrats during a period wh

lieutenant colonel vindman's superior to morrison testified that he was concerned the call was leaked and can be misused in washington's political process. but he did not believe that anything discussed on the call was illegal or improper. much has also been made about president trump's reference on the july 20 call to hunter biden's position on the board of breezburisma. the ukrainian officials and a run-up to the 2016 election. democrat dismiss the conspiracy theories to suggest that the president has no legitimate reason other than his own political interest to raise these issues with president zelensky. the evidence however, shows there are legitimate questions about both issues. but withre respect to burisma, george kent testified that the company had reputation for corruption. the company was founded who served as ukraine's minister of ecology and natural resources and when he served in the role the company burisma received expiration licenses without public auctions. burisma brought hunter biden onto the board of directors according to the new york times as part of a broad effo

lieutenant colonel vindman's superior, tim morrison, testified that he was concerned the call would leak and be misused in washington's political process. but he did not believe anything discussed on the call was illegal or improper. much has also been made about president trump's reference on the july 25th call to hunter biden's position on the bored of burisma. a corrupt ukrainian energy company. and the actions of certain juk juk officials in the runup to the 2016 election. democrats dismissed these conspiracy theories to suggest the president has no legitimate reason, other than his own political interest, to raise these issues with president zelensky. null the evidence, however, shows there are legitimate questions about both issues. with respect to burisma, deputy assistant secretary george kent testified that the company had a reputation for corruption. the company was founded by mykola zlochevsky. burisma brought hunter biden onto its board of directors, according to "the new york times," as part of a broad effort by burisma to bring in well-connected democrats during a period wh