here is keith morrison with a motive. >> her heart was on fire. lost to her. the music. some of other voices in the bar. there was only him. they were in the deep end. and as lovers in the flesh of new commitment sometimes they confess their sins of the abandoned past. the worst is that they had ever done. words. just words. just forgotten until they could no longer be ignored. lexington kentucky. one year before that night in the bar. the house where students live. and the music and laughter and chatter of a birthday party swelled and ebbed and drifted into the evening air. >> it wasn't a huge priority. it's a low-key party with some good friends. >> there are about to be seniors. the young men who rented the place and host of the party. >> we had a group of guys. four guys who got along very well. >> they were big man on campus. they played football. yet the university of kentucky wildcats. antonio olvera was a quarterback. >> in lexington, kentucky, if you play for the catch your pretty much a well-known entity. >> the birthday boy, 21 years old, was a true rarity. a

. >> a story keith morrison followed for nearly ten years. >> how, when?get a call from her boss who said she had it shut up for work. >> they found her in a car. >> the back of her neck some look at your marks. >> just didn't deserve that. >> a small island, a small pool of suspects. ryan, her lover, with the past. >> i had no idea he was a drug dealer. >> and darren the soon to be ex-husband. >> that morning he called in sick. >> was there in polygraph? >> the past. >> and the love? or >> even do that good either. >> that much else to go, on this case was growing colder by the day. >> nothing happens. >> but a father doesn't forget. >> i have to have justice for my daughter. >> after all these years, are there still secrets to uncover? >> it's been quite a journey for you. >> it isn't over yet. >> this father finally got his answer. but is it the one he wanted? >> never in my wildest dreams but i imagine what we are going through now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello and welcome to "dateline". sandra galas was born and raised on an island notice one of the most beautiful

here again is keith morrison with "what happened to the beauty queen? jones sat in the courtroom and watched the fight for his life swirl around him. and felt in that uncomfortable chair a withering stairs of the jury. >> they can all look at you and if you do one thing wrong, that they deem is wrong, that might sway them the opposite way. >> one facial expression -- >> one click of a pen. one by off of your fingernail. you never know how people are going to take things that you do. >> yeah he had every reason to worry. later, the jurors would recall how the images of this crime haunted them. >> blood all over the pictures. >> the palm print in her blood -- >> but to the jurors, the evidence, or lack of it looked bad for police, to. >> the glass door, for example. where the perpetrator went out was not fingerprinted inside our out. the kitchen floor would have been excellent for footprints. he obviously walked across their. no prints were taken. >> they said, that kind of sloppiness made them wonder, what else did the police miss? while other suspects?

here is keith morrison with "under a full moon". >> he was finished now. tired, run out. she must have been, she walked away from the incessantly tripping machinery, and the weary eyes of the gamblers on holiday from real life, who called out for her again, and again and again. outside of the night, a full moon bathed the gray houses legit delighted insulin in and unaccustomed shade of pale. it was september 29th, 2012. at precisely 3:00 in the morning, the backroom of the palms casino, a cocktail waitress named shauna tiaffay inserted her time kurd and set out to break a rule. shauna had partner car in the back what, a practice discouraged because surveillance cameras were unable to track her all the way to her car. still, easier this way. and after all, would a stop or really be waiting for her here, under a full moon? >> it was absolutely horrible. we felt so helpless. >> it is every woman's worst nightmare. >> we did not know [inaudible] >> what was it? [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> she thought, there's no way i could be a cocktail waitress. [inaudible] [inau

here's keith morrison with "mystery at payson canyon". >> there are people on this glorious, sunkissed planted of ours, who get up each morning to the miracle of being a life and worry. not that there aren't things to worry about, of course. whether we can do anything about them or not. but some people worry a very great deal indeed, and do try to be prepared for, whatever. and one of those prepared people was a brilliant retired university professor named kay mortensen. whose sister was a woman name fern. >> i said well kay, what would happen if i'm not prepared and i'm hungry? or my kids are hungry? and he said no, i'll probably just shoot you. still he said it laughingly. but he was definitely willing to protect. haven't >> oh yes, he certainly was. and sure enough, one night -- >> 9-1-1. what's the address of your emergency? >> but we're getting ahead of ourselves. what happened that night was a long time coming. it was long before that when kay became a survivalist. with attitude. >> he knew exactly what he thought about everything. and even though he knew what he was saying was g

here is keith morrison with "graduation night". >> in the summer in the town of -- detroit, michigan. i'm a divorce mother of three named mary evans was poking around in one of her favorite places. facebook. >> you could look up what everyone is up to. were they at today. are they successful? did they take the wrong path? >> there, mary. no idea that a little innocent poking into her own past would dredge up a shocking truth. long buried. >> oh, i was stunned. it was unbelievable. >> and a nightmare's worth of terror. >> i could've been killed that day. >> that would bring together an unlikely band of friends, old and new, in a fight to write a terrible wrong. >> and then a miracle happen. >> but no. in 2009, it was just an ordinary summer day. no sign of providence anywhere. just mary reminiscing about the old days and friends long since gone away. no. you know how it is? a person wonders. not such an uncommon thing among people who grew up as mary did in northeast detroit. >> i moved in it was actually a nice neighborhood. you could walk around the streets, singing at 1:00 in the mo

keith morrison: police were quick to question her ex. maybe too quick.

keith morrison: wonderful, wonderful. that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. [music playing] starts now >>> crews continue to dig through the rubble in south florida. large cranes moving slabs of concrete and we learn today, families visiting the site watched a rescuer fall 25 feet the heartbreak and the investigation. i'm shepard smith. this is the news on cnbc >> we are going to get to the bottom of what happened here >> the heroic search for survivors in the fifth day the death toll growing, people's hope fading. >> we're not stopping until we have an answer >> the new clues about what ma have caused the collapse >>> u.s. airstrikes in the middle east, targeting iranian-backed militant group. why president biden authorized the attacks. >>> a major medical break through. for the first time, doctors injected gene editor into the human body to treat a disease. >>> several churches burned to the ground in canada after investigators discover more than 750 unmarked graves near a former school for indigenous children >> i have spoken with h

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