keith morrison: tony kava, whos he? keith morrison: your cave.keith morrison: you sound like a superhero. keith morrison: anthony kavas day job is it supervisor for pottawattamie county. but at night, for a dollar a year, hes a reserve sheriff's deputy. keith morrison: i mean, how much stuff did you have to go through? tony kava: it was-- it was terabytes worth of information. maybe about three dozen e-mail accounts, a dozen facebook accounts and a number of different apps. keith morrison: and in his tiny office kava sat, hour after hour, late into the night, deciphering enormous amounts of digital data. tony kava: it might take her five minutes to create a fake e- mail account. it might take me, you know, fifteen hours to prove that its actually her. keith morrison: among those many accounts was a youtube account with this video. tony kava: the title of the video is husbands cheating place. and that video showed the apartment of dave kroupa. keith morrison: but the ip address where that video was uploaded was where liz lived. tony kava: so again

here's harris keith morrison with "while they were sleeping". >> it was cold, the night the full moon rose. february cold. in the desert valley that spilled down from reno, nevada. and in that moonlight, all silver, sale, the wind in the dead of night. with ten cried up the dry. round the corner of the house. past the unlocked door. something evil afoot. something here, inside. when the moon appeared through the window and into the master bedroom. a little after three in the morning. >> it's really, really bad. >> what's really bad? >> my husband. >> strange, the things that happened 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 a 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, he was something i've never seen. just for no reason he'

here's keith morrison with secrets in the snow. we >> it was cold the night it happened so very cold. a night to be inside by a fireplace, tucked under a quilt. not outside in the frigid dark. not way up here, 9000 feet up in the colorado mountains, thick all snow ready thick about november night. 24 below. >> i don't know enough to know exactly what happened, i'm still trying to figure it out. >> what in god's name was his wife doing, walking out in the brutal cold, and what's happened to her? this middle class married mother of three, where did she go? without a word to him, or her friends. >> i can't imagine that this is happening to you and to your friend. >> she was just playing missing. >> yes she was. and it was terrifying, dreadful in the end. and those events were about to prove a shocking lesson about what can remain hidden under a person's skin. >> everybody has secrets of course. stephanie's secrets lived as she did in the skiers paradise. they met at the top of a mountain. bill bill bruner lee was taking photographs of

here's keith morrison with "secrets in the mist". >> january, 2013. point vicente, a california.et, gray, morning cold. at noon, a police boat sets off in the fog. a hail mary pass apparently. a slim chance to find the truth at last. but hawaii out there? why after all those lost 30 years? maybe some cases are destined to stay cold. easier that way. for came along, with their wild ideas about murder and facebook of all things. and now this. they're doomed errand into the fog. her name was me carol jeanne meyer, though she was carol lubahn, when all this happened back in march, 1981. the night of this slamming doors, the harsh words. a car roaring away. it's an old story anyway. pretty girl gets pregnant at 15. mary's the guy pretty soon she's at 20 something with two kids and a hankering to live. really live, for a change. and this particular pretty girl? >> she was fun. she was outgoing. she had a lot of friends. >> she had these two sisters,. terri, was the younger one, gail the older. >> we were very close and made each other laugh all the time. >> but carol lubahn was it laug

here is keith morrison with "secrets on the emerald coast". >> what a nest of puzzles.re did she go? did you go anywhere? and 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. >> this is a member of the calvary emerald coast church. >> she did want to go back to the guy. and didn't want to keep the child. >> in other words, she was gonna 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 going to adopt the baby. >> the flanders had an older daughter, who always wanted an child, but one miscarriage after the other -- and, so as this church elder tell the detectives, the pastor and his wife came to an arrangement with marie. >> she would stay three months to nurse the baby and then the plan all along is that she would leave. that was my understanding from before the baby

here is keith morrison with mason. >> april 14th, 2016. a clear blustery day in the high desert outside los angeles. inside the walls of the california institution for women, the greyhaired 66 -year-old appears before a parole board. and she has done many times before. but this time, something remarkable. >> a parole board panel is recommending the release of former charles manson follower leslie van houten. >> leslie van houten, a name on a list forever linked with one of the most famous crimes and criminals of the 21st century. charles manson! >> you don't understand me! that's your trouble! it's not my fault because you don't understand me! i don't understand you either! >> the story of charles manson and his family, and all the horror they rot, is buried in archives. memorialized in media. long obsolete. yet, somehow, it feels present. that hot summer night that caught the world utterly unprepared. when los angeles became, suddenly, a very scary place. it was august 9th, 1969. around 8 am. officer jerry was a young cop on the lapd work

here's keith morrison with "the women & dirty john". >> 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 9-1-1, do you need police or paramedics? >> hi, i need an ambulance right away. and the police. >> it was summertime when the awful climax came. a late afternoon. a marmalade sun beating down on the parking lot of the rental apartment complex in newport beach, california. that's when they heard it. >> and she says this woman is just screaming. >> all right. >> the whole complex must of herd. it terrified, howling, desperate. >> is she okay? >> there was a man down there. they could see him. he had a knife. he was stabbing a 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 one thing. dreadful thoug

here is keith morrison, with robert durst, the last years. >> there is a letter, written more than 60 ago, a prophecy? perhaps. a warning? certainly. a doctor, writing about a very troubled ten year old boy suffering from hostility issues. sufficient to produce a personality decomposition, and possibly even schizophrenia. a troubled little boy? his name is well known robert durst. ♪ ♪ ♪ by now you have heard the bizarre saga, the multi million -- the disappeared wife, the dead friend, the dismembered neighbor. he has been the subject of several dateline episodes, and the star, though not in the way that he intended, of hp is the jinx. but does anyone know the truth about robert durst? the story behind the story, the tale that we followed, the revelations that we encountered, the personal account that he wrote and we were given which has led us to a very weird place, the last years of the infamous. robert durst. the tale is like quicksand, it's sucks you in. >> bob is endlessly fascinating, and always surprises me. >> he was certainly elusive. material, sometimes desperate. always in m

here's keith morrison with "the waiting car". >> our minds have a curious way of deceiving us.sense something off, something wrong. even terrible. and yet, something in the brain wants to believe the worst didn't happen. kennedy stoner knows that feeling well. >> i was kind of pushing away from my gut instinct. i'm not really sure why. i never imagined this ever happening to one of my friends. >> i wouldn't think you would want to imagine it? >> no, or anyone that i know. so, my mind didn't go there. >> so, she told herself it would be fine, as she reached out from her home here in salt lake city, utah. messages to her friend, mackenzie lueck. >> i saw that she was an opening my snap chats and i texted her. i didn't get a text back. and this is stupid, but i was kind of wondering if she was mad at me for something. >> the mind wants a simple explanation. after all, she knew her best friend was grieving. mackenzie's grandmother had recently passed away in california. >> i know she was heartbroken over that and so was the rest of her family, because they were all very close. >> s

here is keith morrison with "deadly trust". >> there is a place, call it a pot of gold at the end ofion. of the american dream. a place the few and the lucky builder mentions by the sea. newport beach, orange county, california. were the most unexpected event would be. murder. >> things like this rarely happen in newport beach, let alone in an area that is as secure as this area. >> let alone involving people like this. attractive, charismatic, living large. like nanette johnston packard mcneal. >> she had a beautiful home. she drove an expensive car. she was living that dream california lifestyle. you talk about "real housewives of orange county", she could've been on the show. >> yes, in fact she told french she turned down an offer to be on that show. about over the top access in orange county. though she did end up on a tv show called "american thunder". about motorcycles. showing off her own access. including a bike she bought for $50,000. >> what's your say favorite part of the bike? >> i love the way it looks. >> and then there was eric naposki. ex football player, personal tr

here is keith morrison with black friday. >> a hot august night in texas, 2014.one figure knew where to go. know where the story 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 fort worth, texas. which turned out to be the perfect growing up plays for a rough and tumble free spirit named ashlea harris. >> i was around ten when she was born. so, perfect age to pretend that she was my baby. >> melissa hill is ashlea's eldest sister. >> she marched to the beat of a different drum. she would wear things that did not match. her hair was just, it didn't seem combed. >> she was never the little princess type? >> now. now. >> there were three girls in the family. ashlea was the baby. their mom, monica, remembers how ashlea love sports, and music, an art. and bingo! >> it was our mom and daughter bonding time. she would get really excited. >> by the time she got a high school, ashlea had lots of friends. even a boyfriend. and she was devoted to her two dads. her father, tommy, and he

keith morrison: i think shed be pretty proud of you. max farver: i hope so. i'm andrea canning, and this is "dateline." andrea canning: it was one of the most harrowing days in our history. the attempted assassination of president reagan. screaming, yelling. it's chaos. andrea canning: now an unprecedented look into the mind and new life of the gunman, john hinckley jr. with the stories you haven't heard, the police officer who questioned hinckley speaks out in his first nationally televised interview. i just didn't think that he realized the magnitude of what he had done. andrea canning: from behind the hospital walls. he turned to her and said, will you marry me? andrea canning: secrets from his diaries uncovered by "dateline." his obsession with actress jodie foster. the letters were assumed to have been love type letters. andrea canning: and the most controversial question of all. is hinckley really fit to be free? he's a potentially dangerous character. he's proven that. hello and welcome to "dateline." he shot a president and shook the country. since th

keith morrison (voiceover): detectives investigating the disappearance of liz sullivan >> detectivessullivan were going through her boyfriend steve's phone records. when they discovered a series of odd texts from her husband matt. in late september shortly after steve and liz stop seeing each other, mac texted steve. lives will need a place to stay soon. i forgot to mention earlier, i work at a hospital if you need getting that std cleared up. >> i guess the best way to put it was badgering or poking at steve with text messages. >> matt seem to know whenever steve and liz talked on the phone. >> glad you got to talk to her today. and a few days later, good chat earlier. about a week before liz went missing matt texted steve, sorry to trouble you yet again, but i'm going to cut her off financially soon. if you do care, then please take action and support her. >> as much as he tried after he found out about stephen, it just didn't get better. >> so their lives were a mess again? >> but more so than it had ever been. there was no hiding the problems anymore, sweeping it under the carpet

keith morrison (voiceover): it was june 2007, two you know, life was so good for so long for us, it wasantasy. it was almost like like on a daily basis, pinch me, it wasn't real. >> it was june, 2007. two weeks before summer vacation. >> eduardo and jayne valseca, and their three children arrived at the country school not far from the rentals outside of san miguel de allende in mexico. as we pulled into the parking lot, i noticed that there was a small compact car in the far corner of the parking lot. and there was a man at the wheel who had a fisherman's cap on and glasses. >> the perspective parent, perhaps, for next year's class. we jayne walk the children to their classrooms. she stopped at the school office. >> and ask the administrator if she knew who the gentleman was and if he needed help. and she looked over and looked across the parking lot and said, i don't know who he, is he must be waiting for someone. >> eduardo was behind the wheel of the jeep, listening to the radio. the stranger's car was beyond it at the back of the lot. >> as i walked to the jeep, i looked across and

here is keith morrison with dark valley. >> there is a kind of piece here.in her own chosen exile. the vast pacific for company. how else to live? what was impossible to understand or forget. what began that sunny afternoon far in southern california's san fernando valley. early may, 2012. >> something was really wrong but a lot more wrong than i could imagine. >> 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. he said daddy didn't pick me up this morning, and i said what? i said daddy didn't show up this morning. >> it could happen, busy families, people forget. the boy got to school some other way. >> so he called a friend from around the corner. >> or sometimes things fall apart. >> the situation sounded too crazy, love affairs, love triangles, drug, dealers it sounded to outlandish. >> once those stable loving pieces that have fallen apart. how do they come together again? >> somebody's going to

learn how abbvie [nature sounds] keith morrison (voiceover): winter 1992. >> winter, 1992, park city, utah, resort town, ski mecca, until he got busted on the highway for that fake passport, the new hideout for fugitive duncan martinez, a prime suspect in the murder of his good friend ron baker. park city was just the next convenient place to disappear, until that inconvenient traffic stop followed by his arrest on passport fraud charges. that changed things. so duncan came up with a new plan, -- >> we get a call from duncan martinez's attorney. informing us that duncan was willing to talk to us about what happened on the night of the murder, out of the clear blue sky. >> so, the detectives, and duncan's attorney and the da office agreed on some ground rules, he would tell the story all right, but only in exchange for some sort of limited immunity from prosecution, otherwise no story, no dice. >> we worked out a deal where he could talk to us freely, we couldn't use anything he told us against him. >> there is a term for the deal they made, they call it king for a day. fancy. >> he wa

learn how abbvie [nature sounds] keith morrison (voiceover): winter 1992.

keith morrison: what was it like in there? ashley tucker: it was hell. i was sexually abused.