keith morrison: oh.se i won the gunfight, i know that i will not be standing on the side of my children's graves and people aren't going to be patting me on the back and saying, there's nothing you could have done. i did. keith morrison: oakes claimed mark stover shot first. thus, the claim he now made, it was self-defense, even though no evidence ever surfaced to suggest stover was in possession of any firearm at all or that stover had ever arranged any meeting with oakes. and as for the story that he was a hired gun for the opdyckes, just not true, said michiel oakes. a great many people believe that one or both of the opdyckes are involved. were they involved? not at all. keith morrison: but of course, it was all michiel's story about a crazed dog whisperer, threats to his children, all that fear. i mean, who else says that besides you? and what evidence is there that he ever said such a thing? said such a thing as-- that he was threatening your kids. well, keith, it's been the problem. i survived tha

keith morrison: and now? here was news that heather was living with kate's friend, ethan, in this tiny apartment. to me, she just looked like a con artist. keith morrison: but no, said kate back then, janice had it all wrong. heather was nice. in fact, kate said she had introduced heather to her friend ethan, and, very quickly, a romance had blossomed. they were even talking marriage. really? if janice waring was suspicious about heather back then, the a-team was doubly so now. and sure enough, a few keystrokes on the internet told bobby minter that mother's intuition was right. i saw where she had been arrested for forgery in indiana. but she'd been arrested in other stage, too. essentially, if you just googled her name, i suppose you could find out a fair amount. that's how i found her. she'd been impersonating a doctor. i just googled her. keith morrison: and ethan wouldn't be her first husband. she'd been married before, and had four children. now that they knew about heather, a few fuzzy details were sud

keith morrison: but it did. much of it recorded, as you will see, by those electronic beeps and bytes and pixels. just enough to make it a truly puzzling mystery. enough to not quite know what happened to michelle le. one of the things i was so angry about was that nothing made sense. nothing made sense. keith morrison: especially this. same night, 8:56 pm. michelle's nursing instructor, annoyed, baffled, worried by her absence takes a security guard to the parking lot to look for her car. 9:05 pm, michelle's car re-enters the garage two floors below. 9:06 pm it arrives on the third floor. off camera, the nursing instructor sees it, waves frantically. and the car suddenly stops, backs up, races down the ramp out of the garage. but why? alarmed, the nursing instructor calls the police. and the next morning, 400 miles south in san diego michelle's cousin krystine was awakened by a text from michelle's former boyfriend. and he messages me. he goes, hey, just to let you know, we don't know where michelle is. have yo

here again, is keith morrison.son (voiceover): what happened here in little owego, new york, in august, 2007, was almost unbelievable. cal harris, convicted of killing his wife, michele, was about to be sent away for 25 to life. and suddenly, it all blew up right in da jerry keene's face. i came into the courtroom thinking that the defendant was going to be sentenced. and it ended up being more of my being on trial. keith morrison (voiceover): who on earth had the power to make this happen? he did, kevin tubbs. i know that she was there, ok? i know she was. keith morrison (voiceover): kevin tubbs, a plainspoken, rough farm worker back then was hauling hay. and why was he so important? because after six years during which tubbs swore he barely registered the fuss over the harris case, he picked up a paper and saw the story of cal's conviction. and-- i seen that and you know, i started like, recalling, you know, thinking like, oh my god. keith morrison (voiceover): just like that, he suddenly knew, he said, that what

keith morrison: oh, yes.that blood from victim wayne stock found in a car connected to nick sampson and spotted near the murder scene. so the prosecutor wasn't about to drop charges against mr. sampson. and he, sitting in jail, had become suicidal. nick was in really, really bad shape, and so at that point i'm trying to do mashed psychiatric holding together. it's going to work out, it's going to work out. keith morrison: but would it? the summer dragged by, followed by depressing september. and then? first week of october, the county attorney, nathan cox, met the press. the murder case against nick sampson was dropped, sort of. since there is no statute of limitations on murder, the state reserves the right to refile the charges in the future. keith morrison: hardly the news the stock family expected or wanted to hear, though they handled it with surprising grace. it's not for us to judge or to make a statement on that because we don't know. it was this, and then it was that, and then it was this, and then i

here keith morrison with the hometown hero and the queen. >> it was late when it happened. very late. too late. the sky had already fallen. no one saw it coming. no one heard the warning. but now in the night, it was done. they work hard here in their homemade garage gym, because in part it isn't just a gym. it's a kind of shrine. >> i look at the wall and there's a bunch of pictures. and that's what makes it special, i think. >> these were the moments before they were born when a shot putter named dave laut became his family's superman. and his little brother watched him win a bronze medal in the 1984 olympics. >> i mean, after, i just cried. how do you not? how do you not cry when you see your brother up there getting a medal? he was my big brother. but he was like my superman. he was my superman. >> don laut is dave's younger brother by nine and a half years. dave and don inherited a passio >> i remember my first milk when i was a kid, it was protein powder. >> it's built into your dna. it's part of your life. >> yeah, it really is. >> here is where that dna was planted,

here's keith morrison with "under a full moon." keith morrison (voiceover): she was finished now, tired, wrung out, must have been as she walked away from the incessantly chirping machinery and the bleary eyes of the gamblers on holiday from real life who called out for her again and again and again. outside in the night, a full moon bathed the great houses of delight and sin in an unaccustomed shade of pale. it was september 29, 2012. at precisely 3:00 in the morning in the backroom of the palms casino, the cocktail waitress named shauna tiaffay inserted her time card in the stabbing machine and set out to break a little rule. shauna had parked her car in the back lot, a practice discouraged because surveillance cameras were unable to track her all the way to her car. still, easier this way, quicker. and after all, would a stalker really been waiting for her here under a full moon? it was absolutely horrible. and we felt so helpless. it's every woman's worst nightmare. we didn't know if any of us were next. keith morrison (voiceov

here again is keith morrison. >> reporter: it's a funny thing about secrets. they can only stay hidden for so long. especially in a little place like moundville. and it didn't take very long for sheriff ellis and corporal boyd to stumble on the secret scott had been keeping. >> while we was out at the crime scene, scott had had a young lady pick up the boys. >> reporter: it was only later when the fog of grief had lifted that one of teresa's relatives wondered to police, who was that woman hanging around the day teresa died. ellis and boyd tracked her down and what they discovered, well, that changed everything. or seemed to. the person they were talking to was scott's mistress. >> she was under the impression that scott was not married at that time. >> reporter: what did you make of that when you heard that? >> we knew that wasn't correct. >> reporter: a love triangle, jealous home wrecker kills wife, claims husband? no, not even close. scott's girlfriend thought his marriage was over, his divorce finalized. what was her reaction to getting the real story? sh

here is keith morrison. >> reporter: what a time it was. the year he turned up in that crazy little car. what a sweet, impossible, unexpected last chance. that love, that red passionate sin. just for mary ann. it was 1985. and it was magic. and now here she was, 2011, in a courtroom of all places. forced to confess her forbidden love, account for her sins. this grandmother, widow, penitent. what story would she tell? >> the main thing going through my mind is to tell the truth. and let the chips fall where they may. >> reporter: the truth. such a difficult word. especially when it bubbles up from a past which mary ann mcfarland must have believed was buried forever. >> where was your husband? >> he was still in the house. >> reporter: men. trouble was, there were two, which was the one central fact. the inconvenient truth that caused all the trouble. and might have been forgotten had it not been for this inquisitive d.a. and this long, lean cop, jim wallace, looking on so intently. >> this is a case, a true love story. between three people.

keith morrison: the year was 2004.nd aaron candelario was 11 years old. >>> the year was 2004, and aaron candelario was 11 years old. his parents had recently separated, were sharing custody. and one day, after a weekend at his dad's house, aaron went home to find -- >> there was just a note on the coffee table that was in kind of sketchy handwriting. but it, you know, nevertheless said, "i love you, my boys, and i'm taking off." >> reporter: his mother dena was simply gone. aaron was devastated. what did your father suggest may have happened to her? >> that she possibly had moved to missouri. a guy that she had been talking to online for quite some time, you know. maybe she ran away to be with him. >> reporter: a missing person's case was opened, but nothing came of it. aaron and his brother moved in with ralph full-time. but aaron couldn't move on. she had to have left some trail somewhere. barely a teenager, he taught himself every web search engine. looked for years, but found no sign of his mom online. and a terri

keith morrison: it certainly was.anted to sign a sworn affidavit saying robert davis was innocent, >>> attorney steve rosenfeld was in for a surprise when he arrived at the prison sgchlt will it was shocking. >> rocky wanted to sign a sworn affidavit saying robert davis was innocent, had nothing to do with the murders. >> that was pretty powerful for him to do that, considering his circumstances, nothing to gain. >> but rocky's admission wasn't enough to undo robert's confession. and then -- seven years into robert's prison sentence, rosenfield answered a phone call. and there she was. >> laura nirider of northwestern university's innocence project is a leading expert in false confessions by young people. she represents brendan dassey of "making a murderer" fame. nirider heard about robert's case and offered to help. and help us understand what happened to robert, as we watch the interrogation unfold. >> this is one of the most intense interrogations that i've ever seen. >> you have the right to remain silent. anythin

keith morrison: it was monday morning, the 15th of june, 2009. kate waring had been missing for 48 hours, when a surveillance camera captured a young man named ethan mack standing at the counter of a bank waiting to cash a check signed by kate waring. problem was, her account barely totaled $100. and this check was for $4,500. and the signature seemed off. the teller called kate's dad. he called police. i never met ethan. i didn't know ethan's last name. all i knew was the name ethan, who was a friend. it's too strong to say that she had a secret life. but she certainly had friends, and did things, that we

keith morrison: summertime in miami. pounding heat, unavoidable sun. >> summertime in miami, pounding heat, unavoidable sun. unavoidable except, of course, inside. >> all rise, please. >> and six years inside his cell in the county jail have produced a doughy christopher sutton by the time his trial finally began. it was 2010, a son charged with hiring the hitman who murdered his mother and brian daubached his father and here he sat apparently can have temp and highly prepared, ignoring most of the time the surviving members of his family a scant few feet away. >> you know, we locked eyes, but i have nothing to say to him. >> melissa sat with her father, their father, front row seat. the prosecutor told the jury a horror story, the state's version of what have happened the night of the murder. >> the man for whom the gunman had signed on to commit a double murder, a man who was intimately familiar with john and susan sutton, that man, their son. christopher sutton. >> then, graphic evidence. a crime scene soaked in blood

once again, keith morrison. >> it was quite an eye opener. that is, which joan shannon told detectives that she and her now dead husband, major david shannon, were regular and enthusiastic swingers. but when joan told them she developed a special one on one thing with a married man named jeffrey wilson, now that was a real lead. could it be the major was the victim of a jealous lover? so detective murphy paid a call on wilson, also a soldier here at ft. bragg. >> jeffrey did confirm he was involved in a romantic relationship with joan shannon. >> where was he when this murder occurred? >> he was actually working at the time of the homicide. >> in fact, a little checking revealed it was an unassailable alibi. jeffrey wilson was innocent. of murder, that is. as for a three-month affair with joan, he was very cooperative. he revealed every lurid detail. >> back in april, they were probably meeting for sexbout two times a ek. and in july, and of course t murder occurred on july 23rd, at least four times a week. >> so now the deputy d.a. began to

keith morrison: but an ill wind will blow through paradise.sic playing] the kennel dogs were very, very upset. it was a huge ruckus. they told me. we haven't seen mark. and i knew in my heart something terrible had happened. keith morrison: where had the dog trainer gone? a trail of sinister clues. there was three wet blood spots in the hallway.

keith morrison: inside a nebraska farmhouse, an unspeakable sight.up the stairs, there was blood on the walls. it was a very brutal crime scene. it was one of the worst i've ever seen. keith morrison: a loving couple dead. was the killer one of the family? they said they arrested matt. and i said, matt who? and he said, our cousin matt. put the gun to her face and blew her away. and blew him away. keith morrison: but this case wasn't solved. one tiny clue didn't fit at all. the inscription said and love always, cori and ryan?

here's keith morrison. >> is everybody out of the house? >> i don't know, but it's on fire, really strong. >> the fire in the cottage on addison avenue was hungry, devouring almost everything in the bedroom. >> we'll have fire department on the way. do you see smoke coming out of the windows? >> it's pouring out of the house. >> within minutes, the firefighters knocked it down. the smoke clearing. the sooty water running in the streets. and then as the mop-up began, the word flashed out like something electric. the house was occupied. someone didn't get out. and up through the ashes, a mystery flared like a stubborn ember that glowed and smoldered and demanded an answer. the inhabitants of the rented cottage, as investigators soon learned, were two young, beautiful people. the successful glossy types that you might expect to see on a reality show. their names are paul zumot and jennifer schipsi. jennifer, an ambitious, award-winning real estate agent who lived like a rock star, or so said her buddy roy. >> she's like, i'm knocking them out

here's keith morrison. >> reporter: nothing about that morning made any sense. >> it all seemed like just such a bad nightmare. this doesn't happen in our happy little world. >> reporter: it was a saturday morning in july 2008. the happy little world, a sweet and leafy suburb of raleigh, north carolina. a place a young family would aspire to. if you were someone like hannah pritchard, for example. >> there's always lots of friend-making going on through someone you meet. lots of cookouts and family functions. >> reporter: like the one in the neighborhood the night before. so hannah would have heard party stories that saturday morning from her friend nancy cooper. would have. because nancy didn't show up. >> i hadn't heard from her maybe by like 10:00 i called her house. brad answered and he said oh, she went for a run. >> reporter: nancy was an athlete, training for a half marathon. brad cooper was nancy's husband. >> i was like, okay. when did she leave? i don't know. 6:30 or 7:00. i was like, she's not back? >> reporter: weird. if nancy had to cancel their meeting, surely she would

tonight keith morrison with a ki killing. ♪ >>> on the afternoon of may 4th, 2012.asey duanest walking out on the field for high school football. a double hitter and spring was in its full glory in northern california. his senior year was almost done, this was the game he loved. >> did you have anything like that at all? >> just another day and another one of our count less baseball games. >> of course, though know one knew it as they whine their way through a glory afternoon. redding, california, with its famous sun dial bridge and its parks and midded amerile field. it is a whole different feel. kind of few minutes from redding, you are on the ball diamond in a little place called cotton wood. just like the people kasey knew would be in the stands. so, were they there? >> always there. always there. >> his parents side by side by the dugout as always. >> they're always together since they're 17 years old. >> practically each other's skin. >> his mother brought chocolate chip cookies for every player every game. >> his father finished work in time for the opening p

here is keith morrison with silent witness. >> i think i paused for a second, had to take a deep breath. just the reality of what was going on sink in. >> those who saw the footprints will not forget them. they were tiny and they were bloody. >> i had to get my composure to finish searching this house to make sure there was nobody else in the house. >> it was the third of november, 2006, early afternoon. the deputy from the wake county sheriff's department had been dispatched to a quiet leafy neighborhood, called enchanted oaks, on the outskirts of new york because of a 911 call to this place. >> i think my sister's dead. >> tell me what happened, ma'am? >> i have no idea. >> the caller was meredith fisher. she had just discovered on the floor of the master bedroom the savagely beaten body of her elder sister, 29-year-old michelle young, a woman who in death was about to be famous. >> listen to me ma'am. i will tell you what to do and you need to calm down so we can help her. you said is blood everywhere? >> yes. >> is she breathing? >> i don't think so. >> have you checked? >> no. she'

here's keith morrison with at "at the bottom of the pool." >> reporter: it was a cold morning in february. cold for northern florida, that is. crisp but sunny when the call came in -- >> can i get an officer out here in golden eagle? there's a lady laying in the pool, in her backyard in her pool. >> reporter: made no sense really. way too cold for a swim. but the lady wasn't swimming. wasn't even floating -- down at the bottom of the pool -- >> she's dead. >> reporter: she was lying face up, her palms too, as if in supplication. her leopard print robe drifting in the water around her -- >> she been in there. i don't know how long she-- she-- she completely gone. >> reporter: the house with the backyard pool was located in an exclusive gated community in tallahassee, florida called golden eagle. first responders went out there. and pretty soon, sheriff's detective tony geraldi got a call. >> patrol deputies had found a body in a pool, a woman in a pool. and we were scrambling our investigative unit. >> reporter: is that about as much as you knew, when you got that first call? it was. >> re

here's keith morrison with "the halloween party." >> reporter: in a quiet rural township in southeastern michigan, as october chilled into autumn -- two young women prepared for the social event of the season. >> it's gonna be great. it'll be so many people. >> reporter: or so they imagined, so they hoped, in their sunny naivety. they and so many others of a particular demographic, on the farms and in the small towns around monroe county. >> it was, like, a build-up that whole summer that we couldn't wait to go to this halloween party. >> reporter: halloween! becky brinson and her friend chelsea bruck just loved dressing up for halloween. chelsea and becky worked together at a restaurant called olga's kitchen in monroe and, as they served their customers, they talked endlessly about what was coming. this wasn't going to be just any halloween party. it was big mike's annual halloween bash of 2014. >> everyone -- just everyone knew, big mike has the biggest halloween party. >> reporter: and after all, their friends were going -- and there'd be bands and noise and excitement and, who knew w

seth: i feel like i'm going to turn on saturday morning cartoons and it's going to be like a keith morrison like, "you guys should have flipped these." >> yeah. >> seth: "this is in the wrong time slots." >> exactly. >> seth: yeah. >> so, yeah -- >> seth: you -- bobby moynihan was here and talked a little bit about the origins of sketch. originally -- and then we have the bobby cartoon and then we have the you cartoon. >> yeah. and he said himself, he said, "we should be left skeleton and fat skeleton." >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] >> like -- and i said, "no, you're right skeleton." >> seth: you've been a writer now since 2013. one of my favorite things to ask -- sketches that you have pitched that have not found their way to the show. >> there are so many. >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] >> there was one i wrote with streeter seidell, who i wrote the david pumpkins sketch and the special with. >> seth: yes. great writer, as well. >> we thought it was so funny. it was a commercial parody for a car security system that would guarantee that no thief would break into your car. >> seth: mm-hmm. >> a

here is keith morrison with "smoke and mirrors." keith morrison: it was hot, and it was late after midnight september 27, 2007. pretty secluded area next to a forest preserve. keith morrison: so it was. and it was clear, and dark, and still, and vacant. here where the deep wood fought back against the decaying suburban sprawl, and then nothing was clear at all. here where the deep wood fought back against the decaying suburban sprawl, and then nothing was clear at all. i never cried this violent cry. >> you're experiencing everything but it's not true. >> you're just waiting to wake up. >> it just feels like you're literally in a nightmare. >> yes, still does. the name you'll want to remember is nailah. >> the meaning was one who succeeds. >> this is nailah's mother, maria. >> i wanted her to be successful and she was. she lived her name. >> quite true. as, frankly, have the rest of them in this big family. this is leah, the first born. >> we might need a graph or a chart because it's kind of involved. >> full siblings, half sibling