here's keith morrison with "the hometown hero and the homecoming queen." [ siren ] >> 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 it's -- 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 at 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 the medal? he was my big brother but he was like my superman. he was my superman. >> don laut is dave's younger brother by 9 1/2 years. dave and don inherited a passion for athletics and fitness from their father. >> i remember my first milk when i was a kid was a protein powder. >> this is all really just built into your dna almost. >> ye

here's keith morrison with "tangled." >> you can't put words to that. it was very surreal. >> 911.here is your emergency? >> it's true, the old saying, when you marry someone, you marry their family, too. >> we need an ambulance. he looks like he's been shot. he said someone broke in last night. him and his wife both. >> not a bad thing to turn to mom or dad for advice and counsel. >> it's hard. sometimes you think maybe it didn't happen. but yet it really did. >> it's with their help and support, after all, that true love could deepen and grow, and last. >> i watched the crime scene shows on tv. i never, ever thought, it's going to be my life. >> yes, it really is all about family. the high desert opens up near pueblo, colorado, about 100 miles or so south of denver. among the highest of the nation's deserts, a little closer to heaven perhaps? this is where shannon palmer's mom and dad set out to create a good, safe, and holy life for their daughters. far from the risks and temptations of the city. >> it was awesome. got to grow up with horses and dogs everywhere and chickens. >>

here again is keith morrison wi with "who killed the radio star?" 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 leav

here's keith morrison with "silent witness." >> i think i paused for a second and had to take a deepreath and just the reality of what was going on sank 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 3rd of november, 2006, early afternoon. scott earp was the wake county sheriffs deputy been dispatched to a quiet and leafy neighborhood calleden has noted oaks in raleigh, north carolina. >> i think my sister is dead. >> tell me what happened, ma'am. >> i have no idea. oh, my god. >> 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. >> you listen to me, ma'am. you need to calm down so you can help us. you said there is blood everywhere. >> yes. >> listen to me, ma'am. is she breathing? >> i don't think so. >> have you checked? >> michelle. she is cold. >> okay.

here is keith morrison with "buried secrets." >>> it's a strange thing that happens among the bogs, marshesthe soft soil here in coastal florida. things have a way of coming up. things c buried in the ground i the past. it was july, 2003, beaches quiet, snow birds back up north. so no one noticed at first what was starting inland a little in a town called pem broke pines where donna velasquevelasquez. >> the sergeant dropped a box of papers right on my desk and said, here. see what you can do with this. and i began to wonder, huh, is this a test to see can she really do this? >> though the case was a challenge wasse an understateme. and now all be forgotten mystery, the disappearance 15 years earlier of a young man named david jackson. to viunearth the truth, even th rookie cop knew she had to learn about the victim. so she began with something easy, she found david jackson's mother, judy carlson. found judy's son actually who called hison mom. >> you sitting? >>ou yes. they reopened david's case. >> the detective and the mother talked about david for hours. wasn't a problem for judy. she l

here's keith morrison with suspicion. >> 7:00 a.m., november 15, 2007, dawn in salt lake city, utah. he pulled into the restaurant parking lot, turned off his engine, sky beginning to brighten, sun not quite up. and there they were, the voices, the terror, the nightmare beginning. >> i immediately ducked down in my car after the first shot was fired. i laid there thinking, okay, this is how it's going to end for me. >> you're going to be dead. >> 911, what is your emergency? >> someone just shot a man laying dead in front of the village inn. >> it stands in stark contrast to much of the rest of salt lake city, this old chocolate factory, this grand stage for our story. it was converted to loft apartments in those boom years before the bust. and the style of living and location drew a distinct crowd. outliers of a sort, iconoclasts in this famously city. >> i loved this building. it was fabulous. >> born into privilege in england, raised in ireland and africa, she came here in august 2006 to visit a friend. >> i came on holiday and i met christopher and we just hit it off. >> christop

here's keith morrison with "under a full moon." >> reporter: she was finished now.ired, 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'd 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 a back room of the palms casino, the cocktail waitress named shauna tiaffay inserted her time card in the stamping 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 be 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. >> reporter: it never occurred to shauna to become a cocktail w

keith morrison: wonderful, wonderful. that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. [music playing] . >>> welcome to "street signs." these are your headlines >> we have a record contraction in the united kingdom. gdp falling 5.8% as the lockdown takes its toll data helping british home builders to trade higher >>> caution on capitol hill, the white house expert warns senators reopening the economy too soon could have dire health and economic consequences. >> there is a real risk you may trigger an outbreak you may not be able to control which will set you back >> load on the high seas warns container volumes may fall as much as 25% in the second quarter. how the virus will hit global trade. >> protectionism is a key risk and getting bigger as part of this pandemic as countries saw trying to protect their businesses it is no doubt in my mind it is the wrong strategy >> the french group pulls out of the take of the bermuda based partner turning shares sharply lower. the uk economy contracted a record 5.8% in march economic activity in the first

here again, keith morrison.ri >> of course right away the a-team told the police about the ipod and also handed over the handwriting expert's report showing that heather and ethan forged kate's check two days after she vanished. and now things started happening fast. after her heart-to-heart with andy savage, heather made a remarkable decision. she called the charleston police department and confessed. no, not to murder. instead, she said it was she who forged the bogus check supposedly signed by kate waring. and ethan who tried to cash it two days after kate disappeared. now surely the police would swoop in and arrest them both. but here's something you should know about the way it worked between the a-team and their former colleagues, the cops. the deal was entirely one way. that's to say the a-team told the cops everything they uncovered. the cops told the a-team nothing. so they kept their ears to the ground, waited for something to happen, but they didn't have to wait for long. >> we knew something was up.

here's keith morrison with "the interrogation. >> a freak snowstorm. just before 9:00 a.m.inter or no, virginia was used to. the white blanket, a piercing sound. fire alarm. now the snowstorm was the last thing on fire chief preston gentry's mind. >> the alarm went off with occupant possibly trapped inside. that ramps everything up to full force. >> the alarm was on a street with starter homes. >> a lot of kids in the neighborhood. you are running a lot of things through your mind. who are the occupants that rue you're going to have to rescue? >> the fire trucks race to the home ofe a recently separated woman and her three children. thick black smoke poured in. part of the roof burned away. >> we were concentrating gettin up to steps and getting to the rooms that we were pretty sure we had victims.at >> neighbors crowded in behind police barricades, and one of them was an 18-year old who lived up the street with a single a mom, an awkward sort o kid, a bit immature for his age. he had strep throat that ep morning, was taking antibiotics, but t nothing could keep him fr this

here's keith morrison. >> is everybody out of the house? >> i don't know, but it's on fire. >> 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 like dominos. i