hairs keith morrison with "evil intent". >> it was 9:00 in the morning on the 20th with june, 2015. omaha, nebraska. missy nelson's morning ritual was interrupted by a phone call. it was the bank where her daughter jessica worked. she was an hour late. >> i was like, what, what do you mean she's not there? they're like, we she's not here and we've been clogging. her and she's not answering. >> the thing was, jessica was never late. missy tried calling her. no answer. panic now she ran to her car. was jessica at home, sick? >> it's like, let's call her on the way over there. i was thinking, i don't know where she's at. and then i started to think, really bad things. maybe she was in a ditch somewhere passed out. maybe she was in a really bad car accident. >> did you know it was something bad? >> i felt something was wrong. so, i get over there and her car is in the driveway. i'm like, ok she is here. she's not in an accident. but why isn't she answering the phone? >> the door was locked. so, missy used her key to let herself in. >> i walk in and her house is really dark. i can't find

here again keith morrison with "everything she knew". >> late june.the murder amber of belken. detective ray bob roberts roared down the highway to laredo. he's just gonna call from the police there. here geovany's wife wanted to talk. her name was veronica. and what a story she told. >> i made a dumb choice. i was really young. i got pregnant really young. >> she tried to resist him he said. was attracted. but he was so insistent. once she was pregnant -- >> our family would insist that we get married. i listened to everyone except my own feelings. >> once they were married, she said, he demanded sex whenever he wanted a. >> whenever he touched me, i would feel sick and i would tell him to stop. there were times when he would get angry and frustrated and, then he would force himself on me. >> and right beside sleeping children and their one small bedroom. >> he would duct tape me, duct tape my mouth. that take my risk to the lake of each year. just to keep me quiet. i was very afraid. and again, i was young. >> much too afraid to tell. >> and while d

here is keith morrison with "the confession" what. >> they kept him here, deep inside the multiple walls and the arm doors, and the roles, and rolls of razor wire. the confessed stab are, the convicted killer that sweet young woman all those years ago. he's lucky to be alive, probably. given the nature of the crime and the appeal from that girl's mother, for the death sentence. which made with that mother told us later on very puzzling, indeed. >> let him go. it's the only thing his mother has. it's only her only child. will let him go. >> her name is carol dodge and the amazing story she would tell us began on the worst of her life. it was a thursday june 13th, 1996 midmorning. she placed a call to a beauty salon to talk to her daughter, angie. >> why dialed angie's at work. and a lady answered. i said this is carol dodge and she said, she's been found dead. >> on the phone? >> and i remember thinking, god no, please no. this can't be real. >> happen to turn out the night before, in a tiny second floor walk up where an 18 year old hug just started to build her life. stabbed to death. he

here is keith morrison with "smoke and mirrors." >> it was hot and late, after midnig midnight, september 2007. >> pretty secluded area next to a forest preserve. >> 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. >> 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 siblings, quarter siblings once removed. that sort of thing. very blended. >> we share one parent. so technically half siblings but that word is kind of offensive to me because to me it implies that i

hairs keith morrison with "poison". >> it was september 11th, 2001. just about everybody knows were they were that awful day. like the glamorous trio that was traveling north through california's yosemite national park. even as the rest of the world's attention was focused on new york city, they were intent on their ruin urgent needs. their desires. their fears. there are deadly love triangle. so, they probably didn't appreciate the passing wonders. the astonishing cliffs. the waterfalls. the giant sequoias. any more than the one in the backseat. through fading ice. so anything at all. here is one of them. his name was larry mcnabney. and he was a tall, handsome man. a well-known and respected attorney from nevada. a personal injury specialist. made buckets of money. loved the big life. loved being in control. >> there was never a here out of place. there was in dust on his desk. his plan was always in the same spot. >> larry's daughter, tavia, was crazy about him. in all of his type a personality. his joy of life. his courtroom presence. >> not an ou

here's keith morrison. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> down below the surface of the pacific ocean.e far side of california's catalina island is a silent current. strange how it flows up to the swelling coastline of santa barbara. then just before the open sea turns back. to glide again past this storied iland. with one sunny day in may 2006 someone in it. >> i have a saying i would rather be lucky than good. >> ken clark of the l.a. sheriff's department has been at it for a long time. as has robert markindale. but nothing like the case that floated to them on a lonely reach of ocean out by catalina. would never have had the case at all except -- >> we were lucky that we had some boaters leaving newport beach going the catalina island. they came up on a body floating the the water. >> just happened to see it. >> just happened to see it. >> yes. >> that's a big ocean out there. the chances of it being seen are needle in a hay stack. >> very slim. >> the say lloris found a flock of screeching sea gulls perched on top of the body. >> it was in extreme decomposition face. >> barnacles h

harris keith morrison with "secrets in the mist". >> january, 2013. point vicente, a california. the wet, great, 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

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 "silent witness." >> i think i paused for a second and had to take a deepath 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 t make sure there was nobody else in the house. rc >> it was the 3rd of november, 2006, early afternoon. scott earp was the wake county sheriffs deputy dispatched to a quiet and leafy neighborhood called in 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. nkel >> 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.wa you need to calm down so you can help us. you said there is blood everywhere. >> yes. t >> listen to me, ma'am. is she breathing?re >> i don't think so. >> have you checked? >> michelle. she is cold

here's keith morrison. with 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: share birthdays -- >> this one's for bev. te >> happy new year! >> reporter: even got together for a monthly game of 10-pins.te 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 r. famous. it was a sweltering august night, hottest of the year, when cheryl deedham got a strange c

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'd call

here is keith morrison with "suspicion". >> 7 am, november 15th 2007, gone in salt lake city, utah.nto the restaurant parking lot, turned off his engine, sky beginning to brighten, son night not quite up. and there they were, the voices, the terror, the nightmare beginning. >> i ducked down in my car after the first shot was fired. i later they're thinking, okay, well this is how it's going to end for me. >> you're going to be dead? >> yeah. >> 9-1-1, but as you emergency? >> somebody just shot commanding dead in front of -- ♪ ♪ ♪ >> it stands in stark contrast to much of the rest of salt lake city that sold chocolate factory, this grand stage for our story. it was converted to lock departments in those boom years before the bust. the style of living and location drew a distinct crowd, outliers of a sort, we iconoclasts in this city. >> i love this building. >> bianca pearman-brooks born into privilege in england raised and ireland and africa, came here and august, 2006 to visit a friend. >> i came on holiday and i met christopher and we headed off. >> christopher wright, a real est

here is keith morrison with "buried secrets". >> it's a strange thing that happens among the boggs and marshe. the soft soil here in coastal florida. things have a way of coming up. things buried in the ground, in the past. or both. it was july, 2003. beaches quite. snow birds back up north. so no one notice at first when inland, a little, in a town called pembroke pines, where donna velazquez, just three months a detective. 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. i began to wonder, is this a test to see could she really do this? >> 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. in the file, offered no hints, no pointers. nothing, really. beyond the basic value. to unearth the truth, even the rookie cop knew she would have to learn about the victim. so, she began with something easy. she found david jackson's mother, judy carl

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here's keith morrison with the conclusion of "the interrogation". >> i've never been emotional in a presentationvery close with robert. >> four years, steve rosenfield made his case for robert at legal conferences, to, anybody who would listen. >> robert remain rightly where he was in prison. during the same days we asked repeatedly for an interview with randy snead, the officer who took roberts confession. but as close as we got was albemarle county police chief steve sellers, since retired. he wasn't in office when snead was detective. but -- >> you talk to him. what was your oppression of? him >> i think he acted in best interest. i don't think there is a bit of malice in his actions. i think he had a very strong relationship with robert davis. >> but this was interesting. chief sellers did not support snead's interrogation. not at all. >> i will say this, i believe that the confession is an unreliable confession. >> what's more, the chief updated police methods when he took over. to help prevent the kind of interrogation that ended up in roberts confession. >> as you look at it, or things th