keith morrison (voiceover): little colusa california was dumbstruck. paul moore?rto ayala? >>> little colusa, california, was dumbstruck. paul moore arrested for the kill of ayala? mary, pete's sister, got a barrage of texts at work. >> it was bittersweet. there was a part of me that was relieved that it was over for pete or that he wasn't, you know, mixed in with it. and at the same time i was sad because it was my cousin that we grew up with, you know, and it was part of my family. >> my youngest sister mary called me on the phone and she said, they just arrested paul for the murder of robert ayala. and i was in the middle of the parking lot, and i fell to my knees and just started screaming. >> but human nature is a funny thing. suspicion once embedded is remarkably resistant to actual evidence that might disprove it. when paul moore was arrested and charged with the murder of roberto ayala, his cousin peter began to experience that particular phenomenon quite personally. around town people still seemed to believe that pete was the murderer. ironic, perhaps, th

keith morrison : his rarely seen police interrogation.

here is keith morrison with "prairie confidential." >> reporter: it was dark on the great central plainmoonless in the early hours that friday the 13th of november. a small night wind shivered along flat deserted streets and nipped with freezing little teeth at the ruins of autumn in minot, north dakota. the sound of a car making haste away? no one heard. not a thing. it's a modest place, minot. modest in a good way. and uncommonly friendly. comparatively speaking, of course. >> it's comfortable. it's a family community. >> reporter: "north dakota nice" may be an old fashioned phrase, but it still fits. >> the people who have been around a long time still greet each other on the street. >> reporter: as they did that chilly morning in november 2015 when parents dropped off their kids at this elementary school. and where, later that morning at minot state university's department of nursing, professor diane sjol wondered why one of her students hadn't shown up for an 11 a.m. exam. >> before we all started taking the test i said, "has anybody heard from angila?” >> reporter: angila was this

overs years forced lisa to reveal and uncover painful things about their marriage.s keith morrison withrk valley". >> there was a kind of peace here, in her own chosen exile, vast pacific for company. how else to live with what's impossible to understand or forget? what began that sunny afternoon far away in southern california, san fernando valley, early may, 2012. >> something was really wrong, but a lot were wrong than i could imagine. >> reporter: it was the boy who knew at first, knew something was wrong. his dad was supposed to take him to school that morning. but after school -- >> i was to go to school and pick him up after basketball practice. t when i showed up, he said, daddy didn't pick me up this morning. i said, what? he said, daddy didn't show up this morning. >> reporter: busy family, the ad boy got to school some other way >> he said he called a friend to from around the corner. >> reporter: or sometimes things fall apart. >> the situation sounded too crazy, love affairs, drug too outlandish. >> reporter: once those stable loving pieces have blown apart,i how do they co

here's keith morrison with tangled. >> you can't put words to that. it was very surreal. >> 9-1-1, where 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

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 stepping at the 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 ambulances 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 th

here is keith morrison with "deadly trust". >> there is a place, call it a pot of gold at the end of ambition. 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, perso

here is keith morrison with "secrets on the emerald coast". >> what does nest of puzzles.ppened to marie carlson? where 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 behaves 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 calgary emerald coast church. >> she did want to go back to the guy. they did 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 older 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 she would leave. that was my understanding from before the

here is keith morrison with "good and evil". >> how do you measure a mother's love or gauge the ferocity for impulse to protect? >> i loved her as much as i could. it was the only thing. >> how to measure love as visceral as the beating heart in her own body? >> she was my first born. she was my best friend. >> will understand the four mothers you will meet tonight and their connection. none of them would've thought this possible in years. any more than they would've expected to meet her, their guardian angel. >> the it was in my. well >> it's a rare mystery that is truly a confrontation of good and evil. >> you have to go to the dark places in order to find answers. >> a rare mystery that needed an urgent answer before the evil struck again. it was march 14th, 2014, early morning. an army of garbage trucks made their growling, clanking way around the thousands of trash bins and dumpsters in california. their destination, a landfill which is also a literal mountain of garbage, 500 feet high why midmorning, and attendance separating debris on the conveyor belt saw something. is that a hum

here is keith morrison with "the summer of manson". >> all that remains are ruins. the rams champ coal barker ranch is long gone. only the fitful baking death valley left out. tooth are story the fated bits, the rusted junk. the artifacts from another time, when this was ground zero for one of the most infamous crimes in history. the hideout of a living personification of evil. >> you've got it stuck in your brain that i. >> charles manson. >> one hot, dry weekend in los angeles. august, 1969. a pregnant movie star, slaughtered. along with four others in her home. across town, a couple, butchered in there's. >> these were brutal crime scenes. things that the police had never seen before. >> murders so bloody, so ugly, they rewrote history. became a kind of bookmark as an era of optimism ended. and a darker time began. >> the sixties came to a close, 1969, and that was the curtain. that was the final curtain. >> who could make sense of it? >> sane? that's relevant. >> who? even though. >> how do our kids and up doing this kind of incredible violent crime? how did tha

keith morrison : their laci. unidentified woman: oh, how pretty. time, the news with shepard smith starts now news" on cnbc. >> these forces are being deployed to enforce the safe reduction of american withdrawal. >> american withdrawal in crisis thousands of u.s. troops deploying back to afghanistan. kabul in jeopardy. americans urged to leave as the taliban takes over. >>> covid's origin the wuhan lab leak gets a second look the new information and the respected skeptic now speaking out. >>> one state's covid nightmare comes to life. a hospital system on the verge of collapse. >> it's really kind of terrifying. >> mississippi in distress and asking for help from the military >>> congressional shakeup. steve kornacki breaks down the new census data and how it could change the balance of power in congress >>> a big day for britney spears as her father agrees to step aside. >> crypto lobbyists make their mark on d.c. and was lollapalooza a super spreader the results are in >>> live from cnbc, the facts, the truth, "the news with shepard smith. >>> g