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This report aired Dateline Friday, July 23. The full hour will not be available online. KEITH MORRISON reporting: He was everybody’s idea of the perfect best man. Dr. ANDREW BAGBY: (Wedding videotape) Best man is a little bit of a poor title for these things. I mean, the best man is really the groom. MORRISON: Andrew Bagby. Did anyone have more friends than he? MORRISON: Ah, but there was a lot to say about Andrew. MORRISON: It was November 2001 when Dr. Andrew Bagby, 28 years old, was foun…
over 13 years ago
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This report aired Dateline Friday, June 18 They kept it in the dark. Down the stairs. In the basement, among the bolt cutters and the bags of white powder and the guns, the investigative leftovers of a small police department. Why they chose a lime green suitcase for it is beyond knowing now. But he’d see it down there every time he filed a piece of evidence, tucked in, all but forgotten, behind a door frame. Like a silent accusation. Keith Morrison, Dateline NBC: And there it kinda sat in tha…
almost 14 years ago
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KEITH MORRISON reporting: (Voiceover) On the day of her death, Michelle O’Keefe, 18 years old, college freshman, was in a wonderful mood. Her early morning class was over. She had been offered another film gig in LA that very afternoon, a walk-on role in a music video with Kid Rock. She aimed her parents’ gift, the shiny new blue Mustang, through the streets of the Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles. She had less than 12 hours to live. Her mother, Pat O’Keefe, was just leaving the house. (Phot…
almost 14 years ago
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KEITH MORRISON reporting: (Voiceover) It was the little girl who learned it first, the 12-year-old, she who was there at the beginning, when the family secret was born. (House exterior; yard; photo of Kimberly; trunk) KIMBERLY: (Audio recording) It’s not something we like to talk about. MORRISON: (Voiceover) Why did it get started? (Family photo of Lloyd Ford, Tommy, Sandy Burke and Pamela) KIMBERLY: (Audio recording) I honestly didn’t know what else to do. MORRISON: (Voiceover) Why did she keep…
almost 14 years ago
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KEITH MORRISON reporting: (Voiceover) It was a perfect morning, a brilliant sunny day in June, in a place that felt like paradise. (Fountain; Jayne in kitchen; plants in field blowing; children playing) Ms. VALSECA: (Voiceover) I’d be packing the lunches... (Jayne in kitchen) Ms. VALSECA: ...the kids getting dressed. MORRISON: (Voiceover) They’d pile into the Jeep for the short drive to school. Fernando, the eldest, would ride the four-wheeler out ahead of them. In the car they’d sing with the l…
about 14 years ago
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Something frightening was happening in the playgrounds of the rich and famous, crimes that looked as if they could have popped off a movie screen. But this -- this is real. These images actual security camera video. The criminals, daring, brutal, lightning quick. Their take, some of the most valuable gems on earth. What was going on in the world’s most bejeweled cities? Was anyone safe? Even the fortress of wealth? This is the principality of Monaco, per capita, quite possibly the richest, and…
about 14 years ago
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There’s a sprawling patch of wilderness in upstate New York, just over the Pennsylvania border. A couple of hundred acres owned by a prosperous local family. It’s a wild patch alright -- a lake, dense woods, isolation, wind and sky. Gary Taylor: There’s probably places up there that people haven’t walked on in ten years. Its a little piece of paradise... And, perhaps, a particular corner of hell. Gary Taylor: You dig a little shallow grave. Nobody would ever know it. And nobody would ever see…
about 14 years ago
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It was the year the rain changed. The year the rain in the dark in the woods became a thing to fear. The year a visitor came to call in a privileged green suburb called Forest Hills, and a Nashville lawyer learned about her security – or, rather, that she was not secure at all. Pat Young: We’re all safe-- you know, a man’s home is his castle. We’re-- we’re safe at home. Well, you’re not always safe at home. It was March 1994. That’s when the terror began. It was the middle of the night. Pat…
over 14 years ago
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The whole world has seen the backyard squalor. Has heard the tale of 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard - kidnapped, screaming, from a bus stop, spirited to this forsaken place nearly 20 years ago, has heard now she was pregnant at 14, how she raised two daughters in here. And has seen the eyes of the man beneath the accusing headlines. So many questions, now. How did she survive, how is she now? Keith Morrison, Dateline NBC: Would you want to see her now? Kelly Brosnahan: Oh, I would love to. I’d hope…
over 14 years ago
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To this day, does anyone understand how it happened? They were so young. TOO young, some said back then, even to understand the awful thing they did. Here they were, nearly eight years ago -- two little boys in leg irons. And they looked so innocent, guileless, as they stood before a judge to hear the charge that they had killed their own father with a baseball bat. Little boys? How was it possible? And how should the courts deal with them? How, indeed? Derek King in 2009: It-- it blows me a…
over 14 years ago
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It was a Friday afternoon in August of 1999, on a long narrow strip of a sun-washed beach. It was a good time to be alive. Good time to be in real estate, too; as bright and hot that year as an afternoon on the Florida Gulf. Jeff Beggins: My dad was-- he was one of the original founders of Century 21. Jeff Beggins and his family have been in real estate for over thirty years, tending the Snowbird Haven here in Tampa. Jeff runs the office now. And on this particular Friday afternoon, he was getti…
over 14 years ago