Keith Morrison

A small hospital, the central California coast. A massive heart attack. The patient was still alive, though barely. He was in a deep coma; only a ventilator kept him breathing. His name was Ruben Navarro. Just 25 years old. And in this perilous state, he was about to make medical history because, 200 miles up the coast in San Francisco, a phone call. Hootan Roozrokh: It’s like bein’ a fireman. You slide down the pole, and go the airport. But he’s not a fireman. Doctor Hootan Roozrokh is a br…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

This Dateline NBC report aired Friday, Aug. 20, 9 p.m./8C. He took them down to the river, the one that ran past their farms and orchards, that kept the valley alive. And there, as the cleansing waters flowed round them, he baptized them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. This fine, simple man, this charismatic preacher: Pastor Doug. You’ll hear what they say later, of course – the whispers, the arched eyebrows, the shock that came with discovery – but not yet. At first,…

This report airs Dateline Monday, August 16, 10 p.m./9C. They seem tame somehow, gentle – the rivers that wind slow and sweet and safe in their lush green banks around Nashville, Tennessee. Who’d have dreamed that so lovely a thing would throw up this violent catastrophe from its hidden depths? Of course, you can never really know, can you – what a river will do, or a person, or even a golden couple, when the storm comes. MAGGIE ST.FRANCIS: It all seemed really, really good, and she was really…

It was 20 years ago this summer when Andrew Cunanan began his crime spree.