![]() “So in the end, how much did they get away with that we still don’t know all about?” “Then they added to their profitability by trying to do a bunch of other things that were clearly against the law,” he said. Morrison said in his many years of working in the realm of true crime, he’s learned that not all villains “are like in the cartoons, scurrying around, twirling his mustache with an evil grin, plotting what he could to take advantage of in the situation.” The two women in this case were “kindly old ladies” for whom fraud and murder was “easy as pie,” he says. It’s terrible blight on what is the richest country on the planet.” What this story also shows is that we have a big problem with homelessness, a very big problem. “He figured there had to be something in exchange for what they’d offered. “Jimmy smelled a rat, I guess, but he was one of those people who understood that it’s wise to look a gift horse in the mouth,” Morrison said. There’s also Jimmy Covington, a homeless man that Morrison describes as having “movie star looks,” who ultimately declined the women’s offer for free food and rent, although that didn’t stop them from taking out a life insurance policy on him as well. While this case has been covered on shows like “Dateline,” “Deadly Women,” “Wicked Attraction” as well as being loosely worked into the storyline of a 2009 “CSI:NY” episode starring Kim Kardashian and Vanessa Lachey, Morrison said that there are things in the podcast that haven’t been shared before.įor instance, Morrison dives into how investigator Ed Webster followed the money, a move that ultimately helped uncover a motive for the murders. His new six-episode podcast “The Thing about Helen & Olga” - which comes on the heels of the successful six-episode “The Thing About Pam” podcast in 2019 - will be available starting Tuesday, Nov. That’s why Morrison said he’s thrilled to have the opportunity to host Dateline NBC podcasts, which allow him to go more in-depth with his reporting and further introduce listeners to key players in these standout cases. They’re the stories that warrant more attention and explanation and can’t be wrapped up in a one- or even two-hour television segment. “I remember a lot of them intimately, and only a few do I sort of forget.”īut there are some he wanted more time and space to explore. “Every story is my favorite story while I’m working on it,” Morrison said during a recent phone interview from his Laguna Beach home. “Every story in life is really complicated and takes time to sort out and it’s nice to be able to do that.Keith Morrison, longtime broadcast journalist and award-winning “Dateline” correspondent, has reported thousands of stories in his career, and he doesn’t play favorites with them. ![]() Working on “Dateline” also allows Morrison to explore long-form journalism. ![]() Morrison, Mankiewicz, Andrea Canning and Dennis Murphy are all so popular, this year they were an attraction at CrimeCon, an annual convention for fans of true crime. There’s also lighter Morrison fare that has been made available, like a video of him reading “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.” In another, he reads the phonebook and somehow makes that sound ominous. Just leave a message and someone will get back to you. In one voicemail option, Morrison says, “No one can get to the phone. There are “Dateline” socks for sale and even free voicemails available for download on Sound Cloud featuring Morrison and fellow correspondent Josh Mankiewicz. NBC has taken advantage of the popularity of “Dateline.” “When I hear his voice, I know it’s going to be a good one,” she says. Michelson is especially pleased when she sits down to watch an episode and learns Morrison is assigned to the story. One fan, Amanda Michelson of Cincinnati, jokes her dedication to the show is “an obsession.” She says she has nightmares about the show sometimes but “can’t get enough.” It’s also the highest-rated news magazine show on Fridays. Now in its 27th season and airing Fridays and Saturdays on NBC, it’s the longest-running primetime show on the network. Death” and “Serial” show true crime has never been hotter, but “Dateline” has been in the game for nearly three decades and is still going strong. Netflix’s “Making a Murderer” and podcasts like “Dr. If people want to tell their stories, there’s an audience who wants to listen. “They want to talk about their loved ones, they want to talk about what happened.
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