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Introducing: The Girl in the Blue Mustang

2023/3/2
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The Girl in the Blue Mustang

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Michelle O'Keefe loved driving that shiny blue Mustang. It was a graduation gift, and she'd earned it. It's like she did everything right. I think for an 18-year-old, she was pretty well steered in the right direction. But something about that car, she saw it herself like an omen. The last three digits on the license plate were 187. She was, Dad, that's the police code for homicide. And something about a mother's intuition, the night she couldn't sleep...

I don't know if it was her spirit that just came over me or something. Just felt like she was gone. Our newest podcast takes us to the high desert outside Los Angeles, to a murdered daughter, a talkative suspect, and a story that shifts shape like a mirage in the Mojave. You and I can look at the same thing, and you can see something totally different than what I see. There are cases that you will take home with you at night, and that will last until the end of your life. It's had a huge ripple effect.

People's lives have been changed forever. It's about a family fighting for justice. As long as there's breath in my lungs, we aren't going to give up. And a young man with an eye for detail who noticed what others did not see. I was sitting at home and thinking,

Some force compelled me to go watch this episode of Dateline NBC. I'm Keith Morrison, and this is The Girl in the Blue Mustang, an all-new podcast from Dateline. Follow and listen now wherever you get your podcasts.