Keith Morrison

I shouldn't have even told you.

That's a good moment.

Oh, no.

I mean, look, I've interviewed lots of people.

Some of them, I would get scared by somebody who was, you know, intellectually daunting and who you ask the wrong question, you're going to get battered about.

That would scare me a little bit.

And there have been situations like Tiananmen Square and certain wars I went to.

But that's not a dateline, that's for sure.

Well, criminals are people like you and me, and usually they're trying to put on a good impression.

They want people to think that they're innocent, or if they did do a bad thing, that it was just one time and they really don't do other bad things ever.

So, you know, they're trying to be Mr. Nice Guy.

I have found interviewing criminals is

You find a more friendly reception than you do with a great many politicians, for example.

Oh, stop it now.

Friday night on an all-new Dateline.

She told me that my dad shot himself.

But his family wasn't convinced.

What a pleasure it can be, how delicious the pretend terror, to sink into a dark safe place and listen to a scary story, to revel in the shivers.

But to live at the center of such a story, the real thing, how different that is.

And that difference is fear.