Keith Morrison

Such an ordinary thing to walk home from high school.

Her name was Mickey Costanzo, just 16.

She didn't have far to go, seemed perfectly safe, until it wasn't.

What happened to Mickey?

I'm Keith Morrison, and this is 5 Miles From Home, an all-new podcast from Dateline.

It is.

You know, when the older son wouldn't cooperate, the younger son became her next mark.

And he was so attached to his mother.

I think she made sure of that from the very beginning of his life.

She coddled him.

He was her little prince.

She did everything imaginable for him, and she attached him to herself from such an early age.

She wouldn't let him out of her sight except to go on very brief sojourns with her brother.

Yeah.

Pretty much.

It would have taken a lot for him to break free.

And the continuing relationship or non-relationship between those two brothers I found fascinating.

I don't even know exactly how to describe it.

I'm not a psychiatrist, so I couldn't go there.

One who loved her even as he recognized that she was a terrible person and he couldn't possibly associate with her.