Keith Morrison

When he finally saw his chance, Chris asked O'Neal Cannon to step outside.

What followed was a long story about Nancy and a squabble she'd once had with her brother Neil when they were kids.

Something of a backyard baseball game.

Anyway, this is how Nancy tells it.

What Chris was thinking as he listened to Nancy's father way back then, we cannot know.

But listen he did, polite as any supplicant would be, as the story went on and on, until O'Neill Cannon said this.

According to family lore, Chris stood there slack-jawed as Nancy's father got to the point.

Rather appropriate, don't you think?

In this episode, you'll hear from the man now on the receiving end of Nancy's metaphorical bat.

Chris Latham.

Nancy tried to break into my home.

You'll hear two lovebirds, alleged conspirators, cooing on a recorded line.

And you'll hear how one of the plotters suddenly died behind bars, taking crucial secrets to the grave.

I'm Keith Morrison, and this is episode four of Murder and Magnolias, a podcast from Dateline.

Every day they queued up beside the telephones, women all dressed in the same baggy prison scrubs, unflattering gray and white horizontal stripes.

An observer in the women's section of the Al Cannon Detention Center in Charleston would have noticed a tall blonde standing by the phones.

She was almost always there, either on the phone or waiting for one.

Though her collect calls to the outside were limited to 15 minutes, Wendy made dozens of them.

Anyone standing within earshot would have known she was speaking to a lover who was on the outside.

Oh, yes, the intensity of young love.