Keith Morrison

You'll hear from a brand new witness who turned the narrative on its head.

She heard a tapping sound, which we've determined was probably the gunshots.

And you'll hear what happens when a larger-than-life attorney seems to go to suspect to lose control.

I'm Keith Morrison, and this is The Girl in the Blue Mustang, a podcast from Dateline.

Episode 2, The Man Who Knew Too Much.

About the central facts, there was no doubt.

Michelle O'Keefe was hit with some blunt object and then shot to death while sitting in the driver's seat of her brand new Mustang in a park-and-ride north of Los Angeles.

As for the rest, there just wasn't much to go on.

Except, Detective Richard Longshore was getting a familiar feeling in his gut about that one talkative witness of his, the night security guard, Raymond Jennings.

Jennings had told Longshore he heard shots fired, saw muzzle flashes, but couldn't see the shooter.

That's determined by the autopsy.

Three days after the murder, Jennings quit his night security job, said he couldn't feel comfortable around there anymore.

So he drove over to All Valley Security at a strip mall on Palmdale Boulevard to turn in his uniform.

And of course, Detective Longshore found out.

And a few days later, detectives retrieved the nylon security jacket and the beige short-sleeved shirt and the dark pants that Jennings wore that night in the park and ride.

Happily, the clothes had not been washed.

Could be a DNA gold mine.

So they took the dirty uniform to the crime lab, where the techs ran tests for blood and gunshot residue and so on.

And?

Negative.