Keith Morrison

A minute later, the segment was over, though to the O'Keefe's it seemed as if it had barely begun.

They could easily have filled the entire hour with their hopes and mostly their fears.

Pat and Mike told me it wasn't satisfying, but at least it was something.

Why did you go on these shows, Montel Williams, America's Most Wanted?

What drove you to do that?

The importance of figuring out what happened, who did it, why, seems to loom very large in people's life.

Yeah.

Can you tell me about that?

For your daughter?

The Montel Show definitely had one immediate impact, and that was on Ray Jennings.

He'd gotten a new job as a salesman at a Toyota car dealership in Lancaster, and there were the O'Keefe's and the psychic on TV.

Unless he could talk them out of it.

Murder is like a wrecking ball in a family, all in pieces.

No one's the same after.

Pat and Michael Keefe were holding on for dear life by the time they took their case to TV shows and psychics, for all the good it did.

But give up?

Not a chance.

Otherwise it would eat them alive.

And so back home in Palmdale, Pat and Mike decided that the standard way of criminal justice just wasn't going to be enough for them.

What made it important to pursue this beyond the normal course of action, which is to kind of bug the police and hope for some sort of resolution?