Keith Morrison

After that, Mike and Pat O'Keefe were 100% sure Jennings was the man who murdered their daughter.

Crazy thing was, he lived just a mile away from them in Palmdale.

Paris settled the civil lawsuit against Palmdale and the family received a substantial payment and the claims against Jennings and All Valley Security were dropped.

But maybe the deposition had accomplished exactly what Rex Parris set out to do.

Detective Longshore certainly thought so.

Based on what Jennings said in that deposition, Longshore wrote up a case and submitted it to L.A.

County Deputy District Attorney Robert Fultz.

I was convinced this guy did it.

The O'Keeffe's were crushed

not beaten no way as long as there's breath in my lungs um we aren't going to give up until until this thing's resolved but they were running out of options rx paris detective longshore they'd done all they could do and then a new sheriff came to town make that a retired sheriff's deputy named jim jeffra

One day in the dead of winter, he reached out and touched the six-foot-high polished wooden cross the O'Keeffe's had erected at the park and ride in Michelle's memory.

Well, who knows?

Maybe she was listening.

Next, on The Girl in the Blue Mustang.

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Dina Bisbano as associate producer.

Jason O'Keefe stepped up to the mound at Desert Christian High School.

He gripped the ball and let it fly.