Keith Morrison

Well, criminals are people like you and me, and usually they're trying to put on a good impression.

They want people to think that they're innocent, or if they did do a bad thing, that it was just one time and they really don't do other bad things ever.

So, you know, they're trying to be Mr. Nice Guy.

I have found interviewing criminals is

You find a more friendly reception than you do with a great many politicians, for example.

Oh, stop it now.

Friday night on an all-new Dateline.

She told me that my dad shot himself.

But his family wasn't convinced.

What a pleasure it can be, how delicious the pretend terror, to sink into a dark safe place and listen to a scary story, to revel in the shivers.

But to live at the center of such a story, the real thing, how different that is.

And that difference is fear.

Nassie Latham cycled through all those emotions in the hours after learning someone had paid to have her killed.

Yeah, because there's a lot of hurt.

The questions danced around in her brain like so many lottery balls.

Who?

How?

When?

But mostly, why?

She'd never dreamed she'd be the target of a murder plot.