Keith Morrison

And that's precisely what the investigator hired by Paris for the O'Keeffe's was trying his level best to make happen.

It's hardly uncommon to encounter tension in law office conference rooms.

Anxiety, suppressed rage.

But surely few such encounters could rival the barely contained fury in the air at the office of R. Rex Paris.

Parris thought Jennings was on the edge, about to crack.

One gentle push and he might confess.

Did it work?

It seemed to.

Once Jennings calmed down, they resumed a more civil conversation.

And that's when Paris got, well, not a confession.

But as that reporter listened and took notes, Paris got something he could use.

Then, as the deposition drew toward a close, Jennings told Parris that his former National Guard sergeant had been in touch with him.

And the sergeant didn't like what he was hearing.

Well, sure enough...

All that became a lead story in the Antelope Valley Press the very next day, written by that reporter, the one Paris invited to the deposition.

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.