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Chapter 1: What is the premise of 'Five Miles From Home'?
Hello, I'm Keith Morrison of Dateline with a special preview of my new podcast called Five Miles From Home. What was she thinking as she secretly slipped into a car, wearing just her pajamas? Her mind at turmoil as she rode down Interstate 80 across northern Nevada. Would she, could she, reveal what she knew? She was just 18, tiny, 98 pounds and barely 5 feet tall.
But the story she took with her on that tortured drive... was, she knew, going to change everything. She came, and we talked, and we recorded the conversation with her permission, and it was dynamite. The man she had come to talk to was a distinguished attorney. If anyone could advise her, surely it would be he, about the story she said she had to tell.
It had been eating at me and eating at me. I couldn't sit there and live with myself knowing what I knew
And then out it came, the whole terrifying story, possibly true and possibly a careful and cunning deceit.
I was too in shock and numb. I didn't know what I was feeling.
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Chapter 2: What mysterious events surround Micaela Costanzo's disappearance?
It was like I was in a daze.
Still was, she said, about the thing that happened and about who was there and what happened after and what might happen next. in a small town deep in the American desert.
They deserve to be in hell for doing that. And there is nothing they can say or do that will make it better. They cannot fix this.
Some things aren't fixable. Some things are hard to explain.
It doesn't make sense. I still wonder to this day, why? What's the real reason? or what even really happened.
There is a place, a remote, windy place tucked away in a sliver of northeast Nevada, next to the Utah border. You'd certainly see it if you cruised along Interstate 80. Casinos.
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Chapter 3: How does the small Nevada town play a role in the story?
Five of them. Flashing away like some Vegas in miniature. A golf shot or two off the highway. The town of 4,000 or so spilling out onto the surrounding desert.
And if tempted by a meal or a rest or a roll of the dice, if you pulled off that highway, you'd be welcomed by a great grinning cowboy, or the improbable towering image of one, 63 feet high, garish and weirdly charming as it waves a welcome. A giant concoction in neon and steel they call Wendover Will, for West Wendover, name of the town. And a reminder of more innocent days.
It's pretty much the only thing Wendover was known for.
Her name is Christina. She knows what happened to innocents. Knows all too well.
Now, you know, everybody's like, oh, Wendover. Oh, do you know that girl? It's a question, unfortunately, that gets asked because we have a lot of tourists that come into the casino towns from all over. And that's what Wendover is known for now.
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Chapter 4: What shocking revelations come from the key witness?
Yes, even now. All these years later. And how did it begin? That memory is as clear as the morning sun on the high desert. And cold. Like the desert wind that Thursday morning in March 2011.
Chapter 5: What impact does the past have on the present investigation?
I'm Keith Morrison. Thanks for listening. Search for Five Miles From Home to hear the full episode now.
I'm Craig Melvin. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. I've always been a glass half full kind of guy. And now I'm talking to some people who look at the world that way too. Some really fascinating folks who share their defining moments, their triumphs, their challenges. Their stories are funny and quite candid. So I hope you'll join me each week. And who knows?
You might just come away with your own glass half full.
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