Dateline NBC: Introducing: Murder in Apartment 12
NBC News 9/19/23 - Episode Page - 4m - PDF Transcript
It was murder, alright?
Anyone who walked into apartment 12 that winter night could plainly see that.
A brutal, violent death.
Lamps overturned.
Blood soaked into the carpet, smudged on walls, spattered on the kitchen stove.
I could just see that someone at her hurt her terribly.
A local beauty queen, battered and beaten, dead, the week before Christmas, just days
short of her 20th birthday.
They had found a condom wrapper in the crime scene.
Her body was disrobed.
There are boyfriends who became suspects in this story, one with blood on his hands.
I didn't do it, I didn't do it, I didn't do it, I didn't do it, so scumbag did this to my girlfriend
and I wanted to put in jail for it and I didn't do it.
But there was also a stranger who lived nearby, one with a history of violence against women.
So who did it?
The young detective in charge was sure he knew.
I crossed this crime scene, that's my primary function in this department, is to collect evidence,
interpret a crime scene, and I'm good at it.
Our latest podcast takes us to a small town where murder is rare and intense media coverage
is unheard of.
This case probably had more statewide publicity than any criminal case in many, many years
perhaps ever in Arkansas.
It's a story of what happens when the awesome power of the state is misdirected, when theory
trumps fact when opinion distorts truth.
This is a little town in Arkansas, they wanted a neck, they wanted somebody to hang.
Everybody has an opinion, but that doesn't convict in our courts.
It's about hubris and pride and reputation.
I have been brutalized nationwide, that I'm an inept investigator, that I don't know
what I'm doing, locally I've been fried, I've had enough of that.
Most of all, this is the story of how decisions made long ago on a frigid night in apartment
12, nearly put an innocent man in prison for life, and allowed a predator to roam free.
And I'm really glad I found the courage to call the police on this man, because there's
no telling what could have happened if I didn't.
I'm Keith Morrison, and this is Murder in Apartment 12, an all new podcast from Dateline.
Beginning Tuesday, September 26th, you can listen to the latest episode of Murder in
Apartment 12, each week completely free.
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As a bonus for you, we’re sharing the trailer for Murder in Apartment 12, an all-new original podcast series from Dateline and Keith Morrison.
The story starts with Nona Dirksmeyer, a young beauty queen. Smart and talented, her future is bright. But just days before her 20th birthday, Nona is murdered in her apartment. Police quickly decide their primary suspect is the young man who found her – her boyfriend, Kevin. After all, his bloody palm print is at the crime scene. Case closed? Not by a long shot. In Dateline’s latest original podcast series, Keith Morrison tells the story of three trials, two suspects, and one small town where things are not always what they seem.
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