BONUS: The Girl in the Blue Mustang

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Dateline, True Crime, Social, News, Society & Culture, Culture

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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As a bonus for you, we’re sharing a special preview of The Girl in the Blue Mustang, an all-new original podcast series from Dateline and Keith Morrison. When 18-year-old Michelle O’Keefe is found murdered in her shiny new blue Mustang in a California park and ride, investigators encounter a confusing crime scene and a witness who seems to know too much. In Dateline’s latest original podcast series, Keith Morrison takes us to the High Desert outside Los Angeles for a story featuring twists, turns and a sharp-eyed Dateline viewer who steers the case in an entirely new direction. Get the first two episodes for free on Tuesday, March 14, or subscribe to Dateline Premium on Apple Podcasts to listen to episodes 1 and 2 now. Listen to the first 2 episodes now for free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium on Apple Podcasts. Subscribers get early access to new episodes and can listen to all Dateline podcasts ad-free: https://link.chtbl.com/tgitbm_fdlw

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Keith Morrison from Dateline NBC.
0:02.9	Here's a special preview of our new podcast,
0:05.6	The Girl in the Blue Mustang.
0:09.1	It was a pitch black night in the high desert,
0:11.8	Adelo Valley, up the Great Blind Highway north of LA.
0:16.5	It was late February, the year was 2000.
0:20.9	Sheriff Stephanie Billy Cox stepped out of his patrol car
0:23.8	and braced himself against a cold wind
0:26.3	howling down from the San Gabriel Mountains.
0:29.2	Wind show was in the low 30s.
0:31.6	Rain coming in.
0:33.8	I had to believe in just a few weeks
0:35.4	of sea of blood-red puppies would begin to bloom
0:38.1	in the surrounding Mojave Desert.
0:41.3	Cox was responding to a call of shots fired
0:43.8	at the Parking Ride, Off Exit 5,
0:46.1	on Highway 14 in Palmdale.
0:48.8	It was 9.49 pm.
0:51.2	The lot had about emptied out by the time he arrived.
0:54.4	Daily commuters homes safe in their beds.
0:57.4	And then?
0:58.7	There he was, the caller.
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