Deadly Obsession

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Kansas couple Mike Sisco and Karen Harkness are found dead by their parents before a family fish fry in 2002. A years-long search for evidence and three criminal trials over two decades reveal strained dynamics within one victim’s family. Andrea Canning reports. Keith Morrison and Andrea Canning go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’ Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/4lolXXv Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2wiUTqrU61T5FQXvyMVgfy

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0:00.0	Tonight on Dateline.
0:02.0	There was tape all around the property.
0:06.0	My grandma told me that my dad and Karen's been shot and killed.
0:10.0	It was violent.
0:13.0	They called it a crime of passion.
0:15.0	Someone with a lot of rage in them had to do that.
0:18.0	We didn't have DNA, fingerprints, anything like that.
0:23.2	The family felt like you weren't doing enough
0:24.8	because there's no arrest.
0:26.1	Yeah, I know it's incredibly frustrating for them.
0:28.8	You put your detective hat on.
0:30.8	I did.
0:32.1	I had a digital recorder.
0:34.0	I was able to record both sides of the conversation.
0:36.7	Why did you tell a detective about that?
0:38.3	Give some proof showing.
0:41.3	You were involved.
0:43.3	I wanted the truth.
0:45.3	There's finally an arrest.
0:47.3	We were delighted.
0:49.3	This case is based on rage and obsession.
0:52.3	You have to testify. It was terrifying.
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