Hi everyone, I'm Andrea Canning, and we are talking Dateline. Today I'm joined by Keith Morrison to discuss his latest episode, A Little Patch of Perfect. Hey, Keith.

Hello, Andrea. How are you? Good. So if you haven't seen a little patch of perfect, it's the episode right below this one on

your Dateline podcast feed. So go there and listen to it or stream it on Peacock and then come back here.

But first, a quick recap. When wealthy Atlanta lawyer Gary Ferris was found dead in a burn pile

on his estate in 2018, police wondered if he had fainted from the heat and fallen into the fire

while tending to it. But a further investigation revealed a family full of secrets and grudges

and that Gary had been killed by one of his own. For this episode, Keith is going to share an extra

clip from an interview with Martha Jane Barton, the woman whose last-minute

testimony surprised the courtroom. And later, one of the producers of this episode, Keith Greenberg,

will be on to answer your questions about the show from social media. Okay, Keith, let's talk

Dateline. All right. So, okay, a little patch of perfect. You know, those drone shots looking at that beautiful piece of property, beautiful house, beautiful land.

It does look like a little patch of perfect, but it wasn't so perfect, was it?

You know, nothing's ever perfect, Andrea.

I mean, we all like to strive for it.

We imagine it. We fantasize about exactly the, you know, the lovely country property we'd love to have with the mansion or the beautiful big house on it. And our grown children taking part in the running of it, it just, it's just a delightful idea of an idyllic family living out its days. But of course, nothing is ever perfect. And behind that lovely facade, some people

called this family the Ferris wheel. They hated that and they still hate it. Yeah,

because the last name was Ferris. It was Ferris, yeah.

They called them that because it was clearly a dysfunctional family. I mean, it's a wonderful place,

a lovely big family, everybody with their roles, and yet there were secrets behind,

which could be deadly. You at one point, Keith compared it to, was it Agatha Christie?

It was, it was one of the, yeah, because I've always loved Agatha Christie.

Yeah.

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