Talking Dateline: After the Halloween Party

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🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Blayne Alexander and Keith Morrison sit down to discuss his episode, “After the Halloween Party.” Friends and family were at a loss when Karen Swift, a Tennessee mother of four, went missing on October 29th, 2011. It took investigators 6 weeks to find Karen’s body and prosecutors 11 years to charge someone with her murder, but the case is anything but closed. Keith and Blayne talk about the small-town gossip that plagued the investigation in Dyersburg, Tennessee, and the private investigator from out of town who set out to solve the case herself. Then, Keith shares a podcast-exclusive clip from an interview with two of Karen’s neighbors who knew her as a child, and Dateline associate producer Sam Springer joins Blayne to answer viewer and listener questions from social media. Learn about more cases featured in Dateline’s Cold Case Spotlight series here: https://www.nbcnews.com/cold-case-spotlight You can also read the stories of those covered in Dateline’s Missing in America series here: https://www.nbcnews.com/missing-in-america Listen to the full episode of "After the Halloween Party" here: https://link.chtbl.com/dl_afterthehalloweenparty

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. I'm Blaine Alexander, and we are talking dateline. Today I'm joined here by
0:14.3	the Keith Morrison. Hi, Keith. Am I the one or A? I'm A Keith Morrison. You are the,
0:20.7	you are the, my friend.
0:22.8	Well, this episode is called After the Halloween Party.
0:26.2	And if you haven't seen it, it's the episode that's right below this one on your Dateline podcast feed.
0:31.0	So make sure you go there, listen to it, or stream it on Peacock, and then come right back here.
0:36.6	And for this talking Dateline, Keith has an
0:38.6	extra clip that didn't make it into the show. Then I'll be talking with Dateline associate
0:43.1	producer Sam Springer, who will join me to answer some of your social media questions about
0:47.7	the episode. But just a quick recap, the Dyersburg, Tennessee community was at a loss when
0:53.3	Karen Swift, a local mother of four,
0:55.7	went missing after a Halloween party on October 29, 2011.
1:00.4	It took investigators six weeks to find Karen's body,
1:03.3	and it took prosecutors 11 years to charge her husband, David Swift, with her murder.
1:08.8	At his 2024 trial, the jury was not able to agree that David killed Karen,
1:13.5	meaning that this case is still very much open. All right, Keith, let's talk Dateline.
1:18.1	It's a very, very unusual story, but it shows what happens when a thing like this occurs in a small town where people talk and whisper a lot.
1:26.9	You know what?
1:27.7	I want to start right there, actually, because I was just fascinated by the town itself, by
1:33.1	Dyersburg.
1:34.2	I mean, this was a small town.
1:35.9	We're talking about a lot of people who knew each other, and a lot of people who
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