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Talking Dateline: Raising the Dead

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4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Andrea Canning talks with Keith Morrison about his episode, “Raising the Dead.” After a couple was found stabbed to death inside a Wisconsin farmhouse, investigators spent decades chasing down possible suspects with no luck. The case went nowhere until a tip came in that led investigators to an unexpected suspect, and a game-changing police interview. Keith and Dateline producer Justin Balding tell Andrea about the creative traffic stop leading up to the arrest of Tony Haase and discuss the defense tactics that led to his acquittal. They also play an extra clip from his conversation with investigators, and Justin answers your questions from social media. Have a question for Talking Dateline? DM us a video to @DatelineNBC or leave a voicemail at (212) 413-5252. Your question may be featured in an upcoming episode. Listen to the full episode “Raising the Dead” on Apple: https://apple.co/3M1Sgyf Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ypTwyAQABz7AMbFowpTwH

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone. I'm Andrea Canning, and we are talking Dateline. And today we're here with Keith Morrison.

0:10.1

Hey, Keith. Hello. How are you?

0:12.9

And we're also here with producer Justin Balding for this episode. Hey, Justin. Hi, Andrea.

0:18.2

And this episode is called Raising the Dead. And if you haven't seen it, you can watch the episode on Peacock or listen to it in the Dateline podcast feed. And then you can come right back here. Let's just recap at first. When a young couple was found brutally stabbed in a Wisconsin farmhouse back in 1992. It took investigators decades to

0:39.5

charge anyone with the murder. Their suspect was a man named Tony Hayes, whose DNA and an alleged

0:46.0

confession tied him to the crime. But this past summer, a jury quitted him, leaving the case of the

0:52.9

double homicide still open.

0:56.0

In this episode, we've got an extra clip from Tony Hayes' interview with the police,

0:59.7

and then later, Justin and I will be here to answer your questions from social media,

1:05.1

so don't miss that.

1:07.2

All right, well, let's get started.

1:09.8

Talking Dateline.

1:11.9

So I just want to say right out of the gate, showing a court-ordered exhumation and saying, Keith saying, you know, did they have the wrong person?

1:22.5

Did they have the wrong killer?

1:23.7

I mean, that was a very dramatic open, in my opinion. Well, yeah, we like to think so.

1:31.7

It was certainly a dramatic event in the course of events in this story. Yeah, it's always interesting

1:38.1

when you get exhumations because I do feel like they are pretty rare and they're pretty extreme.

1:43.9

And in this case, this exhumation was really almost like crossing their T's and dotting their eyes for the prosecution.

1:52.7

Like they wanted to make sure that there were no more questions about this alternate suspect who had died.

2:02.9

And I believe the prosecution felt this was going to be a game-changing move before the trial

2:09.3

to kind of corner the defense and not allow the defense to be able to present this alternate

2:15.0

suspect whose name is Jeff Teal at trial.

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