Talking Dateline: The Girl in the Blue Mustang
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Canning, and we are talking Dateline. And today we are here with Keith Morrison to talk about his original podcast series called The Girl in the Blue Mustang. Before we get into the discussion, we're dropping the full series in the Dateline feed as a bonus, while Dateline is taking a break for the Winter Olympics. |
| 0:23.0 | So go take a listen and then come back here. |
| 0:25.4 | And later, we'll have two extra clips for this episode. |
| 0:28.4 | The first is from Keith's interview with the man once convicted of the murder. |
| 0:32.2 | The second is from Keith's interview with the Dateline viewer who believed he was innocent. |
| 0:37.3 | Okay, let's talk Dateline. Hey, Keith. |
| 0:39.5 | Thank you, Andrea. It's nice to be here. Let me give you a quick recap of what happened in this |
| 0:45.3 | story, what it's all about. It's a young woman who had gone to a music video taping, and when she |
| 0:52.9 | arrived back to the parking lot where she left her car, |
| 0:55.4 | she was attacked and killed in a very violent way. And it was a story of really the next |
| 1:01.8 | couple of decades of back and forth and who was responsible. And they found somebody, |
| 1:07.6 | tried him three times, finally convicted him of murder, and then several years |
| 1:13.3 | later, an auto-didact, a very smart guy happened to see Dateline on his computer and turned the |
| 1:19.0 | whole thing upside down. And events have transpired ever since then that sometimes confound |
| 1:24.5 | the senses. As of, I think, next week, it'll be 26 years since this happened. |
| 1:31.5 | Oh, wow. And those 26 years, you know, there are still people holding a candle for one side or |
| 1:39.0 | another in this crazy, crazy story. Yeah. I'm not surprised. I texted you, well, because I've been listening to this all week. I started listening to it and I could not stop. Well, good. Thank you. |
| 1:51.5 | I was listening to it in my bedroom, in the car, in the kitchen. It was just so incredibly powerful. And wow, what a roller coaster, Keith. |
| 2:00.6 | Indeed, a roller coaster. Yes, yes. |
| 2:02.9 | Let's start with Michelle, the victim here. I was so taken aback by this premonition that she had. |
| 2:13.1 | We'll just remind everyone, Michelle, they were watching TV and there was a guy in a coffin he couldn't |
| 2:19.0 | get out and she said to her dad, I just have this feeling, I'm going to die. And then two more |
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