Talking Dateline: The Girl with the Hibiscus Tattoo

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🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Andrea Canning interviews Keith Morrison about his latest episode, “The Girl with the Hibiscus Tattoo,” based on his original podcast “Murder in the Hollywood Hills.” 21-year-old Kristi Johnson mysteriously disappeared in 2003 after meeting a man at the Century City Mall in Los Angeles who invited her to audition for a Bond movie. She was found dead days later. Keith talks about the group of women who helped bring Kristi’s killer to justice and shares a clip from his 2023 interview with Kristi’s mother, Terry Hall. Susan Leibowitz, one of the producers of the episode, answers viewer and listener questions. Listen to “Murder in the Hollywood Hills” here: https://link.chtbl.com/mithh_social Listen to Keith’s interview with Terry Hall available to Dateline Premium subscribers: https://dateline.supportingcast.fm/listen/dateline-nbc-premium/after-the-verdict-death-in-the-hollywood-hills Listen to the episode about the murder of Crystal Taylor mentioned by Susan Leibowitz: https://link.chtbl.com/dl_onemoment Hear from the forensic sketch artist who worked on the Kristi Johnson and Crystal Taylor cases: https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/video/how-forensic-artists-aid-investigations-1077038147665

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. I'm Andrea Canning and we are talking Dateline. Today I'm
0:07.2	here with Keith Morrison. Hey Keith. Hi yeah Andrea. All right this episode of
0:11.1	yours is called The Girl with the Hibiscus Tattoo.
0:14.4	And it is based on your latest podcast, Murder in the Hollywood Hills.
0:18.7	If you haven't listened to that, you can check it out on our Dateline Original's Feed wherever you get your
0:23.0	podcast and if you haven't seen the new TV episode it's the episode right
0:27.1	below this one on your list of podcasts so go there and listen to it or stream
0:31.1	it on peacock and then come back here.
0:33.0	Today Keith has a clip that he's going to play for us from an interview that wasn't in the show.
0:38.0	After that, I'm sitting down with Dateline producer Susan Leibowitz to answer your questions about the show from
0:43.9	social media. And to recap this story, 21-year-old Christy Johnson mysteriously
0:49.4	disappeared in 2003 after meeting a man at the Century City Mall in Los Angeles.
0:54.0	He promised her an audition for the role of a Bond girl,
0:58.0	but Christie was found dead days later.
1:00.0	Police identified her killer Victor Paliologous with the help of various women who saw
1:05.6	Christie's story and realized they had been approached by Victor II. Okay, now let's talk Dateline.
1:12.4	All right. Good. This was such a Okay, now let's talk Dateline.
1:12.6	All right, good.
1:13.8	This was such a powerful episode,
1:16.5	just the stories from these women
1:19.6	and what they went through
1:21.5	and what they almost went through and the way that they all came together,
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