Talking Dateline: Under a Full Moon

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Blayne Alexander and Keith Morrison sit down to talk about his episode “ Under a Full Moon.” Shauna Tiaffay, a cocktail waitress on the Las Vegas strip, was found beaten to death in her home in September 2012. Authorities wondered if the killing was a robbery gone wrong, until they got a tip that changed everything. It turned out that Shauna’s West Point graduate and EMT husband, George Tiaffay, had hired a hitman to carry out the crime. Keith and Blayne discuss how George was an unlikely killer and how his post-trial confession stunned his family. Later, Keith shares an extra clip from his interview with George’s sister. He and Blayne also answer your questions from social media. Listen to the full episode Under a Full Moon on Apple: https://apple.co/4lYmizk Listen to the full episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6GQUTnC0bvj7kYN9iS9dRG To learn more about Dateline LIVE in Nashville on Sept. 28, and to get tickets, go here:https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline-event If you or somebody that you know is experiencing domestic violence or relationship abuse, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-SAFE (7233), text BEGIN to 88788, or visit thehotline.org

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. I'm Blaine Alexander, and today we are talking Dateline. I am here with the one and only Keith Morrison to talk about his episode Under a Full Moon. Hi, Keith.
0:14.1	Hi, one and only, Blaine. How are you?
0:17.2	I say that every time, don't I? It always bears repeating.
0:20.9	You know what? It doesn't make me feel bad when you say that every time, don't I? It always bears repeating. You know what?
0:21.8	It doesn't make me feel bad when you say that.
0:24.9	Well, then we'll keep doing it.
0:26.0	I love it.
0:27.2	Well, if you haven't seen this episode yet, you can find it in the Dateline podcast feed.
0:31.6	So go there and listen to it and then come right back here.
0:35.1	Just a quick recap.
0:36.3	In September of 2012, George TFA found his wife
0:40.0	Shawna beaten to death at home. Investigators wondered if someone had followed her there from her
0:45.0	job as a cocktail waitress on the Las Vegas strip. But later they realized that the killer was someone
0:50.7	much closer to home, and someone even closer still, I'd put him up to it.
0:56.1	For this talking dateline, we have an extra clip from Keith's interview with George TFA's sister.
1:01.3	Then Keith and I will answer some of your questions from social media.
1:04.6	So, Keith, let's do it. Let's talk dateline.
1:06.5	Let's do it.
1:07.3	Let's talk about the strip.
1:08.5	I found it interesting that this entire thing took place with the
1:13.1	Las Vegas strip there, kind of as the background character, if you will. I mean, Vegas is always a
1:19.6	spicy place, an interesting place. And so what was it like doing this story in such a place as Las Vegas
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