Deep in the California desert, perhaps 20 miles above Mexico, on a great empty swath of sunbaked sand and scrub, two dozen white buildings squat in semi-circles, hemmed in by rows and rows of razor wire. Sentinel a prison.

An inside in a six-by-ten-ten-10-foot cell serving 40 to life, Raymond Jennings peered through a narrow

slit of window at the sky and waited. For what, for when? He did not know. By now, he'd been locked up for 11 years.

I'd been able to see his children only once every year or two. He was about to turn 42.

You'd look in that mirror and I'd be like, why me? I'd be in the cell by myself. Why me?

What am I supposed to be learning? What's going on on the outside?

Something impending out there to hope for or dread depending on the view.

When the only comfort that you've had for a decade is the belief that the man who killed your daughter

is in prison and that man is Ray, I understand why it's hard to let go of that.

Change was coming. Ready or not?

Who in the heck is banging on my door? Finally, after about 20 or 30 knocks, he says, I need to talk to you about Raymond Lee Jennings.

In this episode, Justice will get a jolt, and accepted facts will be tossed in the air like so many playing cards.

The land and place is entirely unexpected, and for some, unwelcome.

You know, I've always had a lot of respect for law enforcement and what they do and come to find out, you know, it's not all, you know, sugars and cookies.

I'm Keith Morrison, and this is The Girl and the Blue Mustang, a podcast from Dateline.

This is our sixth and final episode, Finding John Doe.

It was a winter's day, six years after Raymond Jennings was convicted of killing Michelle O'Keefe.

Jeff Erlick was sitting in his law office in L.A. San Fernando Valley, and the phone rang.

I picked up the phone and the voice on the other end said, this is Ken Lynch.

As in director, Ken Lynch, of the Los Angeles DA's Conviction Review Unit, or CRU.

I'm not particularly good at describing feelings.

I guess I'm a left-brain kind of guy.

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