The Murder of Michelle O’Keefe: A Palmdale Mystery

Housewives of True Crime

Tabitha Kane

True Crime, Comedy, History

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Michelle O’Keefe, 18, was shot at a Palmdale park-and-ride on Feb 22, 2000; her blue Mustang was ransacked and her cell phone stolen. Prosecutors originally charged security guard Raymond Lee Jennings; he was convicted in 2009 and sentenced to 40-to-life. After 11 years the DA’s Conviction Review Unit reevaluated the evidence and moved to free him; a judge later declared him factually innocent...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Housewives of True Crime. I'm Tabitha, your True Crime Housewife, and I'm bringing you real crimes, real twists, and searching for real justice every week.
0:14.5	I've got a brand new disco biscuit riding shotgun, sometimes a fan, sometimes a friend, but someone always fabulous. So grab whatever
0:23.4	you're drinking these days, press play, and let's talk crime in the carpool line. Kling, clink.
0:29.2	Talk a crime. Talk a crime with a carpal line. How to buy it's a truck to hurt you. Crane. Welcome.
0:43.3	Welcome.
0:46.0	House Mangs of True Crime Monday edition.
0:50.9	Yes.
0:51.3	After Thanksgiving edition.
0:53.5	Yes.
0:59.0	Let's just think how it's going to be tomorrow, because tomorrow's actually Thanksgiving. Do you think you're going to eat too much?
1:01.0	Do you think you're going to cook too much?
1:03.0	No, you're not cooking.
1:04.0	No, because I'm not cooking.
1:06.0	You're not cooking.
1:08.0	No.
1:09.0	But I am going to eat too much, yes.
1:11.6	Okay, good.
1:12.6	Yeah.
1:13.6	You know, I went to the gym today on Wednesday in anticipation for eating too much, and then
1:19.6	tomorrow they have a 6 a.m. class.
1:21.6	No, you are not going to do it.
1:23.6	I don't, I have a slight inclination that I'm going to do it. Did you sign up for it? You did, didn't you? Well, I'm waitlisted because that's the way he went have already signed up. I know, but then I feel like I'd be like, I'll, I don't know. You know, it's like a mind thing because what I guess you're going to feel better about it.
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