said god forgive, me i pull the trigger. decades later, another look at the frenzy. it was just crazy. the trial. i made a mistake. was killing your husband been one of those mistakes? no. that s not at all who she is or was. and the case some say change the way americans witness justice. i don t know if enough will ever be enough for anybody in this case. hello and welcome to dateline. you ve heard about it. pamela smart lived it. a beautiful, young widow step from her small new england town, into america s most quipping trial. the case had it all, sex, betrayal and murder. a very real drama that inspired a hollywood hit movie. now, you re about to hear the chilling story from the woman at the center of it all. here s andrea canning with deadly secrets. you were the big show in town? it was. i mean, this story. people couldn t get enough of it. when i look back at the footage, i look like a baby. i look so young, and i look so afraid. that s e
than anything i d ever seen in my life. i cried for my dad. was this a murder? every day i think of that. all i could think of was my kids. what about my kids. it was in the dark that the fear began, in the dark, and it grew. it terrorized our family, our friends. who was out there, in the dark? here, miles and miles in the woods. so far from safety. from civilized protection. they could just come, onto our property, and invade our lives. but on the summer night, deep in the california sierra, the terror came out of the dark. came after them. to take everything. the terrible, desperate chase. it s awful. and now the question, what really happened, out there in the dark? i still feel like i need to go help him. it looks so innocent now. closed up, quiet, empty. here in its place at the end of 100 yard dirt track, that sneaks off this lonely country road. deep in the sierra nevada but this was not how it was. or was ever meant to be. no. before it happened
but we are so grateful to have you spending your morning with us. we re thrilled to have you with us. it is a bittersweet morning here at cnn. it is christi s last day with us at new day. we ll have a lot to say about that. share some good-byes later this hour. stick around for that. we do want to begin with the breaking news, what is happening in ukraine. yeah, because the war there is looming over a meeting of g7 leaders in europe right now. there were explosions that rocked the ukrainian capital of kyiv today. the ukrainian airport says between 4 and 6 missiles were launched at consekyiv. president biden is going to try to keep u.s. allies aligned against russia, even as he faces anger and frustration back home over inflation, the rising cost of food and gas and legitimate fears of a recession. he and other leaders will look for ways to punish russia, while also managing a global economy that has become shaky. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is expected t
we looked at suspects after suspect after suspect. the crime was a mystery for decades. we re still with no answer. this poor family, we thought, we might be able to solve this case. could cutting edge science yield a new clue. this was a huge lead. absolutely. this wasn t somebody they had a reason to look at or talk to before. he was here, he was here the all-time. you are literally talking to chris s killer. right. face to face. evil comes in all packages. it certainly does. hello, welcome to dateline. kristie morocco always knew she wanted to be a teacher. her enthusiasm showed. colleagues marvel that are way with kids, but her life was cut tragically short. investigators eventually had a dead end. decades later, a crash course in dna analysis, gave them a picture of chrissy s killer, and revealed a stunning truth that he had been hiding in plain sight the whole time. here is andrea canning, with facing the music. they were having so much fun
you have no idea what i am capable of. there was a rug that was rolled up and there was a body inside. he killed the guy for his truck. and then he really became their prime, and only suspect. by that time, he was far away. it seems like we were always one step behind him. andrew, just walked up right behind him and shot him. we just heard another gunshot. it s gianni versace. a lot of things were left unanswered. he was determined to be remembered. the only way to be remembered is to kill for fame. he was willing to kill for fame. once there was a true genius who conquered the capital of fashion, and earned worldwide fame. and once, there was a man who earned fame another way. this is the story, of how brilliance met bitter envy. and how, the great light that was gianni versace, was snuffed by a failure named andrew cunanan. he was fixated by celebrities. he was determined to be remembered. and what andrew cunanan had killed, was indeed true m