it is america reports with the second hour and i m john roberts from washington happy we can partner you. gillian: that is a great reminder i was having so much fun with you. i m glad i could brighten your mood. gillian: thank you. it is great to be with you and everyone at home, am gillian turner in for sandra smith. that teacher of the year for new york state coming up including that spirit the critics say his obsession with social justice cost him his job. he ended up bouncing right back. john: brian kilmeade to weigh in all day on this. we will get to him plus karl rove fan shannon bream on deck as we began the breaking news in the battle to control congress. the midterms less then seven weeks away and republicans laying out. the president firing back at them. they control washington pure they control the house, the senate, the white house and the committee, the agencies and it is their plan, but they have no plan to fix all of the problems they created. so
hello, and welcome to dateline. nona dirksmeyer and kevin jones were a couple with a bright future. she was a self-confident 19 -year-old known for her beautiful voice. he was her devoted boyfriend with big ambitions. then, a brutal attack their shattered their dreams. it was a crime that would shake a small southern town to its core. and pit a family against the community they called home. here s keith morrison with what happened to the beauty queen? look at her. look at the young woman at the heart of our story. you can see how lovely she is. the young beauty queen. can you see her vulnerability? by now your first impression is probably locked in. it s very unlikely to change. and certainly, that s how it was in russellville, arkansas. the town where a first impression hardens like a patch of cement. about her and also about for better or worse, the young man accused of killing her. the boyfriend who found the body. the boyfriend found a body. first impre
stumbled into a terrifying scene. that s when i saw the gun. they said, we re going to have to kill you. now, a strange story that only got stranger. they had purple gloves on. and they had blue, fuzzy gloves. something isn t right here. could he have killed his own father? what really happened in that house? i did not do this. then, a witness came forward and changed everything. and this bizarre story, the strangest thing of all was the truth. he planned for any scenario. except for the one that happened to him. hello, and welcome to dateline . ken mortensen was a strong minded man who had built fortune and a fortress to protect it. and then kay was attacked, turning his home into a bloody crime scene. how, police wondered, could someone so vigilant be taken by surprise? it was a riddle that threatened to destroy kay s family until someone with an explosive secret revealed a horrifying truth. here s keith morrison with mystery at payson canyon . the
but while police try to prove it, another attack. he has got me by the throat and he s shaking me and he s yeg at me, telling me not to say a word. you re a prisoner in his apartment? yes. a college campus gripped by fear. a growing list of suspects. a growing list of victims, too. welcome to dateline. a killer was loose on the college texas town, leaving parents terrified. with a shocking discovery of jimmy hart s body, investigators were desperately trying to piece together the clues. was that young woman connected to her killer or did police have an active predator on their hands? here is andrea canning with the face of evil. looking back now, this woman almost didn t make it. i said, if you keep doing, this you are going to kill me. and he just said, do you think i actually care about that? is that when you feel like you are looking in the face of evil? i knew then completely in the moment that he intended on killing me. little did she know that in thi
adamant he was innocent. i had nothing to do with this. i swear to god. so, what could ve possibly led to this? you stab that women. why would he convince to something you didn t do? why would he? what s really happened during that police interrogation. the evidence shows you were there. i can lie about the evidence. i can t lie to you about this. the officers lying about lying. and extraordinary look inside the interview room. if you don t talk to me i can t keep this is one of the most intense interrogations i ve ever seen. welcome to dateline. how could you confess to a crime you didn t commit? it seems to defy logic and common sense, but advocates say, it s happens for more often than any of us realizes. here s keith morrison with the interrogation. a freak snowstorm, like an omen, smothered the little town in the blue ridge mountains. february 19th, 2003, just before 9 am, winter or no, crozet, virginia was not used to this. and then throu