Introducing Season 3 of Morrison Mysteries: The Dead Alive

Morrison Mysteries

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Fiction, Arts, True Crime

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🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

In Season 3 of Morrison Mysteries, Dateline NBC's Keith Morrison introduces you to the Meadowcroft family, living on a sprawling American farm. The household is teeming with rivalry and passion, envy and anger. When someone mysteriously disappears, two brothers are accused of murder. But all is not as it seems. Tune in to Wilkie Collins’ The Dead Alive, a novel based on a real trial from 150 years ago, to find out what really happened. Begin listening for free on Monday, August 26. Subscribe to Dateline Premium to listen ad-free and get subsequent episodes early: DatelinePremium.com

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0:00.0	The air hung heavy in the courtroom. The gallery was packed. The people pressed shoulder to shoulder, benches groaning beneath the weight. They all wanted to hear the story for themselves.
0:14.6	They'd heard the gossip and the whispers about a family teaming with passion and
0:18.7	hate, about a secret nighttime meeting in a garden and a mysterious disappearance about a
0:23.9	discarded knife and a pile of bones found burning in a wine pit and now they
0:29.7	wanted to know what really happened. But even they were not prepared for the story that came
0:36.8	spelling out, the secrets, the lies, the confessions, and the ending so
0:42.3	unimaginable. and the ending so unimaginable except it happens to be true.
0:48.0	Yes, an unbelievable story ripped from the headlines 150 years ago and dramatized by Wilkie Collins in his novel, The Dead Alive.
0:59.0	And now you will hear it too.
1:02.0	And judge for yourselves. What's true and what isn't? I'm Keith Morrison.
1:09.6	Join me for an all new Morrison mystery starting August 26th wherever you get your
1:15.1	podcasts. You're going to.

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