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The Thing About Helen & Olga

Keith Morrison reads “The Dead Alive”

The Thing About Helen & Olga

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True Crime, Nbc News, Storytelling, Documentary, Insurance Scam, Keith Morrison, Helen Golay, Homelessness, Nbc, Homeless, News, Olga Rutterschmidt, Murder, Los Angeles, Dateline Nbc, Fraud, Dateline, Society & Culture, Police

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Hey Dateline fans! As a bonus for you, we’re sharing the trailer for season 3 of our podcast Morrison Mysteries… Each season, Keith Morrison takes listeners on a captivating ride through some of the most suspenseful and chilling works of fiction you’ll ever hear. Haunting stories of ghosts, love triangles, jealousy and rage – and now he’s reading “The Dead Alive,” a chilling novel from 150 years ago based on a real trial. You can start listening to Keith’s rendition of the story on Monday, August 26th. Just search “Morrison Mysteries” to follow, or subscribe to Dateline Premium. Subscribers receive ad-free listening and early access to episodes: https://link.chtbl.com/mmst_fdtw

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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

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podcasts. You're going to.

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