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Morrison ended up liking true crime assignments for “a variety of reasons,” but he mostly enjoys getting the chance to “look at humanity raw and see where our boundaries are, or aren’t.”Īlso Read: 'NBC Nightly News' With Lester Holt Scores 20th Straight Season Ratings Win But then once there, it became so obvious that it was a remarkable and interesting field to plow.” “I found myself getting assigned to such stories. “It wasn’t something I planned to do and I did not embrace it enthusiastically,” Morrison told TheWrap. But Morrison wasn’t always a fan of the true-crime reporting that has earned him legendary status, saying he was “dragged into it.”

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See what’s free at AOL.com.“Dateline NBC” correspondent Keith Morrison has developed a cult following for his quasi-creepy, sometimes poetic voice that provides narration of the show’s murder mystery episodes. The report couldn’t have been any clearer – the episode occurred on her Waynesburg, Kentucky farm.Īnd throughout the report, CNN kept displaying a map, a map pinpointing Waynesburg – Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. She’d recently been the victim of a theft at her Kentucky farm. This is what happens when the left hand doesn’t listen to the right hand:ĬNN, last Sunday, told the story of Venus Ramey, the 83-year-old 1944 Miss America who, from her walker, shot out the tires of a car driven by an intruder. I don’t know what kind of father Baldwin is, but in this case, he sounded like a typical one.

But that doesn’t mean that the outburst wasn’t justified. No one likes to be in the same room when a dad screams at his kid. If it came from ex-wife Kim Basinger’s confederates, they have to do a better job than exploiting the child to create public rooting interests in what’s none of our business.Īfter all, Baldwin sounded like a ticked-off dad, no better or worse – or less caring – than millions of other ticked-off dads.Īnother disturbing part was making the nation the third party to such a tape. The most disturbing part is that someone released this tape, apparently in an effort to embarrass Baldwin. That in the process he threw in a few expletives was unfortunate but, again, understandable. I may be summoned by a child welfare agency after this, but Baldwin, to me, sounded exactly as fathers who are thoroughly fed up with the behavior of their children normally sound. On NBC’s “Today” show, for example, Matt Lauer, after the tape played, called it, “disturbing.” The media response to Alec Bladwin’s taped and distributed phone rant to his 11-year-old daughter seemed, in some ways, odder than the rant itself.

And Cho interrupted his rampage only to send NBC a you-pushed-me-to-do-this missive.īut even if it’s all just a matter of bizarre, chilling coincidences, those coincidences seem too great to ignore or dismiss. Cho’s rampage began fewer than 12 hours after NBC’s episode about Hyde ended. Yet, the numerous similarities between the Hyde and Cho stories are inescapable. But did NBC’s show, the night before, serve as his prompt? In his afflicted state, did that “Dateline” installment push him over the edge? It’s unlikely that we’ll ever know. Surely, Cho’s diseased mind was prepped and primed to commit mass murder, at some point. Then he traveled to a different section of the Virginia Tech campus, where he shot and murdered 30 more people. It included a note from Cho that began, “You forced me into a corner.” He then returned to his dormitory to mail a parcel to NBC.

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The morning after NBC’s show aired, Cho, described by schoolmates as an all-night TV watcher, shot and killed two people. Hyde’s story, it turned out, was roughly the same as Cho’s life story, except for the killing part. Hyde was a bright young man from Albuquerque who began to suffer a steady mental deterioration until, one day, in 2005, at different locations, he shot and killed five people.īeyond the murders, the NBC show stressed that Hyde was a time bomb who was released from police custody and hospital care despite frightening episodes and warnings from many, including his family, that eventually there would be hell to pay, that eventually he would kill.

On Sunday night, April 15th, 12 hours before Cho Seung-Hui began his killing spree on the Virginia Tech campus, “Dateline NBC” devoted its entire show to telling the story of psychotic murderer Robert Hyde.

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