Keith Morrison

Hello, I'm Keith Morrison of Dateline with a special preview of my new podcast called Five Miles From Home.

What was she thinking as she secretly slipped into a car, wearing just her pajamas?

Her mind at turmoil as she rode down Interstate 80 across northern Nevada.

Would she, could she, reveal what she knew?

She was just 18, tiny, 98 pounds and barely 5 feet tall.

But the story she took with her on that tortured drive...

was, she knew, going to change everything.

She came, and we talked, and we recorded the conversation with her permission, and it was dynamite.

The man she had come to talk to was a distinguished attorney.

If anyone could advise her, surely it would be he, about the story she said she had to tell.

And then out it came, the whole terrifying story, possibly true and possibly a careful and cunning deceit.

Still was, she said, about the thing that happened and about who was there and what happened after and what might happen next.

in a small town deep in the American desert.

Some things aren't fixable.

Some things are hard to explain.

There is a place, a remote, windy place tucked away in a sliver of northeast Nevada, next to the Utah border.

You'd certainly see it if you cruised along Interstate 80.

Casinos.

Five of them.

Flashing away like some Vegas in miniature.