Michael Fleeman
Appearances
Dateline Originals
Deadly Mirage - Ep. 1: Death in the High Desert
Wife swappers, husband swappers, they would get drunk, they would party, they would take off their clothes, and then anything goes.
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Deadly Mirage - Ep. 1: Death in the High Desert
Hellendale is a city out in the middle of the desert. That's Michael Fleeman, a true crime writer whose book about this case is titled Better Off Dead. And within Hellendale is an oasis within the oasis, and that's called Silver Lakes. Sort of a bedroom community, stucco houses, golf course, two lakes, clandestine. clubhouse.
Dateline Originals
Deadly Mirage - Ep. 1: Death in the High Desert
It's this beautiful little bedroom community out in the middle of nowhere.
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Deadly Mirage - Ep. 1: Death in the High Desert
It was sort of Palm Springs light, the big spacious houses, families with kids running around, bikes in the streets. It looked like kind of the American dream neighborhood.
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Deadly Mirage - Ep. 1: Death in the High Desert
It is. And if you go there, it's almost something out of a Disney movie.
Dateline Originals
Deadly Mirage - Ep. 1: Death in the High Desert
It starts as a Playboy Channel fantasy, but this is real life and there are real complications.