Dateline: Missing In America - Introducing: Murder in the Hollywood Hills

Episode Date: March 19, 2024

As a bonus for you, we’re sharing the trailer for Murder in the Hollywood Hills, an all-new original podcast series from Dateline.In this story Keith Morrison takes us to the city of dreams, where a smooth-talking predator lured young women into a nightmare with promises of fame and fortune. He evaded justice for years, but when a group of women banded together, they fought to lock him up for life.Listen to Murder in the Hollywood Hills for free starting Tuesday. Or, subscribe to Dateline Premium on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or DatelinePremium.com to unlock new episodes right now: https://link.chtbl.com/mithh_tw

They'd gone to the mall to kill some time, maybe do a little bargain hunting, only to find that they were the hunted ones. So I venture into the Macy's and start looking at some sweaters when this man approached me. He told me he really liked my legs. I was wearing shorts. He was a tall, handsome stranger. He was very charming. He was very well spoken and he looked good.

With a pick-up line that was hard to ignore. He was working closely with the James Bond movies and that he were looking for new people, people who weren't so recognizable to be James Bond girls. How fun would that be to be a Bond girl? I think every girl has a dream about that. Our latest podcast takes us to Hollywood where the young and beautiful dream of being discovered, where predators promise to make dreams come true. A lot of these men are extreme con artists and they're very good at what they do. Young women seem to sort of be so desperate to be discovered that they'll go through anything to a photo shoot.

This is the story of how one of those young women was lured to her death by that smooth-talking man at the mall. I remember very distinctly the helicopter shot from above where the body was discovered. It's the story of how the justice system had multiple chances to stop that from happening and failed. I said, this guy has done this before. he'll do it again, and he will kill someone because he almost killed me. It's about plea bargains and backroom deals. That's the way it works. I'm sorry to tell you, but that's the way it works in a court system.

But most of all, it's about how a group of women who'd once been targeted by this predator banded together to put him behind bars and keep him there. That's the unfortunate thing about being a victim is you have to participate fiercely, fiercely, in what happens next, or it just goes away. I'm Keith Morrison, and this is Murder in the Hollywood Hills, an all new podcast from Dateline. Beginning Tuesday, March 26th, you can listen to the latest episodes completely free. Or to begin listening now, subscribe to Dateline Premium on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Subscribers get early access to new episodes and can listen to all Dateline podcasts ad

free. early access to new episodes and can listen to all Dateline podcasts ad-free.