Dateline Presents: Five Miles From Home
6/8/20264 min
Hey Dateline fans! As a bonus, we’re giving you a special preview clip of our new podcast series Five Miles From Home, an all-new original podcast series from Dateline and Keith Morrison.
When beloved high school junior Micaela Costanzo disappears on her way home from track practice, the race to find her leads to unlikely suspects, simmering rage, and unimaginable betrayal. Keith Morrison takes us to a small Nevada casino town to find out what really happened that night under the desert sky.
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Transcript preview
First 90 secondsKeith Morrison· Host0:00
[pensive music] Hello, I'm Keith Morrison of Dateline, with a special preview of my new podcast called Five Miles From Home. [car door closing] [car starting] What was she thinking as she secretly slipped into a car wearing just her pajamas, her mind in 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 five feet tall. But the story she took with her on that tortured drive was, she knew, going to change everything.
Speaker 1· Soundbite0:51
She came, and we talked, and we recorded the conversation with her permission, and it was dynamite.
Keith Morrison· Host0:58
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.
Speaker 2· Soundbite1:09
It had been eating at me and eating at me. I couldn't sit there and live with myself knowing what I knew.
Keith Morrison· Host1:17
And then out it came, the whole terrifying story. Possibly true, and possibly a careful and cunning deceit.
Speaker 2· Soundbite1:27
I was