A producing partner of mine named Vince Sturla and I went to talk to one of the people who was convicted. It was a strange case that occurred in the High Sierras in California back in 2008. Keith Morrison: This was not one of the big stories that gets a whole lot of attention. Vanity Fair: What do you remember about working on this story back in 2010? The long-running correspondent also looks back on his career interviewing killers, warns us about a particular kind of man, and discusses what The New Yorker described as “the warm bath of his voice”-which makes even the grisliest killing sound soothing on a Friday night. So when Morrison heard that NBC wanted to start making Dateline audio podcasts, the correspondent tells Vanity Fair, “This story was uppermost in my mind.” Morrison still considers his sit-down with Ramos, after he had been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison, to be one of the most gratifying conversations of his career.Īhead, Morrison tells Vanity Fair about Dateline’s new six-part true-crime podcast devoted to this forgotten story, The Seduction, premiering June 14. But Morrison says that because the episode was filmed in standard definition, it was shelved after its NBC premiere, when the network switched to high-definition television. The grim story was perfect Dateline material-full of twists and turns like a staged kidnapping, an attempted murder, and multiple lovers’ betrayals. Their romance spun out of control, with Ramos and Presba eventually pleading guilty to murdering Presba’s husband, Ed, and staging his death in a fiery 2008 car accident. But there’s one jailhouse interview that still sticks with him-one he conducted back in 2010 with Jaime Ramos, a California man who had an affair with his married counselor, Patty Presba, who was over 25 years Ramos’s senior. Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison has interviewed plenty of suspected murderers in his 27 years with the NBC news magazine.
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