Postcards: The Mystery of the Hotel Snorer

Greetings from... where am I? Northern North Carolina... We'll go with that. Let's look at the week ahead and solve a mystery from six feet away.

Dear Fellow Expat:

My wife has taken to “Dateline NBC” murder podcasts, narrated by Keith Morrison.

On long car trips, I don’t get the radio much.

I can only take so much Taylor Swift. (We’ve made it this far with barely a mention).

So, we’ve been listening to these 30-minute murder mystery stories spanning eight to 12 episodes about a death that happened long ago.

Right now, we’re listening to “The Girl in the Blue Mustang” - which covers the tragic death of Michelle O'Keefe and an ensuing miscarriage of justice.

That’s up my alley, given that I was a member of the Medill Innocence Project.

Yes… one Dateline “story investigation” lasts four to six hours, full of twists and turns and predictable outcomes (to be honest).

I’m a journalism guy at heart. We ask: Who, what, where, when, why.

Whodunnit can be answered in two sentences. Nothing more…

But “Dateline NBC?”

This is an investigation…

And Keith Morrison will spin you a long yarn-even if it takes you down a path for a random hour that …