it really threw him for a loop when he found out that my mom had met somebody else. police had a suspect and a case that was about to take an unbelievable turn. one of the most shocking things i have ever seen in a courtroom. hello and welcome to dateline. deede keller had made a comfortable life for herself. a successful realtor in southern california, she lived in a charming neighborhood where she was surrounded by family and friends. then suddenly, deede disappeared. as her loved ones launched a frantic search, investigators would follow the trail of clues to a suspect with a dark obsession. but the final twist in this case would leave the courtroom stunned. here s josh mankiewicz with betrayal of trust. southern california s south bay. a singularly stunning strand of shoreline with familiar names like hermosa, redondo and manhattan. we call it the sandbox. no one thinks that this part of los angeles exists, but it does. this seaside playground is lined w
or was it something more or someone else. it really threw him for a loop when he found out that my mom had met somebody else. police had a suspect and a case that was about to take an unbelievable turn. one of the most shocking things i have ever seen in a courtroom. hello and welcome to dateline. deede keller had made a comfortable life for herself. a successful realtor in southern california, she lived in a charming neighborhood where she was surrounded by family and friends. then suddenly, deede disappeared. as her loved ones launched a frantic search, investigators would follow the trail of clues to a suspect with a dark obsession. but the final twist in this case would leave the courtroom stunned. here s josh mankiewicz with betrayal of trust. southern california s south bay. a singularly stunning strand of shoreline with familiar names like hermosa, redondo and manhattan. we call it the sandbox. no one thinks that this part of los angeles exists, but i
i said have you changed your locks? and she said no, i ll do it on the way home. and of course she never did. but investigators soon learned that in those conversations with her friends, deede had left something out. a detail she mentioned only to her daughter julie. that during that argument, erwin howard had also slapped her. i said, mom, you have to call the police. you have to get a restraining order. and then i remember her asking me not to tell michael. and that she was going to handle this. i remember being torn, okay, this is my mom telling me, i got it. but also thinking, maybe she didn t have it. and a few days later it was clear julie was right. the very night her mom went missing, julie got another phone call. this time from erwin. i got on the phone and he was like, jules, what is your mom thinking? i said erwin, i really don t want to talk about this. i feel like this is between you and my mom. and he was like well, you just need to pray for her soul. i rememb
i do. in which he asked you some pretty basic questions like, what s your name, where you live. pretty ordinary stuff. and then all of a sudden he says, did you have anything to do with her mom s disappearance? i think it was more, did you kill your mother? and you re what, startled, or angry? it was a horrible question him, but i can understand why it need to be asked. detectives asked similar questions of julie. next, in attempting to rule out suspects those closest to deede, detectives turn their attention to her ex husband, erwin howard. it turned out that although deede and erwin had been divorced for more than a year at the time for disappearance, friends told police that she had recently invited him back into her life. about six months earlier, deede had been in a car accident. and as she recovered, she needed help with her dogs. deede also apparently felt bad about the pain their divorce