Keith Morrison has interviewed people who have done horrible, terrible things, and is that intimidating? According to what he told Vanity Fair, not really.
Part of the reason for that, he explains, is that the most dangerous — and most obviously guilty — people are the nicest in interviews, because they think they’re the smartest, most charming person in the room. To them, it’s often their time to convince everyone of their innocence. They’re also there because they want to be — no one is blindsided by it, and no one is told that they need to be interviewed. Morrison explained, “I want to hear the story. I want to hear what their explanation is. And it’s always fascinating, no matter how bad they may be.”
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Morrison was asked an adjacent question on his IAmA Reddit, by someone wondering if he’d ever been outraged by an interview subject, to the point where he’d considered hitting them. While he responded, “No, but a couple of attorneys have come close,” he also said that there were some interviewees that he didn’t entirely know how to respond to. In particular, he called out a preacher who had killed and dismembered his wife, but still believed they would be reunited in heaven, adding: “Didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at that one.”
