Blayne Alexander

Hi, everyone.

I am Blayne Alexander, and today we are talking Dateline.

I'm so happy to be joined by my good friend, Josh Mankiewicz.

Hi, Josh.

Hello.

We are here to discuss your episode, Deadly Detour, and what an episode it was.

So if you haven't seen it, you can watch the episode on Peacock or listen to it in the Dateline podcast feed and then come right on back here for this conversation.

Later, we'll have an extra clip from Josh's interview with several jurors from this case.

Then Josh will answer some of your social media questions about the episode.

All right, Josh, my friend, let's talk Dateline.

Just for our viewers who may not be as familiar, just kind of give us a quick rundown of what happened here.

to just talk about how big of a case this was.

And this is something that you certainly bring forward in the episode itself.

But it was so interesting for me watching this because I remember this whole thing playing out in real time.

I remember it's crazy that it was a decade ago, but I was a local reporter when all of this happened.

And the biggest thing that I remember, aside from us covering all of it, was you talked about the Corey Towers, this kind of iconic tower in Atlanta.

And it's right at the interchange of 75, 85 and 20.

So basically, if you're driving down the highway, you're going to see it.

And her picture was up there for such a long time.

I mean, it was something that everybody knew about and everybody noticed.