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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Dateline Presents: Deadly Engagement

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

As a bonus for Sunday Sitdown fans, we’re sharing the trailer for Deadly Engagement, an all-new original podcast series from Dateline and Josh Mankiewicz. It’s the story of Denita Smith, a promising young photographer with a bright future and engagement ring from a man she loved. But her future vanished in a puff of gun smoke when a mysterious assailant shot her dead outside her home. Dateline’s Josh Mankiewicz takes us to North Carolina for a twisted story that reveals a love triangle involving sex, lies and an audio tape that had everyone guessing who really killed Denita. If you like what you hear, just search Deadly Engagement to listen to the first two episodes now, completely free. Or subscribe to Dateline Premium on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or DatelinePremium.com. Subscribers get early access to new episodes and can listen to all Dateline podcasts ad-free.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The guy thought he had a good thing going, a good job, and two lovers living in separate cities.

0:10.8

One girlfriend in Greensboro.

0:12.8

And one in Durham.

0:14.1

And never the twain shall meet.

0:16.0

That was the plan.

0:17.6

That is, until the math in this triangle got complicated.

0:25.6

And somebody had to go.

0:28.4

My name is, dengue me'll slip.

0:31.1

You need it.

0:31.6

Okay, move it, man.

0:33.9

Okay.

0:35.9

Three minus one. Left two potential suspects, two alibis, and two fingers pointing at each other.

0:46.9

Somebody was going to prison for life, but who?

0:51.1

What this trial was about is, which one is it?

0:56.5

Our latest podcast takes us to a college campus in Durham, North Carolina,

1:01.7

for a story about the murder of a beautiful and talented grad student.

1:06.9

It's a story about jealousy, revenge, and bad choices.

1:13.3

It just shows you that, man, our actions have consequences.

1:16.8

And it may seem as though, as, hey, you know, we're all grownups here, but stuff happens.

1:23.2

And in this situation, pretty bad stuff happens.

1:27.0

It's a story of double lives and dangerous risks.

1:31.8

A story that's sure to keep you guessing as lovers turn on each other in a desperate bid to avoid prison.

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