Running Man

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🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Investigators find a car engulfed in flames and pull a body from the wreckage. Was it an accident, or something more sinister? Andrea Canning returns to her hometown to report on the mystery. Blayne Alexander and Andrea Canning go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’ Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/4oZNNuk Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7Eb5rLM7dbGVrNWOKUjMIb

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0:00.0	Tonight on Dateline.
0:02.9	Ashley was just a really special mom.
0:06.2	Nothing came between her and her kids.
0:09.6	She was a sister, an aunt, a friend.
0:14.1	He said she had been in a car accident,
0:16.5	and I just remember screaming.
0:19.2	He was a fire captain.
0:21.3	His wife died in a fiery car crash.
0:24.1	The single dad now raising two children.
0:27.2	This was a man truly grieving.
0:30.8	The fire itself was strange.
0:33.0	It wasn't a crash that somebody should have died in.
0:35.7	Was it something else?
0:37.4	Was it murder?
0:39.2	None of us would have thought this was going to happen to her.
0:43.5	A secret comes out, yes.
0:45.9	There's been an affair?
0:47.8	This takes the case in a new direction.
0:50.0	Other possible suspects.
0:51.5	Right.
0:52.5	We have a video that shows a person running from the crash.
0:57.4	We call him running man.
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