Hi, everybody. I'm Josh Mankiewicz, and we're talking Dateline. Today, as a special treat, I am joined by one of my closest friends on Dateline, producer Shane Bishop. Hi. Hi, Josh. And Shane has worked with me on a lot of stories and also on the episode that we're going to be talking about called

Cape Fear. If you haven't seen it, you can find it in the Dateline podcast feed. So go there,

listen to it, Cape Fear, and then come back here. So to recap, when a young mother named

Allison Jackson Foy went missing from a bar in Wilmington, North Carolina back in 2006.

Her family was really desperate for answers, and for nearly two years,

investigators searched for clues until they finally came across her remains.

And one of the things that was shocking about that was that those remains were next to the remains

of another missing woman named Angela Rothen.

Investigators did have a person of interest, a prime suspect.

The question was whether the case would be solved.

So for this talking dateline, we have an extra clip from a recent interview I did with one of the

victim's sisters for the new season of our Dateline Missing in America podcast.

Also, we have another extra clip related to a 2022 update in this case where you will hear

from Allison's adult daughter. All right, so let's talk Dateline. How did we come across this case back then?

Well, back in 2009, one of our old bosses had an idea for us to do mysteries, cold cases. And so he asked you and me and a few others at Dayline to put together what we eventually became the unsolved case squad.

And so I was looking for cases that

weren't solved, which is unusual for us. And this was one that came across my desk.

Yeah. Most of the cases we do have already been adjudicated, or at least they're adjudicated

very close to air, like Karen Reed was, it's always been clear to me

that law enforcement agencies and families would love it if we did more cold cases,

because those are the cases that are not getting publicity, and those are the cases that,

you know, they're really hoping that a TV show could shake something loose.

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