Talking Dateline: Chameleon

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🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Josh Mankiewicz sits down with Andrea Canning to talk about her latest episode, “Chameleon.” When Fran Gladden Smith went missing from her New Jersey home in 1991, police had their eyes on her husband, John Smith. Over the course of their investigation, they discovered that Fran wasn’t the first of John’s wives to go missing. Suddenly, one case became two, and a decades-long search for justice ensued. Josh and Andrea discuss the dedication of Fran’s family in trying to solve both cases, and Andrea shares a podcast-exclusive clip from a taped phone call with John Smith. Plus, Andrea answers viewer and listener questions about the episode.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody I'm I'm Josh Mayakowitz and we are talking date line today with
0:08.6	Andrea Canning.
0:09.6	Hi!
0:11.6	So this episode which is just amazing is called
0:15.0	Chameleon. If you haven't seen it on television or if you haven't
0:20.0	listened to it already on a podcast.
0:22.7	It's the episode right below this one
0:24.4	on the list of podcasts that you just chose from.
0:27.0	So go there and listen to it or watch it on TV
0:31.2	or stream it on peacock and then come back here.
0:34.0	So what today we're going to talk about this episode,
0:37.5	Andrea also has some extra audio that did not make the broadcast that we're going to play
0:41.8	and then we are going to answer some of your questions
0:44.4	from social media and I was on social when it's aired.
0:48.1	So I know that people have a lot of questions.
0:51.1	So let's talk to Dateline. What an episode because you know in the first five
0:56.7	minutes I'm thinking to myself wait a minute this guy's obviously the killer of
1:02.1	this missing woman.
1:03.5	Like Andrea, you're not going to be able to sustain that for two hours.
1:08.0	Like, it's got to be more than just, you know,
1:11.0	John is a killer.
1:12.2	So I'm thinking like, how are you going to do this?
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