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Talking Dateline: Deadly Entanglement

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True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Josh Mankiewicz and Blayne Alexander sit down to talk about Blayne’s episode, “Deadly Entanglement.” In 2013, Desiree Sunford was found brutally murdered in her Yakima County, Washington, home. While authorities initially focused on the behavior of Desiree’s husband, a deeper dive into the couple’s relationship revealed a complicated connection to another woman and then to another man. Blayne and Josh discuss the tangled web that eventually led investigators to a suspect, as well as Blayne’s exclusive interview with the woman at the center of the story. And Blayne shares a podcast-exclusive clip in which the woman describes her relationship with the killer and her fears if he were to be set free. Plus, Dateline producer Susan Leibowitz joins Josh to answer viewer and listener questions from social media. Have a question for Talking Dateline? Leave it for us in a DM on social media @DatelineNBC or in a voicemail at (212) 413-5252 for a chance to be featured on a future episode! Listen to the full episode of "Deadly Entanglement" on Apple: https://apple.co/3FG3XaH Listen to the full episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4VB0K1OU3xF3DMZS26tzri

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. I'm Josh Mancowicz, and we are talking Dateline today with Blaine Alexander. Hi, Blaine.

0:10.4

Hello, hello. So this episode is called Deadly Entanglement. It's about the 2013 murder of a woman named Desiree Sunford in her home in Yakima County, Washington,

0:21.3

and the very, very complicated relationship that ultimately led to her murder.

0:27.3

Now, if you haven't listened to the broadcast yet, it is the episode right below this one

0:31.1

on the list of podcasts that you just chose from.

0:33.6

So you can go there, you can listen to it, you can also stream it on Peacock,

0:47.8

or you can look at it on your DVR, which is what you should be doing, is watching the episode in addition to listening to the podcast and then listening to Talking Date Line.

0:51.7

And if you don't have any time for the other things in your life like your family, that's your problem.

0:55.3

So go there, listen to it, and then come back here.

1:00.3

Now, when we come back, Blaine has an extra clip that she's going to play for us with her interview with the woman who's absolutely at the center of this page, Blades.

1:03.7

Later, I'm going to be joined by Dateline producer Susan Liebowitz, who will help answer

1:10.0

some of your questions about the broadcast

1:12.2

from social media. So stick around for that. And now let's talk Dateline. All right. So one of the

1:19.2

great things about this story is that from the get-go, you're like, all right, well, it's pretty

1:23.5

clearly the husband, right? I mean, that guy's a liar. He's acting like out of a textbook,

1:31.5

like how to make the police suspicious of you right after something is having. I don't want to go

1:36.9

in the house, but I want the cops to find the body, right? I don't want to be in there. And then

1:42.7

it turns out there's a whole other subterranean

1:45.7

thing beneath the service. You know, we kind of commented at some point that viewers will need

1:52.2

literally a notepad to write down all of the people and how they're related in arrows and

1:58.0

kind of like a playbook, right? Because once we get into this and once we

2:01.3

really start diving into this marriage and then there is another woman and then there's another

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