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Talking Dateline: Death at the Spa

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Andrea Canning interviews Josh Mankiewicz about his recent episode, “Death at the Spa.” In 2018, Ildiko Krajnyak was killed instantly when she opened a package bomb left at her California day spa. When investigators started digging into Ildiko’s life they identified several people who might have had a motive, but only one person with the means to commit the crime. Josh tells Andrea about getting to know the woman who stood by the killer for years, and why he decided to share information with her no one else had. Josh also shares an exclusive clip about another mysterious death in the killer’s past. Plus, Josh answers viewers’ questions posed on social media during the episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So this episode of Talking Dateline is featuring a Dateline episode

0:09.2

called Death at the Spa, which is quite the title, and this is a very good episode from Josh Mankowitz.

0:18.0

Hello Josh.

0:20.0

Hi Andrea.

0:21.0

Yeah, I can't wait to dig into this one.

0:23.3

There is so much to talk about.

0:27.1

We have a lot of spoilers coming up.

0:28.8

So if you haven't listened to the show yet or watched it on TV, it's the episode right

0:32.2

below this one on the list of

0:33.6

podcasts. So go there listen to it or watch it on TV and then come back here.

0:37.8

And when you come back I've got a ton of questions for Josh and apparently so do you. A lot of people posted

0:45.4

questions on social media about this one and the last thing we should mention

0:49.0

Josh is going to play us an extra clip from one of his interviews that didn't make it into the broadcast,

0:54.1

which this is a good one for an extra clip. There's a little tease for you because it's something that you won't see coming

1:06.6

from the episode. So stick around for that and you'll hear that right here on talking Dateline. Okay, so let's talk Dateline Josh.

1:12.1

But first Josh is hope for those of you who can't see this he is holding up a sign that says

1:21.3

I'm wearing a wire which Right, which is a very funny moment, not that murder is funny of course, but I'm sorry, I laughed

1:30.0

when that happened when you held up that sign because I wouldn't have thought of that.

1:34.8

As I said in the broadcast, maybe I watched too many movies and TV shows, but that kind of thing does happen

1:39.9

when people are being recorded and they want to tip off the other person.

1:43.0

Now, in that staying, we're a little ahead of ourselves here, but in that one, the

1:47.5

FBI was watching as well as listening, but I presume there was an opportunity for her

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