Talking Dateline: Facing the Music

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🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Josh Mankiewicz sits down with Andrea Canning to discuss her episode, “Facing the Music.” 25-year-old teacher Christy Mirack was found murdered in her Lancaster, Pennsylvania apartment in 1992. Police began an investigation that would go cold for 25 years, until new technology ruled out initial potential suspects and pointed to a surprisingly familiar face as the killer. Andrea and Josh discuss the role of DNA in cold case investigations and Andrea talks about having her own composite portrait generated using her DNA. Andrea also shares an extra clip from an interview with one of Christy’s former students and answers viewer and listener questions about the episode from social media. Listen to the full episode of “Facing the Music” here: https://link.chtbl.com/dl_facingthemusic Listen to the episode about Brittani Marcell Andrea mentions: https://link.chtbl.com/dl_thematch

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0:00.0	Hi everybody it's Josh Manchowitz and we're talking dateline today with
0:08.5	Andrea Canning. Hi Andrea. Hello. So this episode is called facing the Music and it's about a young woman
0:15.0	murdered and sexually assaulted in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
0:19.0	Back in 1992, it was a cold case for about a quarter century until it was finally undone by DNA
0:27.2	technology. Now if you haven't listened to this show yet or you haven't seen it on
0:31.5	television it's the episode right below this one on the
0:34.8	list of podcasts that you just chose from. So go there and listen to it or stream it on peacock and then come back here.
0:44.0	For this episode Andrea has a clip that she's going to play for us,
0:47.4	an interview that's not in the story, somebody who's a former student of Christie the victim and then we're also going to answer
0:55.6	some of your questions about the broadcast from social media. So stick around for that.
1:00.8	So let's talk to at line. Let's do it.
1:03.0	Interesting story.
1:05.0	When did this first run on date line?
1:08.0	2019 in fact.
1:10.0	I was pregnant with Trip when I was shooting this story.
1:15.0	Wow, Troop's now how old?
1:18.0	Five years old as of last week.
1:20.0	How's he doing?
1:22.0	He is doing great. Yes, he's going to kindergarten in the fall. Thank you.
1:27.0	That's great. I was wondering when I was watching this, when this was, because I couldn't't quite tell and when did you do the
1:34.6	earlier thing where you had your your genetic face mapping done? That was for a
1:41.2	different story in Albuquerque, New Mexico with a woman named Brittany Marcell.
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