Talking Dateline: If These Walls Could Talk

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🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Josh Mankiewicz and Keith Morrison sit down to talk about Keith’s most recent episode, “If These Walls Could Talk.” In November 2016, Susann Sills was found dead at the bottom of the staircase in the home she shared with her husband and their two children in San Clemente, California. Susann’s death appeared to have been a terrible accident, but investigators soon discovered evidence that led them to believe it was something more sinister. Keith tells Josh about the puzzling circumstances surrounding Susann’s death and shares behind-the-scenes details of filming the episode. Keith also plays a podcast-exclusive clip from his interview with one of Susann’s brothers and Dateline producer Michelle Madigan joins in to answer viewer questions. Listen to the full episode of “If These Walls Could Talk” here: https://link.chtbl.com/dl_ifthesewallscouldtalk Listen to “Poison,” the episode Josh mentions that also took place in San Clemente here: https://link.chtbl.com/dl_poison

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0:00.0	Hi everybody I'm Josh my agoitz and we're talking Dateline today with the grumpy
0:10.4	curmudgeonly Keith Morrison I think sets the tone for the time ahead.
0:16.0	How are you, Manchowice?
0:18.0	I'm fine.
0:20.0	This episode is called If These Walls could Talk.. Now if you have not listened to
0:24.7	this yet or if you haven't seen it on television, it is the podcast right below
0:29.8	this one on the list that you just chose from so go there listen to it or you
0:33.7	want to watch it on TV you can do that or stream it on peacock and then come
0:37.8	back here now today we're going to talk about this episode Keith also has an
0:42.1	extra clip from his interview
0:44.4	with Suzanne's brother Frank that he's going to play for us.
0:48.6	And later on, the producer of this episode,
0:51.4	Michelle Madigan is going to be here to answer some of your
0:53.8	questions about this broadcast from social media. All right let's talk Dateline.
0:58.4	If these walls could talk. It is good and I loved your opening lines over the drone shots of, you know,
1:07.1	suburbia with those little identical houses. You never know what's going on inside and it turns out of course it's just a just a
1:15.5	a cauldron of passion inside them. Every house is the cauldron of passion isn't yours?
1:21.0	I think totally yeah so to me one of the first questions I have is this takes a long.
1:28.0	I started feeling that if this guy had been a truck driver, he might have been prosecuted a lot sooner.
1:35.2	They took more time than at least Hatcher thought that they should have taken.
1:39.9	It was the previous prosecutor who was in the job before her didn't move on it.
1:45.0	But part of the problem was the forensics took a year to come back.
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