Hi, everyone. I'm Blaine Alexander, and today we are talking Dateline. Today I'm here with Keith Morrison to talk about his original podcast series, Murder and Magnolias. Keith, my friend, it's so good to talk to you.

It's so delight to see you. Now, if you have not listened to it yet, you need to go do so. We drop the full series in the Dateline feed as a bonus while Dateline has been taking a break for these past few weeks for the Winter Olympics.

So go there, listen, and then come right back here.

And later, we will be joined by Dateline producer Carol Gable to share what it was like behind the scenes reporting on this story as it unfolded.

And then as always, we're going to take some of your questions. Okay, let's talk Dateline. Keith, so this story was fascinating for a number of reasons. Can you just give us a quick primer? Just kind of run down. Sure. What the story was about? It's about a very successful couple in Charleston, South Carolina, a banker and his wife. There are society people. They

have parties all the time. They seemed to have the perfect life. It wasn't perfect. It was a bitter

divorce. And then we discovered that the husband was seeing a woman who happened to know somebody

who kind of spent some time in the underworld, had spent some time in prison, and

secretly arranged to have this man kill the wife, Nancy Latham. But the plan were awry,

the person who was actually had volunteered to be the trigger man, was arrested in a traffic stop,

and it turned out he was trying to figure out a way not to do the killing.

He was a drug addict, and he gave the whole story away.

So they were able to, in the end, protect Nancy, get the proof to arrest the husband and the girlfriend, and they went to prison.

It was a rich story in its details, and the characters were fascinating, and it was a rare situation where we were able to

conduct interviews with everybody outside and inside prison. Nancy, of course, who turned out to be a

very funny woman. In fact, she later on made a, I don't know if she could say made a living,

but she became a stand-up comedian for a while

after this is all over. But Chris Latham spoke to us, Wendy spoke to us. You know, Charleston

has given us a number of really remarkable tales, and this is one of them.

Let's start with those fascinating characters. I have to say you give a great primer, but there is so much to

this story that it's almost impossible to kind of summarize it all. Right. You get lost in the

weeds as soon as you start to describe it. You do, but one thing that you can't really describe,

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