Talking Dateline: Noises in the Night

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🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Josh Mankiewicz and Andrea Canning discuss Andrea’s episode, “Noises in the Night.” In November 2016, 16-year-old cheerleader Emma Walker was found dead in her Knoxville, Tennessee home. An investigation revealed she was killed by a bullet shot from outside her house that pierced the wall of her bedroom. Andrea and Josh talk about the people who helped investigators bring the killer to justice – his own friends – and reflect on what parents can do to protect their teens from toxic relationships. Later, Andrea shares a podcast-exclusive clip from her interview with two of Emma’s friends. Plus, Josh and Andrea answer viewer and listener questions from social media. Listen to the full episode of "Noises in the Night" here: https://link.chtbl.com/dl_noisesinthenight

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0:00.0	Hi everybody I'm Josh Mankowitz and we're talking Dateline and today I'm
0:07.9	here with Andrea Canning. Hi Andrea. Hi, Josh. So this episode is called Noises in the Night. If you've not seen it
0:14.8	is the episode right below this one on your Dateline podcast feed. So go there
0:19.5	listen to it. You can also stream it on peacock, then come back here.
0:23.0	Now for this episode, Andrea has an extra clip that did not make it into the broadcast
0:28.0	and then after that we will answer some of your questions from social media.
0:32.0	Just a little recap in November 2016,
0:35.0	a 16-year-old cheerleader named Emma Walker
0:37.6	was found dead in her home.
0:40.0	An investigation revealed a bullet shot from outside of the home,
0:45.4	had gone through the wall and hit her in the head.
0:48.4	Pretty soon, investigators had their prime suspect,
0:50.7	which was the high school boyfriend Riley but clearly the heroes of this
0:56.3	episode were Riley's friends who put their friendship aside and worked with
1:01.7	police to bring him to justice.
1:04.0	All right, let's talk Dateline.
1:06.0	Let's talk Dateline.
1:07.0	So yeah, I thought the real, I'm not going to say unsung heroes because I thought you sung them pretty well but I really liked
1:15.6	how how Riley's friends kind of stepped up here and I think that's the headline you
1:20.5	know we just did an episode just a couple of weeks ago in
1:23.7	which these kids in Florida knew that their teacher was going to be killed and
1:28.4	went along with it anyway and didn't say anything even though they could have
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