Hey everyone. This is Andrea Canning and I'm here with Keith Morrison and we are talking

Dateline. Hey Keith. Hello Andrea. All right, so let's dive in. This episode is called Secrets on the Emerald Coast. It's about the

October 2011 disappearance of a mother of two named Marie Carlson and the web of secrets and lies police uncovered before zeroing in on an

unusual relationship and an unlikely killer. If you haven't listened to the show

yet it's the episode right below this one on the list of podcasts you can choose from.

So go there, listen to it, or if you want to watch it, you can stream it on Peacock and then come back here.

And when you do come back, Keith has a clip he wants to play for us from the

Killer's Confession. Later, we're going to answer some of your questions about

the show from social media, so stay tuned for that. Okay, Keith, let's talk Dateline.

All right, good. So you grabbed me from literally the first line in the show where you called Marie

the dancing sprite. What did you mean by that? That's like it's such a

Keith line I feel like right now like I feel like you've had to have written that.

Yeah well I didn't get the chance to meet her unfortunately I'd love to have met her but

this was the description to the person who I was told about that she was that kind of young

woman you know Marie struck me as sort of kind of different sides to her, you know, where on one hand she liked to have fun and she had this great relationship with her sister and she was beautiful.

She was also a mother, but then she was also a mother but then she was also lost.

She had some difficulty adjusting to life if I can put it that way.

Yeah.

She was a free spirit.

She was a lovely, talented, happy person.

But then again, she could be depressed.

She, you know, she certainly welcomed the attention of the pastor and his wife and became a devout

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