Hey, everybody. I'm Josh Makowitz, and we're talking Dateline today with Blaine Alexander. Hi.

Hello. Hello. Hello.

So Blaine is here to talk about her episode called The Haunted House Confession. Now, if you have not seen it, you, the listeners, it's the episode right below this

one on your Dateline podcast feed, so go there, listen to it, or you can stream it on Peacock

if you want to watch it, and then come back here. So to recap, this is about a young woman

named Chante Blankenship, and her remains were found in a deserted and very scary

looking farmhouse in Brownwood, Texas. And law enforcement worked for a long time to track down

her killer because they were certain that somebody in that, that church-going community was behind

the murder. And it would take a confession in church to crack that case.

Now, for this talking Dateline, we have some extra sound from a couple of churchgoers, Linda and

Russell Lamond. And they're going to talk about how their proximity to this awful crime gave

them a new perspective. So let's talk Dateline. I am delighted to be here because this is your first

two-hour episode as a Dateline correspondent. Absolutely is. There is nobody I would rather do this

talking Dateline with than you, Josh. So thank you. Now, you know, you are a veteran TV reporter,

but I'm guessing that you are experiencing the same thing I did when I joined, which is, you know, you go from stories that are, you know, a really long story is two and a half minutes in your old life. And now you're doing two hours, which means a lot more can be included. You can tell a

longer story. There's a great deal more writing. But even so, there's stuff you have to leave out.

You have to make some of the same choices that you do when you're doing a piece that lasts a

minute and 10 seconds for the evening news. Absolutely. There's so much to even undertake a story that's as long as the things that we do for Dateline,

you have to gather so much information, right?

Like, by the time we finish these stories, you feel like you're an expert on these cases.

And so there are all these different facts and different pieces of sound and information that

you want to cram in, but even in two hours, somehow you

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