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Talking Dateline: The Killer Among Them

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True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Josh Mankiewicz and Andrea Canning sit down to talk about Andrea’s episode, “The Killer Among Them.” In 1996, Atlanta millionaire Lance Herndon was found bludgeoned to death in his suburban Atlanta home. Investigators took a closer look at Lance’s life and discovered complicated connections that could have led to his murder. Josh and Andrea discuss the various clues left at the crime scene and Andrea shares more of the cat-and-mouse game between detectives and Lance’s killer in the police interview. Plus, they answer viewer and listener questions about the episode and Josh gives a preview of his brand-new original podcast series, “Deadly Mirage.” Listen to the full episode of "The Killer Among Them" here: https://link.chtbl.com/dl_thekilleramongthem

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. It's Josh Manquowitz, and we are talking Dateline today with Andrea Canning. Hi, Andrea.

0:14.0

Hi, hi.

0:15.0

So this episode is called The Killer Among Them. It's from 1996. An Atlanta millionaire named Lance Herndon was found

0:22.8

bludgeoned to death in his home, and detectives dug into his life. It turned out one of the

0:28.6

people closest to him was his killer, and that person had actually been at his big glamorous

0:34.4

birthday party in Atlanta just a little while before he was killed.

0:41.7

So if you have not listened to this episode yet, it is the episode right below this one on the list of podcasts that you just chose from.

0:44.1

So go there, listen to it.

0:46.0

Or if you want to watch it, you can stream it on Peacock or watch it on your DVR and then

0:50.5

come back here.

0:51.6

Now, when you come back, Andrea has an extra clip that she wants to play for us from

0:56.6

the killer's police interrogation, and also later we're going to answer some of your

1:00.2

questions about the episode from social media.

1:02.3

And now let's talk Dateline.

1:03.9

So you say, Killer Among Us in the episode.

1:08.3

Is this one of those rare instances in which the title is actually your title?

1:12.2

So I did not come up with this title, but I actually, I watched the show Friday, like everyone

1:18.4

else at home.

1:19.2

I mean, I'd seen it before that, but I did notice that.

1:22.2

And I had the same question, did the title come from this?

1:26.6

So I actually just texted Susan Nahl, who comes up with

1:31.4

a lot of our titles, and I'm waiting to hear back from her. Maybe you're like the muse.

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