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Talking Dateline: The Other Side of Paradise

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Keith Morrison and Andrea Canning sit down to talk about Keith’s classic episode "The Other Side of Paradise.” In 2006, 27-year-old Sandra Galas was found strangled in her car at her home in Hawaii. It would take a combination of new technology, old-fashioned detective work and a father's determination to get closer to solving the case. Keith and Andrea talk about polygraphs, Greek philosophy and what led investigators to their suspect, Sandra's estranged husband, Darren. Plus, they play an exclusive clip from his sentencing and discuss their experiences traveling to the island of Kauai. If you have a question for Talking Dateline, send us an audio message on social @datelinenbc or leave us a voicemail at 212-413-5252. Listen to the full episode “The Other Side of Paradise” on Apple: https://apple.co/45l43zq Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7Lj0SByYxBGymOcGfyrS0u?si=e97b33802b0143f7

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's Andrea Canning and we are talking Dateline.

0:06.5

Today I'm joined by Keith Morrison to discuss his episode, The Other Side of Paradise.

0:11.8

If you haven't listened to this episode yet, it is the episode two below this one on your

0:17.2

Dateline feed, so go there and listen to it or stream it on Peacock and then come back here.

0:22.7

To recap, when Sandra Gallis was found strangled to death in her car, her friends and family

0:28.0

assumed her estranged husband, Darren, was responsible.

0:32.0

But investigators didn't have enough evidence to charge him for the crime and the case

0:36.2

went cold until new forensic

0:38.1

testing and the man's calendar proved enough to make an arrest.

0:42.4

For this talking Dateline, we have a clip from Darren Gallus' sentencing from the letter

0:46.4

Sandra and Darren's sons wrote in support of their father.

0:49.8

Okay, let's talk Dateline.

0:51.8

Okay, let's do that.

0:53.5

Keith, I found myself just on a roller coaster in this episode.

0:58.8

My heart was breaking for Larry the longer that this dragged on and on and on.

1:05.8

And it did drag, that's for sure.

1:08.1

It's been a nightmare for that poor family.

1:12.6

He and his really delightful wife, who is not a public person and didn't want to be a public person, but, you know, the two of

1:17.0

them together have just gone through hell for quite a long time. Keith, you actually learned about

1:22.4

this story kind of in a roundabout way. You're our Hawaii correspondent, I feel like. And so you were in Hawaii

1:29.0

and found out about this, right? We were doing another story, another really fascinating story

1:35.8

there that took us a long time to do, as some of these stories do, about a polar player.

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