Temptation

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🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Blayne Alexander reports on the Virginia double murder case of a father accused of killing his wife and a stranger in a sinister plan involving the family au pair. Andrea Canning and Blayne Alexander go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in 'Talking Dateline' Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/4cewC3m Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5XPqWeAqLRDNArp0djujiT?si=M-kDIhNnSwatpBBQDayPlw

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0:00.0	Tonight on Dateline.
0:02.3	She was like Christine's dead.
0:04.5	I was speechless.
0:06.5	Complete shock.
0:08.0	She was a truly good human.
0:10.0	Loving mother.
0:11.5	A nurse's nurse.
0:13.0	Where's the gun at?
0:14.0	The officers, they're met by Juliana, the O'Pair.
0:17.0	They come upon a scene that's sheer chaos.
0:19.5	Absolutely.
0:20.5	There is somebody shot and a woman that's been stabbed.
0:23.6	What's bothering you right now?
0:24.6	Did you skip the scene?
0:28.6	You can see Brennan Bainfield.
0:30.6	He's kneeling over his wife.
0:32.6	The deceased male, we later identify as Joe Ryan.
0:35.6	They find this fetish website where Christine's profile is communicating with Joseph Ryan's
0:41.5	profile.
0:42.5	They're having in-depth correspondence regarding this violent sexual fantasy.
0:47.9	I was like, what if the fantasy was a setup?
0:51.2	We start to get these juicy details about this so-called catfish theory.
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