The Andrea Canning Interview: D4VD, Rex Heuermann & Gabby Petito
Legally Brunette
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Emily and Shane are back with NBC correspondent Andrea Canning to gain her perspective on some of our top cases...
As mothers, how do Emily and Andrea view the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez? In what ways does it draw comparisons to the Gabby Petito case? What's some parenting advice from Andrea that Emily and Shane are definitely stealing?!
Plus, Andrea has been investigating the Gilgo Beach murders for decades. What does she have to say about Rex Heuermann's guilty plea? What are some things that have surprised her most about this case?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.8 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:06.8 | Welcome to an episode of Legally Brunette. |
| 0:09.4 | I will be your host today, Emily Simpson, along with... |
| 0:13.3 | Shane. |
| 0:14.2 | Shane. |
| 0:15.0 | Okay, today I'm super excited because we have a very special guest who's going to come on |
| 0:20.0 | and we're going to have a fun conversation about true crime with the one and only Andrea Canning. |
| 0:27.1 | I feel like she doesn't really need an introduction, but we'll give her one. |
| 0:31.1 | Out of respect. |
| 0:31.8 | Out of respect. |
| 0:32.8 | We're going to give her background. |
| 0:35.5 | Andrea Canning is an American journalist and longtime correspondent for NBC's Dateline. |
| 0:42.1 | She joined ABC News back in 2006, contributing to Good Morning America and to 2020, then moved to NBC's Dateline in 2012, where she's become one of the show's most recognizable faces, reporting on true |
| 0:56.9 | crime investigations and high. Whenever I say high profile, I always say ho first. |
| 1:03.9 | I always want to say. Is that an Ohio thing? I don't know. It's just from your hometown. |
| 1:08.1 | Everyone just called each other ho profiles. Instead of high profile, my first inclination is always to say ho profile. That sounds like a body count. Like, what's your body count? What's your body count? She's got a pretty good ho profile. What's your ho profile? All right, let me say that again. She reports on true crime investigations and high profile interviews. Hi, Andrea. Hey. Hi. How are you? Good. How are you? I'm good. Well, thank you so much for |
| 1:34.3 | coming on Legally Brunette again. We appreciate it. So let's go through some cases. I, because I always love your |
| 1:40.8 | opinion on everything. And let's just talk about some of these things that have been popping up in the media lately. |
| 1:46.3 | First of all, it's the David Burke and Celeste Rivas case. |
| 1:50.2 | And every time I always make fun of myself, when Shane makes fun of me too, that my news comes from Instagram. |
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