The Professor & The Poet

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🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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When Sue Marcum is found murdered in her Maryland home, it appears to be a burglary gone wrong. But DNA from the scene points detectives toward someone she trusted. Josh Mankiewicz reports. Keith Morrison and Josh Mankiewicz go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’ Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/3Ns9Exb Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5BfCyJXKp2y3BRBJ3iWKLe

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0:00.0	Tonight on Dateline.
0:02.0	He told me that she had been murdered.
0:05.0	She was one of my best friends.
0:08.0	So unnecessary, so senseless, so evil.
0:12.0	They found Sue Markham deceased at the bottom of her stairs.
0:17.0	Professor Markham was such a big part of the community, her energy and spirit. I saw the two shot glasses on the counter. We knew this was someone Sue had a relationship with. The first person I think did this was me. They're going to say you're carrying a torch for her? You had a key to her house?
0:38.3	Yeah.
0:39.3	I knew my sister was involved with a yoga teacher.
0:42.3	He taught Spanish.
0:43.3	He had that whole exotic yoga teacher poet thing going for it.
0:48.3	Yes.
0:49.3	I thought that he was gone about in the picture.
0:52.3	They had discovered some documents.
0:55.0	She was sinking.
0:56.5	She lost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
0:59.0	I'm thinking, what the hell?
1:01.0	Is this a scheme?
1:03.0	She hadn't told anybody about it.
1:05.0	She hadn't told a soul.
1:08.0	It rips your heart out.
1:10.0	A secret relationship, a stunning crime,
1:13.0	and an international manhunt to catch a killer.
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