My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark - Celebrity Hometowns with Josh Mankiewicz

Episode Date: October 27, 2021

For a special treat, Karen and Georgia sit down with celebrity guests to hear their stories, from hometown murders to personal accounts of mayhem to legendary family lore. Today's guest is Jo...sh Mankiewicz.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This is exactly right. We at Wondery live, breathe, and downright obsess over true crime. And now we're launching the ultimate true crime fan experience, Exhibit C. Join now by following Wondery, Exhibit C, on Facebook, and listen to true crime on Wondery and Amazon Music, Exhibit C. It's truly criminal. Hello, and welcome to my favorite murder, celebrity hometown version. That's right. We asked our friends that are famous and celebrities to talk to us and give us their hometown as
Starting point is 00:00:56 a special year-end treat for all our murdering friends out there. We know that regular hometowns are fun, but how about we mix them a little high-level fame? Yeah, that's what George and I were thinking. That's what everyone wants. And today we have a very, very familiar voice to everyone out there that we get really excited when we hear too. It's our friend from Dateline, Josh Mankiewicz.
Starting point is 00:01:21 Let's hear that voice. Stay sexy. Don't get murdered. Wow. That's right off the bat. I love it. Josh, Dateline has been on for 30 years this year. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:37 Yeah. How is that possible? You know, this is our 30th season. Like, you know, I joined in 1995, so I'm, you know, kind of a newcomer. You're the new kid on the block. Yeah. I've only been here 26 years. So, you know, I mean, look, you know, in TV, you know, nothing lasts 30 seasons.
Starting point is 00:02:00 No. No. You know, Monday night football, meet the press, I mean, not a lot, 60 minutes. So when I joined, I certainly didn't think I was going to be here 30 seasons later, but I am and it's been great. You must love what you do. I mean, we love what you do. So hopefully you love what you do.
Starting point is 00:02:18 No, I love it. I definitely do. It's been wonderful. Were you shocked at this like kind of true crime wave that has happened recently? I mean, what's that been like for you guys who have been around the whole time? I was completely blindsided by it. It, you know, for the first 10 years that I was at Dateline from like 1995 to 2005, we weren't doing true crime.
Starting point is 00:02:42 And we were doing all kinds of stories on like, like, like five or even six unrelated stories within the hour, all kinds of things. And that was fun. And then around 2005, 2006, we started making the turn to doing single subject hours and a lot of them were true crime. And originally, you know, when it first, when they first started talking about it, I wasn't interested in it. Really?
Starting point is 00:03:11 I didn't really want to do that. Yeah, because my feeling was like the police beat is like the thing you do at the beginning of your career, you know? And I had done that, you know, I covered a lot of cop stories when I was when I was young. But I could also tell that this was sort of the direction that Dateline was going in, which was that we were going to start doing more of this stuff. And David Corvo, our executive producer, who was kind of behind this this move, you know, I could tell he really like this was this was where we were going.
Starting point is 00:03:40 And he thought this was really going to help us. And he also thought there was an audience out there for it, which he turned out to be completely correct about. Yeah, yeah. So I did the first one, which was about the disappearance and then subsequent murder of Brianna Denison in Reno. And you know, I sort of realized what everybody else has covered this, you know, eventually realizes.
Starting point is 00:04:03 I mean, the things I liked about about that story were the things I liked about every story, which is that, you know, writing is writing, reporting is reporting. And there's a real important story to be told there. And then I sort of got hooked, you know, just the same way the audience did. And now I'm really glad that we've been doing it this long. It's been great. Yeah. You guys give a voice to the families of victims, which I think is so important.
Starting point is 00:04:28 I'm still in touch with her mom. Wow. Wow. That's incredible. Yeah. I mean, you interview people who seem to be involved, but are the kind of people who will be interviewed on television to say they're not. And then watch you make the face at them sitting in a prison like interview room.
Starting point is 00:04:51 Yeah. I suppose I should try to be a little more opaque when I'm interviewing those people. No, we're all feeling it. But I'm not good at it. You know, it's not like I'm, you know, not like I'm doing facial isometrics before the interview. You know, I'm going to do this, you know, but yeah, I mean, look, my feeling is that, you know, I was a political reporter for a long time before joining Dateline and covering
Starting point is 00:05:16 politics and covering crime, like there are a lot of things in common, which is that, you know, the person you're interviewing, the murderer who's telling you, you know, this isn't me, this isn't possible, I couldn't do that, I, you know, I would never do that. And here's why it couldn't have happened. That's not terribly difficult, different from a candidate for public office explaining to you why you should vote for them and why their opponent is, you know, a lying scoundrel. They're going to change the world. Oh, right.
Starting point is 00:05:49 You know, and so, and that doesn't, you know, and you, and in both cases, you let them roll out their, their spiel, you know, this is what I think. This is why I'm going to make the tax base better. And this is also why I, the fact that I was found covered in blood and didn't have an alibi, that doesn't mean anything. And you know, in both cases, you let them say what they want to say. And in both cases, you have to poke holes in it. And I suppose that when I was covering politics, I also probably had that face.
Starting point is 00:06:22 We talked about it, but I probably was doing the same thing. Yeah. Man, I bet you've been in a room with a lot of sociopaths, like maybe more than most people ever will be. Yes, between politics and murder stories, good dog, yes. Yeah, they attract some of the same types of people. Do you get like a feeling? That's what I was going to say.
Starting point is 00:06:43 Yeah. Do you get like a feeling when you walk in the room? Is there like a, is there a tell? We all want to know, like, how can we spot it in the wild, you know? Well, I mean, so many politicians are, you know, liars in one way or another, and particularly when they're accused of something, you know, not just, not just running, but they are, you know, alleged to have done something, something wrong or something improper. And yeah, those interviews are not terribly different from the ones we do on Dateline
Starting point is 00:07:14 with the, with the defendants. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's true. I mean, the rules are the same, like they get to say what they want to say, and we get to, we get to poke some holes in that. And that's, that's the fun of both those jobs. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:30 Is there a number, like a small amount of those convicted that you actually believed didn't do it, or is it kind of across the board? No, there are, there are a couple of people, and because I have covered these stories and I need to, I may need to cover them again, I'm not going to say who it is. Yeah. But I'm going to say there are, and I, when I say handful, I mean literally a handful, like probably less than five defendants who I've thought I could not have voted to convict this person.
Starting point is 00:08:03 That doesn't happen very often because usually by the time people get in a court for that trial, there's some significant evidence against them. But there are a couple of cases and they're, and the thing that, the thing that connects those defendants, I would say, is that they are unlikable people. And that that is, that either they are unlikable or their conduct is particularly unlikable. And when juries start disliking you because you cheated on your wife or you always spoke to her in a, in a, in an insulting, demeaning manner, that kind of thing sometimes can overwhelm or, or be just as important as the actual forensic or literal or, or, or eyewitness
Starting point is 00:08:50 evidence against you. And so in some cases, the people who were convicted that I thought, I'm not sure, were guys who had done something unlikable. And the, and the jury, I thought kind of voted as much on that as they did on the evidence. But you know, whichever way it goes, that's the story we do. And yeah, you know, I mean, you know, we, we certainly were going to mention all of that. But you know, you know, I don't get a vote.
Starting point is 00:09:17 The jury does. And as we know from all the stories that you guys have done and that we have done, like the jury doesn't always hear everything. Yeah. My stance from here on out as a politician is that Josh Mankiewicz should be the sole judge and jury for every trial that you should get to say is what I'm saying. It's an interesting thought. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:37 It's just you and Keith Morrison up there on that, in that judge's sense. Just the two of us. Yeah. Yeah. We know this stuff. Yes. Interview me. Interview me.
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Starting point is 00:11:06 Goodbye. Hey, I'm Aresha. And I'm Brooke. And we're the hosts of Wondery's podcast, Even the Rich, where we bring you absolutely true and absolutely shocking stories about the most famous families and biggest celebrities the world has ever seen. Our newest series is all about the incomparable diva, Whitney Houston. Whitney's voice defined a generation, and even after her death, her talent remains unmatched.
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Starting point is 00:12:02 Do you want to tell us whatever it is your hometown is, but it could be, it's a really loose term these days. Yes. So the story first interested you or whatever it is. Well, the story that first got me interested in true crime and it carried me for a number of years and in ways which I'll explain was essentially, well, I don't know. You might call it a cold case. No one was ever put on trial.
Starting point is 00:12:29 The supposed killer died before trial ever began. The person who killed the supposed killer never made it to trial and this has remained probably the biggest mystery, the biggest murder mystery of my lifetime. It's the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. I was seven years old. I was, we were living in Peru because my dad who'd worked for President Kennedy in 1960 and had then been appointed director of the Peace Corps in Peru, the inaugural class there. We were living in South America and we were not even home in Lima, Peru at the time.
Starting point is 00:13:13 We were up in the mountains in a town called Ariquipa and that's significant because Ariquipa, I believe, didn't have the capability or at least where we were, didn't have the capability to make an international phone call. So the information that we were getting that day was coming from a shortwave radio. I very distinctly remember people clustered around like a ham radio. They were calling Lima trying to get more information because what you would do now right now is you'd fire up the internet but even back in the 1960s, you'd call somebody in the United States and say, what's on TV and we didn't even have that.
Starting point is 00:13:49 So it was, information came out very slowly but it was the first time I ever saw my dad cry. I'll never forget that. And of course, it was the beginning of this giant mystery. The Warren Commission sort of officially investigated it in 1964 and came to the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald had done this in the act of the loan and almost instantly the official version was challenged by a number of people who seemed to know what they were talking about.
Starting point is 00:14:22 And I remember reading about that in the newspapers in the mid-60s as the criticisms of the Warren Commission began and started growing. Now the interesting thing about this is that a lot of today's conspiracies, the government is poisoning us with the chemtrails from the planes. Bill Gates is charting our movements from the COVID vaccine, the election was rigged. A lot of that crazy stuff has its roots in the Kennedy assassination. Not in that story but in that perception that sort of took hold in the 1960s that the government's not telling you the truth, that there are secrets out there that are being concealed
Starting point is 00:15:11 from you. I'm not a big conspiracy guy, and in fact I can't think of too many other conspiracy theories that I do believe, but the official version of the Kennedy assassination sort of never made sense to me, just the way it never did to a lot of other people. Now I kept brushing up against this story in my life. Not only did I read a lot about it at the time, I remember devouring the way in Manchester's book about President Kennedy's life, or his presidency called A Thousand Days, but when I went to college, I went to Haverford College outside of Philadelphia, and one of my professors
Starting point is 00:15:49 there was a guy named Josiah Thompson. I obviously didn't know this when I went to college. He'd written a book, he was one of the original Warren Commission critics, and he'd written a book called Six Seconds in Dallas, which you can still find, which by the way is a great book. He talked a lot about sort of how the official version of events didn't make sense and why, and I'm not going to bore you with getting into the minutiae of this because it's easily possible to spend three, four, five hours talking about the nuts and bolts of the different
Starting point is 00:16:20 theories or what's wrong with the official explanation. But I remember thinking, wow, once again I'm hearing about this and I'm thinking about this and reading Professor Thompson's book and talking with him. And then after I got out of college, I went to work for ABC News, and one of my early jobs was I was covering Capitol Hill for them behind the camera as what's called an off air reporter. And as part of that, I covered the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which was established in 1976 and which finally issued its report in 1979 after some lengthy and very well-publicized
Starting point is 00:16:58 hearings about both the King assassination and the JFK assassination. And the committee was all set to sort of in some ways ratify the Warren Commission by saying it looked like it was just one guy. When they got this very persuasive audio testimony, sort of forensic audio analysis by these two guys who came in who analyzed a tape that was made of the police radio transmissions at the moment that the shots were being fired in Dealey Plaza. And they were pretty persuasive. Now anybody listening to this who knows about this is also going to know that those findings
Starting point is 00:17:35 were called into question later by other analysts. This has been a long time. This story has, as I say, you could take a thousand days to tell this story. So I'm aware of the criticism of that, but I will tell you that when I heard that, it was pretty persuasive. And there were certain things about the official version that never made any sense, the so-called single bullet theory, the idea that Oswald fired a shot that went through President Kennedy and then went through Governor Connolly and, you know, like broke a rib and shattered his
Starting point is 00:18:07 wrist and then lodged in his thigh and then somehow rolled off of a stretcher in Parkland Hospital a couple hours later. And it's just about pristine. It's a very good firearms analysis match to the mail order gun that Mr. Oswald bought to shoot the president with. So no, it's a perfect match back to that gun, and it's one reason why it's a big underpinning of the theory that Mr. Oswald did in the act of the law. It's very hard to replicate a bullet that pristine having gone through two people because
Starting point is 00:18:38 frequently in Dateline and lots of other cases, police can't get a firearms analysis match from a bullet that's been fired into a person because it's too mashed up. So they were lying on other ways of doing it. So that always, I thought a lot about that over the years and sort of the more I knew about, you know, forensic analysis, the more I sort of did that kind of work, it reminded me of that. And then there's one more thing. After he left the Peace Corps, my dad went to work for Robert Kennedy.
Starting point is 00:19:07 He was Bobby's press secretary from 1966 until the minute he was killed in June of 1968. And lots of people, as you might imagine, came to Bobby Kennedy with their own theories, some of which were crazy, some of which were probably not crazy, some of which seemed to have some validity to them. And they all said, you know, I know what happened and I want to help you out. And here's what I'm pretty sure I know what happened to your brother. I know who was waiting for him there in Dallas. And Bobby Kennedy did not want to deal with any of those people.
Starting point is 00:19:39 And so he appointed someone on his staff to sort of act as the catch-all for all of that information, talk to those people. And that person was my dad. Wow. Really? And so these assassination theorists, some of whom were nuts and some of whom were not, like came over to our house. I remember a guy came over to our house once and he had giant grainy blow-ups of the area
Starting point is 00:20:09 around what's called the Gracie Knoll in Dallas, which was an area where a lot of people thought they heard gunshots. And he had these photographs of that area at that time, so big you could sort of see the pixels in the frame, and he carried one of these giant photos across the street and set it up on our neighbor's lawn across the street. And we all stood in the living room and he's like, so what do you see? He yelled at us from across the street. And what you saw very clearly was a guy with a gun or a tree branch, depending on where
Starting point is 00:20:46 you sit. But I mean, did he have something there? Yeah, he had something that was certainly plausible. And there were a lot of these people over the years that came by and had all kinds of interesting different theories. So when I covered the House's Anastasia's Committee and they came up with a conclusion at the end of their hearings that the president was killed by more than one shooter and that there was some kind of conspiracy, they didn't know what it was.
Starting point is 00:21:16 They said it wasn't the Soviet government. They said they didn't think it was the Cuban government. They left open the possibility that it might have been organized crime. But they basically said they weren't sure, except they were confident that the official version wasn't correct. And then later, of course, it's turned out, now we're going down the road some years. Later it's turned out that the CIA and the FBI were not in any way cooperative with either the original investigation by the Warren Commission or by the subsequent investigation
Starting point is 00:21:42 by the House's Anastasia's Committee, as you might expect from the CIA and FBI. They held a lot back. And what was that? We don't know. Some of those records from the Anastasia's Committee haven't been looked at and I think are sealed for like 50 years or something. But that remains an enduring mystery and I kept brushing up against it again and again and again through my dad and then at college and then with my first job covering Capitol
Starting point is 00:22:10 Hill. So I was already interested in it and then I ended up sort of learning more and more about it just because it was always right there in front of me. And so when I started covering true crime all those years ago, that was kind of a good fit with all of that. Yeah, I mean, that is the ultimate hometown really because it was in a lot of ways for people back then, it was everyone's hometown, this kind of complete reality shift for everyone alive in America, all Americans that basically went through something that was unimaginable
Starting point is 00:22:53 like that. And then to just be in a place where you would be entertaining what the possible truths of it were or like what the facts. One of the enduring theories of the JFK assassination was that there was a guy with an umbrella who carried an umbrella in D. Lee Plaza on a sunny day and he puts up the umbrella, which was seen to many as some kind of signal like here we go, commence firing. And the Assassinations Committee, I thought did a very good job, they found that guy and all these years later and they brought him in and he talked about what he'd been doing
Starting point is 00:23:33 which had nothing to do with any assassination plot. He was, it was supposed to be a symbol of, I believe, Neville Chamberlain. He was accusing Kennedy of appeasement in the same way that Neville Chamberlain I think had been accused of being soft on Nazi Germany and the Axis Powers. And the umbrella was meant to evoke Chamberlain, as I recall. So it turned out that it wasn't anything, but it was a great piece of history just to have debunked right in front of my eyes there in a house hearing room. They never found the woman in the scarf.
Starting point is 00:24:13 Is that right? There's a woman in a scarf and like a head scarf like that? Yeah, and the Sepruder films and they never found her. Yes, right. Well, the Sepruder film, like, first of all, today, somebody takes a shot at the President. Like, you're not going to need a Haberdasher, which is what Abe Sepruder was, to provide a record of history. Every network's going to be there and there's going to be all this security footage for
Starting point is 00:24:43 all the cameras around and everybody in the crowd is going to be on their iPhone. You don't have too much video, but the idea that like then, there's no record of this incredibly important event in American history, except a guy who happened to take a home movie. Yeah, there could have been none if he hadn't just happened to be here. Could easily have been none, yeah. But wait, was that the standard back then that like if the President was there, you know, like kind of that no news stations would have gone down to get it? I don't know, but the idea that like they would have been recording all the way through
Starting point is 00:25:19 the motorcade, that didn't happen then. You know, back then, sure, there were press with them, there were traveling press with them, but the press bus was all the way at the end of the motorcade. And there were crews there, TV crews, but they would have had film cameras just like Mr. Sepruder had, maybe a little better than it is. And there were crews set up at the trademark where the President was going. So I mean, there was a lot of coverage back then of sort of scheduled events like the President's speech to the trademark that afternoon, but there wasn't a lot of coverage of, you
Starting point is 00:25:52 know, we want to be rolling just in case what might happen. And you know, you go forward in history, I mean, you know, look at all the videotape there is of the Reagan attempted assassination, but before that, there's video of both Sarah Jane Moore and Squeaky Frone taking shots at or trying to take shots at President Ford. You know, you didn't have to rely on, there's news film, you didn't have to rely on citizens taking home movies. Yeah. So you must have, and then maybe it changes all the time, but you must have your own pet
Starting point is 00:26:26 theory that you love. You know, there are, I mean, as to what I really think happened, the official explanation for reasons which I was talking about earlier of the single bullet theory, that never made any sense. And to believe that you have to believe things just because you want to believe them. You have to believe that Governor Connolly was shot, but he doesn't show any reaction to it for a little while. He's shot with the same bullet, but you don't see him react in time.
Starting point is 00:26:52 You have to believe there was a delayed reaction. When people turn and look at the stockade fence, the grassy knoll, you have to believe that Dealey Plaza is an acoustical freak. And that they were looking at that because of the echoes, not because they actually heard gunshots coming from right over their shoulder. So for those reasons alone, I was sort of, you know, did kind of discounted the official explanation. You also have to believe that, you know, Jack Ruby, this like, you know, creep of a guy
Starting point is 00:27:26 who, you know, owned a strip club and used his sort of the fact that a lot of cops in Dallas knew him, used that to sort of get into the area where Oswald was being trained. He transferred the Jack Ruby. This guy who'd never had a moral thought in his entire life, suddenly so outraged at what happened to President Kennedy that because he felt bad for Jackie Kennedy, I think is what he said, that he wanted to kill the man who had killed the president. And he happened to just have terminal cancer. That always seemed like too easy to me in the same way that that bullet rolling off the
Starting point is 00:28:01 stretcher seemed too easy. But what was really going on? I do not pretend to know. I don't. Is it possible that it was organized crime? Yeah, it's possible. Is it possible that it was, you know, anti-Castro Cubans who thought that Kennedy was moving the wrong direction?
Starting point is 00:28:18 Sure. But could it be neither one of those things? It could be. But the only thing I've been convinced about over the years is that the official story wasn't the correct story. Yeah. Do you think that Oswald was a patsy or do you think he actually was involved but under someone else's command?
Starting point is 00:28:36 It strikes me as unlikely that he had no involvement at all or that he was like framed for this. I mean, he said he was a patsy early on and being set up on a patsy, he said, around the time he was arrested. Also imagine today letting the guy who's been accused of killing the president, like, you know, 24 hours earlier, give a press conference, even a little brief one in the police station. Like I just don't see that happening. But yeah, was he involved in some way?
Starting point is 00:29:09 Yes. I think he probably was involved in some way. Exactly what way I don't know. And his background, his history is so weird and so murky and it may well be his, it may well be the reason why the CIA doesn't want to say anything about or wasn't as forthcoming as they should have been with both the Warren Commission and the House committee because they they they'd had some interactions with him previously. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:29:36 But yeah, I think he probably had something to do with it. Yes. Wow. Wow. This could be a thousand days podcast. I mean, it really is fascinating. Or you need to write a book about this. Yes.
Starting point is 00:29:49 Like I would read this immediately. Yeah. Well, all right. I feel like this probably enough books written about this, but there must be one more. They've got to be 50 of them, right? Yes. Come on. Well, I want to read the one you mentioned that your professor wrote.
Starting point is 00:30:07 That sounds. Yes. Six seconds in Dallas. Very good. I bought it on Amazon a couple of years ago because I'd lost my original copy, but yeah, it's still out there. Yeah. That sounds amazing.
Starting point is 00:30:19 Josiah Thompson is the is the author. Yeah. Okay. I mean, great one. Yeah. Holy town. That was killer. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:29 Major. We're not surprised. No. This is very, this is very Josh Mankiewicz of you to have that as your hometown. I know. I know. It really is. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:39 It is. You know, I thought about which crime I was going to talk about. I did. And I thought about some crimes actually that I covered when I was in local news in Washington, D.C. and then later when I was Long Island correspondent in New York. But this one out, the Kennedy assassination one out, you know, the Oliver Stone movie that came out, which was, you know, not a documentary, I mean, it's a dramatic film. So, you know, let's not take it as historical record.
Starting point is 00:31:03 But the one thing about it that I just loved so much was the tagline, which was the story that won't go away, which is what this is. It's what it's always been. And for people who are a certain age, my age, yeah, it's the story that won't go away. And it does make sense that because so many people went through trauma like that, it's very easy to convince people, the government's against you, that kind of idea of like. They're all lying to you. And I mean, you know, it wasn't long after that, that, you know, that the right wing
Starting point is 00:31:38 in this country began this, you know, now more than 50 year campaign against academics, against truth, against knowledge, against journalists, against teachers, against scientists, you know, they're all lying to you. Well, the reason that those arguments work is that a lot of people of all political stripes really did think the government was lying to them starting in 1964. Yeah. Wow. With good reason.
Starting point is 00:32:04 Yeah. That's a fascinating take. Man, Josh, thank you so much. Thank you both. Thank you both. Thanks for having me. Oh my God. I want to make sure, of course, to watch Dateline Fridays, 9-8 Central, and NBC, and check out
Starting point is 00:32:20 all of Josh's, oh, on Twitter, you're at Josh Mankiewicz? At Josh Mankiewicz, yes. He's the best. He's my favorite follow on Twitter. I know. I love it. Just some pretty consistent good times. But then there's also the hard-hitting information that I personally need.
Starting point is 00:32:38 And I'm like, ooh, I better, I'm going to read that article. Thank you. I mean, I would say, well, thank you. Yes, I do both. I do both. I do both. You do? Of hard-hitting.
Starting point is 00:32:49 And although lately, it seems like the amusing, the hard-hitting stuff is about as hard to find as a dress with pockets, if you know what I mean. Hey. Hey, come on now. I always got to be on the search for that. Yeah, always. But, yeah. No, it's, you know, Twitter's a lot of fun.
Starting point is 00:33:06 I didn't want to do Twitter either. NBC talked me into that. Turned out to be fun. Yes. Glad they did. We thank NBC for that. That's great. And also, every once in a while, you're just, you just kind of rib Keith Morrison.
Starting point is 00:33:18 I'm like, people will write, they'll write something about, to Dateline, please don't ever do this. And then Josh comes in with like, don't worry about it. We're, you know, Keith will be on the case forever or whatever. So much fun. Yeah. It's great. It's great.
Starting point is 00:33:33 And it brought, we're just, we're just happier in our world because we're very honored that you hang out with us sometimes. Thank you so much. It's been great. Great, great to see you both. You too. This is my Dateline hat that you gave us at the live show. Proudly.
Starting point is 00:33:47 Proudly wear it. Nice shirt. Good. Good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for representing. Thank you for being here on our celebrity hometown edition.
Starting point is 00:33:57 Josh Mankiewicz. Josh Mankiewicz, everyone. Thanks guys. Elvis, do you want a cookie? This has been an exactly right production. Our producer is Hannah Kyle Creighton. Our associate producer is Alejandra Keck, engineered and mixed by Andrew Epid. Send us your hometowns at myfavoritmurder at gmail.com.
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