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A new episode will premiere each Thursday starting next week.“The great thing about this case is that it didn’t fit the standard ‘Dateline’ template,” Mankiewicz tells The Post. He also indulges us all with a sweet personal story, and just the thing we need to hear in these times of turmoil.
Watch the latest episodes of Dateline or get episode details on NBC.com. It may be a pandemic but we are calling this a PandeMANK because he is doing his part to fill the social isolation void by bringing the world a thrilling new podcast called MOTIVE FOR MURDER. It's a doozy so be sure to keep your earbuds handy and your download fingers at the ready. Solving the case will take not just years, but another murder. This was an opportunity to tell it in a different way and it’s also unusual just because the circumstances were so weird and it’s such a long, incredibly intricate case.“A friend of mine, who’s a homicide detective, says all murders, when you’re looking for motive, classify them as love, money or pride.Mankiewicz says that anchoring “Motive for Murder” provided him more flexibility than a typical “Dateline” episode in terms of storytelling.“In in a two-hour ‘Dateline’ we’re going to leave stuff out,” he says. Please enjoy this very special ADWD interview with the Dateline host who holds the (han)key to our hearts! Fans of NBC's "Dateline" will have a new way to investigate true-crime cases thanks to a newly-announced podcast called "Motive for Murder." Josh Mankiewicz enjoys a storied career in journalism, a fabled Hollywood family history and he's joining us to look back on 25 years of legal and true crime reporting on Dateline plus his new podcast Motive for Murder.
“It wasn’t the husband, it wasn’t the wife, it wasn’t the boyfriend or girlfriend, it wasn’t for insurance … what made it such a compelling story to tell was just trying to figure out the motive, which had investigators scratching their heads for a really long time.“There were theories that explained one victim’s murder but didn’t explain the other victim’s murder,” he says, “and the explanations just didn’t make sense.”The young victims — Iranian activist/researcher Gelareh Bagherzade and Coty Beavers — were murdered 10 months apart in 2012. Veteran “Dateline” correspondent Josh Mankiewicz has gone digital with his first podcast. Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Would you like to receive desktop browser notifications about breaking news and other major stories? “If you don’t know the story already, you’re not going to know who it was in the first five minutes. For instance, if I’m talking about somebody sentenced for one crime but not another … that’s not something that’s going to get into a ‘Dateline’ episode, since it’s difficult to explain and would require me talking too long on TV.“But our fans, people who listen to podcasts and watch ‘Dateline,’ will come up to me at the airport and say, ‘Why didn’t the Modesto cops use Luminol at the second crime scene?’ They want to know exactly what went into that [perpetrator’s] sentencing recommendation — so you can get those little granular details into the story and still keep it entertaining for everyone else.”
They knew each other, but connecting their slayings flummoxed investigators for six years.“I really wanted to do this one, since it fell sort of outside the typical ‘Dateline’ footprint,” Mankiewicz says of the podcast, produced in conjunction with Neon Hum Media. Josh Mankiewicz Exclusive: PandeMANK & Motive for Murder ... ... 0 Scientists tested 14 types of masks — here are the ones that worked and...NYPD cops don't lift a finger as 11-year-old is beaten in broad daylightFire rips through Rachael Ray's home in upstate New YorkHoward Stern's advice to Ellen DeGeneres: 'Just be a p---k'Hollywood stylist dishes on the worst stars to work withHoward Stern's advice to Ellen DeGeneres: 'Just be a p---k'Alyssa Milano experiencing hair loss after positive COVID-19 antibodies testAlyssa Milano experiencing hair loss after positive COVID-19 antibodies testAngelina Jolie’s judge-jockeying in custody case an attempt to stallAngelina Jolie’s judge-jockeying in custody case an attempt to stallRuPaul ‘disengaging’ from social media during ‘overwhelming’ timesRuPaul ‘disengaging’ from social media during ‘overwhelming’ times‘Surviving Jeffrey Epstein’: The 9 Most Shocking Takeaways‘Surviving Jeffrey Epstein’: The 9 Most Shocking Takeaways
It's a much more in depth look at the case featured in the Dateline episode "Deliberate Evil".