Sep 23, 2026 · 37 min · 12 segments
Dateline correspondent Andrea Canning has sat across from convicted killers, written more than 30 Hallmark and Lifetime movies, and somehow raised six kids along the way. In this episode, she takes us…
Andrea CanningGuest
Maureen PetroskyHost
Jess DowneyHost
Andrea, did you think you were going to be hanging out with psychopaths and murderers?
mystery route was maybe inevitable, but ending up in prisons interviewing killers, I don't know if that was... on my bingo card, as they say.
And not everyone likes it when we extend the invitation to the killer, but it's part of what we do.
And probably one out of every, I don't know, four to five stories, they'll say yes.
And I found there was a guy in West Palm who had done something very similar but was not killed.
And I said, why don't we get inside the mind of someone who does this? Because we had had an incident in West Palm.
Andrea, did you think you were going to be hanging out with psychopaths and murderers?
mystery route was maybe inevitable, but ending up in prisons interviewing killers, I don't know if that was... on my bingo card, as they say.
And not everyone likes it when we extend the invitation to the killer, but it's part of what we do.
And probably one out of every, I don't know, four to five stories, they'll say yes.
And I found there was a guy in West Palm who had done something very similar but was not killed.
And I said, why don't we get inside the mind of someone who does this? Because we had had an incident in West Palm.
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