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Talking Dateline: "Out There in the Dark" | Dateline NBC

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Talking Dateline: "Out There in the Dark" | Dateline NBC", an episode of Dateline NBC published July 30, 2025 (23 min, about 4,759 words). It mentions 32 people, works and ideas, including Social Media, Harry Potter, Donald C. Murphy, Podcast, Execution style.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Podcast, Donald C. Murphy, Execution style, John Hanks Alexander
  2. – 10:00: Steroids, Zanesville, Ohio, Aggression, Josh Daniels
  3. – 15:00: Burner Phone, Execution style, Stickup
  4. – 20:00: Social Media, Donald C. Murphy, London, Moscow
  5. – 22:30: Harry Potter, Dateline NBC, Sirius Black, Social Media

Notable quotes from "Talking Dateline: "Out There in the Dark" | Dateline NBC"

  • Hi everyone, it's Blaine Alexander and joining me today is the one, the only Dennis Murphy. Hi Dennis.
    about Donald C. Murphy · at
  • Sirius Underwood's girlfriend. So, of course, we will also be answering some of your questions from social media. All right, Dennis, we got a lot. Let's talk dine.
    about Social Media · at
  • Thieves. And that's what these two guys were because they were actually in their alter egos, they were stickup guys.
    about Stickup · at
  • Dudes. A big reveal to me came kind of toward the end when you said Josh was heavily dependent on steroids that he was as the investigator said he was roided out of his mind. Right. And so he's a he's a major gym rat.
    about Steroids · at
  • Let's talk about Zanesville, Ohio. I was very interested in this location because one I have to admit I'd not heard of Zanesville, Ohio. Been to a number of places in Ohio, but not Zanesville.
    about Zanesville, Ohio · at
  • The big aha moment in the case I think Blaine was the detective who clued to the identification of the burner phone.
    about Burner Phone · at
  • Serious was at risk. he really was. we talked about Josh and his confession. He took a plea deal, but he had to reveal the details of the crime to, to the extent that he could. he talks with investigators and we have some extra an.
    about Plea Deal · at
  • Name. Martin Sanchez Jr. on Facebook wrote, Sirius Underwood, is this a Harry Potter character?
    about Harry Potter · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Donald C. Murphy — Person · 2 mentions · first at
  • Josh Daniels — Person · 2 mentions · first at
    Few weeks for detectives to zero in on two prime suspects, Bry's aranged husband, Josh Daniels, and his buddy Sirius Underwood, but it took almost 2 years for them to find…
  • John Hanks Alexander — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Hi everyone, it's Blaine Alexander and joining me today is the one, the only Dennis Murphy. Hi Dennis.
  • Owen Keenan — Person · 1 mention · first at
    That was some of the catnip here. Keenan, the producer, said, Murphy, I got a story. We're going to have to go to Alaska. We have to go to Alaska. Oh, sign me up. I know. Exactly. We're we're.
  • Sirius Black — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Sirius. Yes, there is. There is a there is a cur Sirius Black from Harry Potter. I have to say the extent of my knowledge comes from my little sister.
  • Aaron Blake — Person · 1 mention
  • Gabby Wendy — Person · 1 mention
  • Severus Snape — Person · 1 mention

Books & papers

  • Harry Potter — Book · 3 mentions · first at
  • Out There in the Dark — Book · 1 mention · first at
    It is a joy, my friend. Well, we are talking Deline. We are going to be talking about Dennis's episode, Out There in the Dark. Now, if you haven't seen it yet, you can stream…

Companies & orgs

  • Dateline NBC — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Any questions for us about DLine, you can always reach us 247 on social media, dateline NBC, or you can pick up the phone, you can leave us a voicemail at 2124135252.
  • Zane State College — Company · 1 mention

Products & tech

  • Steroids — Product · 2 mentions · first at
  • Burner Phone — Product · 2 mentions · first at
  • Peacock — Product · 1 mention · first at
    There in the Dark. Now, if you haven't seen it yet, you can stream it on Peacock or listen to it on your Dine podcast feed and then come right back here for the chat. So…
  • Talking Dine — Product · 1 mention · first at
    You, too. And that is it for Talking Dine this week. Remember, if you have any questions for us about DLine, you can always reach us 247 on social media, dateline NBC, or you can pick up the.

Concepts & topics

  • Social Media — Concept · 4 mentions · first at
  • Podcast — Concept · 2 mentions · first at
    Seen it yet, you can stream it on Peacock or listen to it on your Dine podcast feed and then come right back here for the chat. So, here's a quick recap. In 2014, 25-year-old…
  • Execution style — Concept · 2 mentions · first at
    Recap. In 2014, 25-year-old Brandy Daniels was found shot to death execution style in her car at the top of her mother's driveway. It took just a few weeks for detectives to…
  • Stickup — Concept · 2 mentions · first at
  • Aggression — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Well aggression. aggression. That's a big consequence of it, right? And that's one of the as soon as I heard you.
  • Plea Deal — Concept · 1 mention · first at
  • Surveillance — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    On them. they were the guys with the mass with the gun and the surveillance picture would show these horrible scenes of putting a pistol in a woman's face and grabbing her…
  • Burner phone tracking — Concept · 1 mention
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Concept · 1 mention
  • Quid pro quo — Concept · 1 mention

Places & events

  • Zanesville, Ohio — Place · 2 mentions · first at
  • London — Place · 1 mention · first at
    And there was this old parker that got because 30 years before Blaine, I used to work in London and one of the usual stops on the beat was Moscow where it really was cold.
  • Moscow — Place · 1 mention · first at
    Because 30 years before Blaine, I used to work in London and one of the usual stops on the beat was Moscow where it really was cold.
  • Ohio — Place · 1 mention

Sponsors

  • Peacock — Sponsor · 1 mention · first at
    There in the Dark. Now, if you haven't seen it yet, you can stream it on Peacock or listen to it on your Dine podcast feed and then come right back here for the chat. So…
  • NBC — Sponsor · 1 mention

Full transcript with timestamps

Hi everyone, it's Blaine Alexander and joining me today is the one, the only Dennis Murphy. Hi Dennis.

Hey Blaine, I'm delighted to be with you. It is a joy, my friend. Well, we are talking Deline. We are going to be talking about Dennis's episode, Out There in the Dark. Now, if you haven't seen it yet, you can stream it on Peacock or listen to it on your Dine podcast feed and then come right back here for the chat. So, here's a quick recap. In 2014, 25-year-old Brandy Daniels was found shot to death execution style in her car at the top of her mother's driveway. It took just a few weeks for detectives to zero in on two prime suspects, Bry's aranged husband, Josh Daniels, and his buddy Sirius Underwood, but it took almost 2 years for them to find enough evidence and a surprising motive to tie them to this crime. Coming up later, we've got some podcast exclusive interview clips for you. an excerpt from Josh Daniels interview with police that didn't make it into Dennis's dine episode. And we've

got more from Dennis's interview with Sirius Underwood's girlfriend. So, of course, we will also be answering some of your questions from social media. All right, Dennis, we got a lot. Let's talk dine.

Let's go. Let's dive in. I've got to say, I didn't see this ending coming. And that's the mark of a good dine episode, right? But I I

That's good. I'm delighted to hear that. Yeah. No, no, no. This one was very interesting. I mean, just from the start when you talk about the notion of somebody driving along in the dark and then they see headlights behind them and you're kind of thinking, okay, is this just a weird driver or am I in some sort of serious trouble? I think that's something that all of us can relate to.

And Bla is especially chilling cuz this young woman is on her cell phone talking to her boyfriend. She's coming home from work. She's about to hang it up for the night and she says, "I see lights behind me. I'm being tailed."

Yeah. and you know, which is a hair on the back of your neck. Well, I mean, I think the thing too that that makes it even more frightening just from a woman's perspective, you kind of think, okay, if I'm on the phone with somebody, if I'm driving home or, you know, it's late at night, I'll be on the phone with my husband. I'm talking to him. It's fine. She was she was on the phone with with her fiance and

she reassured in the cocoon of her little car there, almost home. She was in her driveway.

I was really moved by your interview with with Bry's mother. Um Oh, yeah. Yeah. because I Oh god, I just felt terrible for her. Especially the detail of it, she being right so close and and being right there in her driveway and and her saying that she sat there and and looked and couldn't do anything. She was just watching all of this happen, right, as investigators were kind of processing the scene.

She's seeing the police lights at the end of her driveway and her daughter's a minute from being inside her house safe and sound. And she can't hurry justice along either, Blaine. I mean, this this woman has to wait years and years for some kind of result. Who who did this to my baby? And they just weren't getting answers. They all knew who did it, but they couldn't bring him to ground.

I found myself just I wanted to hear as much as I could from her. Um both from the feeling of losing a child. Um at the end, we learned that she, you know, they took in the grandchild, of course. Yeah.

But then just kind of this wait for justice and and what that looked like. How was she dealing with all of that? I I mean I remember her face that was just this mask of grief.

Uh you know that had become her default her default setting and uh I mean how do you how do you put into words you you got me in the other chair saying you how do you feel about that? What's happened? How do you feel about justice? And

there are no good answers for her. I mean she's mainly mourning the loss of her daughter. So, let's talk about the two people that wind up becoming the focus of this investigation. Uh, Bry's soon to be ex-husband, her aranged husband, who lives off in Alaska, and then his friend from the gym, Sirius Underwood.

I mean, people talk about being thick as thieves. And that's what these two guys were because they were actually in their alter egos, they were stickup guys. They'd put on masks and put a gun in somebody's face and grab the money and run. in addition to being, you know, admired people on campus where they worked, uh, friends in the gym, um, thick as thieves.

You know, I I have to say that I've never heard of a story like this where there's no money exchanging hands. There's no insurance money. It's not a quid proquo. It's not if you kill my soon tobe ex-wife, I'll do something for you. It's just that's what dudes do for dudes was the quote.

Wasn't that a great line? That's what dudes do for dudes. That's and I sort of, you know, as as a dude, I sort of get that you do things for your dude. Do you uh can I pick you up at the airport? Uh can I give you a run back from the auto shop when you do your drop? That's what dudes do for perhaps.

Yeah. And and as you said, there's no absolutely no evidence that any money changed hands. It's not like, I'll give you my routing number. Here's a here's a gym bag full of cash. That never happened. But it was what dudes do for dudes. A big reveal to me came kind of toward the end when you said Josh was heavily dependent on steroids that he was as as the investigator said he was roided out of his mind. Right. And so

he's a he's a major gym rat. Major gym rat. Uh I loved the line that you had that said after time in jail his kind of muscles had deflated like spent balloons.

Now I'm not an expert on steroids blame but I I I think one of the consequences might be that you don't start thinking straight.

Well aggression aggression aggression. aggression. That's a big consequence of it, right? And that that's one of the as soon as I heard you say steroids in there, that's what I thought of this. I think the real mystery in all of this was serious Sirius Underwood. He he was almost this like Dr. Jackekal, Mr. Hyde like character.

Exactly. Right. Right. I mean, he was he was the poster boy at his college, you know? He was the one that showed new students around. He was on the all the in the literature as this is an example of what we are at Zayn State College. When he wasn't posing for photos and helping little old ladies across the street, he was putting a gun in somebody's face and grabbing their bag and their money.

What a strange switch. Do you think that it was the thrill for him? You know, they had a they were engaged in a wave of robberies in the in that part of Ohio. And I think I don't know what that is. The adrenaline of that or whatever or the the mind state that wow we are bad guys

somehow spilled over into this becoming a killer because Underwood went out on his own. I mean he was the one following that car. He took it upon himself to do what a dude's got to do for a dude.

And the the ease with which he suggested it was also really chilling to me. It wasn't like they worked up to it and oh what should we do? It's just like I don't know let's get rid of her. I mean, they're just just like, "Hey, let's go get a pizza." That was

Yeah. Very stunning. When we get back, we've got more from Josh Daniels interview with police and more of the conversation Dennis had with Wendy, Sirius's girlfriend, who says she still can't believe that he committed murder.

Let's talk about Zanesville, Ohio. I was very interested in this location because one I I have to admit I'd not heard of Zanesville, Ohio. Been to a number of places in Ohio, but not Zanesville.

That's been always been the fun part of this job, Blaine, is going to places you would never ever buy a ticket for,

but there you are. All of a sudden, you're in Zanesville, Ohio, and what's it about? Well, it was it was one of the first capitals of the state of Ohio. uh you know back in mid 19th century and there was a a prosperous um pottery industry that took place the the the local clays were conducive to making really quality pottery. What really put him on the map and I had to be reminded of this.

There was a news story involving Zanesville in I'm going to say 2010 2011 was very strange. There was a guy who had a backyard exotic animal farm private. He had Bengal tigers and grizzly bears and wolves and they're all in his backyard.

Oh wow. And he decided that he was going to exit life and before he killed himself, he released all the animals in Zanesville.

So they're wandering around tigers and bears and the guys in law enforcement had to get out their long guns and

Yes. kill these They ended up killing 48 exotic animals. Oh my gosh, it really took a toll, you know. I mean, these are big uniformed guys with badges and guns and weapons, and it still affected them to have to go out and shoot Bengal tigers to keep their town safe. They

said then, and it makes sense, they really didn't have a choice. They had no way of rounding them up. So,

the escaped animals of Zanesville is one of the first things you find when you look up the place.

Wow. I vaguely remember that story actually, now that you say that, I do. I remember hearing about that. But I've got to say, Dennis, as an aside, every time I do a talking date line with you, I always learn something new, and I appreciate that.

That's a that's that's today's factoid. It's a great factoid. It's a great factoid. Um, which brings more intrigue to the town of Zanesville, Ohio. I mean, almost from the beginning, there are different characters within Zanesville. I mean, I think that long kind of road uh that Brandy was driving on, that was just a seemed like a creepy and desolate type of place. The other place that seemed to be kind of like a focal point or a gathering point in this was the college where they all were the the the the local uh college there in Zanesville. I thought that it was so interesting that that's what brought this kind of cast of characters together in so many ways that they intersected there.

Yeah. Yeah. Zane State and everybody would be very proud to have a community college of that reputation in their town. And yet it was also this strange where the currents of this awful event went through. Of course. Speaking of the people that we met there, Wendy, this is Sirius's girlfriend. I've been waiting to talk to you about her because my goodness, Wendy, I had a special sense of sympathy for.

She was a student. She went back, you know, as a single mom at a certain age in life and to get a degree. And she became a spokesperson and model for Zay State along with this guy Sirius.

And she thinks she and they became a couple. They became they became They became close and she could not put together these stories they were telling her of this jackalled hide kind of personality of her boyfriend that he could do it.

I mean, she rode for him until the end. She said, I she truly did even after she said there's no reason why would he do this.

And it all brings you down to the what made this guy tick. Why would he give up this woman that he had, this life that he had? He was a, you know, a pride of the community kind of character and then become a stickup guy.

Yeah. Let's, you spoke with her. I was fascinated by the interview. We have an extra clip though um where she kind of talks about her thoughts about all of this.

You don't think he's toying with your emotions and running a cruel con on you? A cruel con?

People will tell you that Sirius is a con man of conman. Oh, manipulator. Do you think he was doing that with you?

No. No, I know it. Yeah, that's not even a question. So, you don't think I mean, there were times that he lied. See, to be a cheater, you pretty well have to be a liar, right? That kind of goes hand in hand. I'm just saying it's not fair to just, you know, say that because someone, you know, you know, was smooth or they were uh what was that word you use? Tarning or manipulator or whatever. You know, I think every all of us are manipulators to some degree. Like, no, I never felt that way at all. So, you don't think he was out on that road that night and shot that woman to death three times execution style?

I No, I don't. I don't have a way. I'm I'm going to be realistic. I don't have a way of knowing that. And neither do you, and neither does anybody for absolutely sure.

So, I I think Wendy really had a hard time coming to grips with it. That was that's what I was trying to understand in the interview with her. And she really I mean just listening to that clip, she's adamant that he did not shoot and kill Brandy Daniels. But she's also adamant that the love that they had was real. What she felt with him is real. The the the sweet, kind, hardworking person that he presented himself to be to her is in fact who he is. Like she's not even willing to cross that bridge, that he lied to her.

So she's got to doubt her own software system, her antennas, what that tells her about

the people that she deals with in her life. How could you get something like that so wrong?

That's a hard leap for people to make. She thought she had found her guy. Let's talk about the investigation. Um, the detectives here were on a mission. I mean, I think what's unusual about this episode, it wasn't who did it, but it was why.

I think the undercurrent of all of this is that the the two perpetrators thought that they were just way smarter than these, you know, kind of slow local cops, and they were wrong as they could be.

Yes. Because those cops got them. You know, there were there was a line in there that I loved. You said smart investigative work with a healthy dollop of luck or a hefty dollop of luck.

Yes. And I think that's very real here. The big aha moment in the case I think Blaine was the detective who clued to the identification of the burner phone. Now I think we all know what burner phones are. You Yes.

You buy them at the store and you use them. You throw them away and it doesn't tell much about you. They're kind of anonymous phones. And this cop did what cops do in 2010. It was a while ago. Maybe there's better technology now, but you have to go to all of the towers and ask the tower, "What is this phone that's pinging on you? What is this area code?" So, you can imagine there's thousands and thousands of hits. And this one sharp detective said, "Wait a second." Right around the time of the murder, there's an oddball area code here

and I want to know what that is. And that turned out to be the burner phone he tracked down to the place of purchase like a week before the murder. And that really everything tumbled from there. They got burned by the burner phones.

Burned by the burner phones. Burned by the burners. There's no I mean people talk about clearing the phone and they it one of the guys did a reset on his phone and thought he was clean.

Yeah. But I my my sense of dealing with technology is you're never ever really clean. Something is out there to be found.

I think that our faithful dine viewers and listeners know if if you delete something, it's not deleted. If you clear a picture, it's not cleared. Like if it's been on your phone, if it's been on this at some point, it's still there. It'll track you.

It'll track you. I loved how we have this point where we know that Josh and Sirius are behind it. We know what's going on. And then it's who is going to crack first.

Who are we going to sweat? Who's going to give it up? Yes. Exactly. They have them in their separate areas for questioning. The one guy has to break and is going to get a deal. As they always say, there's only one deal here. There's only one ticket for, you know, for an easier way out. And which one of them is going to pick it off the table? Uh, well, it turned out to be Josh. Josh was the weak link here.

He really was. What do you think it was that made him break first? I don't think he was that strong a character. You know, they sweated him and I think he gave it up pretty quickly

because it was his one, the idea didn't hatch from his mind. It came from Sirius. Biggest X to solve for here was the motive. There was talk about whether or not Brandy knew about their robbery scheme and was going to maybe tell authorities. What do we think that was the case? I I think there's more than a whisper of that here, Blaine. You could see where Sirius would have a motive to not only help his friend to do what a dude's got to do for a guy who has an inconvenient woman in his life, but that uh you know, she might actually snitch them out, that she knew some of the things. So, as long as she was alive, he serious was at risk. You know,

he really was. Um we talked about Josh and his confession. He took a plea deal, uh but he had to reveal the details of the crime to, you know, to the extent that he could. Um he talks with investigators and we have some extra an extra clip from his admission and whether or not Brandy knew about Josh's side hustle with Sirius. Let's take a listen to that.

I think Sirius was really really concerned when me and Brandy split up as far as what had I relayed to her? What had I told her? Um, so he was afraid that when you two broke up, she you she had knowledge of some of your

Well, he knew that some of the things you guys did. He wanted to eliminate. Well, because I would brag to Brandy. I would I would be I never really elaborated on to her what I was doing. She's not stupid. But I would come home with this money and to me and her, we didn't have anything. So me coming home with this substantial amount of money, it was exciting, you know, and she would be happy.

You know, every time we do episodes like this, Dennis, I always just think what trust one must have to enter into a relationship with somebody that you don't know, that you don't if you don't know their background. I mean, it and that's obviously the underpinning of of love and a relationship. But

Blaine, there's the thought of the day, you know, how do you open yourself up and extend yourself to somebody anybody.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, even even if, let's say, even if things had changed and she wasn't killed, you're still married to and have a child with an armed robber, like somebody who goes to the gym and picks up a crime buddy and, you know, starts the this kind of like string of crime.

How do you know if that's in somebody or not? Right. You're right. When you go into a relationship, when you say, "Okay, I mean, do you hire a detective to check them out?" I don't think so. If you watch a lot of datine, you probably do.

Probably do. Probably do. You probably do. Love advice from Blaine and Dennis. Up next, we're answering your questions from social media. You know, I have to ask, you took the the trip up to Alaska.

That was some of the catnip here. You know, Keenan, the producer, said, Murphy, I got a story. We're going to have to go to Alaska. We have to go to Alaska. Oh,

sign me up. I know. Exactly. We're we're there. Um, tell me about that trip. I'm curious. One, I saw your your range of coats. It was clearly cold up there.

Oh, man. I got so much grief for that park that I had, Blaine. Here's, you know, I I live in Florida and we got palm trees. We don't have any glaciers. We don't have any mountains, and we don't have much in the way of temperatures more than 70 degrees any time of year.

Sure. So, so Kenan the producer says, "Look, we were going to go to Alaska and thin-blooded me, I've got I I looked on the last hanger in the back of my closet and there was this old parker that got because 30 years before Blaine, I used to work in London and one of the usual stops on the beat was Moscow where it really was cold."

Yes. So, I said, "Man, I've got to get I got to get a coat for this thing." And I found this parkle looking deal, you know, and uh that had been sitting for years in my closet. And when they said Alaska, okay, you're it. That coat is on.

That was your 30-year-old, more than 30-year-old Moscow coat. That's true. That's amazing. I

That's true. But I thought it sort of looked like Alaska. I turned out I was wrong because court of public opinion said, "Get that coat off that guy, you know."

Well, I just thought I said, "My friend is so cold. Take Dennis home. Send him back to Florida. He is cold." I remember I looked and I

Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Bla. But if anybody hasn't been to Alaska, they should put it on their things to-do list because it is a great, wonderful, exciting place.

I would love to go. Well, as you can imagine, we had a lot of um thoughts about this from some of our listeners and some of our viewers. Um and there are a couple of social media questions I want to throw your way.

Yeah. Um Ann Webb Jones wrote on Facebook, uh still a lot of questions unanswered, like what kind of gang were they in? How many people were in this gang that robbed all these places in town? And they never had any ideas of these people before she was murdered.

Yeah. I mean, they were busting guys. They were they were known to law enforcement, you know, in several counties there,

but they never did really get a handle on them. I mean, they were the guys with the mass with the gun and the surveillance picture would show these horrible scenes of putting a a pistol in a woman's face and grabbing her stuff and going, but they didn't know who they were. And it went on and on and on and on. Could you fault law enforcement on that end of the story? Not the murder investigation so much, but trying to crack that crime wave.

Maybe they didn't they didn't come to terms with it. They didn't get him. Yeah. Yeah. It is interesting to to see how that escalated and then went to this. Um, another comment on Sirius's name. Uh, Martin Sanchez Jr. on Facebook wrote, "Sirius Underwood, is this a Harry Potter character?" Blaine, I'm I'm too old for Harry Potter. I did read the first book, but that whole kind of thing went went past me. But is there a character named Sirius in Harry Potter?

Sirius. Yes, there is. There is a there is a cur Sirius Black uh from Harry Potter. I have to say the extent of my knowledge comes from my little sister. Uh shout out to Blake. She was a huge Harry Potter fan and so everything that I know about the Potter series came from her. But I know enough to just kind of piece together like I know some of the names of characters and I did think of Sirius. Yes. Yes. And I like to do crosswords and every now and then they throw a ringer at me like, "Who is the, you know, at Hogwarts Hall? Who is?" And I know there's a guy named Snape in there because it always comes up in the crossword. That's all I know.

There we go. All right. Well, for all the Harry Potter fans out there, I'm sure they got a special kick out of this episode.

Um, this was a fascinating one, Dennis. I really appreciate it. I appreciate the conversation and um, you know, just sending all the love to to Bry's family because that was a difficult one, too.

Yeah, because it comes back down to the families. I mean, and we are putting these shows on television and maybe entertaining people, but at the core of it, I mean, there's a horrible experience that happened to real life people, a real life crime.

Absolutely. Well, Dennis, my friend, always a pleasure. Thank you so much for joining me.

Always great, Blake. Lovely to see you. You, too. And that is it for Talking Dine this week. Remember, if you have any questions for us about DLine, you can always reach us 247 on social media, dateline NBC, or you can pick up the phone, you can leave us a voicemail at 2124135252. And of course, we'll see you Fridays on Dline on NBC. Thanks so much for listening.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Talking Dateline: "Out There in the Dark" | Dateline NBC"?

Blaine Alexander (Guest), Dennis Murphy (Guest), Wendy (Guest), Josh Daniels (Guest).

What is discussed in "Talking Dateline: "Out There in the Dark" | Dateline NBC"?

In order: 0:00 Podcast, Donald C. Murphy, Execution style, John Hanks Alexander; 5:00 Steroids, Zanesville, Ohio, Aggression, Josh Daniels; 10:00 Burner Phone, Execution style, Stickup; 15:00 Social Media, Donald C. Murphy, London, Moscow; 20:00 Harry Potter, Dateline NBC, Sirius Black, Social Media.

What is mentioned in this Dateline NBC episode?

32 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Social Media, Harry Potter, Donald C. Murphy, Podcast, Execution style, Josh Daniels. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Talking Dateline: "Out There in the Dark" | Dateline NBC"?

The episode runs 23 min; the transcript is about 4,759 words in 91 timestamped sections.

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