Andrea Canning

And Liz Kohl is senior executive producer of Dateline.

Hey, everyone.

I'm Andrea Canning, and we are talking Dateline.

Today, I'm here with Blayne Alexander, who will be talking about her episode, Bringing Jay Home.

If you haven't seen it, you can find it in the Dateline podcast feed.

So go there and listen to it or stream it on Peacock and then come back here.

For this talking Dateline, we have a podcast exclusive clip from Blayne's interview with Jay's parents.

Then we'll answer some of your questions that you had and comments from social media.

And there were a lot.

Blaine, thank you for sharing Jay's story with the world.

Yeah.

I feel like we all really got to know Jay from your story and then some.

I mean, that was one of the best datelines I've seen getting a glimpse into that person's life.

You know, it was very rich.

Could you just recap the story for us first?

Wow.

I mean, I think, goodness, he put the family out of their misery from that perspective, you know, from having to sit through a trial again, from having to go through all of that.

And it spared Jaylee's mom from having to testify again, Ms.

Blaine, you know, all these missing persons cases, you know, they start...

with, you know, a text that doesn't go answered, a phone call that doesn't get returned.