Andrea Canning

Thanks, Andrea.

Thanks for having me.

I really appreciate it.

But also to that point, Lester, I think that, you know, I always say that I have been a Dateline viewer longer than I've been a Dateline correspondent.

And so it's been very interesting to kind of peel back the curtain and look at our fact-checking process, right?

I mean, the same thing that we would do on a nightly news.

To your question about are we...

you know, news reporters or storytellers, I mean, it is an extensive fact-finding process.

We have a tremendous team that makes sure every detail is correct, all of our facts are buttoned up, and that is a very big backbone of what we do.

But I think the thing is that so many people think that they're going to get away with it.

They think that they've been able to outsmart police, outsmart the system, outsmart people who may have been watching.

So I think that narcissism does play a large role.

They're so confident in whatever it is that they've pulled off that they really think they're going to get away with it and the lies that they've told.

Or if you delete something from your phone, it doesn't go away.

I think also sometimes, I mean, we get to show them as people.

We get to show law enforcement detectives as people, right?

Bring out some of the emotions that they bring to the case.

Show how these cases oftentimes go home with them.

Why there's this one that they just couldn't let go.

And so I think it also kind of, you know, we can see them through a prism.