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Blayne Alexander

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Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

It didn't happen. It didn't happen in the scripture. No. Didn't happen that way. No. You know, I wonder if Jonathan's motivation for all of that, right, afterwards was, let me confess to Kelly and Jason. That will be kind of my way of following through with the scripture, confessing, that's a police. Who could put me in prison? But let me confess to these friends and that'll...

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

It didn't happen. It didn't happen in the scripture. No. Didn't happen that way. No. You know, I wonder if Jonathan's motivation for all of that, right, afterwards was, let me confess to Kelly and Jason. That will be kind of my way of following through with the scripture, confessing, that's a police. Who could put me in prison? But let me confess to these friends and that'll...

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

Kind of help me get rid of this guilt.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

Kind of help me get rid of this guilt.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

No, I have to say for all the love talks, all the hours and hours of phone conversation, all the praying together, it didn't seem to take long for him to go ahead and flip on her. No. So Jonathan pleads guilty to manslaughter and agrees to testify against Sabrina during her trial. And when he does, the prosecutor projects a selfie of Jonathan that was taken in December of 2013.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

No, I have to say for all the love talks, all the hours and hours of phone conversation, all the praying together, it didn't seem to take long for him to go ahead and flip on her. No. So Jonathan pleads guilty to manslaughter and agrees to testify against Sabrina during her trial. And when he does, the prosecutor projects a selfie of Jonathan that was taken in December of 2013.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

And in the selfie, you see him. He's crying in a picture and holding up a letter. I want to play a little bit of a clip from that prosecutor asking Jonathan about that letter.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

And in the selfie, you see him. He's crying in a picture and holding up a letter. I want to play a little bit of a clip from that prosecutor asking Jonathan about that letter.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

What was the prosecutor trying to show there?

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

What was the prosecutor trying to show there?

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

So the prosecution went on to ask Jonathan about some of his writing from a few months later, and the tone has shifted quite a bit. Let's listen to that.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

So the prosecution went on to ask Jonathan about some of his writing from a few months later, and the tone has shifted quite a bit. Let's listen to that.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

Dismissive of his life. That's one way to minimize that. what he ultimately would ultimately happen. But yes.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

Dismissive of his life. That's one way to minimize that. what he ultimately would ultimately happen. But yes.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

But this whole notion of selective morality throughout, like, aha, that is wrong, and therefore that justifies murder. Or this is wrong, but I'm actually doing the same thing, but this is wrong over here. That really was kind of the theme throughout this entire thing.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

But this whole notion of selective morality throughout, like, aha, that is wrong, and therefore that justifies murder. Or this is wrong, but I'm actually doing the same thing, but this is wrong over here. That really was kind of the theme throughout this entire thing.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

Up next, we're taking your questions from social media. Let's jump into some of our social media comments. There were a lot, a lot of comments about how Jonathan and Sabrina were kind of misinterpreting words in the Bible, twisting words in the Bible, however you choose to characterize it, for their own benefit. So here's what Darlene said.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

Up next, we're taking your questions from social media. Let's jump into some of our social media comments. There were a lot, a lot of comments about how Jonathan and Sabrina were kind of misinterpreting words in the Bible, twisting words in the Bible, however you choose to characterize it, for their own benefit. So here's what Darlene said.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

I hate it when people try to use the Bible to justify their evil doings. Brandy Guthrie, I think this is the episode where he says, David didn't turn state's evidence on Bathsheba. which, yes, yes, it was. I love that line, and I remember rewinding it several times. That was a good one. That was a good one.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mirage

I hate it when people try to use the Bible to justify their evil doings. Brandy Guthrie, I think this is the episode where he says, David didn't turn state's evidence on Bathsheba. which, yes, yes, it was. I love that line, and I remember rewinding it several times. That was a good one. That was a good one.