Blayne Alexander

When something like that comes at you, how do you respond?

You're obviously very skilled in interviewing.

Yes.

Yes, absolutely.

It definitely did.

I think that gave us a look early on into just kind of her personality and who she was.

That's the way a lot of us deal with tough things, right?

When we come back, we will be joined by Dateline producer Carol Gable for a behind-the-scenes look at how this entire story came together.

So are we going to go in?

Do white ladies love salads?

Hell yeah, we're going in.

Well, Keith, you have invoked her name a number of times.

I would like to bring in the fantastic producer of this episode, the one and only Carol Gable.

Carol, let me ask you this, because I am fascinated by the fact that you all spoke to every major player in this story.

It's something that we don't often see in Dateline, but especially in a story like this, when you had to get into prisons, when you were talking to folks who, you know, had been involved in different ways.

Can you just kind of talk about the process of getting comfortable?

How did it go from, hey, I'm Carol with Dateline to getting these folks to trust you and actually open up?

I'm curious, behind the scenes, just very quickly, what does it take to convince a correctional facility to allow such?

Is it just different state laws?

I'm curious, when you talk about murder for hire plots, you've done several, right?