Josh Mankiewicz

Yeah, but to their credit, I think Montgomery County Police thought, this guy's kind of hapless, and he's a thief, and he's kind of a dope, maybe.

But this doesn't feel like the killer.

But it's an avenue in investigative work that you have to go down, because you're going to get asked about it.

I mean, there were a lot of burglaries in that neighborhood.

We should talk about the neighborhood, too, because I know that place very intimately.

Well, yeah.

The neighborhood went downhill after you lived there, right?

Well, and why do we think it went downhill is the question, right?

But, you know, I mean, the cool people stopped coming when I moved out.

Let me just say that.

This is a suburban Montgomery County, Maryland, outside Washington, D.C.

And, you know, until...

I actually showed up at the crime scene, which was our first shoot on the first day of shooting for this Dateline story.

It was only then, because Montgomery County is a big place.

It was only when I showed up at the actual scene of the crime that I realized that it was the neighborhood that I had grown up in.

My parents and I moved there in 1964.

And we lived in three different houses, probably within five miles of where this murder happened.

And I probably,

driven by that house or been driven by that house as a kid, like maybe like a thousand times.

I mean, I had friends who lived really within walking distance of there.