(NBC) — Friday’s “Dateline” is an all-new two-hour episode, reported by new correspondent Blayne Alexander, who covers the mysterious murder of Rhonda “Chantay” Blankinship.
After 25-year-old Chantay Blankinship’s remains are found at an abandoned building, investigators sort through dead-end leads until a stunning confession during a church service changes everything.
Here is a preview of Alexander’s report:
Down this back country road sits an abandoned farmhouse. The few people who know it’s here call it, the “Haunted House.”
ELISHA BIRD: This place is truly creepy, straight out of a horror movie.
But one night, the horror became real.
RANGER JASON SHEA: This was an innocent girl who hadn’t done anything wrong and then we find her in the bottom of the cellar.
LINDA LEMOND: It was like, “No this doesn’t happen here. Not at all.”
Why would anybody want to hurt Chantay Blankinship?
ELISHA BIRD: You think Friday the 13th, you start wondering, “Is there something more sinister than just somebody got murdered?”
The killer was probably among them.
RANGER JASON SHEA: We’ve got to catch this person before they did it again.
SCOTT BIRD: I’m willing to try anything.
The search for justice would lead to a different house, not in the woods or the brush — a house of worship.
RUSSEL LEMOND: I grabbed the pew and I was like, “How?”
Had evil made its way there too?
Watch “Dateline: The Haunted House Confession” Friday on NBC4 at 9 p.m.
About ‘Dateline’
“Dateline NBC” is the longest-running series in NBC primetime history and is in its 33rd season. Dateline is anchored by Lester Holt and features correspondents Blayne Alexander, Andrea Canning, Josh Mankiewicz, Keith Morrison and Dennis Murphy.
The stories range from compelling mysteries to powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. When major news breaks, they go to the scene, putting the pieces together to bring the viewer the full picture. And in every story they tell, they help the real people who lived the events share their journeys with the viewer.
