Dateline Presents: Deadly Mirage

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🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

As a bonus for Sunday Sitdown fans, we’re sharing the trailer for Deadly Mirage, an all-new original podcast series from Dateline and Josh Mankiewicz. The story takes place in the Silver Lakes, a lush manmade oasis in California’s Mojave Desert, where Rob and Sabrina Limon seem to have the perfect life: two young children, a beautiful home, and a tight-knit group of friends. But when Rob is found murdered, investigators uncover deep secrets about sex, friendship and religion that shatter carefully crafted illusions... If you like what you hear, just search Deadly Mirage to listen to the first two episodes now, completely free. Or subscribe to Dateline Premium on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or DatelinePremium.com. Subscribers get early access to new episodes and can listen to all Dateline podcasts ad-free.

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0:00.0	They called it the happiest place on the high desert, the perfect place to raise a family.
0:08.0	It was sort of Palm Springs light, the big, spacious houses, families with kids running around,
0:15.0	bikes in the streets. It looked like kind of the American dream neighborhood.
0:28.6	It was a desert oasis, lush and green, home to a tight-knit group of 30-somethings who liked to party.
0:29.4	Woo!
0:30.7	Come round!
0:36.6	And took to heart the biblical commandment to love thy neighbor.
0:38.8	My wife and I and Robin Sabrina would engage in sexual activities.
0:44.1	If that's what a couple agrees with in their marriage, then that's their business.
0:49.9	Then one day a handsome outsider crashed the party.
0:54.0	I started getting text messages saying I would love to come hang out with you guys.
0:58.5	Soon, Discord descended on this Eden east of Los Angeles.
1:03.6	The people were so cruel.
1:05.3	I had to get a restraining order.
1:07.2	And a sudden death reveals the happiest place to be a mirage.
1:12.5	He knew his attacker.
1:16.8	That's somebody new intimate details about his life.
1:22.9	Our latest podcast takes us to a railroad outpost on the edge of California's high desert,
1:29.5	where passion leads to murder.
1:32.0	And a killer seeks God's help with the cover-up.
1:36.3	Whatever the crime lab has found, please help this to be a method, a mode that keeps our story being told.
1:45.1	It's a story about love and betrayal.
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