Talking Dateline: The Gorge
4/15/202630 min
Blayne Alexander sits down with Andrea Canning to discuss her latest episode, “The Gorge,” about the 2019 disappearance of Alice Ku, a private tutor from California, and her family's desperate search to find her. With the help of Andrew Watters, a civil attorney with investigative experience, Alice's siblings soon learn she had been keeping a secret: she had married a man named Harald Herchen. Harald claims he last saw his wife while on a trip to Taiwan, when he dropped her off at a train station. The family doesn’t believe him, and after retracing Alice’s steps, they become convinced Harald killed her in Taiwan’s Taroko National Park. Harald denies any wrongdoing, but after the family files a wrongful death lawsuit, a civil jury finds him liable for Alice’s death. Andrea shares a podcast-exclusive clip with attorney Watters. She also tells Blayne about getting caught in an earthquake in Taiwan, as well as the challenges of filming in the mountains of Taroko National Park, which included fleeing an aggressively hungry group of monkeys that tried to steal the team’s lunch. Plus, they answer your questions from social media.
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Blaine Alexander· Host0:59
[music] Hi, everyone. It's Blaine Alexander, and today we are talking Dateline. I am joined by Andrea Canning to discuss her episode, The Gorge. Hey, Andrea.
Andrea Canning· Guest1:12
Hey, Blaine.
Blaine Alexander· Host1:14
Okay, if you haven't seen this episode, you can watch it on Peacock or listen to it in the Dateline podcast feed and then, of course, come right back here. Later, we'll have an extra clip from Andrea's interview with private investigator Andrew Waters about the rental car Harold and Alice drove that fateful day in the Taroko