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Sep 16
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The Night of the Audition

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Days after the biggest audition of her acting career, Shannon Madill Burgess fails to show up for a family gathering. Unsettling details emerge during the investigation into her disappearance. Keith Morrison reports.

Blayne Alexander and Keith Morrison go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’

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