About this episode
Blayne Alexander interviews Andrea Canning about the case of Alice Ku's disappearance and the subsequent investigation.
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. Help Dateline’s “Missing in America” win a Webby award…
People in this episode
Host: Blayne Alexander
Guest: Andrea Canning
Topics covered
- disappearance
- investigation
- family search
- wrongful death
- true crime
- Taiwan
- secrets
Keywords
- Alice Ku
- Harald Herchen
- wrongful death lawsuit
- Taroko National Park
- disappearance
- investigative attorney
- family search
- true crime
- earthquake
- monkeys
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Dateline, NBC News
Places: Taiwan, Taroko National Park
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