Dive deep into true crime cases and follow the latest headlines with HuffPost’s Suspicious Circumstances newsletter. Sign up here . For true crime fans, the traditional wedding vow of “’til death do us part” can strike an ominous tone — after all, in countless cases chronicled in podcassts and documentaries, the husband did it.
Writer Sara Runnels captured it perfectly in a 2022 tweet , one of many times she’s gone viral for funny social media posts about dating. “You want me to get a husband???” she wrote. “The thing that killed everyone on Dateline???” It even caught the eye of longtime “Dateline” correspondent Josh Mankiewicz.
“That was too good not to repost, so I did,” the extremely online Mankiewicz told HuffPost. The two became friends on social media, and after she became engaged, she made a proposal of her own, asking Mankiewicz if he would officiate her wedding. He said yes, then flew out earlier this month for the ceremony in Seattle.
Mankiewicz and the bride told HuffPost the story of how he ended up waiting for her at the altar alongside her then husband-to-be, Adam Zack — who, by the way, is not a fan of true crime. How did this all come about? Josh Mankiewicz: I realized that she was a clever writer and a true crime fan, and very obviously a member of the “Dateline” audience. So I followed her, and I read a couple of articles that she had written in a couple of different places, including a very poignant and sweet one about los.