{"id":31873,"date":"2026-02-27T15:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=31873"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:57:30","slug":"patty-greene-interviewed-on-nbcs-dateline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/31873-patty-greene-interviewed-on-nbcs-dateline\/","title":{"rendered":"Patty Greene\u00a0Interviewed on NBC&#8217;s\u00a0Dateline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>A January episode of NBC&#8217;s <i>Dateline\u00a0<\/i>television\u00a0program interviewed a local Event Planner about the Effingham connection to their story.\u00a0 Patty Greene, from the Thelma Keller Convention Center, was familiar with many details, so the Dateline show travelled to Effingham and interviewed Patty about her business encounters with the subject.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the\u00a0&#8220;<i>Secrets In The Ashes<\/i>&#8221; episode (aired nationally on January 23) was Allison Salinas.\u00a0 In 2003, she married a Texas man just 6 weeks after his wife died in a suspicious house fire.\u00a0 After Allison&#8217;s marriage ended, her ex-husband was convicted\u00a0of murder and sentenced to life in prison.\u00a0 Salinas later remarried and settled in the Peoria area, beginning a political podcast and a primary run for U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>As that campaign attempted to gain traction, Salinas delved into various fundraisers for religious, military, and first-responders.\u00a0 That&#8217;s when she corresponded with Patty Greene to host a Gala for &#8220;Men and Women in Uniform&#8221; at the Convention Center.\u00a0 As\u00a0<i>Dateline NBC<\/i>&#8216;s reporter Andrea Canning learned during her interview of Greene, Salinas was insistent on getting Convention Center publicity for the $125-per-plate event, but was never able to fulfill the rental deposit, nor the desired national speaker.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-31874 additional-class\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tribute-to-Heroes-ex-850.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tribute-to-Heroes-ex-850.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tribute-to-Heroes-ex-850-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">example of invitation for the Gala<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The camera crew filmed the red, white, and blue decorative theme in the Convention Center room that was planned but not used, since lack of payment cancelled the event.\u00a0 Potential attendees and Greene all felt &#8220;100% ghosted&#8221; by Salinas.\u00a0 The Convention Center was out of the $10,000 reservation rental, which has never been paid, nor have the tickets been refunded to potential attendees.<\/p>\n<p>Allison was later charged with asking a former boyfriend to kill her current husband, after recorded tape conversations surfaced.\u00a0 Mrs. Salinas took a plea-deal and is serving a 16-year-sentence, as she continues to allege misconduct by those who testified against her.\u00a0 In a confusing turn, her current husband defends the innocence of his wife, while she serves time for soliciting his murder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A January episode of NBC&#8217;s Dateline\u00a0television\u00a0program interviewed a local Event Planner about the Effingham connection to their story.\u00a0 Patty Greene, from the Thelma Keller Convention Center, was familiar with many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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