If they ever re-make “The Godfather” in Alabama, they might have to change a key line from “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli” to “Leave the gun. Take the Milo’s fries.”

The strangest twist in a strange 2015 murder case ratcheted deeper into American pop-culture lore this week as social media superstar Chrissy Teigen shared it with her 12.9 million Twitter followers. “Man, what a f—in endorsement for Milo’s!” she tweeted, sharing a promo for an episode of NBC’s “Dateline Weekend Mystery.”

In the promo, a detective describes the clue that told them someone’s story didn’t ring true: The person said they’d opted to set some French fries from Milo’s aside for later, rather than eating them while they were hot. As alibis go, it stank.

The fries entered true-crime legendry during the 2016 trial of Cindy Kaye Henderson Reese. Her husband, Michael Reese, was fatally shot in February 2015 in the couple’s home in Morris, in Jefferson County. Cindy Reese had been having an affair with her pastor, Jeff Brown, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter and testified against her. Cindy Reese’s attorney accused Brown of the murder, but a jury took 90 minutes to convict her.

Cindy Reese’s story was that the two had gone to church and picked up dinner at Birmingham-based burger chain Milo’s on the way home. Rather than stopping to eat, she said, she then went grocery shopping at Piggly Wiggly and found her husband dead when she returned home.

“They have absolutely some of the best French fries, I’d have to say, in the world,” an investigator says in a teaser for the Dateline episode titled “Even the Devil Went to Church.”

“That was the red flag moment for you, that Cindy didn’t stay and eat her fries?” asks host Andrea Canning.

“As bizarre as it sounds, yes,” replies the investigator. (Canning notes that Milo’s is famous for its seasoned fries, but everybody knows they’re only good when they’re fresh and hot. And once investigators began to question Cindy Reese’s story, they found plenty of other details that didn’t add up.)

Since the resolution of the case in late 2016, it’s been popular fodder for true-crime shows. It was featured in the series “Southern Gothic” in 2020. According to the Internet Movie Database it also was featured in Investigation Discovery’s “Six Degrees of Murder” and Oxygen’s “Snapped.”

“Dateline” first aired its take in October 2020, but re-aired it as recently as Feb. 4. That may be how it caught the attention of Sydney Battle, a TV writer and actress with more than 77,000 Twitter followers. Battle Tweeted out the promo clip late Tuesday with a series of comments: “i can’t believe this is a real episode of dateline lmao,” “i will be thinking about what those French fries must taste like for a long time,” and ‘if this happened in the Midwest would it be letting ur cheese curds from culver’s just sit there and get cold[?]”

It was Battle’s tweets that brought the Case of the Cold Milo’s Fries to Teigen’s attention.

The real gold here can be found in the responses to Battle’s and Teigen’s tweets, as commenters weighed in on the goodness of Milo’s fries, the exculpatory possibility Reese had an air fryer, and of course the addictive nature of Milo’s sweet tea.

The full “Dateline” episode (It’s Season 29, Episode 9) can be seen at www.nbcnews.com and on NBC’s Peacock streaming service.