tells me that he hadn t made it and i was like, no, he did. just go check. they come back and tell me, miss hall, he did not make it. [crying] two women racing down a texas highway. she saw me make a u-turn. bonnie, the mistress in one lane. i looked in my rearview mirror and it was francis. francis, the wife and the other. i gave her the middle finger. the middle finger? right. i start following her. i say what the hell. she breaks, and i break, and he s pronounced dead at the hospital. two women in love with one man, hating each other. you are getting text messages from bonnie of the two of them having sex. yes. a hollywood love story? this was the man i wanted to marry. or a fatal attraction. he goes i can t get rid of this person. and so many about to lose so much. why? i will live with that for the rest of my life. hello, and welcome to dateline. bill and francis hall were has school sweethearts agree family and a trucking
heart, something was not right. a mother vanished. i cried myself to sleep, it was awful, realizing that your worst nightmare has come true. a family, anguished. she is gone. do you have any idea how hard that was? now, the questions begin in a southern gothic mystery. the case is puzzling. we did not really know what had happened. who could ever imagine you could have a murder in your family? soon, there would be secrets. we were dealing with a person leading a double life. and one of them would prove deadly. anyone say i know that you did this? it hurts too much for me to say that out loud. hello, and welcome to dateline. it is a case that centers on a mother who had gone missing, and the small town secret that led to a very big surprise. here is keith morrison. suppose for a minute you are sitting in your car, smack dab in the middle of tuscaloosa, alabama. and the point of southwest down highway 69, and kept a sharp eye out after half an hour o
like, she s dead, she s dead! and i was so confused. i was like, what s going on? what happened? a small texas town, two super close friends, and a summer night in the park. they have this lookout, and you could see the harbor bridge lit up. it s really pretty when the stars are out. it was the next morning that they found them. i could see two girls laying there. it was horrifying. there was duct tape on their mouths, on their hands. a mystifying scene. the only thing we have are cigarette butts and suspicion. dna would point one way. he s like, serge, you ve got to take a look at this. a bombshell message would point another. i read the letter and immediately knew this was something very important. a twisted trail leading to a sinister suspect. it takes a special kind of mind that wants to do something like that. to crack a case this convoluted, it might just take a miracle. that was extraordinary. i just couldn t believe it. welcome to dateli
manhattan. you may remember her from this video harassing a group of pro-life students. this is propaganda. you don t even know what that is. you don t know what this is. bill: that prompted the new york post to send the reporter and photographer to her home this week and here is how that went down yesterday. get away from my home. let s get out of here. you can t do that. she did not stop there. video shows her chasing those journalists through the street. the reporter who was threatened with a machete we just wanted to speak to this woman. we thought we might have a chance given that she is passionate about her beliefs and if she showed up at her door she would be willing to grant us an interview. hoping for interviews. this was a first for me. she verbally threatened to chop us up with the machete and pressed it against the side of my neck for about a second. bill: who knew she had that? nate foye is live outside hunter college for the latest on this toda
blitzer in the situation room. happening now, a judge in manhattan just scheduled donald trump s criminal trial for next year right in the middle of the republican primary season. we ll share all the latest details from the former president s court appearance earlier this afternoon. also tonight, governor ron desantis is about to official. the florida republican is poised to launch his white house campaign tomorrow during a conversation with elon musk on twitter. we have new details on the announcement and how his gop rivals plan to respond. plus, we re learning new information right now about the driver who slammed a u haul truck into a white house barricade, what a court filing is revealing about the threats he allegedly made about president biden and his praise for adolph hitler. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. . let s get straight to the news on former president trump s criminal trial