a perfect life and the perfect wife until the day he says he found her dead. valentine s day! yuck my wife my wife i think my wife is just, debt. she had enemies. there were calls that were made to scare her. so imagine everyone shocked when they charged him with murder. he just couldn t have done it. sure they ve had their problems. there was a huge number. and i m talking close to 100 phone calls to this phone number back and forth. but he did love her. i told some people at the clinic, i wish i had someone that would look at me the way jon looks at susan. the question for the jury was did he love her to death. the motive was love lost. hello and welcome to dateline. if you re a fan of fictional courtroom dramas you might think that every criminal trial and with a bombshell. maybe it s a surprise witness or an 11th hour confession. well, that kind of thing rarely happens in a real trial. but it did in the story. one last unexpected twist in a cas
bridget, she s gone. there was nothing believable about a perfectly healthy person having a catastrophic fall. this is not an accident. but again,. police close the case. and again, that followed. you get another phone call? it was just absolutely shocking. this one was devastating. this was absolutely devastating. a killer hunting members of a frightened family. and they re the only ones convinced that it israel. this isn t a curse. this isn t a fluke. we were right. we were right the whole time. it was a home filled with joy. holidays, family celebrations. this is where they all gathered. the home was a home of happiness. she s not breathing. doug until the house became the scene of one tragedy. then another. how could this happen twice? to one family? i couldn t reconcile. it and another. it s just, in the realm of the bizarre. how are we going to endure a third death? was the house cursed? it gives me chills when i think, he
and i m talking close to 100 phone calls to this phone number back and forth. but he did love her. i told some people at the clinic i wish i had someone that would look at me the way jon looks at susan. the question for the jury was didi lover to death. the motive was laws lost. hello and welcome to dateline if you re a fan of fictional courtroom dramas you might think that every criminal trial and with a bombshell. maybe it s a surprise witness or an 11th hour confession. well that kind of thing rarely happens in a real trial. but it did in the story. one last unexpected twist in the case full of surprises. here is dennis murphy with the valentine s day mystery. a dozen roses check. how about a candle lit dinner and a champagne toast to love? isn t that what s valentine s day is supposed to be about? we all know red is for the ribbon on the box of chocolates, not for the pool of blood in the master back. maybe chicago gangsters get killed on the scene val
a russian soldier is sentenced to life in prison in the first war crimes trial of this now three-month long invasion. the soldier admitted to killing one man but ukrainian president zelenskyy says as many as 100 ukrainians are now dying each day near the frontlines. we re tracking developments there, but first, let s go to japan where president biden is on the second leg of his trip to asia, and will ripley is in tokyo for us. will, the president wanted to send a strong message to china on this trip. but today a bit of a mixed message. yeah. and it certainly is a mixed message when it comes to the white house staffers but not a mixed message from president biden because as you mentioned, this is at least the third time he s publicly stated the united states would come to taiwan s defense militarily if thigh china were to attack. for more than 40 years the united states has had a policy of strategic ambiguity, leaving it an open question whether the u.s. would get involved m
militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? yes. you are? that s the commitment we made. now, a white house official be the pentagon tried to walk back the president s comments, insisting the decades old policy of strategic ambiguity has not changed. but the defense secretary had a different explanation than the president when asked if biden s comments could mean putting troops on the ground. putting troops on the ground defend taiwan? our one china policy has not changed. we reiterated that policy in our commitment to peace and stability across the taiwan strait. cnn s jeremy diamond is in tokyo. this is not the first time that president biden said something like this about taiwan. reporter: that s right, alison. it s certainly not, and that is what is is critical to understanding biden s words here. back in august, president biden said we would respond if there s an attack on taiwan. two months after that, he said the u.s. had a commitment to if it were