life without parole. take him away. so that was justice. the most nailah s family could hope for. terribly important. and strangely, empty. it s still not done. she s still not back. you still can t talk with her. no. they try to remember nailah not as a murder victim but as a beautiful young woman she was. the vibrant center of her family. but grief, real and painful, comes to visit every day. you know, people say, oh, well, she s your spirit and she s your angel and she s in a better place and all this other stuff. i m like yeah, but i want her here. i don t want my 28-year-old sister to be my angel. i want her to be right here in the thick of it with me. that s all for this edition of dateline extra. i m tamron hall. thanks for watching.
or something. yeah, absolutely, definitely. nailah s family loved andre. what family wouldn t? she brought him to my child s first birthday party. he brought my baby a gift. i was like who does that? because he s a nice quality person. they liked you. i think so, yeah, yeah. due to her influence, though. you started planning on moving in together, right? on being together? we did. it was happening pretty fast. it felt good though. it just felt natural. it was long distance, he in milwaukee, she in chicago. they stayed connected by phone and e-mail and text all day long. i would call her every morning. and no one seemed to notice any dark force, any unseen thing festering in the heat of that hot, late summer. didn t feel the warning. didn t know who said what to whom. it was september 18th, a tuesday. that tuesday morning, i thought i had called her on my way to work but i was
nailah s family loved andre. what family wouldn t? she brought him to my child s first birthday party. he brought my baby a gift. i was like who does that? because he s a nice quality person. they liked you. i think so, yeah, yeah. due to her influence, though. you started planning on moving in together, right? on being together? we did. it was happening pretty fast. it felt good though. it just felt natural. it was long distance, he in milwaukee, she in chicago. they stayed connected by phone and e-mail and text all day long. i would call her every morning. and no one seemed to notice any dark force, any unseen thing festering in the heat of that hot, late summer. didn t feel the warning. didn t know who said what to whom. it was september 18th, a tuesday. that tuesday morning, i thought i had called her on my way to work but i was interrupted.
so that was justice. the most nailah s family could hope for. terribly important. and strangely, empty. it s still not done. she s still not back. you still can t talk with her. no. they tried to remember nailah not as a murder victim but as a beautiful young woman she was. the vibrant center of her family. but grief, real and painful, comes to visit every day. you know, people say, oh, well, she s your spirit and she s your angel and she s in a better place and all this other stuff. i m like yeah, but i want her here. i don t want my 28-year-old sister to be my angel. i want her to be right here in the thick of it with me. that s all for this edition of dateline extra. i m tamron hall. thanks for watching.
delay the process. nbc chicago s reporter watched in something like amazement as reginald turned speedy justice into something else all together. he hired lawyers, fired lawyers, tried to act as his own attorney. at each step of the process, the trial had to be reset. one, two, three years passed that way. in the fourth year after the murder, illinois abolished capital punishment so that was off the table. and still, reginald s actions forced delays. this is one of the most bizarre cases we ve seen in chicago. just as nailah s family had reached out to the media, reginald potts tried to launch a p.r. campaign from behind bars. his family reached out trying to convince people that there may be some way that he s not associated with this crime, that it might be someone else that, there was a rush to judgment. he talked to a newspaper columnist who wrote sympathetically about his