she took up briefly with a dashing investor who drove a white bentley. and then in july, 2007, nailah attended an art gallery opening, and he came. this lawyer from milwaukee, andre wright. she had big beautiful smile. she was a very pretty woman. very warm personality, and we just kind of walked around the space looking at different pieces, talking about my interests. what i was looking for in a piece of art. obviously, i tried to engage her. suddenly this is a different search than it was before. i mean, the artwork became of little interest to me at that point. just like that, it was all over. for both of them. you know, i don t want to go all hallmark card on you or anything like that. that s okay. but i mean, this was clearly kind of a transcendental moment or something. yeah, absolutely, definitely. nailah s family loved andre. what family wouldn t?
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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
we waited to see if the judge would buy reginald s story or the prosecutor s. and here it was. you are a cold, calculating, conniving, coward of a con man who must be punished. and indeed he was. 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 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
seems, quote, incompatible with the boy that we loved and offered condolences to the victims. first lady melania trump is back in the white house after recovering in the hospital where she underwent a kidney procedure. for now, back to dateline. welcome back to dateline. i m craig melvin. what happened to nailah franklin? as her family continued their desperate search, police focused on the men in her life. and with a little digging, one of their stories started to unravel. here is keith morrison with more of our story, smoke and mirrors. it s a grassroots effort by family and friends. for all the frantic activity, the phone calls, the flyers, the organized looking about, it was a rare quiet time nine days in when nailah franklin s sister felt it. we have a prayer service at our church. in my heart, i knew. i was like, you know what?