mac store is owned by pot s brother-in-law. his friend, the alibi witness, now testified for the prosecution, that yes, he initially lied for reginald, but didn t know it was to cover up a murder. and remember those three strange hangup calls to 911 and those odd texts her family and boyfriend received? it was reginald potts using nailah s phone hours after he murdered her, said the prosecution. a clever killer s attempt to throw off a missing person s investigation. he s smarter than the average criminal. but not as smart as he thinks he is. but reginald potts was nothing if not strategic. his defense was to refute their evidence and discredit the prosecution. defense attorneys need to create reasonable doubt. in this case, it was very difficult to determine cause of death. so immediately, the defense is
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.
startled travelers scatter whether the gunman opens fire. he faces court tomorrow. benjamin netanyahu says a palestinian suspect who drove that truck you see there into a crowd of israelly soldiers of a supporter of isis. four soldiers died in that attack. for now, back to dateline extra. welcome back to dateline extra . i m tamron hall. what happened to nailah franklin? as her family continued their desperate search, police honed in on the men in her life. and with a little digging, one of their stories started to unravel. here s keith morrison with more on our story, smoke and mirrors. it s a grassroots effort by family and friends. through 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 had a prayer service at our church, and in my heart i
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
but relieved. relieved too that reginald pots, as was his right, demanded a speedy trial. but then reginald potts used every resource at his disposal to delay the process. charlie watched in amazinged a reginald turned speedy justice into something else all together. he tired lawyers, fired lawyers, tried to act as his own attorney. each step of the process, the trial had to be reset. one, two, three years passed that way. in the fourth year, illinois abolished capital punishment so that was off the table. and still reginald s actions forced delays. this is one of the more bizarre cases we ve seen in chicago. just as nailah s family reached out to the media, reginald potts tried to launch a pr campaign from behind bars.