she had missed a meeting and then not to hear from her, this isn t right. it would have been impossible to get up every day knowing that she was gone. i had to believe we would find her alive. text her, she always got right back. i ve seen her step out of the shower to answer her phone. then one day she didn t. immediately, my spidey senses were high. where was nailah? i sent her an e-mail, all caps, are you alive? there was no sign of her. and such a confusing trail of clues, even the calls to 911 were silent. no voice, no struggles could be heard. this could be kind of eerie. yes, it is. in my heart, i knew she s not coming back. one of the suspects had an alibi, until a camera caught him in a lie. he lived a life of a lot of smoke and mirrors. and the strangest clue of all. there in an empty parking lot. six perfectly stacked cardboard boxes. why were they there? what was in them? it was right adjacent to a lagoon. wow. i watch en
and such a confusing trail of clues, even the calls to 911 were silent. no voice, no struggles could be heard. this could be kind of eerie. yes, it is. in my heart, i knew she s not coming back. one of the suspects had an alibi, until a camera caught him in a lie. he lived a life of a lot of smoke and mirrors. and the strangest clue of all. there in an empty parking lot. six perfectly stacked cardboard boxes. why were they there? what was in them? it was right adjacent to a lagoon. wow. i watch enough dateline to know that s probably not a good sign. hello and welcome to dateline. when nailah franklin vanished, her close-knit family was frantic to find her. a woman with a thriving career and a handsome new boyfriend. she was building the life she d always dreamed of. then suddenly there was silence. which was quite unlike her. a trail of clues led detectives to one of chicago s most exclusive neighborhoods. but would those clues lead them
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 treatment in jail. and every delay, every manipulation, was slow torture. i very much believe that everyone should have a fair and just trial, and that too often, people who are poor or people of color do not or most often they don t get proper representation and they don t get a fair shake in our court system. but this, was not that. and then finally on october 28th, 2015, on a crisp fall day in chicago, the state versus reginald potts began. it had taken eight years to get here. when it was finally happening, we were sort of like confused about how things would go down. like there s finally a trial. what type of experience will this be? they had no idea. how could
i very much believe that everyone should have a fair and just trial, and that too often, people who are poor or people of color do not or most often they don t get proper representation and they don t get a fair shake in our court system. but this, was not that. and then finally on october 28th, 2015, on a crisp fall day in chicago, the state versus reginald potts began. it had taken eight years to get here. when it was finally happening, we were sort of like confused about how things would go down. like there s finally a trial. what type of experience will this be? they had no idea. how could they? cook county assistant state s attorneys maria mccarthy and fabio valentini brought the case against potts. this was a case with no eyewitnesss, no confession, no video of the crime, no physical evidence linking reginald potts to the crime and a cause of death that was based on
that it might be someone else, that there was a rush to judgment. he talked to a newspaper columnist who wrote sympathetically about his treatment in jail. and every delay, every manipulation was slow torture. i very much believe that everyone should have a fair and just trial and that too often, people who are poor or people of color do not or most often they don t get proper representation and don t get a fair shake in our court system. but this was not that. and then finally on october 28th, 2015, on a crisp fall day in chicago, the state versus reginald potts began. it had taken eight years to get here. when it was finally happening, we were sort of like confused about how things would go down. like there s finally a trial. what type of experience will this be? they had no idea. how could they? cook county assistant state s attorneys maria