i am a professor, i am trying to seek a meaningful life. she had a prestigious career, a loving husband, a young daughter, but she also had a secret. i lived with this nightmare for 18 years. and it centered on murder. they followed him, they kidnapped him, and then they dumped his body. it was clearly planned. but did she know? i was in complete shock. they were dangerous and they were violent. why did she do it? i didn t realize she was involved as deep as she was. scholar, professor, mother. what is going to happen to my daughter? she certainly knew. she is a killer in your eyes? yes. everything was at stake. i could face life in prison, i am willing to do anything that needs to be done. now, i have the strength. she was the embodiment of the american dream, an immigrant who described a childhood of poverty and abuse. attended elite schools and rose to the top of her field. against all odds, norma patricia esparza became the well-respected p
done it, her boyfriend? her ex? he was very obsessed with angie. the trail went cold for more than two decades. but she was sure she knew who the killer was, even got a private detective license to help prove it. i said, i m a private investigator, and i need you to tell me where is the evidence, all of that. it wasn t well received at all. finally, the break they needed. we got the match. leading to one of the greatest twists of all time. it could not have shocked me more.? hello and welcome to dateline. when angie samota walked into a room, people noticed. pretty, vivacious, and outgoing. the college student had her choice of dates. then late one friday night, angie was murdered. a crucial clue pointed to one man, but in this case, nothing was as it seemed. it would take decades, and a tenacious friend who uncover the truth. here s josh mankiewicz with in the middle of the night. it was a saturday morning in 1948 when sheila wysocki s phone rang. i
Who would want to murder you . And i just kind of looked at him like, what . I couldnt believe it. Was he watching me . That fire was set. Very calculating. Years before his wife killed herself. Yes. He claimed she committed suicide days before she was due to give birth to her first child. She was extremely excited for that baby. She wanted to be a mom. This wasnt somebody thinking about suicide. Exactly. It made me wonder was he a murderer . You are trying to prove a very old murder with pretty much no evidence. Correct. Is he kind of gloating he got away with it . He is thinking, well, catch me if you can. We are going to do her and her family justice. We are going to solve this murder. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Meg purk was a young mom to be, over the moon to be having her first child. Then, just days before her due date, she died of an apparent suicide. Her family struggled to understand why, but in a strange twist, a house fire set decades later would point to a possible ans
After officers began tearing down encampment on the campus of George Washington university. Todd demonstrators can be heard calling police pigs, shoving into them as d. C. Metro force tries to keep the situation calm. Police had to use pepper spray. Things started to spiral. Carley pepper spray there. Dozens of protesters caught in chaos throughout the night. Lucas tomlinson joins us with all the details. Lucas. Lucas good morning, carley and todd, this began about 3 30 this morning after weeks of this encampment on the campus of George Washington university. Police rolled in to clear the encampment. Spray was deployed and tents cleared out. Protesters have moved from the gw campus, one block away at western mark on the corner of opinion pen and 20th street, five blocks from the nations capitol. This is ahead of congressional testimony today. George Washington University president , mayor bowser are supposed to appear before james comer this afternoon. Before they go to capitol hill, t
The senate floor opens up now and they lose a longstanding members in senator Dianne Feinstein, a sixterm senator out of california, first went to the chamber in 1992. It saw bill clinton go to the white house that year. She is dead at the age of 90. This is the chaplain now. We continue to believe in your sovereignty as we edge closer to a government shutdown, we choose to believe that you are still in charge. We continue to believe that the hearts of our lawmakers are in your hands and you turn their plans as you desire. We continue to believe that in everything you are working for the good of those who love you and that your purposes will prevail. And lord, we pause to thank you for the life and legacy of senator Dianne Feinstein. May her death teach us to number our days that we may have hearts of wisdom. Have your way, lord, have your way. You are the potter, we are the clay. We pray in your loving name, amen. Please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pled