by pure chance really on the street in the ritzy gold coast. she was sophisticated. so was he. they dated briefly. realized it wasn t for life. though a girl could do worse what with his white bentley and duplex overlooking the lake. he lives in a large apartment complex, high-rise. nice place? yes, in an upscale area in the city. that s where you want to live. wow. reginald told them everything he did the day nailah vanished. everywhere he went. very detailed. the day s events, early evening shopping with friends at target. bar hopping later with not one but two girlfriends separately, of course. and after that, an intimate plan with a third girlfriend. they make arrangements to meet at reginald s apartment around midnight on the 18th. this guy gets around. if you ve got a bentley, your options are open. guess so. as investigators headed off to check reginald pott s alibi,
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
it s like you know it s happening, but it just doesn t feel real. it just feels like you re in literally like in a nightmare. an autopsy confirmed the death was by asphyxiation. so now it was homicide. but who was the killer? not andre. confirmed he was in milwaukee when nailah vanished. everything with him checked out. as for being questioned were you upset by it? not at all, no. they should have done that. that was part of doing their job. so what about that investor reginald potts, the one who had been so helpful? well, this was curious. when the detectives went to visit his high-rise apartment, they couldn t help but notice the exterior to one of the doors was extremely damaged. like it had been forced open. huh. that s weird. maybe not so weird. there was an explanation. reginald potts was recently visited by members of the cook county sheriff s department in an attempt to evict reginald potts.
she was sophisticated. so was he. they dated briefly. realized it wasn t for life. though a girl could do worse what with his white bentley and duplex overlooking the lake. he lives in a large apartment complex, high-rise. nice place? yes, in an upscale area in the city. that s where you want to live. wow. reginald told them everything he did the day nailah vanished. everywhere he went. very detailed. the day s events, early evening shopping with friends at target. bar hopping later with not one but two girlfriends separately, of course. and after that, an intimate plan with a third girlfriend. they make arrangements to meet at reginald s apartment around midnight on the 18th. this guy gets around. if you ve got a bentley, your options are open. guess so. as investigators headed off to check reginald pott s alibi, down in calumet city, officer calvin lucius was again cruising vacant parking lots.
at this location. but not a single one of them led to nailah. by now the detectives believed they were dealing with a serious crime, and yet she s missing. technically there hasn t been a crime committed. that makes it somewhat awkward when you re looking into it. all the ones that we knew she had contact with, the boyfriend she was in wisconsin with the weekend before she went missing, they were all interviewed. that boyfriend from wisconsin, andre, had come to chicago, was helping with the search and soon was perhaps a subject of it. they came to you. they did. the perfect boyfriend. now, to police, a perfectly obvious person of interest. coming up a discovery in an empty parking lot. it was in a pretty secluded area right adjacent to a lagoon. i watch enough dateline to know that s probably not a good sign. to everyone else, i look like everyone else. but on the inside, i feel chronic, widespread pain.