killer in a mask. he s clearly a brilliant individual. a brilliantly scary individual. his target, a doting young mom. she was a gorgeous strawberry blond who loved her son more than anything in the whole world. she was so scared. he struck once. would he kill again and would she be next? we were just so shattered and hurting so bad. imagine being hunted in your own home, held a virtual prisoner, your children in danger from a man with a blueprint for murder. i was terrified. she will face down evil and come forward with a new revelation that will make your jaw drop. what i did is wrong. there are no words. i have everything to lose. hello, and welcome to dateline. it was a brutal crime and right away one woman said she knew what happened. it would take years to bring the alleged killer to trial. but the verdict was far from the end of this case. it s a story of obsession and control that will keep you guessing until the very end. here s an
doing this because this is right. prosecutor jesse evans portrayed lottie as a unreliable person. evans next move was stunning. he presented evidence that he said explained lottie s incredible reversal, letters confiscated from daker s prison cell. 4,000 pages of correspondance between the convicted murderer and the woman who testified against him. i sent him daily devotions and bible cards and a lot of information, case files. i actually feel like i m his personal secretary in a way. it turned out lottie had actually been helping with daker s appeal. he gave her research assignments. she looked up cases and printed documents, mailed them to prison, and then waited for his
remember. there is no smoking gun or smoking blanket in this case? absolutely. i don t think there are any blanket and i don t think there is any evidence of that. on the stand, lottie not only recanted her testimony from two trials but described the incredible length she is willing to go to help set daker free. you believe so strongly in this you applied for a second mortgage to help in his defense and took out a life insurance policy naming waseem as the beneficiary? my daughter is the beneficiary and son gets a third and she would gets a third and i get a third. despite lottie s efforts, the fund-raising, the correspondance with daker, the legal research, judge staley didn t buy her new story. she rejected daker s motion for a new trial. the right results were
. yes, a i voted for donald trump. i make i make no apologies. i give my opinion straightforward. we even do culture. we do sports . we do like the whole newspaper. these other networks, they claim to be journalists.wse their talkr show hosts just like me except they re not honest about it now they were part ofhe the big lie over the hunter b biden lap top story birthday and the huge difference right between talk show hosts who primarily provide perspective and opinion and those who claim to be correspondance or reporters.k just a quick note as far as asking tough questions, not just peter doocy. i thought jackie heinrich hadha a very good weekar as far as showing what the kind of questions should be asked press these these briefings and no doubt while while peter wasn t there, right. yeah,, jen saki can jen psaki ce back , by the way,pp because she has one foot out the door and apparently is starting at msnbc probably in may and we re