Knew who was in the room with her. She trusted that person. The saddest thing is, the last thing you look at in this world is not your loved ones, its your killer. I miss her so much. Tough, tenacious. As feisty as her name. She would walk into a courtroom and look like she owned the place. She loved defending those clients. She loved law. Reporter she went to read up on a murder case, but the next murder the police investigated was hers. She is investigating some really hardened criminals. Maybe somebody had beef with her. It was personal. The clues . A missing gucci wallet, mystery strands of hair. It suggested that a female killed her and she pulled the hair out. Whodunit . Who came up and did it . Somebody planned this murder. Somebody wanted her out of the way. I told her, i will make this right. I will make this right for you. Welcome to dateline. She was bold, she was brash. Chiquita tate was a rising stall star in the louisiana legal community. A star someone extinguished. The
are going to do later today it is a veil this indo-pacific economic frame or. that is essentially an agreement between 13 different countries in the region. where they have agreed to consider negotiations on a number of fronts. on trade, for instance. on dealing with supply change, on climate change. so a lot to come, a lot was said at that press conference. and the two leaders are now going to go to talk about other issues. particularly north korea. caralee, thank you so much. nbc news white house correspondent traveling with the president. we ll have much more on the presidents trip tomorrow morning, and now we go back to our program, a dateline in progress. progress and with these shots, we can learn a little about the world this young photographer saw. and her sense of exactly when to snap the shutter to capture the world in front of her. it s an impressive portfolio belonging to a young woman named denita smith. she began looking through a lens in childhood. and never
after they took to persecutors, yes. he called down there and changes. story everything changed. everything changed. this is what? one big conspiracy? sounds like it. assistant day david sexes the rape was properly investigated, and seem to be nothing more than a hoax. which also, for him, finally answers of who was stalking whom. everything was pointing to her, and the only thing pointing to jermeir was that he was in this affair with shannon. i don t believe he was involved in the murder. i do not think he was involved in the planning, or the execution of this murder at all. even if jermeir wanted denita out of his life, while could possibly be his motive to kill her. this is exactly what i thought, why? all he had to do is call denita up until it s over. there s no property, no alamo knee. and it doesn t make sense he
like her. right. she was real respected and well-loved. especially, by her fiance jermeir stroud, who appeared devastated by denita s death. jermeir didn t say anything. jermeir cried. we all cried. he didn t really say a whole lot. jermeir and denita had met back in college and became the it couple on campus. they had been dating for a few years. and, you know, before i even met him, denita spoke very highly of him. what d she say? like, he s a gentleman. he s intelligent. he s active, involved, well-rounded, he s kind, he respects me, he protects me. he s loving. the perfect guy. the perfect guy. the perfect guy. he was, apparently, even perfect enough for denita s cautious mother, sharon smith. who came to trust that jermeir was the right guy for her precious daughter.
stroud insisted he had no idea that his secret romance might place denita in danger. but detective pate still thought jermeir was not entirely forthcoming. jermeir would tell me the truth, but you had to ask it. he wasn t volunteering anything? absolutely not. reporter: they interviewed jermeir both at the greensboro pd and over the phone. and each time a little bit more information would emerge, including what happened after he and shannon ended their romantic relationship. following their breakup, about a year before denita s murder, jermeir said he went on a church retreat. there his pastor encouraged him to apologize to anyone he had wronged. so jermeir called shannon. he said i apologize in great