you read books. you read books there was a great va, author of the book how the garcia girls left their accent. joining me tomorrow night six pm eastern for our special year end meeting of the velshi banned book club and we are going to feature some of my favorite conversations with authors and scholars from 2023. don t miss it. but i will speak with a man who was one of the first introduced the idea that donald trump could be disqualified as a 2024 presidential candidate because of section three of the 14th amendment. the federal judge joins me just a few moments if another hour of velshi begins right now. and good morning, it is saturday, december 23rd. i m ali velshi. the start of a crucial presidential election season is right around the corner, but a few key constitutional questions remain unresolved, which could directly up in the 2024 race. with the iowa caucuses just 23 days away, some of those issues are finally reaching the supreme court s purview, setting up
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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
but as shock set in, leads poured in. witnesses reported strangers lurking. a car speeding through the neighborhood. and there were footprints out behind the house. putting alarms on every door because somebody is out there. but detectives, they decided the killer wasn t out there, but inside the house. now, with one of their own under arrest, the family was furious. you see these people, this is love. this is belief. this is human being. please listen to us. then investigators rush to judgment. do you have any idea, beyond your own fevered imaginations that happened? you don t have a clue! i think i do have a clue. was the real clear lure still out there? hello, and welcome to the line. and unexplained death can free even the strongest family of ties. but when tragedy struck the buenos household, grief pulled them closer. the crime scene seemed to tell one story. but as investigators look deeper, they wondered if this loving family had a killer in their mitts
started stalking her. we were talking late at night. she got really panicked and said, i think there s someone outside. watching her every move. knowing where she is at her house, which lights were on. making disturbing calls with a disguised voice. suddenly, rachael disappeared and a desperate search began. you can see the vastness and all the various places that you can conceal a body. months went by. the case stalled. and then, the case became darker and bigger than they ever could have guessed. this is very tantalizing. absolutely. my spurs but it was out of a hitchcock movie, a moment of pure evil. a moment of pure evil. he had a lock on his feel that i could describe as satan. and just maybe a second woman in the crosshairs. if the stories were true, then you had married a stranger. hello, and welcome to dateline. the story are about to hear begins with and all too familiar tragedy. a vivaciously woman disappears and police put them in her