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Speaker 5 You're listening to Dateline's morning meeting.

Speaker 6 They then put him under hypnosis. That is also on video.

Speaker 5 Our editorial team is catching up on breaking crime news. If she was innocent, what would their motive be?

Speaker 7 Something to do with him being stabbed. Maybe he stabbed himself.

Speaker 6 It is in the hands of the jury.

Speaker 5 Welcome to Dateline True Crime Weekly. I'm Blaine Alexander, filling in today for Andrea Canning.
It's October 16th, and here's what's on our docket.

Speaker 5 In In Miami, the case of the model who said she fatally stabbed her boyfriend in self-defense ramps up for trial. Prosecutors say it was murder.

Speaker 8 So when police walk in and they find Clenny just cradling her boyfriend, there's blood all around the room.

Speaker 5 In Dateline Roundup, a medical examiner weighs in on the mysterious death of a Philadelphia teacher.

Speaker 5 And Donna Adelson, the Florida grandmother convicted of plotting the murder of her former son-in-law, speaks out at her sentencing.

Speaker 10 I had no knowledge that this horrible evil act was going to take place.

Speaker 5 Plus, a riveting new drama series about the victims of John Wayne Gacy. Andrea interviews the show's creator and cast.

Speaker 5 But before all that, we're heading to Florida, where a man sentenced to death for murdering his wife, a doctor, tries to convince a judge he got a raw deal.

Speaker 5 Ten years ago in sunny Bonita Springs, Florida, Dr. Teresa Seavers was making a name for herself in the field of holistic medicine, appearing on local TV shows and speaking at public events.

Speaker 7 Getting you healthy is my passion.

Speaker 5 Being healthy is your choice. When the devoted doctor didn't show up for work on June 28th, 2015, her patients and her staff immediately knew something was wrong.

Speaker 5 Her husband, Mark, who was out of town, asked a friend to check on her at their home. And what that friend found was a bloody crime scene.

Speaker 12 911, when is your emergency?

Speaker 9 I'm at a friend's house and I came here to check on the flight and he's dead on the floor.

Speaker 5 Teresa had been bludgeoned to death. Investigators quickly zeroed in on a suspect, Teresa's husband, accusing him of hiring his best friend and another man to commit the crime.

Speaker 5 In December of 2019, a jury convicted Mark of murder and he was sentenced to death. This week, more than a decade after Teresa's death, Mark is once again standing before a judge.

Speaker 5 He says he's innocent and that his case needs a second look.

Speaker 5 There is a lot to cover here, and there's nobody better to break it all down than my good friend Dennis Murphy, who has covered this case extensively for Dateline.

Speaker 5 So, Dennis, thank you so much for being here today.

Speaker 11 Always a pleasure to be with you, Blaine.

Speaker 5 So, let's start by talking about Dr. Seavers.
She's this beloved doctor. Her husband was out of town at the time.
How did he react to learning this tragic news?

Speaker 11 Well, it's not just a rule on Dateline 101. It's also law enforcement 101 that the spouse is always a suspect until he's not.
Now, Mark Seaver's alibi was that he was

Speaker 3 a three-hour plane ride away.

Speaker 11 He was up in Connecticut visiting with family. So he couldn't have been in the house, but he flew back down that day and was soon in a police interview room where things got really interesting.

Speaker 5 And tell me more about that, because I know that you have said that this was one of the more memorable interrogations on Dateline.

Speaker 11 People say you never know how anyone's going to react to a situation, but in this interview room, he's crying, he's hitting himself, he's scratching.

Speaker 14 She had so much to offer the world. She was really, everyone says this about their wife.
Their kids are special. My kids are phenomenal.

Speaker 14 It should make me. I should have been home.

Speaker 14 Well,

Speaker 14 she really is on track to change the world.

Speaker 11 Breathe.

Speaker 14 Breathe with me.

Speaker 14 Slowly count.

Speaker 14 Life is so much better this time. time.

Speaker 5 And then the police leave the room, but they can still hear Mark talking on the recording, apparently, to Teresa. Oh, my God, Teresa.

Speaker 5 What could I have done

Speaker 14 if I was with you? This wouldn't have happened. If I came back,

Speaker 14 this wouldn't have happened.

Speaker 5 And then afterwards, once he kind of calms down, what does he tell police?

Speaker 11 He gets into a conversation with the detective there and says,

Speaker 11 you know, we had a good marriage. We had a few fights, but everything was okay.
And then he says, but we did have an open marriage, which caught the detective's interest. Surely.
And

Speaker 11 that raised a whole problem for them because they said, you know, are we suddenly now looking for a jealous husband or boyfriend who's the perpetrator here?

Speaker 5 Before investigators could dive too deeply into Mark's relationships, though, they got this tip that came from far out of state, all the way in Missouri. What was that about?

Speaker 11 Police down in Fort Myers, Florida, Lee County, get a call out of the blue from somebody they don't know in Missouri saying, well, you know, I have a friend named Wayne, and he wasn't around this week, and he has a very best friend named Mark Seavers.

Speaker 11 And I'm watching on the Nancy Grace show that this Mark Seavers has a wife who was just murdered. She starts to wonder what's going on.

Speaker 11 Does this friend Wayne have anything to do with the friend Mark who's got a murdered wife?

Speaker 5 So, of course, detectives set about finding Wayne. They bring him in for an interview.
And what do they learn?

Speaker 11 They learn that he's been a best friend of Mark Seaver's since the ninth grade. They've been the best men at each other's weddings.

Speaker 5 And Dennis, after some time goes by, Wayne ends up making this stunning confession to investigators, and he tells them that Mark had asked him for his help to kill Teresa.

Speaker 11 The plot had been hatched a few weeks before, according to the authorities. Mark Seaver says to Wayne in a conversation they're talking about, well, how's your marriage to the doctor going?

Speaker 11 He says, well, it's not that great. I think she's going to leave me.
I'm worried about losing the kids. And by the way, there's more than $5 million of insurance money in play here.

Speaker 11 I can give you a piece of that, maybe $100,000, if you'll do the killing. So Wayne, the best friend of so many years, says, yes, I'll help you out.

Speaker 11 But first, I'm going to hire this kid I know, Jimmy Rogers, and I'll have him along the way to do this thing.

Speaker 11 Now, Mark Seaver says he knows he knows nothing about this, that Wayne is not a reliable person, and this is all coming out of his imagination.

Speaker 5 And that's really kind of the crux of the defense's case, right? That Wayne is lying about all of this and really tried to discredit Wayne as a witness.

Speaker 5 But in the end, obviously the jury agreed with the prosecution and Mark was found guilty.

Speaker 5 So now, Dennis, more than 10 years after Teresa's murder, Mark is back in front of a judge for an evidentiary hearing on his claims that the trial was unfair and his original attorney was ineffective.

Speaker 11 That's right, Blaine. There's this issue known in legal circles as death certified.
If you're going to argue a case in court, you need to be death certified.

Speaker 11 And the lawyer at the time who argued the the case, he was not death certified.

Speaker 11 So now they're saying maybe this is an appellate issue, that he was not qualified and should not have been in that courtroom in the first place.

Speaker 11 Though the lawyer was on the stand and he said, everyone knew that I was not death certified.

Speaker 15 That was no secret.

Speaker 12 Okay, and he wanted you to represent him so much that he didn't mind that you were not death qualified.

Speaker 7 That's right.

Speaker 5 And the trial attorney went on to say that he did the best he could to represent Mark. But there was one more thing that he was questioned about, right? Tell us about that.

Speaker 11 Here is a very curious thing about this, Blaine. When you look at the two of them, the two men, they look a lot alike.
They're bald-headed men that have the same kind of Van Gogh beard,

Speaker 11 and they're creepily similar in manner. They brought the lawyer back on the stand, and he said

Speaker 11 it has been alleged on the edges of this thing that

Speaker 11 Wayne had an infatuation with Mark Seavers.

Speaker 12 Why did you believe that he was infatuated with Mr.

Speaker 16 Seavers?

Speaker 15 So there were some text messages,

Speaker 15 you know, like little pet names and things like that, that just it kind of struck me as this may have been a relationship that,

Speaker 15 you know, maybe

Speaker 15 Mr. Wright may have wanted something

Speaker 10 more out of the relationship.

Speaker 11 They did not bring that up at trial. And this is another one of the questions before the court is, why didn't you use that information if you had it? And he said, I thought it would inflame the jury.

Speaker 15 You know, if there are people on the jury who are homophobic, maybe they hold that against Mark. Maybe they judge Mark based on homophobia and not on the facts

Speaker 15 and the law.

Speaker 11 Seavers has denied it.

Speaker 11 But it's one of the claims you're making of it would have been a more fair trial if they had aired these elements of the case.

Speaker 5 And we should say that Wayne denied having any sort of sexual relationship with Mark when police questioned him about it. And Dennis, there's one more kind of hanging chad in all of this.

Speaker 5 It's this letter that has come out to Mark's mother from Jimmy Rogers, the alleged hitman. What was that about?

Speaker 11 Well, this is after the trial. Jimmy Rogers comes forward and he says to Mrs.
Seavers, you know,

Speaker 11 your poor boy has been wrongfully accused here. He had nothing to do with it.
But there seems to be an effort this week to hear more about what Jimmy Rogers knew and what he said later on.

Speaker 5 This is going to be fascinating to watch. We'll certainly be following this.
And thank you so much for being here to break it all down for us. Belene, take care.

Speaker 11 So good to see you.

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Speaker 5 On April 3rd, 2022, a luxury apartment in Miami became the scene of an alleged murder. 27-year-old Christian Obumcelli died after his girlfriend, Courtney Cliny, fatally stabbed him.

Speaker 5 Clinney, a 25-year-old Miami-based model and social media influencer with more than 2 million followers, said that it was all in self-defense, but detectives didn't believe her story.

Speaker 5 After a four-month investigation, she was charged with second-degree murder, pleaded not guilty, and has been awaiting trial in jail ever since.

Speaker 5 This week, there was a hearing as the case ramps up for trial. Christian Colon is a reporter at our NBC affiliate in Miami, WTBJ.

Speaker 5 Christian, thanks so much for joining us today to get us up to speed on all of this.

Speaker 8 Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 5 There is a lot to cover here and it's certainly been drawing a lot of interest from people. So just to start, kind of lay the groundwork for us.

Speaker 5 What can you tell us about the relationship between Courtney and her boyfriend, Christian?

Speaker 8 Yeah, so this relationship is a classic example of what a toxic relationship. And we see that through the records.
We have videos of the couple arguing, getting physical inside a living room.

Speaker 8 There's another video of them fighting inside some elevator in their building.

Speaker 8 They have multiple incidents of domestic violence where police were called to the scene and police learned a lot from the building manager in this case.

Speaker 8 That person told police that since they moved in in January, they had so many issues with the building, with the neighbors just complaining, noise complaints. They heard arguments.

Speaker 8 And according to the records, the building was actually getting ready to kick the couple out and try to evict them because of so many problems that the couple was having.

Speaker 5 Wow. So take us to April 3rd.
According to the arrest warrant, the day started actually pretty peacefully, right?

Speaker 5 They were playing with their dogs in the apartment and just kind of going about a normal day.

Speaker 8 It seems that they were having a normal day, but from what we've learned about this relationship, it could quickly become violent.

Speaker 8 So their beautiful day turned into violence when they just started fighting.

Speaker 8 According to Clenny's version, her boyfriend grabbed her by the neck. He pushed her to the wall, then to the ground.
Clenny is obviously, from her version of the story, she's freaking out.

Speaker 8 She picks up the phone, she calls her mom. Christian didn't like the fact that she was calling her mom.
So supposedly he became very aggressive.

Speaker 8 And that's when she just runs to the kitchen, she grabs a knife, and then she claims that she threw the knife and it struck him in the chest.

Speaker 9 That

Speaker 8 claim has been kind of challenged by the state attorneys because she claims that she was about 10 feet away when she threw the knife.

Speaker 8 So when police walk in, they find Clenny just cradling her boyfriend. There's blood all around the room.

Speaker 8 Christian, according to the medical examiner's report, had a wound that's about like eight centimeters deep.

Speaker 5 And so, Christian, the medical examiner's report is really challenging Clenny's version of events, right?

Speaker 5 Basically saying that if she threw it from that distance, then there's no way that the knife could have penetrated that deeply. Exactly.
So that's Courtney Clenny's claim.

Speaker 5 What is it, aside from that distance and the question of how it was able to penetrate so deeply, what was it that made investigators suspicious of that story?

Speaker 8 So the... The facts were there's a body.
Clenny, automatically that day, she confessed that she did it, right?

Speaker 8 So when it comes to the self-defense claim, what prosecutors look for is whether or not the victim or the person that claims to be the victim was caught up in some sort of fight.

Speaker 8 According to court documents, Clenny was found with no injuries to prove her claim that she was the one that was attacked.

Speaker 8 So what also led up to her getting charged is the videos of them fighting in the elevators. There's audio recordings of her allegedly calling him a racial slur.

Speaker 8 So all this evidence gets put together and prosecutors say, hey, this person has been toxic with the alleged victim in this case. It was clearly, for them, second degree murder.

Speaker 5 Okay. And now we are in the march up to the trial.
Now, this week, there was a hearing before the judge. Just tell us really quickly what that hearing was about.

Speaker 8 So right now, there's a few pending motions in the Klenny trial. And one of the motions is that Christian, he was supposedly illegally recording Klenny.

Speaker 8 And those recordings are the ones that we have seen now as quote unquote evidence of her toxic behavior. Defense attorneys don't want that evidence to be part of the trial.

Speaker 8 Another motion that's still pending is to reconsider bond. So defense attorneys say that new evidence has come in in the case and they want Clenny to get some sort of bond.

Speaker 5 A lot of twists and turns in all of this. Thank you so much for getting us up to speed.

Speaker 8 Yeah, thank you for having me.

Speaker 5 Up next, it's time for Dateline Roundup, the sentencing of Florida grandmother and convicted murderer Donna Adelson.

Speaker 5 Plus, you've heard of serial killer John Way Gacy, but what do you know about his victims?

Speaker 5 Andrea talks with the director and cast of Peacock's chilling new drama series, Devil in Disguise, John Wayne Gacy.

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Speaker 5 Welcome back. Joining me for this week's roundup is Dateline producer Brad Davis.
Brad, thanks so much for joining us today.

Speaker 2 Glad to be here.

Speaker 5 So Brad, we are starting this week with a case that you have been following now for years. We're talking about the 2014 murder of Florida state law professor Dan Markell.

Speaker 5 This week, Donna Adelson, his 75-year-old former mother-in-law, appeared in court for sentencing after she became the fifth person convicted in his murder back in September.

Speaker 5 And, Brad, all of this was pretty dramatic.

Speaker 21 It really was. Donna Adelson's husband, Harvey Adelson, read a statement in court.
We've not heard from him before. He's always really been sort of in the background in this story, in a way.

Speaker 21 He was at the airport when Donna got arrested. And we've heard Donna and her son Charlie talking about him on some of the wiretap calls in this case, but we never really heard him speaking until now.

Speaker 21 So I was really curious what he would have to say. And it turns out, not surprisingly, he's really sticking by Donna.

Speaker 22 Donna did not participate in the heinous acts that she was convicted of doing. You are sending an innocent woman to prison.
You have taken my wife, and you have taken my life as well.

Speaker 10 And for what?

Speaker 22 This is not justice. It is vengeance and it is wrong.

Speaker 21 He gave an extremely forceful defense of his wife saying she's innocent and he went after the prosecutor saying they were spewing lies throughout the trial.

Speaker 21 He also blamed one-sided media coverage for her conviction.

Speaker 5 We also heard from Donna, right? She had a chance to speak during the sentencing. What did she have to say?

Speaker 21 Yes, that's correct. She gave an emotional statement.
She told the judge she was actually devastated when she found out her son-in-law was killed and insisted she had nothing to do with it.

Speaker 21 She claims she became a second victim in all of this and would never do anything to harm him.

Speaker 10 I had no idea that other people planned to cut Danny's life short.

Speaker 10 And the people who did this are exactly where they deserve to be.

Speaker 10 But I had no knowledge that this horrible evil act was going to take place.

Speaker 10 If I had become aware of this plan before Danny was murdered, I would have stopped it.

Speaker 5 Gosh, it's certainly stunning to hear her say that. And I'm sure that there were strong reactions from people who, certainly from the Markell family, who may have had their own thoughts about that.

Speaker 5 I'm curious, Brad, did any of this hold any sort of weight with the judge?

Speaker 21 No, it really didn't. Don Adelson's conviction comes with a mandatory sentence of life in prison.
It's first-degree murder.

Speaker 21 So after hearing all the statements, he still ended up handing down the same sentence. And Adelson has already been taken to jail, and she's on her way to a Florida Florida prison.

Speaker 21 They just put out a mugshot of her from the Department of Corrections there. She said that she has planned to appeal the ruling in the case and continues to work to prove her innocence.

Speaker 5 Next up, we are off to Philadelphia, where there was news this week in the case of Ellen Greenberg, the 27-year-old woman who was found dead in her apartment back in January of 2011 with more than 20 stab wounds, including 10 in the back and neck.

Speaker 5 So, Brad, just quickly bring us up to speed on this case. Right.

Speaker 21 So, Ellen's manner of death has been a source of debate for years now. The medical examiner initially ruled the death a homicide, then a few months later changed it to suicide.

Speaker 21 Ellen's parents filed a civil suit against the city for emotional distress, which settled on the eve of trial when local officials promised to take a second look at the case.

Speaker 5 And that brings us to the news this week. What happened?

Speaker 21 Once again, the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office ruled Ellen Greenberg's death is best classified as a suicide.

Speaker 5 Did the Medical Examiner's Office give any explanation for how they came up with this manner of death, a suicide?

Speaker 21 They did. Chief Medical Examiner Dr.
Lindsey Simon said in her report that a key factor in her decision was Greenberg's previous struggles with anxiety.

Speaker 5 Now, one of the sticking points, Brad, is that she was found to have been stabbed 23 times. How did the medical examiner explain that?

Speaker 21 Dr. Simon does acknowledge this in her report.
She says, quote, the distribution of wounds is admittedly unusual, she says.

Speaker 21 However, she believes that many of the wounds are what she would call hesitation wounds.

Speaker 21 And she added there was no one else's DNA on the knife or any evidence of anyone being in the apartment at the time of Ellen's death.

Speaker 5 So what comes next in this case?

Speaker 21 That remains unclear. Police may not reopen the investigation if suicide is the official cause of death.
So the case is really at an impasse, it seems, at this point.

Speaker 5 And finally, a quick update out of Utah, where Corey Richens, the mom of three who wrote a children's book about grief before being arrested for her husband, Eric's murder, is still in jail awaiting trial.

Speaker 5 Prosecutors say Corey slipped slipped a lethal dose of fentanyl into Eric's Moscow mule back in 2022, hoping to cash in on life insurance policies.

Speaker 5 She has pleaded not guilty to charges, including aggravated murder. So, Brad, what's the latest in this case?

Speaker 21 So, Corey's defense team is asking a judge to compel the handover of financial records from her husband's estate.

Speaker 21 Rich's defense has accused Eric's sister, who is the executor of his estate, of withholding documents that show she's been paying prosecution witnesses for their testimony.

Speaker 5 So, has anyone responded to this allegation, Brad?

Speaker 21 Attorneys for the sister-in-law have admitted that the estate did pay two witnesses, but they were expert witnesses, they say, and these communications should be protected by privilege.

Speaker 5 We can expect to hear a lot more about this in the coming months as we await the start of her murder trial early next year. Brad, thanks so much for joining us on Roundup this week.

Speaker 5 We really appreciate it.

Speaker 21 You bet.

Speaker 5 For our final story this week, we are going back in time to December of 1978 and the gruesome discovery of 33 murdered young men and boys in a Chicago suburb. Four of them had been dumped in a river.

Speaker 5 The rest of them had been buried on the property of a local businessman by the name of John Wayne Gacy.

Speaker 5 Gacy, considered one of the nation's most prolific serial killers, has been the subject of countless films and documentaries over the years.

Speaker 5 But according to the creative team behind a new eight-part drama series, Devil in Disguise, John Wayne Gacy, there's a side of the Gacy story that hasn't been told before.

Speaker 5 The story of Gacy's victims, the victims' families, and the detectives who made it a mission to identify them and bring them home. The detective said missing kids usually come home.

Speaker 9 What happens when they don't?

Speaker 5 Starting this week, the series produced by NBC News Studios will be available to watch on Peacock, the streaming channel owned by our parent company, NBC Universal.

Speaker 5 Andrea Canning recently sat down with the show's creator, Patrick McManus, along with actors Michael Chernis, who plays Gacy, and Gabriel Luna, who plays the lead detective on the case, to talk about why it was so important to them to tell the victim's stories.

Speaker 5 Take a listen.

Speaker 23 So Patrick, let me start with you. Why did you decide to do this show and shape it the way that you did?

Speaker 16 The story that I keep telling everyone is just the true story, which is that I turned it down twice.

Speaker 3 Really?

Speaker 16 Yeah, I did not want to do it. And Universal Content and Peacock, they came to me a third time and they had said, will you just take a look at the documentary? And And I said, okay.

Speaker 16 And I watched the documentary that is on Peacock. It's brilliant.
The documentary is really, really amazing.

Speaker 16 But I didn't come away from watching the documentary wanting to do it because at the end of the day, the documentary is very focused on John Wayne Gacy.

Speaker 16 And so I said to them, I said, look, if you will let me do it my way, and I didn't mean it in an obnoxious way. I just meant that I want to focus it on the police.
I want to focus it on the lawyers.

Speaker 16 I want to focus on the victims' families. And to their credit, they said yes.
But I didn't know what I meant about focusing on the victims until we got into the writer's room.

Speaker 16 And we figured out this idea of

Speaker 16 doing the short stories, which is our attempt to be able to actually tell the victim's stories, but with absolutely no connection to John Wayne Gacy

Speaker 2 or their murder.

Speaker 24 You know, not to take away the creep factor and the spook factor, because it's all there, you know, the scary parts. But I think it makes it more digestible, focusing on that.

Speaker 3 We really hope that the word gets out to folks who maybe wouldn't be interested in in a show about a serial killer, that this is an alternative sort of take on that story.

Speaker 23 Why did you decide to play Gacy?

Speaker 19 And you played him so well. Sometimes he's creepy, sometimes he's like the guy next door, sometimes he's funny.
It's there's there's so many faces to him.

Speaker 3 There are, and that was, in my opinion, very true of the actual man. And so

Speaker 3 I knew that the role would be a real challenge in that regard.

Speaker 2 There's really four Gacy's: John the contractor, John the politician,

Speaker 9 John the Clown.

Speaker 2 And then there's the other guy.

Speaker 3 I had this great initial meeting with Patrick. He told me that there would be no murders on camera, that we were focusing on the victims.
And he said to me, like, I hope you're okay with,

Speaker 3 you're not going to be in it. all the time.
And I was like, thank God, that's such a relief. Cause like to have to embody

Speaker 3 John Gacy all the time just felt like maybe something I didn't want to take on just for like personal mental health reasons.

Speaker 3 You've been told that you look like him.

Speaker 13 Is that?

Speaker 3 Here and there people would say that. And it's not the highest compliment.

Speaker 9 But

Speaker 3 yeah,

Speaker 3 people would say like, well, you look like that killer clown. You should see if someone

Speaker 3 write a show or a film for you. And so it was always kind of in the back of my mind.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 23 Gabriel, you get to play the lead detective.

Speaker 3 Yes, yes.

Speaker 3 I was privileged to play Detective Raphael Tovar, the lead investigator on the case.

Speaker 18 Police looking for John Gacy.

Speaker 18 Kids missing. Reported last scene with you.

Speaker 24 What did you take away as the most interesting part of your character?

Speaker 13 I think for me personally,

Speaker 3 I had played a lot of invulnerable characters. I mean,

Speaker 3 maybe physically invulnerable in that they were, you know, robotic killing machines or superheroes with flaming skulls and and what i loved about this part was

Speaker 3 um

Speaker 24 just the mundanity of his heroism and you you really captured the weight that the detectives carry in with these cases well yeah but that's that's it's an interesting um aspect of the show

Speaker 16 because so much of the show is also about the systemic failure of chicago pd to actually have stopped him had multiple opportunities to stop him but on the flip side of that coin are a group of detectives who were in that pit every single day

Speaker 3 who

Speaker 16 who had their lives upended and they were dedicated to ensuring that that every last

Speaker 16 victim was found and and where we got really the inspiration for tovar's entire journey through the season was from a statement that he made where he said to this day he's still haunted by the idea that he didn't find everyone um

Speaker 3 you know there are still unidentified victims.

Speaker 3 And one great hope of mine is that maybe through telling the story and just like shedding a different kind of light on it, that maybe we aid in putting a name to

Speaker 3 one or two or three of those boys that still are unknown and their identities.

Speaker 23 That would be amazing if something like that could come out of this. Absolutely.

Speaker 24 Yeah.

Speaker 23 Well, it has been a pleasure talking to all of you and congratulations on this. Really just, I can't say enough good things.
Thank you.

Speaker 16 Thank you so, so much.

Speaker 5 If you want to listen to more of Andrea's conversation with the team behind Devil in Disguise, we'll be dropping that in the Dateline feed on Monday.

Speaker 5 And all episodes of the drama itself are available to stream on Peacock right now. And if you'd like to dig even deeper, you can check out the documentary from NBC News Studios, also on Peacock.

Speaker 5 And that's it for this episode of Dateline True Crime Weekly.

Speaker 5 Coming up this Friday on Dateline, I've got a brand new episode for you about a determined daughter who set out on a decades-long quest to find her mother's killer.

Speaker 13 He talked to me straight in my eyes, like nothing was wrong.

Speaker 19 And he was comforting you.

Speaker 13 Yes, and he is the one who did it.

Speaker 5 Watch A Perfect Spring Morning this Friday at 9-8 Central on NBC. I can tell you, it's an interview I will never forget.
Thanks so much for listening.

Speaker 5 Dateline True Crime Weekly is produced by Carson Cummins and Katie Ferguson. Our associate producers are Caroline Casey and Logan Johnson.
Our senior producer is Liz Brown Kuriloff.

Speaker 5 Production and fact-checking help by Sarah Kadir. Veronica Mazeka is our digital producer.
Rick Kwan is our sound designer. Original music by Jesse McGuinty.
Paul Ryan is executive producer.

Speaker 5 And Liz Cole is senior executive producer of Dateline.

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