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Speaker 5 It's the start of another workday for the Dateline team here at 30 Rockefeller Center.

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Speaker 5 Our producers are catching up on breaking crime news around the country, swapping tips and story ideas.

Speaker 4 The clock starts ticking on that April 2nd. This just broke yesterday, but Andrea flagged it.
Is he charged in the U.S. or he's charged in Spain? Okay, okay.

Speaker 5 Welcome to Dateline True Crime Weekly. I'm Andrea Canning.
It's February 13th, and here's what's on our docket.

Speaker 5 In Philadelphia, after a first-grade teacher died under mysterious circumstances, her parents launched a 14-year quest for answers. Last week, they got big news.

Speaker 7 Her mother looked me in the eye and said, we haven't gone away. We're not going away.

Speaker 5 In Dateline Roundup, there's news from a Florida jail about Donna Adelson, the grandma accused of masterminding a plot to murder her son-in-law, FSU law professor Dan Markell, and more from the retrial of the Hawaii man accused of murdering his wife's acupuncturist, ex-lover.

Speaker 8 He described Eric as an easygoing guy, that murdering someone would be extremely out of character.

Speaker 5 Plus, for the first time on the podcast, we're joined by a judge. He tells us why he thinks jurors should be allowed to ask questions during a trial.

Speaker 10 They're questions that people from outside the system would be curious about. How does blood spatter tell the story? What does DNA really mean? How long can it last?

Speaker 5 But before all that, new developments in an international murder investigation. After a Florida woman went missing in Spain, her husband was arrested and accused of killing her.

Speaker 5 Now, the FBI is looking at his family to see if they played a role.

Speaker 5 It's been a year since anybody has heard from Anna Knessovich,

Speaker 5 and a year since a man wearing a motorcycle helmet was caught on video spray painting over the lens of a security camera in her Madrid apartment building.

Speaker 5 Federal prosecutors say that mystery man was Anna's husband, David Knessovich.

Speaker 5 In May, David was arrested and charged with Ana's kidnapping. Six months after that, the charges were upgraded.
NBC Six South Florida WTVJ covered the news.

Speaker 5 Well, this takes it to a whole new level, this federal indictment accusing him of murdering his wife. If, in fact, he were convicted of that, he could potentially face the death penalty.

Speaker 5 Ana had moved from Fort Lauderdale to Spain while she and David were separating. Prosecutors say David tracked her down there and killed her, but her body has not been found.

Speaker 8 Search efforts for Ana Maria in Europe have turned up empty.

Speaker 5 His lawyer says he's not guilty and there's no proof Ana is even dead. But investigators in this country have been busy too.

Speaker 5 Last week, we got our first hint that David may not be the only person in his family under scrutiny.

Speaker 5 Here to tell us more about what seems to to be a widening investigation is Dateline associate producer Alex LeRae.

Speaker 11 Hey, Alex. Hey, Andrea.

Speaker 5 Let's start at the beginning. Remind us of the FBI and the prosecutor's theory of this crime.

Speaker 12 Sure.

Speaker 13 So Anna and David were allegedly going through a contentious divorce.

Speaker 13 They had built a successful business together over the course of their marriage, but her family has said that he didn't want to split their assets 50-50.

Speaker 13 So in December 2023, she moves to Madrid, Spain, in search of,

Speaker 13 you know, a fresh start. And in early February 2024, her friends got text messages that didn't exactly sound like her, and she misses a dinner with her friends.

Speaker 13 When Spanish authorities did a welfare check, they found no one in her apartment, but they did turn up surveillance footage of a man who, according to prosecutors, looks a lot like David Knezovich, buying duct tape and spray paint at a hardware store close to Ana's apartment and hauling what appears to be a suitcase out of her building.

Speaker 13 And they learned he'd rented a car in Serbia, put thousands of miles on it, changed the license plates, and returned it with newly tinted windows.

Speaker 5 David isn't disputing that he was in Europe, but he says that there's a really good reason why he was there.

Speaker 13 Yeah, he says he was in Serbia visiting his mom, who is aging and needed his help.

Speaker 13 So he stayed out there for some time. In May, when he came back to Miami, he was arrested at the airport for Anna's kidnapping.

Speaker 5 And then those charges were upgraded to murder.

Speaker 13 Correct. Yeah.
So sources tell me that they upgraded the charges because there was proof that Anna had a drastic change of life pattern, meaning to them that she has passed away.

Speaker 13 Movement on her Google and Spotify accounts abruptly stopped, as did the contact with her family and friends.

Speaker 5 And we should say that David has pleaded not guilty. So let's get into the latest development.
Who was the other member of David's family who is now in the crosshairs of investigators?

Speaker 13 So, we've learned that the Department of Homeland Security has seized the laptop and phone of David's brother, whose name is Ugessa.

Speaker 5 How is he wrapped up in this now? What are they alleging?

Speaker 13 They're alleging in a search warrant they filed last month that they're looking at Ugessa Konezovich for aiding and abetting accessory after the fact, wire and bank fraud, and destruction of records.

Speaker 13 The warrant was unsealed by a judge in Miami Miami last week. What's kind of a surprise is we know that the FBI spoke to him last March, but he said he was estranged from David.

Speaker 13 In the warrant, it says he told them he only spoke to David because he found out from Ana's brother that she was missing. Ugessa says that he had to ask his mother for David's phone number.

Speaker 5 But according to the FBI, David's brother was the first person David called when he was arrested in May, correct?

Speaker 9 Right.

Speaker 13 And the FBI is saying since then the brothers have been in touch pretty often.

Speaker 13 The FBI says they have probable cause that his phone and laptop have evidence that Ugessa has pretended to be David to get Apple to lock David's phone so investigators couldn't open it.

Speaker 13 And then most recently, David's brother flew to Spain on vacation with his family.

Speaker 13 Last month, he went to Sevilla, which is about a three and a half hour train trip from Madrid, which is where Ana disappeared. And they say that they don't know where he was for two days in January.

Speaker 13 So they're investigating what he's been doing electronically, but also maybe physically in an area where Spanish authorities had conducted searches for Ana.

Speaker 5 Do we know if the FBI was able to get anything off of David's brother's phone and laptop?

Speaker 13 We don't know what the FBI has been able to look at, if anything at all.

Speaker 13 The defense challenged the seizure of the devices, writing in a motion that Ugessa is a part of the Knezovich defense team and that the quote, target devices contain attorney-client communications and attorney work product.

Speaker 13 Ugessa is not a lawyer, but because of that motion, prosecutors say they hadn't extracted any data from the devices.

Speaker 5 The FBI also seems to be investigating payments that David's brother has made to inmates in the federal prison where David is being held. What's that all about?

Speaker 13 Yeah, so the FBI is alleging that David needs money to buy burner phones so that he can communicate with his brother without the calls being recorded.

Speaker 5 Has David's brother said anything about these allegations?

Speaker 5 He hasn't been arrested or charged, but has he responded publicly at all?

Speaker 13 No, not that I know of. He was in attendance though at the hearing in Miami on February 3rd where this warrant was unsealed.

Speaker 5 So this warrant not only mentions David's brother, but another family member of David's. And we're talking about his mom.
Yes.

Speaker 13 Neither David's brother or mother have been arrested or charged with anything.

Speaker 13 But in the warrant, the FBI agent writes, law enforcement concludes that Ugessa and his mother disposed of evidence in this case and used Facebook to discuss doing so. So two things.

Speaker 13 After David was arrested in May, after he flew back from Serbia, his landlord sent his belongings to his parents, that included his laptop. But the FBI didn't know about that until June.

Speaker 13 And when they found out, they searched his parents' house and they found Facebook messages between Ugessa and his mom. A couple times he said, can you turn on his computer?

Speaker 13 And his mom said, yep, right away. And then a bit later, Ugessa messaged his mom, I'm done.
The computer is empty.

Speaker 13 The FBI agent also writes, software and programs are available that allow an individual to remote wipe or delete all stored data.

Speaker 5 Alex, what is next in this case?

Speaker 13 We will just have to wait and see if there are any more arrests.

Speaker 5 Okay, in the meantime, Ana's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit using some of this information that became public last week.

Speaker 13 Yes, they did.

Speaker 13 They are suing both David and his brother, saying that there are claims for wrongful death, fraudulent transfers, conspiracy, interference, and the tort of outrage stemming from David's year-long refusal to release Anna's body for burial.

Speaker 5 All right, Alex, thank you for bringing us the latest on this.

Speaker 13 Thanks, Andrea.

Speaker 5 Coming up in Philadelphia, a new chapter in a family's 14-year quest for the truth about their daughter's mysterious death.

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Speaker 5 On January 26, 2011, a Nor'easter hit Philadelphia. Schools closed and 27-year-old first-grade teacher Ellen Greenberg went home early to the apartment she shared with her fiancé.

Speaker 5 Just a few hours later, she was found dead with a knife four inches deep in her chest. Her parents, Josh and Sandy, were devastated.

Speaker 14 There's a hole in our lives.

Speaker 9 Our life is not complete.

Speaker 5 For more than a decade, Ellen's parents have waged a battle to find out the truth about what happened the night their daughter died, even filing two lawsuits against the city of Philadelphia.

Speaker 5 All that came to an abrupt halt last week.

Speaker 15 Major development today in a couple's fight for answers 14 years after their daughter's death.

Speaker 5 Brian Sheehan, a reporter at NBC10, WCAU in Philadelphia, has been following this story for years. He joins us now to tell us more.
Brian, thank you so much for coming on the show.

Speaker 7 Thanks for having me.

Speaker 5 So why don't you just start by telling us a little bit about Ellen Greenberg? Who was she? What was she like?

Speaker 1 What have you learned?

Speaker 7 So Ellen was the only child of Josh and Sandy Greenberg. She was beloved by her students, by her friends.

Speaker 7 Her parents describe her as someone who just had a bright, bubbly personality, somewhat of a short statue, but as cliche as it is, she walked into a room and people noticed her.

Speaker 5 Okay, let's fast forward now to the evening Ellen was found dead. We know from the investigation report that her fiancé, Sam Goldberg, was reportedly at the gym.

Speaker 5 And when he came home, the door was bolted shut from the inside. What

Speaker 5 happened next?

Speaker 7 So he claims that he starts banging on the door. He's yelling to her.
He then sends her a series of text messages telling her to open up the door. And then at some point,

Speaker 7 he breaks down the door, goes into the apartment, and he sees Ellen is on the kitchen floor with

Speaker 7 she's unresponsive at that point.

Speaker 5 So he he calls 911?

Speaker 7 He calls 911, and the 911 operator says, does she have a pulse? And he goes over and it's at that point that he tells the 911 operator that he sees a knife in her chest.

Speaker 5 So this is not just one stab wound we're talking about. There are 20, including 10 to her head and her neck.
And Brian, she had some bruising as well? She did.

Speaker 7 So when the medical examiner reviewed her body after her death, he did note that there were bruising on her body in various stages of healing.

Speaker 5 So the medical examiner initially ruled the manner of death was homicide, but that all changed a few weeks later. What happened?

Speaker 7 Reportedly, the Philadelphia Police Department met with members of the district attorney's office and the medical examiner in Philadelphia.

Speaker 7 And after this meeting, the manner of death was switched from a homicide to a suicide. There were no signs of forced entry.

Speaker 7 So there was no proof that they said that there was a homicide that took place.

Speaker 5 And also the knife only showed Ellen's DNA.

Speaker 9 Correct.

Speaker 5 Was there any type of note in the apartment or, you know, something she had written to a family member or friend that she was distraught or depressed or, you know, some type of indication?

Speaker 7 There were questions that came up afterwards about Ellen's state of mind in the weeks leading up to her death. In fact,

Speaker 7 she had spoken to her parents several weeks prior saying that she was anxious. Her parents set her up several weeks prior with a psychiatrist who noted that Ellen was dealing with anxiety.

Speaker 7 But in her notes, she actually said that she's not suicidal.

Speaker 5 And what about her fiancé's story? Did the police look into that? You know, he says he's at the gym when this is happening, that the door is bolted shut. Did they find anything out with that?

Speaker 7 There wasn't much investigation. The security cameras show that he is down at the gym.
There's no camera on the floor that we have seen of their apartment showing the actions outside of the apartment.

Speaker 7 There are text messages. They have the text messages.
And they have the 911 call.

Speaker 5 The family obviously has a very strong conviction that this was not suicide. They essentially began their own investigation into this, consulting many experts over the years.
What did they find?

Speaker 7 So a lot of the experts that reviewed this concluded there was no way that Ellen could have stabbed herself that many times.

Speaker 7 In fact, during a deposition, there is a forensic pathologist who reviewed Ellen's spinal tissue. In her deposition, she states that one of the stab wounds did not have any hemorrhaging.

Speaker 7 And no hemorrhaging means no pulse, which means Ellen could not have stabbed herself and could not have administered that wound because she was already dead.

Speaker 5 Josh and Sandy Greenberg ultimately filed two civil lawsuits against Philadelphia, the city. One sought to change the manner of death.

Speaker 5 The other sought damages for intentional infliction of emotional damages by city employees who conducted the investigation. This legal battle was going on for more than five years.

Speaker 5 Last week, on the eve of this civil trial, there was a big development in the case. Yes.

Speaker 7 So Dr. Marlon Osborne, who is the medical examiner who originally ruled Ellen's death a homicide and then switched it to suicide.
Dr.

Speaker 7 Osborne on Friday night, two days before they were scheduled to go to trial, he

Speaker 7 writes in a legal verification that Ellen's manner of death should be ruled something other than suicide.

Speaker 5 And the city and the Greenbergs also they reached a settlement of some sort?

Speaker 7 So we went to, I was there in court and they were about to begin jury selection and both sides, the attorneys from the city and the Greenbergs attorneys, they were going back and forth.

Speaker 7 We saw them walking down the hallway multiple times that morning

Speaker 7 and they reached an agreement that the medical examiner in Philadelphia will review Ellen's manner of death.

Speaker 5 And is this medical examiner who's reviewing the manner of death, is this a different

Speaker 5 medical examiner or the same one?

Speaker 7 To our knowledge, it is going to be a different one because Dr. Marlon Osborne, the original medical examiner, he no longer practices in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 7 So it is going to be an independent investigation, a new investigation with the medical examiner's office in Philadelphia.

Speaker 5 And what is happening then with the police? Is this investigation open? Are there plans to open it?

Speaker 7 So that's a good question.

Speaker 7 If the medical examiner's office comes back and says we determine Ellen's manner of death to be either undetermined or homicide, that will most likely start an investigation.

Speaker 5 And the Greenberg spoke to NBC 10 WCAU Philadelphia after the agreement.

Speaker 8 I hope today we made Ellen proud of us.

Speaker 7 Her father is a very stoic man, and he broke down. They were walking through the halls of Philadelphia City Hall with her picture, and her mom says, Ellen Greenberg did not kill herself.

Speaker 7 She did not kill herself. And she turned around to her husband, Josh, showed him the picture, and he stopped.
He put his head down and he just started to sob.

Speaker 7 They believe that they will see the day that Ellen gets justice.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Well, thank you so much, Brian.

Speaker 7 Thank you. I appreciate it.
It was a pleasure.

Speaker 5 Up next, it's time for Dateline Roundup. We've got an update from Hawaii as the defense team for Eric Thompson, the man accused of murdering his wife's ex-lover, makes its case.

Speaker 5 And Donna Adelson's latest court filing, the Florida matriarch accused of masterminding a hit for hire wants out of jail. Plus, we've seen it in a few cases this year.

Speaker 5 Jurors asking questions during murder trials. Does it work? We've got a judge to give us his take.

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Speaker 5 Welcome back. Joining me for this week's roundup is Dateline Associate Producer Kelly Moody.
Hey, Kelly.

Speaker 20 Hi, Andrea. How are you?

Speaker 5 Good. So you have the assignment of the year this winter here in Hawaii to cover a case that we talked about a few weeks ago on the podcast.
We're talking about Eric Thompson.

Speaker 5 He is on trial for the second time for the murder of his wife's former lover in 2022. His first trial ended in a hung jury.
So Kelly, first, just remind us about this case.

Speaker 8 Eric Thompson is accused of fatally shooting his wife's lover, who was an acupuncturist by the name of John Takahara. His wife, Joyce Thompson, received fertility care from Takahara.

Speaker 5 So it is now week four in the trial, and we are in the defense portion. They are trying to poke holes in the prosecution's case.

Speaker 8 Yeah, definitely. From an investigation standpoint, there were no eyewitnesses to the shooting.

Speaker 8 The murder weapon wasn't ever found, and they're claiming that investigators didn't thoroughly search the area.

Speaker 8 They're also claiming that there's no electronic data, no GPS tracking data, no cell phone data tying Thompson to the area at all.

Speaker 5 The defense also called Eric Thompson's brother Michael to give character testimony. What did he have to say about his brother?

Speaker 8 So he described Eric as an easygoing guy.

Speaker 21 Like, I've never seen him

Speaker 21 yell, swear, or

Speaker 21 no physical anything with.

Speaker 2 Joyce.

Speaker 8 That murdering someone would be extremely out of character.

Speaker 1 He doesn't

Speaker 21 let things affect him very much.

Speaker 8 And then, when asked about how his brother Eric behaved around the time of Takahara's murder, he said there really wasn't any change to make note of.

Speaker 7 He was, I guess, normal.

Speaker 21 Nothing to have me suspect anything.

Speaker 5 Eric has pleaded not guilty. What can we expect from the trial in the coming days?

Speaker 8 So in Eric Thompson's first trial, he did take the stand in his defense. So we're waiting to see if he'll do the same this time.

Speaker 8 And of of course, his wife, Joyce, is still by his side and has been there every single day sitting behind him.

Speaker 5 Okay, we'll be sure to check back in on that one and see what the jury decides.

Speaker 5 Up next, a defendant in a double homicide out of Kansas. And this is not her first murder trial or her second.
Kelly, bring us up to speed on Dana Chandler and her third murder trial in two decades.

Speaker 8 Yeah, so Dana Chandler stands accused of the 2002 murders of her ex-husband, Mike Siscoe, and his fiancé, Karen Harkness. Dana Chandler and her ex-husband had a pretty rocky relationship in the 90s.

Speaker 8 Their divorce took four years to be processed. Mike Sisko gained complete custody of the couple's two kids, and Dana Chandler had to pay child support.

Speaker 8 Prosecutors claim Chandler became jealous, full of rage, obsessed with her ex-husband, ultimately leading her to commit both murders.

Speaker 8 Dana Chandler went on trial for the murders, was found guilty, sentenced to life in prison in 2012, but then in 2018, the verdict was overturned because of prosecutorial misconduct.

Speaker 8 She was retried in 2022, but that trial ended with a hung jury. Chandler has been out on bond ever since.

Speaker 5 So her third murder trial began last Friday, and the big news out of the courtroom last week is that Chandler is representing herself.

Speaker 12 You will hear testimony that I have maintained my innocence throughout this proceeding.

Speaker 5 And we've learned that the court appointed standby counsel for her.

Speaker 8 Yeah, so even though Chandler waived her right to an attorney, a court order issued last Friday ensured that Chandler would at least have access to an attorney if she wants it.

Speaker 5 Finally, we are off to Florida, where Donna Adelson's defense attorneys are pushing for her release as she awaits her murder trial.

Speaker 5 She is the 75-year-old family matriarch and fifth person charged in the murder-for-hire plot of her former son-in-law, law professor Dan Markell.

Speaker 5 Now, she's in protective custody, right, Kelly?

Speaker 8 Yeah, that's right. She claims that she's been attacked by other inmates.
In a motion to be released on Bond, Adelson claims an inmate actually shoved her into a bunk.

Speaker 8 And then when asked why she attacked her, the inmate replied, because you're a killer. You're an expletive killer.

Speaker 5 And her defense attorneys say, should Bond be set, she's not a flight risk. But remember, this is the woman who was arrested as she was about to board a one-way flight to Vietnam.

Speaker 5 Although her lawyer argues she was going on vacation and there was no warrant for her arrest at the time. We can expect a ruling on this motion on February 27th.

Speaker 5 When, Kelly, can we expect her trial to begin?

Speaker 8 Her trial is currently still set to start in June of 2025.

Speaker 5 Okay, so many cases to watch. Thanks, Kelly, for joining us this this week.
Enjoy Hawaii.

Speaker 9 Thank you. Will do.

Speaker 5 Before I introduce my next guest, take a listen to this.

Speaker 10 Did Jason Chen have any observable cuts or injuries on his body? Could you determine where a murder occurred?

Speaker 22 Were you able to identify the driver of the Prius that was just investigated further?

Speaker 5 That is the voice of Judge Boyd Patterson reading out juror questions to witnesses at the trial of Jason Chen. Chen was convicted last last month of murdering his 22-year-old girlfriend, Jasmine Pace.

Speaker 5 And the Jason Chen trial wasn't the first time we've come across jurors asking questions of witnesses in the courtroom this year.

Speaker 5 Our team noticed it at the trial of Richard Allen, the man convicted of murdering two schoolgirls in Delphi, Indiana.

Speaker 5 Once the witnesses testified, the judge turns to the jurors and say, do you have any questions? And they're good questions.

Speaker 5 More recently, jurors had lots to say in San Francisco, where Nima Momeni was convicted of fatally stabbing Cash App co-founder Bob Lee.

Speaker 5 There was quite a large stack of questions from jury members to Nima. This made us wonder, why do we hear jurors asking questions in some trials, but not others? And what are the pros and the cons?

Speaker 5 So we asked Judge Patterson to come on the podcast and share with us what he's seen in the courtroom when juries are given the freedom to ask what's on their mind. Hi, Judge.

Speaker 5 Thanks for coming on the podcast.

Speaker 10 Thank you, Andrea. Good to be here.

Speaker 5 So as we mentioned, you allowed the juror questions in the Jason Chen trial. But, you know, most of the cases we cover don't involve jurors asking questions.

Speaker 5 Why do we see it sometimes and sometimes not?

Speaker 10 It's a state issue. Overwhelmingly, the majority of states do allow it.
34 states and the federal system allow it.

Speaker 10 Minnesota, Texas, and Nebraska clearly have put down decisions that do not allow jurors to ask questions.

Speaker 5 Even though questions are allowed in a lot of states, a lot of judges won't use that tool. Is it always the judge that decides?

Speaker 10 Yes, it is. The judge is the one that makes the call.

Speaker 5 So take us inside the courtroom where it is allowed.

Speaker 10 How does it work? What happens is the trial progresses where one side calls a witness and the other side gets to cross-examine that witness.

Speaker 10 And at that point, I will ask the jurors if they have any questions for that particular witness. They write the questions down.
They pass them to the bailiff.

Speaker 10 The questions come to the bench where the lawyers will talk about whether the question should or should not be asked. And if it's a question that clearly cannot be asked, I won't ask it.

Speaker 10 If they ask for a defendant's prior record and it's not relevant, I just won't ask the question.

Speaker 10 If they ask if it was raining that day or if any other blood was found in any other spot than was testified to, then I'll ask the question. The witness will face the jury when answering.

Speaker 10 Then finally, the lawyers will have the chance to redirect or recross if they feel they need to develop the testimony any further to clarify the witnesses' answers for the jurors.

Speaker 5 What would you say are the biggest benefits to allowing jurors to ask questions?

Speaker 10 Oh, there's many of them.

Speaker 10 It keeps jurors more engaged in the process. I mean, think about sitting in a classroom where you can't ask questions.
If the students can't ask questions, how much of that are they really learning?

Speaker 10 As far as the actual significant, weighty reasons, I think that it's a good idea to let jurors ask questions. They make more informed decisions.

Speaker 5 I can't help but feel like they're channeling their inner dateline correspondent when they come up with these questions.

Speaker 10 Absolutely. They're questions that people from outside the system would be curious about.
How does blood spatter tell the story? What does DNA really mean? How long can it last?

Speaker 5 What are the criticisms of asking questions as you go along? Because there are places where this is not allowed. Why not?

Speaker 10 The concerns that have been communicated to me from lawyers that I do respect talk about how they're concerned that the ability for jurors to ask questions may lessen the state's burden.

Speaker 10 That, say, a prosecutor forgets to ask a question or ask in a certain way, then a juror can come back and ask the question.

Speaker 10 Another one that came up is that if a juror's question isn't asked, it might cause the juror to speculate about the withheld answer or resent their question not being asked.

Speaker 10 Maybe they think the lawyers are hiding something.

Speaker 5 Judge, is it true that it can reduce hung juries?

Speaker 10 I don't think so. Hung juries are possible if the jury does not have enough information for sure.
Gaps in the proof will call it. Allowing juries to ask questions doesn't change the proof.

Speaker 10 If the gaps were there before, they're still there at all.

Speaker 5 Okay, Judge Patterson, this has been fascinating. Thank you for giving us your insight.

Speaker 10 Thank you, Andrea.

Speaker 5 That's it for this episode of Dateline True Crime Weekly. Next week, I'll be off, but Blaine Alexander will be here to host, and she has a very special guest, Keith Morrison.

Speaker 5 He'll be talking about his brand new podcast series, Murder in the Moonlight. A family was torn apart when a couple was shot to death in their quiet farmhouse on America's Great Plains.

Speaker 11 Never in a million years would you think that you'd see your parents' house taped off, the farm taped off by that yellow tape.

Speaker 5 What followed was a lengthy investigation that included four suspects, spanned three states, and came down to one single shiny clue.

Speaker 5 Subscribe to Dateline Premium on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or DatelinePremium.com to hear the first two episodes now. Or listen to the first two episodes free on Monday, February 17th.

Speaker 5 And coming up this Friday on Dateline, Craig Melvin has an all-new two-hour episode.

Speaker 5 Susan Smith made headlines 30 years ago when she let her car roll into a South Carolina lake, drowning her two young sons who were strapped inside.

Speaker 5 In a revealing and rare interview, Susan's ex-husband, David Smith, sits down with Craig to talk about his heartbreak and his fight to keep her behind bars.

Speaker 7 Would you have been better off had the state executed her?

Speaker 7 Wow.

Speaker 2 For myself, yes.

Speaker 2 Because I wouldn't have to be dealing with what's coming up now and

Speaker 7 in the future.

Speaker 5 Watch Return to the Lake, airing this Friday at 9-8 Central on NBC, or stream it starting Saturday on Peacock. Thanks for listening.

Speaker 5 Dateline True Crime Weekly is produced by Frannie Kelly and Katie Ferguson. Our associate producers are Carson Cummins and Caroline Casey.
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 McGinty.
Bryson Barnes is head of audio production.

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

Speaker 4 All right, thanks very much, everyone.

Speaker 14 Bye.

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