348: The Murder of Chiquita Tate: From Dateline's "Shining Star"

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🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A rising star and ambitious defense attorney, Chiquita Tate, was stabbed to death in her Louisiana legal office on February 19, 2009. The crime scene is brutal and bizarre, and very few clues are left behind. A local prosecutor and friend of Chiquita's investigates who would do this to such a pillar of the community, and why. And then suddenly, a suspect emerges.

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