A "no body" murder trial in Mississippi. A Wisconsin dad fakes his death. Plus, keeping your home safe during the holidays.

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🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Listen to this week's episode of the Dateline: True Crime Weekly podcast with Andrea Canning. The body of missing Ole Miss student and gay activist Jay Lee has never been found, but prosecutors charged his secret lover with his murder. The man pleaded not guilty and last week at his trial, the jury weighed in. In August, a dad took his kayak out to go fishing on Wisconsin's deepest lake. He didn't come home until December. Plus a new charge for alleged Gilgo Beach killer Rex Heuermann, and Vicky Nguyen is back with tips on how to keep your house safe while you're traveling for the holidays. Find out more about the cases covered each week here: www.datelinetruecrimeweekly.com To get new episodes every Thursday, follow here on Apple and Spotify: Apple: https://apple.co/3Vx5THG Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5utP1NZyMUlyaUUv7XNq7j

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0:00.0	Let's go. So this is a story we've talked about before. You're listening in to Dateline's
0:06.4	morning meeting in 30 Rockefeller Center. She is married to Diddy's lawyer. Wow, really?
0:12.5	Yeah, the one who represented the Nixium guy. Our editorial team is catching up on breaking
0:17.4	crime news around the country. I think only four charges stuck, right?
0:21.6	Breaking her silence, actually.
0:23.6	He offers an inmate $15,000 to go kill somebody out.
0:30.0	Welcome to Dateline True Crime Weekly.
0:32.7	I'm Andrea Canning.
0:33.8	It's December 19th, and here's what's on our docket.
0:37.2	The Wisconsin kayaker who made
0:39.3	headlines around the world when he faked his own death and fled the country is back in the
0:43.8	U.S. to answer to a judge and his family. This was a very meticulously planned out staged death,
0:52.0	or so he thought. In Dateline Roundup, a big development in the case of the alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer.
1:00.0	And finally, a verdict in the trial of the man accused of murdering tech mogul Bob Lee.
1:05.0	According to this sketch artist, Momeni wiped away a few tears after the verdict was read.
1:10.0	Plus, NBC News, senior consumer investigative correspondent Vicky Wyn will be here with some
1:15.5	tips on how to keep your home safe if you're traveling over the holiday.
1:18.9	You don't want to actually close all of your curtains. That is a surefire sign to signal
1:23.5	to burglars. Hey, nobody's home. But first, we're heading to a college town in Mississippi where a case without a body
1:30.9	made its way to trial more than two years after the victim disappeared.
1:37.0	On July 8, 2022, Stephanie Lee woke up to a text from her 20-year-old son, Jay.
1:43.3	The University of Mississippi student wished her a happy birthday.
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