Hey, Jim. Is it cold and miserable out?

You're listening into a story meeting at Dateline headquarters in 30 Rockefeller Center.

It's raining, but it's actually pretty mild.

Our editorial team is catching up on breaking crime news around the country.

So there's one ex-boyfriend who's a suspect for a while.

Out West, Josh pointed this out last night, Josh Mankowitz.

So many crazy things have happened.

This is the third defense team he's had.

Welcome to Dateline True Crime Weekly.

I'm Blaine Alexander, in for Andrea Canning, who's off this week.

It's February 20th, and here's what's on our docket.

In Hawaii, a man accused of murdering his wife's acupuncturist ex-lover took the stand in his own defense. Did you kill John Tokohara? No, no, no, no. And we've got this week's roundup of

top crime stories, including the arrest of the leader of a group called the Zizians, which prosecutors believe is connected

to six violent deaths, big rulings on defense motions in Idaho for Brian Koeberger, and drama

in the latest pretrial hearing in the Karen Reed case.

Reid was in court on Tuesday for a motions hearing when all of a sudden the judge suspended

it.

Plus, Keith Morrison will be here to fill us in on his latest podcast series, Murder in the

Moonlight. Somebody found a gold ring in a place where it didn't belong. Did it belong to the killer?

And then you go on a long and winding pathway to find the truth. But before all that, we're heading back to Aurora, Colorado, where a dentist awaiting

trial on charges of allegedly murdering his wife was back in court last week facing new

charges.

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