DNA at heart of Arizona trial. Aspiring model's killer fights to clear his name. Plus, Relisha Rudd.

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A murder trial begins after a yearslong battle over DNA. A son's fight to exonerate himself -- and his parents -- in Illinois. And a quest for answers in the case of Relisha Rudd, missing since 2014.

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0:00.0	Hey, good morning.
0:03.5	You're listening in to the Dateline story meeting.
0:06.2	We can go ahead and get started.
0:07.2	Yeah, let's go.
0:08.1	Let's go.
0:09.3	Our producers are catching up on breaking crime news.
0:12.6	So it sounds like he just snapped, too, right?
0:14.8	This fraudulent insurance claim kind of hints at this double life.
0:19.3	There's a Fitbit that actually shows a spike in a heartbeat,
0:23.3	and then it just goes flat.
0:26.0	Welcome to Dateline True Crime Weekly.
0:28.7	I'm Andrea Canning.
0:29.8	It's November 6th, and here's what's on our docket.
0:33.5	In Illinois, a convicted killer is fighting to clear his name and the names of his parents, too.
0:39.9	They said that there was nothing that links this family to the crime.
0:43.7	In Dateline Roundup, Brian Koberger back in court, a verdict in the college professor murder trial,
0:50.1	and updates in the Sandra Birchmore case.
0:52.6	A new indictment claims that by killing Birchmore,
0:54.9	he also caused the death of her unborn child.
0:57.8	Plus, an eight-year-old girl went missing from a homeless shelter in 2014.
1:02.1	A new documentary is looking for answers.
1:04.8	We're hoping that someone with information can help us close this chapter in this missing person's case.
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