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Former MLB pitcher on trial for murder. New evidence in Karen Read. Plus, testifying anonymously.

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Listen to this week's episode of the Dateline: True Crime Weekly podcast with Andrea Canning. In Placer County, California, a former MLB pitcher is on trial for gunning down his in-laws at their home. He says he didn't do it. A new expert testifies at the Karen Read retrial about data pulled from Read's car. He says it nails down the prosecution's timeline of what happened. Updates on the Menendez brothers and Lori Vallow Daybell. Plus, an attorney talks about witnesses who testify anonymously.

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0:00.0

Hey, good morning. Good morning, everyone.

0:04.3

You're listening in to Dateline's morning meeting here at 30 Rockefeller Center.

0:08.7

Eight years later, there's been an arrest.

0:10.8

Our producers are catching up on breaking crime news around the country.

0:15.0

She apparently wore a wig at a mosque.

0:17.7

There's CCTV footage of her entering this house.

0:22.3

They had all this evidence. They just didn't act on it until recently.

0:25.6

Dana Chandler has violated the no contact order with her daughter, and she keeps calling her

0:31.1

about what did you say on Dateline.

0:34.1

Welcome to Dateline True Crime Weekly. I'm Andrea Canning. It's May 22nd and here's what's on our docket.

0:41.6

In Debt of Massachusetts, the prosecution is winding down at the retrial of Karen Reed, but the courtroom drama isn't.

0:49.0

The defense was on the attack from the jump. In Dateline Roundup, we've got the latest on some stories we've been watching.

0:55.5

The Michigan mom convicted of killing her husband by setting him on fire and running him over with a

1:00.3

van, learns her fate. And Lori Valo-Daybell has a bold request for her trial judge.

1:06.5

I'd have to ask that you would recuse yourself from the obvious personal bias that you have against me.

1:11.7

Plus, in the next week or so, a Jane Doe will testify against Sean Combs at his federal trial.

1:17.2

We've asked an attorney to give us the lowdown on witnesses who are anonymous in the courtroom.

1:22.6

Probably one of the most important factors that a judge weighs is safety concerns.

1:28.2

But before all that, we're heading to Northern California,

1:31.0

where a former Major League Baseball pitcher is on trial for murder.

1:36.0

On June 5th, 2021, on the west shore of Lake Tahoe in California,

1:40.5

someone entered the home of Robert Gary Spore and his wife Wendy Wood.

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