Lori Vallow Daybell's phone calls. Karen Read's retrial set to start. And Houston's "lost boys".

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Listen to this week's episode of the Dateline: True Crime Weekly podcast with guest host, Blayne Alexander. In Arizona, the prosecution plays phone calls Lori made to her insurance agent in the days after her husband's shooting. In Massachusetts, a jury is finally seated in the Karen Read retrial, and the prosecutor has a new strategy. The accused Gilgo Beach serial killer is back in court. Plus, a forensic anthropologist on a mission to identify the victims of the Candyman serial killer. Find out more about the cases each week here: www.datelinetruecrimeweekly.com Listen to Keith's podcast, Mommy Doomsday, about the Lori Vallow Daybell story here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mommy-doomsday/id1540849480 Listen to Josh's episode "The Widow of Woodland Hills" about the Monica Sementilli case here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-widow-of-woodland-hills/id1464919521?i=1000703469294 And vote for us for a Webby award: https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/shows/crime-justice

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0:00.0	Who on the call would want to do the rocket? I'm curious.
0:03.9	It's time for the morning meeting here at Dateline headquarters.
0:07.0	Let's rocket into the meeting.
0:09.3	Our producers are catching up on breaking crime news around the country.
0:13.2	Your jury's deliberating?
0:15.0	Yeah, they just got charged like five minutes ago.
0:17.7	Long investigation does not always equal mystery.
0:22.3	Welcome to Dateline True Crime Weekly.
0:25.5	I'm Blaine Alexander, filling in today for Andrea, who's out on vacation this week.
0:30.1	It's April 17th, and here's what's on our docket.
0:33.3	In Massachusetts, a jury is seated for Karen Reed's highly anticipated retrial.
0:38.6	Ahead of opening statements, we'll catch you up on what to watch out for this time around.
0:43.5	It was a huge challenge to seat a jury in a case that is as public and controversial as this one.
0:49.5	Other stories on our radar this week, we've got verdicts in two murder trials,
0:53.6	and a pivotal pretrial hearing
0:55.7	in the case of the alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer. Prosecutors hired a private lab to analyze
1:01.9	those hair fibers using nuclear DNA. Plus, we're joined by author and investigative journalist
1:07.7	Lisa Olson to talk about her new book on one of the deadliest
1:11.5	serial killers in American history and the scientist who helped return his victims to their
1:17.4	families. She took the police report home. She read it late at night and she noticed names of kids
1:23.7	who had been forgotten. But before all of that, we're heading back to Arizona, where Lori
1:28.3	Vallow Daybell's trial for conspiring to murder her fourth husband continues, and so does the drama.
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