Survivors' haunting texts in Idaho. Questions for a New York prosecutor. And a spring break mystery.

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Listen to this week's episode of the Dateline: True Crime Weekly podcast with Andrea Canning. Unsealed court documents reveal chilling texts sent by the roommates of four murdered Idaho students. The family of a young woman murdered in New York wants to know why the arrest of her suspected killer took so long. And we've got an update on the investigation into a student who went missing from a beach in the Dominican Republic. Plus, what's fair game when attorneys call on expert witnesses? Find out more about the cases covered each week here: www.datelinetruecrimeweekly.com

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0:00.0	Hey, good morning.
0:03.1	Dateline story meeting is getting underway.
0:05.5	We're talking about this in my hour of late.
0:07.8	I'm just talking to William, who's here watering the plants, and he is not happy with it.
0:12.1	Me either.
0:13.1	Our editorial team is catching up on the latest twists and turns in cases we've been watching around the country.
0:18.5	I wonder, I mean, do we think she would ever talk? Would we be interested in that?
0:21.4	Monica supposedly has her lover saying, she didn't do it.
0:24.4	I did it.
0:25.0	He thinks the family of the missing woman feels something happened to her, but they have no evidence
0:30.3	of that yet.
0:32.1	Welcome to Dateline True Crime Weekly.
0:34.6	I'm Andrea Canning.
0:35.8	It's March 13th, and here's what's on our docket.
0:39.2	After a college student was murdered in a New York town over two decades ago, her family
0:44.3	refused to stop looking for answers. This week, the trial of her accused killer finally
0:49.7	began. Megan's family and the New York State Police say that one person really stood in the way.
0:55.9	We've got our roundup of the latest crime headlines, a verdict in the third murder trial of
1:00.7	Dana Chandler, the latest on the search for a college student who disappeared on spring break
1:05.3	in the Dominican Republic, and an update from the prosecutor handling the Menendez brothers'
1:10.4	case. He says the Menendez brothers case.
1:11.2	He says the brothers haven't taken responsibility.
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