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Talking Dateline: Shining Star

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Josh Mankiewicz talks with Dennis Murphy about his episode “Shining Star.” In 2009, criminal defense attorney, Chiquita Tate, was found stabbed to death in her Baton Rouge, Louisiana law office. After an exhaustive investigation, authorities zero in on their suspect. Chiquita’s sister Danita Tate joins the conversation to discuss her advocacy work in educating the community on domestic violence. Josh and Dennis talk Murphy’s Law and how Dateline episodes get their titles. Get resources on domestic violence: https://www.thehotline.org/ Learn more about Juantonja Richmond’s case: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-close-case-two-friends-murdered-georgia-familys-pleas-answers-rcna138033 Listen to the full episode of "Shining Star" here: https://link.chtbl.com/dl_shiningstar

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0:00.0

Hi everybody I'm Josh Maykowitz and we are talking Dateline and today our guest is

0:09.0

Dennis Murphy. Hi Dennis. Hey Bud how are are you? Good to hear you.

0:13.0

So this episode is called Shining Star.

0:15.6

And if you haven't seen it, it's the episode right below this one on your Dateline

0:19.7

podcast feed.

0:21.2

So go there, listen to it, or go to Peacock and watch it on TV and then come back here.

0:27.0

Now, for this talking dateline, we have a special interview with the Chiquita's sister,

0:31.0

Danita Tate, to see how she's been doing and how her family's been doing since all of this happened.

0:36.7

Just a little recap.

0:38.0

When Chiquita Tate was found stabbed to death in her law office in Baton Rouge, she was a criminal defense attorney.

0:46.0

Investigators pursued a number of leads and everything ended up pointing right back to her husband,

0:52.0

Greg Harris.

0:54.2

So let's talk Dateline.

0:55.6

So on almost any other episode of Dateline,

1:00.5

Chiquita would have been sitting in a chair across from you because that's the kind of person we end up interviewing.

1:06.0

Josh, I'm thinking the same thing. I mean, here's a very accomplished promising young rising criminal defense attorney.

1:12.0

And I could see a plausible date line where she would

1:14.9

have been the person in the chair telling us about defending her guy and being

1:19.0

posed against Prem Burns, who you meet in the story, was a prosecutor.

1:22.6

Could have happened, but a twist of fate put her in the role of the victim of a

1:27.3

dateline story, but she could well have been the guest expert in the defense chair.

1:31.8

I love that you found a clip of her sort of just talking about some case with reporters

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