The Michael Proctor files. Parents of murdered daughter want answers. And behind the scenes with a CSI.

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Prosecutors at the Norfolk County Superior Court in Massachusetts share new details in the murder case against disgraced art salesman Brian Walshe, just two months after they finished one of the biggest trials of the year -- Karen Read. And Michael Proctor, the lead investigator in both cases comes under fire from the defense. Five years after an Arizona man was accused of robbing a young woman named Mercedes Vega, he is charged with her murder. Updates in the Karen Read and Sean "Diddy" Combs cases, plus jailhouse phone calls from convicted killer Brooks Houck. And how crime scene technicians can make or break an investigation. Find out more about the cases covered each week here: www.datelinetruecrimeweekly.com Listen to the NBC Boston podcast ""The Searches for Ana Walshe"" here: https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/brian-walshe-murder-case-podcast-searches-for-ana-walshe-new-episodes-out-now-where-to-stream/3785005/ To learn more about Dateline LIVE in Nashville on Sept. 28, and to get tickets, go here: https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline-event

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0:00.0	Hey, good morning. Welcome back. It's time for another Dateline story meeting. Anything new from Friday?
0:07.3	Our producers are catching up on breaking crime news. We have detectives. We have prosecutors. We have a doctor.
0:15.1	What's the motive? We don't know.
0:18.1	Welcome to Dateline True Crime Weekly. I'm Andrea Canning. It's August 7th and here's what's on our docket.
0:25.5	In an Arizona courtroom, two men faced charges of murdering a woman who was about to testify in a robbery case.
0:32.5	And her parents have tough questions for law enforcement. She's dead because she did the right thing.
0:39.7	So because she did that, I no longer have my baby here.
0:45.1	In Dateline Roundup, we've got updates for you about Sean Combs and Karen Reed and excerpts
0:50.7	from recently released jailhouse calls made by the man convicted of murdering Kentucky mom, Crystal Rogers.
0:57.0	You've got a lot of life left to you.
0:59.5	We're not done yet.
1:01.3	I love you so much.
1:02.5	I mean, I don't deserve you.
1:04.5	Plus, we'll be talking to an expert on crime scenes.
1:07.6	He'll tell us how investigators can make or break a case within minutes of arriving at the scene.
1:12.5	You have one chance to get it right. But before all that, we're heading to a place we've talked
1:17.0	about a lot on the podcast this year, Norfolk Superior Court in Massachusetts. It's the same courthouse
1:23.4	where Karen Reid stood trial this summer. Now another big murder case is gearing up for trial.
1:30.2	The last time anybody heard from Anna Walsh, a 39-year-old mother of three, was on New Year's Day,
1:35.7	2023. Her husband told investigators she had a work emergency and had to catch a flight early on
1:41.6	January 1st. But there is no evidence she ever made it to the airport.
1:46.0	And when she didn't show up for work, her employer reported her missing.
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