Blaine Alexander

Welcome to Dateline True Crime Weekly.

I'm Andrea Canning.

It's September 25th, and here's what's on our docket.

In California, after serving almost 14 years in prison, a man convicted of murdering his girlfriend and setting their house on fire gets a new trial.

The federal judge says the prosecution misrepresented the evidence at trial.

In Dateline Roundup, a judge makes a critical ruling in the case of the alleged Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Huerman.

Karen Reed is back in court, this time for her civil case.

And Barry Morphew, the man charged with his wife's murder for a second time, gets some big news.

Plus, I'm joined by my fellow Dateline correspondents.

We'll be in Nashville this week for our first ever Dateline Live event, and we're going to give you a sneak preview.

Before all that, we're heading to a courthouse in Chambers County, Texas, where a woman accused of poisoning her fifth husband is heading to trial.

On January 7th, 2023, Sarah Hartsfield called 911 in a panic from her home in Beach City, Texas.

She told investigators that her diabetic husband, Joseph, had experienced a crash in his blood sugar overnight.

Paramedics rushed Joseph to the hospital where doctors noticed something strange.

His medical condition didn't seem to match the story Sarah was telling them.

A nurse made a call of her own to the police to report her suspicion that Joseph had been poisoned.

Days later, he was dead.

A detective began taking a closer look at Sarah and quickly learned that she was no stranger to law enforcement.

In 2018, she came under scrutiny from police after fatally shooting her fiancé.

She said she shot him in self-defense.