Cases to watch in 2025: Sean "Diddy" Combs and Bryan Kohberger. Plus, safety tips for AI scams.
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It's Andrea Canning, and you're listening to Dateline True Crime Weekly. It's January 2nd, 2025, the start of a new year in courtrooms across the country and at Dateline's headquarters in 30 Rockefeller Center.
There are so many trials set to start in 2025. Nicholas Rossi, we have a trial date. It's April 22nd, the Anna Walsh case. That's going to be a four-week trial in October.
This week, we're going to tell you about some cases we'll be paying close attention to in 2025.
I think it's going to be interesting what happens with the criminal trial and to see who shows up in that courtroom to support him, if anybody.
This is, you know, her high-powered defense team. They will all return for this second trial.
Welcome to Dateline True Crime Weekly's Look Ahead 2025. Here's what's on our docket. In Idaho, the man accused of murdering four University of Idaho students, Brian Koberger, will finally head to trial. He can face the death penalty if convicted. In Dateline Roundup, we've got a roundup of cases to watch. From Karen Reed in Massachusetts to accused poisoner Corey Richens in Utah. I'm anxious to get to trial. And I'm ready to get this one heck of a fight. We've got trial dates and details. Plus, NBC News senior consumer investigative correspondent Vicky Nguyen will be here with tips on scams right out of the future.
A lot of that content is now being generated by AI, which makes it that much easier for the bad guys to pump out that bad information.
But before all that, we're headed to New York to take a look at a blockbuster case with a celebrity defendant. And it's shaping up to be what could be one of the biggest trials of the year. The music business executive Sean Combs, also known as Puff Daddy, Puffy, and Diddy, spent Christmas at the Federal Detention Center in Brooklyn. He's being held until his trial set to start in the spring. His charges?
Sean Combs led and participated in a racketeering conspiracy that used the business empire he controlled to carry out criminal activity. including sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and the obstruction of justice.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams held a press conference the day after Combs was arrested in September, and he said Combs had accomplices.
He used his business and employees of that business and other close associates to get his way.
Combs has denied it all, and in addition to his criminal case, he is also facing over 30 civil suits accusing him of sexual violence. His lawyers continue to deny the allegations in the suits and call them cash grabs. NBC News has been on this story since Combs' ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura filed and settled within 24 hours last fall with no admission of wrongdoing.
Ventura. Tora alleges that Combs not only raped her, but over the course of a decade, physically abused her.
That is frequent Dateline True Crime Weekly guest and NBC News correspondent Chloe Malas, who's broken the recent big developments in the Combs case, a lawsuit that for the first time names another celebrity.
Tonight, explosive allegations against legendary rapper and mogul Jay-Z. A new civil lawsuit is accusing him of raping a 13-year-old girl with Sean Diddy combs, which they both deny.
We brought Khloe back and also asked NBC News senior legal correspondent Laura Jarrett to join us. She's been covering combs as well, and they'll talk about where this case might go in 2025. Thank you both for being here. Thanks for having us. Always a pleasure. So whoever wants to dive in first, where is this story going in 2025? I'll let the lawyer take this one.
Chloe has been at the tip of the spear on all of the reporting on this. But from a legal standpoint, the question in my mind has always been, will the charges, the criminal charges, be limited to Combs alone or will more people in the alleged conspiracy, as the government describes it, eventually get implicated.
So the big question since all this started has been, who else might be involved?
These parties that Combs used to have over the decades were filled with celebrities and politicians, and the most powerful people have been silent. What's interesting is that Tony Busby, a litigator out of Houston, Texas, he has named not just Jay-Z, but he named a celebrity B, a woman who was allegedly there watching a 13-year-old girl be sexually assaulted in the year 2000 after the MTV VMAs.
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