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The Dateline Correspondents' Year in Review. And true crime goes viral.
Thu, 26 Dec 2024
Listen to this week's special episode of the Dateline: True Crime Weekly podcast. Andrea Canning is joined by Josh Mankiewicz, Keith Morrison, and Dennis Murphy to take a look back at the year in true crime. Plus, a roundup of the true-crime moments that went viral in 2024.Find out more about the cases covered each week here: www.datelinetruecrimeweekly.comTo get new episodes every Thursday, follow here on Apple and Spotify:Apple: https://apple.co/3Vx5THGSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5utP1NZyMUlyaUUv7XNq7j
Chapter 1: What are the highlights from the true crime year in review?
Right, and that's the, I mean, jurors in general, you know, who've watched TV shows believe, you know, and prosecutors will tell you this, they believe that you can take this cruddy, blurry video and make it crisper and better so that I can see exactly what's going on and we can read that license plate in the car. And that technology is unquestionably going to exist one day, but not yet.
Okay. How about the biggest twist of the year? Dennis, I know jury selection had begun in the case of Donna Adelson. She's the family matriarch accused of orchestrating the hit for hire of her son. I can't wait for Shakespeare.
And she was arrested as she was about to board a plane for Vietnam.
She was the most wanted in the whole dramatic piece here. And she bought a one-way ticket to Vietnam, which is a non-extraditable country. And just as they're in the boarding jetway of the plane that's going to take them overseas, here comes the FBI and a SWAT team. And they take them down, and they're wrestling for the phone, and she's charged with first-degree murder. Anyway, she's...
waiting to go on trial. And last September, the jury had been picked and were waiting for opening arguments. And the judge says, come in chambers here. And then it turns out that her attorney was ruled by the court to have a conflict of interest and could not represent her. So he's thrown off the case, which puts everything back months and months and months.
So now we think that grandmother, Donna Adelson, is going to go on trial maybe next June. Wait and see.
And we should add that Donna Adelson has pleaded not guilty. And her trip to Vietnam was just that, a vacation, she says. That trial will be very interesting. Okay, one case we haven't talked about yet, which I thought was one of the most intriguing this year was, well, any guesses?
My guess is that Karen Reid. I mean, it was huge. Still is huge.
Yeah. I got to tell you, I was at an event at the Marriott Marquis in Midtown Manhattan just last week. And a woman, I was waiting for someone, she walked up to me and she said, I'm from Massachusetts. Is it okay if I talk to you? She said, we are huge Karen Reed supporters. We're team Karen. And she wanted to talk to me about the Karen Reed story, this stranger in the hotel. Yeah.
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Chapter 2: Who are the prominent female defendants discussed?
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Happy holidays, everybody. Thank you, Andrea.
That's it from the Dateline Correspondents. But this episode of Dateline True Crime Weekly isn't done quite yet. Next up, we've got some true crime cases that went viral this year.
Oh, boy. What could that be?
In 2024, we saw something we've never really seen before at Dateline, the rise of viral true crime moments, stories that didn't just capture our Dateline fans' attention, but widespread media attention. So for our final story this week, we thought we'd look back on those moments that got even your non-true crime fan friends talking. I am joined by Dateline producer Marianne O'Donnell.
Hey, Marianne. Hey, Andrea. So this one, this first one we're going to talk about, it's this viral video of a Zoom call. A Michigan man named Corey Harris, he joins a court hearing in May to answer to charges of driving with a suspended license. He joins the Zoom call from behind the wheel of his car. Are you driving?
Actually, I'm pulling into my doctor's office, actually. So just give me one second. I'm parking right now.
So while most people laughed at this viral moment, there is an update to this story that our listeners might not expect, Marianne.
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