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Jan 2024
1h 23m

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Dennis Murphy reports on the latest twists in the murder-for-hire plot that left a Florida law professor dead, ripped apart two families, and ignited a decade-long search for justice.

 

Dennis Murphy and Josh Mankiewicz go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’:

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