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Apr 2025
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Lori Vallow Daybell's phone calls. Karen...

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Listen to this week's episode of the Dateline: True Crime Weekly podcast with guest host, Blayne Alexander. In Arizona, the prosecution plays phone calls Lori made to her insurance agent in the days after her husband's shooting. In Massachusetts, a jury is finally seated in the Karen Read retrial, and the prosecutor has a new strategy. The accused Gilgo Beach serial killer is back in court. Plus, a forensic anthropologist on a mission to identify the victims of the Candyman serial killer.

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