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Life without parole. >> take him away. >> so that was justice. the most nailahs family could hope for. terribly important. and strangely empty. >> its still not done. shes still not back. you still cant talk with her. >> no. they tried to remember nailah not as a murder victim but as a beautiful young woman she was. the vibrant center of her family. but grief, real and painful, comes to visit every day. >> you know, people say, oh, well, shes your spirit and shes your angel and shes in a better ...

Against potts. >> this was a case with no eyewitnesss, no confession, no video of the crime, no physical evidence linking potts to the crime and a cause of death that was based on primarily exclusion. we dont try many cases like that. >> and not many cases with a defendant quite like reginald potts. >> coming up, an accused killers defense. >> im not a monster. >> hes smarter than the average criminal. but not as smart as he thinks he is. >> and after eight years, a verdict. >> what really torme...

Circuit court of appeals file more arguments by monday afternoon. the higher courts denial of an immediate stay mean it could continue for days. on friday, a judge temporarily halted a ban. for now back to "dateline extra." >> welcome back to "dateline extra". im tamron hall. what happened to nailah franklin? as her family continued their desperate search, police honed in on the men in her life. and with a little digging, one of their stories started to unravel. heres keith morrison with more on...

Down in calumet city, officer calvin lucius was again cruising vacant parking lots. this time a mile or so from where he found those boxes when a partner noticed something. >> he saw a pair of ear buds hanging from the tree. >> bright little bobbles showed up in the dark. what else was in that abandoned place? at the end of the midnight woods. >> coming up, its now a different type of investigation. and detectives take a closer look at a man from nailahs past. >> one of the doors was extremely d...

And everybody waited. and waited. and then, on the governors very last day in office, more than nine years into roberts sentence, a decision. denied. rosenfield, devastated, drove to the prison to tell robert. >> robert and i hugged. we cried. and probably it is about the most painful part of this process. >> roberts only door to freedom slammed shut. but half a world away, someone else was watching roberts case. could his opinion make a difference? coming up -- >> isnt a confession the strong...

Her door is open, her light is on, her beds undone, everything was horrible, and i felt it. >> the mystery was about to deepen. >> nobody had heard from her? >> nobody. >> just ahead on "dateline extra."

Extra. with a new live-in girlfriend, eric bechler seemed to be recovering quickly from losing his wife pegye and that didnt sit well with quite a few people. certainly not the police or pegyes family. but erics best friend, what exactly did he know and how far would he go to get proof? >> reporter: to detective sean murphy it sounded more than suspicious. eric bechler taking up with a gorgeous redhead just three months after his wife was lost at sea. but murphy didnt have much more than a gnawi...

Of what happened when pegye fell off the boat. >> he thinks she hit a wake and fell off. he said, and i didnt get to her. i said you didnt get to her or you didnt want to get to her? and he said -- at first he said he told me that he didnt get to her. then later he changed it and said i could have helped her but i didnt. >> reporter: now, thats completely different from what he told police. >> right. >> reporter: chilling as that sounded, tina feared it still wasnt the whole story. she was deter...

About to see this case in a whole new light. >> i put the videotape in and said oh, my gosh, what is this? when "dateline extra" continues. when my doctor told me i have age-related macular degeneration, amd, he told me to look at this grid every day. and we came up with a plan

Against potts. >> this was a case with no eyewitnesss, no confession, no video of the crime, no physical evidence linking potts to the crime and a cause of death that was based on primarily exclusion. we dont try many cases like that. >> and not many cases with a defendant quite like reginald potts. >> coming up, an accused killers defense. >> im not a monster. >> hes smarter than the average criminal. but not as smart as he thinks he is. >> and after eight years, a verdict. >> what really torme...