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Liberals. its been forever, right? first i want to quickly take you back to the first time i went to chicago where i met the family of demetrius griffin. >> they burn them alive. he wasnt in again, he didnt do drugs. >> that was my only nephew. he was 15 years old. two years, $10,000, nothing. >> give me a hug. >> thank you so much. thank you so much. so sorry. >> laura: that was from our town hall last year. woman i show that hug with his rachelle sykes. her nephew demetrius griffin was murdere...

Sykes and tali sykes, demetrius his mother, good to see you again. i didnt meet you last time, you couldnt be with us. >> that was difficult. >> poly, tell us, no leads in this investigation? >> we have no leads. we need as much help as we can to bring the killers to justice. thats why its important for us to keep the story out here so we can get help. all kids lives matters to me. and my son was viciously taken from me, burnt alive in the garbage. and no mother should have to deal with that, so...

Its been forever, right? first i want to quickly take you back to the first time i went to chicago where i met the family of demetrius griffin. >> they burn them alive. he wasnt in again, he didnt do drugs. >> that was my only nephew. he was 15 years old. two years, $10,000, nothing. >> give me a hug. >> thank you so much. thank you so much. so sorry. >> laura: that was from our town hall last year. woman i show that hug with his rachelle sykes. her nephew demetrius griffin was murdered and at t...

That has horrified this city. a look inside the investigation by one of the accused killers might go free. but as its been busy year on capitol hill. we will take a look back as well. i had enough! its not getting in my way. joint pain, swelling, tenderness... ...much better. my psoriasis, clearer... cosentyx works on all of this. four years and counting. so watch out. i got this! watch me. real people with active psoriatic arthritis are feeling real relief with cosentyx. cosentyx is a different...

Museum. now back to "dateline." welcome fwoback to "datelin extra." t it was all to find conrad truman guilty of murdering his wife. but he felt he was innocent. he had more to say about it in court. and then he wanted to talk to us. here again is josh mankiewicz. >> just more than two years after his wife heidys death, conrad truman stood convicted of her murder. he was looking down the barrel of a life sentence when he returned to a utah courtroom to learn his punishment. this is the moment ...

Acquitted, these are the people that are closest to the -- >> exact. >> i those people that have been convicted in this trial, we dont know who they are. >> right. >> so we dont know that they were the hands on the killers of khashoggi or maybe just part of the team. >> exactly, because the process has been so ambiguis and vague. we havent been given a clear explanation of what each individuals role was in the murder. there are believed to be five individuals part of the team that was sent to tu...

Joining me now to discuss this, are global affairs analyst david road, executive editor of "the new yorker" website. are you surprised by this sentence and do you think that justice has been served? >> im sort of incredibly disappointed. i think this is a whitewash. the officials you mentioned, the senior officials very close to the saudi crown prince and essentially we dont even know the names of the five people who have been sentenced to death. the claim from the saudis this was a spur of the ...

Welcome back to "dateline extra." im craig melvin. the alcohol, the argument, the bizarre threats to detectives at the scene. it was all enough for a jury to find conrad truman guilty of murdering his wife heidy. but conrad held firm. he was innocent. he had more to say about it, first in court, and then he wanted to talk to us. here again is josh mankiewicz. >> just more than two years after his wife heidys death, conrad truman stood convicted of her murder. he was looking down the barrel of a ...

State. >> what the police did not know was that there was not one strangler but two. >> today in a bellingham, washington, courtroom, kenneth bianchi, in the hope of avoiding a death sentence, confessed to participation in the los angeles hillside stranglings and went on to accuse his cousin, angelo buono, of being his accomplice. >> kenneth beankhy, to a great extent he was motivated because he was trying to show his older cousin, who he revered, that he was tough. for angelo buono, he enjoyed ...

Have had a destruction of our innocence we had at the beginning of the 70s. >> it became an era where americans began to expect the worst. >> america certainly had lost its way. criminals were lauded and killers were romanticized. >> it was the news media that helped carry this message that america is a dangerous place. that americans had a love affair with violence. actually, it was much more like a marriage. and the marriage for some people was till death do them part. >> for a crime social sc...