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>> reginald potts used every resource at his disposal to delay the process. >> nbc chicagos reporter watched in something like amazement as reginald turned speedy justice into something else all together. >> he hired lawyers, fired lawyers, tried to act as his own attorney. at each step of the process, the trial had to be reset. >> one, two, three years passed that way. in the fourth year after the murder, illinois abolished capital punishment so that was off the table. and still, reginalds acti...

Something. >> definitely. >> her family loved andre, what family wouldnt? >> she brought him to my childs first birthday party. he brought my baby a gift. who does that? he was a nice quality person. >> they liked you. >> i think so, yeah. yeah. due to her influence, though. >> you started planning on moving in together, huh? >> we did. >> it was happening fast. >> it felt good, though. it felt natural. >> it was long distance, he in milwaukee, she in chicago. they stayed connected by phone and ...

>> you dont know if its her or not. but you have an idea because its a female body. >> they had to resort to dental records to confirm. it was nailah. >> i think this type of death it doesnt just kill that person, it kills a lot in the family. its the absence of a piece of you because that person is not here. >> i cant describe it. its like you know its happening, but it just doesnt feel real. it just feels like youre in literally like in a nightmare. >> an autopsy confirmed the death was by asp...

Mac store is owned by pots brother-in-law. >> his friend, the alibi witness, now testified for the prosecution, that yes, he initially lied for reginald, but didnt know it was to cover up a murder. and remember those three strange hangup calls to 911 and those odd texts her family and boyfriend received? it was reginald potts using nailahs phone hours after he murdered her, said the prosecution. a clever killers attempt to throw off a missing persons investigation. >> hes smarter than the averag...

>> 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 place and all this other stuff. im like...

Startled travelers scatter whether the gunman opens fire. he faces court tomorrow. benjamin netanyahu says a palestinian suspect who drove that truck you see there into a crowd of israelly soldiers of a supporter of isis. four soldiers died in that attack. 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...

Or something. >> yeah, absolutely, definitely. >> nailahs family loved andre. what family wouldnt? >> she brought him to my childs first birthday party. he brought my baby a gift. i was like who does that? because hes a nice, quality person. >> they liked you. >> i think so, yeah, yeah. due to her influence, though. >> you started planning on moving in together, right? on being together? >> we did. >> it was happening pretty fast. >> it felt good though. it just felt natural. >> it was long dist...

But relieved. >> relieved too that reginald pots, as was his right, demanded a speedy trial. but then -- >> reginald potts used every resource at his disposal to delay the process. >> charlie watched in amazinged a reginald turned speedy justice into something else all together. he tired lawyers, fired lawyers, tried to act as his own attorney. each step of the process, the trial had to be reset. >> one, two, three years passed that way. in the fourth year, illinois abolished capital punishment ...

Resource at his disposal to delay the process. >> nbc chicagos reporter watched in something like amazement as reginald turned speedy justice into something else all together. >> he hired lawyers, fired lawyers, tried to act as his own attorney. at each step of the process, the trial had to be reset. >> one, two, three years passed that way. in the fourth year after the murder, illinois abolished capital punishment so that was off the table. and still, reginalds actions forced delays. >> this is...

>> 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 place and all this other stuff. im like...