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mike's disappearance. now that i know it's his murder. >> what did you learn about yourself? >> i believe and what's right and i will stand up and fight for that. >> cheryl said her fight isn't quite yet over. what was once a struggle to find out what happened to her son is now a struggle to return her is strange granddaughter back to the family. the child who lost so much one blustery day long-ago. a father and now in slow motion justice, a mother too. lust and greed setting a banquet of sorrow for all. >> that is all for this edition of dateline. i am andrea canning. thank you for watching. hello, i am andrea canning and this is dateline.

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>> yes. >> would a mother reveal something he told her in confidence? tell us what happened. >> i don't remember what question was asked, but the answer that she gave was that isaiah had told hersh he had shut halee and did it accidentally. >> with those words, donna turned the trial upside down. instead of defending her son, she pointed the finger at him. that almost doesn't happen in tv dramas because it's too hard to believe. >> truth is stranger than fiction. >> isaiah's attorney could not believe what he was hearing. >> i started sweating. i felt like i had been sucker punched. >> did she just torpedo your defense? >> yes. she said something we did not expect. as i sat there in that moment, had no idea how to address it.

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robbed her. they hold them to the station again . isaiah asked to speak to his mother, donna, the corrections officer who had brought suspects to these interrogation rooms for years was allowed to see her son alone. >> all i could do was hold him. i felt extremely helpless. >> whatever they talked about, donna would not tell detectives. isaiah stop talking too. police were convinced they had the right suspect. they charged isaiah with two counts of murder and one count each of robbery and obstructing justice. when the trial began in the summer 2018, the prosecutor knew proving the charges would be difficult. his case against isaiah was largely circumstantial. >> this was not a slam dunk. >> the prosecution team lead every up dess laid out every piece of the puzzle. >> we wanted to show isaiah was

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her godson reportedly died in a horrible accident. halee suspected the mother's boyfriend, thaddeus, may have harmed the baby on purpose. to thad killed halee to silence her? police plan to retrace her final footsteps. a trail that would lead in a surprising direction. here again is on the outskirts of town. >> the young people who worked with halee at the texas roadhouse were reeling. the shock of her murder, the fear. later jake allen was one of them. >> they were going to have a candlelight vigil at the soccer field where she was found. i was about to leave my apartment and my roommate told me, there's somebody at the door. it looks like a cop. >> investigators wanted to talk to jake about his best friend, isaiah hagan, halee's x. they asked what he and isaiah had been up to the night to halee's death.

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helping hand. >> there's so many pictures of her holding the baby sister. taking care of them. yeah. she's always leading the way. >> my kids always wanted to feed the bottle. >> she was the best diaper changer. >> a mother's help her and her sister's best friend. with halee she felt safe. >> she is what you picture an older sister being like. the big protective, don't miss my sisters are all come at you. >> that continued all through school, even extended to friends. carly and ansley. >> she acted like everyone's mom because she was so caring. >> she was tall and all of our friends were short. she stuck out and she didn't care that she was tall. she would wear heels and wedges. we would go places and she would tower all of us which

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>> no one saw it coming. it was probably the first time everyone cried. it was an amazing gift. >> the judge called for recess and cleared the courtroom. all sides left to absorb the enormity of what happened. heather drove to the soccer field to reflect. she on his trail dashed halee by wearing the same tattoo her daughter once had. the prosecutor one home, humbled by a woman's confession. >> i don't know that i've ever had more faith in the words coming out of somebody's mouth then a mother that would actually say that against her son. >> you almost look like you're getting emotional. >> i am getting emotional. >> the defense attorney got straight to work. he needed a new plan to save his client. when court reconvened, he called donna back to the stand. his goal, to show the jury she could not be believed. >> on cross examination, she

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here is the conclusion of on the outskirts of town. >> as each day of trial past, heather collins became less hopeful. there was no direct evidence tying isaiah hagan to her daughter's ski murder. no gun. no dna. no eyewitnesses. nothing to prove isaiah was a killer. >> i was at the point where i was prepared for him to be walking the streets. >> the prosecutor urged patients. >> we knew we did not have enough evidence to convict at that point. that's why you go to the end. >> there was one person he one of the jury to hear from. donna, i say is mom. the prosecutor had no idea what she would say on the stand, but he had reason to believe that isaiah confided in her the day at the police station about the night halee died. the mom takes the stand as a reluctant witness.

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The 11th Hour With Stephanie Ruhle

today, some are. but project 2025 wants to take that to another level. most americans when they hear about this stuff, they don't want it. isn't that the most important part? most americans don't -- >> but what about all the americans who don't hear about this stuff? most people have no idea what project 2025 is. it's stunning because these 900 pages are public. >> i look through and i think they're so organized as compared to 2015. they've learned from their mistakes and thinking, we're going to come into this thing organized and ready to go except what donna's saying, they're not ready to go because a lot of what they're putting forth is the reality they probably can't legally do when they say they're going to do. >> but they can influence is

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become president? >> heads down. they're in hiding. they're groundhogs. >> do you think, donna, that president biden isn't necessarily getting as much credit from the business community because he doesn't spend very much time with them? >> of course he's not getting enough time from the business community. but on some of these other issues, watch florida. we've got abortion on the ballot in florida. we've got a bipartisan coalition. our polls show that we have to get 60% of the vote. >> you think florida is winnable for the president? >> i don't know if it's winnable for the president, but i think we can win the abortion issue in florida. >> wow. love that. even is staying right here. when we return, women's hoops getting a jolt of excitement. but can it last long enough to get these ladies the pay they deserve? we're going to get to it when the 11th hour and night cap continue.

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it is time for our mvps of the week. who had a big one? >> so, look, i tried to be funny and creative because it's night cap, but i couldn't get past the trump jurors and everything that they have gone through to get to where they are and what we know lies ahead. i would probably say the trump jurors -- trump trial jurors for the next six weeks. i just think everything honestly that they are going to have to weigh and do, literally upholding democracy, upholding truth, upholding all these things. it's not going to be easy. >> donna. >> president of columbia university. she nails her testimony before congress. she did brilliantly before congress, and then she goes home and has to do a very painful act, and that is have her students arrested because they were disrupting the campus. she's really absolutely first

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