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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". i'm 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. here's keith morrison with more on our story, "smoke and mirrors...

Or something. >> yeah, absolutely, definitely. >> nailah's family loved andre. what family wouldn't? >> she brought him to my child's first birthday party. he brought my baby a gift. i was like who does that? because he's 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 distance, he in milwaukee, she in chicago. they stayed connected by phone and e-mail and text all da...

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 so that was off the table. and still reginald's actions forced delays. >> this is one of the more bi...

Resource at his disposal to delay the process. >> nbc chicago's 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, reginald's actions forced delays. >> this is one of the most bizarre cases we've seen in chicago. >> just as nailah's family had reached out t...

>> so that was justice. the most nailah's family could hope for. terribly important. and strangely empty. >> it's still not done. she's still not back. you still can't 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, she's your spirit and she's your angel and she's in a better place and all this other stuff. i'm like yeah, but i want her here. i don't want my 28-year-old sister to be my angel. i want her to...