here's dennis murphy with "the farm. " >> council bluffs, iowa.l courtroom the new and final scene of a four- yearlong drama was playing out. >> count one murder in the first degree. the defendant did with malice and forethought with premeditation kill shirley carter. >> it's a case that ripped the stitches out of a close-knit family. >> he strikes her in the side. it puts a hole through her chest, shattering ribs and perching holes through her long and heart. >> shirley carter shot twice with a deer rifle in the cornfields she shared with her husband of 50 years, bill carter. in pleasantville, iowa, so much of the rhythm of life is set by the seasons. planting the seed and then ringing in the harvet, corn and soy mostly. so that june morning in 2015 dawned with no particular omens. shirley carter and her husband bill, started their day as they always did with coffee at the general store. >> they went to coffee every morning to casey's. that was a ritual. >> after coffee, saying hello to neighbors, bill and shirley went back home. bill dropped off

here is dennis murphy, with what lies beneath. >> you don't need a moon over miami for it to be beautiful by night. the skyline reflected in biscayne bay will do just fine, but it is not for everyone. >> i am so worried about you. >> some people are scared by the dark water, afraid of the creatures that lurked down below, afraid of the creatures above his scuttle through the night on secret errands. >> i have no idea where you are. >> you just may share those fears after you hear the story of a woman named lynne friend. line of -- >> none of this makes any sense to people who knew lynne friend. >> she really was that all american girl, you know, blue eyes, beautiful smile. >> a good mom. >> she adored her son. >> little did anyone suspect that for the next 20 years, the story of lynne friend would haunt a young boy's life in the secret would remain locked away for decades that would explain everything. what happened to lynne friend that put her in the crosshairs of miami tv news was that she was missing, just flat out gone. no one could imagine lynne friend, a responsible hospital adminis

family thanking the jury and saying, her grace, goodness, and light live on through her children dennis murphy, nbc news, stamford, connecticut. >> you can see much more on the case tonight in a two-hour "dateline" here on nbc starting at 9:00 eastern. >>> ahead, the nation's biggest pharmacies making a major announcement about access to the abortion pill. >>> plus, why applying to college and financial aid has become such a headache to so many families. what do i see in peter dixon? i see my husband... the father of our girls. i see a public servant. a man who served under secretary clinton in the state department... where he took on the epidemic of violence against women in the congo. i see a fighter, a tenacious problem-solver... who will go to congress and protect abortion rights and our democracy. because he sees a better future for all of us. i'm peter dixon and i approved this message. >>> the country's two biggest drugstore chains announced today they're certified to dispense abortion pills. cvs and walgreens said they'll be providing mifepristone in the coming weeks in states where ab

family thanking the jury and saying, her grace, goodness, and light live on through her children dennis murphy, nbc news, stamford, connecticut. >> you can see much more on the case tonight in a two-hour "dateline" here on nbc starting at 9:00 eastern. >>> ahead, the nation's biggest pharmacies making a major announcement about access to the abortion pill. >>> plus, why applying to college and financial aid has become such a headache to so many families. >>> the country's two biggest drugstore chains announced today they're certified to dispense abortion pills. cvs and walgreens said they'll be providing mifepristone in the coming weeks in states where abortion pills are legal. it will require a prescription medication abortions account for more than half of all abortions in the u.s. >>> now to our series, "kids under pressure." with spring fast approaching, millions of high school seniors will soon be making decisions about college, but for many glitches with the key financial aid form are causing chaos. rehema ellis reports >> reporter: tory bishop is focusing on her future and going to coll

here's "dateline's" dennis murphy. >> reporter: tonight more than four years after jennifer dulos went missing, her family says there is finally accountability. >> guilty. >> reporter: her estranged husband's girlfriend, michelle troconis, overcome with emotion after a connecticut jury found her guilty on multiple charges including conspiring to murder dulos. troconis' family calling the outcome, a tremendous injustice. >> my sister did nothing. this is wrong. this wasn't a fair trial from day one. >> reporter: jennifer dulos went missing back in may of 2019 after dropping her kids off at school. her body was never found. police quickly honed in on her estranged husband, fotis. the couple was going through a bitter divorce and custody battle over their five children. authorities say this video shows fotis dulos dumping trash bags containing items belonging to jennifer as troconis sits in the truck. i spoke with dulos in 2019. >> did you have anything to do with jennifer's disappearance? >> i did not but would like to leave it at that. >> reporter: in 2020 he was charged with murder and

we're lucky to have dennis murphy who's been following this case from the very beginning.now it's part of a two-hour dateline special tonight, focused on the case. can you take a step back for those of us who might have forgotten the details, how did we get here and why was traconis charged even though jennifer's body was not found? are we having trouble with dennis hearing us? >> we think you may have frozen, we're going to stand by. >> see if we can get that connection back with dennis, and if not, we'll move on to something else and try to go back to him. >> let's take a beat. >>> all right, well, should we -- okay, we're waiting to see if we can reestablish our connection with dennis miller, he has been following this for years, zinhle, i remember when this happened. i don't know if you remember this story, it was really dramatic and all encompassing on the news. >> captivated the nation. >> connecticut and the nation. >> yeah. >> well, unfortunately we lost dennis but you can watch the dateline special tonight at 9/8 central, and you won't want to miss it. >> we'll se

here is dennis murphy with indiscretion. >> she was a lovely woman in her early 20s looking for a clean break. heidi burnett, a pool league ace endured tough times in recent years, now the shots were starting to drop. a steady drop, a boyfriend and talk of a summer wedding in vegas. then it was game over for heidi. someone had made their way into her rowhouse on a thursday night in april in 2000 and killed her in a brutal fashion. >> my girlfriend has been murdered. >> was she shot? >> she is cut. >> any parent that opens the door at 6:00 in the morning and there are two cops standing there, you know it is not good. >> it was a murder case that was not going to be solved in a few weeks or even a dozen years. the investigation goes stone cold until one day in a matter of hours everything became clear and how strange and terrifying it turned out to be. when donna and walter met at a church social, talk of a family even proceeded the engagement ring. >> he used to scare the girls away by saying he wants 12 children. >> they did not have 12 this roman catholic couple did raised their five i

here with the conclusion of shining star is dennis murphy. >> the case against him. last person known to have seen chiquita alive. his marriage had been volatile, and he put himself near the street where chiquita's stolen wallet was tossed. but, what galvanized this case for the prosecutor was a pair of sunglasses, discovered in greg harris's car. >> the glasses are under the seat. >> is there blood evidence? >> absolutely. there was a combination of his blood and her blood on the left lens. when i was told that there blood is mixed on this left lens, and the right arm of those glasses, i said, i don't need anything more. >> on march 16th, 2009, greg harris was charged with second- degree murder. he went on trial, two years after chiquita's death in 2011. the prosecution set out to prove that greg killed chiquita because she was going to leave him. former girlfriend testified that greg had a jekyll and hyde personality. suite when he was courting, volatile and controlling once winning them over. >> he would hit them, he would fight with these girls. as long as he cou

dennis murphy (voiceover): and the results were in.borhood after she left home about 10:00 that night. but at 10:40 pm, it suddenly started pinging off a tower miles away. the phone and presumably danielle were on the move. we had a pin drop that pretty much puts it on i-95. but from that pin out is a certain amount of area that the phone could be in. so helpful as phones are, it doesn't give you x marks the spot. not in this case. dennis murphy (voiceover): the last ping came from that spot near the highway, a worry in itself because i-95 is a big ribbon of opportunities from miami to the state of maine. was danielle a runaway? had she been abducted? no one knew. but the records did give investigators a direction to go in because within that area was derek's house. police interviewers brought this information to derek's attention. it's in front of derek. house for she alive when she left that area in front of your house? yes or no. >> i have no idea. >> you are saying she wasn't out there? don't she wasn't out there was some of the fr

here's dennis murphy, with true lies. >> bill kind knew he was a lucky man, single dad with five kids getting a second chance at love. >> she was the most wonderful lady i had ever met. >> he first set eyes on her at a nail salon, busy stand with her twin sister. >> there standing in in front nd of a big sign that says nails and they said, joe do nails here ? they just looked at the sign and looked at me and said, yeah. >> her name was diane, a vivacious blonde with a smile. >> he looked through the window in the next week i went to get my nails done. >> rebecca kind is bill's youngest child. >> gave him an excuse to meet her. >> rebecca, you are being used as bait. >> oh, definitely, i was fully aware at the time. im >> it was a light moment and just what bill needed. only eight months earlier he had become a widow. >> my wife, krista, she fell in the middle of the night, they say she had her head and drowned in the pool. i pulled her out of the pool easter, sunday morning, 2000. i pretty much fell apart, there was a single dad. trying to raise them and, you know, keep the family goi

this is the case for doctors in the police here is dennis murphy with lethal weapon. >>> the emergency room trauma team was losing her. she had been wheeled in and gasping for breath. >> her heart stopped. we had to restart her heart. >> within minutes, machines were doing the breathing and blood circulation for the 41- year-old. wife, mother, medical doctor, a rising star in the field of women's neurology. a star whose light was beaming even as they tried desperately to keep her going. >> these are doctors who are treating trauma patients every day. this one had totally puzzled them. >> the woman bailing in the e.r., doctor matt klein, was in many ways what modern pittsburgh was all about. the downtown powers didn't need to worry anymore about remedies that the steel mill smokestacks along the river. the steel industry here had mostly died by the early '80s i moved overseas. universities, technology, medicine, finance, that was the foundation of the new pittsburgh they called the renaissance. robert and his wife relocated from boston and were the kind of minds the city was hoping to a

guess we didn't talk about that, but i but i know that they had a lot of pride this murphy at the brewery there was denny, there was mike rorty who came up with this bud's for you. and weekends were made for michelob there was dan flynn and they actually went to ireland, made budweiser like the number one lager in ireland, which is amazing. they they bought the derby, the horse race and because they were irish-american, they established this great relationship ships with the irish because in business, denny was telling me a lot about how close the irish and irish americans in ireland do overseas business together. and of course, ireland being the only english speaking eu country now, is just such a natural gateway to europe that there's a very close affinity between americans and particularly irish americans and and and the irish. but now we didn't talk much about mr. bush or his feelings. yeah, but i'm sure it was, you know, interesting some interesting cultural dynamics going on there. yes. oops. so i get this question right in the old, old times, the english the rich english people. i'm talking about,