martin mcneill. panic in his voice.to make the 9-1-1 operator understand. >> i need help! >> okay sir, they're on their way. is there a wife breathing? >> she is not. i am a physician. i've got a cpr in progress. >> [inaudible] >> circled is your wife? >> my wife is 50 years old. she just had surgery a week ago. >> what kind of surgery did she have? >> she had a soft facelift. >> she had a facelift? >> yeah. okay. do you know how to do cpr? >> i'm doing! it >> okay don't hang. >> martin preferred cpr on his wife. until the first responders arrived. it was too late. >> i called alexis, and i said what's happened? something's happened with mom! >> and they said mom's dad. isn't she? and alexis said, yes. she is. >> martin said he left the house early in the house for work. later, he accepted an award at a safety fair. then about 11:30, he left the office to pick up his six -year-old daughter, eight, out from school. when they got home, she washed up the stairs to see her mother. and found her in the bathtub, unresponsive.

and in june, 2018, judge brinkley denied mcneill's appeal asking her to overturn the 2008 conviction. on bail -- >> yeah. >> so do you feel free, truly be free? >> no, i don't feel free. i didn't feel free since i this cage this case in 19. for me, i just pray, i believe god is my first lawyer. i really believe. that i don't feel fear at all. >> how do you explain how your case has become so important? >> i was a public figure, i'm a rapper, i aspire, a lot of people, a lot of spy these young children, my dream is a dream chaser, like chasing or dreams a matter which you do in life. no matter what color races, where you come from, everyone goes to sleep at night and has a dream, and have something that they want to inspire to be. so this is the same thing that thousands of minorities are going through on a daily basis. they just don't have the platform to have anybody speak on their behalf. >> now they do? >> yeah, now they do at this point. i feel like i'm a sacrifice for a better cause. >> a sacrifice for those who grew up just like he did, surrounded by poverty and violence. it's a

>> detective kevin mcneill was no rookie but this was the first case of its kind she had ever seen inat was my first real whodunnit homicide case. >> what significance does that have for you? >> it was very significant, i was nervous, i wanted to of course do a good job and make sure that the right person went to jail for that crime. >> to find that person, detectives needed to comb through every detail of becky's eyewitness account. mcneil and an agent from the oklahoma state bureau of investigation interviewed her again at the hospital the night of the shooting. >> the times 1:23 am in the morning -- what's your first name? >> becky. >> she talked about how close she and keith were especially after they made it through that rough patch. >> we were quite in love. i didn't even know he loved me until i filed for divorce. but he really came to the plate. >> and investigators went over step by step how the shooting went down. what are you looking down when you go into that conference room to interview becky? >> how does this person know keith, can she describe him better, and things lik

sandra mcneill had gotten a tip from a listener to wwj in detroit.r told her that they received a really, really sketchy robocall about the november 2020 presidential election. now, as we all know, basically every robocall is sketchy, right? i mean, robocalls, by definition, are shady and annoying, and almost always scammy, right? everybody knows that. but this one, that is just detroit resident got before the 2020 election, this one was so bad it not only seemed worse than your typical robocall, it seemed so bad it kind of seemed like it might be a crime. and the -- spoiler alert for the end of the story, it turns out it was a crime. turns out the list or two wwj was right to sound the alarm about it, and reporter sandra mcneill, and wwj where right to go big with the story. so, i'm gonna play the sound of the robocall now, and i'm gonna tell you in advance that everything in this robocall is wrong. none of this is true. do not believe a second of it. but you should hear what it was, because this, literally, was a crime committed against the america

sophie mcneill: the amazon is the world's largest tropical rainforest.role regulating the global climate. carlos: in the amazon, estimates are that between 100 and 120 billion tons of carbon are stored in the forest today. sophie: but the amazon is being destroyed at alarming new rates. cristiane mazetti: enforcement has been drastically reduced on the ground in brazil for illegal logging, for deforestation, for land grabbing, for all the environmental crimes. tasso azevdeo: we were never thinking that we will ever come back again to levels of deforestation close to 10,000 square kilometers. sophie: so if deforestation continues at the current rate, we could reach this tipping point within 15 years? carlos: fifteen to thirty years. sophie: those trying to save the amazon are risking their lives. cesar munoz: people who stand up to illegal networks that are destroying the forest are being threatened, intimidated, attacked, and even killed. sophie: tonight on "four corners" we take you to the heart of the amazon, where you'll meet the people risking their

c., named henry mcneill turner. and turner was a correspondent for the christian recorder, which was a philadelphia newspaper published by the african american methodist episcopal church. turner basically hints that lincoln brown to the white house and explained, you don't need to be worried about this. turner's words where that lincoln essentially said, i needed somewhere to point to. it's almost like amuse magician who needs misdirection to get the audience to think one thing when he's doing something else. i get the sense that lincoln wanted the black community to not be too worried about it, and so he kind of leaks it to henry mcneill turner. it was remarkable, what's remarkable about that is that lincoln never told people's innermost thinking on what he was doing. and in this, case he appears to have brought a black leader and to do just that. >> right. i would counterbalance that story with something that a mutual friend of ours pointed out, one of these twitter conversations. but kevin levin enjoyed your book

she heard about a private investigator named dwight mcneill, but her then attorney told her, don't call on it for a little bit. i was having a really bad day, and i called and dwight picked up the phone and i just started crying. because it had been so long since anyone i called answered me. >> and he did listen but -- >> i told you i would not look at the case. >> dwight was a former sheriff, he told her his job was catching bad guys, not getting them out of prison. but marcia persisted, and so he agreed to see her in person. >> i explained to her that if i concluded, from my review of the file, that there was any basis at all to believe that mr. jennings had murdered his wife, that i was use whatever influence and whatever pressure i could to make sure that he stayed in prison the rest of his life. >> can you accept a deal like that? >> absolutely. >> so dwight scanned the file, just a quick look. and this was strange. >> it was obvious that was something that just wasn't right. >> remember what the trial attorney said about the black bathrobe, too bad they didn't tested for gunshot r

the chief public defender here melissa mcneill had done an admiral job in terms of presenting the reasons to avoid the death penalty, but the family members who had listened to what she said felt that it would fall on deaf ears with this jury, a jury of seven men and five women. i'll give you a little sense of the makeup, who was on the jury who then chose in this particular case, i think surprisingly to many, to go with a life sentence death sentence. one is an i.t. analyst who had worked in construction, owns a semiautomatic weapon. there's a financial advisor there who is a former french military officer, a probation officer, somebody who works for walmart, a computer technician in miami-dade, a woman working as -- with the broward county library here, a legal assistant, an immigration officer, a man who runs his own business of distribution and exporting, a woman who is a senior investigator for a medical device firm. those names of those jurors were not made public. they were not photographed during the trial. but during the trial, there were portions where the jurors themselves were

years ago, october 2020, we learned about a story that was broken by a reporter at wwj named sandra mcneill. she had gotten a tip from a listener to wwj in detroit. the listener told her that they received a really, really sketchy robocall about the november 2020 presidential election. now, as we all know, basically every robocall is sketchy, right? robocalls by definition are shady and annoying and almost always scammy, right? everybody knows that. but this one that this detroit resident got before the 2020 election. this one was so bad. it not only seemed worse than your typical robocall. it seemed so bad, it seemed like it might be a crime. and spoiler alert for the end of the story, it turns out it was a crime. it turns out the listener to wwj was right to sound the alarm about it and the reporter at wwj was right to go big with the story. so i'm going to play you the sound of the robocall now. i'm going to tell you in advance that everything in this robocall is wrong. none of this is true. do not believe a second of it. but you should hear what it was. because this literally was a crim

the crazy thing, erin, is his own defense attorney in her closing argument, attorney mcneill, she actuallym to prison, he will die there of natural causes or under some other cause. literally telling the jury, listen, send him to prison because someone will kill him there. it was the most bizarre thing i ever heard. but even they feel that way about him. i was shocked. >> the judge is going to allow time for more victim testimony at the sentencing hearing, which i understand is about two weeks. i know and your wife, who have gone through this unspeakable agony spoke in court about this and your son who struggles every day with the loss of his sister and what happened that day. is is there anything more that you want to say or that you think is important to say that you're going to choose to speak out again to the judge? >> there is. what people need to know about the victim impact statements that we gave, they all had to be vetted by the attorneys. approved by both sides. so what we said had to meet all sorts of legal criteria. it wasn't everything we wanted to say. it wasn't the extent of

. >> martin mcneill was sentenced to 17 years to life. but he would not serve his time in full. in april 2017, martin died of suicide. a dark ending for the story of a family that began with so much hope. >> that is all for this edition of dateline. i'm craig melvin, thank you for watching! ♪ ♪ ♪ good evening, our countdown clock continues to kick away. 17 days, 19 hours, 59 minutes and 39 seconds and counting until the first polls close on election night. here we are back where we were last friday night and where we will be every friday night at this time, counting down to election day. early voting, election day is pretty much underway in a dozen states, where early voting has already begun, including georgia, north carolina, both starting up this week. each of those states home to a key senate race, both of which we will be talking about this hour and tomorrow. early voting beginning in nevada, and that is where democrats may face what is their toughest individual battle to hold the senate seat. we have reporters on the ground there and then does two other battleground states

general, for folks out relative or cause -- >> i would say let's continue, let's retire the free mcneill hashtag, and make it hashtag justice reform. >> that's all for this edition of dateline, i'm natalie morales, thank you for watching. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and we are exactly ten, days 19, hours 59 minutes, and 41 seconds, and counting until the first poll closing on election night. we are picking up our countdown to election night, right where we left off last friday night, and where we will be everybody tonight, between now and the midterms. and that is after tonight, only one more friday night. between now and the midterms, it's getting really close, we are inside of two weeks right now to go. and not only is it getting closer on the calendar but voting is underway! and all sorts of states, early voting net now nearly 20 million, 18 million votes already been cast in this midterm election. in the 2018 midterm election, also it's a records were shattered when i came to turn out. about 116 million votes were cast in that midterm election when all was said and done. we may be ove

.— joining me now is douglas mcneill, he has been a special adviser rishi sunak, theresa may and georgeinued as a special advisor in thejoint economic unit until september 2022. welcome, thank you very much for joining us. what is going through your mind as you watch today unfold? i think this is a smart move on the part of— i think this is a smart move on the part of the — i think this is a smart move on the part of the chancellor and the prime minister. _ part of the chancellor and the prime minister. i_ part of the chancellor and the prime minister, i think there is a suspicion _ minister, i think there is a suspicion in some quarters that the chancellor— suspicion in some quarters that the chancellor went a little further over_ chancellor went a little further over the — chancellor went a little further over the weekend in worrying trust's plan will_ over the weekend in worrying trust's plan will stop he certainly seem to id plan will stop he certainly seem to go further— plan will stop he certainly seem to go further than she did in her press conference — go further than she did in