kevin jones was on trial for the murder of his girlfriend, nona dirksmeyer. as a jealous boyfriend whose bloody palm print found at the scene, was evidence he committed the crime. the defense countered that kevin left the print while trying to save nona's life. it was chimed him for the jury to decide the young man's fate. here again is keith morrison with "what happened to the beauty queen? ". >> kevin jones sat in the courtroom and watched the fight for his life swirl around him. and felt in that uncomfortable chair a withering stairs of the jury. >> they can all look at you and if you do one thing wrong, that they deem is wrong, that might sway them the opposite way. >> one facial expression -- >> one click of a pen. one by off of your fingernail. you never know how people are going to take things that you do. >> yeah he had every reason to worry. later, the jurors would recall how the images of this crime haunted them. >> blood all over the pictures. >> the palm print in her blood -- >> but to the jurors, the evidence, or lack of it looked bad for police,

against him for a third time in the nona dirksmeyer killing. >> that is all for this edition of dateline. i'm craig melvin, thank you for watching. hello and everyone! i'm julian castro in for elie showman and. as i had this hour! more devastation. i'll speak with a first responder on the ground after dozens were killed by the storm. moving back to puerto rico, where so many are still picking up the pieces from hurricane fiona. plus the fight over documents found that mar-a-lago. why the doj is asking federal court to speed things up. and, babble and abbott face-off. on their first, and likely, only gubernatorial debates. in texas, to shine a light on immigration. this is american voices! we begin with the aftermath of him, and what could be the costliest hurricane in u.s. history. and was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone today, the storm delivering with heavy rains from the creek of islands to new england marking. out some and delivering strangers storm surge to the south. in florida, it's climbing. in this hour it stands at 77. that number is expected to rise. they're also assessi