Verdict watch in a mother's murder trial. A firefighter's killer wife. Plus, extraditions 101.
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Verdict watch in a mother's murder trial. A firefighter's killer wife. Plus, extraditions 101.

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 3, 202633 min
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  • Crime & justice

In Massachusetts, a jury is deliberating the fate of Lindsay Clancy, a mother who says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she killed her three children. After California fire captain Rebecca Marodi was stabbed to death by her wife, Yolanda, investigators uncovered Yolanda's troubling past. In Dateline Round Up, there's a verdict in the murder trial of Duane "Keefe D" Davis, accused of orchestrating the 1996 Las Vegas shooting that killed rap legend Tupac Shakur. Courtroom surprise in the case of singer D4vd, accused of murdering 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. And updates in the case of Bryan Kohberger...

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Hi, I'm Kate Snow NBC News anchor and host of the NBC News podcast the drink this month I'm sitting down with actor writer producer Brendan Hunt Most of you know him as coach beard from Ted Lasso, but there is so much more to his story We sit down we talk about all of it from his bumpy upbringing to his years in improv comedy and how a Hollywood rejection

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Opened the door to co-creating Ted Lasso. It's an open funny conversation about perseverance perseverance, creativity, and the winding road that brought him right here. We hope you'll join us for the drink. Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.

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Hello, you're listening in to the Dateline Story Meeting. They found a knife and then, you know, thought, OK, he dumped it. Our producers are catching up on breaking crime news. The police work was outstanding.

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