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When did the murder happen? Our producers are swapping tips and story ideas. The undercover cops said she is the mastermind behind this. We're hoping that the sister will have some information. Welcome to Date Line True Crime Weekly.

I'm NBC News Senior Legal correspondent Laura Jarrett in for Andrea Canning.

It's August 6 and here's what's on our docket.

In Las Vegas, for nearly 30 years, the murder of rap legend Two Poc Shakur went unsolved. Now, the man accused of orchestrating his death is set to go on trial. So, what the thories are saying is, you set it in your own words. It's kind of tantamount to a confession. In Date Line Roundup, Cory Richens, the Utah mom who wrote a children's book about grief

and was then convicted of murdering her husband is back in court. And we'll bring you the latest testimony from the trial of Lindsay Clancy. The labor and delivery nurse accused of killing her own children. I did ask her her mood. And what did she write?

She wrote horrified. Plus, we've all seen Amber Alerts flash across our phones. But long before we had such high-tech tools telling us kids were missing, we put their photos on milk cards. An expert from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children gives us the backstory.

Anderson, Eric's in dairy, stepped in and said, "We're going to do something a little out of the box here." But before all that, we're heading to Florida for a major development in the case of an only-fans model accused of murdering her boyfriend. On the afternoon of April 3rd, 2022,

25-year-old Courtney Clancy called 911, begging for help. She said her boyfriend was dying. The paramedics raised her apartment and found 27-year-old Christian Obamcelli lying in the hallway. He'd been fatally stabbed. The police were being absolutely **** covered in blood.

You don't have to apologize. Courtney told police she had stabbed Christian in self-defense. I grabbed my, I grabbed my knife, I said, "Don't come any more closer." I had to come the outfit, and I threw it. But investigators, didn't believe her story.

And she was charged with seconds of remurder. Courtney pleaded not guilty and over the past four years has insisted. She's the real victim. It looked like she was heading to trial this month. Then suddenly last week, everything changed.

Here to bring us up to speed is date line producer Lynn Keller. Lynn, thanks so much for being back on the podcast. Hi, Laura. Before we get into this new development, let's go back to the beginning here.

“Remind us who exactly Courtney Clancy is and what was her relationship like with Christian?”

So Courtney was a model on only-fans, and she had built a huge online following,

particularly Instagram, I think she had 2 million followers.

She was making really good money. Prosecutors estimated that she earned approximately $3 million from only-fans during 2020 and 2021 combined. And she and Christian had started dating in 2020. He kind of dabbled a little bit in trading cryptocurrency. And on social media, she would often post pictures of the two of them together.

You could sort of glimpse at their glamorous lifestyle, fancy cars, and luxurious vacations. Despite that glamour from the outside though, Lynn, the relationship was far from perfect. It was violent at times. There was a lot going on even before that incident in 2022, right? Yeah, that's right.

Neighbors at this luxury apartment that they were living in had repeatedly complained about their loud arguments. And at the time of Christian's death, according to investigators, building management was actually preparing eviction proceedings because of those disturbances. Yeah, that's not something that happens from one isolated incident.

According to the arrest affidavit, their day actually began peacefully.

“Courtney and Christian, they spent the morning playing with their dogs.”

Christian left to pick up sandwiches, and he returned to the apartment shortly after 430 in the afternoon. And then Courtney ends up calling 911 at 457, so in that 20 plus minute window is where the stabbing took place. So Courtney, what was her version of events? So what she says to police is that Christian went to get the sandwiches, and she noticed that he had stopped sharing his location with her. So when he got back, she asked him to turn it back on and he agreed.

But when he asked her to do the same thing, she hesitated, and then she says he got angry and pinned her up against the wall. At some point, she's able to get away. She calls her mother, and she starts going into different rooms, and he starts following her. And then at one point, she picks up the knife, and she says, "Don't come any closer." Let's listen to what she says happens next.

And then you just charge down. And I threw it, but it was far away, but I like that. I mean, I'm scared because you're just coming in. So I threw the knife out of it? Yeah.

But I was so scared. What made investigators suspicious of her story? Well, according to the arrest affidavit, there were no significant injuries observed on Courtney, consistent with the attack she describes. And then investigators had also questioned whether her story about throwing the knife,

matched the forensic evidence. Courtney told detective she threw the knife from about 10 feet away, but according to the medical examiner, the wound was too deep. The knife had penetrated skin, muscle, and punctured Christians artery.

So basically, it's just not physically possible to throw a knife across the room and do all that damage.

“Well, that's what the prosecutors say, that the defense did their own experiment, where they got a pig carcass,”

and they had someone throw a knife at the pig carcass, and they said that the angle and the depth was consistent with Courtney's story. So investigators, they unearth all these other incidents that they say prove Courtney had a history of physical abuse with Courtney as the aggressor. Tell us what we know about that. Well, the first thing that the prosecutors showed when they had their press conference announcing the arrest was a clip of security camp footage from the elevator inside Courtney's apartment building.

And this was about six weeks before the stabbing and it shows Courtney repeatedly striking Christian when he got in the elevator. She's wailing on him and he at one point puts her in a loose headlock to try to, I guess, stop her from doing that. But we should know that the defense argued that that clip was taken out of context. They say that what's not clear in that video is that she gets on that elevator to go down to the lobby to call the police because they were in a fight. And in fact, she was cut and bleeding.

So Courtney's defense team has has pushed back hard here saying, she is the real victim. Yes, they're trying to show that this was not a one-sided abuse situation. In a motion to reconsider bond, the defense describes an incident just a few days before Christian's death. When Courtney can be seen on Miami police body camp video asking for a restraining order against Christian, they also have body camp video of a neighbor who a week before says that he sees. Christian punching, Courtney.

“So Courtney's trial was on the docket for this month, but late last week, you got word about a major development. What changed for Courtney?”

Courtney has agreed to take a plea deal. Do we know what factored into that decision given how hard she's been fighting this since her arrest? I would just have to guess. I feel like it's such a he said she said case. We're not dealing with DNA. We're not dealing necessarily with facts. It seems very strong in opinions, and so possibly she just did not want to roll the dice with a jury.

Do we know about the terms of the deal at all? They are going to be made public on August 10. So do we know anything about what the possible charges are on the table for her?

Well, she was charged with second-degree murder, so I'm pretty sure we can guess that that is not what she's going to plea guilty to.

So I think it's a pretty safe bet that she probably would plead to manslaughter, and then it's going to be a negotiation about how much time. So in manslaughter in Florida, the guidelines would be just over nine years. She's already served four years. Lynn, what do we know about how Christians family has been doing? This has been a long road. What do we know about how they're holding up? They're very strong family. They're very close in it.

I do believe that the family has been consulted about the deal. I don't think in Florida, they have any kind of power over whether or not the deal happens, but I'm sure the state attorney is considering their feelings.

Lynn Keller, thank you for all your work on this. Appreciate the update.

Thanks, Laura.

“Coming up, he was the most famous rapper in the world, gun down at the age of 25.”

Thirty years later, the man accused of orchestrating two-poxikora's murder is heading to trial. For our next story, we're headed to the Las Vegas strip, where 30 years ago, two-poxikora, one of hip-hop's biggest stars was gunned down and he was sitting in a car at a stoplight. He was just 25 years old. For decades, the case has spawned countless theories about who might really have killed two-poxikora. But investigators didn't seem any closer to getting answers until September of 2023.

The Clark County Sheriff and the Clark County DA finally had news.

We are here today to announce the arrest of 60-year-old Dwayne Keith Davis, a.k.a. kvd for the murder of two-poxikora. Prosecutors accused Davis, a former gang leader of orchestrating two-pox murder and procuring the gun that killed him.

“And they said the breakthrough in their 27-year case was Davis's own words about that night.”

We pulled up as an emergency. Davis has pleaded not guilty to charges including first-degree murder. With his trial set to begin Monday, we asked NBC's senior investigative reporter Andy Blankstein to come on the podcast and break it all down for us. Welcome to the podcast, Andy. Glad to be here, Laura.

Thanks so much for having us. So, Andy, two-poxikora is one of the most influential rap artists of the 1990s. I'm sure many of our listeners are familiar with his legacy and his music. But for those who may need a refresher, just remind us of his impact on the culture. Well, Laura, he's a transcendent talent.

I mean, there's no doubt about it, not only for the period that he's influencing rap in the 1990s, but beyond. As you said, it's a short career, but it's a legendary career. He sells millions of records worldwide. The music itself has deep impact on the culture, deeply personal lyrics, commentary on what was going on out there, race, poverty and justice. Remind us what exactly we know about the night of that shooting and how it all went down.

So, two-poxik is writing an DMW with Mary and Shub Knight, CEO co-founder of Death Row Records. And it's the company that two-poxikers on with. They're on the way to a nightclub after attending Mike Tyson fight at the MGM Grand Casino. Shug is driving, two-poxikers in the passenger seat, and according to prosecutors, a white Cadillac pulls alongside them at a stop light, shots are fired. Shug is injured, two-poxikers shot four times.

He's taken to the hospital. He lingers from those injuries, but eventually dies six days later. Investigators learn pretty quickly, even at that time, the two-poxik and Shug Knight had gotten into some sort of altercation earlier that day. So, witnesses tell them about a bra that takes place in the MGM Grand Casino.

And two-poxik and Shug are seeing punching a man by the name of Orlando Baby Lane Anderson, who, as it turns out, is a member of the Trips Gang in Los Angeles. And that raises this possibility that Anderson was behind the shooting and he's gone looking for two-poxikers to get his revenge. And for a bit more context here, Andy, according to one of the detectives on the case, Shug Knight was affiliated with a gang too. The mob pyru and they were feuding with the crips, but that lead goes cold a few years later when Orlando dies in an unrelated shooting.

Yeah, it makes it very difficult for a police that kind of the person who was the alleged trigger man in this dies in what was described in the time in news reports was that it was a gang related killing. And these cases, when you talk about gang related violence, it makes it much more difficult for police to kind of investigate these cases because they are essentially, you know, you have trouble getting witnesses to speak up. So, that becomes very quickly, I wouldn't say a dead end, but it goes cold.

The other backdrop to this, of course, that's going on at the time is sort of this infamous rivalry,

“if you will, between the East Coast and West Coast rappers, right?”

And that was always sort of one of the backdrops to both the killing of Tupac and Biggy, the notorious BIG.

So you're already talking about kind of edgy music that's skating on the edge of life on the streets that is gritty and violent.

Obviously, kind of the most recognizable artist. And there's this kind of joccularity and kind of trash talking, but that eventually it spills over into violence. Maybe for years, there's been all this speculation that Sean Diddy Combs might have actually played a role in Tupac's murder as part of that East Coast West Coast rivalry.

He's always denied that and has never been charged with a crime related to Tupac's death.

That's right. One of the things people forget is the killings of Tupac and Biggy are only six months apart in 1996 into 1997. The speculation is that there's a revenge factor that's being ordered up from the top. That never really plays out and anything. But in terms of people talking about it in the rumor mill, it's ever present. So the case languishes for years, we then come to 2023 and the Las Vegas police announced that they had arrested Duane Kifi D Davis.

“And he tells us about what do we know about Davis, who he is, why did investigators zero in on him in particular?”

So Kifi D Davis, Duane Davis, is the uncle of Orlando Baby Lane Anderson, who is the led shooter. And in 2009, the LAPD and others on the task force investigating gang violence and drug trafficking, sit down and talk to Davis to ask him what he knows any kind of a non-possicution agreement, a proffer, if you will. And in this proffer, Davis agrees to tell them what he knows. And he's not the trigger man, but he lays out kind of what happened that night. Does he say he was in the car? He was one of the four people in the car.

So one of the things that's just incredible Andy is that the prosecutors couldn't go after Davis back then,

because if they had wanted to, the proffer agreement protected him. But then Davis decides to tell other people he was in the car that night. He writes about it in his memoir, Compton Street legend, and talks about it in interviews like this one he gives to B.T.'s death row chronicles. Take a listen to this.

“You said the shots came from the back, big tray, Orlando, who shot two bucks?”

We came for the coat of the streets and just came for the back seat for him. So that puts him in a position of knowledge about where the shots came from. That's right. And so what the thories they're saying is, you said it in your own words. It's kind of tantamount to a confession. His defense team is obviously pushing back against all of this.

What is their theory of the case, Andy? You know, one is, so this has happened 30 years ago. You didn't have physical evidence. It really in terms of a gun, ballistics, DNA, the things that juries actually look for. Not only don't you have the goods as far as forensics and physical evidence, but this talk about in the book, well, that's kind of embellishment.

These are stories. So you can't have one without the other.

“If you're going to prosecute this case, where's the other evidence?”

So with the trial now expected to formally start with jury selection on Monday. What are you watching for the most? You know, you've seen documentaries and books and magazine articles and all these years later, it continues to kind of fascinated people and it continues to kind of generate more discussions. And I think the latest incarnation of that is going to be seen in this traffic like this chapter.

That's very interesting. Andy Blancstein, NBC's senior investigative reporter, thank you so much for joining Andy. More, thank you so much. Up next, it's time for Dateline Roundup. Updates from the murder trial of the former labor and delivery nurse, Lindsey Clancy, and Cory Richens is back in court.

Plus, how the faces of missing children wound up on milk cards? [Music] Hello and welcome back to Dateline Roundup. Today I am joined by Dateline Producer Mike Nardy. Mike, thanks so much for being here. Thanks for having me, Laura.

So to start, we're going to check in on the trial of Lindsey Clancy, the Massachusetts mom,

who jumped out of a second story window after killing her three children.

The prosecutors have charged her with murder. She's pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. It's just a heartbreaking case. Mike, bring us up to speed on the latest. It is, it is Laura. So this week, Lindsey's mental state has taken center stage. Remember her defenses arguing that Lindsey's struggle with postpartum depression

The prosecution's argued she really wasn't that sick and was aware of what she was doing. Even that she planned the deaths and to show that this week the prosecution called medical professionals and psychiatrists to testify. So one of those witnesses was a doctor who actually treats Lindsey in the ICU, where she's taken after jumping out of that window.

“What did the doctor have to say about her state of mind when she was in the hospital?”

So this doctor said that Lindsey could only communicate by writing on a whiteboard.

And here's what that doctor says happened when she was communicating with Lindsey.

I did ask her her mood. And what did she write? She wrote horrified. She wrote down, "Do I have an attorney?" We asked her, "Do you have questions for us?" And she asked, "Is my body broken? Are my legs straight?" And this moment with the whiteboard is a big deal for the prosecution.

They're arguing that by asking about an attorney, Lindsey had, "The mental acumen to protect her own rights and interests, essentially that she knew what she did was wrong, not that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis." Also for the first time in this trial, Lindsey Clancy herself spoke in court. This was before testimony got underway on Tuesday.

Here she is speaking to the judge.

“Do you understand by signing or going along with that stipulation?”

You are basically relieving the Commonwealth of its burden to prove those certain facts.

Do you understand that? Yes, you are. Is that what you want to do with this point? Yes. So Mike explained for people who might not be familiar.

What this type of stipulation does? Well, so essentially she won't contest certain facts in her case. And these facts are related to the chain of custody of evidence. And one of the reasons you would do that is it speeds things along. There's no point in going through some more of the gory details for things that she just doesn't contest.

Right. Right. They're just agreeing that the chain of evidence is a fact. So the prosecutors can move through their case much more quickly now. To it is a heart wrenching case, as we said, and we know you're going to be certainly following along. For our next story, we've got the latest in the University of Idaho student murderous case. It's been over a year since Brian Cobrager pleaded guilty in open court to the 2022 killings of Kaylee Consolves,

Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin, and Zana Kernotl. But last week, something stunning happened. Cobrager is trying to undo his plea deal. He filed a petition with the court to challenge that guilty plea and condition. Right. So he's serving four life sentences for the murders.

And now he's saying he's innocent and wants to go to trial. In this petition, he's suggesting that his former attorneys provided ineffective assistance of council and coerced him and to taking guilty plea. NBC News has reached out to those attorneys for comment and has not heard back. What's wild about it is having covered that case since the beginning is just knowing how many motions

his prior public defender filed on his behalf and how vigorously she litigated that case. It'll be fascinating to see if she ever speaks out on all of this mean time. The family of Kaylee Consolves sat down with Craig Melvin on the today show and shared their reaction to the news of Cobrager's filing. They did. Kaylee's father Steve expressed his frustration, but he wasn't against the trial.

“Would you actually like to see this go down this time around?”

That's never changed. I've been consistent through and through.

The evidence for there. I want to honor all the work that the agents did. And Mike sitting next to the parents of Kaylee Consolves for that interview was someone we'd never heard before. Her younger sister Aubrey. Right. And she told Craig about why she decided to break her silence now after all this time. She referred to both Kaylee and Madison Moguen who was Kaylee's best friend as her sisters.

When everything happened, I was a sophomore in high school. And at the time, I kind of just decided that no words are going to bring back either one of my sisters. So I didn't feel like saying anything. And now that I've gotten older, I realize still that no words are going to bring back my sisters, but words are what's going to keep their memories alive.

It just must be so confoundingly painful for these parents who thought this case was over. Who thought they could finally put this entire nightmare behind them and now to have it reopened all again. Even if it's legally unlikely to go anywhere, they still have to go through all of this. Right. Right. Just must be awful for them. Finally, Mike, there's news out of Utah, in the case of Cory Richens, people remember the mom of three who wrote that children's book about grief after her husband, Eric's death,

only to be convicted of his murder earlier this year. She was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, but her case marches on, so Mike's what's the latest there.

She passed for the judge who presided over Cory's murder trial, Judge Richard Mirazik, to be disqualified, and for Cory to be granted a new trial.

In their motion, lawyer said judge Mirazik was allegedly impatient, critical, hostile, disparaging, and condescending toward defense counsel.

And in contrast, was friendly and helpful to the prosecution. So they're saying this could have prejudiced the jury and made the trial unfair.

“Last week's hearing was actually with a different judge, so how did she rule on that motion?”

This judge denied the motion. So Cory's conviction was upheld, and Judge Mirazik won't be removed from the case. We've mentioned before on the podcast, Cory has several other criminal charges hanging over her head, all involving money. In 2025, she's charged with various financial felonies, including money laundering and mortgage fraud. She's pleaded not guilty to those charges.

And the next hearing in that case is scheduled for October 9th, then we will of course be keeping tabs on that. Mike Nardi, thank you so much for all the updates. Thanks for having me, Laura. Last week, Josh was on the show to talk about the latest season of his podcast series, Date Line, missing in America, and it got us thinking about how we usually find out about someone who has gone missing.

It can be anything from an urgent amber alert that flash across our phones or TV screens to even viral TikToks nowadays. But back in the day, looking for people wasn't so high tech. You might see flyers taped to lamp posts or hear about a case on the local news, but perhaps the most surprising method of all, Photos of missing kids that were printed on the back of milk curtains. My next guest is Dr. John Bishop, head of the Missing Children's Division,

within the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. He's here to tell us the story behind the milk card and campaign, and what happened to it? Dr. Bishop, welcome and thank you so much for joining. Thank you for having me. So from reading and listening to so many missing person's cases on Date Line,

I bet our audience has a sense that the most important factor in determining whether somebody is found is exposure.

And today, social media helps us with this in maybe the best ways that social media can be used. But back in the early 80s and the 90s, we didn't have that.

“And so who decided that printing faces on milk curtains was the best way to get exposure?”

You know, it was certainly an interesting time back in the 1980s. You had a lot of highly plubbless lies missing child incidents. It was actually an organization. Iowa's Anderson Erickson dairy launched the first milk cart in campaign in the mid 1980s. And you might be thinking, why did they do this?

You had Eugene Martin and Johnny Gosh, they were paper boys in Des Moines, Iowa and they went missing. So Anderson, Erickson dairy stepped in and said, we're going to do something a little out of the box here, right? We're going to put missing child images on milk curtains. We supplied them, right? Because we were just starting as a non-profit organization.

And we had the missing child images. So it does go national eventually. Yes, it expanded to nearly 700 dairy manufacturers over the years, which really pushed this to be a nationwide initiative. We were hitting breakfast tables all over the United States with images of missing children, descriptive information and then what to do where to call.

“But that's also, I think, one of the reasons it started to draw some critics as well, right?”

Bringing those conversations to the breakfast table can be scary. It absolutely can. It had a frightening impact. The term that was used with stranger danger. And honestly, the whole concept, you know, talking about that over the breakfast table, there were better ways to do that. It also overrepresented the issue itself.

Today, less than 1% is about half a percent of our missing child cases that we assist law enforcement with our non-family abductions. So we're talking about a very small percentage. And that's probably one of the reasons why the program is a whole started to do it a lot in the late 80s. So the milk card and campaign only found two children. The entire time that it was actually in place, we did come up with some more effective methods.

What do you think are some of the lessons that were learned from the campaign that had sort of carried over into things like the amber alert system? The milk card and campaign was the first step towards modern mass distribution of missing child information. It challenged everyone to ask the simple question, where else can we put missing child images to help find them, right?

We're never done building this system and rightfully so.

But today, we have social media, different billboard systems that we have access to that we can help push information to. Tools like and we've got a QR code that will show you missing children within 50 miles of where your IP address resolves to. You can go to our interactive map and find all that information at the touch of your fingertips.

And the yellow let's face it, the milk carton campaign was really one of the first steps in mass distribution of missing child posters. When you see a missing child poster, know how that poster got to where you saw it was started way back from dairy farmers.

“Dr. Bishop, thank you so much for joining us today and all of the important work that you are doing every day on behalf of missing children.”

Oh, it is absolutely my pleasure.

That's it for this episode of "Dateline True Crime Weekly." But check out the latest season of the Webby Award-winning podcast "Dateline Missing in America."

“Josh Mekowitz is taking a look at six new cases.”

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Coming up this Friday on "Dateline," Keith takes us to Silver City, New Mexico, where 23-year-old Cassie Faranton was found dead in her own bathtub. Her family had their suspicion about who did it.

He did it. He killed her.

We know he did.

“Watch "Suspicion in Silver City," Friday at 10-9 central on "Dateline on NBC."”

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