Nona Dirksmeyer is a young beauty queen. Smart and talented, her future is bright. But just days before her 20th birthday, Nona is murdered in her apartment. Police quickly decide their primary suspect is the young man who found her – her boyfriend, Kevin. After all, his bloody palm print is at the crime scene. Case closed? Not by a long shot. In Dateline’s latest original podcast series, Keith Morrison tells the story of three trials, two suspects, and one small town where things are not always what they seem.

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The murder of 19-year-old Nona Dirksmeyer shakes the community of Russellville, Arkansas to its core.

Investigators focus on a man with Nona’s blood on his hands.

When police name a suspect, the court of public opinion all but convicts him.

A jury holds the fate of Nona’s boyfriend in its hands.

A new suspect says he has an alibi, but can he prove it?

Nearly 13 years to the day after Nona’s murder, a woman has a chilling encounter with a predator in the night.