i understood that. In October 2021, she was convicted of first-degree intentional homicide and obstructing an officer. The Promise 2020-06-09 | In this Dateline classic, two tenacious daughters set out on a quest to fulfill a promise they made to their mom. The Promise Kept Dateline NBC True Crime Listen on Apple Podcasts. They will have they have. i'm andrew cannon, thank you for watching. surely die it's heartbreaking. >> and what i found again stunned me. In the second degree, how did he react? Now we're back to a as though the case never was brought in the first place, and- and that's all. must be evidence there, they decided. here is keith morrison with "the vow". They didn't make the promise. it's in prosecutor dan oyasato's final argument, his own words, "who was alone with, her? i'm andrea canning. connect to nature this season. AK just looking and China in the back yard, underneath the Bush, as if it had been hidden there, what s in their minds, only one person could have hidden can later as Tiffany it, We were about to drive away from the content having thrown in the back seat a sealed envelope. >> did you write your closing argument? and tammy read, transfixed, the contents of an envelope prepared by their mother, for them, and clearly marked "baby pictures. " later, as tiffany and tammie were about to drive away, from the condo, having thrown in the back seat a sealed envelope ken had left out for them. down tablets in a bottle of pills, to see how many were left in how many try to figure harming she taken, which is what she said she had done, and there was a potential new defence witness. >> until he opened his mouth and -- >> until he brings this up. He said Nick, you know I didn't kill my wife. I guess. >> the fifth amendment privilege against self-incrimination is a constitutional right that can be rendered meaningless if the prosecution gets to comment on it. They know they have nine, they ve done nothing. how is it possible? what about rob's dry cough? and the prosecutor makes a direct comment upon mr. wakisaka's failure to take the witness stand. >> what do you want people to leave with? on the Internet. >> and there it was, evidence she there for you to find? Originally aired on NBC on May 2, 2014. i don't just play someone brainy on tv - i'm an actual neuroscientist. How do you move forward everyday? >> she would have the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. What did those Victor, mean for cam. The constitutional right that can be rendered meaningless if the prosecution gets a comment on and nobody stood up, I object your amazing. it was on the 5th amendment. An intensive search ended after her car was found, with her body in the trunk. Dateline NBC : KNTV : January 23, 2017 2:00am-3:01am PST - Archive was a free spirit in many ways and didn't have a lot of rules. >> call it a promise, a quest, an obsession. here is keith morrison with the vow. I got the coffin ban, I sat on the prosecutor and he sat the very been overturn overturn the guilty verdict, a daughter so desperately wanted. we need to move forward. Now more people recognise a monastery. Earlier this year, she was found guilty of first-degree intentional homicide and obstruction. If, by strangulation it was domestic violence at it's ultimate. How this case went to the hospital, that's what Tiffany and tat we were thinking, that's what the police department was thinking and yet, as oil sorrow began, to dig deeper you found that can talked about strangulation. I have spiritually I gave yielded. I got a job here and moved her to this. No idea how long that journey would be how hard that promise to keep what had happened to their mom. I guess I don't want to say it, but she did say took me though I could die. it is in honor of my, mother. in fact, the hospital was treating it as an overdose. >> overturned. i commit it to memory. How are you prefer to keep going with us songs? Tommy broke the news to Tiffany. >> a bizarre story? Be the first one to comment on this story. >> we will get a conviction. >> have they? No one, not a soul, was thinking. and that's all thanks to this guy, ted. he said, "this is just wrong. " >> but! Take your client prefer he turned to me, and he said you know my cellmate who's on the wreck yard right now don't belong here. Oh yes, I was visiting another client who had been charged with murder. I did poor police reports of can can have been around. but these are prosecution experts. >> now, in hawaii, at their mother's bed in the icu, tammie and tiffany vowed to find out what exactly happened to their mother. Dateline NBC EXCLUSIVE: Kristin Smart's . so how? That's when it began. It was Kann who said Shirleen didn't need to go to the hospital, but Marjorie Consistent and GMT told her. He believed there. I remember in the officially empty report. This was a strangulation case until he opened his mouth, until he brings this or that made everybody suspicious. more brain performance? we need to go back to trial. Shirlene was taken to the hospital where she died of anoxic brain damage. The medical examiner said it was due to assault by suffocation and strangulation.. it's not the same without her here. What are you talking about? she played with me. It is with such purposeful. Attempts were made a promise. >> just because shirlene had dreamed of living in hawaii, can got a job here, and moved her to this condominium complex by a golf course on the pacific. did that surprise you? The disappearance of a 20-year-old honors student is solved decades later. We need to move forward. >> it went from, you know, just being in this place of such. My mother. An intensive search ended after her car was found, with her body in the trunk. but edmunds wasn't finished digging, and pretty soon he found another error, a big one, that occurred even before the trial. He received a life sentence with the potential for parole. monday marks the first state to cut the pre-courts new term. We need to look at the rest of the evidence to tell us the story of like such a big deal, reassuring daughter of appeals, the time. Why not just do it again? >> for things that we thought that might help us to figure out what happened that day. do you really think they will? unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuriva plus fuels six key indicators of brain performance. unlike the daughters, marjorie considered shirlene the dominant, even abusive, force in the marriage.