Dateline NBC

The Professor & The Poet

March 10, 2026·1h 22m·5-min readnarrativetrue crime
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The episode centers on the 2010 murder of Sue Markham, a beloved accounting professor at American University in Washington, D.C., whose brutal death in her Bethesda, Maryland home shocked her tight-knit circle of friends and family. The case initially appeared to be a burglary gone wro

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Sue MarkhamJorge LanderosLarry MarchLisa ColtonD'Andrew HamlinSergeant Larry HaleyRocio

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Cold CasesCriminal JusticeForensicsInvestigative JournalismMissing PersonsTrue Crime

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