Season 20 · Episode 5 — Deadly Retreat

Investigators search for a New Mexico mechanic who has been missing for eight years.

When a woman disappears after an encounter on a train, her family hires detectives to investigate.

A troubled marriage, then suddenly a man disappears, leaving behind a daughter and step-son. The truth from a secret kept for over eight ye…

In Someone Was Watching, Cristi Hall, who appeared to have a perfect thirty-year marriage to Chris, but was found dead in the backyard spa.…

A couple meets at the craps table in Las Vegas. She was a beautiful trapeze artist and he was a professional poker player -- with a secret.…

The case against Michael Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, is in the hands of the jury, who will decide whether he played a role in the deat…

A fatal car crash in Montana may not have been an accident after investigators find a revealing set of text messages.

Tom Foley is shocked to find himself the lead suspect in the case of his wife Darlene's murder. Thinking the case was over, the defense tea…

A vacation in Aruba that morphed into a mystery, Robyn Gardner went missing and many presume she's dead.

Susan Cox Powell is a young mother from Utah who suddenly disappears on a winter night in 2009. Dateline NBC's Keith Morrison reports.

10 Years ago, the accusation that Penn State Coach Jerry Sandusky sexually abused a child, came to the attention of Ray Gricar, the local d…

Millen, Georgia, a small industrial town so devastated by the Great Recession, its unemployment numbers peaked at 21% - more than twice the…

The story of an unsolved case involving a woman's love triangle that ended in her husband's fatal stabbing in front of their home, but more…

Couple on a honeymoon cruise when George went overboard. An active, ongoing investigation. Royal Caribbean has conducted an investigation a…

Jennifer Hudson talks about her weight loss, healthy living tips, details of her upcoming nuptials, and more. Also the story of a mother wh…

Investigators find an unlikely suspect in a woman's death.

A woman seeks justice for her 18-year-old daughter, who was raped and murdered in an Anchorage state park in 1994.

Police suspect a woman's estranged husband in her stabbing death, but surveillance video shows he was not at the scene.

A house guest with tales of grandeur and wealth weaves a web of deceit that ties him to a cold-case murder decades later. The 15-year-old c…

In the lead up to a murder trial, it begins to look like police arrested the wrong man.

Two years after the disappearance of his wife, Josh Powell kills his two sons and himself.

TV producer Bruce Beresford-Redman and his wife Monica who were vacationing with their family at a luxury resort in Cancun Mexico in April…

Millionaire developer Bob Ward dancing in his cell just days after his wife, Diane, was shot to death in their Florida mansion. Did the hus…

Inner-workings of Reliable Day Care, a modern day "social norm" of American child rearing. Not all Day Care operators are who they seem to…

The process pharmaceutical companies go through to get a new drug tested, approved, and available to consumers. It may not be as careful as…

In 2009 a Los Angeles police detective examines the cold case file on an attractive nurse, Sherri Rasmussen, who was murdered in her own ho…

A group of undercover investigators try to uncover the reason that some lottery retailers actually end up with winning tickets, while the c…

A father is murdered in broad daylight after he dropped his son off at a daycare and the culprit is as surprising as the reason that the fa…

A man with a surprising motive shoots a father in broad daylight.

A young man with a new love goes missing, and family members and detectives crack the case by connecting a series of seemingly random crime…

Lester Holt travels to Florida to report the latest information on the story of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teenager who was killed by a nei…

Michelle Young, a 29 year-old woman from Raleigh, N.C., who was found murdered in her home while her husband was away on a business trip an…

Michelle Young was pregnant when she was brutally murdered while her husband was away.

A woman accuses her boyfriend of rape and finds herself on the wrong side of the law. A he said, she said case turns into a quest for reven…

A divorced mother of four children, who was accused of a heinous crime and then served 15 years in prison for the same wrongdoing even thou…

A look into how much parents and children really know about the danger of abduction; as a test, elementary school children are offered a to…

A millionaire from Newport Beach who was murdered in 1994, the investigation went cold, but 15 years later his widow and an ex-football pla…

A man accused of murdering a prostitute in 2003. His wifevrecently testified against her husband and revealed that he confessed the murder…

A Penn State professor and consultant to MADD, investigate what really happens when teenagers start driving; teenagers are tested in three…

Meredith Vieira interviews 11 year-old Sean Goldman, the boy who was kidnapped by his mother when he was four and taken to Brazil, about th…

Natalie Morales and Rosalind Wiseman, an expert on teen ethics and behavior, investigate what happens when teens are confronted with the te…

The story of Ben Oxley, a 36 year-old who was murdered while he was asleep next to his wife, and new reports about how the accused murderer…

Despite the fact that the current generation of American children is the most diverse in history, some teens may not know what to do when c…

Jane Bashara, wife and mother of two from upscale Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, is found murdered in her Mercedes SUV that’s been left in a…

A boy who claims that he is victim of bullying is charged with manslaughter; Colonel Greg Gadson shares his inspirational story; Chris Hans…

Keith Morrison reports the story of Steven B., a radio DJ who was found dead in the waters off of Catalina Island, and why solving his murd…

After a prominent attorney from Nevada is found murdered, the investigators were led to two suspects, but could not determine the nature of…

A former radio DJ and multi-millionaire disappears from his yacht in the Pacific Ocean, but investigators discover he didn't drown.

An Iowa mother, home alone with her three kids, is attacked and the confrontation turns fatal. But is the truth more twisted than anyone co…

A college student is murdered in her Dallas condo. Although there are a few possible suspects, the case eventually goes cold. Years later,…

Keith Morrison reports the story of a young woman who died after having a spray tan.

A look is taken at the story of a high school valedictorian who was murdered in Montana and the new witnesses who could change the 30 year-…

A look is taken at the story of Esther Pilgrim, the woman who was conned by former rap star Tim Dog in an online dating scam, and how she p…

Officials identify a man's remains more than 20 years after his mysterious disappearance.

Dateline cameras roll as three formerly middle-class families confront poverty for the first time.

Examines the case of Shelley Tyre who drowned mysteriously while scuba diving with a companion in the British Virgin Islands.

Investigating the mysterious murder of a family patriarch.

The killing of 12 people in Aurora, Colorado during a screening of the new Batman movie. Also, A young college student vanishes late one ni…

The story of two strangers who were brought together by a unique bond that goes back to the Civil Rights movement; an investigation of the…

Tim Permenter calls 911 to report a horrible discovery; his girlfriend Karen Pannell, a one-time model and flight attendant, has been murde…

A young woman from Southern California goes missing. Did she run away? Was she kidnapped? The police have suspects but no real evidence. It…

The heartbreaking case of Angie Dodge, an 18-year-old woman murdered in her home in Idaho Falls, Ind. Her mother fights to free the man (Ch…

The disappearance of a young woman from Denver and the near fatal attack of another young woman in a neighboring town. Keith Morrison repor…

A fast-talking hood risks his life by going undercover in one of the country's roughest prisons to expose a suspected serial killer’s secre…

A look is taken at a the story of an escaped convict and a deputy warden's wife who were found after a decade on the run and if she a hosta…