Season 29 · Episode 41 — Killer Role
After filming wraps on an indie horror film, the cast and crew learn their killer star isn’t who she says she is. It’s a plot twist that reveals a real-life killer. Keith Morrison reports.
Season 29 episodes
E1Josh Mankiewicz reports on the mysterious disappearance of a Colorado rancher.
E2The survivor of a horrible attack is convinced police have the wrong suspect.
E3Dennis Murphy has the latest on the case of a Florida law professor murdered in his garage, including new details, newly-released evidence…
E4After filming wraps on an indie horror movie, the cast members learn that their lead actress is not who she says she is and has been charge…
E5When a doctor is found murdered, investigators are stumped as to who would want him dead. Police discover simmering jealousies and a love t…
E6A mother of two goes missing in Monrovia, California. As detectives investigate, the woman's friends and family reveal that she feared she…
E7Josh Mankiewicz reports on the mysterious disappearance of Carole Baskin’s husband, Don Lewis, who vanished in 1997 while preparing for a t…
E8An Arkansas realtor goes missing after showing a house. When loved ones later receive mysterious text messages from her, they know somethin…
E9When college student Helene Pruszynski is found murdered, her case remains cold for nearly 40 years until a new detective uses an innovativ…
E10In Morris, Alabama, faith is a way of life. But when a man is murdered, rumors involving a pastor begin to swirl and the truth ends up turn…
E11When a woman dies after what appears to be an accidental fall in the shower, two friends join forces to seek justice on her behalf. Andrea…
E12After Ellie Green doesn't hear from her mother for a few days following an argument, she begins to worry. Then she learns her mother is dea…
E13When a pediatric dentist is found dead, police uncovers a complex plot and their suspect leads investigators on an international manhunt; t…
E14When a soldier, Vannessa, vanishes from Fort Hood, her family do everything they can to bring attention to her disappearance; Secretary of…
E15After Todd Chance is murdered, police follow a trial video evidence as they work to track down the killer;
E16Top executives at Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson and Johnson talk about plans for COVID-19 vaccine distribution and efforts to overcome publi…
E17A 40-year-old Minnesota woman is shot to death in her bed, while her husband and teenage daughter are home, leaving investigators to wonder…
E18The latest in the case of a missing young Oregon woman, whose disappearance led to an intense manhunt, after a suspect embarked on a two-st…
E19When an Eastlake, Ohio resident is offered $50,000 to kill someone, he calls the police. Acting quickly, investigators set up an elaborate…
E20More than 2 decades since the tragic death of Princess Diana, Dateline reveals new insights into the real story of the very private royal,…
E21When Ohio resident Pat Sabo is offered $50,000 to kill someone hundreds of miles away, he calls the police to report the incident; acting q…
E22The families of George Floyd, Jacob Blake Jr, and Eric Garner open up together in a raw and emotional conversation about their pain, anger,…
E23A romantic Mediterranean cruise, which was intended to rekindle the love between a woman and her ex-husband, had led to the vanishing of he…
E24The deadly shooting at U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas’ home that left her husband Mark injured and their son Daniel dead.
E25Keith Morrison has the latest developments in the case of a 21-year-old UCLA student, whose body was found in an infamous Los Angeles area…
E26When University of Utah athlete Lauren McCluskey is found murdered on campus, investigators learn that she had reached out to the campus po…
E27A nationwide manhunt is launched after a woman dubbed the “killer grandma” goes on the run through the Gulf Coast. Dennis Murphy reports.
E28A college student goes missing in broad daylight from her off-campus job. As police begin to investigate, they receive a mysterious phone c…
E29Popular basketball player Lorenzen Wright is found murdered in 2010. His mother insists she knows who murdered her son and is relentless in…
E30When the owner of a school promoted as a place to help troubled girls is accused of abusing students, his daughter must decide whose side s…
E31When Susan Woods doesn’t show up for work, she is soon discovered dead in her bathtub. As police search for answers, they find a trail of v…
E32Former NXIVM member Dr. Danielle Roberts defends branding members of the alleged sex cult; former members India Oxenberg and her mother, Ca…
E33In an attempt to move on from a tumultuous love triangle, South Carolina native Heather Elvis goes out on a first date on December 17, 2013…
E34Witnesses see a woman handcuffed in a parking lot and taken into an unmarked car by a blond woman. But detectives can't find any record of…
E35Amateur internet investigators, new DNA technology and a dogged investigator help police find a killer – and identify a victim for years kn…
E36Lead detectives in the murder investigation of University of Utah student MacKenzie Lueck speak exclusively to Keith Morrison about the cas…
E37Exclusive new interviews and details on the deaths surrounding Chad and Lori Vallow Daybell, a case Keith Morrison has been on since it dre…
E38When a woman is murdered, a web of sex and lies is uncovered, revealing a prominent family’s dark secrets. Detectives and an FBI informant…
E39Kathleen Schroll makes a phone call that names her killer right before her death, it leads to the arrest of a father for murder. But two tr…
E40When a private investigator and former police officer vanishes, detectives think there may be more to the story when strange text messages…
E41After filming wraps on an indie horror film, the cast and crew learn their killer star isn’t who she says she is. It’s a plot twist that re…
E42A Michigan community is shocked when a local mother is found stabbed to death. After the case goes cold for more than a decade, a bombshell…
E43America is on its knees thanks to the global pandemic, and a year marred by division and uncertainty. Dateline investigates why so many are…
E44A wealthy surgeon’s whereabouts remain unknown for years after he disappears on vacation in Greece, leaving behind his wife, financial ruin…
E45A mother of two vanishes, and nearly two years later her body is found in the San Diego Bay, but medical examiners say she had only been de…
E46When a Kansas prisoner escapes in a van driven by a wife and mother who volunteers at the prison, investigators scramble to track down the…
E47A mother's search for answers in her son’s murder raises questions about whether Chicago police detectives did enough to try to solve his c…
E48After a mother and son are found dead, it takes nearly a decade to unravel the case. Andrea Canning reports the latest, including how a sec…
E49After a nightclub owner is gunned down in his home, Chicago police discover the death was a targeted killing, connected to a twisted sense…
E50Lester Holt reports on how the investigation into the murder of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn revealed decades of misconduct across Phila…
E51A woman who helps solve cases searches for her missing niece and pushes for change as part of the growing movement to save missing and murd…
E52Lester Holt interviews family members, including the now-grown children of some of the passengers and crew of Flight 93, as they honor the…
E53For more than 30 years, Ohio investigators have searched for answers in the murder of 10-year-old Amy Mihaljevic. Now they're enlisting you…