A rape case takes an unexpected turn due to DNA evidence
A detective hunts for a shooter who killed a man in Memphis, Tenn.
In Gainesville, Fla., Pedro Bravo is accused of murdering his friend, Christian Aguilar, because the victim was dating a woman with whom Pedro was desperately infatuated.
A girl is murdered just before her ninth birthday and police suspect her 12-year-old friend and neighbor.
A woman fights for justice for her husband, her murdered mother and a brutalized little girl, trying to change prosecutors' minds after they thought they had their man.
A couple's disappearance on Lake Huron baffles police.
The key to a bizarre murder case may lie in a barren stretch of desert.
When a woman is murdered, her lover is accused of the murder.
The discovery of a charred body on a lonely road leads to the grave and beyond.
The brutal murder of two professors yields unexpected results.
A motorcyclist commits five murders at random, holding a town hostage on a day of terror, some believe, that should have been stopped, before it ever started.
A woman vanishes on Halloween.
A woman falls to her death with her husband the only witness.
A victim's cousin takes up a murder case when the police drop it.
The murder of a teenage girl goes unsolved for decades until a neighbor's secret is revealed.
A teenage girl's kidnaping sets off a manhunt.
A missing woman's twin sister refuses to give up hope even though the police have no leads, and she pretends to be her sister to catch a killer, and it almost gets her killed.
Caught up in storm of controversy, a teenage girl and her parents go public about a private, painful attack.
A woman vanishes under mysterious circumstances.
A wealthy adventurer goes missing.
Video footage of average people arranging murders.
An award-winning father and his wife vanish.
A wife kills her husband.
A woman balances a husband, seven children and two lovers until a murder makes her a suspect.
Serving a death sentence for a murder he didn't commit, a man must rely on old-fashioned detective work to prove his innocence before time runs out.
A small town reporter is drawn close to a killer.
Police refuse to believe a victim's account of being raped by a masked man and threaten to arrest her.
A man experiences four house fires in seven years.
Tapes show two very different sides to the same story.
A good neighbor leads a double life for nearly three decades.
A con artist is a master at wooing women.
A young man has a bizarre obsession, shadowing a woman he's known since he was a child and seeking to steal her identity.
Two detectives attempt to free a pair of criminals they put away.
A family makes a movie about their missing relative in an attempt to find him.
A man is accused of killing an unarmed stranger.
Profile of a serial killer.
Scheming criminals.
Armed with a semi-automatic weapon, an intruder shoots his way through a family's backdoor.
A jealous husband murders his wife's teenage lover.
Debra LaFave tells her side of the story.
A 19-year-old young man is accused of killing his grandfather in cold blood.
A teenager is charged with the murder of another teenager.
In Newberry, S.C., three children grieve the death of their mother.
Police find the bodies of two boys in the back of a submerged SUV in the Everglades of southern Florida.
An unexpected clue located hundreds of miles away may provide the evidence needed to link a mother of three to a murder conspiracy.
Jurors are asked to probe the depths of a killer's mind.
Jason Kent is accused of killing his wife's ex-husband.
Penny Scaggs is found dead in her home; police suspect that the murder was more then just a burglary gone wrong.
The wife of a medical examiner dies suddenly and mysteriously.
A Las Vegas casino owner is found dead in his home; the girlfriend and her lover are caught digging up the dead man's silver stash.
Dr. Dirk Greineder finds himself in a world of trouble when his wife is found dead Halloween morning.
A local businessman is murdered on Christmas night; police get a tip that leads them to two brothers and a string of other crimes.
A surrogate mother who did not want to give up the child; a skier collides with another person.
A family friend agrees to help a couple who is unable to have a baby; the woman decides to keep the baby after it is born.
A Pennsylvania church grows and prospers with a new preacher; evidence comes to light that the preacher is not who he claims to be and that he is stealing from the church.
A police captain is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife.
An alleged child sex ring is uncovered in the town of Wenatchee.
A summer party ends with 11 gunshots.
A Liz Taylor look-alike who traveled the world leaving a trail of arson, theft and murder in her wake.
Investigators chase a fugitive across three countries and two continents.
Albert DeSalvo claims that he is the Boston Strangler.
Police investigate a murder plot involving a dinner party, a gun with a silencer and shark-infested waters.
After a couple marry against their parents' wishes, the bride's death leaves a cloud of suspicion around the groom.
A young American living in Nicaragua becomes the main suspect in his ex-girlfriend's murder.
A woman dies from antifreeze poisoning.
A woman is murdered in a small country church.
Hidden cameras are set up to view international adoptions.
A murder tears everything apart after 20 years of marriage.
When 3-year-old Michele Pulsifer goes missing, her father has trouble convincing the police to search for her.
A man is killed by a fire in his garage.
Husband is shot to death and his wife narrowly escapes the gunman but there is question whether the widow is grieving or celebrating.
A young wife keeps a journal of her thoughts making all wonder if her death was accidental or planned.
Husband keeping secret from wife after years of marriage.
Justice demanded as a killer invades the home of a well known family.
A successful surgeon and a creative women in love; a fatal weekend caught on video.
A minor dispute over property escalates into an all out war between neighbors.
Man found dead in his bedroom and police wonder if it was his wife or his mistress that killed him.
A masked man murders two and attempts a third, all women live in separate states.
Thirteen women raped in fourteen years; attacker known as the "Wooded Rapist".
A mystery of a missing mother and a husband suspected of murdering her takes 16 years to solve.
Missing husband ends up dead after an ugly divorce and wife's employee describes the details.
High flying financial advisor plots his own death after his world crumbles.
Truth finally comes to light three weeks after a little boy's body is found.
My Space helps solve the case of a doctor found dead in his office.
The truth behind a woman's sudden disappearance will haunt a family for the rest of their lives.
A young wife and mother is found dead after a house fire in a small Kansas town. Investigators question what went wrong. Was it an act of murder? Keith Morrison reports.
In an two-hour Dateline, Andrea Canning tells the story of a woman who falls to her death while hiking with her husband in a National Park. Rangers question if her death was an accident.
A divorced mother hires someone to kill her ex-husband. Dateline's Josh Mankiewicz delivers an update from San Diego about the story of a mother and grandmother who emerge from deep adversity..
An Army Major is attacked in his bed in the middle of the night; police uncover secrets that might hold the key to his murder.
The Sklar Neese Saga is finally over, capped by Dateline NBC bringing national attention to the murder of this 16 year old girl. We exposed the killer's for the past year, & here is the jam packed Epilogue to the series we did on this story.
When a young woman is found dead in a field on the outskirts of Green Bay, Wisconsin, detectives uncover a Fitbit that helps them solve the mystery. Andrea Canning reports.
A young detective who has beaten the odds in her own life uses her head and her heart to beat the odds on the job.
The story of Bernadette Sugrim, who escaped an abusive marriage when her 11-year-old daughter called 911 after being assaulted by her father. The abuse was only one secret that Sugrim hid from the outside world, however: Her husband had confessed of his involvement in past incidents that she shared with the police after they responded to her daughter's call.
A family is desperate for answers when a young mother is abducted at gunpoint; they would never guess who had taken her - and why.
A respected couple's murder leaves police puzzled and a blood-stained card at the scene is looked at again in the hopes it will yield new clues.
A young mother never returns from a morning jog; police find a tiny clue buried in a home computer.
Steven B. Williams was a DJ with a golden voice. Then he vanished. It was a mystery that stretched from California to Montana, and the clue to it all? It was wrapped in a napkin, tucked in a cabinet, hidden in a library, but would anyone find it?
When a healthy young woman dies, a spray tan comes into view as the possible culprit—but so too does her husband.
A couple's fortune in gold may be a motive for murder as business practices come under review and secrets are spilled.
A fatal car crash leaves two dead and one seriously injured; it may have not been an accident.
After Rusty Sneiderman dropped off his child at school, four gunshots were fired and Sneiderman was left dead; love triangle.
Detectives use surveillance cameras to search for clues.
Three suspects are arrested for the murder of Dar Foley.
Archie McFarland was stabbed to death and his murder went unsolved for twenty-five years.
In Albuquerque, N.M., Michael Snyder disappears from his home, and his body isn't found until eight years later.
A group of retired police officers search for a troubled teen that went missing after a night out with friends.
Meredith Emerson vanishes while hiking in Georgia; with a possible killer in mind, police and the FBI search for her amongst the dense woods and steep trails.
A spiritual weekend retreat ends in tragedy for a group of outdoor adventurers.
A story of how an act of love caught a killer.
The search is on for suspected murderer Chris Wright in Salt Lake City.
In Pembroke Pines, Fla., a rookie detective reopens a 15-year-old case about the disappearance of young father David Jackson.
Kenia Monge vanishes from Denver and the police have no evidence until a second woman is attacked.
Angie Doge is found dead in her apartment; Chris Tapp is charged with her murder and DNA clears him.
When family man Jack Jesse is murdered in his Orange County home, police can't pin down any suspects.
Bernadette Sugrim and her children are trapped in an abusive relationship.
Lina Kaufman is found dead in the bathroom of her home; police suspect her husband.
Larry McNabney goes missing and is later found dead; police suspect his wife.
When a flight attendant is killed in her home, letters written in blood offer an important clue.
The 2001 disappearance of a California woman is investigated.
Jodi Arias claims self-defense when she goes on trial for the murder of ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander.
Ben Oxley is shot to death while sleeping next to his wife, Melissa, who is interrogated as a suspect in his murder case.
The mystery behind the apparent kidnapping of Bobbi Parker.
The case of 18-year-old Hannah Hill, who went missing from her Akron, Ohio, home in May 1999. A week later, her body was found in the trunk of her car alongside a road three miles from her home.
A Hollywood stuntman survives being shot four times.
Anna-Lisa Raymundo is stabbed to death in broad daylight; another stabbing involving her co-worker leads detectives to the murderer.
Entrepreneur Ben Novack Jr. is found dead in his hotel room; the many suspects include his wife and step daughter.
The initial investigation into the 1981 disappearance of Torrance, Cal., resident and mother-of-two Carol Jeanne Lubahn hits a dead end. Thirty years later, however, the police re-open the case and turn to social media for help.
Inmate Jimmy Keane was convicted after being caught in a drug deal; Keane and detective Larry Beaumont made a top secret deal.
Two teenagers are sent to jail for a crime that they may not have committed.
In Boise, Idaho, Rob and Kandi Hall lead a life that appears perfect until Kandi begins a steamy affair with her handsome new boss and things take a dark and deadly turn.
After newlyweds Josh and Amber Hilberling return home after a year in the Alaskan wilderness, a marital spat leads to a tragic death.
A woman vanishes after a night out with her boyfriend.
The double murder of Tammy Jo Parker and Bryan Capnerhurst appears to be a case of self-defense until it emerges that Parker's husband, Brett, is a bookie with a mounting gambling debt.
In Plantation, Fla., intruders break into Joseph Morrisey's home and murder him in cold blood, leaving family members to ask who could have committed such a terrible crime.
A young couple is murdered in the desert; years later a woman comes forward with a powerful accusation against her former husband.
In Arizona, Jason Brown murders an armored car guard and secures a place on the FBI's most wanted list; as the manhunt for Brown goes on, detectives are left with more and more unanswered questions.
In Mustang, Okla., firefighter Keith Bryan reconciles with his wife, then he is shot in his own home and dies a few hours later at a nearby hospital.
Two teenagers are framed and imprisoned for a crime they may not have committed.
A local beauty queen is found beaten to death; conflicting evidence leaves the townspeople at odds.
Retired professor and avid gun enthusiast Kay Mortensen is found murdered in his Utah home.
In an effort to uncover the truth, a group of Detroiters band together to clear the names of Tommy and Ray Hughes who have spent 25 years in prison for a murder they say they did not commit.
A woman is found murdered in the remains of a house that has burned to the ground, and it will take years to unravel the mystery of what happened to her.
A young man is crushed by a truck in his father's driveway, leading police to first rule the death as an accident; the case is re-examined.
Beth Lochtefeld believes she has found her soul mate in Tom Toolan, but then their relationship takes a deadly turn.
A husband gives a frantic call to 911 after finding his wife dead in a bathtub, but the couple's daughters lead police to investigate their father.
Karen Smith is murdered while her 5-year-old son is brutally stabbed and a neighbor says she knows who did it; she later recants her testimony and fights for the suspect's defense.
Hollywood actress Aasha Davis' sister, Lesley, goes missing after a fight with her husband never to be heard from again.
Police suspect foul play when school superintendent Keith Reed goes missing and a digital trail between him and his married lover is discovered.
Out with his fiance on Halloween, a man leaves a bar with the rowdy crowd behind him and is never seen again.
After decades behind bars for confessing to murder, Barry Beach is freed from prison, but only temporarily.
Sandi Johnson vanishes on her son's birthday, and the trail goes cold until her body is found years later, yielding the clues investigators need to track down her killer.
Two teenage cousins go missing on Thanksgiving night; a man admits to shooting them in self-defense after they broke into his home, but investigators believe there is more to the story.
A man finds his wife stabbed to death in their home and her friends are skeptical despite his alibi; one friend in particular is determined to find the truth.
When Angie Samota is stabbed to death in her college dormitory, the investigation leads nowhere until more than 20 years later when a friend urges police to take another look.
In Gainesville, Fla., Pedro Bravo is accused of murdering his friend, Christian Aguilar, because the victim was dating a woman with whom Pedro was desperately infatuated.
CIA communications specialist Marie Singleton's homicide remains unsolved until her grown son remembers something important about his mother's killer more than a decade later.
Christie McNally and her husband, Ian Thorson, must fend for themselves in the Arizona desert after being expelled from a retreat run by a charismatic Buddhist teacher.
In Conyers, Ga., Nikki Whitehead moves into a gated community to provide a better life for her twin daughters, but what the future holds for them is a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.
In San Diego, a pipe bomb detonates under Connie Hoagland's vehicle as she leaves the suburban daycare center where she works.
Eric Glisson is exonerated of murdering a livery cab driver and walks free after 18 years behind bars.
Vanessa Pond thinks Raven Abaroa is the one for her until she marries him and finds out her dream guy comes with a dark past.
When a woman is murdered within days of getting married, her new husband's ex-girlfriend comes forward with a a story about a plot to kill her.
After a tech millionaire's neighbor is found murdered, he goes on the run and plays a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek with the authorities and the press.
Barbara George is shot to death in her comic book store, but the case goes cold until it is reopened nearly 20 years later.
Karen and Mark Duenas manage to keep the romance alive even after raising five sons, then an ordinary night ends in a tragic murder that will test the bonds of family.
When speed skater Stephen Moore goes missing, his secret audio diary provides clues that add to the deepening mystery surrounding his disappearance.
When Linda Curry sickens and dies under suspicious circumstances, police and doctors are puzzled, then her close friends and family members speak up.
In York, S.C., former mayor and prominent attorney Melvin Roberts is found strangled to death in his driveway.
Mother-of-two Michelle Mockbee is found beaten to death at the laboratory supply warehouse where she worked.
When Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, goes missing, police go undercover to crack the case.
Rachel Anderson is a vivacious single mother whose world revolves around her children, then she fails to show up for work one day; her disappearance may have something to do do with the terrifying telephone calls she's been receiving.
Lurking in the woods and peeping through windows, a cold-blooded serial killer stalks his next victim.
Mischele Lewis' new boyfriend seems almost too good to be true, then she discovers he is a con man harboring dark secrets and embarks on a dangerous mission to expose him.
Special education teacher Frank Rodriguez is a U.S. Navy veteran with few enemies, then he dies under mysterious circumstances, leaving investigators with the challenge of figuring out how he died and who would want him dead.
After Lisa Knoefel is stabbed to death, her teenage foster daughter, Sabrina Zunich, admits to killing her, but the case grows infinitely more complicated when Lisa's husband, Kevin, is implicated in the crime.
After car salesman Eric Somuah is found shot to death in his bed, a dogged detective refuses to give up on the investigation into his murder which is filled with twists and turns.
Defense attorney Chiquita Tate's promising career comes to a violent end when she is murdered, and police are faced with a challenge since Tate came into contact with so many miscreants.
Successful real estate appraiser Marc Despain is found shot to death on the kitchen floor of his Arkansas home, and investigators speculate as to whether money is the motive for his murder.
In Texas, matriarch Bonnie Harkey has a steely grip on her family's pecan fortune, then she goes missing, and investigators must shake the family tree to find a twisted tale of greed and murder.
In Florida, Lynn Friend is making plans to marry her fiancé when she vanishes into thin air; investigators search land and sea, going to unexpected depths to get to the bottom of her mysterious disappearance.
A seemingly healthy doctor collapses at home and is rushed to the emergency room, where a blood test reveals she has been the victim of cyanide poisoning, turning a medical mystery into a murder mystery.
A doctor fights for his life after being poisoned, and police uncover more than one suspect while looking into the women in the victim's life and must ask themselves which one is toxic.
After Jennifer Ramsaran goes missing, detectives suspect she may have been harmed by someone she met online, then they realize the answer to her disappearance may lie closer to home.
In Miami, Cindy Carballo's husband is shot to death while walking with their baby boy in his arms, then, a short time later, Carballo kills her late husband's business partner.
After a college freshman is beaten to death, identifying the victim will turn out to be more difficult than finding the killer, who confesses to committing the crime for a reason that will later become the foundation for his defense.
Police discover a chilling connection between two victims and race to connect the dots to see if they have a serial killer on their hands.
After a bizarre murder case goes cold, investigators get a DNA hit but cannot figure out the link between the victim and her suspected killer who are separated by 1,5000 miles.
After Diane Kyne is murdered in her bed, investigators are shocked by 911 calls made by her husband and son, both to them pointing fingers at each other.
A 33-year-old tutor is accused of having an illicit relationship with a teenage student after a racy photograph is discovered on a cell phone; later, her stunning defense will lead to an emotional courtroom battle.
In Southern California, a nurse is butchered in a murder so savage it haunts detectives for more than three decades.
After baby Savanna vanishes during a custody battle, her father is driven to find out what happened to her; the mystery of her disappearance spans two decades and circles the globe.
Respected psychology professor Patricia Esparza believes she has escaped from a life of poverty and abuse, until a dark secret comes back to haunt her as the result of a determined investigator's work on a 20-year-old murder case.
After the brutal murder of a wealthy socialite, police zero in on a suspect but solving this crime will not be easy or quick.
Leslie Neulander, the philanthropic wife to a respected local physician, dies from a fall in the shower, stunning the community.
Vern Holbrook has a beautiful family and a thriving real estate company, then he fails to show up for a meeting with his daughter-in-law, leading to concern over the whereabouts of the beloved patriarch.
After real estate developer Gary Triano is murdered in a car bomb explosion at a resort, there are multiple suspects, including Triano's ex-wife, and it will take investigators nearly two decades to unravel the mystery of who killed him.
There are multiple suspects after real estate developer Gary Triano is murdered in a car bomb explosion, and it will take investigators nearly two decades to unravel the mystery of who killed him.
The 1990 stabbing death of a tourist in New York City led to a crackdown on crime, but one of the men arrested in the stabbing continues to maintain his innocence.
Retiree Ray Kotomski quenches his thirst with a cool drink on a warm August day in Pennsylvania, then he dies within hours, and investigators have to figure out whether a crime has been committed.
Richard and Stacey Schoeck meet in a secluded spot for a secret tryst on Valentines Day, then Richard is shot dead turning the isolated spot into a crime scene.
A teenager is found dead the morning after inviting a friend to sleep over in her basement.
A Texas doctor re-invents himself after a divorce, then he is shot to death in his home.
What happened one spring night at an elite New England preparatory school leads to an accusation of sexual assault and an investigation into who is telling the truth.
While members of the U.S. military prize loyalty, a female commander's murder comes about as the result of a breathtaking betrayal.
In California, police strive to discover who would have wanted to murder a devoted family man.
A couple is found murdered among the collectibles they amassed in their home; investigators want to know who stood the most from killing them and whether there is a connection between the memorabilia and their murders.
Twenty-nine-year old Carrie Olson has a new man in her life and is looking forward to the future, then she goes missing, and no one can imagine anyone wanting to harm her.
The morning after a cast party, 19-year-old musician and actress Jessie Blodgett is found strangled to death in her bed.
Sabine Buehler moves to an island off Florida seeking her own slice of paradise, then she vanishes, leading police down a long and winding path in the sand as they investigate her disappearance.
Intelligent, hard-working beauty Kathryn Laird lives life to the fullest, then her body is found in a river, and investigators must determine whether she took her own life or was the victim of foul play.
Fun and pretty college student Corey Parker is working as a waitress in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., and she has plenty of admirers, then she is found stabbed to death in her apartment.
A fence triggers a deadly fight between neighbors, one of whom claims he shot and killed the other in self-defense; investigators study the victim's body to discern the truth.
In Aspen, Colo., socialite Nancy Pfister has a long list of friends, then she is found beaten to death in a closet of her Rocky Mountain home.
While She Was Sleeping, Part 2
Businessman John Mimbela becomes convinced that Daniel Villegas' murder confession was forced and sets out to prove it.
After young father Matthew Podolak dies from antifreeze poisoning, the manner of his death remains undetermined until his brother embarks on a quest for the truth.
Matthew Podolak dies from antifreeze poisoning, and his death remains a mystery until his brother embarks on a quest for the truth.
Free spirit Brittany Tavar vanishes into thin air, and there is more than one suspect in her mysterious disappearance, including a handsome boarder and a friend turned enemy.
A few weeks before Christmas, Jason Payne makes a frantic 911 call to report the shooting deaths of his wife and stepson.
College student Heidi Allen vanishes from the convenience store where she works; Gary Thibodeau is convicted of Heidi's murder, but now another man has allegedly confessed to friends that he killed the young woman, blowing the case wide open.
A couple seems made for each other, but a secret is uncovered, and their passion turns into violence, then an elaborate plot is hatched to get revenge.
After model Paula Sladewski is found murdered, police study a few seconds of grainy video recorded during the last hours of her life to try to identify her killer.
When long-haul truck driver Lloyd Ford disappears, it doesn't raise many red flags, but two people know where he is and guard the secret for 27 years.
A Chicago Bears football player's relationship with a woman who is expecting their first child ends in tragedy.
Lindsay Buziak thought she'd landed the real-estate assignment of her dreams: helping a mystery couple buy a million dollar home. But what seemed like a golden opportunity turned deadly when Lindsay was murdered in the ritzy estate.
After a woman disappears on a bone-chilling night, her husband provides a strange alibi, claiming he was camping at the time with their two young sons.
Abducted in Ecuador, a young woman hatches a plan to escape using something hidden at the bottom of her bag.
A woman from a small town moves to the big city of Las Vegas, where she finds a new career and a new love, then she vanishes, and her body is found within a few days, but discovering her killer will be a tougher mystery to crack.
He was a high-society hustler with a flair for spinning lies. But was this charming con-man capable of murder? To solve the mystery, cold case detectives began to retrace his steps along a decades-old trail of deceit.
He was a wealthy executive and a doting dad who was in fear for his life. Then, he was shot dead. The case made headlines because of its unusual defense, with the accused arguing he was too obese to carry out the killing.
After 19-year-old Brooke Wilberger is kidnapped, her family begs for her return, but months pass before police get their first big break in the form of a similar attack thousands of miles away.