Episodes
Dateline’s THE CASE OF THE MAN WITH NO NAME has everything: a cowboy detective, a prairie poltergeist, and a literal garbage person. But that’s not all! There is also a mysterious litterbug, a made-up glass company, and a runaway rickshaw... Ok maybe not that last thing, but it's truly a case with so many oooooodd details there is only one man who can tell us the story! That's right. Canadian national hero Keith Morrison is taking us on a manhunt across all of North America! So zip up your...
Published 11/09/23
It's time for Dateline's one and only Andrea Canning to take you on a wild ride in Olney, Texas, where not Olney the crime is bigger. The hats are bigger too. So are the convenience stores, and we’re Allsups and ready for them. When a beloved teacher is attacked and taken from her home in the middle of the night, how did the other three people in the house not hear a thing? Where is she? Who took her? Why do the Texas Rangers even bother having cameras? Can Andrea get to the bottom of this...
Published 11/02/23
Tristan Redman is a journalist who doesn’t believe in ghosts. But weird things happened in his teenage bedroom – weirder than normal. When, years later, he discovers subsequent occupants of his family home say they have been visited by the ghost of a faceless woman, he’s curious. It just so happens that the house Tristan grew up in is right next door to the house where his wife’s great grandmother, Naomi Dancy, was murdered – killed by two gunshots to the face. Could there be a connection?...
Published 10/24/23
In its time honored tradition of giving us episodes with “secrets” in the title, Dateline has provided us with a Thursday night doozy of a case, SECRETS IN PLEASANT PRAIRIE! Andrea Canning walks us through the untimely murder of a mom and wife in Wisconsin, who's husband found himself in a real jam. This episode really has it all, 90s hair fashion that made Kimberly & Katie very delighted, inappropriate sex photos that made K & K very uncomfortable, and a plunger in the bathtub that...
Published 10/18/23
Dateline's favorite Florida Man Dennis Murphy heads deep into the Ohio woods for his season 32 premiere, THE CLEARING, and he’s emerging covered in leaves… and mysteries! Is the smirking lumberjackian husband a murderer, or does he just give a really bad interview? Join Kimberly and Katie as they get mired in the thick underbrush of conflicting evidence. It's an early season episode with extensive body cam footage, an epic red flag round up, and plenty of phone noodling. Charles may think...
Published 10/11/23
Season 32 of Dateline is upon us and Josh Mankiewicz is starting out the season strong, reporting from Texas in all his pocket squared glory in LOSING FAITH. The case revolves around a Hawaiian shirt sporting husband, a purple heart receiving veteran and the speech therapist they both love. Kimberly and Katie, fresh from CrimeCon, have to dissect some suspiciously organized sensual emails, a suspiciously gift laden funeral and some seriously suspicious long lost sibling data that Kimberly has...
Published 10/04/23
It's a Dateline episode with so many twists (of the deadly kind) and turns that we need two episodes to cover it completely! Kimberly and Katie will be leaning on Keith Morrison as a guide to the windy Georgia mountain roads where we are headed in the second half of this DEADLY TWIST coverage. The banjos are plucking and a fire is ablaze on a hillside to cover the second murder in this story! But, be sure to listen to ADWD's Part 1 coverage of this case before you embark on this part of the...
Published 09/27/23
It's the Dateline episode that has been highly requested and hard to forget... it's DEADLY TWIST! A story so complex it cannot be contained in one part! To quote this episode- "this whole story is a mixture of murder and blood and failings and grace and heaven and God." Especially murder. This is Dateline after all. Two murders to be exact. Part one of ADWD coverage will be the first heinous crime. And with a story this big, we are never more grateful for the poetic storytelling of Keith...
Published 09/20/23
Last week was Secrets in the Snow, this week is SECRETS IN THE MIST! Next up, Secrets in the Hail! This is one of Kimberly’s classic most-watched episodes, but she wasn’t expecting two huge twists! One is a crazy update at the end that she had never seen, and the second is that Katie recognized John Lewin! This episode also features Keith Morrison's very own cold case squad, including The Evidence Whisperer. It’s also got the most detailed reimaginactment ever (congrats to the props...
Published 09/13/23
We’ve had secrets in the suburbs, in Silver Lakes, and in the desert. But we’ve never had SECRETS IN THE SNOW. When a dancer (pronounced fancy like you’re French) goes missing in the freezing cold, her husband smirks his way into the suspect #1 position. Was her marriage a pas de deux with danger? Not so quick (step)! What about the flamenco dancer that had recently waltzed into her heart? And what about the flamenco dancer’s wife who is tired of having another woman jete through her...
Published 09/06/23
In Dateline’s classic SMOKE AND MIRRORS, when a beloved young woman disappears, her loving family isn’t going to rest until she’s found. Their family is so big they’ve got full siblings, half siblings, 3/4 siblings once removed, an Ashley and an Ashlee! The one thing they don’t have is a Lean King, so thank goodness Keith Morrison is there to walk us through this case featuring several vacant parking lots, Gucci shoes, a shopping trip to Target in matching clothes, and some bright little...
Published 08/23/23
When Mike Williams vanishes on a hunting trip, the authorities suspect he was eaten by alligators but the true predators who took Mike may lurk much closer to home. The mystery of Mike’s disappearance might have faded from memory, if it wasn’t for one woman’s tireless crusade. From Wondery, comes a new season of Over My Dead Body; a story about an obsessive love affair, a scandalous secret and a mother’s battle for the truth. Follow Over My Dead Body: Gone Hunting on Amazon Music or wherever...
Published 08/21/23
In the Dateline classic MYSTERY ON HORSESHOE DRIVE, mystery host Rob Stafford is emerging out of the Illinois corn fields to bring us the wild story of a custody battle gone not just wrong, but Dateline Wrong. Is this story of a doting dad killed by his grandma-in-law the next case for Elder Skelter? Or is there someone else behind this case of supposed self defense? Grab your random friend from the track team ten years ago, and join Kimberly and Katie as they race to solve this case before...
Published 08/16/23
It’s time for more PHROGGING: HIDER IN MY HOUSE! But don’t be aphraid, because Kimberly and Katie are walking you through all the jump scares from the saphety of their lilypads. In Episode 1, Part B of this Lifetime series, three college roommates are the victims of either a phriendly ghost trying to find a new girl squad, OR a phashion phorward phrog who, just like all of us, only wants to feel pretty. We hope you enjoy our lately leap into the phrogging genre! Check your walls, check your...
Published 08/09/23
Get ready to wade into some murky Dateline waters where the truth behind accident or murder is hidden in THE SECRET OF COTTONWOOD CREEK. Yet another husband thinks a cliff is a preferable way to end his marriage instead of a more traditional divorce. Or did he? Andrea Canning has her waders on and is guiding us through some not-so-technical dummy reenactments and braves the steep cliffside to interview a sheriff with a mustache and possible tunnel vision. But what Sparked all the controversy...
Published 08/02/23
It’s time to get PHROGGING! With very few new Dateline episodes this summer, we’re diving into the walls, attics, and crawl spaces of your homes to discover who’s hiding in there! This is a phenomenon known as phrogging. A horrifying crime first explained to us by the man who knows everything weird about true crime, Sir Josh Mankiewicz! So we are hopping into Lifetime's new series Phrogging: Hider in my House. In episode one, Bump in the Night Part 1 -Secret Surgeon, we learn about a Hawaiian...
Published 07/26/23
Cue the flying cows because it’s time for TWISTED, a classic Dateline from Season 22 (watch on Peacock!)! This story has a whole bunch of outlandish plots, like a revengeful dentist, two creepy ex-husbands, and mentee with an angry pink spiral notebook. All that, plus… Montel Williams? Dennis Murphy, our favorite gumshoe is explaining all the twists and turns with his own brand of special phrasing and his hot seat questions and quibbling. Prepare yourselves for Kimberly’s terrible Australian...
Published 07/20/23
Leon Benson spent 24 years in an Indiana state prison for the 1998 murder of a young man named Kasey Schoen. His conviction hinged on the testimony of two eyewitnesses – but what if their memories turned out to be wrong? And what if the people who knew what really happened had never been allowed to speak? Suspect Season 3: Five Shots in the Dark is the story of two victims: one murdered, one sentenced to life. Follow host Matt Shaer and attorney Lara Bazelon as they investigate how the...
Published 07/17/23
Never has the word “Mystery” been so apt than in the Dateline episode DREAM HOUSE MYSTERY! We’re traveling all the way back to Season 19, where a young Josh Mankiewicz is showing us an open house… to a murder. And this well known case remains unsolved to this day! Can K & K solve a murder that hundreds of other podcasters and TikTokers have tried to? Probably not, but never fear because they have the help of the true crime legends that make up Dateline’s Cold Case Squad! This case is...
Published 07/13/23
Every closet on Dateline has some secrets in it, but none so big as in BEHIND THE CLOSET DOOR. When a loving mother and librarian is found murdered in her closet by her mild mannered Home Depot engineer geologist boyfriend, police think they’ve got their killer. But it’s not until several embarrassingly awkward sting operations, a dedicated son, and a prison straight out of Les Mis that it’s revealed that the whole theory could be a giant mistake by police! Thank goodness we have Josh...
Published 07/06/23
In this Dateline classic episode we are taken OVER THE EDGE at a romantic overlook in New Jersey that has turned very unromantic in a hurry as wife and mother Jody falls to her death on date night. While this may seem pretty straightforward, Kimberly and Katie realize quickly it’s anything but and their questions are endless. Hibachi Grills? Open Marriages? Advanced Geometry? Book Inserts? Chris Jansing? Guilty or Not Guilty?! Hopefully their some questions will be answered in the Thunderdome...
Published 06/21/23
K & K are so grateful to Peacock for whipping up another classic, creamy, never before seen (or tasted) Dateline episode, RECIPE FOR MURDER! Keith Morrison is heading into the kitchen to watch the pastrami being sliced and a simmering murder plot come to a boil. This deli-centric episode truly has everything: bagels, egg salad, lox, and an elusive chocolate cake recipe worth murdering for? Okay, not really worth murdering for, but because this is Dateline, there’s also private planes,...
Published 06/15/23
Couldn’t get through season one of Ozark and everyone makes you feel guilty for it? Forget it! Because Dateline is bringing some all too real tragedy with SECRETS IN THE OZARKS. Dennis Murphy is the perfect guide through the thorny underbrush of this case where the suspect list is as long as the specialty drinks menu at a Sonic and the crime scene is confusing as well... a side plot in Ozark. Rebekah Gould goes missing from a small town in Arkansas and everyone and their cousin comes under...
Published 06/07/23
It’s the episode you’ve been waiting for. The episode you’ve been asking for. The episode you’ve been holding your breath for! It’s DEAD MAN TALKING! The incredible Andrea Canning is taking us on a journey around the world to find out if that man in the oxygen mask and old timey spectacles with the unique BritGermIrish accent is actually an American born scam artist! This episode really does have it all: Engelbert Humperdinck, the most awkward plot line on The Office ever (and we don’t mean...
Published 06/01/23
In honor of A DATE WITH DATELINE’s SIX YEAR anniversary, we have not one but two extra special guests!!!! The most beloved bros in our favorite true crime bromance, Keith Morrison and Josh Mankiewicz! Join us for an incredibly important discussion on a wide variety of topical world issues, such as have the gentlemen ever heard of Scandoval? Are robots going to take over? Are teenagers terrifying? Is there a Dateline bowling league? If not... why not? There is storytelling, behind the scenes...
Published 05/27/23