About this season
For more than 25 years, Dateline has brought viewers investigations into some of biggest mysteries in America. This entry in the franchise takes a second look at some of the most mysterious cases of recent history. It explores the stories through firsthand accounts told by people who are close to the crime, including investigators who dedicated their time to the cases and family members who are still trying to confront the tragedies that befell their loved ones.
Episodes (23)
1. House on the Lake
Aired 21 July 2017 • 43 min
A mom suddenly vanishes and a dad is under suspicion, but there was no body, weapon or eyewitness, and surprises cropped up along the way.
2. Unimaginable
Aired 28 July 2017 • 43 min
Investigating whether a toddler left in the car for seven hours while his dad was at work was a heartbreaking accident or murder.
3. Betrayed
Aired 4 August 2017 • 43 min
Melissa Lewis disappears, leaving signs of a struggle and a strange orange mist behind her; her boss goes missing and leaves behind an even bigger mess, and a missing fortune.
4. A Texas Twist
Aired 11 August 2017 • 43 min
This part of the Lone Star State is largely sheltered from hurricanes, but, as it turned out, not from one unnatural disaster.
5. Nightfall
Aired 18 August 2017 • 43 min
After a young mom is found dead on the side of a country road, 40 miles from her Knoxville home, investigators scramble to figure out how she ended up there.
6. Burning Suspicion
Aired 25 August 2017 • 43 min
At first, the fatal fire that swept through the home of a young couple looked like an accident then investigators took a closer look and what they discovered about the fire, and this couple, left them burning with suspicion.
7. Lost and Found
Aired 1 September 2017 • 43 min
A 4-year-old girl abducted and raised by her kidnapper spends decades trying to get back home, and she finally accomplishes her goal; as it turns out, that ending was only the beginning.
8. The Mystery of the Murdered Major
Aired 8 September 2017 • 43 min
After an attack on a respected U.S. Army major in the middle of the night, police launch an investigation that reveals wild secrets -- secrets that might hold the key to murder.
9. The House In The Woods
Aired 15 September 2017 • 43 min
A hockey player finds his wife murdered in their home; his daughter says she saw a robber, but the killer's identity turns out to be far more complicated; police have their suspects but her family members have questions of their own.
10. Frantic
Aired 22 September 2017 • 43 min
After Christina, the twenty-three-year-old fashionista, goes out to a high-end shopping mall on a Friday night and vanishes, police question everyone; they know someone is lying, but not who.
11. The Player
Aired 29 September 2017 • 43 min
A double murder reveals a double life; the victims are a well-respected couple whose son plays poker for a living; his alibi is his ace in the hole, but when detectives find key evidence, they think they are holding all the cards.
12. The Goldfinger Mystery
Aired 6 October 2017 • 43 min
A couple who made a fortune in gold is headed for divorce when the wife is murdered; on tape, the husband is not at the crime scene, but police think the video holds the key to unlocking a mystery.
13. Secrets in a Small Town
Aired 13 October 2017 • 43 min
A woman's life ends in mystery on a dead end road; a mother of three, loved by her family and tight-knit community; for years the murder investigation went cold, but secrets have a way of eventually coming out.
14. Crossing the Line
Aired 20 October 2017 • 43 min
Big sky country and a dangerous highway set the scene of a fatal car crash; determining if the tragedy was an accident or a crime and the secrets behind the truth hiding in text messages sent just before a car crossed the line.
15. Mystery at Heath Bar Farm
Aired 27 October 2017 • 43 min
A popular teacher is savagely murdered in her home; there is an arrest, a trial, and a conviction, but when a bombshell comes in after the verdict, the convicted murderer is given a chance at freedom.
16. Deadly Triangle
Aired 3 November 2017 • 43 min
If a killer is still free after 25 years, then maybe they got away with murder; the trail goes cold, never to warm up again, until one day it does.
17. Diabolical
Aired 10 November 2017 • 43 min
A newlywed receives terrifying emails with threats of kidnapping and death; the emails appear to come from an ex-girlfriend, but hiding behind the threats is a cyber-secret.
18. The Day She Disappeared
Aired 17 November 2017 • 43 min
A woman disappears while on her morning jog.
19. Collision
Aired 24 November 2017 • 43 min
A wife and a mistress vying for the same man end up in a high-speed showdown on a highway; after the man of their dreams, on his motorcycle nearby, gets struck and killed, his wife becomes accused of his murder.
20. Heart of Darkness
Aired 1 December 2017 • 43 min
A mother, her son and a cousin are kidnapped by terrorists while on vacation; a father turned negotiator tries to end the international hostage drama, but the price of freedom is a huge ransom.
21. The Last Dance
Aired 8 December 2017 • 43 min
A beloved kindergarten teacher and mother of two finds a new lease on life after shedding hundreds of pounds; when she suddenly vanishes from her home, investigators uncover a connection between her dramatic weight loss and mysterious disappearance.
22. Troubled Waters
Aired 15 December 2017 • 43 min
A California couple's romantic getaway on a boat turns tragic when the young wife and mother is lost at sea; the case goes cold for years until a model with a checkered past goes undercover to find the truth.
23. Tangled
Aired 22 December 2017 • 43 min
At first it looked like a home invasion gone wrong at the house Ralph Candelario shared with his second wife, but when police learn the antique dealer's first wife had disappeared, they take a closer look.