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 (14)
1. Over the Edge
Aired 23 June 2018 • 43 min
What happened that September night when romance turned to danger? Something went terribly wrong and a woman slipped over the edge of a cliff. Did she fall by accident or was she pushed? It would take almost 20 years to find answers.
2. Someone Was Watching
Aired 30 June 2018 • 43 min
It was a plot straight out of an Alfred Hitchcock film. A woman peers into a neighbor's yard and catches a glimpse of something unsettling. What she saw and what she did set a chain of events in motion that would divide a family and a jury.
3. Ransom
Aired 7 July 2018 • 43 min
It began with a young mom abducted at gunpoint. Her family and veteran investigators spent desperate days trying to find out where she was but they never could have guessed WHO had her and WHY.
4. Sombody's Daughter
Aired 14 July 2018 • 43 min
Detectives often hit dead ends that can stop them cold but, for one young detective, dead ends were just another place to start. She'd beaten the odds in her own life. Now, she was determined to beat them on the job using her head and her heart.
5. The Secret
Aired 21 July 2018 • 43 min
Was he missing or was he hiding? On the surface, it didn't make sense: He had a wife, a good job, a daughter he loved. Investigators were told he also had a secret and they went on an undercover mission to find the truth.
6. Strangers on a Train
Aired 28 July 2018 • 43 min
Kate Waring and Heather Camp meet on a train from Washington DC to Charleston SC. Kate suffered from depression due to molestation in her younger years. While turning her life around she was betrayed by Heather, a long time con-artist.
7. Mystery on Blood Mountain
Aired 6 August 2018 • 43 min
It started with a frightening horror flick from the '80s. Then decades later, it was happening for real. Four people were dead and investigators believed they were chasing a serial killer. Could this old movie hold the key to solving these cases?
8. Blind Justice
Aired 13 August 2018 • 43 min
For investigators, motive can be the hardest thing to find. This crime took place in Florida but detectives didn't discover a motive for murder until they looked into a tropical island thousands of miles away, where a festering grudge was born.
9. The Great Escape
Aired 20 August 2018 • 43 min
Dr. Mark Weinberger was a successful surgeon hiding a secret from his medical staff and from his adoring wife. There was a malpractice suit and a death. Then the doctor vanished, sparking an international manhunt and a family's fight for justice.
10. The Man Who Talked To Dogs
Aired 27 August 2018 • 43 min
Celebrity dog trainer Mark Stover and his wife, Linda, built a thriving business and a beautiful home but their dream life didn't last. An affair led to a bitter divorce. Then Mark vanished in a mystery with the makings of a Hollywood thriller.
11. In the Dead of Night
Aired 3 September 2018 • 43 min
It was Easter Sunday. The Stock family celebrated at home. Hours later, gunshots turned their farmhouse into a house of horrors. There was an arrest but one tiny clue didn't fit. This case was far from being solved.
12. A Gathering Storm
Aired 12 September 2018 • 43 min
A love triangle leads to a murder investigation when a beauty queen, a wife, and a guitarist become entangled in a scandal that causes one Florida man to use a passing hurricane as cover for him to hide from his past mistakes.
13. Vanished
Aired 17 September 2018 • 43 min
Young nursing student Michelle Le had disappeared. Something drew her out to her car. As her loved ones launched a very public effort to find Michelle, investigators began their own methodical search. Was she missing or murdered?
14. Deadly Connection
Aired 24 September 2018 • 43 min
They were bright young women out for a little fun with their friends. Kenya Monge and Lydia Tillman didn't know each other but they would be forever related, both falling prey to a smooth-talking stranger with a terrifying secret.