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Dateline NBC

Season 18 2009 - 2010
TV-PG

  • 2009-09-19T01:00:00Z on NBC
  • 45m
  • 2d 6h 30m (77 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • News, Documentary
Dateline presents in-depth coverage of news stories. Rather than just reading news reports, as most news shows do, the reporters for this show research their subjects and interview the people closely involved to create an informative work of investigative journalism.

77 episodes

In "Bad Chemistry", Keith Morrison reports on a story involving a messy divorce where a man is murdered and found in a vat filled with acid In "The Mystery in the Master Bedroom", Dennis Murphy reports on Newlyweds who were settling into a new house and a new life together. Then, a tragedy: The young husband discovers his wife had drowned in the bathtub. It seemed a horrible accident, but police were bothered by one thing: Why was her body dry?

Rabbi Shmuley first met Michael Jackson in 1999, and began recording their conversations a year later, when Jackson was 42 years old. Theirs was an unlikely friendship -- but the Orthodox rabbi had became a confidant and spiritual advisor to the King Of Pop. Now, for the first time, spilling out across page, and on tape: Michael Jackson in his own words. Up until now, these recordings have never been released.

A mother’s prayers answered: A kidnapped child rescued after 18 years. But why wasn’t Jaycee Dugard’s alleged kidnapped stopped sooner? NBC’s Keith Morrison reports. Watch “In Plain Sight,” Dateline’s hour-long investigation, here.

2009-10-10T01:00:00Z

18x04 Through the Pouring Rain

He came out of the woods, in the night, in the rain, into the homes of victims. Over 14 years, more than a dozen women were raped by a stranger who left no clues – except for one.

2009-10-15T01:00:00Z

18x05 The Grifters

18x05 The Grifters

  • 2009-10-15T01:00:00Z43m

The crimes of the murderous con artist Sante Kimes, who was aided by her son Kenneth

Is there a secret hidden on U.S. currency?

2009-10-24T01:00:00Z

18x07 When the Smoke Clears

18x07 When the Smoke Clears

  • 2009-10-24T01:00:00Z43m

Her name was Christie, and she was just 25 when she was murdered. The case soon grew cold. There were few clues at the crime scene, except for a cigarette. Could it have belonged to the killer? Keith Morrison reports.

2009-10-31T01:00:00Z

18x08 Mystery at Lost Dog Road

When a well-liked young man lost his wife and son on a family outing, an entire town mourned. Keith Morrison reports.

Could a man's murder be connected to a rekindled high school flame? Josh Mankiewicz reports.

Can a three-year-old's words be the key to solving her mother's murder? Rob Stafford reports.

2009-11-27T02:00:00Z

18x11 NBC's People of the Year

NBC's People of the Year interviews.

2009-12-05T02:00:00Z

18x12 The Trial of Amanda Knox

It started out as an adventure - a semester abroad in Italy - and ended in horror. Who killed American student Amanda Knox's roommate? After a yearlong trial, the jury weighs in.

.The inside story of how it all began -- what happened before Tiger Woods' accident and before the headlines. Plus, one of Tiger's alleged 'other women' speaks out.

A deadly puzzle in paradize: What happened on that fateful Carribean dive? Dennis Murphy reports.

Events that led to the thwarted Christmas terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound airplane; an undercover police operation in Las Vegas....

A wealthy car dealer and his family live a seemingly idyllic life in upstate New York. Until one night his wife vanishes, never to be found again. Keith Morrison Reports.

2010-01-25T02:00:00Z

18x18 A Matter of Time

18x18 A Matter of Time

  • 2010-01-25T02:00:00Z43m

Though organ transplants save thousands of lives every year, there is a shortage of organs, partly because of fear the procedure could be abused. Dateline NBC's Keith Morrison reports on the first doctor accused of doing just that: trying to save the life of one patient by hastening the death of another.

2010-01-25T02:00:00Z

18x19 Critical Condition

18x19 Critical Condition

  • 2010-01-25T02:00:00Z43m

What will happen to health care reform in America? Dateline takes a look at the health care crisis through the eyes of American families.

2010-01-30T02:00:00Z

18x20 Behind the Badge

18x20 Behind the Badge

  • 2010-01-30T02:00:00Z43m

In the lore of the Lone Star state, Texas lawmen rank pretty high: the good guys in the white hats. Their badge brought prestige - their gunfights, the history books. But in the modern-day town of Denton, Texas -- the "little D" outside "the Big D" of Dallas - there served one Texas lawman with a curious past, all locked up in a box.

Keith Morrison follows the trail of the notorious "Pink Panthers," a gang of jewel thieves who are responsible for a series of high profile robberies around the globe, fooling the world’s most experienced detectives. Dateline reports on the new generation of these violent criminals, who continue to shock the world with their brazen and disturbing heists.

2010-03-22T01:00:00Z

18x22 Death of a Golden Girl

18x22 Death of a Golden Girl

  • 2010-03-22T01:00:00Z43m

Dateline investigates the murder of model and aspiring Playboy Playmate Paula Sladewski who charred body was discovered in a Miami dumpster.

Dateline has traveled the world, retracing Michael Jackson's footsteps to uncover the mysteries of the last years of his life, and uncovering evidence that may hold the key to his death, including a phone message left by Dr. Conrad Murray that final morning of Jackson's life...a message obtained exclusively by Dateline.

2010-03-13T02:00:00Z

18x25 The Doctor's Wife

18x25 The Doctor's Wife

  • 2010-03-13T02:00:00Z43m

A wife married to a doctor for 11 months turns up dead.

2010-04-03T01:00:00Z

18x26 The Family Secret

18x26 The Family Secret

  • 2010-04-03T01:00:00Z43m

Chris Hanson reports on investment scams; For 27 years, Judy Gough’s children kept a dark secret. The terrible truth was only unleashed when one of them could no longer live a lie about the disappearance of their father

What does it take to become a doctor? Take a look at one of the most intense jobs on the planet: A year in the life of a medical resident. Dateline NBC goes behind the scenes and catches all the stresses and successes of the residents of Arkansas Children's Hospital.

2010-03-06T02:00:00Z

18x28 The Desperate Hours

18x28 The Desperate Hours

  • 2010-03-06T02:00:00Z43m

A courageous mother works with a hostage negotiator in hope of freeing her husband from kidnappers in Mexico. Keith Morrison reports.

The disappearance of 21-year-old Bethany Like the rest of the country, Grafton, Wisc. was hit hard by the recession. Despite their own troubles, the people in this small blue collar town north of Milwaukee came together to give hope to an extraordinary family: Karen Longoria and her children, two of whom who have special needs.

2010-03-20T01:00:00Z

18x30 Instant Message Murder

18x30 Instant Message Murder

  • 2010-03-20T01:00:00Z43m

2010-04-05T01:00:00Z

18x31 Rescue on the High Seas

18x31 Rescue on the High Seas

  • 2010-04-05T01:00:00Z43m

A year after being taken captive by Somali pirates, Captain Richard Phillips talks with Matt Lauer about his harrowing experience and brave rescue.

2010-04-27T01:00:00Z

18x32 Too Fat to Kill?

18x32 Too Fat to Kill?

  • 2010-04-27T01:00:00Z43m

A devoted father gunned down in his own home by someone on the stairs. It was a crime that made national news because of its unusual defense. The suspect argued he was simply too obese to carry out the killing. Would that argument sway the jury?

2010-04-27T01:00:00Z

18x33 Bitter Pill

18x33 Bitter Pill

  • 2010-04-27T01:00:00Z43m

When a mother of two died after a fender-bender, her loved ones were left shaking their heads and looking for answers. The more they learned, though, the more it seemed that it wasn't her accident that needed investigating, but her marriage.. Dennis Murphy Reports.

When a young woman named Janelle Patton moved to a tiny tropical island, she didn't have to worry about the crime rate.

2010 - They litter the landscape, the thousands of abandoned homes. And just like these buildings, Detroit is a shell of its former self. One third of the people live in poverty. Almost half the adults are illiterate, and about 75 percent of kids drop out of school. Dateline NBC's Chris Hansen returns to his hometown.

2010-04-26T01:00:00Z

18x36 What Were You Thinking?

18x36 What Were You Thinking?

  • 2010-04-26T01:00:00Z43m

Dateline NBC investigates why people are so easily fooled with the help of several experiments.

2010-04-10T01:00:00Z

18x37 Twisted Faith

18x37 Twisted Faith

  • 2010-04-10T01:00:00Z43m

A charismatic pastor who offered his counseling services to married couples in trouble had lost his wife in a house fire. What many in his church didn’t know was that this pastor was harboring a sinful secret. Watch the full Dateline NBC hour here.

Dateline NBC commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 13 with interviews with the astronauts, NASA controllers, and more. Watch the full hour with NBC's Matt Lauer here.

A popular college freshman is gunned down in her car for no apparent reason. Police had no clues: no fingerprints, no information about trouble in Michelle O'Keefe's life. Then an unexpected source comes into the picture. Keith Morrison reports.

2010-05-08T01:00:00Z

18x40 The Seduction

18x40 The Seduction

  • 2010-05-08T01:00:00Z43m

Something happens when love turns to obsession, and it is rarely good. In tonight's story an obsessed lover was willing to do almost anything to keep the woman he loved, even if it cost a life, even if that life was his. Keith Morrison reports.

Confronting people behind common e-mail scams.

How Far will a young man go to prove his love for an older woman?

2010-05-10T01:00:00Z

18x43 Abducted to Japan

18x43 Abducted to Japan

  • 2010-05-10T01:00:00Z43m

Stories of families torn apart by parental child abductions to Japan

A former prom queen and mother of four starts seeing her husband's best friend.

A harrowing, dramatic story of heroism at sea after a cruise ship starts to take on water and sink with nearly 600 people on board. Almost every moment of the crisis was captured on home video. How did the passengers survive after some crew members abandoned ship?

2010-06-05T01:00:00Z

18x47 Deadly Ambition

18x47 Deadly Ambition

  • 2010-06-05T01:00:00Z43m

2010-06-11T01:00:00Z

18x48 Disaster in the Gulf

18x48 Disaster in the Gulf

  • 2010-06-11T01:00:00Z43m

2010-06-12T01:00:00Z

18x49 Deadly Connection?

18x49 Deadly Connection?

  • 2010-06-12T01:00:00Z43m

In an exclusive interview, the attorney for Natalee Holloway's family speaks to NBC’s Chris Hansen about the alleged plot by Joran van der Sloot to extort money in exchange for information about the location of Holloway's remains.

A spunky 2-year-old named Erica Hughes' incredible story captivated a city. It all started after she was found shot in the head deliberately, left for dead by a killer who disappeared into the night.

Husband keeping secret from wife after years of marriage.

A father is accused of stealing money from his children's trust funds and murdering his ex-wife. Keith Morrison reports.

2010-07-24T01:00:00Z

18x56 Circle of Friends

18x56 Circle of Friends

  • 2010-07-24T01:00:00Z43m

In one instant, a loud and crazy party became a moment that would affect Ryan Thompson and his friends for the rest of their lives. One gunshot was all it took to tear their friendships apart and fill their lives with guilt.

2010-07-10T01:00:00Z

18x57 The Mystery in Rock Hill

2010-07-12T01:00:00Z

18x58 The Spies Next Door

18x58 The Spies Next Door

  • 2010-07-12T01:00:00Z43m

2010-07-17T01:00:00Z

18x60 Did You See That?!

18x60 Did You See That?!

  • 2010-07-17T01:00:00Z43m

Social experiments focusing on visuals and illusions are documented. Chris Hansen reports. C

2010-06-28T01:00:00Z

18x62 A Father's Mission

18x62 A Father's Mission

  • 2010-06-28T01:00:00Z43m

NBC News' Chief Foreign Correspondent and award-winning chronicler of America's War on Terror, Richard Engel reports from Afghanistan and around the country on one of the deadliest battles in the Afghan War – the Battle of Wanat – and the impact it had on a fallen soldier's father in a special edition of "Dateline: A Father's Mission"

2010-07-27T01:00:00Z

18x64 Little Boy Lost

18x64 Little Boy Lost

  • 2010-07-27T01:00:00Z43m

2010-08-02T01:00:00Z

18x65 Deadly Affair

18x65 Deadly Affair

  • 2010-08-02T01:00:00Z43m

Lester Holt reports on youth violence in Chicago and the efforts being made to combat gangs and get guns off the streets.

2010-08-17T01:00:00Z

18x69 A Gathering Storm

18x69 A Gathering Storm

  • 2010-08-17T01:00:00Z43m

She told police the call came late one night -- her husband saying he was terrified of someone or something, and needed... ... Suddenly she was the one who needed help... from a lawyer. Keith Morrison has the story of two lives lost in "A Gathering Storm.

2010-08-21T01:00:00Z

18x70 Deadly Current

18x70 Deadly Current

  • 2010-08-21T01:00:00Z43m

Two friends were an odd couple - one was a man of the cloth, the other never went to church. One died and the other was charged with his murder.

2010-08-22T01:00:00Z

18x71 Dangerous Connection

18x71 Dangerous Connection

  • 2010-08-22T01:00:00Z45m

After a college student commits suicide, friends and family begin to question the identity of a friend she had met in a suicide chat room. Bob McKeown reports.

Five years later, NBC News's Brian Williams looks back on one of the most devastating natural disasters in US history. In 2005, he and the rest of New Orleans listen to the storm's fury from inside the Superdome.

2010-08-31T01:00:00Z

18x73 Family Portrait

18x73 Family Portrait

  • 2010-08-31T01:00:00Z43m

A husband is found dead in a stable in what appears to be a horse accident. But when bullet casings and a bloody pipe are found nearby, blame shifts to his wife, whose daughter and son accuse her of plotting the murder and convincing her son to commit the crime.

For eight years following Cindy's disappearance, her case was treated as a runaway - until an odd-couple investigative team worked on the case.

Clerks steal winning lottery numbers from unsuspecting customers and claim the prizes.

2010-09-11T01:00:00Z

18x76 On the Run

18x76 On the Run

  • 2010-09-11T01:00:00Z43m

Dateline NBC brings you the story of a devoted mother-of-two, an American living overseas, with her foreign-born husband. But soon a vague suspicion would become a dark fear, turning her into an international fugitive. Keith Morrison reports.

Joran van der Sloot’s criminal odyssey came to a halt with his recent arrest and imprisonment in Lima, Peru, where he revealed his own feelings to Dutch crime reporter, John van den Heuvel. Dateline’s Chris Hansen sat down with van den Heuvel.

As the age-old problem of bullying grows more intense, parents and school districts are looking at new ways to fight back. NBC's Kate Snow reports

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