A Date With Dateline

It's the Part 1 of the podcast about the 5th Dateline episode on the case featuring 4 murders, 2 Melanies, 2 demonic entities, 2 intrepid local reporters, 1 suspicious death, 1 attempted murder, 1 Mr. Keith Morrison, and 1 Hawaii skirt that is forever burned into Kimberly's brain. That's right. It's the Lori Vallow/Chad Daybell crime spree! We knew Season 30 of Dateline has already brought a slew...

Dateline's Season 30 is not letting up with hard to believe case after case and Dennis Murphy is finally back on our screens with a Florida story both wild and tragic. The super smart classy version of a Florida Man Dennis is taking us through the terrifying story of an ax murderer on the loose in the woods, family *secrets*, and nose twitch-inducing suspects. Kimberly and Katie talk pie, cranes,...

During the 1-900 number craze of the Nineties, one company provided the vast majority of phone sex. American Telnet was an empire founded by the man who called himself "The Telephone Pimp." He ran the company "like General Motors" and got filthy rich doing it. But for the (mostly) women who answered the calls and delivered fantasies 24-7, it was a different story. The powerful stigma against sex w...

It's time for another installment of the true crime television juggernaut that it ID Network's BLOOD RELATIVES. In this Season 5 premiere the creators are shaking the tree and throwing multiple creatures of the week, multiple thematic colors and a twist shock at the end! Kimberly and Katie have a lot to dissect and discuss when a family with some seriously dark issues winds up with a brutal murder...

Get ready for a family with very high numbers- both in alleged crimes and dollars in the bank! It's the first of what we hope will be many Dateline episodes on the saga of the Murdaugh family! A double murder in a prominent  South Carolina law family reveals *secrets* from the past, including mysterious accidents, more deaths, and even attempted murder for hire gone wrong! It's Faulkner, Shakespea...

It's one of the most haunting murder cases you'll ever hear about, and it takes place in a small town in Israel. Tair Rada was only 13-years-old when her body was found inside a locked bathroom stall. She was viciously murdered during a school day, and yet no one saw or heard a thing. The police arrested the janitor, Roman Zadorov, and he eventually confessed, but this was far from being the end o...

Season 30 of Dateline continues to keep us at the edge of our couches and Andrea Canning is back to report on a tragic murder that never ever should have happened. When a beautiful singer is murdered in her duplex, who did it? Was it her boyfriend? Her ex that she fought with at the strawberry festival? Her former boss whose wife totally knew about their trip to Nashville? A family feud is about t...

In keeping with the tradition of Dateline's Season 30 being EXTREME, Keith is leaning into cult life! The Love Has Won "religion" is ready and willing to one-up Lori and Chad Daybell in terms of reincarnations, YouTube followers, and number of angry Hawaiians. Kimberly and Katie are learning even more about the ins and outs of cult life. It's pretty straightfoward: Hire a metal-drinking arc angel...

It's time for another hair-raising episode of Blood Relatives from the ID Network! Hair-raising because the creature of the week is a tarantula, and because there's a barber. It's a double play on words for a Double Date review of SPLITTING HEIRS! In Laceyville, Pennsylvania it's the smaller the town, the bigger the secrets. Secrets such as why is this sidewalk bleeding, why is the little girl sit...

It's time for another truly wild episode of Dateline's season 30, featuring a Mormon woman named Lori from Idaho that isn't Lori Vallow! When a husband falls overboard in the middle of a very cold and very deep lake, his wife turns out not to be just an innocent widow because this is Dateline and Keith Morrison is leaning towards the foulest of foul play. Add some affairs, shady shell corporations...

A small town cop known as "GI Joe" is gunned down in a swamp in the summer of 2015 and quickly becomes a martyr in the national media. But when a dogged investigator and his team set out to get justice, they uncover unsettling secrets about Joe, the local police department, and the village of Fox Lake. From Wondery, the makers of The Shrink Next Door and Dr. Death comes the third season of Over My...

A Double Date with Dateline is back with another exciting and insect-ing episode of Blood Relatives! This time we're in Tampa,FL a place Kimberly & Katie have clearly never had the pleasure to visit and have many questions about the characteristics it apparently holds true. When a handsome lottery winner is murdered, it's either for his money or his Italian beef flavored popcorn, and it's up to a...

In the second week of season 30, Dateline has given us another episode that manages to pull all the heartstrings and the hair out of your head with a jaw-dropping case . This just might be the wildest season yet! Under THE BRIDGE (downtown), is where Queen Andrea takes us through a twisted online maze of multiple fake personas, an interv through a twisted online maze of multiple fake personas, an...

It's the big 3-0 for Dateline and in this 30th season premiere they are staying on theme with a triple homicide. Keith Morrison is staying forever young, leaning into the future in small town Kentucky where strange circumstances surround the brutal murders of a husband, wife and their unsuspecting neighbor. This episode is fright filled drama from the start: evidence appearing out of no where, boa...

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The Blood Relatives series from ID Network gets all dolled up in this latest installment of Double Date: The Blood Relative Files. In this episode an exotic dancer named Buzz meets an early demise after getting involved with a fiery redhead from hotheaded family. But why is this family buggin'? Well turns out, sometimes bad intentions can be Hereditary. Kimberly and Katie have been desperately try...

Dennis Murphy and the Dateline team are spending some quality time in sunny Florida to figure out what exactly happened to stunning newlywed Wendy who is found murdered only 4 days after her wedding. No stranger to the garden variety murderous husband, Dennis is busy pointing out all the red flags of the case's main suspect, like the bright red desperation Dukati, the extremely vague job history,...

A Double Date with Dateline is back with another epically strange and confusing Blood Relatives from the ID Network where Kimberly and Katie try to dissect and analyze various colors and symbols to reveal the meaning of life. Not really, but they will certainly try. In SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE the murder of a Florida man (no not THAT Florida man) leads investigators to look closely at various blac...

A Date with Dateline is in Vegas for the second week in a row, proving what happens in Vegas stays for at least two weeks. This time it's the ever dapper Josh Mankiewicz playing all his chips on the strip to try and figure out what happened to the lovely Theresa who was cruelly murdered long before her hand was played. And Josh is bringing more than his fantastic interview skills to the table... h...

This VERY SPECIAL CANNOT MISS Dateline episode has it all: the Vegas strip in all its glory, a ghost's shoe prints, a missing samurai sword, Dunkin' Donuts, a wiretapped phone call, giant red flags, blind dates off of Craigslist, buffets, a scarlet woman, a Nike swoosh, a Kimberly who is not our Kimberly, and SO MUCH MORE! Oh there's more you say? It's got romance, a proposal, affairs, a double mu...

It's ID Network's BLOOD RELATIVES which means we've got a creature of the week, symbolism upon symbolism and a murder that is often not actually committed by a blood relative. But in this case we have the tragic overkill of a young mother at the hand of a family who has more drama than a lifetime movie. And we've got that famous forbidden fruit from The Bible-the peach! But as we follow the detect...

We're not going to be IGNORED, listeners! In case you don't understand that reference (like Katie) this classic Dateline episode is all about FATAL ATTRACTION. No, not the movie with Glenn Close, it's the other female powerhouse Andrea Canning who walks us through a strange case of love gone waaaaaaay to far in Texas. When a well respected doctor is poisoned with antifreeze, his relationships both...

A big Halloween party at an apartment complex in Redmond, Washington. Themed rooms and costumed partygoers. But by the end of the party, one of the hosts is dead. The police look to the partiers as the prime suspects: was it the guy in the devil mask, the bank robber, the construction worker? As investigators comb through forensic evidence, witness testimony, DNA, and even consult with a psychic,...

What dangers lurk in the dark while we sleep? Freddy Krueger? Sandra Bullock? Dry throat that might be helped by a humidifier in your bedroom? Since this is Dateline, it's probably none of those. But there nevertheless is danger WHILE HE WAS SLEEPING, and it's up to Sir Josh Mankiewicz (and a very dedicated detective) to figure out what and who that danger was. Eric was a charming Jaguar salesman...

In this Dateline classic episode it's big hats, big guns and an extra big investigation which can only mean one thing. Texas, y'all! Andrea Canning reports on the murders of two county officials and a sweet matchmaking mother who are all killed in cold blood for a seemingly related issue. Kimberly and Katie are ready to dive into the mind of a mensa (professed) murderer and wonder also if they sho...