A Date With Dateline

This week our Lean King Keith Morrison is taking us on a wild train ride right through the tunnel of literal holy hell! Get ready to clutch your pearls and your pentagrams, because it's the NIGHT OF SUMMER SOLSTICE. When a young college student is murdered, he's got a lot of qualified people fighting for justice— a curmudgeony passport office agent, a Wiccan group called The Mystic Circle, and aut...

Are you ready for extramarital affairs? Not for you personally, but are you ready for Dateline to give you extramarital affairs...like, in the double digits. In this episode Josh Mankiewicz leads us through a case with a big question mark attached to it. Was The Officer's Wife a conflicted woman who committed suicide, or did her cop husband murder her to hide his many, many secrets? Kimberly and K...

If you could call a number and say you're sorry, and no one would know…what would you apologize for? For fifteen years, you could call a number in Manhattan and do just that. This is the story of the line, and the man at the other end who became consumed by his own creation. He was known as "Mr. Apology." As thousands of callers flooded the line, confessing to everything from shoplifting to infide...

We're on a boat! We're on a boat! Take a good hard look because Manky's on a boat! When a woman named Mickie (no, not that Mickie) disappears from an international cruise ship, there's only one man for the job! Josh Mankiewicz! (AND two PI's, several giant mastiffs, and an FB-Eye Candy.) This episode is an instant classic that has it all— a secret spouse, an undercover hitman, and Sir Manky with t...

Is your new year resolution to get in better shape already off to a rocky start? Just having a hard time feeling motivated to live a healthier lifestyle? Well according to ID Network's series KILLER BODS its completely ok if you are really struggling with hitting play on that Shredding for Beginners DVD- you might be saving your own life! This episode "Fit for Murder" involves a muscle bound, char...

It's 10 Minutes to Sunset... A time and a Dateline title which makes appears to make perfect sense and yet seemingly baffles Kimberly and Katie so soon into the new year. What they aren't baffled by is the fact that three different people in three different interrogation rooms telling three very different stories makes for a magical Dateline viewing experience. (It also helps that that Mr. Magical...

It's a new year! 2021 is upon us and we are leaving the holidays and horrors of the previous year behind in a tight little box of emotions never to be opened. Speaking of tight little boxes... A COFFIN FOR CHRISTMAS is the famous Barbara Mackle case covered by ID Network's A Crime to Remember series and now will be retold (less eloquently) by K&K. Kimberly tries to overcome her intense fear of tig...

In honor of last week's 200 ish episode we have dug deep into the ADWD archives to uncover the elusive lost recap to Dateline's explosive episode -Under the Prairie Sky. This was the second episode every released by K&K and it mysteriously disappeared sometime in 2018. Time does strange things to us, as we have learned in 2020, and hopefully this episode will not have aged as badly as Kimberly and...

It's A Date With Dateline's 200th episode! We think! Maybe? It's possible! We lost track of a few. But we think this is it. So thank you to all of you for making this possible, every one of you that's listened, downloaded, left us a review on Apple Podcasts, and told a friend. And especially to our Patreons, whose generosity makes this podcast free for everyone and are the reason we've been going...

In this weeks Dateline episode, Keith Morrison is taking us on a relaxing vacation to a gorgeous resort on Minnesota's beautiful and serene… Spider Lake? Kimberly and Katie attempt to focus not on the arachnids but on the actual anatomy of a very mysterious murder. A couple's failed purchase bid for the Spider Lake Resort is followed shortly by the wife's murder and it looks like the lake might be...

Nineteen eighty was going to be Dorothy Stratten's year. Playboy's Hugh Hefner thought it might even be her decade. She was just 20 years old, the girl next door with the shy smile and whispery voice who didn't know her own beauty. But who was Dorothy really? And how did her rise to fame ultimately lead to her death? This is a six-part series about love, sex and murder in 1970s Hollywood when glit...

The ID Network never lets us down with episodes from the BETRAYED series- where the murder victims tell their own story! This week it's "Hells Bells", but the only ringing happening is the wringing of hands that some of the characters in this story may cause. Dear Rhonda Smith didn't stand a chance surrounded by a bunch of people who seem to be likely suspects in her murder. There is a gaggle of c...

Once Kimberly and Katie get over their disappointment that they were not watching the best undercover FBI agent/surfing/bank robbing/Gary Busy vehicle movie ever, they realized that this is an epic Dateline! It's called Point Bre— sorry, Blank, and it's a real who done it! There are twists and turns and basically Queen Andrea Canning's tough questioning solves the case! This episode has it all, th...

Kimberly and Katie are so thankful this week that they get to talk about one their favorite ID shows ever, Elder Skelter! Up for discussion is Episode 1, UNLUCKY STIFFS. This means that Joyce, Rita, and Lynn, our glamorous septuagenarians are back!. Is there a possible friendship rift in this threesome? A Mean Girls hierarchy? This of course must be analyzed by K & K before they even get to the ac...

On this fine Manksgiving eve we bring you a Dateline of cold blooded murder filled with mysterious missing documents, secret sensual encounters, questionable motives and... Dennis Murphy? Sure, it may be Manksgiving, but Dennis is more than enough Murphy to report this tragic story of the beloved school superintendent shot At Close Range. Kimberly and Katie have a a lot to discuss as the events le...

Hey there cool cats and kittens! Guess who's back? The Tiger King and his much reviled queen, Carole Baskin! But if you're sick and tired of this tale of greed, rancid meat pizza, and fashions more upsetting than animal exploitation, don't worry. Dateline's got you. This episode is 100% about The Mank. Sir Manky with the Hanky is bringing his A+ snark and smirks while interviewing fellow royalty J...

Kimberly and Katie are bringing back one of their favorite ID Network shows, Betrayed! This one is BLOOD IN THE WATER, a title that takes Kimberly and Katie far too long to get. This is the series where the dead quite literally speak to the audience, and it's amazing. This time that disembodied voice and is a wife, mother, and co-owner of a water company (oh, that's where the title comes from!), w...

Something's whispering, and for once it's not K & K whispering the word "secrets" in an incredibly creepy and frankly off-putting way. It's HOPE WHISPERS, a wild Dateline where a daughter's mom goes missing and her dad is being… um… unhelpful His behavior has K & K speechless, incredulous, and infuriated, but luckily they have the most delightful K (Keith Morrison) to walk them through it. They're...

Wondery (Dr. Death, Dirty John, The Shrink Next Door) and NBC News (Dateline, The Thing About Pam, Motive for Murder) present Do No Harm. The Bright family was thrust into a medical and legal system so committed to protecting vulnerable children from abuse, it failed to protect innocent parents. From the hospital room to the courtroom, we walk in the footsteps of the Bright family as they battle t...

When a wealthy woman falls in the shower, her well respected rich doctor husband falls under the microscope. Actually he doesn't, because he's a well respected rich doctor. But when a determined ally seeks answers from a psychic, nay, a medium, it's on. Queen Andrea takes us through this maze of dueling coroners (great band name), a mysterious friend with no benefits, and a juror whose cell phone...

Dateline, with the help of the great Andrea Canning, is taking us to church this week! Actually they do every week, because Dateline is kind of a religion, but this week's case revolves around an actual church and a few of the folks who worship there in sweet home Alabama! Kimberly and Katie are discussing salted and seasoned secrets in a religious community, the detailed schematics of making love...

It's time for round 2 of ID Network's Secret Lives of Stepford Wives! This time Kimberly and Katie are diving into the episode "Broken Heartland" where Susan is a very busy lady. She manages to keep her mansion something called New York white, maintain multiple affairs and kill her husband in a staged robbery! K & K focus on the details of the case, but get very distracted by the memory of a famou...

Sir Josh Mankiewicz with the ever changing pocket Hankiewicz returns with a case that spans 40 and is finally solved due to the dedication of a determined cold case detective and the devotion of one really super great Kimberly. No, not ADWD's Kimberly, she did not aid in solving this case. But she did give a lot of unsolicited opinions, with the help of her sidekick Katie, about acapella groups wi...

Get ready for LONE STAR OBSESSION, an update to the first episode of the same story called OBSESSION IN THE LONE STAR STATE. It's close... but different. When a dancing doctor in Texas is murdered, there are several suspects, and they are all ex-lovers of the doctor and his girlfriend. Yes, we said 'lovers." Andrea Canning is giving us a lot to discuss including a mysterious letter from a woman na...

Get ready for a very special A Double Date with Dateline, featuring a sweat dripping, poor person scamming, Peloton obsessed race car driver named Scott Tucker! In episode PAYDAY from the series "Dirty Money" on Netflix, Scott is about to surrender his beloved possessions and be sent to jail, for tricking over a million people out of their hard earned money with an online payday loan business that...