A Date With Dateline

Hi...Hi...Hi... Hey you... Dateline's THE LIFE SHE WANTED should be called The Life WE Wanted because it has given us everything we didn't even have the foresight to put on the bingo cards. It's got Hawaiian Mike, Meek/Dirty Diana, and their love story for the ages. Unfortunately Diana is not Mike's wife... his wife would be Sherri who has gone missing from a Target parking lot. Kimberly and Katie...

Kimberly and Katie have found a new and surprisingly confusing ID Network show to discuss on Double Date! Introducing BLOOD RELATIVES. Every episode title is a word play on murder, the voiceover is done by Brenda Strong, and there's cameos from a mysterious insect or reptile in every scene that the actors don't seem to notice. K & K are discussing the latter along with the sad murder of North Caro...

It's COLLATERAL DAMAGE, which means Dateline is tackling the frightning following on everyone's mind- NXIVM! There's no murder in this Dateline (that we know about), which makes it a bit off brand (!) for them. But it's still got plenty of Datelineisms to enjoy— a scam artist of the highest order, people in denial, and disturbing photos of our perpetrator in an open bathrobe. It's another case of...

It's the final episode of Dateline trilogy THE WIDOWER, aka A Pig in Pigtails, aka When Justice Shows up in Khakis, aka Why Did Love Put a Gun in my Hand and an Earworm in my Brain! Tom Randolph is in jail, and he wants to talk. A lot. About women. About the law. And a little bit about bad courtroom fashion. He's the big snake on campus in jail, and is calling all the shots with his rotating parad...

In Part 2 of THE WIDOWER we join our favorite Las Vegas detective team on a murder road trip across America! It's a Dateline trip down memory lane where Tom Randolph changes wives almost as much as he changes his significant other. But Kimberly and Katie have some very serious questions as we get further into this story. Such as... why does Tom Randolph have scuba gear, naked pictures, and a bulle...

Night 1 of this very special DATELINE 3 Part event left Kimberly and Katie with a lot of questions. And with no Josh or Dennis to lay out the case while interjecting special quips or Andrea or Keith to walk the landscape (or lean on the landscape) of the crime's location it's up to all of us to keep up with the machinations of the subject of this story- a man named Tom. Tom has a lot of wives, a l...

Let's get right to LaPoint, this episode is bananas! It has a mysterious illness, a top secret California bunker filled with assassination antidotes, and a runner named... Race. Welcome to AP Chemistry class, because we're talking about the mysterious properties of Prussian Blue paint as well as the Dateline mystery of the same name! Natalie Morales joins the Dateline team officially and expertly...

Kimberly and Katie can't get enough of ID Network's BETRAYED series. And "Unholy Alliance" is another shady character filled who-done-it that will leave K & K guessing right until the very end (and even after). A church going, pistol toting woman named Dottie, to her friends, goes missing and the list of suspects is a mile long thanks to her daughters questionable relationship history and the vict...

A professional basketball player is found murdered and the city of Memphis and fans all over the country are shocked and in mourning to lose the talented father of six. And no one is better qualified to walk us through the details of tragic case, and introduce us to the February MVP, than Dateline's own mother of six Andrea Canning. And while this episode includes things like team drafting and pro...

A Florida man who is great at turning a phrase named Dennis and an older woman with white hair and friendly demeanor named Lois walk into a bar. One of them is a murderer... And you can bet it isn't Dennis Murphy! In this DATELINE episode, Dennis brings us the case of a sweet woman named Pamela who is found deceased in a time share condo, and how this horrible crime kicks off a crime spree road tr...

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...