A Date With Dateline

Well dear friends and listeners, it's taken some time, but the time has come where we finally solve the Kathleen and Michael Peterson case! Was it an owl? Michael? An accident? Wait, what? It's ANOTHER staircase murder? Uh oh. In Dateline's DOWN THE BASEMENT STAIRS, Annamarie is found at the bottom of her basement stairs and her wife Kara is the only suspect in her tragic death. The case itself is...

In this very special Double Date episode Kimberly and Katie are with two of their favorite podcast friends from MOMS AND MYSTERIES- Mandy and Melissa! And of course the topic du jour has to be the frightening criminal phenomenon sweeping the nation known as phrogging! More specifically the series PHROGGING: HIDER IN MY HOUSE Episode 8 which has two tales of unwanted house visitors, each with their...

It's time for THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL from Dateline, and we're not talking about Lester Holt giving up his vests for a familiar pocket square! In this episode we're talking about a murderous plot that takes the life of a beloved mother who had just started to achieve her hard-earned and well-deserved American dream. Warning: This episode contains an unusual number of criminal teens with rhyming name...

Dennis Murphy is in Mark Twain country, which on a Dateline usually means something terrible has happened in a picturesque and seemingly safe town. In GHOST RIDER a wife, mother, nurse and just all around wonderful person, Becky Bliefnick, is found murdered in her bathroom shortly after Valentine's day. In this Cheat Date with Dateline Katie is joined by Jake to discuss bow ties, bogus judicial ru...

Let's get physical...evidence! Mr. Dennis Gumshoe Murphy is taking us to Seattle where we're going to GTL, but since this is DATELINE, Gym Tan Laundry now means Gym's Terrible Liar. When a lovely young wife goes missing, was it the husband? Or was the husband just making really truly horrible decisions with regards to women but not a murderer? Is your favorite gym chain our new Brands Unhappy Bein...

Think you've heard everything about Alec/Alex/Elic Murdaugh/Murdow/Murdick/ Murdock, but you haven't! Dateline has gotten the inside scoop from the investigators at SLED, the family's housekeeper, and so much more! Guiding us through the low country swampy maze of yarn dolls, Poots, and Becky with the Bad Instincts is K&K's new favorite Dateline associate Craig Melvin! So hop on into the front sea...

Dateline's favorite Florida Man (the non bath salts gator kidnapping kind of Florida Man) Dennis Murphy is in his home turf reporting on the tragic case of a father and frisbee lover who is murdered in cold blood near the everglades. Kimberly and Katie are ready to wade deep into the wild Florida swamp where somehow a supermarket chain magnate, a drug cartel with an affinity for horrific neckwear...

Kimberly and Katie have stepped out on a Double Date from Dateline with the hilarious Ellyn and Joey from the I THINK NOT Podcast! Topic of the night... what else? Phrogging. Specifically the Phrogging: Hider in my House episode CREEPY CRAWLERS (S.1 Ep.5). It's a tale of two Tims: one Portland beer connoisseur, one Oklahoma oil baron and the men who phrogg them. There is also an epic closet tour,...

Dateline's THE CASE OF THE MAN WITH NO NAME has everything: a cowboy detective, a prairie poltergeist, and a literal garbage person. But that's not all! There is also a mysterious litterbug, a made-up glass company, and a runaway rickshaw... Ok maybe not that last thing, but it's truly a case with so many oooooodd details there is only one man who can tell us the story! That's right. Canadian nati...

It's time for Dateline's one and only Andrea Canning to take you on a wild ride in Olney, Texas, where not Olney the crime is bigger. The hats are bigger too. So are the convenience stores, and we're Allsups and ready for them. When a beloved teacher is attacked and taken from her home in the middle of the night, how did the other three people in the house not hear a thing? Where is she? Who took...

Tristan Redman is a journalist who doesn't believe in ghosts. But weird things happened in his teenage bedroom – weirder than normal. When, years later, he discovers subsequent occupants of his family home say they have been visited by the ghost of a faceless woman, he's curious. It just so happens that the house Tristan grew up in is right next door to the house where his wife's great grandmother...

In its time honored tradition of giving us episodes with "secrets" in the title, Dateline has provided us with a Thursday night doozy of a case, SECRETS IN PLEASANT PRAIRIE! Andrea Canning walks us through the untimely murder of a mom and wife in Wisconsin, who's husband found himself in a real jam. This episode really has it all, 90s hair fashion that made Kimberly & Katie very delighted, inappro...

Dateline's favorite Florida Man Dennis Murphy heads deep into the Ohio woods for his season 32 premiere, THE CLEARING, and he's emerging covered in leaves… and mysteries! Is the smirking lumberjackian husband a murderer, or does he just give a really bad interview? Join Kimberly and Katie as they get mired in the thick underbrush of conflicting evidence. It's an early season episode with extensive...

Season 32 of Dateline is upon us and Josh Mankiewicz is starting out the season strong, reporting from Texas in all his pocket squared glory in LOSING FAITH. The case revolves around a Hawaiian shirt sporting husband, a purple heart receiving veteran and the speech therapist they both love. Kimberly and Katie, fresh from CrimeCon, have to dissect some suspiciously organized sensual emails, a suspi...

It's a Dateline episode with so many twists (of the deadly kind) and turns that we need two episodes to cover it completely! Kimberly and Katie will be leaning on Keith Morrison as a guide to the windy Georgia mountain roads where we are headed in the second half of this DEADLY TWIST coverage. The banjos are plucking and a fire is ablaze on a hillside to cover the second murder in this story! But,...

It's the Dateline episode that has been highly requested and hard to forget... it's DEADLY TWIST! A story so complex it cannot be contained in one part! To quote this episode- "this whole story is a mixture of murder and blood and failings and grace and heaven and God." Especially murder. This is Dateline after all. Two murders to be exact. Part one of ADWD coverage will be the first heinous crime...

Last week was Secrets in the Snow, this week is SECRETS IN THE MIST! Next up, Secrets in the Hail! This is one of Kimberly's classic most-watched episodes, but she wasn't expecting two huge twists! One is a crazy update at the end that she had never seen, and the second is that Katie recognized John Lewin! This episode also features Keith Morrison's very own cold case squad, including The Evidence...

We've had secrets in the suburbs, in Silver Lakes, and in the desert. But we've never had SECRETS IN THE SNOW. When a dancer (pronounced fancy like you're French) goes missing in the freezing cold, her husband smirks his way into the suspect #1 position. Was her marriage a pas de deux with danger? Not so quick (step)! What about the flamenco dancer that had recently waltzed into her heart? And wha...

In Dateline's classic SMOKE AND MIRRORS, when a beloved young woman disappears, her loving family isn't going to rest until she's found. Their family is so big they've got full siblings, half siblings, 3/4 siblings once removed, an Ashley and an Ashlee! The one thing they don't have is a Lean King, so thank goodness Keith Morrison is there to walk us through this case featuring several vacant park...

When Mike Williams vanishes on a hunting trip, the authorities suspect he was eaten by alligators but the true predators who took Mike may lurk much closer to home. The mystery of Mike's disappearance might have faded from memory, if it wasn't for one woman's tireless crusade. From Wondery, comes a new season of Over My Dead Body; a story about an obsessive love affair, a scandalous secret and a m...

In the Dateline classic MYSTERY ON HORSESHOE DRIVE, mystery host Rob Stafford is emerging out of the Illinois corn fields to bring us the wild story of a custody battle gone not just wrong, but Dateline Wrong. Is this story of a doting dad killed by his grandma-in-law the next case for Elder Skelter? Or is there someone else behind this case of supposed self defense? Grab your random friend from t...

It's time for more PHROGGING: HIDER IN MY HOUSE! But don't be aphraid, because Kimberly and Katie are walking you through all the jump scares from the saphety of their lilypads. In Episode 1, Part B of this Lifetime series, three college roommates are the victims of either a phriendly ghost trying to find a new girl squad, OR a phashion phorward phrog who, just like all of us, only wants to feel p...

Get ready to wade into some murky Dateline waters where the truth behind accident or murder is hidden in THE SECRET OF COTTONWOOD CREEK. Yet another husband thinks a cliff is a preferable way to end his marriage instead of a more traditional divorce. Or did he? Andrea Canning has her waders on and is guiding us through some not-so-technical dummy reenactments and braves the steep cliffside to inte...

It's time to get PHROGGING! With very few new Dateline episodes this summer, we're diving into the walls, attics, and crawl spaces of your homes to discover who's hiding in there! This is a phenomenon known as phrogging. A horrifying crime first explained to us by the man who knows everything weird about true crime, Sir Josh Mankiewicz! So we are hopping into Lifetime's new series Phrogging: Hider...

Cue the flying cows because it's time for TWISTED, a classic Dateline from Season 22 (watch on Peacock!)! This story has a whole bunch of outlandish plots, like a revengeful dentist, two creepy ex-husbands, and mentee with an angry pink spiral notebook. All that, plus… Montel Williams? Dennis Murphy, our favorite gumshoe is explaining all the twists and turns with his own brand of special phrasing...