A Date With Dateline

Our Lean(ing) King is heading to Sin City! Vegas is filled with drugs. Sex. Cirque du Soleil. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Except when it's murder. Murder stays there. When a military man is killed in his own home, Keith and some very dramatically filmed detectives are on the case. And they're not just solving a murder, but other mysteries like which aisle is the pickup aisle in Walmart,...

When a successful and beloved celebrity hairdresser is brutally murdered in his own backyard, it's a case so twisted it could use detangler. And there's only one man that's stylish enough to walk us through it. A man whose hankies are known worldwide. A man who would never, ever wear a peeling plastic leather jacket to a memorial. The Man. The Myth. The Snark (Pretend "Snark" starts with an M). Th...

The Fourth of July is for apple pie, parades, and drunken fools losing finger tips from fireworks.  Unless this is Dateline, in which case it's for murder, casino surveillance footage, bag of wieners boyfriends, AutoZone gas cans, astronaut diapers, graphic text messages about your dad and his new girlfriend's sex life, secret wiretaps, and SO. MUCH. MORE. Dateline's latest episode, DEADLY OBSESSI...

Little Miss Innocent: Passion. Poison.  Prison. Kimberly. Katie. Uneducated. Opinions. Judgmental. Chiropractor. Messy. Car. Messy. Case. Anonymous. Letter. Colchicine. Email. Framing. Affair. Screenshots. Receipts. Timeline. Sister. Opinions. Supplements. One. Question. Who killed Mary Yoder?! Official Description from Hulu: Kaitlyn Conley, a 31-year-old former receptionist, claims she has been w...

It's the case we last covered in 2017, this time with better microphones but no more knowledge, insight, or decisions about this truly baffling case. When a seemingly beloved chiropractor is poisoned with an extreme dose of gout medicine, the suspects, their opportunities, and their various motives don't line up unless they're all in it together or they're all trying to frame each other. Unless it...

If Dateline has taught us one thing, it's that love triangles are the most dangerous kind of triangles. But what about love quads and love pentagrams? What happens when one woman weaves a web of love and lust, entangling others, culminating in the tragic murder of a beloved art teacher? Well, it's gonna get messy. Will appearing on Dateline be a successful stop on her redemption tour? Will A Date...

It's the interview that the whole world was waiting for, the interview that the whole world was watching with mouths agape until they threw their tv or phone against the wall in frustration. The interview where we learned that Keith Morrison has the patience of a spiritual being that's lived 47 lives in 132 dimensions. Yes we're telling you, Keith, it's finally time for Keith to sit down, Keith, a...

Imagine the scariest most decrepit farmhouse in the world. No, scarier. Now add demon snakes, haunted Victorian dolls with missing eyes singing off key lullabies to you, and the witch from Hansel and Gretel but her face is on fire and she wants to sign you up for her MLM. There you go. When a lively young Texan woman loses her life at this farmhouse in a truly horrific manner, several lawmen with...

Dateline and Andrea Canning are taking us over a rickety old bridge and through the woods where two lively teenagers had their lives cut short in a horrific way. Does this sound like the type of episode K and K would normally cover? No, it's not. But neither of us followed the recent trial closely and wanted to get Dateline's official take. Andrea is the perfect tactful host to detail out the vari...

Let me ask you something… How're you fixed for Dateline episodes with a special guest host? Well, have we got a deal for you today! Jake is back to chat about THE RISE AND FALL OF OSCAR PISTORIUS Season 28 Episode 45 . It's a case that received worldwide attention when "Bladerunner", South Africa's running superstar, fell rapidly to earth after the 2012 Olympics with the highly suspicious death of...

It's a story you might've heard before, but not from Dateline and the beloved pocket square squire Josh Mankiewicz! In the tech world of Silicon Valley, bitcoin rules and computer viruses drool. When a beloved tech innovator is murdered, everyone thinks it's a random robbery. But the truth involves a DJ informant, a tilting tower, plus some very wealthy adults and their Yorkies and whippets. Plus,...

It's the mother son crime duo whose killing spree spanned from coast to coast and grabbed the world's attention… except Kimberly and Katie, apparently. We somehow missed this WILD story but we were so excited to get to hear it for the first time from the master storytellers at Dateline and the dulcet tones of Mr. Keith Morrison. It's the story of one manipulating Elizabeth Taylor wannabe mom, two...

Kimberly and Katie have dug into the archives to revisit the classic-est of all the classic Dateline episodes we've ever covered. This episode truly has everything: Pizza bomb. Casual lollipoping. Escape room fail. JJ the Scapegoat. Terrified coroner. A documentarian's white whale. A pretentious man in bib overalls. 400 pounds of government cheese in an attic in July. The worst courtroom sketch ev...

Dateline's Leaning Daddy Keith Morrison returns with a case in Georgia that plays out like a southern Agatha Christie novel! When a man known as Big Daddy is found tragically dead in a burn pit, there are five suspects, and they are all his immediately family (plus one lover who is family adjacent). It's sister versus brother, husband versus wife, father versus son, father versus son-in-law, mothe...

We're dipping back into the vault for a classic Dateline that proves for the thousandth time that you should never accept a beverage from your spouse. Never. Just get your own beverage. You'll get in a few more steps walking to the fridge and you won't get poisoned. In MANNER OF DEATH, a young dad mysteriously dies, a family is divided, a brother becomes an amateur detective, and an ill-timed kara...

It's 2025! And what better way to start the new year than with a very special Dateline Dennisode! And Dennis Murphy is in highest gumshoe detective form in this episode from Season 28 THE PLAN. He is talking us through the absolute worst criminal plan of all time that leads to a completely infuriating and senseless double murder and ultimately to some stone cold justice being served. And it's the...

It's the man, the myth, the MANK! Josh Mankiewicz swings by the streamyard studio to chat about his latest incredible podcast with Dateline- DEADLY MIRAGE. And the story is a little familiar.. .involving a particular wolfpack in place called the Silver Lakes. Whether you know or you don't know about this case, boy are you in for a howling treat, because it has everything: a fake old man with a fak...

It's the update you've been waiting for. The update you've been asking for. The update you've been holding your breath for! It's THE MAN OF MANY FACES! The incomparable Andrea Canning is taking us on a journey around the world to find out if that man in the oxygen mask and old timey spectacles with the unique BritGermScot accent is actually an American born scam artist! This episode really does ha...

In this throwback Dateline episode from 2015 Andrea Canning heads to a mysterious place called the Quad Cities where a missing persons report has turned into a tragic murder and nothing is as it seems. Including the fact that the Quad Cities appear to be not 4 but 5 cities. Jake joins Katie for this very special recap of WITHOUT A TRACE. A karaoke king, a military vet, a very good doggie and a chi...

In DEADLY DANCE, Andrea Canning is en pointe, as always, as she reports on the possible poisoning, self defense shooting, Ben Carson fundraiser of a complicated case known as The Black Swan Murder Trial. Yes. That case that keeps popping up in any true crime watcher's social media feed. Kimberly and Katie are going in blind so they are shocked right from the jeté in this divisive case, but they'll...

On June 10th, 1983, the decomposing body of a well-dressed man was found in a desolate canyon near Los Angeles. John Doe #94would soon be identified as missing variety show producer Roy Radin. He'd last been seen after meeting with a mysterious woman in a gold dress. Her name was Lanie Jacobs. Jacobs and Radin were obsessed with becoming Hollywood movie producers. And when their paths collided, it...

Come on, ride the train right back to 1996, where the technology was primitive and the cars were ooooddd looking, but the music was poppin' and the fashion was… something special. When a successful Atlanta entrepreneur is found murdered in his home, detectives soon uncover a whole world of secrets. Financial secrets, hip hop club DJ secrets, and women secrets. Oh my, the women secrets!. This musta...

In this episode, Dateline has commissioned the incomparable Andrea Canning for a long and twisted story with a DEADLY OMISSION! It's a case involving a man who played too good a game of Peek A Boo and somehow lost two wives, through no fault of his own, of course. Despite the tragic untimely deaths of multiple (?!) victims, this episode had everything that Kimberly and Katie like to see in a Datel...

We were hoping for a fun light episode this week, maybe a good heist story or a con man gets his comeuppance after a long FBI cat and mouse. And Dateline has answered our prayers with THE MENENDEZ BROTHERS: A CHANCE AT FREEDOM! Here is the thing, there is nothing light and fun about this case, so please listen with caution! But never fear, despite this case being 35 years old, Kimberly & Katie are...

Need a distraction from, oh you know, nothing whatsoever, nothing's happening right now! Join KImberly and Katie for a post Halloween tale told the only way Dateline can. When a woman disappears AFTER THE HALLOWEEN PARTY, her small town is filled with secrets, swingers, saunas (okay, hot tubs, but we're going for alliteration here). Who's a member of the Pink Poodle Club, and will they lure in Kei...