Dateline

36-years ago 18-year-old Dianne Babcock died in a plane crash in Montana. Her boyfriend, 19-year-old Jaroslaw “Jerry” Ambrozuk, was flying the plane and survived the accident. He fled the scene, leaving her to drown. 24 years later he remerged in Texas under a different identity. At the time the couple were planning to run away…

Tonight’s Dateline explores the gruesome October 2005 murder of a Georgia teacher and beauty queen that went unsolved for twelve years. The case remained cold until true crime podcast Up and Vanished stirred up interest about Tara Grinstead’s murder last year. Now two arrests have been made in connection with the crime. Her body was…

Tonight’s Dateline episode, “A Deal with the Devil,” is a truly chilling tale. Scott Kimball had been released early from prison in order to be an informant for the FBI. He told the federal agents that his cellmate Steve Ennis was trying to get him to kill a witness in his drug case. But within…

In 2012 father of five Srgt. Vincent Goslin returned safe from a tour in Afghanistan only to be murdered near his home. Tonight’s episode of Dateline, “Evil Was Waiting” investigates the story of who gunned him down on a dark Kentucky road. Vince and his wife were driving on a remote road on February 3,…

32-year-old Robin Spielbauer was a mother of two, a divorcée — and, largely unbeknownst to her, involved in a love triangle that would eventually culminate with her murder along a quiet stretch of road in Amarillo, Texas. The investigation into the “Helium Road murder” — or “The Pink Gun Mystery,” as the Dateline episode devoted…

Dateline‘s latest examines the grisly and puzzling case of Texan Sandra Melgar, whose Christmas killing of her husband Jaime made national headlines in 2012. Though Sandra wasn’t charged with Jaime Melgar’s murder for almost two years, prosecutors eventually built a strong enough case against her that the defense appeared to think Sandra Melgar’s testimony might…

Dateline’s latest episode examines what may be the most hotly contested and controversial question ever to come out of Adams County, Illinois: Did Cory Lovelace die of alcohol abuse on Valentine’s Day, 2006, or did her husband, Curt Lovelace, kill her? The Cory Lovelace Quincy Illinois case has garnered widespread attention since Curt’s first trial,…

Lars Itzo always maintained that the murder of his wife, Debora Kelly, was “the worst mistake” of his life–because he pulled the trigger of the gun that killed her. The Dateline Lars Itzo episode is the first full-length, in-depth study of the couple’s marriage, the circumstances surrounding Debora’s death, and the ensuing trial, which saw…

Dateline‘s latest takes a long look at the unusual and ultimately tragic case of Linda Watson. Originally believed to be a missing person abducted from her home in August of 2000, Linda was actually murdered by her husband, former Tucson firefighter David Watson–but she wasn’t the only member of her family to fall victim to…

Dateline‘s latest examines the controversial verdict in the case of Cara Ryan, a Florida woman and career teacher accused of second-degree murder in the death of her ex-husband John Joseph (“JJ”) Rush. Neither the defense nor the prosecution argued that Ryan was responsible for pulling the trigger of the gun that shot and killed JJ….

Dateline‘s latest episode explores the murder of Jarrae Nikole Estepp, whose body was found on a conveyor belt in an Anaheim recycling center on the morning of March 14, 2014. She’d been stuffed into a dumpster. Jarrae had come to Anaheim from Modesto, a mid-sized city in almost the exact middle of California. Based on…

The most recent Harold Henthorn case update comes courtesy of NBC’s Dateline, which devoted an entire two-hour episode to the bizarre chain of events that led to Henthorn’s conviction on a murder charge. The audacity of Henthorn’s crimes–and the fact that he’s only been charged with one murder, though public opinion has deemed him overwhelmingly…

It’s one of the most puzzling questions in modern American crime: Who killed Tom Kolman? Dateline and 48 Hours have now both tried to crack the case of the mysterious 2011 murder, which, for several years, appeared to have one obvious suspect. However, the 2016 acquittal of Kolman’s best friend, dentist Gilberto Nunez, has instead…

Dateline NBC’s foray into North Florida details one of the most surprising murder cases in the state’s history. Kim and Derrick Dorsey were a seemingly happily married couple in Jacksonville when a former house guest’s entreaties became too much for Kim to bear. The struggle that ensued, however, led to Kim’s brutal murder at the…

The Dana Rosendale Ohio cold case, and its reopening, three decades later, as a murder investigation, is one of the most famous in the state’s history. Now, NBC’s Dateline offers its own investigation into the fascinating case, including the reconsideration of details that didn’t add up after Rosendale’s death in 1982. The 30+ year-old crime…