Category: 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 from Canada to start a new life in the United States, but it was only Ambrozuk who was able to successfully carry out that plan. He’s now speaking to the media for the first time tonight on NBC’s Dateline.

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.

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.

Tonight’s episode of Dateline on NBC delves into the case of Brittani Marcell, who was brutally attacked with a shovel in her home in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2008. He left a single drop of blood, but invegistaors were unable to find a DNA match in their database. Five years later, Marcell underwent hypnosis and remembered enough pertinent details about her attacker to solve the case.

The Danielle Locklear murder was widely believed to be a "crime of passion" when her killers were found guilty at trial. But the heat-of-the-moment strangling that left a fifteen-year-old girl dead also left her family searching for answers in spite of their legal victory.

Olympic gold-medal gymnast McKayla Maroney sat down for a heartbreaking interview with Savannah Guthrie that will air Sunday night on Dateline. In the interview, Maroney reveals that she was molested by US Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar “hundreds of times.” Although Maroney won a gold medal, the trauma she went through makes her question whether her Olympic career was “worth it.”