Category: Dateline

Earlier this year new evidence was discovered in a cold case that spans over three decades. Tonight’s Dateline episode delves into all the details surrounding this heartbreaking mystery surrounding the murder of a little girl.

In March, 2017 ex-FBI agent Scott Alan Horn (62) was found dead outside his house. He had been shot, and then beaten with firewood. Scott’s estranged wife Anne Reed Allen was charged with his murder, but she was acquitted in 2018. Who killed Scott Horn?

In December 2019 33-year-old Austin, TX resident Heidi Broussard and her new baby Margot Carey were missing. The mother was last scene dropping off her son for school on December 12. A week later her body was found in the trunk of 33-year-old Magen Fieramusca’s car in Houston, TX. Magen had been friends with Heidi since they met each other at bible camp. They attended Texas Bible Institute together 10 years ago and they had supposedly been pregnant at the same time in 2019.

In 1996 Walter Ogrod was convicted of the 1988 murder of 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn. He spent the subsequent 23 years on Pennsylvania’s death row before being released last year after a review of the case found no evidence connecting Walter with the murder.

In 2007 35-year-old Nichole Payne and her son 16-year-old Austin Taylor Wages were found dead in their home in small-town Quitman, Texas,. At first, cops thought it was a murder-suicide, but soon investigators became convinced that it was only staged to look that way.

Curtis Lovelace was an All-American college football player turned prosecutor who ended up as a defendant on trial for murdering his wife.

Shapearl Wells’ son 22-year-old Courtney Copeland died from a gunshot wound on March 4, 2016. After he was shot in the back of the neck, he had supposedly still been alert enough to drive himself around the corner to a police station for help. An ambulance was called, and his heart stopped on the way to the hospital. It’s still a mystery who shot Courtney, or what exactly happened the day he died. His mother Shapearl Wells is not giving up the fight to find out the truth. She has made waves with her award-winning podcast Somebody about the subject, and the heartbreaking case will be examined on Friday night’s Dateline episode The Story of Somebody.

Friday night’s Dateline episode “Breakout” is a prison-break love story that involves rescue dogs. On February 12, 2006, 48-year-old Toby Dorr had the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for her boyfriend: sneaking him out of prison in a dog crate.