The BEST episodes of Dateline NBC

#1 - Inside the Financial Fiasco: The Mortgage Crisis

Season 17 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/22/2009

How risky home loans helped cause a chain reaction that led to failures on Wall Street

#2 - Secrets In Pleasant Grove - Update

Season 26 - Episode 58 - Aired 7/27/2018

#3 - The Day Jennifer Disappeared

Season 28 - Episode 39 - Aired 7/20/2020

Sgt. Kenneth Ventresca, lead investigator in the case of missing Connecticut mother Jennifer Dulos, tells Dateline NBC that the police is still "actively" investigating her disappearance.

#4 - In a Lonely Place 2

Season 28 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/2019

The man convicted of murdering California entrepreneur Chris Smith speaks out.

#5 - Prairie Confidential

Season 26 - Episode 62 - Aired 8/13/2018

A murder case considered closed by North Dakota detectives is suddenly reopened when a confidential informant comes forward with a tip about an unlikely suspect. Keith Morrison reports.

#6 - The Figure in the Garage

Season 26 - Episode 59 - Aired 7/30/2018

When a beloved former firefighter is found dead in his garage, police are desperate for answers. Dennis Murphy reports.

#7 - The Good Wife

Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/18/2002

An arrest and a dramatic trial would reveal family secrets, of shattered promises, of sexual affairs. Who killed the "Good Wife." What would a jury say?

#8 - The Surfer and the Bird Rock Bandits

Season 17 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/1/2009

Authorities investigate the death of a 24-year-old surfer from California.

#9 - April 17, 2009

Season 17 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/17/2009

Dennis Murphy details the devotion of a police officer and an intern to solve the mysterious vanishing of a young woman in Michigan.

#10 - Lethal Weapon

Season 26 - Episode 60 - Aired 8/3/2018

#11 - Mystery at Bootlegger's Cove

Season 16 - Episode 44 - Aired 5/26/2008

The disappearance of 21-year-old Bethany Correira, who vanished just days after arriving at college in Anchorage, Alaska, prompts a detective's determinaton to solve her case.

#12 - Vanished

Season 21 - Episode 52 - Aired 8/9/2013

#13 - The Mystery in Rock Hill

Season 18 - Episode 57 - Aired 7/9/2010

#14 - A Father's Mission

Season 18 - Episode 62 - Aired 6/27/2010

NBC News' Chief Foreign Correspondent and award-winning chronicler of America's War on Terror, Richard Engel reports from Afghanistan and around the country on one of the deadliest battles in the Afghan War – the Battle of Wanat – and the impact it had on a fallen soldier's father in a special edition of "Dateline: A Father's Mission"

#15 - The Secrets in the Suitcase

Season 18 - Episode 52 - Aired 6/18/2010

#16 - Bringing Sean Home: The Untold Story

Season 18 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/2010

#17 - Orphans of Duplessis

Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/21/1999

#18 - February 29, 2004

Season 12 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/29/2004

Pro baseball player Alex Rodriguez. An update on conditions at fast-food restaurants.

#19 - Smoke & Mirrors

Season 26 - Episode 65 - Aired 8/24/2018

#20 - Mystery in Orange County #2

Season 28 - Episode 40 - Aired 8/31/2020

After a young Army veteran disappears, detectives uncover a cryptic 911 call, placed 11 days before she went missing, which exposes a twisted story --- and the truth.

#21 - The Necklace

Season 29 - Episode 38 - Aired 4/23/2021

When a private investigator and former police officer vanishes, detectives think there may be more to the story when strange text messages start to appear... Keith Morrison reports.

#22 - America Remembers

Season 10 - Episode 65 - Aired 9/11/2002

One the one year anniversary of the 9/11/2001 terrorist attack on the U.S., Dateline and Tom Brokaw talks with air traffic controllers (ATCs) who saw the events of that day unfold before their very eyes, from beginning to end.

#23 - Death in the Driveway #2

Season 28 - Episode 41 - Aired 9/4/2020

When police find a prominent lawyer dead and his girlfriend bound in duct tape, their investigation leads to a surprising suspect

#24 - Secrets from the Grave

Season 28 - Episode 44 - Aired 9/18/2020

A man calls 911 to report that his pregnant wife has died by suicide; the case is closed until a suspicious house fire, 24 years later, leads police to question what really happened that day

#25 - Vegas Homicide: Father of the Year

Season 12 - Episode 80 - Aired 6/18/2004

Detectives investigate a high-profile disappearance that becomes a murder probe when blood is discovered in the home of the missing couple.