The BEST episodes of Dateline NBC season 20
Every episode of Dateline NBC season 20, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Dateline NBC season 20!
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#1 - My Kid Would Never Do That: Discrimination
Season 20 - Episode 44 - Aired 5/6/2012
Despite the fact that the current generation of American children is the most diverse in history, some teens may not know what to do when confronted with racial and ethic discrimination and how damaging such occurrences of discrimination can be.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Finding Booker's Place; Deadly Conspiracy
Season 20 - Episode 63 - Aired 7/15/2012
The story of two strangers who were brought together by a unique bond that goes back to the Civil Rights movement; an investigation of the murder of a family patriarch and the detective who finally trapped the true killers.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - Mystery at Moon Palace
Season 20 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/17/2012
TV producer Bruce Beresford-Redman and his wife Monica who were vacationing with their family at a luxury resort in Cancun Mexico in April 2010. But when Monica was later found dead on the hotel property, Mexican investigators now had a murder mystery on their hands...and a primary suspect, her husband.
#4 - Secrets in a Small Town
Season 20 - Episode 70 - Aired 8/31/2012
A mother of three who was killed on a lonely dirt road just a mile from her home.
#5 - The Secret
Season 20 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2011
Investigators search for a New Mexico mechanic who has been missing for eight years.
#6 - Secrets in a Small Town
Season 20 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/13/2012
Investigators find an unlikely suspect in a woman's death.
#7 - Written in Blood (2012)
Season 20 - Episode 64 - Aired 8/17/2012
Tim Permenter calls 911 to report a horrible discovery; his girlfriend Karen Pannell, a one-time model and flight attendant, has been murdered in her kitchen. On the wall next to her body is a message written in her own blood: the letters R O C. What does it mean? Dennis Murphy Reports.
#8 - Day of Reckoning
Season 20 - Episode 39 - Aired 4/20/2012
A man accused of murdering a prostitute in 2003. His wifevrecently testified against her husband and revealed that he confessed the murder to her before threatening her into silence.
#9 - The Night Lynsie Disappeared: Theater Shooting
Season 20 - Episode 62 - Aired 7/20/2012
The killing of 12 people in Aurora, Colorado during a screening of the new Batman movie. Also, A young college student vanishes late one night; ten years later, her mother's persistence and a new investigator help reveal the shocking truth about her sudden disappearance. Josh Mankiewicz reports.
#10 - Secrets in the Suburbs
Season 20 - Episode 45 - Aired 5/11/2012
Jane Bashara, wife and mother of two from upscale Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, is found murdered in her Mercedes SUV that’s been left in a seedy Detroit alley. Her husband's secret life makes the police suspect that he may have been involved in the murder.
#11 - My Kid Would Never Do That: Stranger Danger
Season 20 - Episode 37 - Aired 4/15/2012
A look into how much parents and children really know about the danger of abduction; as a test, elementary school children are offered a tour of an ice cream truck and a stranger asks young teens for their names and personal addresses.
#12 - Vengeance
Season 20 - Episode 35 - Aired 4/6/2012
A woman accuses her boyfriend of rape and finds herself on the wrong side of the law. A he said, she said case turns into a quest for revenge.
#13 - Silent Witness
Season 20 - Episode 34 - Aired 4/1/2012
Michelle Young was pregnant when she was brutally murdered while her husband was away.
#14 - Murder in Broad Daylight
Season 20 - Episode 30 - Aired 3/18/2012
A man with a surprising motive shoots a father in broad daylight.
#15 - The Goldfinger Mystery
Season 20 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/27/2012
Police suspect a woman's estranged husband in her stabbing death, but surveillance video shows he was not at the scene.
#16 - Jennifer Hudson & Secrets in a Small Town
Season 20 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/8/2012
Jennifer Hudson talks about her weight loss, healthy living tips, details of her upcoming nuptials, and more. Also the story of a mother who was found dead in her car off a lonely dirt road. With no arrest in the case, strange sequence of events led investigators to an unlikely suspect.
#17 - Missing in Paradise
Season 20 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/2011
A vacation in Aruba that morphed into a mystery, Robyn Gardner went missing and many presume she's dead.
#18 - The Last Days of Michael Jackson
Season 20 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/2011
The case against Michael Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, is in the hands of the jury, who will decide whether he played a role in the death of the pop star.
#19 - Deadly Retreat
Season 20 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/2011
In October 2009, James Arthur Ray, a renowned self-help author and speaker, held a "Spiritual Warrior" retreat in Sedona, AZ. Three people died during the retreat, and Ray was charged with manslaughter but convicted of a lesser charge.
#20 - The Secret
Season 20 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2011
A troubled marriage, then suddenly a man disappears, leaving behind a daughter and step-son. The truth from a secret kept for over eight years. Andrea Canning reports.
#21 - Internal Affairs
Season 20 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/9/2012
In 2009 a Los Angeles police detective examines the cold case file on an attractive nurse, Sherri Rasmussen, who was murdered in her own home in 1986. At the time it looked like a botched burglary, involving two men but a bite mark containing saliva is found on Sherri's arm and reignites the investigation.
#22 - While They Were Sleeping
Season 20 - Episode 43 - Aired 5/4/2012
The story of Ben Oxley, a 36 year-old who was murdered while he was asleep next to his wife, and new reports about how the accused murderer was able to break in to the house, and leave without leaving any trace of forensic evidence behind him.
#23 - Crossing the Line (2011)
Season 20 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/2011
A fatal car crash in Montana may not have been an accident after investigators find a revealing set of text messages.
#24 - The Devil & Bobbi Parker
Season 20 - Episode 69 - Aired 9/21/2012
A look is taken at a the story of an escaped convict and a deputy warden's wife who were found after a decade on the run and if she a hostage or accomplice.
#25 - Silent Witness
Season 20 - Episode 33 - Aired 3/30/2012
Michelle Young, a 29 year-old woman from Raleigh, N.C., who was found murdered in her home while her husband was away on a business trip and why it took five years to convict the woman's killer. Keith Morrison reports.