The BEST episodes of Dateline NBC season 21
Every episode of Dateline NBC season 21, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Dateline NBC season 21!
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#1 - What Happened to the Beauty Queen?
Season 21 - Episode 26 - Aired 2/22/2013
A beauty queen's murder shocks a small Arkansas town.
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#2 - Against All Odds - Stuck
Season 21 - Episode 40 - Aired 5/29/2013
A couple is stuck on a snowy mountain.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - A Shot in the Dark
Season 21 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/2012
Just six days after his wedding, 41-year old Scott Pierce is killed in his own home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dateline NBC’s Josh Mankiewicz reports.
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#4 - A Gathering Storm (2013)
Season 21 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/15/2013
A love triangle involving a beauty queen, a devoted wife and a guitar hero leads to murder. Josh Mankiewicz reports.
#5 - The Stranger
Season 21 - Episode 59 - Aired 5/10/2013
A woman and her dogs disappear from their home.
#6 - Trapped
Season 21 - Episode 47 - Aired 6/29/2013
An unimaginable accident that leaves a mother, along with her two young daughters, trapped inside a mangled vehicle that is too dangerous for any rescue efforts to safely proceed. Keith Morrison reports.
#7 - Under a Killing Moon
Season 21 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/2012
The story of a young man and his family who fight to prove his innocence after he is accused of murder on Halloween night.
#8 - Vanished (2013)
Season 21 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/11/2013
Twenty-six year-old nursing student, Michelle Le, disappears from a San Francisco Bay Area parking garage in broad daylight. A day later her friends start getting strange texts from her phone. Dateline NBC’s Keith Morrison reports.
#9 - Murder on Nantucket Island
Season 21 - Episode 51 - Aired 7/19/2013
A successful businesswoman falls for a banker who may not be who he seems.
#10 - Unbreakable
Season 21 - Episode 62 - Aired 9/13/2013
Rebecca Musser reveals what life was like being born into The Fundamentalist Church Of Jesus Chirst Of Latter Day Saints and what led to her escape from the sect and the trial afterward. Keith Morrison reports.
#11 - The Night Hannah Hill Disappeared
Season 21 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/1/2013
What happened to Hannah Hill? Authorities probe the murder of an 18-year-old woman from Akron, Ohio.
#12 - While They Were Sleeping - Repeat of
Season 21 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/10/2013
Amidst the Sierra Nevada Mountains, someone breaks into the home of Ben and Melissa Oxley, shooting 36-year-old Ben in the head, but why?
#13 - Toxic
Season 21 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/3/2013
When a husband and father disappears, detectives uncover a love triangle and a twisted plot.
#14 - Betrayal; A Sister‘s Search
Season 21 - Episode 43 - Aired 6/7/2013
The story of a young aspiring Hollywood actress named Aasha Davis who starts making a name for herself, when suddenly her sister and brother-in-law go missing; a millionaire mother of two suddenly disappears.
#15 - Mystery at Payson Canyon
Season 21 - Episode 48 - Aired 6/28/2013
Investigating the murder of a brilliant professor.
#16 - Family Affair (2012)
Season 21 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/2012
A family feud erupts between a man's wife and step-daughter after the wealthy heir to Miami's Fontainebleau Hotel is murdered.
#17 - Secrets in the Snow
Season 21 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/2012
A woman with a mysterious secret is murdered, and a look at how a possible love triangle could have been the reason. Keith Morrison reports.
#18 - A Cold December Morning
Season 21 - Episode 50 - Aired 7/12/2013
A family’s loyalty is tested when a mother of five is found dead in her bedroom. Keith Morrison reports.
#19 - Deadly Desire
Season 21 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/3/2013
The story of a sordid love triangle involving a young attorney and his paralegal, which quickly escalates in to a disastrous confrontation. Keith Morrison reports.
#20 - The Plot Thickens
Season 21 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/2012
Correspondents take a look into the case of a gunned down Hollywood stuntman and the investigation that leads to a femme fatale, once married to a movie mobster.
#21 - On the Edge
Season 21 - Episode 57 - Aired 8/30/2013
The intimate journey of a California family fighting to save their house from foreclosure. Triumphs and tribulations along the way reveal the true cost of fighting to save their home. Lester Holt reports.
#22 - Holiday How-To Guide
Season 21 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/21/2012
Everything you need to know to survive the holidays, including finding perfect gifts, office party etiquette, when to re-gift, how to gracefully take away the car keys, children's advice for Santa, and hear from Nick Cannon.
#23 - Under the Desert Sky
Season 21 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/4/2013
The murder of a popular and attractive Nevada teen shakes the community, especially when two unlikely people make a confession. Keith Morrison reports.
#24 - The Comic Book Murder, Volume II
Season 21 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/25/2013
After a woman was found murdered in the back of her comic book store, the crime goes unsolved for years, but new evidence points the case in a new direction. Dennis Murphy reports.
#25 - Fallen
Season 21 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/8/2013
A pastor who lost two wives in suspicious accidents, as authorities wonder whether it was simply terrible luck, or if they were murders. Dennis Murphy reports.