The BEST episodes of Dateline NBC season 21

#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.

#2 - The Officer's Wife

Season 21 - Episode 62 - Aired 9/20/2013

The case of a young police officer's 26-year-old wife that was found shot to death in their bed, and the mystery of whether or not this was a case of suicide or if someone else was to blame for her death. Josh Mankiewicz reports.

#3 - Vanished

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

#4 - 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.

#5 - 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.

#6 - 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.

#7 - 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.

#8 - 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.

#9 - Mystery at Payson Canyon

Season 21 - Episode 48 - Aired 6/28/2013

Investigating the murder of a brilliant professor.

#10 - The Ballad of Mike and Dalia

Season 21 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/2012

Dennis Murphy tells the Ballad of Mike & Dalia, and what was supposed to be a story-book marriage and new lease on life. Instead, lust, greed, and deceit led to an elaborate murder plot that makes reality TV look like a fairytale.

#11 - Sandy's Fury

Season 21 - Episode 59 - Aired 10/30/2012

From the New Jersey shore to the New York Coastlines to Connecticut and onward, this special will explore the damage caused up and down the eastern seaboard.

#12 - 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.

#13 - 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.

#14 - Toxic

Season 21 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/3/2013

When a husband and father disappears, detectives uncover a love triangle and a twisted plot.

#15 - 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?

#16 - 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.

#17 - 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.

#18 - 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.

#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 - 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.

#21 - 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.

#22 - The Stranger

Season 21 - Episode 57 - Aired 5/10/2013

A woman and her dogs disappear from their home.

#23 - On the Edge

Season 21 - Episode 55 - 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.

#24 - Kidnapped; Into the Death Zone

Season 21 - Episode 60 - Aired 9/6/2013

Kate Snow interviews former freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout, recounting the various emotional physical abuse she endured from Islamic rebels during the 15 months she was held captive after being abducted in Somalia during 2008. A perilous journey up Mount Everest is documented by three young people.

#25 - Betrayal of Trust

Season 21 - Episode 44 - Aired 6/21/2013

When a woman is found dead in the trunk of her car, authorities become suspicious of her ex-husband.