The BEST episodes of Dateline NBC season 31
Every episode of Dateline NBC season 31, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Dateline NBC season 31!
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#1 - Who Killed Mindy Morgenstern?
Season 31 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/2023
A quiet North Dakota college town is left in fear after student Mindy Morgenstern is found murdered in her off-campus apartment.
#2 - Behind Door 813
Season 31 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/7/2023
After 27-year-old Jonathan Crews dies mysteriously in his Texas apartment, his family takes matters into their own hands in an effort to find answers.
#3 - Bad Intentions
Season 31 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/9/2023
After a district attorney and his wife are murdered in the same Texas town where a prosecutor was gunned down two months earlier, local law enforcement fears they may be in the sights of a serial killer.
#4 - Justice for Kristin Smart
Season 31 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/31/2023
The parents of Kristin Smart speak out in their first network exclusive interview since the recent sentencing of their daughter's killer.
#5 - Along Came Sarah
Season 31 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/28/2023
When a woman's fifth husband dies in a hospital under suspicious circumstances, an investigation reveals her to be a charismatic charmer with a mysterious past.
#6 - Secrets in the Ozarks
Season 31 - Episode 33 - Aired 6/2/2023
When the body of a 22-year-old college student is found a week after she vanished, theories about her murder run rampant through the Arkansas Ozarks.
#7 - Righteous Obsession
Season 31 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/2022
The investigation into a deadly home invasion involving business owner Milton Sawyer takes a turn when an unlikely witness on the other side of the country comes forward.
#8 - Finding Rita
Season 31 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/10/2023
When a Colorado mother vanishes without a trace, the detective investigating her disappearance discovers a connection to a previous assault; for the first time on television, the survivor of that attack recounts her terrifying ordeal.
#9 - Dead Man Talking
Season 31 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/21/2023
The man at the center of the international manhunt for an American fugitive accused of faking his own death to evade law enforcement agencies speaks out for the first time on network television.
#10 - The Trial of Lori Vallow Daybell
Season 31 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/12/2023
New details come to light on the investigation into a notorious Idaho case involving multiple murders.
#11 - The Window
Season 31 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/24/2023
A man from Florida is driven to search for the truth on what happened to his daughter, who fell to her death in a penthouse apartment in Belgium.
#12 - Laci Peterson: A New Turn
Season 31 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/9/2023
The latest in the murder of Laci Peterson, including new details on the appeals of convicted killer Scott Peterson.
#13 - Killing Time
Season 31 - Episode 30 - Aired 5/5/2023
A man convicted of the 1997 murder of Ricky Cowles Jr. in Lancaster, Calif., reveals new details on the case in an exclusive interview.
#14 - On a Dark, Deserted Highway
Season 31 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/2023
A deadly high-speed chase in Montana leads Dateline on a search through 50 years of history to unravel the mystery of how one man turned into a monster and committed one of the state's most notorious crimes.
#15 - Footprints in the Snow
Season 31 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/17/2023
Colorado detectives investigate the decades-old disappearance of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews.
#16 - The Trial of Alex Murdaugh
Season 31 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/3/2023
The latest in the trial of once prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, including exclusive interviews with insiders close to the family.
#17 - Who Killed Courtney Coco?
Season 31 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/14/2023
The discovery of a young woman's body in an abandoned building in rural Texas sparks a multi-state investigation lasting nearly two decades.
#18 - The Murder of Lorenzen Wright
Season 31 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/17/2023
Updates on the former NBA player's killing in 2010 and new interviews from Wright's family and those close to the case.
#19 - The Bad Man
Season 31 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/20/2023
Nearly 40 years after a young wife and mother is found murdered in her upstate New York home, a new team of investigators joins the cold case to uncover the killer. Andrea Canning reports.
#20 - Dark Waters
Season 31 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/2022
Craig Melvin reveals surprising and exclusive new details about the deaths and legal cases surrounding Alex Murdaugh, the South Carolina lawyer accused of killing his wife and son last year.
#21 - Fire & Ice
Season 31 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/2022
Firefighters make a grisly discovery while responding to a fire at the house of Carmela and David Knight in a Toronto, Canada suburb. Andrea Canning reports.
#22 - The Trouble at Dill Creek Farm
Season 31 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/2022
Investigators embark on a 15 year hunt for the killer of a Wisconsin pharmacist.
#23 - The Last Walk
Season 31 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/9/2022
Authorities embark on a 13-year investigation after 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel vanishes during spring break in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
#24 - Killings in a College Town
Season 31 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/13/2023
The latest on the investigation into the murders of four University of Idaho students: Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin
#25 - Page Turner
Season 31 - Episode 37 - Aired 9/22/2023
Following her husband's sudden death, a Utah mother of three writes a book to help her children through their grief; when investigators learn the cause of death and dig deeper into their lives, she is charged with the murder of her husband