The BEST episodes of Dateline NBC season 33
Every episode of Dateline NBC season 33, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Dateline NBC season 33!
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#1 - Secrets of the Sliding Door
Season 33 - Episode 27 - Aired 5/4/2025
A beloved Staten Island teacher is found dead in the home she shared with her husband; an unknown number in her cell phone leads investigators to reveal troubles in her seemingly idyllic life - and to ultimately unearth her killer.
#2 - Deadly Entanglement
Season 33 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/14/2025
In 2013, Desiree Sunford is found murdered in her Yakima, Washington, home. The case, which begins with what seems to be a simple burglary, spirals into a complex investigation exposing a tangled web of betrayal, deception, and fatal obsession.
#3 - Poison Twist
Season 33 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/21/2025
Kaitlyn Conley was convicted of manslaughter in 2017 after the death of Mary Yoder by poison. Conley maintains she is innocent and continues her fight to overturn the conviction.
#4 - Deadly Obsession
Season 33 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/4/2025
Mike Sisco and his fiancé Karen Harkness are found shot to death in their Topeka duplex in 2002. A years-long search for the killer and three criminal trials over two decades reveals strained dynamics within one victim’s family.
#5 - The Last Mile
Season 33 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/6/2025
A college student home for the summer goes missing while jogging. Investigators discover security camera video that reveals a critical clue.
#6 - The Widow of Woodland Hills
Season 33 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/11/2025
Celebrity hairdresser Fabio Sementilli is brutally murdered in his backyard. A security camera helps investigators identify unlikely suspects and an illicit affair.
#7 - The Pin at Apartment 210
Season 33 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/13/2025
The search for 22-year-old Jasmine "Jazzy" Pace forces her family to go to places and do things they never imagined. What begins as a missing persons report evolves into a disturbing and calculated murder investigation.
#8 - The Devil’s in the Details
Season 33 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/25/2025
A West Virginia pharmacist is left widowed after her 38-year-old husband suddenly dies. Their close-knit neighborhood rallies around the family until troubling details emerge regarding the couple's new business venture.
#9 - Murder in Minot
Season 33 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/2/2025
College student Anita Knutson is found stabbed to death. The case took years and the unwavering commitment of loved ones and investigators to reach a resolution.
#10 - Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview
Season 33 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/7/2025
Lori and Chad Daybell were both convicted in separate trials for the gruesome killings of two of Lori’s children in 2019. Now, Lori breaks her silence in a shocking new interview from prison.
#11 - The Terrible Night on King Road
Season 33 - Episode 28 - Aired 5/9/2025
In the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were killed in an off-campus rental house on King Road in Moscow, Idaho. See never-before-reported evidence, including video, photographic, and digital materials that investigators say track accused killer Bryan Kohberger’s movements.
#12 - Sean Combs on Trial
Season 33 - Episode 29 - Aired 5/11/2025
Report on Sean "Diddy" Combs' life on the eve of opening statements in his federal trial.
#13 - Center of the Storm
Season 33 - Episode 30 - Aired 6/19/2025
Center of the Storm will unpack the high-stakes trial of Karen Read in Dedham, Massachusetts, including the key testimonies and pivotal moments that ignited international headlines. Dateline has reported on this case since the beginning, previously sitting down with Read. Center of the Storm features an extensive interview with lead investigator and former Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Proctor
#14 - Sean Combs: The Insiders Speak
Season 33 - Episode 31 - Aired 7/11/2025
Andrea Canning speaks to insiders and reports on the verdict in the Sean Combs trial.
#15 - Secrets of Exam Room 9
Season 33 - Episode 32 - Aired 9/5/2025
A Colorado mother of six dies suddenly after an apparent medical illness, raising suspicion around her husband — a respected dentist and LDS church member.
#16 - The Night of the Audition
Season 33 - Episode 33 - Aired 9/12/2025
Days after landing the biggest audition of her acting career, newlywed Shannon Madill Burgess fails to show up for a family gathering, leaving her loved ones in a panic. As investigators dig deeper, unsettling details emerge that change the direction of the investigation.
#17 - The Betrayal of Sandra Birchmore
Season 33 - Episode 34 - Aired 9/19/2025
A February nor'easter closes a Boston-area elementary school; when it reopens, a teacher's aide never returns and is found dead days later; investigators rule the death a suicide, but was it something far more sinister?
#18 - The Man of Many Faces
Season 33 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/13/2024
Andrea Canning reports on the dramatic updates in the case of international fugitive Nicholas Rossi, who faked his death. Will the man with multiple identities finally face justice?
#19 - Wrong Turns
Season 33 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/2024
A new father is found dead on the side of a road. Then the stabbing of a young woman leads police on a high speed chase. Could these two chilling murders be connected? Josh Mankiewicz reports.
#20 - Down the Rabbit Hole
Season 33 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/2024
When police respond to a report of a break-in, they discover a woman was murdered, launching an investigation with a false confession and a dangerous romance.
#21 - The Night of the Nor'easter
Season 33 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/2024
A monster storm had rolled into Canton, Massachusetts, and Karen Read's boyfriend, police officer John O'Keefe, was dead, his body discovered in front of another officer's house. Karen was charged with John's death. Was she to blame?
#22 - Deadly Omission
Season 33 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/2024
A woman's murder shines a light on an unsolved mystery from years earlier. As the connection between the two cases becomes clear, a long-hidden truth surfaces. Andrea Canning reports.
#23 - After the Halloween Party
Season 33 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/2024
After a Halloween party, a wife and mother of four vanishes. A decade later, a private investigator claims to uncover chilling new clues that turn the town upside down.
#24 - The Menendez Brothers: Chance at Freedom
Season 33 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/2024
Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison reports on the case of Lyle and Erik Menendez. The Menendez brothers were convicted of murdering their parents in August 1989 and were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. They’ve been in prison for the past three decades. “The Menendez Brothers: Chance at Freedom” is a two-hour episode that will dive into the latest developments in their case, which has gained nationwide attention once again after the release of a documentary (The Menendez Brothers) and dramatized anthology series, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, earlier in 2024.
#25 - Deadly Dance
Season 33 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/2024
Dubbed the 'Black Swan' case, a former ballerina falls in love with a man 30 years her senior, but when their love story spirals out of control, one of them winds up dead.