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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - The Haunted House Confession
Season 33 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/28/2025
On Friday the 13th, 25-year-old Chantay Blankenship doesn't come home from her usual walk around the neighborhood. Two days later, searchers make a gruesome discovery at an abandoned house. When all leads dry up, investigators turn to a unique forensic DNA tool, which sparks a shocking confession.
#4 - 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.
#5 - Deadly Mirage
Season 33 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/19/2025
When young father Rob Limon is murdered at work, the investigation uncovers deep secrets about sex, friendship, religion and family. Sunday's broadcast explores the twisted case featured in Dateline's #1 podcast, Deadly Mirage.
#6 - The Devil Wore White
Season 33 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/31/2025
An elderly socialite is reported missing from her stately New York City brownstone. When Sante Kimes and her son Kenny are arrested, an investigation reveals decades of crime, deception, and murder that captivated the nation.
#7 - A Walk Through the Woods
Season 33 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/21/2025
The murders of teenagers Abby and Libby in their close-knit hometown of Delphi, Indiana spark worldwide headlines. The case takes a stunning twist after detectives reveal Libby captured a video of the killer shortly before her death.
#8 - 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?
#9 - Under the Bay Bridge
Season 33 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/7/2025
Bob Lee was a well-known tech visionary whose sudden and brutal death in 2023 made headlines around the world. The case is explored through exclusive interviews with Lee’s family, friends, attorneys, colleagues from the tech industry, and law enforcement officials.
#10 - A Little Patch of Perfect
Season 33 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/17/2025
After Gary "Big Daddy" Farris mysteriously disappears, his family discovers his remains on their sprawling 10-acre estate. An investigation reveals a family deeply divided by jealousy and greed, but did one of them kill Big Daddy
#11 - The Butterfly
Season 33 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/2024
The season 33 premiere of Dateline investigates the case of a young Ohio woman who vanishes one summer night prompting her community to conduct a massive search. When she’s found dead, investigators question her friends and family to uncover her killer.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Return to the Lake
Season 33 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/14/2025
On October 25, 1994, Susan Smith reported a horrifying crime to police: a carjacking at gunpoint by an unidentified Black man who had taken off with her two young sons. Now, three decades later, the killer's first parole hearing has reignited public interest in one of the most notorious criminal cases in modern U.S. history.
#14 - 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.
#15 - The Killer Among Them
Season 33 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/2024
Millionaire entrepreneur Lance Herndon is found bludgeoned to death in his Atlanta home. The search for his killer reveals no shortage of suspects or secrets.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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?