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 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.
#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 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?
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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?
#13 - The Premonition
Season 33 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/26/2025
John Yelenic, a dentist who was found brutally murdered in his Blairsville, Pennsylvania home in 2006. The episode will explore the possibility that Yelenic had a premonition of his own murder