The BEST episodes of Dateline: Secrets Uncovered

#1 - Secrets in the Mist

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/14/2018

A young mom, married to her high school sweetheart, vanishes; did she leave her family to start a new life or was there another reason for her disappearance; decades later her grown son faces a dark truth at the core of this mystery.

#2 - Vanished

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/17/2018

Young nursing student Michelle Le disappears; something draws her out to her car; as her loved ones launch a very public effort to find Michelle, investigators begin their own methodical search, suspecting she may have been murdered.

#3 - The Night Lynsie Disappeared

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/7/2018

It was a mystery that stumped investigators for years; a college student disappears after a night out clubbing; her mother thought she was at a sleepover with friends and it takes an eagle-eyed detective to find the truth buried in a pile of lies.

#4 - A Gathering Storm

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/12/2018

Russel Douglas is a troubled father hoping for a fresh start when he is found shot dead in his car; the investigation turns up few clues until an anonymous tipster sends detectives on an international manhunt to unravel a mystery.

#5 - The Valentine's Day Mystery

Season 10 - Episode 36 - Aired 11/24/2021

He was a wealthy doctor with a perfect life and the perfect wife; then, he found her dead on Valentine's Day; she was beloved but did have enemies; investigators followed a bloody trail of evidence, leading to a big courtroom twist.

#6 - The Inside Man

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/19/2018

A convict is offered a deal as tempting as it is dangerous; he must go undercover in a psychiatric hospital to get information from a suspected serial killer in order to win his freedom, but there's no guarantee he'll get out alive.

#7 - Secrets in the Snow

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/21/2018

She was a dancer who married a dashing photographer; they seemed to have the picture-perfect life -- until the bone-chilling night she disappeared; in a case filled with twists, could the victim help solve her own murder.

#8 - The Knock at the Door

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/2018

Tara Ord is a beautiful young woman with big dreams, then she vanishes without a trace; it will take years for determined cold case detectives to uncover the long buried clue that blows this case wide open.

#9 - Deadly Conspiracy

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/10/2018

Jack Jessee was a family man who didn't seem to have an enemy in the world, up until the night he was killed; the case goes cold but a relentless detective is determined to catch Jack's killer.

#10 - Mystery on Blood Mountain

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/6/2018

After four people turn up dead, investigators chase a serial killer who may be reenacting scenes from a horror movie released in the 1980s.

#11 - While They Were Sleeping

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/5/2018

It was a brutal and baffling crime: a husband shot dead in his own bed; no one else in the house was hurt, not even his wife, who was sleeping beside him; investigators were suspicious, but there were more surprises in store.

#12 - Deadly House of Cards

Season 9 - Episode 22 - Aired 9/11/2020

After Johnny Altinger vanished, the trail of clues led investigators to a young director. Detectives worried that the case was a hoax staged by a master storyteller. Turns out, the script was darker than anyone knew.

#13 - Against All Odds

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/2018

A toddler is shot in the head and left for dead; despite the odds, she stuns everyone with her will to survive, while a detective vows to crack the case, no matter how long it takes.

#14 - Secrets in Seattle

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/2018

Fitness executive Nicole Pietz is married to the man of her dreams, then she goes missing after failing to show up for dinner with her husband and friends.

#15 - Secrets of Lake Seminole

Season 9 - Episode 39 - Aired 1/8/2021

Mike Williams went out duck hunting before dawn and never returned. Authorities declared his death an accidental drowning, but his mother believed Mike had been murdered. After a dramatic secret came to light, police believed she might be right.

#16 - In the Dead of Night

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/3/2018

It was Easter Sunday; the Stock family celebrated at home; hours later, gunshots turned their farmhouse into a house of horrors; there was an arrest but one tiny clue didn't fit; this case was far from being solved.

#17 - A Deadly Path

Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired 8/2/2019

#18 - Blind justice

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/13/2018

For investigators, motive can be the hardest thing to find. This crime took place in Florida but detectives didn't discover a motive for murder until they looked into a tropical island thousands of miles away, where a festering grudge was born.

#19 - The Man Who Talked to Dogs

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/27/2018

Celebrity dog trainer Mark Stover and his wife Linda build a thriving business and a beautiful home, but their dream life doesn't last; an affair leads to a bitter divorce, then Mark vanishes in a mystery with the makings of a Hollywood thriller.

#20 - The Devil and Bobbi Parker

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/12/2018

It's a mystery with a mind-boggling twist; the deputy warden's wife claimed she was kidnapped by an escaped convict and held captive for more than a decade; but was she really a hostage or a willing accomplice.

#21 - Family Affair

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/26/2018

When the wealthy heir to a legendary hotel is murdered, the list of possible suspects is long; he had his share of enemies, and a complicated family; investigators soon learned someone close to the victim was also in danger.

#22 - The Long Road

Season 10 - Episode 21 - Aired 8/12/2021

A chance meeting at a nightclub ends in murder; those involved in the gruesome crime thought they had buried the secrets of the past, but a relentless team of investigators will stop at nothing to unearth the truth.

#23 - Secrets of the Desert

Season 11 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/8/2023

Linda Watson was a single mom raising a beautiful daughter when she disappeared. Then, suddenly, Linda's mom was gone too, along with another friend. Police were convinced the three cases were connected, but unraveling the mystery took years.

#24 - Smoke and Mirrors

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/2/2018

When a Chicago woman from a big family goes missing, investigators begin to suspect a man in her life is full of secrets.

#25 - The Night Hannah Hill Disappeared

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/28/2018

A former homecoming queen taking her first steps into adult life is brutally murdered; the investigation centers on two men and a mysterious black bag that seems to come out of nowhere.