
"Dateline" has been a staple of the newsmagazine genre since premiering in 1992. Given how long it's been on the air, the show has an extensive archive of in-depth news stories and investigative journalism. This syndicated version offers viewers another chance to watch some of the show's previous content, serving up real-life mysteries and in-depth investigations from the show's 20-plus years on the air. Cases involving murders and missing people are frequent topics on the series that has won multiple Emmys in the news and documentary category.
A chance encounter by custom agents leads to a break in the case of a mother who disappeared days before she was supposed to move to a different city with her young son; a witness speaks out 20 years after the incident.
Lurking in the woods and peeping through windows, a cold-blooded serial killer stalks his next victim.
A mother is found dead in a house fire, but an autopsy reveals a brutal murder; the case goes cold for years until a shocking confession is made.
The murders of two young women near a Phoenix canal remain unsolved for over 20 years until a team of cold case detectives take on the case and investigate a man known as the Zombie Hunter.