Dateline - Season 34

First aired: 9/26/2025 20 episodes

Episodes

1. The Phantom

Aired: 9/26/2025

The murder of a Colorado mother seems to point to an obvious suspect, but as investigators dig deeper, they uncover and elaborate plot filled with secrets and deception that turns the entire case upside down.

2. The Bucket Hat Mystery

Aired: 10/3/2025

Paradise turns deadly in Oahu, HI, when Jon Tokuhara, an acupuncturist and surfer with no known enemies, is shot dead in his clinic. Investigators uncover the victim's tangled love life, pointing to several persons of interest - until surveillance video reveals a new and unexpected suspect.

3. The Prince, The Whiz Kid & The Millionaire

Aired: 10/10/2025

When 74-year-old Clifford Lambert goes missing in California, the case eventually reveals a sophisticated web of deception, forged documents, and greed-fueled betrayal—resulting in multiple convictions, one inmate’s death, and a decade-long legal saga that only recently concluded.

4. A Perfect Spring Morning

Aired: 10/17/2025

The quiet community of Chevy Chase, MD, is shaken when mother Leslie Preer is found murdered in her shower. Detectives find plausible suspects quickly, but without evidence the case goes cold until a surprising lead unmasks the killer two decades later.

5. Deadly Mischief

Aired: 10/24/2025

On the morning of July 18, 2014, esteemed Florida State University law professor Dan Markel was ambushed and shot twice in the head in his Tallahassee driveway. What began as a targeted assassination in a quiet Tallahassee neighborhood would eventually expose a web of lies, manipulation, and greed within a wealthy South Florida family.

6. The Death of Dr. Schwartz

Aired: 10/31/2025

Steven Schwartz, a prominent kidney specialist, was found brutally murdered on May 28, 2014, in his waterfront home in Tarpon Springs, FL. At first glance, the scene looked like a botched burglary, but investigators would eventually uncover a decades-old secret that led to a violent killing.

7. The Trouble in Bardstown

Aired: 11/7/2025

The disappearance of a mother of five sends shockwaves through the picturesque town of Bardstown, Kentucky, which witnesses five murders in four years. Frustrated with stalled progress, her family takes the investigation into their own hands.

8. Running Man

Aired: 11/14/2025

Investigators discover a car engulfed in flames in a remote wooded area near the Blue Mountains. When first responders pull the body of a local mother from the wreckage, the question arises: was the crash an accident, or something far more sinister?

9. Raising the Dead

Aired: 11/21/2025

In rural Wisconsin, Tanna Togstad and her boyfriend Tim Mumrue are found stabbed to death inside her farmhouse in 1992. Thirty years later, the daughter of one of the original suspects comes forward, reigniting the case all the way to trial.

10. The Ruse

Aired: 12/5/2025

When Tom Perez Sr., a father from Fontana, California, fails to return home after a quick trip to check his mail, his son calls police for help—only to find himself the focus of their investigation until a stunning revelation upends the case.

11. The Farmer's Wife

Aired: 12/12/2025

After a 911 call reporting a home invasion, police discover Karina Cooper sitting on her husband Ryan's blood-covered body in their Traer, Iowa, farmhouse. In the aftermath of Ryan Cooper's murder, rumors sweep through the small town, but investigators must uncover whether the talk is gossip or a crucial clue.

12. The Trouble with Sarah

Aired: 1/16/2026

Sarah Hartsfield's husband Joseph died in 2023 after being hospitalized in critical condition for hypoglycemia—a dangerous drop in blood sugar. Investigators would soon find a web of suspicious deaths in Sarah's past.

13. Secrets in the Ashes

Aired: 1/23/2026

A house fire in South Texas kills Patricia Leigh Mills while her young son miraculously escapes.

14. Bringing Jay Home

Aired: 1/30/2026

A University of Mississippi student vanishes from his apartment. Friends and family fear that Jimmie "Jay" Lee's identity as a Black gay man may complicate the pursuit of justice.

15. Malice

Aired: 2/27/2026

In Georgia, Jake Embert's death by gunshot is quickly ruled a suicide. His family believes there is more to the story and searches for justice for years, enduring a legal saga that spans three criminal trials.

16. The Professor & The Poet

Aired: 3/6/2026

A years-long international hunt after Sue Ann Marcum, an accounting professor at American University, is found murdered in her Maryland home.

17. Take Two

Aired: 3/13/2026

Rockland County podiatrist Ira Bernstein and his girlfriend Kelly Gribeluk are accused of plotting to kill his wife, Susan Bernstein. Just when the case seems closed… the plot reignites.

18. Savannah Speaks

Aired: 3/27/2026

In her first interview since her mother Nancy Guthrie disappeared, "Today's" Savannah Guthrie speaks out.

19. Temptation

Aired: 4/3/2026

Never-before-seen footage of the au pair in the Virginia double murder case involving a father accused of killing his wife, Christine Banfield, and a stranger, Joseph Ryan.

20. The Gorge

Aired: 4/10/2026

On November 29, 2019, Alice Ku disappeared while on a trip to Taiwan with her husband, making Toroko National Park the backdrop of an international mystery.