On September 21st, 2004, a man was arrested in Mobile, Alabama for the murder of 43-year-old Lisa Marie Nichols. Lisa had been found shot to death in her home, which was then set on fire. 32-year-old John Paul Chapman was taken into custody, but detectives quickly found that the man was actually Jeremy Bryan Jones. Jones was a fugitive after fleeing Oklahoma ... Show More
Jul 8
The Sleepwalking Killer? The Bizarre Case of Joseph Anthony Mitchell
TW: Child Murder In the early morning hours of September 22, 2010, Christine Perolini’s world was shattered when her 13-year-old daughter ran into her bedroom screaming, “Daddy’s trying to hurt us!” Minutes later, Christine’s 4-year-old son, Blake Mitchell, was unresponsive, and ... Show More
57m 37s
Jun 24
She Screamed for Help: The Murder of Andrea DelVesco at UCLA
A promising UCLA senior, a late-night scream, and a horrifying failure to act. This is the story of Andrea DelVesco—and the system that let her down. Want access to our first 45 episodes? Grab em here! We've made them available for free to anyone who signs up! Remember, these epi ... Show More
44m 10s
Jun 2
Episode 677: The Murder of Anthony LoConte
On the evening of May 10, 1988, a passing driver on Howard Street in Brockton, MA, stopped to investigate something unusual on the side of the road. When the driver got closer to what they thought was a bag, they realized it was actually the body of twenty-four-year-old Anthony L ... Show More
47m 38s
Jan 2025
Episode 639: The Unsolved Murder of Melissa Witt
On December 1, 1994, nineteen-year-old Melissa Witt planned to meet her mother at a Fort Smith, Arkansas bowling alley, but by all appearances, she only made it as far as the parking lot. Two days later, investigators discovered Melissa’s car abandoned in the Bowling World parkin ... Show More
52m 11s
Aug 2024
Episode 593: Lee Roy Martin: The Gaffney Strangler
In the winter of 1968, reporter Bill Gibbons got an anonymous call from a man who wanted to confess to three murders in the small town of Gaffney, South Carolina. Gibbons thought the call was a prank, but he took it to the sheriff and the two men travel out to the first of three ... Show More
1h 6m
Jan 2025
Episode 640: Rodney Alcala: The Dating Game Killer (Part 1)
When Cheryl Bradshaw appeared on the popular game show The Dating Game in 1978, she was charmed by bachelor number one, Rodney Alcala, and by the end of the episode, she’d chosen him to take her on a date. However, just minutes after the episode finished taping, Cheryl met bachel ... Show More
53m 56s
Apr 17
Lori Vallow Daybell's phone calls. Karen Read's retrial set to start. And Houston's "lost boys".
Listen to this week's episode of the Dateline: True Crime Weekly podcast with guest host, Blayne Alexander. In Arizona, the prosecution plays phone calls Lori made to her insurance agent in the days after her husband's shooting. In Massachusetts, a jury is finally seated in the K ... Show More
27m 44s
Dec 2024
Episode 624: The Murder of Cheryl Perveler
When police were called to the scene of shooting at the Castillion Apartments in Los Angeles on April 20, 1968, they assumed the victim, twenty-two-year-old Cheryl Perveler, had been shot in a robbery gone wrong. However, when they began looking into her personal life, they soon ... Show More
53m 30s
Feb 2025
Episode 642: Rodney Alcala: The Dating Game Killer (Part 2)
At the time of his appearance on The Dating Game in 1978, Alcala was a convicted sexual predator who had served time for sexual assault and had only avoided a charge of attempted murder on a technicality. After his arrest, investigators would learn that, by the time he appeared o ... Show More
1h 7m
Jul 2021
189: Scott Peterson: One Last Chance (ABC's 20/20)
It's been 18 years since Scott Peterson was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, Laci. In that time, some members of his family have been working tirelessly to prove his innocence--that he couldn't have killed Laci. Some of their evidence is compelling, but so much of Scott's ... Show More
1h 8m
Nov 2024
Verdicts in both the Delphi murders trial and the case of a murdered Minnesota mom. Plus 20 years on, Keith Morrison talks about Scott Peterson.
Listen to this week's episode of the Dateline: True Crime Weekly podcast with Andrea Canning. After nearly 19 hours of deliberation, there is a verdict in the Delphi murders trial ending a seven-year saga in the small Indiana town. In Minnesota, the man accused of murdering a 26- ... Show More
28m 3s