A gunfight in the middle of the night left Texas jeweler Ted Shaughnessy dead in his home. His wife, Corey, was the sole survivor. Was it a random attack, a robbery gone wrong, or a murder conspiracy? CBS News Chief Correspondent Jim Axelrod and Producer Jenna Jackson discuss Corey’s emotional journey to realizing her own son had hired hitmen to kill her and ... Show More
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Kiss of Death and the Google Exec
In 2013, Google executive Forrest Hayes was found dead from a heroin overdose on his yacht. Detectives discovered he was with aspiring model, Alix Tichelman, that night. They also discovered this was not the first time Alix had been with somebody who died of a drug overdose. "48 ... Show More
46m 8s
Dec 2024
The Murder of Cheryl Perveler
<p>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 so ... Show More
53m 31s
Oct 2025
Talking Dateline: Deadly Mischief
<p>Blayne Alexander talks with Dennis Murphy and Dateline producer Brad Davis about their episode, “Deadly Mischief.” In 2014, after esteemed FSU law professor Dan Markel was fatally shot, investigators uncovered a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated, according to prosecutors, by M ... Show More
27m 54s
Apr 2025
Lori Vallow Daybell's phone calls. Karen Read's retrial set to start. And Houston's "lost boys".
<p>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 th ... Show More
27m 44s
Nov 2021
S1E4: The Death of Stephen Smith, Part 1 | The Murdaugh Murders, Money & Mystery | Unsolved South Carolina
Stephen Smith was found dead along a rural Hampton County road in the pre-dawn hours of July 8, 2015. His death came under mysterious circumstances, and remains unsolved. Stephen Smith's death ultimately was ruled a hit-and-run by a medical examiner, despite law enforcement sayin ... Show More
34m 6s
Sep 2021
Trailer | The Murdaughs: Murders, Money & Mystery
In June 2021, Alex Murdaugh (pron. mer-dock) called 9-1-1 to report he'd found his wife, Maggie, and youngest son, Paul, dead outside their home in rural Colleton County, South Carolina. Both Maggie and Paul had been brutally shot to death.As months have passed, what began as a c ... Show More
2m 14s
Dec 2024
The Cotton Club Murder | Friday the 13th | 5
<p>On the night of May 13th, 1983, Roy Radin makes plans for a dinner meeting with Lanie Jacobs, only to be ambushed in the back of a limousine. The chilling details of how Radin was murdered are finally revealed, as detectives get a prime suspect to confess to the grisly plot. B ... Show More
40m 50s
Oct 2024
Introducing: The Execution of Bonny Lee Bakley
<p>On May 4, 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley was found fatally shot in a car on a dark North Hollywood street. The prime suspect was her husband, famed actor Robert Blake. But Bonny, a longtime con artist, had plenty of enemies. She left behind a trail of men she’d scammed, and she had a ... Show More
2m 22s