The BEST episodes of Dateline NBC season 31
Every episode of Dateline NBC season 31, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Dateline NBC season 31!
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#1 - Who Killed Mindy Morgenstern?
Season 31 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/2023
A quiet North Dakota college town is left in fear after student Mindy Morgenstern is found murdered in her off-campus apartment.
#2 - Behind Door 813
Season 31 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/7/2023
After 27-year-old Jonathan Crews dies mysteriously in his Texas apartment, his family takes matters into their own hands in an effort to find answers.
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#3 - Justice for Kristin Smart
Season 31 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/31/2023
The parents of Kristin Smart speak out in their first network exclusive interview since the recent sentencing of their daughter's killer.
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#4 - Bad Intentions
Season 31 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/9/2023
After a district attorney and his wife are murdered in the same Texas town where a prosecutor was gunned down two months earlier, local law enforcement fears they may be in the sights of a serial killer.
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#5 - Righteous Obsession
Season 31 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/2022
The investigation into a deadly home invasion involving business owner Milton Sawyer takes a turn when an unlikely witness on the other side of the country comes forward.
#6 - Along Came Sarah
Season 31 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/28/2023
When a woman's fifth husband dies in a hospital under suspicious circumstances, an investigation reveals her to be a charismatic charmer with a mysterious past.
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#7 - The Killings on King Road
Season 31 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/19/2023
Keith Morrison goes to Moscow, Idaho, to report the latest on the murders of four college students in November 2022. Morrison gets exclusive information on the suspected murder weapon, plus details on an incident police believe the alleged killer, Bryan Kohberger, committed before the murders. Also, we learn more about what was going on in the Kohberger family home in the days before his arrest.
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#8 - Secrets in the Ozarks
Season 31 - Episode 33 - Aired 6/2/2023
When the body of a 22-year-old college student is found a week after she vanished, theories about her murder run rampant through the Arkansas Ozarks.
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#9 - Footprints in the Snow
Season 31 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/17/2023
Colorado detectives investigate the decades-old disappearance of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews.
#10 - Finding Rita
Season 31 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/10/2023
When a Colorado mother vanishes without a trace, the detective investigating her disappearance discovers a connection to a previous assault; for the first time on television, the survivor of that attack recounts her terrifying ordeal.
#11 - Dead Man Talking
Season 31 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/21/2023
The man at the center of the international manhunt for an American fugitive accused of faking his own death to evade law enforcement agencies speaks out for the first time on network television.
#12 - The Window
Season 31 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/24/2023
A man from Florida is driven to search for the truth on what happened to his daughter, who fell to her death in a penthouse apartment in Belgium.
#13 - The Trial of Lori Vallow Daybell
Season 31 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/12/2023
New details come to light on the investigation into a notorious Idaho case involving multiple murders.
#14 - Laci Peterson: A New Turn
Season 31 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/9/2023
The latest in the murder of Laci Peterson, including new details on the appeals of convicted killer Scott Peterson.
#15 - Killing Time
Season 31 - Episode 30 - Aired 5/5/2023
A man convicted of the 1997 murder of Ricky Cowles Jr. in Lancaster, Calif., reveals new details on the case in an exclusive interview.
#16 - On a Dark, Deserted Highway
Season 31 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/2023
A deadly high-speed chase in Montana leads Dateline on a search through 50 years of history to unravel the mystery of how one man turned into a monster and committed one of the state's most notorious crimes.
#17 - The Trial of Alex Murdaugh
Season 31 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/3/2023
The latest in the trial of once prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, including exclusive interviews with insiders close to the family.
#18 - The Sisterhood
Season 31 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/2022
After the death of 44-year-old mother Stacy Feldman in her Denver home is ruled as “undetermined,” friends and family join forces to piece together what happened. Insiders close to the case speak out about the seven-year battle for justice. Keith Morrison reports.
#19 - Who Killed Courtney Coco?
Season 31 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/14/2023
The discovery of a young woman's body in an abandoned building in rural Texas sparks a multi-state investigation lasting nearly two decades.
#20 - A Cool Desert Morning
Season 31 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/2022
A family begins a relentless pursuit of justice after the death of Nevada attorney Susan Winters is ruled a suicide. Susan's parents open up about the seven-year case and their efforts to push back against the criminal justice system. Dennis Murphy reports.
#21 - A Walk in the Rain
Season 31 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/2022
The disappearance of 19-year-old Alaska Native Sonya Ivanoff sends shockwaves through the small coastal city of Nome, Alaska. Police scramble to find answers until a note is found in a stolen police vehicle telling the cops to back off or else. Josh Mankiewicz reports.
#22 - Dark Waters
Season 31 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/2022
Craig Melvin reveals surprising and exclusive new details about the deaths and legal cases surrounding Alex Murdaugh, the South Carolina lawyer accused of killing his wife and son last year.
#23 - The Last Walk
Season 31 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/9/2022
Authorities embark on a 13-year investigation after 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel vanishes during spring break in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
#24 - The Bad Man
Season 31 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/20/2023
Nearly 40 years after a young wife and mother is found murdered in her upstate New York home, a new team of investigators joins the cold case to uncover the killer. Andrea Canning reports.
#25 - The Murder of Lorenzen Wright
Season 31 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/17/2023
Updates on the former NBA player's killing in 2010 and new interviews from Wright's family and those close to the case.