After LaNell Barsock was found dead in her Palmdale home's garage with a plastic bag over her head, detectives eventually realized their investigation was "heading in the wrong direction."
When two women were killed in the same Arlington, Texas apartment complex in the same year, panic spread through the city. “He said, ‘Don’t scream and I won’t kill you,'" one survivor recalled.
A key witness in the case against Victor Paleologus breaks her silence in a two-hour special based on Dateline's hit podcast, Murder in the Hollywood Hills.
Tiffany Jackson Pugh, the wife of a popular Atlanta DJ, was fatally shot in her house while her two kids were also home, making for a heartbreaking scene caught on surveillance footage.
After two of John Smith's wives were found to have gone missing, Janice Hartman and Betty “Fran” Gladden Smith, family members took on a decades-long quest for justice.
New breakthroughs in genetic genealogy, combined with investigative work, finally revealed who was behind the Toronto murders of Erin Gilmour and Susan Tice.
It initially seemed that Joy Hibbs died in a house fire, but an autopsy revealed she was killed before the home was set ablaze. Still, decades passed before an arrest came.
“Viewers will see jealousy at its worst, probably unwarranted, certainly corrosive, and in the end, deadly,” Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison said of new details in the shocking crime.
