Dateline

Lester Holt spends two nights locked up and embedded inside the largest maximum security prison in America, the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola.

International celebrity Oscar Pistorius shoots and kills his girlfriend. When police arrive he says he acted in self-defense, as he believed he was firing at an intruder. Keith Morrison reports.

A coroner arrives at the scene of a car wreck to find a woman dead. He becomes suspicious when he notices unusual markings on her face. Was her death really an accident? Andrea Canning reports.

Key players in the case of Rod Covlin, a New York man found guilty of murdering his wife for her $5.3 million fortune and attempting to frame his then-teenage daughter, share their stories.

Marie Singleton was a single mom who fell hard for Andre Jackson, a single dad raising his two kids. The couple married and seemed happy. Then Marie vanished and investigators discovered secrets. Was her disappearance related to her undercover job?  The FBI covertly investigates possible treason. Her husband is suspected, but never arrested. This begins a 20-year odyssey to find her killer.

Lead detectives in the murder investigation of University of Utah student MacKenzie Lueck speak exclusively to Keith Morrison about the case that made national headlines.

Before the Menendez brothers, the Bobbitts or even O.J., Pamela Smart was television's first true crime fascination after her husband was found murdered.

When a college student is found dead after a party, his mother is determined to try to find out what happened. With the help of a new friend, she manages to get the case in front of a jury. Dennis Murphy reports on the unexpected twist that no one saw coming.

A college student goes missing in broad daylight from her off-campus job at a softball field; investigators receive a mysterious phone call that changes everything.

When a University of Utah athlete is found murdered on campus, investigators learn that she had reached out to the campus police for help multiple times before her death.

A 21-year-old college student is found murdered; the case remains cold for nearly forty years until a new detective uses an innovative method to catch her killer.

Andrea Canning speaks with U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas about the deadly shooting at her home in 2020 that killed her son Daniel and critically injured her husband Mark.

Brigida Uto, a young military wife, mother and teacher, is plagued with some mysterious symptoms -- weight loss, nausea, fatigue and hair loss. Doctors race against the clock to determine the cause of this life threatening illness.

On November 4, 2014 Pam Zimmerman's children wake up in their Bloomington, Illinois home to find that their Mom did not return home the night before.