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The Blue Blanket Mystery

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May 3, 2022

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After a New Jersey mother reports that her five-year-old son vanished from a carnival, detectives embark on a decades-long investigation. Andrea Canning reports.

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May 3, 2022

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The Bathtub Mystery: In this Dateline classic, Ryan and Sarah are newlyweds of just 114 days. Home together on a quiet Monday evening, no one could ever imagine how their lives would soon take a turn for the worst. Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on May 6, 2011. by Dateline NBC
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Secrets of the Desert: In this Dateline classic, the mystery surrounding the deaths of three women deep in the Sonoran desert takes 17 years to untangle, and is only solved when a fourth woman comes forward with the truth. Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on May 19, 2017. by Dateline NBC
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Finding Venus: A mother of two mysteriously vanishes from her parents' home in Michigan while going to check the mailbox, leaving her phone and identification behind. Police declare her dead before they even find her body. The disappearance and complicated investigation takes years for detectives to unravel. Dennis Murphy reports on the most recent developments in the case. Originally aired on NBC on January 20, 2019. by Dateline NBC
84 min listen
Into the Night: The disappearance of a young woman from Bend, Oregon leads to an intense manhunt after the suspect sets off on a two state crime spree. Keith Morrison reports on the latest updates in the case. Originally aired on NBC on May 19, 2019. by Dateline NBC
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The Box: Years after a Montana man is found dead, his son dreads what he’ll find when he opens up the box of case files, giving him insight into what really happened. Keith Morrison reports on his journey and the murder investigation that unraveled a revenge plot. Originally aired on NBC on October 25, 2019. by Dateline NBC
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She Didn't Come Home: A mother in Pennsylvania disappears one afternoon after she is last seen by her co-workers leaving for lunch. The case remains cold even after 60 investigators try to crack it. Could the 61st detective finally have the answers? Josh Mankiewicz reports. Originally Aired on NBC on April 26, 2019. by Dateline NBC
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Under the Desert Sky: In this Dateline classic, the murder of a Nevada teenager shakes the community to its core when the two most unlikely people make a shocking confession. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on January 4, 2013. by Dateline NBC
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Twisted in Texas: In this Dateline classic, when one woman breaks off her relationship with a boyfriend she says abused and stalked her, he goes on to something even worse. His accused accomplice? His new girlfriend. Andrea Canning reports. Originally aired on NBC on April 29, 2018. by Dateline NBC
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The Betrayal of Sarah Stern: The discovery of a nineteen-year-old’s car abandoned on a bridge in New Jersey turns into a missing person case that evolves into a months-long homicide investigation. As the case tears apart a Jersey Shore town, police discover a plot involving money, close friends and a fatal betrayal. Keith Morrison reports on the investigation and the extraordinary undercover video that helped solve the crimes. Originally aired on NBC on May 17, 2019. by Dateline NBC
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Family Secrets: In this Dateline classic, a father and his sons have a dream to build an extreme sports theme park. But reality hits when the dad is found dead on the floor of their Skim-X warehouse. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on September 16, 2016. by Dateline NBC
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A Deal with the Devil: In this Dateline classic, Keith Morrison reports on a notorious serial killer, nicknamed Hannibal, who murdered several people while working as a confidential informant for the FBI. The two-hour broadcast tells the inside story of how he was ultimately caught. Originally aired on NBC on September 21, 2018. by Dateline NBC
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Haunted: Nearly 10 years after Utah mother Susan Powell vanished, private journals, home videos and emails shed new light on what happened to her. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on October 4, 2019. by Dateline NBC
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Obsession: In this Dateline classic, a young Wisconsin college student with a passion for music is mysteriously found dead in her bed, but it's another woman's unbelievable courage that ultimately leads police to her killer. Andrea Canning reports. Originally aired on NBC on January 30, 2015. by Dateline NBC
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The Black Widow of Lomita: A California woman’s two former husbands are mysteriously murdered, nearly 20 years apart. She becomes known as the “Black Widow of Lomita” and is able to elude police, until fate catches up with her. Keith Morrison reports from the Philippines on this international story which features the sister of one of the victims who never stopped fighting to learn what really happened to her brother. Originally aired on NBC on November 8, 2019. by Dateline NBC
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The Halloween Party: In this Dateline classic, detectives settle in for a long investigation while a Michigan town searches for clues when one of their residents goes missing from a Halloween party. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on October 27, 2017. by Dateline NBC
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The Match: In this Dateline classic, a high school girl, who was nearly beaten to death in her own home, goes under hypnosis in an attempt to identify her attacker. Andrea Canning reports. Originally aired on NBC on September 7, 2018. by Dateline NBC
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The Plan: A double homicide in upstate New York leads detectives on a cross country investigation to piece together a case with a surprising suspect at the center. Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on October 11, 2019. by Dateline NBC
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The Thing About Pam: The unbelievable story of how the murder of one woman, Betsy Faria, set off a chain of events leaving one man dead, another man implicated and a diabolical scheme exposed. Keith Morrison unravels the latest chapter, including why Betsy’s friend, Pam Hupp, impersonated a real-life Dateline producer. Listen in conjunction with the hit 6-episode behind-the-scenes podcast of the same name. Originally aired on NBC on September 27, 2019. by Dateline NBC
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The Creek: In this Dateline classic, Danielle Locklear, a popular and charismatic high school freshman leaves home to drop off a notebook at her classmate’s house and never returns. Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on April 4, 2018. by Dateline NBC
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Final Curtain: In this Dateline classic, Rachel Buffett speaks to Dateline about being at the center of a murder investigation involving both her former fiancée and her friend, a 26-year-old Army veteran. Josh Mankiewicz reports on the details of the gripping and twisted case that made international headlines. Originally aired on NBC on November 30, 2018. by Dateline NBC
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11 Minutes: The father of an Alabama teenager calls the police after he returns home to find his son had thrown a party, leaving the place trashed. Just 11 minutes after the deputy leaves their house, there is another 911 call placed. What could have happened? Josh Mankiewicz reports. Originally aired on NBC on April 19, 2019. by Dateline NBC
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Deadly Intent: In this Dateline classic, a car bomb explodes in front of a suburban San Diego day care home. Josh Mankiewicz reports on the driver, a married mother of three children. Originally aired on NBC on October 4, 2013. by Dateline NBC
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Abducted: Andrea Canning reports on the case that made national headlines in December 2019, when a Texas mother was found murdered after she and her newborn daughter disappeared. Originally aired on NBC on January 31, 2020. by Dateline NBC
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Bad Blood: In this Dateline classic, Twin sisters Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead discover their mother Nikki savagely murdered in their home. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on August 1, 2014. by Dateline NBC
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At the Bottom of the Lake: In this Dateline classic, a pilot flees after a deadly plane crash, and becomes a fugitive living a double life for decades. He tells his story to Keith Morrison. Originally aired on NBC on October 12, 2018. by Dateline NBC
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Poison: In this Dateline classic, newlyweds Paul and Linda Curry come down with a mysterious illness. Paul recovers but Linda is hospitalized and the strange symptoms won’t go away. Josh Mankiewicz reports. Originally aired on NBC on December 12, 2014. by Dateline NBC
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Before Dawn: In this Dateline classic, newlyweds Seth and Lisa Techel are expecting their first child, but a shotgun blast shatters their dreams on Memorial Day weekend, 2011. Dennis Murphy reports. Originally aired on NBC on September 26, 2014. by Dateline NBC
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At the Bottom of the Pool: In this Dateline classic, a model and up and coming YouTube celebrity is found dead. Police question her husband to see if he can provide any answers. Keith Morrison reports on what could have led to her death. Originally aired on NBC on October 13, 2017. by Dateline NBC
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The Music Box: When Lisa Ziegert is abducted during her evening shift at a gift shop, local detectives, state police and the FBI work relentlessly to find her. Her family keeps the case in the public eye for decades, until the dogged investigators finally solve the mystery. Andrea Canning reports. Originally aired on NBC on January 10, 2020. by Dateline NBC
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