Dateline: season 15
Season 15 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Dateline Season 14.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 15 Progress Shield
To Catch a Predator - Petaluma (Part 1)
Sep 29, 2006 · 43 min
Dateline is in the town of Petaluma, Calif. where two high-profile predator cases made national headlines. What would our hidden cameras find there? Again, we want to warn you that
Blood Brothers
Oct 2, 2006 · 45 min
In a court of Law, DNA evidence is a slam dunk proof of guilt. But not in this case involving identical twin brothers.
To Catch a Predator - Petaluma (Part 2)
Oct 6, 2006 · 43 min
It's what prompted our entire series of predator investigations: Grown men sending graphic e-mails to young teenagers. And now, it's what has forced a powerful congressman out of o
Circle of Friends
Oct 21, 2006 · 43 min
A teen is killed by a bullet during a party and his friend loses his freedom to what he says is a lie.
Fatal Attraction
Nov 8, 2006 · 43 min
Loved by many, attractive, bright and kind -- Mary Lynn Witherspoon lived a sweet, southern life anybody could envy -- until a young man obsessed by her decided to take it away
Body of Evidence (a.k.a. Bigamy Murder)
Jan 9, 2007 · 43 min
A preacher and a husband involved in bigamy says his wife ran away
To Catch a Predator: Long Beach (Part 1)
Jan 30, 2007 · 43 min
Someone, we don't know who, posted an online warning that Dateline's hidden cameras are in the neighborhood. But think that stopped these men? We want to warn you that some of what
To Catch a Predator: Long Beach (Part 2)
Feb 6, 2007 · 43 min
We're back in Long Beach, California, where the long arm of the law has reached out and grabbed more than 3 dozen men in just 3 days. And perhaps the most surprising arrest in our
To Catch a Predator: Murphy, Texas (Part 1)
Feb 13, 2007 · 43 min
More predators caught in Dateline’s phenomenal sting operation.
To Catch a Predator - Murphy, Texas (Part 2)
Feb 20, 2007 · 43 min
This report airs Tuesday, Feb. 20 on NBC.
To Catch a Predator - Flagler Beach, Florida (Part 1)
Feb 27, 2007 · 43 min
Dateline's cameras are on the beach, and suspected predators are online. We want to warn you that some of what you’re about to see is explicit. This report airs Tuesday, Feb. 27 on
To Catch a Predator - Flagler Beach, Florida (Part 2)
Mar 6, 2007 · 43 min
Dateline continues its investigation in Florida, where over the course of our four-day investigation, 21 suspected predators showed up at Dateline's undercover house on the beach.
To Catch a Predator - Behind the Scenes
Mar 13, 2007 · 43 min
Tonight we follow Chris Hansen behind the scenes of this remarkably popular series. Whether you love it or hate it, it's hard to look away. The personal accounts and some very memo
To Catch a Con Man: On the Trail of a Nigerian Spam Scammer
Mar 20, 2007 · 43 min
Chris Hansen embarks on a new series of investigations that takes him into real danger as he exposes internet cons via emails preying on people believing in promises of money from
To Catch an ID Thief
Mar 27, 2007 · 43 min
Dateline's Chris Hansen goes on an undercover investigation that starts at a computer keyboard and travels across America and the Atlantic.
To Catch an ID Thief (2)
Apr 3, 2007 · 43 min
We’re on the hunt for a new kind of predator: Wendy, the apparent mastermind of an international identity theft ring. So far, the search had taking us taken us clear across the cou
To Catch a Car Thief
Apr 10, 2007 · 43 min
This has to make you wonder if Dateline is the only way anyone is caught doing anything. Tonight, undercover cameras in Houston, Texas and reporter Victoria Corderi not only docume
Don Imus: After the Fall
Apr 15, 2007 · 43 min
Three separate shootings in Albuquerque, N.M. left five dead.
Don Imus: After the Fall/The Deadly Case of Mr Hyde
Apr 15, 2007 · 43 min
Three separate shootings in Albuquerque, N.M. left five dead. Why wasn't a mentally ill man stopped before he started his brutal rampage?
Massacre at Virginia Tech
Apr 17, 2007 · 43 min
A montage of personal and AP photos of mourning and support on the VT campus.
Young Lords of Chaos
Apr 22, 2007 · 43 min
A rare look at the frightening power of a charismatic killer, just 18 years old -- a teenage mastermind who convinces other kids to kill. Would even a hardened reporter covering hi
The Man Behind the Mask
Apr 29, 2007 · 43 min
One woman's journey to identify her rapist and to bring him to justice.
Cliffhanger
Jun 11, 2007 · 45 min
A young newlywed falls to her death from a 1,000 foot cliff. Did she fall accidentally?
William & Harry
Jun 18, 2007 · 43 min
Princes William and Harry discuss their mother, Princess Diana, and the benefit concert they plan to hold to commemorate the 10th anniversary of her death.
The Preacher's Wife
Jul 9, 2007 · 43 min
A preacher and his wife looked like they had a marriage mage in heaven - until a body was found in the parsonage.
To Catch a Predator - Ocean County, NJ (Part 1)
Jul 18, 2007 · 43 min
A Day At The Beach The fascinating Chris Hansen Dateline undercover sting series continues with new episodes. Tonight, in a multimillion dollar home on a beach in New Jersey, preda
Murder on Nantucket Island
Jul 23, 2007 · 43 min
On Nantucket Island, Mass., a couple, Beth Lochtefeld and Tom Toolan's, connection is instantaneous, but their summer romance takes a tragic turn; it seems like an open-and-shut ca
Tangled Web
Aug 6, 2007 · 43 min
When a husband is murdered, investigators discover a twisted tale of secrets, lies and infidelity.