Dateline: Season 16
Season 16 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 15.
- 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 16 Progress Shield
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Dec 28, 2007 · 43 min
It's our twelfth "To Catch A Predator" investigation and this time we're set up in a 6,000- square foot home in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It's a town of about 50,000 people an hour
To Catch A Baby Broker
Jan 20, 2008 · 43 min
Some children offered for international adoption are exploited, even kidnapped -- forcing families into a desperate battle to save them
Murder by the Sea; The Runaway Bride
Jan 20, 2008 · 43 min
An American man set up for murder in Nicaragua, or did he actually do it?
Appointment for Murder
Mar 16, 2008 · 43 min
A doctor was found dead in his Chicago office -- and he'd been the focus of an obsession that had lasted for years
The Comic Book Murder
May 9, 2008 · 45 min
Seventeen years after a murder at a comic book store, a detective re-opens a cold case.
Mystery at Bootlegger's Cove
May 26, 2008 · 45 min
The disappearance of 21-year-old Bethany Correira, who vanished just days after arriving at college in Anchorage, Alaska, prompts a detective's determinaton to solve her case.
The Detective's Daughter
Jun 6, 2008 · 45 min
A kidnapped detective's daughter called 911. So did her husband. So did witnesses. They all thought help would be on the way. They were wrong.
Mystery in the Deep Blue Sea
Jun 20, 2008 · 45 min
A honeymoon scuba dive ends up being one woman's final trip.
Obsession (2008)
Jul 25, 2008
No one could figure out why a college student died in her bed - until a tiny spot launched an epic investigation.
The Many Faces of Clark Rockefeller
Sep 12, 2008 · 45 min
Christian Gerhartsreiter, who posed as Clark Rockefeller and abducted his daughter.