The neighbor leads the charge in the investigation against her alleged stalker, ultimately being the main witness in his conviction. The upstairs neighbor who alerted the police to the attack also leads them right to their main suspect, her teenage stalker. The wife and mother manage to survive a shot to the head (!!), but when authorities begin to dig into the family’s life to find a motive for the attack, there are even more surprises ahead.Ī beautiful young mother is murdered and her 5-year-old son is also attacked and fights for his life. When an accountant is away on business in California, he gets the call that is (almost) everyone’s worst nightmare, his wife has been brutally attacked in their home.
This one gets super twisty, but you have to stick with it through the end because the final twist is by far one of the biggest OMG moments in our ongoing Dateline obsession. As the investigators begin the arduous process of combing through the victim’s past, a hidden diary becomes the key to finding those responsible, and nothing is as it seems on the surface. The gated community where the family lived is shaken by the violent murder, and the single mother’s twin daughters are devastated by her death. Identical twins frantically call the police to report finding their mother’s dead body in the bathtub when they get home from school. When Bethany’s case gets assigned to a detective whose own sister had been murdered and set on fire, he treats it like a second chance to find justice. The only sign of something untoward is the building just next door, which had been destroyed by fire the very morning Bethany was reported missing. Her apartment looks as if she just up and vanished, with her cell phone still sitting on the counter, and her purse hanging neatly in the closet.
Hired by the hotel’s legal team, Brennan convinces the overworked Miami Dade PD to let him do the investigative heavy lifting, and his eye for details puts it all together.Ģ1-year-old Bethany disappears just days after she arrives at college in Anchorage, Alaska. The story gets even more dubious when her lawyer files a lawsuit against the hotel where she was staying at the time of her attack. Upon being airlifted to the hospital and regaining consciousness, the woman immediately asks for a lawyer, raising suspicion around her story. The “vanishing blonde” is a 21-year-old Ukranian woman, found naked, badly beaten, and barely alive by a power company employee just inside Miami city limits. Ken Brennan is a Dateline icon, the kind of private detective you want in your corner if a loved one ever goes missing. If you’re a Dateline newbie, you may not know about the private detective Ken Brennan. In the meantime, here are the Dateline episodes that gave us those jaw-dropping OMG moments that are so satisfying. Thank you, NBC’s Dateline, for reminding us that even though we may feel like we’re in over our heads sometimes, as long as we practice self-restraint when we the mood to feed our loved ones antifreeze strikes, we’re doing okay.
Full of people making the worst possible choices, and driven to wild, out of control behavior, a good Dateline episode is full of dogged investigators and criminals with horribly poor logic skills. Perhaps that’s the origin of our love of Dateline NBC episodes.
We will never stop marveling at the crazy things people will do to each other. By: Bridget Lusky NBC’s ‘Dateline’: All the most OMG episodes so far