for that baby. she wanted to be a mom. this wasn t somebody thinking about suicide. exactly. it made me wonder was he a murderer? you are trying to prove a murderer with pretty much no evidence. correct. is he kind of gloating he got away with it? he is thinking, well, catch me if you can. we are going to do her and her family justice. we are going to solve this murder. hello, and welcome to dateline . meg purk was a young mom to be, over the moon to be having her first child. then, just days before her due date, she died of an apparent suicide. her family struggled to understand why, but in a strange twist, a house fire set decades later would point to a possible answer and put investigators on a trail towards the truth. here is josh mankiewicz with secrets from the grave . wander through any graveyard, and you will find them, mysteries etched in stone. lives cut tragically short by war, disease, misfortune, and sometimes murder. many who arrested in
if he had been peaking in her dorm room window. i m being blackmailed from for many. lauren kept saying, well, the police will handle it. we got the notification on our phone a second lockdown. he had been lying in wait. i was like, this isn t real. this isn t happening. how do you not recognize that this girl needs your help? what should scare every parent is that this could be going on at any campus across our country. hello and welcome to dateline . college senior lauren mccluskey was known around campus as a star athlete. but few knew that off the field, she was trapped in a minute abusive relationship. lauren turn to campus police for protection,. not once, but several times. most of us would agree it was the right thing to do. so, why did things turn out so very wrong? here s josh mankiewicz with lauren s promise . graduation at the university of utah inn salt lake city, home of the utes. a time for selfies, smiles and celebration. in may 2
find out who are doe is. to try and think this is your family. you want to give them closure. two homicide detectives. it s way above our heads. and i said i think i know how we can do it. all of these people share some amount of dna with the unknown person. we thought, this is the family. this is it! surreal. it felt like someone just punch me in the stomach. it s a funny thing, isn t it? that it would be important to have a stone with your name on it. it is! written on stone. you re never forgotten. hello and welcome to dateline! in many cold cases, a grieving family is desperate to find their loved ones keller. but this mystery was not a whodunnit. the killer eventually confessed to the brutal crime. but who did the murder? that question haunted a small texas town for more than 20 years. until a team of strangers put a name with a face. here s keith morrison with the woman with no name. here is where they put her. her permanent home. no one real
want my sister. women are coming forward saying that you were sexually harassed in the army. enough is enough. we need to change this. the trends are going the wrong way, it s really tearing at this as an institution. a man who is out digging holes sees what he thinks is human hair. miracles can happen, i will say, please don t let it be hello and welcome to dateline. vanessa was living her dream while keeping close to airtight knit family and serving in the military. then she disappeared. as soldiers search for the missing soldier, their quest for answers would shine and spotlight them ugly truth. but would it lead them to vanessa? here s voices for vanessa . i couldn t believe this is happening to me. it was the scariest part of my life because i was alone. reporter: so many were quiet for so long. i was harassed, sexually assaulted, raped and physically threatened. this man that i physically trusted, i felt violated and stupid. reporter: but
people were gonna come across a suspect. it was fascinating how they went about the investigation. we got a call, we ve got three brothers. we think one of them is the color. that they didn t know which one. so, you ve got a live one? we ve got live one here. what do you think at that moment? we re ecstatic. we re ready to go. he was sitting at a booth right by the window. there you are the next ? it s hard to enjoy your food when you think you re staring at that killer. hello and welcome to dateline . teenager michelle martinko was blessed with beauty, brings and compassion. but her promising future was cut short when she was savagely murdered. that dreadful night was ice cold, and after four decades, so was her case. then, a stunning scientific breakthrough helped detectives whittled down a list of suspects to unmask a killer hiding in plain sight. here s dennis murphy with and then there were three . it was an act of unspeakable violence. it w