Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe talk about their roles in the provocative movie about a real-life Harlem heroin kingpin's rise and fall.
Ann Curry reports on the McCaughey Septuplets, the world’s only surviving septuplets. She holds a retrospective conversation with the septuplets, which now in fourth-grade have much to say about their family, school, friendship, religion and world events, including the significance of their birth.
When police force open a bedroom door in a student rental cottage in Perugia, Italy, they find the naked body of a young English woman covered by a bed quilt.
A hidden-camera investigation sheds light on the global black market in passports. Meanwhile, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Chris Hansen joins forces with the Kentucky Bureau of Investigations, to catch internet predators looking for sex with minors.
Dateline takes you into the world of international adoption, with a hidden camera investigation that unveils shady operators accused of emptying wallets and breaking promises. It’s a world where unsuspecting families, and innocent children, become victims.
An exclusive behind the scenes look inside the search for Natalie Holloway's body. Also, an interview with a friend who was with Natalie the night she disappeared who is speaking out for the first time.
He was a stranger that showed up one day out of the blue. A man that was quiet, charming and a little mysterious. The stranger claimed to have been running away from a tragedy that had destroyed his family.
They're some of the luckiest folks on the face of the earth, survivors of the "Ten Scariest Escapes from Death." This 2 hour Dateline report features, people trapped in burning planes, sinking ships, a roaring avalanche, skydiving accidents and each one caught on tape.
Tonight, a brave high school girl tries to outfox her fugitive kidnapper, after being held hostage for ten days in an underground bunker.
This is a story, oddly enough, about what we don't know about a little girl in the blue dress -- because what we do know is simple. She was born on St.
Tonight on Dateline, conjoined twins face surgical separations, but are the risks worth the separation? 5 years after the surgery, it's hard to tell they were once conjoined , both are beautiful, energetic and smart.
A criminal is on the loose, and the police, the FBI, and nearly everyone in this town is either looking for him or trying to avoid him. Police are looking for a brazen criminal still at large. The victim: a young college student. The crime: random, mysterious and brutal. Next, a Navy officer goes on trial for killing his wife's ex-husband, but was it temporary insanity or cold-blooded murder?
A tiny news clip plainly spelled it out: a road fatality. It was another life cut heartbreakingly short. The news story made no mention of the giant affection young Zack Dunlap had earned from family and friends, who more than anything wished they could rewrite history.
After a college trip ends in tragedy, a young survivor is cared for by a family that begins to suspect something isn't right. It's a story of deep faith, undying love and how both families were tested to the limit by an almost unimaginable twist of fate. Two girls, one dead and the other unconscious, but, which is which?
Tonight on Dateline, 10 amazing crimes caught on tape. First, after breaking into a liquor store in Fort Worth, Texas, a burglar named Larry Curtis Bynum finds himself unable to escape, then, outside a California courthouse, lawyer Jerry Curry narrowly survives a shooting by literally dodging bullets from behind a tree.
At 7 a.m., at a well known party spot just half a mile outside of Poplar Missouri, police found a family pick-up abandoned. Officers followed a trail of blood from the truck, down a rutted dirt track 250 feet, to the Poplar River.
Britney's saga started here, far from the big city lights. Kentwood, La is a sleepy town that once upon a time nurtured the best in Britney Spears. Kentwood was Britney's first real home.
America's seniors have always been a sales target, now more than ever because they control more than $15 trillion. In an effort to get a slice of that pie, some independent insurance agents, representing big insurance companies, are selling a relatively new kind of investment. A Dateline hidden camera investigation sees what insurance agents say, and what they don't when they think they are alone with a senior.
Tonight on Dateline, a seemingly happy family unravels, leaving a wife and mother dead, and three children confused. Next, another wife and mother is murdered, but this time, police have undeniable evidence that husband, Edward Locascio Sr, had been several miles away from the crime scene, so was he involved?
Rick Cooper hadn't even seen a live bedbug until 1999. Since then, treating them has become almost a full time job for his company, Cooper Pest Management in northern New Jersey.
It’s a story told in part, through a raw and shocking videotape, which captures the most private of moments. Two lovers on a long weekend, that would end in death.
Tonight on Dateline, Jonathan Luna, 38 years old husband, devoted father and a charismatic young prosecutor, known for locking up the hardest of criminals, is killed. But were the criminals he prosecuted somehow behind his death? Next, in Eldorado Texas, there is a place where the pain runs very deep just now. Rumors are swirling about an FLDS ranch, brainwashing women and children. But what's really going on?
A casting call was being advertised around the Web last fall, from Craig’s List, professional modeling sites, to a popular Houston Web-zine. A man named Gemase Simmons, promised aspiring supermodels that they'd be reality TV stars, instead, the hopefuls got a harsh reality check.
Tonight, a different kind of awards show. The winners, are those who are best known for losing it on tape. In a world of gossip magazines and internet blogs, stars are serving up a non stop blooper fest.
Seventeen years after a murder at a comic book store, a new detective re-opens the dusty case file, to find a long-lost clue, to a real-life mystery. In the front of the mom-and-pop comic book shop, were bins of the fantasies: Spidey, Hulk and X-Men.
After making a really bad choice, a husband who thought he could play around learned too late that he was playing with fire. Ignacio Garraus met Heather Hodges met in college. It was love at first sight. But when the right woman didn't give Ignacio Garraus enough attention, it left an opening for the wrong woman.
Do you think you have ever seen a UFO? Tonight, we count down the 10 most out-of-this-world '"close encounters" from Texas to New Zealand, to the "Belgian Triangle."
Tonight on "Dateline," Tina and Gabe Watson, newlyweds on their honeymoon, go on a big diving expedition in Australia. They take the dive into the deep blue sea and 45 feet down, Tina gets into trouble. She begins to drop deeper into the open ocean and Gabe heads back to the top for help, but something wasn't right. Was he trying to save her or something else. What really happened under water?
Tonight on "Dateline," Barbara "Bobbi" Winn, 35, had written a breakup letter to her boyfriend telling him their volatile relationship was all over. What Bobbi didn't know, was that her then-14-year-old daughter, Tammi, was awake in the bed right next to her.
Tonight on "Dateline," Rich Luttrell, a Vietnam veteran himself, has spent years working with veterans, most of whom, just like him, are deeply proud of their service, but when during his tour in Vietnam, he found a small picture of a girl and a soldier standing side by side, his life journey would take a huge turn.
Bethnay Correira disappears in Alaska, just days after arriving at college. Police look at two brothers as suspects in the murder, but can anyone breach their loyalty and find out the truth?
An airplane mechanic goes missing, his wife says he left with a mysterious passenger, but police have more questions about the condition of his marriage.
Kevin Coe was sent to prison after being accused of assaulting over 40 women and convicted of raping one. So why are people living in fear again? Nearly 30 years later, the town is in a frantic race to try to stop Coe from returning, and others waiting, wondering if new evidence could somehow provide a final answer to the questions that all started in 1978.
On Jan. 17, 2008, a young mother named Denise Amber Lee was abducted from her home, driven down busy roads, winding through residential neighborhoods, in broad daylight, screaming for her life.
Tonight on "Dateline," the first woman to ever be exonerated by DNA evidence. Lynn Dejac had her prison sentence reversed in November 2007. After being jailed more than 13 years for the murder of her own daughter, Lynn's prayers are answered, when a diligent, cold-case detective pursues justice, and vows to set a system he swore to uphold right.
Every year, thousands of young teachers walk into a classroom full of dynamic and sometimes difficult kids. Now meet Monica Groves and witness the challenges she'll face as a first-time teacher, determined that her students will learn. But in the end, she's the one who will be truly tested.
Dozens of women had disappeared after posing for a Hollywood photographer. Now a team of committed detectives is trying to track down the truth.
Deep in the archives of the Los Angeles Police Department is a room they call "The Tunnel". There in that room are more mysteries than even in Hollywood's storied imagination.
A debate over whether a wife shot her cheating husband divides everyone, including jurors for two trials. The wife claims her husband, Brian Hughes, walked in the front door of their single-story ranch, where he was gunned down by an intruder already in the home.
A controversial murder case comes to a dramatic end after Neil Entwistle's secret life is revealed. Now, for the first time a juror talks to Dateline about the verdict.
Juanita Richards plummeted to her death at the Picture Rocks National Lake-shore. Tom and Juanita Richardson, were a hard-working couple, cherishing the chance to get away from it all, until a hiking trip turned into a murder investigation.
They arrive with devastating force, and in just seconds homes, businesses, and even lives are gone. Tornadoes sent trucks airborne in Alabama, carved a rare path of destruction through downtown Atlanta, flattened towns in Iowa, and killed more than 115.
Whether it's a fire, a medical emergency, or a crime, when every second counts, 911 is a lifeline. We take a look at some of the most heart-stopping, gut-wrenching 911 calls ever heard.
A couple share their story of being stranded in the waters of the great barrier reef and how they survived the 19-hour ordeal. Ally Dalton, 40, and Rich Neely, 38, booked a 3-day excursion on this catamaran, called "Pacific Star.
It all started with an unhappy couple looking to get a divorce. In May of 1994, Darren Mack took a trip to Los Angeles to speak at a seminar. It was there that he first laid eyes on a younger woman named Charla.
An estimated $30 billion+ of unclaimed property is sitting in state treasuries, waiting to be returned to millions of Americans. The problem is, state officials often don't have the resources to find everybody. Tiki Barber, Tamron Hall and Peter Alexander, present families across the country, with checks and other valuables, that in some cases have gone unclaimed for as long as 50 years.
A millionaire's wife runs off with an electrician, who runs through some of the couple's fortune. When the millionaire winds up dead, guess who the prime suspect is? The murder victim was 52-year-old Ted Ammon, a Wall Street investment banker whiz who'd already scored his first $50 million before he was 40.
Two women form a friendship, after one is hired to kill the other, but ends up saving her life instead.
Tower climbers risk life and limb to install, maintain and repair high-tech equipment. They have the most dangerous job in America. They are the men and women who climb up to 2,000 feet in the air, to fix and erect communications towers.
Five years ago, Dateline came to Cambodia to investigate the sale of children for sex. What they found was absolutely horrifying, children as young as five, being trafficked to Europeans and Americans for as little as $30.
There was John Carlin the Third, a former steelworker from New Jersey, Scott Hilke, a traveling salesman from California and Kent Leppink, a lonely fisherman who was making a fresh start after leaving the family business in Michigan.
Amazing rescues all captured live on tape. First, a lifeguard attempts to rescue a swimmer in distress, using a wave runner and floatation devices. Next, Wichita firemen, must rescue a toddler that has fallen into a narrow 60-foot sink-hole.
After his wife's disappearance and then his friend's mysterious death, millionaire Robert Durst seemed shadowed by tragedy and suspicion. The sometimes cross-dressing millionaire is one of the most bizarre characters to ever stand trial in an American courtroom.
Every day, Customs and Border Protection agents at the U.S. border look for the truth about people entering this country. At New York’s J.F.K. Airport alone, about 30,000 international travelers a day are processed by Customs and Border Protection officers.
Could there be more victims of the brutal 1969 Manson family murders? It was Vincent Bugliosi, the famous former Los Angeles county prosecutor, who wrote about the possibility of other Manson victims out here somewhere.
The image of two teenage boys playing serenely is a picture of peace uncommon in eastern Congo, and deceptive. Because it masks some of the worst horrors of a vicious ethnic war for land and resources, a war often fought with children. Kids, give detailed insight into the violent and abusive life of a child soldier.
When a wealthy trader goes missing, many different stories come to the light. Suddenly, Sam Israel III is at the center of a mystery high up above the Hudson River. Also missing is some $300 million. Had it been a bad day on Wall Street, or was it an elaborate con?
When a woman is killed by an arrow, her husband insists it was an accident. Unfortunately, Kenneth Creamer had an incident with the same crossbow only months prior to the death of his wife, in which he accidentally shot her with the crossbow, piercing her left breast.
"Christopher Rockefeller" was a name that said it all. Christopher Rocancourt used the fake alias to open all the right doors in the summer of 2000 when at 38-years-old, the Frenchman swept through New York’s Hamptons area.
In one of the most significant terrorism cases since 9/11, a British jury last week convicted three British citizens, accused of plotting to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners, on a charge of conspiracy to murder.
First, Tom Wales, a federal prosecutor for 18 years, was murdered one month after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks while in his home. Was the killer was someone Wales had put behind bars? If so, Wales would be the first U.