Episode
Dateline: The Black Candle Confession
Overview
A glimpse of a sobbing woman lighting black candles is seared into a 9-year-old girl’s memory. Decades later that girl reveals what she saw, heating up a long-cold case. Keith Morrison reports.
Details
- Series
- Dateline
- Season
- Season 28
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 2020-01-17
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
The Black Candle Confession is Episode 17 in Season 28 of Dateline. It aired on 2020-01-17. The runtime is 43 min.
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