Episode
Dateline: Detective Story
Overview
A nurse is murdered in what police say is a burglary gone wrong. The case goes cold for over two decades, until a killer is ID’d -- the last person anyone would suspect. Josh Mankiewicz reports.
Details
- Series
- Dateline
- Season
- Season 28
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 2019-11-22
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Detective Story is Episode 9 in Season 28 of Dateline. It aired on 2019-11-22. The runtime is 43 min.
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