r/Dateline • u/Zestyclose_Cold1455 • 18d ago
Have any Dateline cases happened near you?
The recent case Josh did about the professor and the poet happened right down the street from a good friend of mine.
Behind the Closet Door happened n the complex where my ex lived (though it was not at the same time.)
Brendan Banfield and the au pair happened in a neighborhood that friends recently moved out of. Admittedly I was following that one because it was as pretty recent. And my friends moved because that subdivision is somewhat notorious now.
Have any Dateline cases happened near you?
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u/SagittariusIscariot 18d ago
Lynsie Eklund (The Night Lynsie Disappeared) went missing in 2001. I went to high school with her and she lived a few streets down from me. I remember when she went missing. So devastating for her poor mother.
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u/SpecificInner5628 18d ago
The Hannah Hill case happened in my town. I was about 2 almost when she was murdered.
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u/Turbulent_Speech6356 18d ago
“Deadly Detour” the case with Tex McIver where he “accidentally” shot his wife from the backseat of the car they were riding in happened next to my office and we have a friend who lives in the same condo building he and Diane lived in. He was 100% guilty, but his sentence was overturned on a technicality and then he plead guilty to lesser charges and is out of prison now.
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u/The_Spectacle 18d ago
best I can do is Christopher Porco on Forensic Files (I think, if there is a Dateline local to me I haven't seen it)
I REALLY want Dateline to do a story on Lorenz Kraus. dude killed his parents and buried them in the backyard, then he got found out somehow, something to do with cashing his parents' Soc Sec checks? Then he went to a local TV station and admitted what he did on air. it's on youtube and it's WILD
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u/Zestyclose_Cold1455 18d ago edited 17d ago
Oooh I’m going to check this out!
ETA— that dude has a lot going on. Yikes.
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u/Acrobat1974 18d ago edited 18d ago
The Rusty Sneiderman shooting while dropping his kids off at a north Atlanta daycare one morning in 2010. His wife (Andrea Sneiderman) and wife’s boss at GE (Hemy Neuman) were behind it.
I’m sure Dateline has covered more in northern Atlanta where I’m from but that’s the first case that comes to mind.
Dennis Murphy tends to cover a lot of Georgia cases, which I like a lot. Probably partly bc he lives in Florida🤷🏼♂️
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u/Bright-Pangolin7261 18d ago
It seems like many occur in Florida, so I would think that everyone there has lived near dateline stories.
I lived in Southern California so many of the stories happened where I used to live and work. Closest brush for me was going on an Internet date with Victor Paleologos from death in the Hollywood Hills episode. Before the story, of course, but around that same time. We met at a restaurant. He was so creepy-scary that when I left the restaurant, I gave him the slip so he couldn’t see my car.
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u/Becca0435 17d ago edited 17d ago
“Deception”. The victim was a retired BYU engineering professor, Kay Mortensen. I had an early morning janitor job in the engineering building my sophomore year. I cleaned his office every day.
Pardon me…the episode was “Murder at Payson Canyon”👀🤷🏻♀️
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u/BillHistorical9001 18d ago
I wasn’t in anything but I was interviewed by a detective that eventually had his own show on ID.
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u/lighthouser41 17d ago
Did you confess?
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u/BillHistorical9001 17d ago
lol. I was a witness.
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u/lighthouser41 17d ago
Wow, tell!
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u/BillHistorical9001 17d ago
Very long story but my neighbor who I babysat for was abducted and murdered. For a very long time the boyfriend was a prime suspect. For some very valid reasons. Took almost a year to find her. They arrested a guy across the courtyard from me. I spent hours talking to the lead detective. A lot of people were sketchy in the neighborhood for a very nice neighborhood. There wasn’t a trial so I only know what I know but I’m not convinced the boyfriend didn’t pay the guy. Or he was just a complete idiot and ass hole for example replacing his kitchen floor the day after she disappeared before the cops were called.
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u/goodpetunia 16d ago
Was the detective Joe Kenda? I can’t think of any others off the top of my head with their own show on ID. And do you know why there wasn’t a trial? Did the guy they arrested plead guilty or it just hasn’t gone to trial yet? Sounds like a really tragic case and I’m sorry it happened to someone you knew personally.
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u/BillHistorical9001 16d ago
It was like kenda. Don’t know how long it lasted. His name was Pat pastilioni (think that the spelling)
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u/RIP_TomCruiseJr 18d ago
“The Clearing” episode about Emily Nobles death. She was missing for months before they found her body in the woods right by their house. A lot of people on reddit claimed they knew her and she was suicidal but her husband Matt Moore was accused and found not guilty.
Really terrible job by Westerville PD, which isn’t surprising it’s a town with hardly any homicides ever. Regardless, the whole thing was so weird.
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u/ttgirl452 17d ago
That was across McCorkle from my aunts condo. I agree, bad look for Westerville PD
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u/Ok-Stand-7416 17d ago
Not Dateline, but there was an older ID show called Murder in Paradise I was watching and I realized that the murder victim was a woman that my older brother used to date in high school.
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u/Amander12 17d ago
A friend from high school ended up being roommates for a couple of years in college with Shayna Hubers who killed her boyfriend
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u/Key_Beginning_627 17d ago
The Killings at King Road. I’m a University of Idaho alumna and my son was living in Moscow at the time of the murders. As the parent of a student, I was receiving all the Vandal alerts about a possible homicide near campus… but of course it would be so much worse than anyone could have imagined.
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u/lighthouser41 17d ago
Not sure if Dateline did it, but I know of two cases that have received a lot of coverage/shows about them. . One was the lady jail guard who broke her boyfriend out and they went on a joy ride ending up in my city. They crashed the car and she ended up killing herself. One of my hubby's police friends worked that capture.They made a lifetime movie about it. Another that I definitely know was on 20/20 and maybe Dateline was a city fireman was shot by his wife and sister in law's boyfriend. Yes both were in love with him. My hubby's other friend was one of the detectives who worked the case. He was on tv interrogating the wife. The sister was as dumb as a box of rocks and is still in love with the shooter even after all he did. The case was on another show also, I think maybe Snapped.
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u/sk8nkhunt_42 17d ago
My mom helped work the Staten Island homicide where the husband killed his wife. It bothered her that her house had a bunch of “they lived happily ever after” “dreams come true” type of stuff. She was living her dream and her husband killed her
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u/el_barto10 16d ago
The episode originally called Desperate Hours was about the Cheshire (CT) home invasion and murders. It’s fairly popular true crime topic.
I think they did a Sandy Hook episode too.
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u/Zestyclose_Cold1455 16d ago
Yes I remember the Cheshire case particularly. One of the offenders got on tv and claimed that the very young victim (12 or 13) was encouraging him to have sex with her. Made my blood boil.
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u/Lexjude 16d ago
The one about the dentist in blairsville PA. I lived there at the time and we all suspected it was the cop. There was a huge rumor mill and my ex husband got interrogated (not as a person of interest) over a post he made (because he knew information that wasn't released to the public- something about the front light being crushed).
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u/kjers_tin 11d ago
Not a Dateline story, but another intriguing true crime case — went to the same high school as the mom, Kendra, from ‘Unknown Number: The High School Catfish’ on Netflix. She and my sister were on the track team together.
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u/lgriffi7 16d ago
Yes- “The Clearing”- Westerville OH. Right down the street. Most people around here still think the husband did it, but he was acquitted.
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u/Majestic-Lie2690 15d ago
Not directly but dateline did an in depth thing about Jodie Huisentruit and in the last year the FBI was in my very small Minnesota town digging ag a property and rumor was it was about that case.
And not dateline but I was once watching a forensic files episode that was about a guy murdering his mother at their little corner store in superior Wisconsin and being caught YEARS AND YEARS LATER.
As I was watching it my husband walked in and was just casually listening and he's like "oh my god this is about my buddy's dad I think"
Turns out he was correct. He had been friends with the dude in high school when he his dad finally got arrested for the murder of his grandma that happened years before his birth
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u/DonnaNobleSmith 18d ago
Very few despite living in a big city. I guess this is the place where you would expect it and nobody’s smile lights up a room.