A Date With Dateline
Kimberly and Katie are professional true crime TV experts with no formal training but evidence lockers filled with snark and uninformed opinions. Katie watches Dateline in hopes to learn how to prevent her new husband from murdering her for the life insurance money, and Kimberly watches so she’ll know what to say when Keith Morrison interviews her about her best friend Katie’s murder.
Episodes
April 25, 2024 • 82 mins
Mr. Mankiewicz is heading to Canada, eh! He’s bundled up on the Polar Bear Express and heading where the sun don’t shine to report on a case that shockingly took “a woman of a certain age” amount of years to solve! If you already thought that Sir Manky with the Hanky was cool as moose, wait until you hear how he’s down with OPP whilst simultaneously explaining genetic genealogy and breaking down the intricacies of Egyptian politics...
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April 18, 2024 • 101 mins
This week is full of surprises! Fantastic new DATELINE correspondent Blayne Alexander doesn't pull any punches asking the tough questions! Jake returns as a special guest host of the podcast! And a man with possibly no eyebrows has done a truly dastardly thing in Pennsylvania. Beloved wife and mother Joy Hibbs was murdered and her house set ablaze in 1991. Her husband and children would spend the next 30 years seeking JUSTICE FOR J...
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April 10, 2024 • 80 mins
Never has a Dateline update had such a wild gravel ride of an update! There’s an unforgettable trial filled with a Jenga tower, sizzle and some debatable steak, and lots of pencils. Oh, that's all...you say? Well how about a BENNY HILL HAMBURGLAR PRISON ESCAPE! Kimberly and Katie are breaking it down step by step, or rather slip by slip. Oh, and we’ve also got the return of legendary Teal the Costa Rican Beach Philosopher Spicoli!...
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April 3, 2024 • 101 mins
Andrea Canning is again proving herself do be one of Dateline's bravest correspondents. We have seen her perilously hung off the side of a mountain, draping a giant python around her shoulders, but now in THE PERFECT LIFE, she has suffered through yet another dramatic interview with Remy Ramsaran. You might remember Remy from back in 2018’s episode Secret Lives, as the overly enthusiastic marathon runner who was proudly having a se...
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March 20, 2024 • 78 mins
Dateline brings our favorite gumshoe Dennis Murphy back for a third week in a row! This time to a Target parking lot in Georgia where the heartbreaking murder of a young mom has occurred during a child custody swap. And just as shocking as the crime itself... this time it may actually NOT be the husband! Kimberly and Katie, of course, have many questions. Are things getting sudsy and sexy at the local car wash? Is there anywhere in...
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March 14, 2024 • 88 mins
Dennis Murphy returns for his second Dennisode in a row, which is always a Jenerous gift to our screens from Dateline. So, when a beloved and brave firefighter is murdered in his home, it’s going to take Dennis Murphy’s gumshoe quips and the no-nonsense mama bear skills of Kimberly and Katie's new favorite Dateline detective Val “Vivi” Vaughn to solve this case. Only they can handle the sex, lies, and security footage in this twist...
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March 7, 2024 • 80 mins
It’s a story that the whole world has been watching, and the lightning fast team at Dateline have managed to squeeze in a huge last minute update to this case! When a beautiful and wealthy mother disappears, it’s always the husband… and his girlfriend and her lawyer and their Olympic croquet private coach from Abu Dhabi. Get your data triangulated and your 7 cars detailed, lock up your 14,000 square foot tony enclave, and join us f...
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February 22, 2024 • 108 mins
In the epic conclusion of DEATH AT THE SPA, Kimberly and Katie have a lot to discuss. There is not one but two trials, another suspicious death is revealed in some intense outside information, and Josh Mankiewicz has a tough love therapy interview in the way only he can. e a lovesick woman in denial see the light! Then The Mank himself pops by the studio to spill all the tea about the infamous texts, the infamous play 12 Angry Jur...
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February 15, 2024 • 83 mins
In honor of Valentine’s Day, Dateline has given us an explosive episode about love gone wrong. When a beautiful esthetician that is loved by both a husband and countless boyfriends is killed at her day spa by bomb, the suspects are many. This episode takes place in Kimberly’s town, so we may add her family to the suspects list! Thank goodness we have Josh Mankiewicz’s compassion and his little smirk to help us wade through the afte...
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February 7, 2024 • 92 mins
What is more fun than a sleepover with all your cousins growing up? Everybody camped out in the living room just playing...telling scary stories...eating hot dogs...until you realize that Dateline's Andrea Canning is telling about the sleepover night in question and that means something tragic is about to occur. And when a mom and Navy air traffic controller is found dead in the parking lot of the Winn-Dixie and it’ll take 20 years...
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February 1, 2024 • 74 mins
It's a case that Josh Mankiewicz himself calls one of the most unusual ever! Gauntlet thrown! But he’s right (as usual)! When a caring mother is stabbed in her home, the who isn’t the real question. Her 18 year old foster daughter was found with the knife. The real question is the why, and the WHO ELSE? The answer is so diabolical that both Lester and Josh say it twice in the first 2 minutes of the episode! And it doesn’t slow down...
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January 26, 2024 • 6 mins
When a charismatic young doctor announces revolutionary treatments for cancer and HIV, patients from around the world turn to him for their last chance. As medical experts praise Serhat Gumrukcu’s genius, the company he co-founded rockets in value to over half a billion dollars. But when a team of researchers makes a startling discovery, they begin to suspect the brilliant doctor is hiding a secret. From Wondery, the new season of ...
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January 25, 2024 • 88 mins
It’s the Dateline update episode everyone has been waiting for! Dennis Murphy is back to continue the saga surrounding the tragic death of FSU professor Dan Markel. And while the hitmen responsible are already behind bars it appears that with this crime FAMILY MATTERS as the Adelson family of Florida is being taken down one by one. This includes the infamous "Maestro" of Douchebaggery and also the Grandmommy of Not Knowing She’s Be...
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January 18, 2024 • 91 mins
GHOSTS CAN’T TALK. We know what you’re thinking. Patrick Swayze. Casper. The entire cast of the US and UK series Ghosts. But go with Dateline on this. A furious Andrea Canning is taking us along on a truly spooky tale of murder, diamonds, and family. Make sure to clean your Renewal by Anderson windows and tell Father you need some burn salve for the flames on the side of your face, because Kimberly and Katie are running hot and you...
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January 10, 2024 • 96 mins
It's 2024! New year! New resolutions! New attitudes! New sassy intros! New updates on classic Dateline episodes! New phone, who di.... you get the idea. Dateline is starting off 2024 with THE ROOM DOWNSTAIRS and Andrea Canning returning to New Jersey to update us on the tragic case of Rob Cantor, his French lover Sophie and the tri-state Tony who came between them. It's a case that has Kimberly and Katie itching to discuss in detai...
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December 21, 2023 • 97 mins
Well dear friends and listeners, it's taken some time, but the time has come where we finally solve the Kathleen and Michael Peterson case! Was it an owl? Michael? An accident? Wait, what? It’s ANOTHER staircase murder? Uh oh. In Dateline's DOWN THE BASEMENT STAIRS, Annamarie is found at the bottom of her basement stairs and her wife Kara is the only suspect in her tragic death. The case itself is a classic Dateline: with mysterio...
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December 16, 2023 • 84 mins
In this very special Double Date episode Kimberly and Katie are with two of their favorite podcast friends from MOMS AND MYSTERIES- Mandy and Melissa! And of course the topic du jour has to be the frightening criminal phenomenon sweeping the nation known as phrogging! More specifically the series PHROGGING: HIDER IN MY HOUSE Episode 8 which has two tales of unwanted house visitors, each with their own brand of terror. In this discu...
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December 14, 2023 • 84 mins
It’s time for THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL from Dateline, and we’re not talking about Lester Holt giving up his vests for a familiar pocket square! In this episode we’re talking about a murderous plot that takes the life of a beloved mother who had just started to achieve her hard-earned and well-deserved American dream. Warning: This episode contains an unusual number of criminal teens with rhyming names. Thank goodness for Andrea Cannin...
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December 7, 2023 • 87 mins
Dennis Murphy is in Mark Twain country, which on a Dateline usually means something terrible has happened in a picturesque and seemingly safe town. In GHOST RIDER a wife, mother, nurse and just all around wonderful person, Becky Bliefnick, is found murdered in her bathroom shortly after Valentine's day. In this Cheat Date with Dateline Katie is joined by Jake to discuss bow ties, bogus judicial rulings and bags, bags and more bags....
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November 30, 2023 • 90 mins
Let’s get physical...evidence! Mr. Dennis Gumshoe Murphy is taking us to Seattle where we’re going to GTL, but since this is DATELINE, Gym Tan Laundry now means Gym’s Terrible Liar. When a lovely young wife goes missing, was it the husband? Or was the husband just making really truly horrible decisions with regards to women but not a murderer? Is your favorite gym chain our new Brands Unhappy Being On Dateline And Are Now Associate...
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