The Best Episodes of Dateline: Secrets Uncovered Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   6.7/10(14 votes)

   #1 - House on the Lake

   S1:E17/21/2017

   A mom suddenly vanishes and a dad is under suspicion, but there was no body, weapon or eyewitness, and surprises cropped up along the way.

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   7.5/10(7 votes)

   #2 - Unimaginable

   S1:E27/28/2017

   Investigating whether a toddler left in the car for seven hours while his dad was at work was a heartbreaking accident or murder.

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   7.4/10(12 votes)

   #3 - Betrayed

   S1:E38/4/2017

   Melissa Lewis disappears, leaving signs of a struggle and a strange orange mist behind her; her boss goes missing and leaves behind an even bigger mess, and a missing fortune.

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   7.4/10(13 votes)

   #4 - A Texas Twist

   S1:E48/11/2017

   This part of the Lone Star State is largely sheltered from hurricanes, but, as it turned out, not from one unnatural disaster.

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   8.0/10(9 votes)

   #5 - Nightfall

   S1:E58/18/2017

   After a young mom is found dead on the side of a country road, 40 miles from her Knoxville home, investigators scramble to figure out how she ended up there.

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   6.6/10(5 votes)

   #6 - Burning Suspicion

   S1:E68/25/2017

   At first, the fatal fire that swept through the home of a young couple looked like an accident then investigators took a closer look and what they discovered about the fire, and this couple, left them burning with suspicion.

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7. 

   8.4/10(15 votes)

   #7 - Lost and Found

   S1:E79/1/2017

   A 4-year-old girl abducted and raised by her kidnapper spends decades trying to get back home, and she finally accomplishes her goal; as it turns out, that ending was only the beginning.

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   7.6/10(17 votes)

   #8 - The Mystery of the Murdered Major

   S1:E89/8/2017

   After an attack on a respected U.S. Army major in the middle of the night, police launch an investigation that reveals wild secrets -- secrets that might hold the key to murder.

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   7.9/10(11 votes)

   #9 - The House In The Woods

   S1:E99/15/2017

   A hockey player finds his wife murdered in their home; his daughter says she saw a robber, but the killer's identity turns out to be far more complicated; police have their suspects but her family members have questions of their own.

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    7.8/10(10 votes)

    #10 - Frantic

    S1:E109/22/2017

    After Christina, the twenty-three-year-old fashionista, goes out to a high-end shopping mall on a Friday night and vanishes, police question everyone; they know someone is lying, but not who.

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    7.3/10(10 votes)

    #11 - The Player

    S1:E119/29/2017

    A double murder reveals a double life; the victims are a well-respected couple whose son plays poker for a living; his alibi is his ace in the hole, but when detectives find key evidence, they think they are holding all the cards.

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    7.5/10(14 votes)

    #12 - The Goldfinger Mystery

    S1:E1210/6/2017

    A couple who made a fortune in gold is headed for divorce when the wife is murdered; on tape, the husband is not at the crime scene, but police think the video holds the key to unlocking a mystery.

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    7.6/10(14 votes)

    #13 - Secrets in a Small Town

    S1:E1310/13/2017

    A woman's life ends in mystery on a dead end road; a mother of three, loved by her family and tight-knit community; for years the murder investigation went cold, but secrets have a way of eventually coming out.

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    7.3/10(14 votes)

    #14 - Crossing the Line

    S1:E1410/20/2017

    Big sky country and a dangerous highway set the scene of a fatal car crash; determining if the tragedy was an accident or a crime and the secrets behind the truth hiding in text messages sent just before a car crossed the line.

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    6.8/10(12 votes)

    #15 - Mystery at Heath Bar Farm

    S1:E1510/27/2017

    A popular teacher is savagely murdered in her home; there is an arrest, a trial, and a conviction, but when a bombshell comes in after the verdict, the convicted murderer is given a chance at freedom.

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    7.4/10(8 votes)

    #16 - Deadly Triangle

    S1:E1611/3/2017

    If a killer is still free after 25 years, then maybe they got away with murder; the trail goes cold, never to warm up again, until one day it does.

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    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - Diabolical

    S1:E1711/10/2017

    A newlywed receives terrifying emails with threats of kidnapping and death; the emails appear to come from an ex-girlfriend, but hiding behind the threats is a cyber-secret.

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    7.5/10(8 votes)

    #18 - The Day She Disappeared

    S1:E1811/17/2017

    A woman disappears while on her morning jog.

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    7.3/10(10 votes)

    #19 - Collision

    S1:E1911/24/2017

    A wife and a mistress vying for the same man end up in a high-speed showdown on a highway; after the man of their dreams, on his motorcycle nearby, gets struck and killed, his wife becomes accused of his murder.

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    8.0/10(9 votes)

    #20 - Heart of Darkness

    S1:E2012/1/2017

    A mother, her son and a cousin are kidnapped by terrorists while on vacation; a father turned negotiator tries to end the international hostage drama, but the price of freedom is a huge ransom.

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    6.7/10(7 votes)

    #21 - The Last Dance

    S1:E2112/8/2017

    A beloved kindergarten teacher and mother of two finds a new lease on life after shedding hundreds of pounds; when she suddenly vanishes from her home, investigators uncover a connection between her dramatic weight loss and mysterious disappearance.

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    7.4/10(6 votes)

    #22 - Troubled Waters

    S1:E2212/15/2017

    A California couple's romantic getaway on a boat turns tragic when the young wife and mother is lost at sea; the case goes cold for years until a model with a checkered past goes undercover to find the truth.

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    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - Tangled

    S1:E2312/22/2017

    At first it looked like a home invasion gone wrong at the house Ralph Candelario shared with his second wife, but when police learn the antique dealer's first wife had disappeared, they take a closer look.

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