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Dateline: Missing In America

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  1. 1. Marked with an X · 15 Jul 2025
  2. 2. The Ongoing Search for Answers — A 'Missing in America' Panel · 5 Dec 2025
  3. 3. An all-new season of ‘Dateline: Missing In America’ · 20 Jul 2026
  • Gone By Noon

    10 Aug 2026 · 39 min

    Cheryl Scherer vanished from the Rhodes Pump-Ur-Own gas station in Scott City, Missouri, on April 17, 1979. The 19-year-old had spoken with her mother that morning, but when a co-worker stopped by the station shortly after that call, Cheryl was gone. Nearly ha

  • Secrets In Big Sky Country

    3 Aug 2026 · 41 min

    On June 5, 2017, 20-year-old Ashley Loring Heavy Runner reportedly went to a couple of house parties on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Montana. The next day, she and her sister Kimberly Loring messaged each other on Facebook. That is the last ti

  • The Day Zelig Vanished

    27 Jul 2026 · 40 min

    On October 3, 2024, 28-year-old Broadway performer Zelig Williams disappeared from Columbia, South Carolina. He was last seen by his mother, Kathy Williams, when he left her house around 9:50 that morning. After he failed to return home, Kathy filed a missing

  • An all-new season of ‘Dateline: Missing In America’

    20 Jul 2026 · 2 min

    Dateline: Missing In America returns for Season 5 with six all-new episodes and compelling cases. Correspondent Josh Mankiewicz reports on missing person cases brought to our attention by our social media followers. Each of the 6 episodes centers on one indivi

  • The Ongoing Search for Answers — A 'Missing in America' Panel

    5 Dec 2025 · 35 min

    For years, Dateline’s 'Missing in America' series has highlighted the stories of the missing and the families who won’t stop searching for their loved ones. Now, four seasons into the podcast — and for the 12th anniversary of the digital series — we’ve brought

  • Marked with an X

    15 Jul 2025 · 39 min

    It was the early morning hours of May 20, 2017, and 15-year-old Sophie Reeder should have been in bed. Instead, she had slipped out of her house in the River Oaks neighborhood of Fort Lauderdale and walked off into the hot, humid night. Two security cameras re

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