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Casepin has matched 51 videos from Dateline NBC, the YouTube channel, to 35 published case files. The indexed videos were published between September 2016 and October 2025. Together they run to about 2 hours of viewing and listening.

The cases span 3 countries, led by United States (33), Guyana (1) and South Africa (1). They range in date from 1969 to 2022. The earliest is Murder of Michelle Martinko (1979); the most recent case is 2022 University of Idaho Murders (2022). Within United States, the most-covered places are California (7), Idaho (3) and Georgia (3). By decade, the busiest are the 2010s (13), the 2000s (10) and the 1990s (3).

By the legal status recorded on each file, 25 are solved, 4 unsolved, 4 ongoing and 2 cold. The case with the most videos from Dateline NBC is Murder of Laci Peterson, with 3. New to the catalog? 2022 University of Idaho Murders is a good first file.

Other creators in the index covered many of the same cases; the largest overlaps are with That Chapter (18), Dr. Todd Grande (14) and Kendall Rae (14). The average indexed video runs about 2 minutes. The newest one matched so far is “Dateline Episode Trailer: The Death of Dr. Schwartz | Dateline NBC”, from October 2025.

Casepin links to Dateline NBC’s work and never re-hosts it. Every case file is cited; open one to see everyone else who covered it.