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10 The Night Before Halloween Dateline: Secrets Uncovered; Season 10, Episode 65 Close "The Night Before Halloween" explores an investigation that spans 23 years. Robin Lucille Hoynes of Whittier, California was found dead on the morning of Oct. 31, 1984, in the KFC restaurant where she was an assistant manager. The body was found with stab wounds in her back and her throat slashed, and no one knew who exactly had committed the horrific crime.
At around the same time, Alahverdian was being investigated for credit card fraud and domestic abuse. Then on February 29, 2020, it was announced that Alahverdian had passed away due to complications with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and COVID-19, only for him to be discovered hiding in Glasgow, Scotland. When investigators assigned to the case visited another murder scene, that of Roger and Mary Brumback, they found the bodies killed similarly to Hunter and Sherman. Thanks to some eyewitness accounts, Anthony Garcia was investigated, and it was discovered that Garcia had recently been removed from Creighton Pathology, where Hunter and Brumback both worked.
Sarah shot and killed her husband in May 2018, but she was cleared of any wrongdoing after the murder was determined to be made in self-defense. It's a fascinating look at Sarah and, despite her facade, the Dateline episode paints her as calculating, cold, and almost a puppet master in her dealings with her previous husbands.
5 The Man Who Knew Too Much Season 25, Episode 7 Close "The Man Who Knew Too Much" is actually a follow-up to another Dateline episode, "The Girl With the Blue Mustang", from season 18. In that episode, the worst-case scenario of what can happen when one speaks to the police without a lawyer present is depicted.
The story is so popular that The Thing About Pam has even become a dramatic miniseries. This episode concerns the murder of Betsy Faria from Troy, Missouri. Somehow, Marshburn got Holbert to admit to the murder, and he was even brought to the site of Bordeaux's grave. The unexpected twists of this episode are nearly as shocking as Holbert's confession to Marshburn, whose intuition and cleverness drew him to the case in the first place.