Dateline Missing in America – Ep. 24: The Cold Case of Nancy Snow

Dateline Originals

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4.6 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On November 4, 1980, 44-year-old Nancy Snow boarded a flight to Baltimore from St. Louis, Missouri, where she had spent several months working on Gene McNary’s U.S. Senate campaign. That night she went to a party in Baltimore; the next morning she had breakfast with the party’s host. Afterward, a man who was housesitting for Nancy apparently picked her up at a hotel, and they drove off together. Nancy Snow hasn’t been seen or heard from since then, and her disappearance is one of the D.C. area’s oldest unsolved cases. More than 44 years later, her three daughters are convinced they know who is responsible for Nancy’s disappearance. Dateline’s Josh Mankiewicz talks with her daughters Justine, Kimberly and Stacy Snow, Corporal William Noel of the Annapolis Police Department, and retired detective David Cordle. If you have any information about the disappearance of Nancy Snow, please call the Annapolis Police Department at 410-268-9000 and ask for Corporal William Noel. This episode was originally published on July 8, 2025.

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0:00.0	November 4th, 1980 was an election that changed America.
0:10.0	The polls were still open on the West Coast when NBC's John Chancellor called the race.
0:17.0	Reagan is our projected winner, Ronald Wilson Reagan, of California.
0:22.6	We want to be.
0:25.6	There he is, the president-elect.
0:27.6	Across the country, Republicans were toasting their win.
0:32.6	In Baltimore, Maryland, 44-year-old Nancy Snow was celebrating at a victory party.
0:39.3	Occasions like this were her sweet spot.
0:43.3	Kimberly, Justine, and Stacey Snow are her daughters.
0:48.3	She was just so full of light.
0:51.3	She was so amazing.
0:53.3	She always made you feel like you were the most important person in the room.
0:58.0	Those memories of their mother are vivid. They are also frozen in time. Because not long after that party ended, Nancy Snow vanished.
1:10.0	I have been obsessed my entire life with finding my mom.
1:14.8	You go down these rabbit holes and you spend years just researching, researching, researching.
1:21.3	This kind of takes over your life, doesn't it? Oh, absolutely.
1:26.4	Nancy's missing person's case is one of the oldest and maybe the coldest at the Annapolis Police Department.
1:33.8	And her daughters cannot understand why.
1:38.2	It seemed too obvious if something happened. Why couldn't they solve it?
1:42.7	They are convinced they know who is responsible for their
1:46.2	mother's disappearance. The detective assigned to Nancy's case has his eye on someone too.
1:53.3	He's still alive. So to me, no one's gotten away with anything until they're unavailable for
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