Helen Undercover: The Strip Mall Secret
The Dating Detectives
Dear Media
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On the final Dating Detectives Monday of the year, Mackenzie and Hanna celebrate nearly three years of sleuthing with a classic PI Undercover episode, this time featuring private investigator Helen, business partner to fan-favorite Ken. Helen shares her journey into the PI world and takes us deep into a jaw-dropping case involving an out-of-state client, a glamorous LA girlfriend, and a web of lies that unraveled into a full-blown Dogfish discovery.
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| 0:00.0 | The following program contains names, places, and events that have been anonymized or fictionalized for the purposes of protection and safety. |
| 0:08.8 | The following program is provided for entertainment purposes only, and any commentary from the hosts are strictly conjecture and should not be held as making any definitive statements about the truth or identity of any particular individuals or circumstances. |
| 0:21.2 | If you or a loved one are involved in an abusive relationship, |
| 0:24.2 | please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-723 for support. |
| 0:40.2 | Happy Dating Detectives Monday. |
| 0:44.0 | I believe it's the last dating detectives Monday of the year. Of the whole year. |
| 0:45.2 | Can you believe it's been almost, what, almost three years? |
| 0:48.2 | In April, right? |
| 0:49.5 | Wow. |
| 0:49.8 | Wow. |
| 0:50.1 | Wow. |
| 0:51.1 | We're so grateful for you guys. |
| 0:53.7 | Thank you so much for giving us another |
| 0:55.1 | amazing year of the dating detectives and being part of our community. We love you so much. |
| 1:01.5 | And we wanted to end the year with a fun episode. We love PI undercover episodes. Obviously, |
| 1:07.5 | McKenzie undercover episodes are just have a special place in our heart. |
| 1:16.6 | And then if you haven't listened, we've had some guest PIs come and share their stories. |
| 1:19.8 | Ken, Ken is a highlight. |
| 1:21.1 | Oh my God. |
| 1:22.8 | Everybody loves Ken so much. |
| 1:23.8 | He's so funny. But a lot of his last episode was talking about how it's, like, so important to |
| 1:28.3 | be the right PI for a case so that you can, because you can do different things if you're a |
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