The 18 Year Prison Sentence
The Dating Detectives
Dear Media
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
Happy Dating Detectives Monday! This week’s story follows Daniel, who thought he had built a life rooted in love, family, and hard-earned stability—until things slowly start to stop adding up. What begins as a fast-moving romance turns into decades of marriage, children, and financial ups and downs… but beneath it all, there are cracks forming that he can’t quite explain. Missing money, shifting stories, and a growing sense that something isn’t right lead Daniel down a path to discovering the shocking truth.
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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. |
| 0:08.7 | 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. |
| 0:21.4 | 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. |
| 0:40.5 | Happy dating detectives Monday. |
| 0:44.6 | Happy dating detectives Monday. |
| 0:45.1 | All right. |
| 0:46.6 | You know what? |
| 0:49.1 | We got to review a comment. |
| 0:53.0 | And someone who was like, unrelated to the episode, please never change your theme song. |
| 0:54.4 | I love the theme song so much, which is so nice. But after you're just saying that, I think we need to change it to that. Sorry. Can we, do you want me to start humming the theme song instead of having to music? Oh, I always do when we're recording. I'm like, then a na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. That's so much better. |
| 1:11.6 | And then we get his thing on top of it, |
| 1:13.2 | happy dating, detect it, all obnoxiously, and that'd be amazing. |
| 1:16.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.7 | This is like when people say, would you still love me if I was a worm? It's like, would you still love us if our theme song was us just going, |
| 1:23.2 | da-na-na-na-da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-ha. |
| 1:27.7 | Did you imagine? |
| 1:28.7 | Thank you guys for being here, despite the fact that we're a little bit cookie. We have a guest today. Yes. And it's a boy. Thank goodness. We love when men come tell their stories because this is not a man-hating show. We promise. It's just statistically a lot of the stories we get are men |
| 1:45.4 | being butt heads. Yeah. So having a, having a man come on and share his story just kind of opens up |
| 1:51.8 | the lines of communication maybe and maybe it'll plant a seed for someone else that maybe they |
| 1:57.4 | have a story to share that they're afraid to. And so I just think it sets a good example. |
| 2:02.3 | So I'm glad that he's here. I'm glad that Daniel is going to share his story. |
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