You look nice, Andrea. How are you? Thank you. How are you? Well, I'm fine, but you know, who the hell is that old dude with a weird hat on?

It says, as seen on Dateline. Love it. There is no Dateline story meeting today. There are no producers catching up on breaking crime news because it is the holidays. And we wanted to take

a look back at some of the biggest Dateline stories of 2025. This year, our reporting has taken us

from New York to Albania, from Kentucky to the Bahamas, even a haunted house in Texas.

It is December 25th. Welcome to Dateline True Crime Weekly's

year in review. Um, I want to say hi to everyone. Blaine. Hi. Hello. Coming to us from

Oxford, Mississippi Police Department. Yes, the finest conference room we could find here in between

interviews. Nice. All right. Do not make any statements until we can get an attorney over there.

Noted. Thank you. Josh Mangowitz from his office at home in California. I think it's called

a lair, actually, Andrea. It's a lair. And there's the voice, Keith Morrison, coming to you from his home office in

California. And we have Lester and Lester has his guitars behind him. Just reminds me it's time to

practice. I haven't practiced in a couple of days. All right. Well, let's get into it. The big theme that

our team noticed in 2025 was appropriate for this time of the year. It's cold. A good portion of the cases we covered were cold cases. A big one was Crystal Rogers, the case of the Kentucky mom of five who disappeared in 2015. It took 10 years for her boyfriend Brooks Hauk to be tried and convicted for her murder.

So what do you think, guys? Can we call 2025 the year of the cold case?

I actually, as I was thinking about this, I had a couple of them. My first of the year actually kicked off with a cold case. And that was, we talked about the haunted house down in Texas.

There was also the case of Leslie Prier and her daughter, Lauren, who waited 20 years to bring her mom's killer to justice.

I think that with the cold cases, there's always this feeling of like hope, but then hope that snatched away, right?

Like time after time thinking, okay, could this be it, could this be it?

And then having kind of sit and say, okay, maybe it's never going to happen and trying not to get

your hopes up again.

So that was something that we kept seeing with Leslie Prier.

I was just a cold case implies that it's something that's, you know, no longer active,

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