The Last Mile

Dateline NBC

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News, Society & Culture, Social, Culture, True Crime

4.4 • 40.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A college student home for the summer goes missing while jogging. Investigators discover security camera video that reveals a critical clue. Josh Mankiewicz reports. Josh Mankiewicz and Andrea Canning go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’ Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/4dOinTa Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3YvqhMsj8EzikWMSeay46t?si=81a2b576ed8147da

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0:00.0	Tonight on Dateline.
0:02.0	Molly was just a ball of sunshine to be around.
0:05.0	I love her so much.
0:08.0	Who has her?
0:09.0	Who knows where she's at?
0:11.0	I knew there was an answer out there.
0:14.0	One of the biggest cases ever in Iowa,
0:17.0	we were desperate to find Molly.
0:20.0	She had been gone a little over 24 hours.
0:23.3	Those are crucial hours, aren't they?
0:25.1	Yes, they are.
0:26.4	All we really had was that she went out for a jog and never came home.
0:30.8	We dispatched search parties, checking road ditches, fields.
0:34.9	A home security camera caught Molly running for an instant.
0:38.3	After she goes by, you see this black Chevy Malibu.
0:41.3	We were thinking, what are the odds that we'll ever find this car?
0:45.3	I said, okay, so I think we got something.
0:48.3	You weren't a detective.
0:49.3	I was not a detective.
0:50.3	You'd never investigated a murder before.
0:52.3	Never.
0:53.3	I felt the pressure. I mean, that was a huge role in ice. We had a detective. You'd never investigated a murder before. Never. I felt the pressure.
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