The Phantom S.34 Ep.1

A Date With Dateline

Kimberly and Katie - ADWDL

True Crime, Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Dateline's Season 34 has arrived! It's the one with a stalker, a backstage Dance Dad and a victim who did everything right... It's THE PHANTOM!

Official Description from NBCU: Investigators initially think there is an obvious suspect in the murder of Colorado mother Kristil Krug, but uncover an elaborate plot that turns everything upside down. Josh Mankiewicz reports.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. This is Kimberly. And this is Katie.
0:03.3	And you're listening to A Date with Dateline. And this is a very, very, very special episode for so many reasons.
0:10.0	Number one, it's the first episode of season 34. We've been in repeat land for so long.
0:18.4	It feels like six months.
0:19.7	It feels like half of my life.
0:22.0	It feels like, and it made 2025 worse than it already was.
0:26.9	Yeah.
0:27.3	Number two, this happens to be the 3,000th episode of Dateline.
0:33.4	And we've covered approximately 500 of them, which we got to get crack in and do the rest.
0:40.2	But those are not murder episodes.
0:42.2	Those are like when the show was about news or something.
0:45.2	And I don't know how we're going to cover that.
0:46.8	In the past, something happened 550, 40, 20 years ago.
0:51.8	It's all interesting, right?
0:53.9	I don't even know what they used to cover, to be honest.
0:56.4	I know Mank did that story about his Teflon suit or whatever.
1:00.0	Crime.
1:00.6	Crime? No, they didn't do crime.
1:02.3	Crime and fashion?
1:03.3	Sure.
1:03.8	Okay, there we go.
1:04.8	Yeah. Nailed it.
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