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What Happened to Nancy Snow? Preview Dateline: Missing in America Season 4

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

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Hey Dateline fans, here’s a special preview of the next episode of Dateline: Missing in America Season 4. Josh Mankiewicz tells the story of 44-year-old Nancy Snow, a Republican National Committee staffer, who vanished after returning home to Maryland from the campaign trail in November 1980. Listen to the full episode in the ‘Dateline: Missing in America’ feed – a detail you hear might jog a memory that could help authorities crack her case.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Josh Mancowitz with a preview of Dateline Missing in America.

0:06.0

In our podcast's fourth season, we share six new unsolved mysteries.

0:11.8

And we hope someone listening may have a clue that could help crack one of these cases.

0:17.6

Could that someone be you?

0:20.6

Here's Dateline, missing in America.

0:22.6

November 4th, 1980 was an election that changed America.

0:34.6

The polls were still open on the West Coast

0:37.8

when NBC's John Chancellor called the race.

0:41.9

Reagan is our projected winner, Ronald Wilson Reagan,

0:46.4

of California.

0:47.6

We want to pay!

0:49.1

We want to win.

0:50.6

There he is, the president-elect.

0:52.6

Across the country, Republicans were toasting their win.

0:57.3

In Baltimore, Maryland, 44-year-old Nancy Snow was celebrating at a victory party.

1:04.5

Occasions like this were her sweet spot.

1:08.3

Kimberly, Justine, and Stacey Snow are her daughters. She was just so full of light.

1:16.7

She was so amazing. She always made you feel like you were the most important person in the room.

1:23.6

Those memories of their mother are vivid. They are also frozen in time because not long after that party ended, Nancy Snow vanished.

1:35.9

I have been obsessed my entire life with finding my mom.

1:39.7

You go down these rabbit holes and you spend years just researching, researching, researching.

1:46.2

This kind of takes over your life, doesn't it? Oh, absolutely. Nancy's missing person's case

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