The Black Candle Confession S.28 Ep.15

Midnight. Witches cackle softly over a bubbling cauldron in the middle of an otherwise peaceful corn field as the unflappable Keith Morrison travels to Iowa-to a small town stricken with the cultural wave of satanic panic! Nope. That's not what happens at all, even though with a title this dark and mysterious anything is possible! Welcome to the BLACK CANDLE CONFESSION, where a cold case becomes red hot after 25 years of wondering who killed the handsome hometown bartender with the biceps. A little girl's innocent slumber party became something out of a horror movie, a slightly fishy Long John Silvers alibi, a fellow with a truly explosive story (more than one, actually) and corn belt Keith are just a few of the reasons this Dateline is one for the books. So get your flow charts ready and enjoy this very, very, very, very special episode of A Date with Dateline!

Official Description from NBCU: A glimpse of a sobbing woman lighting black candles is seared into a 9-year-old girl’s memory. Decades later that girl reveals what she saw, heating up a long-cold case. Keith Morrison reports

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