Cases featured on Dateline: Secrets Uncovered’s Season 14

Season 14 of the series explored everything from haunting cold cases and romances gone wrong to secret double lives with deadly consequences.

In “A Promise to Gloria,” 14-year-old Gloria Pointer was brutally murdered on her way to school in Cleveland, Ohio, the same morning she was expected to get a perfect attendance award at school. As the decades passed without an arrest, her devastated mother stopped at nothing to find justice for her daughter, writing countless letters to convicted criminals and putting pressure on investigators, all in the hopes of honoring the promise she made to her daughter at the funeral home to find her killer.

The investigation into the murder of California nurse LaNell Barsock began after a woman burst into a sheriff’s office with a harrowing story, as seen in “The Breakup” episode. The woman told authorities that she’d stumbled upon Barsock’s bloody body in the garage of the victim’s home. Investigators quickly honed in on Barsock’s boyfriend, and an arrest was made, but the case would soon take a shocking twist that no one saw coming.

Season 14 concluded in March with “The Road Trip,” the sad story of a Florida doctor’s brutal murder and the miles-long journey it would take investigators to track down those responsible. Dr. Teresa Sievers was just beginning to make a name for herself in the world of holistic medicine — and dreamed of one day finding fame on TV — when the mom of two was found bludgeoned to death in the kitchen of her home. With few clues left behind at the scene, it would take an unexpected tip from a woman hundreds of miles away to give authorities the break they needed.