A new Dateline NBC episode, The Ruse, airs December 5, 2025. It examines a 2018 Fontana case involving a coerced false confession. Airs on NBC; streams on Peacock.

Dateline NBC returned with a new episode, The Ruse, on December 5, 2025. The story goes back to a 2018 case that still makes people pause and ask what actually happened.

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Lester Holt joins TODAY to discuss his new Dateline mystery called “The Ruse.” Holt talks about what makes this case so intriguing, the twists and turns in it and more. “I’ve never seen one quite like ...

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