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Dateline: Missing in America Podcast Transcripts

NBC News · 37 episodes with transcripts

Are you the key to solving a mystery? That question is at the heart of this original series from Dateline. Correspondent Josh Mankiewicz reports on perplexing missing person cases brought to Dateline’s attention by our social media followers.

Spoken has transcripts of 37 Dateline: Missing in America episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from July 27, 2026.

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archive.sh
curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1634842284/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Latest Dateline: Missing in America transcripts

The Day Zelig Vanished

July 27, 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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SPEAKER_2 (0:30)

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Josh Mankiewicz (1:02)

New York City has always had a magnetic pull for young bright-eyed performers looking for their big break, that part in a Broadway show that takes you from obscurity to stardom.

Like the song says, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. The line missing from that anthem of hope is that most of those would-be stars do not make it there. Those are dreams that a lot of people have, but very few people achieve.

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