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

Episode Date: July 8, 2025

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.

Hi, I'm Josh Mahankowicz with a preview of Dateline Missing in America. In our podcast's fourth season, we share six new unsolved mysteries. And we hope someone listening may have a clue that could help crack one of these cases. Could that someone be you? Here's Dateline, missing in America. November 4, 1980 was an election that changed America. The polls were still open on the West Coast, on NBC's John Chancellor called the race. Reagan is our projected winner, Ronald Wilson Reagan of California.

We want Reagan! We want Reagan! There he is, the president-elect. Across the country, Republicans were toasting their win. In Baltimore, Maryland, 44-year-old Nancy Snow was celebrating at a victory party. Occasions like this were her sweet spot. Kimberly, Justine, and Stacey Snow are her daughters. She was just so full of light. She was so amazing.

She always made you feel like you were the most important person in the room. Those memories of their mother are vivid. They are also frozen in time because not long after that party ended Nancy Snow vanished. I have been obsessed my entire life with finding my mom. You go down these rabbit holes and you spend years just researching, researching, researching.

This kind of takes over your life, doesn't it? Oh, absolutely. Nancy's missing persons case is one of the oldest and maybe the coldest at the Annapolis Police Department. And her daughters cannot understand why. It seemed too obvious that something happened. Why couldn't they solve it? They are convinced they know who is responsible

for their mother's disappearance. The detective assigned to Nancy's case has his eye on someone too. He's still alive. So to me, no one's gotten away with anything until they're unavailable for prosecution. To tell Nancy's story, we had to reach back into the distant past. And that's where things got unexpectedly personal for me.

I had a strong sense when I heard her name that I had met your mom. Wow. People talk a lot about six degrees of separation. It turned out there are fewer than that between Nancy Snow and myself. Thanks for listening. You can search for Dateline Missing in America to start listening to season 4 and follow us now. For ad-free listening, subscribe to Dateline Premium on Apple or Spotify.