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This Friday, July 18, 2025, at 9/8c, Dateline NBC returns with The Necklace, a compelling true crime story reported by Keith Morrison. The episode follows the disappearance of Taylor Wright, a private investigator and former police officer from Pensacola, Florida, whose mysterious vanishing in 2017 quickly unraveled into a sinister case of betrayal and murder.

Taylor Wright was known for her sharp instincts and strong personality. So when she stopped responding to messages and her girlfriend began receiving odd texts from Taylor’s phone, those closest to her knew something wasn’t right. As investigators dug deeper, they uncovered troubling clues that pointed to someone within Wright’s own circle—her friend, Ashley McArthur.

McArthur, a former crime scene technician, initially appeared helpful and concerned. But as the investigation progressed, detectives discovered inconsistencies in her story and a tangled web of lies. The turning point came with the discovery of a buried safe...

On Friday, July 18, 2025, at 9/8c, Dateline NBC returns with The Necklace, a haunting true crime story reported by Keith Morrison. The episode follows the disappearance and murder of Taylor Wright, a former police officer turned private investigator, whose life was tragically cut short in 2017 under suspicious and deeply personal circumstances.

Wright vanished from Pensacola, Florida, sparking a widespread search. Initially, investigators weren’t sure what to make of her sudden disappearance—especially after her girlfriend received strange text messages from Taylor’s phone that didn’t sound like her. As days passed, concern grew, and those closest to Taylor feared the worst.

What followed was an intense investigation that uncovered betrayal, greed, and deception. The trail led to Ashley McArthur, a former crime scene technician and a close friend of Taylor’s. As the evidence mounted, detectives began to believe that McArthur wasn’t just a witness — she was the killer.

To say the mood is grim at the BBC would be an understatement. In a long line of recent crises, a messy, murky, seemingly sordid scandal involving a top presenter could prove to be its gravest in a decade.

The identity of the man has not been reported by any major media outlet because of the UK’s strict defamation and privacy case law, but his identity is an open secret at the BBC.

Deadline has spoken to several of the individual’s close colleagues in recent days and there is a mixture of shock and sorrow at the allegations. “People are incredibly sad,” said one person.

There is anger too. Anger that the BBC did not even question the presenter until seven weeks after a complaint was made against him.

Anger that wild speculation over the presenter’s identity has become, as one senior insider described it, a “national...

The BBC presenter suspended for allegedly paying a teenager for explicit images is said to have made panicked phone calls to the young person last week as The Sun reported on the claims.

The British tabloid reported on Monday that the star, who is not being named by UK media for legal reasons, phoned the teenager to ask: “What have you done?”

The presenter also attempted to stop the teenager’s mother, who appears to be the source of The Sun‘s reporting, to halt the investigation by the BBC.

The mother reportedly complained to the BBC about the presenter in May and told the story of her child to The Sun in a series of articles over the weekend.

The presenter was suspended on Sunday and the BBC has contacted the Metropolitan Police. The teenager was allegedly aged 17 when they were first in contact with the presenter in 2020. It...