Tonight, The city of Fairfield will be front and center for the world to see. Dateline NBC will be running the story of the murder of Megan Nichols. Nichols disappeared in 2014 and her remains were found in 2018. The person that was convicted of the murder was a then boyfriend, Brodey Murbarger. Murbarger is serving the sentence for this crime currently in the Illinois Department of Corrections. That sentence was handed down earlier this year.
One person that will not be watching the episode is Megan’s mother, Kathy Hutchcraft. In a statement on Facebook, Hutchcraft says that she prays that the version the show tells the story of how beautiful Megan was helps someone in some way. The statement later says that she will not be watching the episode because of obvious reasons.
Tonight’s episode of Dateline is titled The Note. It will air at 9 PM on NBC affiliates. Those in our market include WFIE (14) of Evansville, WTWO (2) of Terre Haute, and KDSK (5) of St. Louis.