What to Watch Friday: Dateline looks at murder of North Dakota college student

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Here’s what’s on TV tonight.

The Last of Us (9 p.m., HBO/HBO Max)

This HBO series usually airs new episodes on Sundays at 9, but to avoid conflict with Sunday night’s Super Bowl, we get Episode 5 a couple of days early. Tonight: Who are Henry and Sam, and what are they going to do with Joel and Ellie?

Dateline (9 p.m., NBC)

Keith Morrison heads to North Dakota to report on the murder of college student Mindy Morgenstern. Morgenstern, 22 at the time, was found in her off campus apartment, strangled and stabbed, in Valley City in September 2006. Her friends discovered her body when they went to her apartment to check on her after she didn’t answer her phone.

Detectives investigated neighbors, friends and boyfriends and then discovered the killer hiding in plain sight. Morrison interviews Mindy’s parents, Larry and Eunice Morgenstern; former North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation agent Mark Sayler; prosecutor Jonathan Byers, Jason and Rebecca Young and others.

20/20 (9 p.m., ABC)

“20/20” looks at the murder of Julie Jensen of Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin. Jensen was poisoned with sleeping pills and antifreeze before being suffocated with a pillowcase inside her home just weeks before Christmas in 1998. Police arrested her husband, Mark Jensen, who went on trial for the murder — but that’s far from the end of this story.

You (Netflix)

The first part of Season 4 — five episodes — landed yesterday, with the final part of the season coming March 9. In Season 4, Joe has relocated to London and has taken on the identity of Professor Jonathan Moore.

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