‘Dateline’ to air Tippah County case ‘The Betrayal of Kirby Carpenter’

RIPLEY, Miss. (WTVA) — NBC’s “Dateline” will air a local case that garnered national attention.

“The Betrayal of Kirby Carpenter” airs Friday night at 8:00 on WTVA. It’s a two-hour episode.

It centers around Carpenter’s murder in 2022 in Tippah County and the subsequent trials against his girlfriend Caitlin Spence and her parents Jeffrey and Karen Spence.