48 Hours

Stephen Smith: A Death in Murdaugh Country

18 Mar 2024

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New evidence discovered after Murdaugh murders reignites a cold case. "48 Hours" obtains findings of independent forensic experts. CBS News national c...

The Country Club Murders

14 Mar 2024

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In March 2008, Charlene and Ernest Scherer were murdered in their Castlewood Country Club home in Pleasanton, California. Their son, Ernie Scherer III...

Post Mortem | The Monica Sementilli Affair

12 Mar 2024

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Since 2018, Correspondent Michelle Miller and Producer Greg Fisher have reported on the murder of celebrity hair stylist and beauty executive, Fabio S...

The Monica Sementilli Affair

11 Mar 2024

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When a renowned hairstylist is killed poolside, investigators look at his wife. Was her alleged affair with her racquetball coach a motive for murder...

The Whole Truth

07 Mar 2024

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In March 1983, 17-year-old Bruce Lisker discovered his mother, Dorka Lisker, beaten severely and stabbed in her Sherman Oaks home. Bruce was arrested ...

Post Mortem | The Menendez Brothers’ Fight for Freedom

05 Mar 2024

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The 48 Hours team is diving into one of the most notorious cases from the 1990s, the Menendez brothers case. Join correspondent Natalie Morales and Co...

The Menendez Brothers’ Fight for Freedom

04 Mar 2024

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The Menendez brothers were given life sentences for gunning down their own parents. Now they’re hoping new evidence could reopen the case. "48 Ho...

Secrets of the River

29 Feb 2024

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In February 2010, Mackenzie Cowell was a high school senior and aspiring model who was studying at a Washington beauty school. After missing a dinner ...

Post Mortem | The People v. Kouri Richins

27 Feb 2024

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Correspondent Natalie Morales and Producer Betsy Shuller dig into the headline-grabbing case of Utah mother, Kouri Richins, who wrote a book to help h...

The People v. Kouri Richins

26 Feb 2024

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When her husband is found dead of an apparent overdose, Kouri Richins writes a children's book about grief. Soon after she’s charged with his murder...

An Invisible Enemy

22 Feb 2024

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Nearly five years after Todd Sommer's death, his wife Cynthia was convicted of murdering her Marine Sergeant husband with a lethal dose of arsenic. Bu...

Post Mortem | The Assassination of Jeff German

20 Feb 2024

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Correspondent Peter Van Sant and Producer Liza Finley discuss the suspicious evidence collected at the home of Robert Telles, a Clark County elected o...

The Assassination of Jeff German

19 Feb 2024

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A Las Vegas journalist is stabbed to death while investigating claims a boss was toxic. Did his reporting make him a target? To learn more a...

Every Picture Tells a Story

15 Feb 2024

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On February 15, 2009, Cathy McNaughton was stabbed to death in her home in Sharpsburg, Georgia. Her husband, Alec, claimed he had served her breakfast...

Post Mortem | Justice for Amie Harwick

13 Feb 2024

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Go behind the scenes with Correspondent Erin Moriarty and producers Lauren White and Richie Fetzer on a murder case they've been covering for the past...

Justice for Amie Harwick

12 Feb 2024

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Amie Harwick's roommate speaks out about trying to save her and helping to convict her killer. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports. ...

Taken: The Amber Dubois Story

08 Feb 2024

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On February 13, 2009 Amber Dubois disappeared just blocks from Escondido High School in Southern California. Almost a year later, another teenage girl...

Post Mortem | Who Took Our Dad? The Abduction of Ray Wright

06 Feb 2024

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Correspondent Natalie Morales and Producer Greg Fisher take you inside their interview with the accused mastermind behind the disappearance of Ray Wri...

Who Took Our Dad? The Abduction of Ray Wright

05 Feb 2024

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A family man abruptly vanishes. Police tie his disappearance to a monstrous plot for revenge. "48 Hours" correspondent Natalie Morales reports.  ...

Murder at the Manor

01 Feb 2024

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Harold “H” Landry,  a self-made Cajun millionaire, left behind his life in Louisiana to pursue an international romance with a British woman...

Post Mortem | Capturing Moriah Wilson's Killer

30 Jan 2024

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CBS Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti and Field Producer Hannah Vair go behind the scenes of reporting on the tragic murder of rising gravel cycling st...

Capturing Moriah Wilson’s Killer

29 Jan 2024

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A promising young athlete is murdered. Her suspected killer disappears and an international manhunt by U.S. Marshals begins. “48 Hours” contribut...

Post Mortem | For the Love of Cayley Mandadi

23 Jan 2024

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The team behind the episode takes you inside their reporting and what you didn't hear about the death of Cayley Mandadi. 48 Hours correspondent Peter ...

For the Love of Cayley Mandadi

22 Jan 2024

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After their daughter’s violent death, a mother and stepfather track down the suspect’s car for answers. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant ...

Body of Lies

18 Jan 2024

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31-year-old Leisha Hurst attended Barstow College to become a teacher and began dating a fellow student, 34-year-old Jeami Chiapulis. He bragged about...

Post Mortem | Shootout at the Shaughnessys'

16 Jan 2024

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A gunfight in the middle of the night left Texas jeweler Ted Shaughnessy dead in his home. His wife, Corey, was the sole survivor. Was it a random att...

Shootout at the Shaughnessys'

15 Jan 2024

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A gunfight in the dead of night. The targets fire back. Their son in the crosshairs of suspicion. "48 Hours" contributor Jim Axelrod reports. ...

Blaming the Babysitter

11 Jan 2024

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Thirteen-year-old Ashley Howes was a mother’s helper for Morningstar Garden, a family friend, over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend in 20...

Post Mortem | The Suspicious Death of Megan Parra

09 Jan 2024

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A father’s determination successfully reopened the investigation into the death of his daughter, Megan Parra. What do Correspondent David Begnaud a...

The Suspicious Death of Megan Parra

08 Jan 2024

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When a mother of two is found dead in her home, her father obtains death scene photos that help solve the case. "48 Hours" contributor David Begnaud r...

Everything to Lose

04 Jan 2024

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Dana Clair Edwards was found dead in her home in San Antonio, Texas on January 2, 2009. She was last seen alive leaving a New Year’s Eve party just ...

Post Mortem | Inside 48 Hours

02 Jan 2024

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Join 48 Hours correspondents and producers as they share their behind-the-scenes insights into what it’s like working on the show. Peek behind the c...

The Search for Christie Wilson

31 Dec 2023

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She was last seen leaving a casino. Her killer was convicted without saying where he left her body. Could her mother and investigators team up to find...

Krystal's Courage

28 Dec 2023

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10-year-old Krystal Surles was attacked on December 30, 1999, with her friend Kaylene Harris at her Del Rio, Texas home. A knife-wielding intruder sla...

Vegas Heat

26 Dec 2023

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On December 14, 2005, the charred corpse of a young woman was found in a burned-out Jaguar on a Las Vegas, Nevada desert road. The car was registered ...

What Ever Happened to Mary Day?

24 Dec 2023

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A 13-year-old girl vanishes in 1981. Detectives believe she was murdered. Years later, a woman appears and claims to be the missing girl. Is she an ...

Three Days Before Christmas

21 Dec 2023

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In December 1990, sisters Linae and Tricia Tiede were held hostage by two men -- Von Lester Taylor and Edward Steven Deli. The Tiede family had gone t...

Post Mortem | The Journals of Maria Muñoz

19 Dec 2023

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When police respond to a 9-1-1 call at the home of Maria Muñoz, they discover a chaotic scene: Maria, unconscious on the floor, and her husband, a tr...

The Journals of Maria Muñoz

17 Dec 2023

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A young wife and mother dies unexpectedly with a strange mix of drugs in her system. Investigators turn to her journals for answers. "48 Hours" corre...

Mystery on Twin Peaks Drive

14 Dec 2023

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On December 16, 1998, Ronda Reynolds' husband found her lifeless body with a gunshot wound to the head in her home on Twin Peaks Drive in Toledo, Wash...

Post Mortem | Andreen McDonald: A Millionaire Vanishes

12 Dec 2023

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For the first time on Post Mortem, 48 Hours producers Marie Hegwood and Lauren White take us inside the shocking trial of Andre McDonald. In a case th...

Andreen McDonald: A Millionaire Vanishes

10 Dec 2023

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How a yellow hammer nailed a suspect in the case of a missing businesswoman. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports. To learn more ...

The Sugar Land Conspiracy

07 Dec 2023

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The Whitaker family – Kent, his wife Tricia, and their two sons, Bart and Kevin – returned to their Sugar Land, Texas, home from dinner at a resta...

Post Mortem | Death at the Front Door: Who Shot Heidi Firkus?

05 Dec 2023

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Correspondent Jamie Yuccas and producers Asena Basak and Jordan Kinsey discuss theories of whether Heidi Firkus' death was an unfortunate accident or ...

Death at the Front Door: Who Shot Heidi Firkus?

03 Dec 2023

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A frantic 911 call captures the sound of a gunshot as a couple reports a break-in. How did the intruder disappear? "48 Hours" contributor Jamie Yuccas...

Stolen Dreams

30 Nov 2023

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Jeanne Callahan of Rockville Centre, Long Island waited for her husband, Stephen Trantel, to return home from a day of fishing in November of 2003. ...

A Death in Murdaugh Country

26 Nov 2023

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New evidence discovered after Murdaugh murders reignites a cold case. "48 Hours" obtains findings of independent forensic experts. CBS News national c...

Death of a Dream

23 Nov 2023

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This classic episode of “48 Hours" reports on Catherine Woods, an aspiring dancer, who moved to New York in 2002 in search of fame and fortune. She ...

Post Mortem | The Hunt for Sarah Yarborough’s Killer

21 Nov 2023

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On a cold December morning in 1991, Sarah Yarborough was murdered at her high school campus. Despite DNA evidence left at the crime scene and two eyew...

The Hunt for Sarah Yarborough’s Killer

19 Nov 2023

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A high school student on her way to drill team practice is found murdered on campus. What it took to close the case after 30 years. "48 Hours" contrib...

Jeffrey MacDonald: Time For Truth

16 Nov 2023

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This classic episode of “48 Hours" reports on the 1970 murders of U.S. Army Doctor Jeffrey MacDonald’s pregnant wife and two young daughters. MacD...

Post Mortem | The Strange Death of Professor Shockley

14 Nov 2023

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In 2019, college professor and renowned entomologist, Marianne Shockley, was found unresponsive in a hot tub after a night of partying. Georgia police...

The Strange Death of Professor Shockley

12 Nov 2023

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College professor and renowned entomologist Marianne Shockley went swimming with her boyfriend Marcus Lillard and their friend Clark Heindel, who got ...

Duty, Death, Dishonor

09 Nov 2023

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This classic episode of “48 Hours" reports on 25-year-old U.S. Army Specialist Richard Davis who served in Iraq in 2003. After celebrating his homec...

Post Mortem | The Death of an Officer's Wife

07 Nov 2023

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From the outside, Amanda Perrault and her husband Seth, a police officer, seemed like a picture-perfect family. They had a beautiful home in Georgia a...

The Death of an Officer's Wife

05 Nov 2023

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Officer Seth Perrault said his 44-year-old wife, Amanda, shot herself right in front of him. The unusual position of her body, however, didn't add up ...

Power, Passion, and Poison

02 Nov 2023

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This classic episode of “48 Hours" explores the death of 50-year-old Kathy Augustine, a career politician from Nevada. Questions arose about the cau...

Post Mortem | Murder by Clown

31 Oct 2023

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Was a clown costume the perfect disguise to get away with murder? Correspondent Peter Van Sant and Producer Ruth Chenetz discuss the bizarre murder ca...

Murder by Clown

29 Oct 2023

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How a killer dressed like a clown murdered a mom and almost got away with it. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports. To learn mor...

Nightmare in Napa

26 Oct 2023

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This classic episode of “48 Hours" explores the October 2004 murders of former beauty queen Leslie Mazzara and her roommate, Adriane Insogna, in the...

Post Mortem | Unmasking the Zombie Hunter

24 Oct 2023

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Bryan Miller seemed like a real-life comic book character as his persona of the “Zombie Hunter.” But was this man behind two murders that terroriz...

Unmasking the Zombie Hunter

22 Oct 2023

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How police connected the murders of two young women to a man known as a zombie-fighting comic book hero. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant rep...

Soccer Moms Confidential

19 Oct 2023

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This classic episode of “48 Hours" explores the investigation of ex-cop turned private eye Chris Butler who staffed his San Francisco Bay area firm ...

Post Mortem | Jade Janks and the Secret Photos

17 Oct 2023

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Did Jade Janks, stepdaughter and prime suspect in the death of Tom Merriman, kill her stepfather or was his death an accident? Correspondent Tracy Smi...

Jade Janks and the Secret Photos

15 Oct 2023

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A woman discovers explicit photos of herself on her stepfather’s computer. Soon after, he’s found dead. Jade is a likely suspect, but did she do...

What She Did For Love

12 Oct 2023

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This classic episode of “48 Hours" explores a report on 25-year-old Toni Dykstra of Los Angeles, who met and married Carlo Ventre, a successful 46-y...

Post Mortem | Who Wanted Nicki Lenway Dead?

10 Oct 2023

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What would you do if you saw someone shoot a stranger in broad daylight? Longtime correspondent Erin Moriarty and host Anne-Marie Green discuss the ca...

Wanted Dead: Nicki Lenway

08 Oct 2023

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A crime scene investigator is gunned down in broad daylight. The harrowing scene is captured on surveillance video. Who pulled the trigger? "48 Hours"...

Kidnapped: Shawn Hornbeck's Incredible Story

05 Oct 2023

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This classic episode of "48 Hours" explores the report of 11-year-old Shawn Hornbeck who was kidnapped in October 2002 while riding his bicycle in Ric...

Post Mortem | The Game Show and the Murder

03 Oct 2023

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Correspondent Erin Moriarty and producer Stephanie Slifer discuss covering the case of former “Family Feud” contestant Tim Bliefnick, who was sent...

The Murder of Rebecca Bliefnick

01 Oct 2023

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When Becky Bliefnick was murdered, an answer her husband gave on "Family Feud" years earlier raised eyebrows."48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty re...

Ransom

28 Sep 2023

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This classic episode of “48 Hours" explores the mysterious 2008 disappearance of Robert Wiles, the son of millionaire business owner Tom Wiles. On A...

Post Mortem | Kassanndra's Secret

26 Sep 2023

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This week on Post Mortem we hear from correspondent Natalie Morales and producer Betsy Shuller who will take you inside their reporting on the disappe...

Kassanndra's Secret

24 Sep 2023

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A young woman vanishes. Eerie surveillance video captures a man in a hat. Investigators learn the two are linked by a secret. “48 Hours” contribut...

The Gilgo Beach Serial Killings

21 Sep 2023

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The bound bodies of four women are found along a desolate stretch of beach. Disturbing new details about the architect police say is a serial killer. ...

Post Mortem: The Night of the Idaho Student Murders

19 Sep 2023

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Join us for Post Mortem, a new companion podcast to 48 Hours. CBS News correspondent Anne-Marie Green will go behind the scenes with the 48 Hours corr...

The Night of the Idaho Student Murders

17 Sep 2023

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The family of murdered student Kaylee Goncalves says they may have uncovered a connection between the suspect, their daughter, and Maddie Mogen. "48 H...

Dangerous Reunion

14 Sep 2023

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This classic episode of “48 Hours" explores a series of 1981 sexual assaults targeting members of the Castleberry High cheerleading team that occurr...

A Deadly Love Triangle

10 Sep 2023

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The millionaire, his fiancée, and the NFL player. Troy Roberts reports on a love triangle turned deadly. This episode of 48 Hours originally aired on...

Diary of a Showgirl

07 Sep 2023

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This classic episode of 48 Hours, which last aired on 7/31/2010, explores the story of Marjorie Orbin, a former Las Vegas showgirl and stripper, who w...

A Young Mother Murdered

03 Sep 2023

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The twisted case of a computer scientist and the death of his Russian bride. "48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Maureen Maher reports. This "48 Hours" e...

No Way Out

31 Aug 2023

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This classic episode of 48 Hours, which last aired on 7/5/2008, explores a tragedy in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. After Hurricane Katrina had ...

Murders Outside Breckenridge

27 Aug 2023

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In 1982 the bodies of Annette Schnee and Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer were found outside a luxe ski town. A man rescued from a snowdrift the night of the mur...

Loved to Death

24 Aug 2023

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This classic episode of 48 Hours, which last aired on 9/13/2014, tells the story of Lauren Astley, a popular teen whose last encounter with her footba...

A Young Witness

20 Aug 2023

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A young girl peeks out of her bedroom to see blood on the floor and her mother in distress. As an adult she looks back on a night that changed her lif...

Precious Angels

17 Aug 2023

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This classic episode of 48 Hours, which last aired on 8/20/2003, features a report on the 2002 brutal murders of Devon Routier, 6, and Damon Routier, ...

The Cold Case of Roxanne Wood

13 Aug 2023

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How a DNA “detective,” an undercover cop and a cast-off cigarette butt helped catch a killer. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports. ...

Over the Edge

10 Aug 2023

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This classic episode of 48 Hours, which last aired on 2/1/2014, features a report on the investigation into the 2009 disappearance of Dawn Viens, and ...

Snap Map Evidence

06 Aug 2023

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When his parents disappear, Chandler Halderson’s social media helps investigators unravel the case. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports...

Deadly Secret

03 Aug 2023

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This classic episode of 48 Hours, which last aired on 6/5/2000, takes a look at the September 1994 disappearance of Khristine Smith, a seemingly happy...

Sentencing Lori Vallow Daybell

01 Aug 2023

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Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, weeks after she was convicted of murdering her two youngest chi...

A Juniper Tree Leads to a Killer

30 Jul 2023

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When a young mother disappears, DNA from a tree helps lead to her killer. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports. To learn more abo...

The One Who Got Away

27 Jul 2023

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This classic episode of 48 Hours, which last aired on 7/21/2011, tells the story of serial killer Andrew Urdiales. Between 1986 and 1996, Urdiales att...

Maya Millette's Disappearance

24 Jul 2023

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A young mother disappears. Investigators say her husband contacted spellcasters to put a hex on his wife so she wouldn’t leave him. "48 Hours" contr...

Lady in the Pool

20 Jul 2023

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This classic episode of 48 Hours, which last aired on 3/6/2010, begins on July 22, 2008, when Michael Roseboro, a funeral director in Denver, Pennsylv...

The Abduction of Schanda Handley

16 Jul 2023

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A daughter watches in horror as her mother is kidnapped from their home by intruders posing as deliverymen. "48 Hours" contributor David Begnaud repor...

Investigation of the Gilgo Beach Murders

14 Jul 2023

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On the evening of July 13, 2023, New York, authorities took into custody Rex Heuermann of Massapequa, Long Island. The architect was arrested in conn...

Written in Blood

13 Jul 2023

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This classic episode of 48 Hours, which last aired on 9/25/2004, tells the story of two boys who write a screenplay involving murder, but is it fictio...

Michael Politte's Teenage Conviction

09 Jul 2023

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At 14 he was accused and later convicted of murdering his mother. But he claims he knows who the real killer is and he’s still out there. "48 Hours"...

Who Killed Jane Neumann?

06 Jul 2023

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This classic episode of 48 Hours, which last aired on 7/6/1998, tells the story of Jane Neumann, who had a beautiful daughter, a loving husband and a ...