48 Hours (1988)
This newsmagazine series investigates intriguing crime and justice cases that touch on all aspects of the human experience. Over its long run, the show has helped exonerate wrongly convicted people, driven the reopening — and resolution — of cold cases, and changed numerous lives. CBS News correspondents offer an in-depth look into each story, with the emphasis on solving the mystery at its heart.
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Episode 1 - O.J. Simpson: Endgame
Release Date: 2017-09-3048 HOURS kicks off its 30th anniversary season with a Saturday night double feature of all new back-to-back editions, Sept. 30, on the CBS Television Network. At 10:00 PM, Erin Moriarty investigates the case against Raynella Leath, a Tennessee woman with two dead husbands -who both died under strange circumstances - and the stunning outcome, in the season premiere of 48 HOURS, "The Widow on Solway Road." Leading into the season premiere, CBS News Special Correspondent James Brown tackles the impact of the O.J Simpson murder trial and how it reverberates throughout the country today, in "O.J. Simpson: Endgame".
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Episode 2 - The Widow on Solway Road
Release Date: 2017-09-3048 HOURS kicks off its 30th anniversary season with a Saturday night double feature of all new back-to-back editions, Sept. 30, on the CBS Television Network. At 10:00 PM, Erin Moriarty investigates the case against Raynella Leath, a Tennessee woman with two dead husbands -who both died under strange circumstances - and the stunning outcome, in the season premiere of 48 HOURS, "The Widow on Solway Road." Leading into the season premiere, CBS News Special Correspondent James Brown tackles the impact of the O.J Simpson murder trial and how it reverberates throughout the country today, in "O.J. Simpson: Endgame".
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Episode 3 - Moment of Truth
Release Date: 2017-10-07A daughter hears her father's last words – he was a former NYPD officer and bodyguard to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt – can she help put her dad's killer in prison? "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty investigates.
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Episode 4 - Operation Murder
Release Date: 2017-10-14Moataz Azzeh, a decorated former U.S. army soldier who pretended to take on a hit job for two Houston area doctors in a murder-for-hire plot, speaks out about the shocking case for the first time ever.
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Episode 5 - Red Notice for Murder
Release Date: 2017-10-21Peter Van Sant and 48 HOURS investigate the search for a fugitive, the man who hunted her down and a daughter's desperate search for answers to her mother's disappearance.
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Episode 6 - Storm of Suspicion
Release Date: 2017-10-2848 HOURS gained unprecedented access inside the command center in Baytown, Texas, a suburb of Houston, as investigators searched for a beautiful young mother reported missing just before Hurricane Harvey hit.
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Episode 7 - Reality Kills
Release Date: 2017-11-11Did being on camera for a true-crime television show influence the way an Atlanta detective investigated an alleged rape and murder? Erin Moriarty and 48 HOURS investigate what impact that TV show may have had into the search for clues in the death of a Marietta, Ga. man and the murder case against the woman who shot him dead.
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Episode 8 - Taken Away
Release Date: 2017-11-18A father dreams his daughter has been killed, then later she disappears. What does her boyfriend know and could the dad's nightmare have been real? "48 Hours" correspondent Maureen Maher investigates.
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Episode 9 - A Brother's Mission
Release Date: 2017-11-25A woman accused of killing her husband in 2007 flees to her homeland, Brazil, where Brazilian law prevents its citizens from being extradited.
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Episode 10 - The Evidence Room
Release Date: 2017-12-23Accused of murder, a young woman's life hangs in the balance. "48 Hours" goes behind the scenes with her lawyer and a forensic animator -- can they save her? CBS News correspondent Tracy Smith investigates.
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Episode 11 - Secrets of Waco
Release Date: 2017-12-29In his first interview ever, a retired Texas United Parcel Service driver reveals to 48 Hours that he unwittingly delivered large boxes of military grade guns and ammunition to Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh in the months and weeks before the siege that would capture the attention of the world in 1993. Now, as the 25th anniversary of the standoff nears, Peter Van Sant and 48 Hours investigate the cult and what led to a deadly 51-day siege in Secrets of Waco.
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Episode 12 - Grapes of Wrath
Release Date: 2018-01-06As California's wine country begins to rebuild after wildfires that tore through it last fall, Tracy Smith and 48 HOURS investigate the unlikely showdown between Tawfilis and Dahl that gripped the region three years ago.
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Episode 13 - All-American Murder: The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez
Release Date: 2018-01-20Best-selling author James Patterson investigates the life and death of convicted murderer and former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez.
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Episode 14 - Sins of the Father
Release Date: 2018-01-27Nearly 60 years after Irene Garza disappeared after going to confession on Easter weekend, the priest accused of murdering her goes on trial - but is it too late? Richard Schlesinger and 48 HOURS report on the case against Father John Feit, the last man believed to have seen Garza alive.
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Episode 15 - Natalie Wood: Death in Dark Water
Release Date: 2018-02-03Nearly four decades after the unexplained drowning death of Hollywood star Natalie Wood, Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators speak for the first time and tell 48 HOURS that her then-husband, actor Robert Wagner, is now a person of interest. Investigators want to speak with Wagner about the circumstances surrounding her death that night in 1981, they say in interviews for 48 HOURS.
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Episode 16 - Rodney Alcala: The Killing Game
Release Date: 2018-02-17A photographer who was on "The Dating Game" became one of the nation's deadliest serial killers eight years after "48 Hours" first report, new victims emerge.
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Episode 17 - The Good Girl
Release Date: 2018-03-03She was 19 with an allegedly abusive boyfriend – did he make her an unwitting accomplice to murder? CBS News' Jim Axelrod investigates.
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Episode 18 - Who Killed Fabio?
Release Date: 2018-03-10A famed Los Angeles hairstylist is killed in his backyard - was it a robbery gone wrong by thugs called the knock-knock burglars or a twisted plot no one could believe?
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Episode 19 - Mystery at Eagle Creek
Release Date: 2018-03-17An Oregon man accused of pushing his fiancée off a steep cliff during a hike nine years ago tells Peter Van Sant what may have happened that fateful day, in an unusual interview for 48 HOURS.
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Episode 20 - The Fitbit Alibi
Release Date: 2018-03-24A suspect in a murder swears he didn't do it – can his Fitbit prove he's innocent? "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty investigates.
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Episode 21 - Live to Tell: Trafficked
Release Date: 2018-03-31Alyssa Beck was a 15-year-old Jacksonville, Fla., runaway looking for a way out of her family home. She ran right into the hands of a violent sex trafficking group. Beck reveals her fight for survival and the horrors she faced.
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Episode 22 - Missing Marsha
Release Date: 2018-04-07Peter Van Sant and 48 HOURS investigate Marsha's disappearance and the murder case against her husband in "Missing Marsha". It's a case 48 HOURS has been working on for five years, and it raises questions about the challenges prosecutors often face when someone vanishes without a trace. It also includes a stunning ending that nobody - including prosecutors - saw coming.
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Episode 23 - The Lost Boy
Release Date: 2018-04-14Richard Schlesinger and 48 HOURS investigate the disappearance of Etan Patz and the case against Pedro Hernandez, the man charged in 2012 with killing him.
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Episode 24 - The Clown Did It
Release Date: 2018-04-21Two witnesses who watched as a woman was gunned down in her Florida home by a mysterious clown speak out for the first time on network television.
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Episode 25 - The Last Ride Home
Release Date: 2018-04-28A wealthy labor lawyer shoots his high profile wife from the backseat of a car -- was it an accident or just plain murder? "48 Hours" correspondent Maureen Maher investigates.
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Episode 26 - Don't Scream
Release Date: 2018-05-05Did she really try to kill herself, or did her husband want her dead? Erin Moriarty and 48 HOURS investigate that fateful night, Mead's road to recovery and the police search into what happened.
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Episode 27 - Lorenzen Wright: No Defense
Release Date: 2018-05-12Who wanted Wright dead, and how does a beloved basketball player's life end that way? CBS News special correspondent James Brown and 48 HOURS investigate the life and death of Wright and the hunt to find out what happened that night.
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Episode 28 - Murder on Red River
Release Date: 2018-05-19Jim Axelrod and 48 HOURS investigate the murder of Jennifer Harris and the search for clues to what happened to her. One of the coldest investigations in Fannin County, Texas, with only a couple of initial suspects and no arrests, the case has hung over the town of Bonham since she was killed.
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