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 - The Gilgo Beach Serial Killings
Release Date: 2023-09-16Chilling new details about alleged killer Rex Heuermann.
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Episode 2 - The Night of the Idaho Student Murders
Release Date: 2023-09-16New information about the case against Bryan Kohberger for the Nov. 13, 2022, deaths of four University of Idaho students.
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Episode 3 - The Game Show and the Murder
Release Date: 2023-09-30A "Family Feud" contestant convicted of murdering his estranged wife speaks out for the first time.
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Episode 4 - Who Wanted Nicki Lenway Dead?
Release Date: 2023-10-07A crime scene investigator for the Minneapolis Police Department who was gunned down in broad daylight and left for dead in a parking lot tells her story.
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Episode 5 - Jade Janks and the Secret Photos
Release Date: 2023-10-14A woman is charged with her stepfather's murder when he is found dead soon after she discovered explicit photos of herself on his computer.
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Episode 6 - Who Killed Aileen Seiden in Room 15?
Release Date: 2024-10-19n April 2018, in the Florida Gulf Coast town of Eastpoint, a killer had struck. Aileen Seiden's beaten body was found dumped near a highway. The next day, a bloody motel room was discovered nearby. The back-to-back scenes prompted investigators to see if the two were connected.
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Episode 7 - The Strange Shooting of Alex Pennig
Release Date: 2024-10-26Police were called to the Minnesota apartment of 32-year-old nurse Alex Pennig in December 2022. Her friend, Matthew Ecker, told first responders that Pennig had shot herself in the head. Officers arrived to find Pennig lying on her back in the bathroom. However, officers noted unusual findings, including the position Alex was found in. The gun was found with her left hand on it, but Alex was right-handed. So, was it a tragic, self-inflicted act, or something more sinister?
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Episode 8 - Fatal first date
Release Date: 2024-11-02The 2021 incident in Farmersville, Ill., began like any other date night. Smith and Reeves met online and decided to go on their first date the night before Thanksgiving. But their evening together ended in horror, when an intruder entered Smith's home sometime after 1:00 AM. Reeves was shot and killed, while Smith, who was shot in the head, barely survived.
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Episode 9 - Tracking the Killer of Catherine Edwards
Release Date: 2024-11-09In 1995, Catherine Edwards was found murdered in her Beaumont Texas, home – an act that sent shockwaves through the community. The investigation went cold for years, leaving friends and family without answers. However, recent advances in forensic science and tireless work by investigators revealed a startling twist.
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Episode 10 - The Plot to Eliminate Alyssa Burkett
Release Date: 2024-11-16A toxic couple orchestrates an elaborate plan to kill a mother.
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Episode 11 - Andreen McDonald: A Millionaire Vanishes
Release Date: 2023-12-09When the husband of a woman who turned her assisted living business into a million-dollar company vanishes, he is charged with her murder; his unusual self-defense claim raises concern.
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Episode 12 - The Journals of Maria Muñoz
Release Date: 2023-12-16A nurse anaesthetist's wife is found dead with a puzzling combination of drugs in her system and a pinprick mark on her right elbow crease.
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Episode 13 - The Suspicious Death of Megan Parra
Release Date: 2024-01-06A young mother's death is declared a suicide, but when her family reviews photos of the scene, they believe they see evidence of a homicide.
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Episode 14 - Shootout at the Shaughnessys
Release Date: 2024-01-13A Texas woman sentenced to 120 days in jail for her role in a plot to have a millionaire jeweller murdered shares her story.
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Episode 15 - For the Love of Cayley Mandadi
Release Date: 2024-01-20When a beloved college student dies with unusual bruising, her parents go to extreme lengths to prove her death was no accident.
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Episode 16 - Capturing Moriah Wilson's Killer
Release Date: 2024-01-27An inside look at the international hunt for the killer of cyclist Moriah Wilson.
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Episode 17 - Who Took Our Dad? The Abduction of Ray Wright
Release Date: 2024-02-03After a beloved family man vanishes suddenly, a high-speed chase gives police a lead that suggests he was abducted and murdered in a revenge plot.
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Episode 18 - Justice for Amie Harwick
Release Date: 2024-02-19The roommate of Hollywood family therapist Amie Harwick shares details for the first time about how he tried to save her the night she was murdered.
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Episode 19 - The Assassination of Jeff German
Release Date: 2024-02-17A Las Vegas journalist is stabbed to death while investigating four women's claims of a toxic workplace.
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Episode 20 - The People v. Kouri Richins
Release Date: 2024-02-24A grieving widow is arrested and charged with the murder of her husband shortly after writing a children's book to help her kids deal with the loss.
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Episode 21 - The Menendez Brothers' Fight for Freedom
Release Date: 2024-03-02After spending nearly 34 years in prison for killing their parents, Lyle and Erik Menendez await a judge's decision on whether new evidence can support their claim that they killed in self-defense and should have been convicted of manslaughter.
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Episode 22 - The Monica Sementilli Affair
Release Date: 2024-03-09When a celebrity hairstylist is killed poolside, investigators look at his wife, whose alleged affair with her racquetball coach could be a motive for murder
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Episode 23 - Who Poisoned Angela Craig?
Release Date: 2024-03-23When Angela Craig's autopsy reveals she was poisoned, police charge her dentist husband with murder.
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Episode 24 - The Troubled Case Against Jane Dorotik
Release Date: 2024-03-30A woman convicted of murdering her husband discovers problems with evidence used against her at trial after nearly two decades in prison.
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Episode 25 - The Conspiracy to Murder Jennifer Dulos
Release Date: 2024-04-06A woman is found guilty of conspiring with her boyfriend to murder his estranged wife; the convicted woman's sister believes she is innocent.
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Episode 26 - The Disappearance of Maddi Kingsbury
Release Date: 2024-04-13When a 26-year-old mother of two from Winona, Minn., goes missing, her distraught sister heads to TikTok to plead with the public to help find her.
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Episode 27 - Death by Eyedrops
Release Date: 2024-04-20A caregiver is accused of poisoning her friend with eye drops, but she maintains her innocence and says investigators got it wrong.
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Episode 28 - Kristen Trickle: Autopsy of the Mind
Release Date: 2024-04-27The unusual investigation into the death of 26-year-old Kristen Trickle includes a psychological autopsy.
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Episode 29 - The Detective's Wife
Release Date: 2024-05-04When a respected detective becomes a suspect in the death of his wife, a crime scene analyst says gunshot residue may hold the answer.
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Episode 30 - The Day My Mother Vanished
Release Date: 2024-05-11Inside a daughter's desperate search for her mother 17 years after she disappeared, and her determination to bring her killer to justice.
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Episode 31 - The Puzzling Death of Susann Sills
Release Date: 2024-05-18When the wife of a fertility doctor is found dead, the initial investigation reveals evidence consistent with an accidental fall, but other evidence points to something more sinister.
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Episode 32 - The Case of the Black Swan
Release Date: 2024-09-07New details in the murder trial of former ballerina Ashley Benefield, who claims her husband tried to poison her while she was pregnant and that she shot him in self-defense.
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Episode 33 - The Life and Death of Blaze Bernstein
Release Date: 2024-09-21The murder of Ivy League student Blaze Bernstein, allegedly murdered because he was gay and Jewish, and the trial of former high school classmate Sam Woodward.