48 Hours

48 Hours

One of television's most popular true-crime series, investigating shocking cases and compelling real-life dramas with journalistic integrity and cutting-edge style.

Genre: DocumentaryCrime

Cast:Peter Van SantErin MoriartyMaureen MaherRichard SchlesingerDan RatherTracy SmithTroy RobertsSusan SpencerHarold DowBernard GoldbergBill LagattutaJim AxelrodPeter Van ZantVictoria CorderiLesley StahlKelly SieglerCeCe MooreDavid Dow


1Season 35

S35.E1 ∙ What Happened to Gabby Petito?

Sat, Sep 25, 2021

An inside examination of the disappearance of Gabby Petito and the intense hunt for her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie.

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S35.E2 ∙ The Shooting of Lauren Kanarek

Sat, Sep 17, 2022

Michael Barisone, a former Olympic equestrian and trainer, speaks out in his first television interview since the end of his trial for the attempted murder of a former student and her boyfriend.

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S35.E3 ∙ A Man with a Past

Sat, Sep 24, 2022

48 Hours correspondent Peter Van Sant investigates the 2006 disappearance of a recent college graduate, Lori Ann Slesinski in Auburn, Alabama, and the case against her killer, Rick Ennis. Four days after Slesinski went missing, her car was found engulfed in flames on a deserted street. She was still nowhere to be found. Police believed Rick Ennis was the last person to be with her before she disappeared. But Ennis had moved away from Auburn after he talked with police. It would take 12 years before authorities made a case against him. In 2018, Ennis was charged with Slesinski's murder, even though her body was never found. It was not the first time Ennis was charged with such a horrific crime. In 1993, when he was 12 years old, Ennis murdered his parents.

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S35.E4 ∙ Death Hits Home: The Hargan Killings

Sat, Oct 1, 2022

48 Hours correspondent Peter Van Sant investigates the case against Megan Hargan who was suspected of killing her mother Pam Hargan and her sister Helen Hargan. When investigators entered the McLean, Virginia home of millionaire mother Pam Hargan, they discovered the bodies of Pam and her youngest daughter Helen Hargan, who was found dead with a rifle. Hours later, police told the family that Helen's wound looked self-inflicted, and that it was probably a murder-suicide. Did Helen Hargan shoot her mother dead and then take her own life? Her sister, Megan Hargan, told investigators Helen Hargan had been struggling emotionally. Megan's defense strategy had an unusual theory: that her sister Helen killed their mother and then killed herself with her toe on the trigger.

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S35.E5 ∙ The Strange Death of Professor Shockley

Sat, Oct 15, 2022

Three friends in a small Georgia town, college professor Marianne Shockley, her boyfriend and a former psychologist, got together one spring night to swim, play and listen to music. Marianne Shockley was a respected University of Georgia professor and renown entomologist. By morning, she and the former psychologist, Clark Heindel, were dead. Only her boyfriend, Marcus Lillard, was alive.

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S35.E7 ∙ The Kidnapping of Schanda Handley

Sat, Oct 22, 2022

August 2017, Lafayette, LA: Schanda Handley and her daughter Isabella Cumberland discuss Schanda's kidnapping from her home at gunpoint by her estranged husband Michael Handley, and her eventual escape. Her husband was found guilty and was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

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S35.E8 ∙ The Ring: The Murder of Patrick De La Cerda

Sat, Nov 13, 2021

The investigation of the murder of Patrick De La Cerda reveals a meticulous murder plan that investigators say was crafted by a man jealous of De La Cerda's relationship with his fiancee.

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S35.E9 ∙ The Snapchat Clue

Sat, Nov 5, 2022

Bart and Krista Halderson had a beautiful home in Windsor, Wisconsin, and two adult sons they adored, so when Bart and Krista suddenly disappeared in July 2021, it stunned their community. Will information found on social media would lead investigators to their killer?

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S35.E10 ∙ The "Unsolvable" Murder of Roxanne Wood

Sat, Nov 12, 2022

This cold case rape/murder crime did indeed seem unsolvable for 34 years, until genetic genealogist Gabriella Vargas was able to pinpoint the possible suspect, Patrick Wayne Gilham, in four days. Roxanne Wood, nicknamed "Rock", age 30, had been raped and murdered in February 1987 in her home in South Bend, Indiana. In the end, Patrick Gilham was arrested at age 67 and pleaded "no contest" to the murder. He will have to serve a minimum of 23 years in prison.

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S35.E11 ∙ What Happened to the Perfect Child?

Sat, Dec 4, 2021

After a young girl is adopted from Russia, her American parents come to believe she is capable of murder and return her.

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S35.E12 ∙ Last Seen in Breckinridge

Sat, Nov 19, 2022

This installment details the investigation into the 1982 murders of two young women, 29-year-old Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer and 21-year-old Annette Schnee, near the resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado.

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S35.E13 ∙ The Case Against Michael Politte

Sat, Nov 26, 2022

Charged with killing his mother when Michael Politte was just 14 years old, this Missouri man who is out on parole after 23 years behind bars fights to clear his name, claiming the real killer is still out there.

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S35.E14 ∙ The Betrayal of Linda Slaten

Sat, Dec 3, 2022

On September 4, 1981, Jeff Slaten, age 15 and his brother Tim, age 12, were awakened by Lakeland, Florida, police. The boys were told that their mother, Linda Slaten, had been murdered. Investigators collected a rape kit and lifted a palm print from the windowsill where the killer had entered. They questioned a slew of suspects, but no one was charged, and the case went cold for 40 years. Prior to, and after Linda Slaten's murder, Tim's football coach, Joe Mills, would regularly drive Tim to and from football practice. Coach Joe became a role model for the young boy, who proudly hung up his football team photo in his room. In the photo, Coach Mills stood right behind Tim. Linda's sons spent decades living in fear of the man they called "The Monster". Nearly 40 years later, advances in DNA technology revealed Linda Slaten's likely killer: Coach Joe. "I looked up to this guy," Tim tells "48 Hours" contributor Jim Axelrod. "And I had a picture in my house ever since then, and never knew it was him." "He's a cold-hearted monster, that's for sure," says Jeff.

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S35.E15 ∙ The Tree That Helped Solve a Murder

Sat, Dec 10, 2022

Young wife and mother Mengqi Ji Elledge, age 28, was a Chinese foreign exchange student at University of Missouri. She went missing in October 2019. Her husband, Joseph Elledge of Columbia, Missouri, reported her disappearance to the police. Everybody felt that it was strange that Mengqi went missing without her cell phone or her young toddler daughter. Mengqi's parents came to America from China to try to help the investigation. The police asked the public for help and searched exhaustively for Mengqi. In March 2021, her body was found. In the end, Joseph Elledge, now age 26, was brought to trial and was found guilty of killing his wife. He was sentenced to 28 years in prison, the maximum amount allowed by law.

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S35.E16 ∙ Chasing Catherine Shelton (Part 1)

Sat, Apr 30, 2022

Controversial Texas attorney Catherine Shelton, now disbarred, talks about her chequered past and the mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of various men in her life.

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S35.E17 ∙ Chasing Catherine Shelton (Part 2)

Sat, May 7, 2022

Controversial Texas attorney Catherine Shelton, now disbarred, talks about her checkered past and the mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of various men in her life.

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S35.E18 ∙ The Yogurt Shop Murders

Sat, Feb 5, 2022

Correspondent Erin Moriarty looks at how advances in DNA technology might help solve one of the nation's most heartbreaking cold cases: The Yogurt Shop Murders in Austin, Texas. On Dec. 6, 1991, four teenager girls - 17-year-old Eliza Thomas, 13-year-old Amy Ayers, and two sisters, 17-year-old Jennifer Harbison and 15-year-old Sarah Harbison - were found gagged, tied up with their own clothing, and shot in the head in a yogurt shop, which was then set on fire. Eliza and Jennifer worked at the shop and were closing up for the night, and Sarah and Amy had met them there to head home together. Gunshot wounds revealed two different types of guns were used, but there was little other evidence at the scene, and the fire complicated the early investigation. The case is still unsolved.

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S35.E19 ∙ The Idaho Student Murders

Sat, Jan 7, 2023

Details surrounding the murders of four University of Idaho students and the investigators' cross-country hunt to capture the alleged killer.

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S35.E20 ∙ Melissa Turner's Closing Act

Sat, Jan 14, 2023

A woman is charged with second degree murder with a weapon in the stabbing death of her fiancé.

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S35.E21 ∙ Katrina Brownlee: The Good Cop

Sat, Feb 26, 2022

Katrina Cooke Brownlee, who is one of an elite group of Black women to reach the highest ranks of the NYPD detective force, gets there after being shot 10 times by her ex-fiancé, a man with a badge.

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S35.E22 ∙ The Daughters Who Disappeared

Sat, Jan 21, 2023

This installment outlines the following murdered women and children left along Interstate 45 from Houston, Texas to south Oklahoma: Laura Kate Smither, age 12, who went missing on April 3, 1997; Kelli Ann Cox, age 20, who went missing on July 15, 1997; Tiffany Johnston, age 19, who went missing on July 26, 1997; Jessica Cain, age 17, who went missing on August 17, 1997. Also detailed is Sandra Sapaugh, who was kidnapped on May 16, 1997 and survived by jumping out of the kidnapper's vehicle. For years, detectives had suspected that sex offender William Reece was behind the crimes. In 2016, Reece agreed to talk to the Texas Rangers. He was arrested and convicted of several of the crimes through his interviews and also DNA. Reece is currently serving a life sentence.

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S35.E23 ∙ The Poisonous Wife

Sat, Mar 12, 2022

When a Missouri snake breeder is found dead, investigators initially think he might be the victim of an attack by one of his prized reptiles, but a closer look redirects their suspicion to his wife.

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S35.E24 ∙ The Death of an Officer's Wife

Sat, Jan 28, 2023

Eatonton, Georgia, 2020: The wife of an Eatonton, Georgia Police Department officer, 44-year-old Amanda Perrault, phoned 911 and made allegations on January 28, 2020 of abuse against her husband, Seth Perrault. Days later, she was dead due to a gunshot wound to her head. Seth claimed that she took her own life by shooting herself in the head. The medical examiner ruled Amanda Perrault's death a suicide. But when the Putnam County Sheriff saw the way her body was lying in the couple's bed, he says he didn't see a suicide, he saw a murder. In the end, Seth Perrault was arrested and convicted of Amanda's murder. Perrault was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.

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S35.E25 ∙ Who Shot the Tech Exec?

Sat, Apr 2, 2022

A tech exec and cannabis entrepreneur's kidnapping is caught on surveillance video.

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S35.E26 ∙ The Kidnapping of Michelle and Breea Renee

Sat, Feb 11, 2023

Vista, California, November 2000: Bank manager and mother, Michelle Renee, age 35, is forced to rob her employer, Bank of America, after she and her daughter, Breea Renee, age 7, are held hostage and threatened with guns and dynamite. Things go downhill when the defense attorney falsely accuses her of masterminding the plot. In the end, three of the bank robbers are caught and sent to prison.

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S35.E27 ∙ The Brighton Ax Murder

Sat, Feb 25, 2023

The 1982 murder of Cathy Krauseneck and the case against her husband, Jim Krauseneck, who says he found her dead in their bed with an axe in her head. Jim was convicted of her murder.

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S35.E28 ∙ "The Dexter Killer"

Sat, Apr 23, 2022

Investigative author and journalist Steve Lillebuen provides a rare look inside the mind of convicted murderer Mark Twitchell, through letters he exchanged with Twitchell over a period of three years.

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S35.E29 ∙ The Trial of Alex Murdaugh

Sat, Mar 4, 2023

This installment details the "double life" of the once-prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh and his stunning fall from grace.

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S35.E30 ∙ What Angelina Saw

Sat, Mar 11, 2023

Worcester, Massachusetts, May 2014: An 11-year-old girl, Angelina Fernandes, woke up to the sound of her screaming mother. Young Angelina peeked out of her bedroom to see blood on the floor and her mother, Stephanie Fernandes, in distress. The blood belonged to Stephanie's fiance, Andrew Wagner, who did not survive the attack. Stephanie was taken to the Worcester Police Department, where she was interviewed for almost three hours. Stephanie claimed she acted in self-defense, and was eventually charged with murder. Now as an adult, Angelina looks back on a night that changed her life, and tells her story.

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S35.E31 ∙ Remembering the Chowchilla Kidnapping

Sat, Mar 18, 2023

The 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping was the abduction of a school bus driver and 26 children, ages 5 to 14, in Chowchilla, California, on July 15, 1976. The three kidnappers (James Schoenfeld; Richard Schoenfeld; and Frederick Newhall Woods IV) held their captives in a box truck buried in a quarry in Livermore, California, intending to demand a ransom for their return. After about 16 hours underground, the driver and children dug themselves out and escaped, all surviving. The quarry owner's son and two of his friends were convicted of the crime, each receiving a sentence of life with the possibility of parole. In this installment, a kidnapping survivor discusses her Chowchilla ordeal and her fight to keep her kidnappers behind bars.

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S35.E32 ∙ The Mysterious Death of Tiffiney Crawford

Sat, Mar 25, 2023

May 2, 2017, Cullman, Alabama: When a young woman, 32-year-old Tiffiney Crawford, is found dead in her car, her husband Jason Crawford claims that she took her own life. However, when the investigation deepens, authorities find that there are two bullet wounds in her head. This cannot be a suicide.

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S35.E33 ∙ Gabby Petito: The Untold Story

Sat, Sep 17, 2022

48 Hours takes a deeper look at the murder of 'Van Life' video blogger Gabby Petito at the hands of Brian Laundrie, who confessed to her murder in his notebook. He later committed suicide before he could be caught by law enforcement and brought to trial. Also discussed is the importance of the raising of awareness about the warning signs of domestic violence and how to recognize them.