The essential episodes of 48 Hours
Watch these 15 in order and you've got 48 Hours — each pick states its reason.
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What turned a sweet, soft spoken wife and teacher into a killer?.
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Family members believe a young man's fascination with the a notorious Menendez brothers murder case led him to allegedly shoot his parents.
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Comedian Patton Oswalt opens up in his first television interview about his late wife's quest to find the elusive criminal who terrorized Californians by committing 50 rapes and a dozen murders.
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Did 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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A family man targeted for death lives to climb out of his own "grave." Who wanted him dead? "48 Hours" goes inside the sting that took down a hit man-for-hire scheme. Correspondent Peter Van Sant investigates.
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Chacey Poynter: Witness to Murder
Chacey Poynter, a Texas woman convicted in the 2016 murder of her husband, University Park Fire Department Captain Robert Poynter, tells her story for the first time about what happened the night he died, in an interview with Peter Van Sant.
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Murder at the Mall: The Michelle Martinko Case
Jamie Yuccas and 48 HOURS investigate what happened that night and take viewers inside the unrelenting efforts by police to solve the case.
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The Station Nightclub Fire: Who's Responsible?
Club owners open up for the first time after deadly fire kills 100. "48 Hours" contributor Jim Axelrod reports.
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Diana Duve was 26 when she vanished one night in 2014 in Vero Beach, Fla. She was last seen alive leaving a bar with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Michael Jones. To witnesses, the couple seemed to be having a good time, though they told police that at one point it looked like Duve was upset. She never returned home. Her mother knew something was wrong when her daughter didn't call her, something she did every day. Contributor Michelle Miller and 48 HOURS report on what happened that night.
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The 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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A young woman mourns her uncle's murder and questions whether the convicted killer was the only one involved.
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