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First Aired: January 19th, 1988

Genre: News, Mystery, Crime, Documentary

Network: CBS

Summary: 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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Season 36

Episode 1: Gabby Petito: The Untold Story

Air Date: September 17th, 2022

Summary: “48 Hours” explores Gabby Petito’s final days and the missed warning signs that might have saved her. "48 Hours" contributor Jericka Duncan reports.

Episode 2: The Shooting of Lauren Kanarek

Air Date: September 17th, 2022

Summary: Did social media posts drive an Olympic horseman to shoot his own student? "48 Hours" contributor Nikki Battiste reports.

Episode 3: A Man with a Past

Air Date: September 24th, 2022

Summary: A young woman vanishes. The prime suspect has a criminal past — he murdered his parents when he was a child. Did he kill again? "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.

Episode 4: Death Hits Home: The Hargan Killings

Air Date: October 1st, 2022

Summary: Megan Hargan was suspected of killing her mother and sister. Her defense had an unusual theory: her sister was the one who pulled the trigger – with her toe. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.

Episode 5: The Strange Death of Professor Shockley

Air Date: October 15th, 2022

Summary: A respected professor dies in a hot tub. Two friends are at the scene. Only one survives to tell the tale. "48 Hours" contributor Jonathan Vigliotti reports.

Episode 6: The Kidnapping of Schanda Handley

Air Date: October 22nd, 2022

Summary: A daughter watches in horror as her mother is kidnapped from their home by intruders posing as deliverymen. "CBS Mornings" lead national correspondent David Begnaud reports.

Episode 7: The Snapchat Clue

Air Date: November 5th, 2022

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

Episode 8: The "Unsolvable" Murder of Roxanne Wood

Air Date: November 12nd, 2022

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

Episode 9: Last Seen in Breckenridge

Air Date: November 19th, 2022

Summary: 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 murders turned out to be their killer. "48 Hours" contributor Natalie Morales reports.

Episode 10: The Case Against Michael Politte

Air Date: November 26th, 2022

Summary: 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" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.

Episode 11: The Betrayal of Linda Slaten

Air Date: December 3rd, 2022

Summary: After a young mother is murdered, her son unknowingly hangs the killer's photo on his wall. "48 Hours" contributor Jim Axelrod reports.

Episode 12: The Tree that Helped Solve a Murder

Air Date: December 10th, 2022

Summary: When a young mother disappears, DNA from a tree helps lead to her killer. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.

Episode 13: The Idaho Student Murders

Air Date: January 7th, 2023

Summary: Four college students are found stabbed to death in their home. Police say the suspect had studied the criminal mind. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.

Episode 14: Melissa Turner's Closing Act

Air Date: January 14th, 2023

Summary: A cosplay actor finds herself in the spotlight when she's accused of murdering her boyfriend. Can she convince a jury it was self-defense? "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.

Episode 15: The Daughters Who Disappeared

Air Date: January 21st, 2023

Summary: In 1997 four families are shattered when their daughters go missing. As they grieve, one man claims to have answers. Can they trust him? "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.

Episode 16: The Death of an Officer's Wife

Air Date: January 28th, 2023

Summary: Amanda Perrault died of a gunshot wound to the head. The unusual position of her body raised questions about who pulled the trigger. "48 Hours" contributor Anne-Marie Green reports.

Episode 17: The Kidnapping of Michelle and Breea Renee

Air Date: February 11st, 2023

Summary: A mother is forced to rob a bank after she and her daughter are threatened with dynamite.

Episode 18: The Brighton Ax Murder

Air Date: February 25th, 2023

Summary: A young mother is killed in her bed, her toddler unharmed. Unsolved for 40 years, how the unusual crime scene helped close the case. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.

Episode 19: The Trial of Alex Murdaugh

Air Date: March 4th, 2023

Summary: "48 Hours" explores the double life of a once prominent lawyer and his stunning fall from grace. Murdaugh is now an admitted drug addict, thief and convicted murderer. "48 Hours" contributor Nikki Battiste reports.

Episode 20: What Angelina Saw

Air Date: March 11st, 2023

Summary: 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 life. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.

Episode 21: Remembering the Chowchilla Kidnapping

Air Date: March 18th, 2023

Summary: Twenty-six school children were abducted by three men and buried alive in a trailer. Inside their daring escape. "48 Hours" contributor David Begnaud reports.

Episode 22: The Mysterious Death of Tiffiney Crawford

Air Date: March 25th, 2023

Summary: A young mother found dead in her car. Could she have shot herself twice? "48 Hours" contributor David Begnaud reports.

Episode 23: Kassanndra's Secret

Air Date: April 8th, 2023

Summary: A young woman vanishes. Eerie surveillance video captures a man in a hat. Investigators learn the two are linked by a secret. “48 Hours” contributor Natalie Morales reports.

Episode 24: Christy and Hilda's Last Dance

Air Date: April 15th, 2023

Summary: After a night out, two women were dumped outside hospitals by masked men. Were the men good Samaritans or did they plan a role in the women’s deaths? "48 Hours" contributor Jonathan Vigliotti reports.

Episode 25: Crosley Green's Hard Time

Air Date: April 22nd, 2023

Summary: He was free for two years and then sent back to prison for a murder he swears he didn't commit. Yet Green still has faith he'll see his loved ones again. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty has the latest on the case.

Episode 26: Alisa Mathewson's Night Terrors

Air Date: April 22nd, 2023

Summary: A woman is attacked in her sleep and kidnapped by her estranged husband. The dramatic story of her captivity and rescue. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.

Episode 27: Lamar Johnson: Standing in Truth

Air Date: April 29th, 2023

Summary: A man gets his life back after spending 28 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. "48 Hours" investigates and is there as Johnson is freed in time to walk his daughter down the aisle. Correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.

Episode 28: Where is Diana Duve?

Air Date: May 6th, 2023

Summary: When a woman disappears with her boyfriend, investigators learn he was entrusted with millions at his bank job, but he also told outlandish lies about who he was. "48 Hours" contributor Michelle Miller reports.

Episode 29: Lori Vallow Daybell: Guilty

Air Date: May 13rd, 2023

Summary: A jury in Idaho found Lori Vallow Daybell guilty on all charges, including the murders of her two children and conspiracy to commit murder in the death of her husband's first wife. "48 Hours" contributor Jonathan Vigliotti takes you inside the case that gripped the nation.

Episode 30: A Stabbing in Colts Neck

Air Date: May 20th, 2023

Summary: A woman outwits a young stranger who attacked her in her own home. What will it take to find him? "48 Hours" contributor Jim Axelrod reports.

Episode 31: The Case of the Poison Cheesecake

Air Date: June 3rd, 2023

Summary: Viktoria Nasyrova is accused of using cheesecake as a murder weapon. Her motive was to steal the identity of Olga, who looks a lot like her. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.

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