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First Aired: June 3rd, 2004
Status: Continuing
Network: A&E
Summary: The First 48 follows detectives from around the country during these first critical hours as they race against time to find the suspect. Gritty and fast-paced, it takes viewers behind the scenes of real-life investigations with unprecedented access to crime scenes, autopsies, forensic processing, and interrogations.
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Season 8
Episode 1: Gone
Air Date: January 1st, 2009
Summary: Detectives are called to the scene at an apartment, blood covers the apartment. There is no possible way the victim survived this brutal attack. No body is found at the scene and detectives start the search for the killer...and their victim.
Episode 2: Return to Sender; Death Camp
Air Date: January 8th, 2009
Summary: A young man lays dead in the backseat of his friend's car. Detectives start looking around the scene and find some mail. Could this be the clue that breaks the case? The streets of Minneapolis are 'home' to the homeless. The brutal beating death of a homeless man sets detectives on a hunt for a killer.
Episode 3: Obstruction; Flight Risk
Air Date: January 15th, 2009
Summary: Detectives are called to a shooting that has left a man dead. When a woman shows up to retrieve something from the scene detectives wonder if she knows more than she lets on. A man guns down a mother of two, a witness comes forward to tell detectives the man is headed for Mexico. With the help of the SWAT team, they attempt to cut him off before he can flee.
Episode 4: Crashing the Gate; 6000 Motives
Air Date: January 15th, 2009
Summary: Two people are consumed by gun fire while they sit waiting at the gate of an apartment building. With little to go on detectives rely on the surviving witness to help them solve the case. An elderly man takes a drifter into his home, when the elderly man turns up dead...the drifter is the likely suspect. Detectives will search state to state looking for this suspect.
Episode 5: Blood Money; Fifteen
Air Date: January 22nd, 2009
Summary: A young man lays dead behind an apartment building. Detectives run into problems with the victim's friends. Do they know more than what they are saying? Can the detectives convince them to talk before a killer gets away? A young girl is struck by a stray bullet from an AK-47. This senseless tragedy is made worse by few leads. Detectives will have to track down possible witness after witness to try to find this killer.
Episode 6: Out of the Past; Fued
Air Date: January 29th, 2009
Summary: A man is gunned down in front of his wife and children. Detectives look for clues to determine if the murder has a deeper meaning or if it was a robbery gone wrong. A young man is killed in the middle of the day in the prime of his life, in a hail of gunfire. In order to track this killer the surviving victim must be located to get details of the shootout and why it happened.
Episode 7: Devil Inside; Rattlesnake
Air Date: February 5th, 2009
Summary: An elderly woman is brutally murdered and left under a highway underpass. When satanic symbols are found by the body, police investigate and learn about a similar case. With lots of help they set out to catch a possible serial killer. Local teenage is recklessly shot and killed, the community is gripped by fear. The investigators talk to the neighbors hoping to get one of them to speak.
Episode 8: After the First 48 - Blindsided; Killing Spree
Air Date: February 12nd, 2009
Summary: UPDATE: Follow this case through the justice system. We have already seen the bodies discovered and the arrests made. Now we get to see the court process and the verdicts handed down.
Episode 9: Blame Game; Chasing Shadows
Air Date: February 19th, 2009
Summary: Two brothers are suspects in the murder of 30-year-old man, in what looks like a robbery gone wrong. Detectives try to get the brothers to turn on each other to see who the killer is. A man is found gunned down in a local parking lot. The clues are few and far between. Detectives get the break they need when the run across surveillance footage.
Episode 10: After the First 48 - Silenced; Downstream Drifter
Air Date: February 26th, 2009
Summary: UPDATE: Follow this case through the justice system. We have already seen the bodies discovered and the arrests made. Now we get to see the court process and the verdicts handed down.
Episode 11: Live Bait; Drama at the Classic
Air Date: March 5th, 2009
Summary: A young man met a young lady earlier in the day on a bus. They meet up later and he is robbed and murdered, was the victim was set up or killed at random? A man is murdered at an annual football game. Talking to witnesses they determine there was tensions between the dead man and his former girlfriend and her new beau.
Episode 12: Out of Sight; Missing Piece
Air Date: March 19th, 2009
Summary: After a night out with friends a college students prepares to go home as he is stabbed and killed. Once on scene detectives realize the violence in the area is growing, they come across a man being attacked. Could one of these men be the killer? Three teen boys have an argument, later one of them is shot in a backyard. Detectives set out to find out if these are friends or foe.
Episode 13: Shattered Dreams; Left to Die
Air Date: March 26th, 2009
Summary: A Sudanese man from Louisville who fled genocide in Darfur is shot to death in his clothing store, police notice surveillance cameras in the store and look to them for clues. To their horror the cameras fail to identify the suspects. A young couple is shot in their home. The man dies at the scene and the female victim clings to life. She gives detectives the names of two possible shooters, it is up the them to find these suspects and determine whether these two suspects are indeed the killers.
Episode 14: Up in Flames; Drive-By
Air Date: February 26th, 2009
Summary: A truck is found burning with the body of a murdered man in the back. The fire as destroyed almost all of the evidence. The detectives start with the last known people to see the victim alive. A teenager is playing football in his front yard when gun shots ring out during a drive by, killing the teen. Witnesses are afraid to speak out; detectives must convince them to talk to catch their killer.
Episode 15: One Heart
Air Date: April 23rd, 2009
Summary: Detectives are after the killer of a 20-year-old gunned down on Christmas Day. Using surveillance footage detectives identify suspects that point fingers at one another.
Episode 16: Cold as Ice
Air Date: June 23rd, 2009
Summary: The body of a man is found in the snow. Detectives work to find a killer, but first they have to get the friend to tell what she knows.
Episode 17: Road Hazard/Cold
Air Date: June 30th, 2009
Summary: A motorcycle club president was run off the road, and then shot in the head. Detectives work to find answers and a killer. A woman is strangled in her apartment. Detectives are on the hunt for this killer that has left seven children without a mother.
Episode 18: In Broad Daylight/Fight Club
Air Date: July 7th, 2009
Summary: A young woman is shot and killed in the middle of the day. Detectives race to identify the victim and catch her killer. Outside of a strip club a young man is brutally murdered. Using onsite surveillance and forensics detectives track their killer.
Episode 19: Ditched
Air Date: July 21st, 2009
Summary: Passing motorists discover the decomposing body a person reported missing by a friend. As detectives search for the friend, they quickly realize this is going to be a long road.
Episode 20: Caught Up
Air Date: July 28th, 2009
Summary: A young father is gunned down in the middle of the day. Detectives work quickly to establish witnesses and get leads. With a license plate number and a security camera, detectives start their search to bring this killer to justice.
Episode 21: Torn/Gun Crazy
Air Date: August 11st, 2009
Summary: A love triangle turns deadly, and detectives work to untangle the web. Gun fire erupts in a car leaving one man dead and another injured.
Episode 22: Johnny Black/Stranger Than Fiction
Air Date: September 1st, 2009
Summary: In the first of two homicides less than ten blocks away, detectives head out to the shooting of man in the middle of the day. They investigation leads to a suspect who is a friend of the victim. Then, shots ring out and a young man is gunned down by a man on a bike. When a witness comes to them, they have a hard time believing her story. Is truth really stranger than fiction?
Episode 23: Heart of Gold/Last Breath
Air Date: September 8th, 2009
Summary: A woman is stabbed multiple times. Once detectives arrive they realize they are familiar with the victim. They turn to friends and family to help isolate a killer. A dieing man speaks his final words to his sister after he was shot. Will his words lead to his killer?
Episode 24: Blind Rage/Those Closest to Us
Air Date: September 15th, 2009
Summary: A man is shot inside his home, a woman calls 911 from inside then flees the scene. Detectives set out to find this woman to see if she is just a witness or if she is a cold blooded killer. A homeless man is stabbed in the park and left to die. Detectives search for clues and get a tip the victim was last seen with a friend. They race the clock to find out if this friend is actually a killer.
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