48 Hours Mystery

Season 9 - 48 Hours Mystery

• Season 9 Episode 2: Kidnapped: Shawn Hornbeck's Incredible Story (2008) Kidnap victim Shawn Hornbeck discusses what he endured during the four-and-a-half years he was missing; FBI agent Lynn Willett talks about the conversation that led to Shawn's rescue.
• Season 9 Episode 1: The Letter (2008) A letter written by a suspicious young mother helps solve her murder.

Season 8 - 48 Hours Mystery

• Season 8 Episode 36: The Ghosts of Greenwich (2008) Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel seeks a new trial following his conviction in the 1975 murder of his teenage neighbor.
• Season 8 Episode 35: Storm of Murder (2008) Filmmaker Helen Hill and musician Dinerral Shavers return to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to help rebuild their community, but they are killed in the city within a week of each other.
• Season 8 Episode 34: Where's Maddie? (2008) New details on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, who vanished during her family's vacation in Portugal.
• Season 8 Episode 32: Stolen Beauty (2008) Authorities consider whether the disappearances of two beautiful women, a teacher and a financial analyst, are related.
• Season 8 Episode 31: Betrayal (2008) Authorities investigate a case involving a computer genius, his Russian bride, the KGB and the ultimate betrayal.
• Season 8 Episode 30: Under the Banner of Heaven (2008) No synopsis available
• Season 8 Episode 29: Point Blank (2008) Authorities try to determine whether a man's obsession with his wife led to his death.
• Season 8 Episode 28: The Preacher's Wife (2008) Authorities must determine whether the death of a preacher's wife was murder or suicide.
• Season 8 Episode 27: Courting Disaster (2008) A wife and judge get caught in the crossfire of an explosive divorce.
• Season 8 Episode 26: The Seduction of Mrs. Birgfeld (2008) A beloved wife and mother's disappearance exposes her secret life.
• Season 8 Episode 25: The Last Take (2008) Authorities investigate whether an actress' secret love diary led to her murder.
• Season 8 Episode 24: Cold Case (2008) An aspiring network anchor makes headlines with her own murder.
• Season 8 Episode 23: The Letter (2008) A letter written by a suspicious young mother helps solve her murder.
• Season 8 Episode 22: A Long Way From Home (2008) An American student is jailed in Italy after her roommate is murdered.
• Season 8 Episode 21: Stolen Dreams (2008) A Wall Street trader lives a secret life as a serial bank robber.
• Season 8 Episode 20: Love and Death in the Wild (2008) A crime of money, power, greed and sex in Alaska.
• Season 8 Episode 19: The Long Road (2008) Twenty years after a pair of newlyweds are murdered, authorities question whether the convicted men are really guilty of the crime.
• Season 8 Episode 18: Addicted to Love (2008) A plastic surgeon's risky affair with a patient turns deadly.
• Season 8 Episode 17: Who Killed the Beauty Queen? (2008) A beauty queen falls victim to an ugly crime.
• Season 8 Episode 16: No Way Out (2008) The owners of St. Rita's Nursing Home in St. Bernard Parish, La., are charged with negligent homicide after 35 residents died in the flood waters of Hurricane Katrina.
• Season 8 Episode 15: Trigger Point (2008) Authorities investigate when a softspoken wife and teacher turns to murder.
• Season 8 Episode 14: Fight for the Truth (2008) After nearly two decades, Marty Tankleff, convicted as a teen of murdering his parents, finds his conviction overturned and walks free.
• Season 8 Episode 13: Lost in Paradise (2008) A beautiful American Peace Corps worker is murdered.
• Season 8 Episode 12: In Too Deep (2008) A college student is caught up in a gruesome murder case.
• Season 8 Episode 11: Secrets of Palm Beach (2008) A socialite's secret love life leads to murder.
• Season 8 Episode 10: Death Without Mercy (2008) A seemingly perfect marriage is questioned when a nurse is unaffected by her husband's death when their bedroom catches fire. Suspicion is heightened when it is discovered that he did not die as a result of the fire, but beforehand, of an overdose.
• Season 8 Episode 8: Capture the Queen (2007) Authorities try to track a clever young woman whose cross-country journey includes several fake identities and possible theft of student loans.
• Season 8 Episode 7: An Invisible Enemy (2007) NCIS officials determine the sudden death of a young marine is actually murder.
• Season 8 Episode 6: Where's Maddie? (2007) New details on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann; one of the McCanns' companions talks about what she saw the night the girl disappeared; a private investigator weighs in on the case.
• Season 8 Episode 5: A Time to Kill (2007) Authorities look into the disappearance of a mother of four, who vanished the day after the 9/11 attacks.
• Season 8 Episode 4: An Eye for an Eye (2007) Authorities suspect another doctor may be the killer when a Harvard-trained eye surgeon is stabbed outside his office.
• Season 8 Episode 3: The Sugar Land Conspiracy (2007) A double homicide in an all-American family leads to stunning revelations.
• Season 8 Episode 2: Storm of Murder (2007) With an understaffed police department since Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has the highest murder rate in the nation; filmmaker Helen Hill and musician Dinerral Shavers are killed in the city within one week of each other.
• Season 8 Episode 1: The McGuire Diaries (2007) Video diaries capture the thoughts and emotions of a wife, mother and nurse as she stands trial for her husband's murder.

Season 7 - 48 Hours Mystery

• Season 7 Episode 30: Beyond the Boardwalk (2007) A killer lures women into a trap in Atlantic City, N.J.
• Season 7 Episode 29: Death of a Dream (2007) An aspiring Broadway dancer is murdered.
• Season 7 Episode 28: Power, Passion and Poison (2007) Laboratory tests performed on the remains of Nevada State Controller Kathy Augustine suggest that she was murdered.
• Season 7 Episode 26: The Puppet Master (2007) Authorities search for the man responsible for planning the shooting of a Florida couple 10 years ago.
• Season 7 Episode 25: The Ghost of David Coffin (2007) When a 41-year-old man dies in a fire in an upscale Atlanta neighborhood, authorities reveal that he was likely killed before the fire started.
• Season 7 Episode 24: A Time for Truth (2007) Former Green Beret Jeffrey MacDonald, imprisoned for the 1970 murders of his wife and daughters, talks about his life and his case.
• Season 7 Episode 23: Dangerous Reunion (2007) An old classmate targets former cheerleaders.
• Season 7 Episode 22: Murder on the Cape (2007) Authorities search for the killer of an A-list fashion writer who left her fast-track career and moved to Cape Cod, where she became the town's first murder victim in 30 years.
• Season 7 Episode 21: To Catch a Killer (2007) A clever killer matches wits with an obsessed cop.
• Season 7 Episode 20: Caught in the Crossfire (2007) A woman winds up dead after her marriage falls apart, and authorities suspect her husband may have killed her.
• Season 7 Episode 19: The Biggest Gamble (2007) A young woman disappears after leaving a casino.
• Season 7 Episode 18: Murder Comes Knocking (2007) A young father is gunned down at his door, and his ex-wife and her parents are in prison for their connections to his death.
• Season 7 Episode 17: Love and Lies (2007) Investigators find a link between two women who died 14 years apart.
• Season 7 Episode 16: Secrets in the Sand (2007) Police suspect a man, who was shot four times, of killing his wife.
• Season 7 Episode 15: Sweetheart Murders (2007) New clues surface 25 years after the murder of a young couple.
• Season 7 Episode 14: Searching for Secrets (2007) A missing college-freshman's friend helps unravel a secret that cracks the case.
• Season 7 Episode 13: Murder on His Mind (2007) A golden boy becomes a killer, possibly because of a brain defect.
• Season 7 Episode 12: Endgame (2007) A lawyer is charged with the murder of his first wife, who went missing nine years earlier.
• Season 7 Episode 11: Murder on Lockhart Road (2006) A former Indiana state trooper, convicted of killing his wife and their two children, fights to prove his innocence, focusing on crime-scene evidence that did not implicate him.
• Season 7 Episode 10: Decade of Mystery (2006) John Ramsey discusses newfound evidence in the death of his daughter, JonBenét, and the arrest of John Mark Karr, who police say falsely confessed to the killing.
• Season 7 Episode 9: Blood and Money (2006) Two wealthy brothers are murdered, one in Hong Kong and one Connecticut.
• Season 7 Episode 8: Exposed (2006) Bill Bradford, who wound up on death row in 1988, posed as an amateur photographer and took pictures of young women, two of whom were murdered.
• Season 7 Episode 7: Memory of Murder (2006) Police say a mother implicated her son in a murder.
• Season 7 Episode 6: Scientology: A Question of Faith (2006) Doctors say that conventional treatments for mental illness could have prevented the son of Scientologist Elli Perkins from stabbing her to death in March 2003.
• Season 7 Episode 5: Nashville Blues (2006) Authorities try to determine whether a jealous husband killed a country music star.
• Season 7 Episode 4: Dangerous Liaisons (2006) A personal trainer and his gorgeous girlfriends are at the center of a twisted murder plot.
• Season 7 Episode 3: Millionaire Manhunt (2006) Wanted in the death of his socialite wife, a millionaire goes on the run.
• Season 7 Episode 2: The Informer (2006) One person's dilemma after friends appeared to get away with murder.
• Season 7 Episode 1: Dark Voyage (2006) An aspiring actress is dead in her cruise-ship cabin.

Season 6 - 48 Hours Mystery

• Season 6 Episode 31: Nightmare in Napa (2007) Authorities unmask the perpetrator of the Halloween killings of two young women.
• Season 6 Episode 30: Deadly Obsession Examining the case of a woman who invited her aunt and uncle to stay with her, but was found dead along with her relatives several days later
• Season 6 Episode 29: Deadly Secrets (2006) A young woman and her aunt knew their killer, though they may not have known his secret.
• Season 6 Episode 28: Duty, Death, Dishonour (2006) Rexamining the case of Richard Davis, who joined the military at 19, served in Bosnia and then Iraq, then disappeared two months after returning home
• Season 6 Episode 27: Hardison Blues (2006) Authorities must determine whether a jealous husband killed a country music star.
• Season 6 Episode 26: Shattered Dreams (2006) A young dancer's dreams of Broadway fame end in murder.
• Season 6 Episode 25: Deadly Proposal (2006) The disappearance of a young professor in 2003, which baffled investigators until a hand-drawn map led to a gruesome discovery
• Season 6 Episode 24: The Marilyn Tapes (2006) New documents and interviews about the night Marilyn Monroe died.
• Season 6 Episode 23: A Knock on the Door (2006) A fresh look at the evidence in the 1982 murder of David Harmon, who was bludgeoned to death as he laid in bed beside his wife
• Season 6 Episode 22: Love Lost (2006) The disappearance of a groom during his honeymoon cruise, and the evidence which suggested he had gone overboard
• Season 6 Episode 21: Natalee Holloway: New Clues in Paradise The disappearance of teenager Natalee Holloway during a holiday to the island of Aruba
• Season 6 Episode 20: EPISODE: 20 (2006) A forbidden love may have been the motive for murder.
• Season 6 Episode 19: The Highest Stakes (2006) A woman's disappearance after a night of gambling. Casino cameras revealed a mystery man who may be the key to the case
• Season 6 Episode 18: What They Did For Love (2006) A couple who fell in love and had a baby in 1994, before their relationship soured and, after a bitter custody battle, the wife was found dead in her husband's flat
• Season 6 Episode 17: Dream Killer (2006) The murder of a Misouri newspaper editor, which baffled police until a young man came forward to say he had dreamt he and a friend had killed the journalist
• Season 6 Episode 16: Blaming the Babysitter (2006) A 13-year-old babysitter who was tried for second-degree murder after one of the toddlers in her care lost consciousness and died
• Season 6 Episode 15: Rage on the Run (2006) A bodybuilder is the suspect when a love triangle ends in murder.
• Season 6 Episode 14: The Phone Call (2006) A 19-year-old student who disappeared and was reported kidnapped by her parents. Authorities were initially sceptical, until a single phone call changed their minds
• Season 6 Episode 13: The Girl Next Door (2007) The murder of an unknown girl whose body was found dumped behind a restaurant. Police employed forensic reconstruction experts to help identify the victim
• Season 6 Episode 12: The Mystery of Christmas (2005) Lands of the Bible; the place of Jesus' birth; the presence or absence of shepherds or Magi; the time of the year; Nativity narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.
• Season 6 Episode 11: Who Killed the Newlyweds? (2005) The murders of Dyke and Karen Rhoads, who had recently married at the time of their deaths and appeared to be an ordinary couple
• Season 6 Episode 10: The Mystery of Janet March (2005) A mother vanishes, her parents are targeted for death and her husband and children fear for their lives.
• Season 6 Episode 9: Deadly Ride (2005) The murder of student Jane Mixer in 1969. Originally believed to be the victim of a serial killer, new evidence would later paint a different picture of her death
• Season 6 Episode 8: Sex, Lies and the Doctor's Wife (2005) The wife of a prominent doctor is killed, prompting authorities to wonder whether it was a crime of passion or a murder for hire.
• Season 6 Episode 7: Blind Justice (2005) A former Green Beret doctor, Jeffrey MacDonald, imprisoned for 25 years, presents new evidence proving that he did not kill his family.
• Season 6 Episode 6: Scared to Death (2005) The murder of a police lieutenant's wife on their farm. Investigators found no suspects and little evidence until nine years later, when a tip-off threw the case wide open
• Season 6 Episode 5: Secrets and Lies of Grapevine Lake (2005) The murder of businessman David Nixon in 2002, a case in which investigators found a clear motive was eluding them
• Season 6 Episode 4: Defending Your Life (2005) The murder of a Washington woman in her home. Her husband was the prime suspect and had two guilty convictions overturned, before a third trial saw him defend himself
• Season 6 Episode 3: Strange Truth (2005) An investigation into what happened to murder victim Mona Krotine in the hours between her leaving an office party and the discovery of her body in the boot of a car
• Season 6 Episode 2: Out of the Shadows (2005) Examining a crime from every possible angle, beginning with the strangling of Vicki Wegerle in 1986, which is now thought to be the work of the BTK Strangler
• Season 6 Episode 1: Back From the Dead (2005) An accused serial killer's trial is disrupted when one of the presumed victims shows up.

Season 5 - 48 Hours Mystery

• Season 5 Episode 34: Written in Blood (2005) When two college students write a screenplay involving a murder, some suspect it may not be fiction, and law enforcement officials in the United States and Canada team up to discover the truth
• Season 5 Episode 33: The Pretender (2005) A man wanted for murder pretends to be a reporter for the New York Times.
• Season 5 Episode 32: Burden of Proof (2005) A tough prosecutor has only some dust and some scratches as evidence that a man killed his wife.
• Season 5 Episode 31: Two Wigs, a Gun and a Murder (2007) Investigators must unravel myriad clues to determine whether a woman was responsible for the death of her husband, a prominent professor gunned down in his driveway in 2004.
• Season 5 Episode 30: Mind for Murder (2005) A respected professor is accused of murder.
• Season 5 Episode 29: Secrets From the Grave (2005) After surviving two murder attempts, a Texas man dies under unusual circumstances.
• Season 5 Episode 28: The Man Who Knew Too Much (2005) Investigators consider whether a tough journalist was killed because he knew too much.
• Season 5 Episode 27: Terror at the Morgue (2005) A medical examiner is found with a bomb strapped to his neck.
• Season 5 Episode 26: A Prescription for Murder? (2005) A 12-year-old boy is accused of the murder of his grandparents, but his family insists his prescription medication turned him from a shy, gentle boy into a cold-blooded killer.
• Season 5 Episode 25: Blood Feud (2005) A Detroit fourth-grade teacher says she killed her husband with an ax in self-defense after more than 30 years of abuse.
• Season 5 Episode 24: Prime Suspect (2005) Fifteen years after a teen is convicted of murdering his parents, police find a new suspect in the crime.
• Season 5 Episode 23: Secrets of the Well (2005) An investigator tries to solve two murder cases that occurred 30 years ago.
• Season 5 Episode 22: Rescued From the Shadows (2005) The underground worlds of human sex-slaves and human trafficking.
• Season 5 Episode 21: Chamber of Secrets (2005) A woman fighting for custody of her children goes under cover to expose a corrupt judge in Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Season 5 Episode 20: Postmarked for Murder (2005) Multimillionaire Herb Vest receives an anonymous letter claiming that a police officer was responsible for his father's apparent suicide 60 years ago and hires a team of experts to investigate.
• Season 5 Episode 19: Murder in the Hamptons (2005) A contractor, an affair and a witch's spell are clues to solving the murder of tycoon Ted Ammon.
• Season 5 Episode 18: Michael Jackson: Critical Stage (2005) Joe and Katherine Jackson discuss the charges against their son Michael; the case against the pop singer and the evidence supporting it; Motown legend Smokey Robinson reviews the singer's career and offers his thoughts on the case.
• Season 5 Episode 17: Hostage (2005) Video footage shot by the terrorists who held 1,200 people hostage in Beslan, Russia; hostage negotiator Ruslan Aushev recalls the terrorists' demands; the school principal and a teacher talk about their ordeal.
• Season 5 Episode 16: Where's Our Baby? (2005) A Florida couple, secretly taped by investigators, are charged with conspiracy involving the disappearance of their 5-month-old child, but eventually they are cleared.
• Season 5 Episode 15: A Shot in the Dark (2005) The wife of a top heart surgeon is shot dead through her own kitchen window.
• Season 5 Episode 14: The Kennedys: Privilege and Pressure (2004) Interviews with Bobby and Max Kennedy; Maria, Bobby and Anthony Shriver talk about the future of the Kennedy family dynasty.
• Season 5 Episode 13: Six Miracles for Christmas (2004) The Perry sextuplets of Pittsburgh battle odds stacked against them.
• Season 5 Episode 12: JonBenet: Prime Suspects (2004) New suspects and evidence in the murder case of JonBenet Ramsey.
• Season 5 Episode 11: Why Did Eric Kill? (1994) An upstate New York 13-year-old is convicted of murdering a 4-year-old.
• Season 5 Episode 10: Black Dahlia Confidential (2004) A Los Angeles police officer suspects his father of being the notorious Black Dahlia killer.
• Season 5 Episode 9: Eye of the Beholder (2004) A party of sex and excess in Orange County, Calif., results in rape allegations.
• Season 5 Episode 8: Vanished (2004) Dean Faiello, accused of murdering a financial analyst in New York and awaiting extradition in Costa Rica, speaks out about his case, his health, and allegations that he was posing as a doctor in New York.
• Season 5 Episode 7: The Right to Kill (2004) Examining whether the law is on a woman's side when she shoots first.
• Season 5 Episode 6: On the Verge of a Verdict (2004) New information about Scott Peterson's affair could affect the outcome of the murder case against him.
• Season 5 Episode 5: The Canal Street Brothel (2004) Three generations of women from one family work in a New Orleans brothel.
• Season 5 Episode 4: American Taboo (2004) One Peace Corps volunteer murders another, but the perpetrator returns to the United States a free man after he is declared innocent by reason of insanity.
• Season 5 Episode 3: Dark Side of the Mesa (2004) When his wife and daughter disappear, a man's nightmare begins.
• Season 5 Episode 2: The Ghosts of El Segundo (2004) A 50-year manhunt for the killer of two police officers finally comes to an end.
• Season 5 Episode 1: Who Killed the Prosecutor? (2004) Assistant District Attorney Steve Tauzer is found murdered in his garage.

Season 4 - 48 Hours Mystery

• Season 4 Episode 9: Cold Cases Get Hot (2004) Twenty years after the crime, there are new clues in the case of an 11-year-old boy who saw his family murdered.
• Season 4 Episode 8: Who Killed the Rock Star? (2004) Investigators in Seattle's Cold Case Squad search for the killer of a rising young rock star.
• Season 4 Episode 7: Driven to Extremes (2004) After two children die in a carpooling tragedy, investigators must determine whether it was an accident or vehicular homicide.
• Season 4 Episode 6: Right or Wrong? (2004) Susan Wright of Houston is charged with stabbing her husband 193 times.
• Season 4 Episode 5: Mystery in Paradise (2004) Honduran police conclude a businessman committed suicide, but family members say he was murdered.
• Season 4 Episode 4: The Other Woman (2004) A nurse is accused of having an affair with a married surgeon, then murdering him.
• Season 4 Episode 3: Texas Confidential (2003) A bookmaker's wife is murdered.
• Season 4 Episode 2: Deadly Truth (2003) New evidence surfaces in a 20-year-old murder case.
• Season 4 Episode 1: To Hell and Back (2003) Jacque Marris describes her abduction by a felon in August 2002.

Season 3 - 48 Hours Mystery

• Season 3 Episode 12: Murder in the Fast Lane (2007) New developments in the 1988 murder case of former race-car driver Mickey Thompson and his wife, Trudy.
• Season 3 Episode 11: Scene of the Crime (2003) Forensic pathologist Elizabeth Devine is a technical consultant for the series 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.'
• Season 3 Episode 10: Femme Fatale (2003) Prosecutors say a woman staged the murder of her husband to look like a suicide reminiscent of a scene in the movie 'American Beauty.'
• Season 3 Episode 9: Murder in Paradise (2003) New details surface in the 1999 murder of billionaire banker Edmond Safra.
• Season 3 Episode 8: Murder Among Friends (2003) The murder of a Secret Service agent's son.
• Season 3 Episode 7: Clues (2003) DNA evidence emerges in the case of fashion writer Christa Worthington, found stabbed to death on her kitchen floor.
• Season 3 Episode 6: A Father Accused (2003) A 4-year-old accuses his father of being a killer.
• Season 3 Episode 5: Deadly Hero (2003) New clues counter the story of a man who said he tried to save his wife from an attacker.
• Season 3 Episode 4: Blood Simple (2002) A former police officer stands accused of killing his wife and children, but 11 eyewitnesses say it is not possible.
• Season 3 Episode 3: For Love or Money (2003) Reporters investigate the death of Texas tycoon Steven Beard; journalist Peter Van Sant interviews Beard's widow, Celeste.
• Season 3 Episode 2: Where is Mrs. March? (2002) A mother vanishes without a trace.
• Season 3 Episode 1: The Alibi (2002) A former police officer is accused of killing his wife and children, but 11 eyewitnesses say it is not possible.

Season 2 - 48 Hours Mystery

• Season 2 Episode 2: The Bone Collector (2002) A prosecutor seeking a murder conviction uses dust and two scratches as evidence.
• Season 2 Episode 1: Prisoners in Paradise (2002) New developments in the murder of a young American woman on a Caribbean island.

Season 1 - 48 Hours Mystery

• Season 1 Episode 3: The Confession (2004) A 14-year-old boy confesses to the murder of his sister, but the real killer knows the confession is a lie.
• Season 1 Episode 2: Daddy Dearest? (2001) A man becomes a murder suspect when his two infants end up dead.
• Season 1 Episode 1: A Question of Murder (2001) The prosecutor winds up in jail after a homicide.

Episodes - 48 Hours Mystery

• The Last Take (2008) A TV show actor may have a clue that could help solve a Hollywood murder.
• Mystery in Room 813 (2003) A young woman falls to her death from a hotel balcony.
• Perfectly Executed (2007) Authorities suspect a youth and his friend in the bludgeoning deaths of his parents despite their ironclad alibis, but a dearth of evidence leaves the young men free to move to Canada.
• The Secret Life of Paige Birgfeld (2008) Authorities uncover a young mother's secret life while investigating her disappearance.