About this season
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.
Episodes (31)
1. Gabby Petito: The Untold Story
Aired 17 September 2022 • 43 min
“48 Hours” explores Gabby Petito’s final days and the missed warning signs that might have saved her. "48 Hours" contributor Jericka Duncan reports.
2. The Shooting of Lauren Kanarek
Aired 17 September 2022 • 43 min
Did social media posts drive an Olympic horseman to shoot his own student? "48 Hours" contributor Nikki Battiste reports.
3. A Man With a Past
Aired 24 September 2022 • 43 min
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.
4. Death Hits Home: The Hargan Killings
Aired 1 October 2022 • 43 min
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.
5. The Strange Death of Professor Shockley
Aired 15 October 2022 • 43 min
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.
6. The Kidnapping of Schanda Handley
Aired 22 October 2022 • 43 min
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.
7. The Snapchat Clue
Aired 5 November 2022 • 43 min
When his parents disappear, Chandler Halderson’s social media helps investigators unravel the case. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.
8. The "Unsolvable" Murder of Roxanne Wood
Aired 12 November 2022 • 43 min
How a DNA “detective,” an undercover cop and a cast-off cigarette butt helped catch a killer. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.
9. Last Seen in Breckenridge
Aired 19 November 2022 • 43 min
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.
10. The Case Against Michael Politte
7.0Aired 26 November 2022 • 43 min
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.
11. The Betrayal of Linda Slaten
Aired 3 December 2022 • 43 min
After a young mother is murdered, her son unknowingly hangs the killer's photo on his wall. "48 Hours" contributor Jim Axelrod reports.
12. The Tree that Helped Solve a Murder
Aired 10 December 2022 • 43 min
When a young mother disappears, DNA from a tree helps lead to her killer. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.
13. The Idaho Student Murders
Aired 7 January 2023 • 43 min
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.
14. Melissa Turner's Closing Act
Aired 14 January 2023 • 43 min
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.
15. The Daughters Who Disappeared
Aired 21 January 2023 • 43 min
In 1997 four families are shattered when their daughters go missing. As they grieve, one man claims to have answers. Can he be trusted? "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports on the final chapter of a case she started covering more than two decades ago.
16. The Death of an Officer’s Wife
Aired 28 January 2023 • 43 min
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.
17. The Kidnapping of Michelle and Breea Renee
Aired 11 February 2023 • 43 min
A mother is forced to rob a bank to save her daughter’s life, then her abductor falsely claims the mother was in on the crime. "48 Hours" contributor Tracy Smith reports.
18. The Brighton Ax Murder
Aired 25 February 2023 • 43 min
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.
19. The Trial of Alex Murdaugh
Aired 4 March 2023 • 43 min
"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.
20. What Angelina Saw
Aired 11 March 2023 • 43 min
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.
21. Remembering the Chowchilla Kidnapping
Aired 18 March 2023 • 43 min
The segment airing on CBS and streaming on Paramount+ follows the story of the infamous 1976 school bus kidnapping, in which three masked gunmen abducted 26 children and school bus driver Ed Ray. They were buried alive beneath a rock quarry and in an old moving truck, spending more than 16 hours in the dark before they were able to escape.
22. The Mysterious Death of Tiffiney Crawford
Aired 25 March 2023 • 43 min
A young mother found dead in her car. Could she have shot herself twice? "48 Hours" contributor David Begnaud reports.
23. Kassanndra's Secret
Aired 8 April 2023 • 43 min
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.
24. Christy and Hilda's Last Dance
Aired 15 April 2023 • 43 min
After a night out, two women were dumped outside hospitals by masked men. Were the men good Samaritans or did they play a role in the women’s deaths? "48 Hours" contributor Jonathan Vigliotti reports.
25. Crosley Green's Hard Time
Aired 22 April 2023 • 43 min
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.
26. Alisa Mathewson's Night Terrors
Aired 22 April 2023 • 43 min
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.
27. Lamar Johnson: Standing in Truth
Aired 29 April 2023 • 43 min
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.
28. Where Is Diana Duve?
Aired 6 May 2023 • 43 min
When a 26-year-old Florida nurse goes missing after a night out, investigators look into her on-again, off-again boyfriend, with whom she was last seen. [also shown as S36:E26]
29. Lori Vallow Daybell: Guilty
Aired 13 May 2023 • 43 min
"48 Hours" goes inside the case that gripped the nation. 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. Contributor Jonathan Vigliotti reports.
30. A Stabbing in Colts Neck
Aired 20 May 2023 • 43 min
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.
31. The Case of the Poison Cheesecake
Aired 3 June 2023 • 43 min
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.