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 (33)
1. The Life and Death of Blaze Bernstein
Aired 21 September 2024 • 43 min
A brilliant college student is killed by a former classmate. Inside the trial of the secret neo-Nazi prosecutors say murdered Blaze because he was gay and Jewish.
2. The Unending Search for Sara Anne Wood
Aired 21 September 2024 • 43 min
Investigators are locked in a 30-year game of cat and mouse with a child serial killer to find the body of 12-year-old Sara. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.
3. The Bathtub Murder of Kendy Howard
Aired 28 September 2024 • 43 min
Did a former Idaho state trooper use his law enforcement skills to stage his wife's death in their bathtub? "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.
4. The Depraved Heart Murder
Aired 5 October 2024 • 43 min
Sarah Harris was a bright, young Maryland woman who dreamed of a career in medicine. On the morning of Jan. 26, 2022, she was found unresponsive on the floor of the home she shared with her boyfriend, Dr. James Ryan. Ryan told police it was an overdose, but Harris’ family believed he was responsible. Contributor Nikki Battiste reports.
5. Where is Jermain Charlo?
Aired 12 October 2024 • 43 min
Police have searched for 23-year-old mother Jermain Charlo since she vanished in June 2018 from Missoula, Montana. Now, six years after she disappeared, police release the last known images of the missing mom. Can this security camera video help reveal what happened to her?
6. Who Killed Aileen Seiden in Room 15?
Aired 19 October 2024 • 43 min
Three people check into a Florida motel room. Only two walk out alive. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.
7. The Strange Shooting of Alex Pennig
Aired 26 October 2024 • 43 min
A nurse is found dead in her apartment. Surveillance video captures her coming home for the last time. Can investigators piece together what happened next? "48 Hours" contributor Natalie Morales reports.
8. Fatal First Date
Aired 2 November 2024 • 43 min
A couple's first date ends with an ambush. Both are shot. Can the only survivor identify the shooter?
9. Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards
Aired 9 November 2024 • 43 min
A schoolteacher is murdered in her own home. Years later investigators discover she was a bridesmaid at the killer's wedding. "48 Hours" contributor Natalie Morales reports.
10. The Plot to Eliminate Alyssa Burkett
Aired 16 November 2024 • 43 min
A toxic couple orchestrates an elaborate plan to kill a mother. Peter Van Sant reports.
11. The Firefighter's Secret
Aired 30 November 2024 • 41 min
A young woman is found dead in her burning home. She'd been involved with a firefighter — could he have set a fire to cover her murder? "48 Hours" contributor Nikki Battiste reports.
12. The "Batman" Intruder
Aired 14 December 2024 • 43 min
Morgan Metzer is attacked in her home by a masked intruder disguising his voice to sound like Batman. Her ex-husband comes to her aid, but is he a hero? "48 Hours" contributor Nikki Battiste reports.
13. The Search for JonBenét's Killer
Aired 21 December 2024 • 43 min
Is there new hope to solve the murder of JonBenét Ramsey? Her father says there's a way.
14. The Blackout Murder of Livye Lewis
Aired 4 January 2025 • 43 min
A woman is discovered shot dead in her car with a blood-covered man alive on the ground. The man says he has no memory of how he got there. Investigators unravel the strange scene. 48 Hours correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.
15. Deputy Spivey on Trial
1.0Aired 11 January 2025 • 43 min
Former TV bailiff Renard Spivey found himself in a real-life courtroom drama when he was accused of killing his wife in 2019. He speaks out for the first time about the fight to prove his innocence in an interview with 48 Hours contributor Natalie Morales.
16. Unraveling the Case Against Melissa Calusinski
Aired 18 January 2025 • 43 min
Was key evidence manipulated to help convict a day care worker of murder? "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.
17. The Ivy League Murder
5.5Aired 25 January 2025 • 43 min
A road rage incident unravels into a story of obsession and premeditation when Yale graduate student and former National Army Guardsman Kevin Jiang is gunned down in New Haven, Connecticut.
18. The No Body Case of Dee Warner
Aired 1 February 2025 • 41 min
When a woman disappears, her children are certain she's been murdered. But without a body, they know it will be hard to get justice. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.
19. It's About Danni
Aired 8 February 2025 • 43 min
When 15-year-old Danni Houchins is found dead in a swamp, her family says they were led to believe she drowned. 24 years later, Danni's sister learns the terrible truth. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.
20. Justine's Voice
Aired 15 February 2025 • 43 min
After a teenager is strangled and buried alive, her family takes on the fight to keep her convicted killers behind bars. "We're her voice" says Justine's sister. "48 Hours" contributor Natalie Morales reports.
21. The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon
Aired 1 March 2025 • 43 min
When South Carolina authorities found Davis McClendon dead by the road near his wrecked car, they suspected a hit-and-run. But his newfound love is convinced it was not accident.
22. Cati Blauvelt: Death of a Soldier's Wife
Aired 8 March 2025 • 43 min
Shortly after former Army recruiter John Blauvelt was questioned about the fatal stabbing of his estranged wife Cati Blauvelt in South Carolina, he went on the run with his then-17-year-old girlfriend, Hannah Thompson. What does she know?
23. Could Angela Prichard Have Been Saved?
Aired 15 March 2025 • 43 min
A woman repeatedly called police for help when she was attacked, stalked, and intimidated by her husband. It didn't stop him from killing her. "48 Hours" contributor Jonathan Vigliotti reports.
24. Dead Girls Don't Talk
Aired 29 March 2025 • 42 min
A man charged with murder for poisoning two women tells a friend, "dead girls don't talk." Brave survivors speak out on their behalf. "48 Hours" contributor Jonathan Vigliotti reports.
25. The Day My Mother Never Came Home
1.0Aired 12 April 2025 • 42 min
Did a father use his 6-year-old son as an alibi for murder? Reggie Reed Jr. grapples with his parents' troubled past. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.
26. First Love, Then Murder
Aired 19 April 2025 • 42 min
When Oregon teen Ellen Friar disappears, investigators discover her forbidden relationship led to murder. "48 Hours" contributor Natalie Morales reports.
27. The Farris Wheel
Aired 26 April 2025 • 42 min
Melody Farris, the matriarch of a wealthy family, spins a tale trying to pin the murder of her husband on her own son.
28. The Boy Across the Street
Aired 3 May 2025 • 42 min
College student Catina Rose Salarno is killed by her boyfriend who lived right across the street. Decades later, her family is still battling to keep him in prison.
29. Facing a Monster
Aired 10 May 2025 • 42 min
As a teenager, C.C. Opanowski survives a vicious attack by an ex-boyfriend. Years later, she faces him in court after he murders a young mother.
30. The Footprint
Aired 17 May 2025 • 41 min
Jeanie Ann Childs is murdered in her home in south Minneapolis and the pivotal clue at the crime is a bloody footprint her killer left behind.
31. My Mother's Murder Trials (1)
Aired 24 May 2025 • 44 min
Dana Chandler's own daughter believes she committed a double murder. Years later, courtroom drama brings unsettling answers.
32. My Mother's Murder Trials (2)
Aired 31 May 2025 • 42 min
A daughter suspects her mother of a double murder. Years later, courtroom drama brings unsettling answers.
33. Coached To Kill
Aired 27 September 2025 • 22 min
A preview of the case of a high school softball coach accused of recruiting a former player to kill her ex-boyfriend.