The First 48 — Season 1, Episode 11: Stripper's Revenge/Dead on Arrival

Episode synopsis

Hours after a jealous stripper vows revenge, her two-timing boyfriend is shot and killed. But the girlfriend is not the shooter, and it's up to Detective Tom Kulesa of Phoenix PD to unravel the mystery. And when a young father is dragged screaming from his bed in the middle of the night and gunned down in his doorway, Detective Mike Polk must figure out fact from fiction in witnesses' stories before the killers' trail grows cold.

About The First 48

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.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Gangs of Little Havana/Execution in Coconut Grove
• E2Overkill/Left for Dead
• E3Blood in the Snow/Swope Park Killing
• E4Double Shooting on Haskell; Back Alley Revenge
• E5Body in the Park / Ruby Street Shooting
• E6Killing Spree
• E7On Ice/Body in the Canal
• E8Fire in the Rain/Family Feud
• E9Desert Bones/Party's Over
• E10Wrong Side of the Tracks / At Death's Door
• E12At Close Range/Murder in Motor City
• E13Silent Witness/Halley Street Slayings