48 Hours

Alisa Mathewson suffered a 55-hour ordeal that almost cost her life at the hands of her estranged husband, Trevor Summers. She shares her experience of his trial, during which her ex-husband, acting as his own attorney, put her on the stand.

Kassandra Cantrell vanished in August 2020. Three days after her disappearance, police discovered eerie surveillance footage of her attacker. They soon realized the two were linked by a secret. Natalie Morales reports.

Tiffiney Crawford was found dead in her van with two bullet wounds to her head and a gun in her hand.  Investigators’ first impression was it’s a suicide, but soon they realize it’s probably a murder. David Begnaud reports.

Another survivor of one of the most notorious mass kidnappings in U.S. history joins in recalling the terror and long-term effects of the traumatic event. David Begnaud reports on this 1976 abduction of 26 school children from Chowchilla, CA.

Jim Krauseneck finds his wife, Cathy, dead with an axe in her head. Police believe the scene was staged as a burglary to cover up the real crime. The case goes cold for decades until help from a forensic pathologist helps the court reach a verdict.

Just days after Amanda Perrault made allegations of abuse against her husband, police officer Seth Perrault, he reported that she died by suicide. Investigators weren’t buying Seth’s story and he was soon charged with Amanda’s murder.

In 1997 four families from Texas and Oklahoma are crushed when their daughters go missing and the cases go cold. Decades later, the serial killer himself helps investigators solve those murders. He is sentenced to life.

In 1981, Florida police tell two boys that their mother was murdered but they don’t know who did it. The case went cold for nearly 40 years until advanced DNA technology pointed to the younger boy’s own football coach.

Two women were murdered near Breckenridge, CO in 1982. Detectives linked the murders through matching orange socks, but the case went cold until investigators ran recovered DNA through a genealogy database and found the killer.

In 1987, Terry Wood came home to find his wife, Roxanne Wood, dead. DNA was preserved, but technological limitations of the time turned the case cold – until, 34 years later, a cigarette butt and advanced gene testing made the case solvable.

Krista and Bart Halderson disappear and clues on the social media app, Snapchat, point to their son, Chandler Halderson. The 23-year-old is found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

A night of music and hot-tubbing leads to Professor Marianne Shockley’s death and former psychologist Clark Heindel’s suicide. Shockley’s boyfriend, Marcus Lillard, is charged with Shockley’s death.

Millionaire Pamela Hargan and her daughter Helen were found shot to death in their home. The case was first deemed a murder-suicide. But, Helen’s autopsy revealed that someone else pulled the trigger. Could money have been a motive for murder?

Lori Ann Slesinski vanished in 2006. The prime suspect, her friend, Rick Ennis, police believed, was the last to see her alive. He also had a record: he killed his parents when he was 12 years old. Did he kill again?