2024-09-29
Bull's romantic rival, Diana Lindsay, jeopardizes her career when she secretly has Bull come to Texas to assist a couple fighting against her former client for custody of their grandchildren.
It was a known fact that Charlene Hill was abused by her husband Danny throughout most of their twenty-five year marriage. After a final showdown in their bedroom in November of 2006, Charlene claimed that her husband was coming at her to kill her when she fired three bullets, fatally wounding him. Charlene called 911, openly admitting to shooting Danny... in self-defense. Our report raises seriou
When Gilles Tetreault arranged to meet a woman he met on an online dating site, he had no idea of the horror that would unfold. Tetreault says he came face to face with a madman who had set a trap to kill him. Tetreault was attacked and barely escaped with his life. Johnny Altinger answered a similar online dating ad and disappeared without a trace. Was there really a crime or was this an elaborat
In a small Georgia town, an extramarital affair turns into a fatal family affair. 48 HOURS talks to the family, whose lives were wrecked by this murder, including the woman at the center of it all.
In September 2002, two young men were found executed in a burning Mercedes SUV in an upscale North Hollywood, California neighborhood. What initially looked like a drug or gang-related murder, turned out to be something entirely different, but the crime scene left little forensic evidence to go on.
October 2009, two women, 20-year-old Noor Almaleki and 43-year-old Amal Khalaf, were struck by an accelerating SUV while crossing a parking lot in suburban Phoenix. The driver of the vehicle was identified as 49-year-old Faleh Almaleki, Noor's own father. He fled the scene and became the target of an international manhunt. He was finally apprehended by customs officials in London and extradited to
On a December morning in 1998, Ron Reynolds found the lifeless body of his wife with a gunshot wound to the head. Authorities quickly ruled Ronda Reynold's death a suicide. Trouble with Ron's son, Jonathan added difficulty to the marriage. But Ronda was planning a move on to the next phase of her life. Ronda's mother launched her own investigation, firmly believing that "someone in that house kill
On March 18, 2010, Jamie Laiaddee vanished from her home in a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. Her live-in boyfriend Bryan Stewart told everyone she had moved to Denver to take a new job. But when detectives started searching for Jamie, they discovered that Bryan was a con man, and suspected he was also her killer.
It's a parent's worst nightmare. On April 3, 2008, millionaire business owner and family man Tom Wiles opened an e-mail. His life would never be the same. "We have Robert. If you hope to see him alive again, you must follow our instructions without deviation!" The ransom note demanded $750,000 for the safe return of his 26-year-old son. The note was signed, "Group X." "Remember we are watching eve
When an unfaithful husband turns up dead near his car on a dirt road, detectives believed something just wasn't right. Brian Davis was a fun-loving guy, but his family said he would never take his prized vehicle on the terrain where he was murdered.
48 HOURS reports on the trial of Jodi Arias, who was charged with murdering her boyfriend, Travis Alexander. Arias first spoke to 48 HOURS shortly after being arrested and her two interviews with the program were used as evidence in her case.
A report on the three-year international manhunt and eventual capture of Dr. Yazeed "Yaz" Essa, a Cleveland doctor accused of murdering his wife, Rosemarie. In February 2005, Rosemarie, the mother of Essa's two children, was in a minor car accident. She suffered no physical injuries, but she passed out and shortly afterwards died in a Cleveland hospital. Weeks later, tests of the calcium tablets s
A report on George Wright, who was sentenced to prison for the 1962 murder of New Jersey service station owner Walter Patterson, and who after spending 8 years in prison, escaped, and spent 40 years on the run from the authorities. This report follows a five-decade search of the task force comprised of the FBI, U.S. Marshals and New Jersey Department of Corrections officers as they searched the wo
A report on Colton Harris-Moore, also known as the "Barefoot Bandit," because of his habit of committing crimes barefoot and leaving chalk outlines of his feet; and whose criminal exploits included stealing planes, guns, yachts, and even escaping to foreign countries. His exploits reminded many of legendary outlaws like Jesse James, and as news of his crimes spread beyond the Pacific Northwest, hi
John and Susan Sutton had a family get together in their Coral Gables, Florida home including their son Christopher, his girlfriend Juliette Driscoll, and Teddy Montoto, John's law partner and friend. Once everyone left, Teddy, John and Susan retired to separate bedrooms. Susan often slept in the second room because John snored. Lather that evening, a gunman entered their bedrooms and shot both of