2024-10-06
The TAC team experiences a conflict of interest in court when Benny represents the plaintiff and Chunk represents the defendant in the same civil suit, where a mother sues a young artist she deems responsible for her daughter's death.
The story of David Camm, who was convicted in two murder trials -- each eventually overturned -- and was found not guilty in his third trial for the murder of his wife and two children.
A report on the investigation led by a determined detective to solve a 30-year-old cold case involving two young women who went missing in Florida, in 1982. Amy Hurst and Wendy Huggy did not know each other. Hurst and her new husband, Bill Hurst, had recently moved to Pasco County, Florida, leaving her two young children in the care of relatives in Michigan. Then she just disappeared. Sixteen-year
A report on the investigation into the 2010 death of Stephanie Roller, a Colorado mother of three who allegedly went for a walk during a blizzard and was later found dead in a nearby river. According to Roller's husband, Dale Bruner, she packed up her laptop and headed out for a walk during a blizzard. He waited 11 hours before calling police to report her missing. Friends, as well as the police,
The murder trial of Frederick Mueller, who was charged with the 2008 murder of his wife, Dr. Leslie Mueller, while the two were out for a walk near their vacation home in Lake City, Colorado. According to what Frederick Mueller told police, while the Muellers were out hiking, Mueller stopped to take a photo of his wife near the edge of a cliff. His wife lost her footing near the waterfall and plun
An investigation into the rise of violence surrounding relationship breakups among adolescents, as detailed in the story of Wayland, Massachusetts teenager Lauren Astley, a popular teen whose last encounter with her football player ex-boyfriend proved to be fatal.
The suicide of Joseph Musante; the eventual discovery of his wife, Cindy's secret affair with A.B. Schirmer, the pastor of the Reeders United Methodist Church in Reeders, Pennsylvania; and the eventual investigation to determine if the deaths of the pastor's previous wives were really accidental.
A report on growing dangers of dating and breakup violence, focusing on Melissa Dohme, who agreed to meet a former boyfriend, Robert Burton, for one last hug before they broke up forever. The decision nearly cost her her life: in an instant, she was stabbed 32 times and left for dead.
An interview with Damon Thibodeaux, wrongfully convicted of the 1996 murder of his 14-year-old cousin Crystal Champagne. Spending 11 years in Louisiana's notorious Angola prison, Thibodeaux was a distant cousin who was staying with the Champagne family, and was immediately questioned by police after the girl disappeared. After nine hours of interrogation, he confessed to murdering - and raping - t
Think it would be easy to have loads of money, luxury toys and women? Think again. Miami hotel heir Benji Novack had all that and more, and he ended up dead.
A key witness in the murder case against an Arizona stockbroker speaks out to 48 Hours.
A lover is shot dead. Police record a cell phone video in the aftermath. But will the grainy footage be enough to clear or convict a girlfriend? Troy Roberts and 48 Hours investigate the death of Phillip Peatross and what happened in the bedroom of his girlfriend, Caryn Kelley.
Tormented by horrific memories of being sexually abused years before by a middle school gym teacher, Kristen Cunnane thought about killing herself. But then she decided to fight back. In 2010, now married and a successful college swim coach, Cunnane reached out to police to report the abuse. The decision to fight back would change her life, and as she would soon learn, the lives of others. Tracy S
How did a former beauty queen-turned-high-end limo driver end up at the heart of a murder case? Peter Van Sant and 48 HOURS explore that question in "Dangerous Beauty," an investigation into death of a Washington man and the trail that leads to Peggy Sue Thomas, a one-time Ms. Washington.
Colorful entrepreneur and Las Vegas gambler Gary Triano finished up a round of golf at the exclusive La Paloma Country Club in Tucson, Arizona, and headed to the parking lot. Little did he know those moments on Nov. 1, 1996, would be his last on Earth. When he slipped into his car, it exploded. He was dead. Peter Van Sant and 48 HOURS investigate who wanted Triano dead and have the only network te