48 Hours

Amie Harwick's roommate speaks out about trying to save her and helping to convict her killer. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.

On February 13, 2009 Amber Dubois disappeared just blocks from Escondido High School in Southern California. Almost a year later, another teenage girl, Chelsea King, went missing. Chelsea had been running just ten miles from where Amber disappeared. Police found Chelsea’s underwear with DNA evidence that would lead them to the arrest of convicted sex offender, John Gardner, who was out on parole....

Correspondent Natalie Morales and Producer Greg Fisher take you inside their interview with the accused mastermind behind the disappearance of Ray Wright, a family man unknowingly in the center of a terrifying plot for revenge. The two discuss the high speed car chase and the treasure trove of evidence that authorities say linked defendants Bob Manor and Victor Gray to the crime.

A family man abruptly vanishes. Police tie his disappearance to a monstrous plot for revenge. "48 Hours" correspondent Natalie Morales reports. 

Harold “H” Landry,  a self-made Cajun millionaire, left behind his life in Louisiana to pursue an international romance with a British woman, Lucy Davies, whom he met online. This seemingly perfect relationship ended when Lucy Landry was murdered at their home over a decade later in February 2010. Landry didn't deny killing her, but when the trial began, the past came back to haunt him. “48 Hours"...

CBS Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti and Field Producer Hannah Vair go behind the scenes of reporting on the tragic murder of rising gravel cycling star Moriah Wilson. They’ll discuss the international chase that led a team of US Marshals to a remote beach town in Costa Rica, how plastic surgery almost kept the case unsolved, and the legacy that Moriah Wilson left behind.

A promising young athlete is murdered. Her suspected killer disappears and an international manhunt by U.S. Marshals begins. “48 Hours” contributor Jonathan Vigliotti reports.

The team behind the episode takes you inside their reporting and what you didn't hear about the death of Cayley Mandadi. 48 Hours correspondent Peter Van Sant and producer Chris Ritzen discuss following this case for over five years, two trials, and the unconventional investigation that Cayley’s parents undertook to seek the truth about what happened to their daughter.

After their daughter’s violent death, a mother and stepfather track down the suspect’s car for answers. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.

31-year-old Leisha Hurst attended Barstow College to become a teacher and began dating a fellow student, 34-year-old Jeami Chiapulis. He bragged about being a war hero and cancer survivor. Chiapulis seemed to be the man she could finally settle down with. The couple had plans to marry when Hurst vanished on January 22, 2009. “48 Hours" correspondent Maureen Maher reports. This classic "48 Hours" e...

A gunfight in the middle of the night left Texas jeweler Ted Shaughnessy dead in his home. His wife, Corey, was the sole survivor. Was it a random attack, a robbery gone wrong, or a murder conspiracy? CBS News Chief Correspondent Jim Axelrod and Producer Jenna Jackson discuss Corey’s emotional journey to realizing her own son had hired hitmen to kill her and her husband for money.

A gunfight in the dead of night. The targets fire back. Their son in the crosshairs of suspicion. "48 Hours" contributor Jim Axelrod reports.

Thirteen-year-old Ashley Howes was a mother’s helper for Morningstar Garden, a family friend, over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend in 2005.  A change of plans put Ashley in sole charge of two children: five-year-old Madeline and 19-month-old Freya.  While Morningstar and her boyfriend Gracian Cline were out, Ashley said she heard a thud from the room where Freya was sleeping. On findin...

A father’s determination successfully reopened the investigation into the death of his daughter, Megan Parra. What do Correspondent David Begnaud and Producer Judy Rybak think about the evidence that left viewers wondering, what really happened to Megan Parra?

When a mother of two is found dead in her home, her father obtains death scene photos that help solve the case. "48 Hours" contributor David Begnaud reports.

Dana Clair Edwards was found dead in her home in San Antonio, Texas on January 2, 2009. She was last seen alive leaving a New Year’s Eve party just after midnight. Police interviewed friends and acquaintances, including Dana’s ex-boyfriend, John Thomas Ford. Prosecutors soon believed that he was their main suspect, but the investigation dragged on and Ford remained a free man. Dana’s mother, Debor...

Join 48 Hours correspondents and producers as they share their behind-the-scenes insights into what it’s like working on the show. Peek behind the curtain with Erin Moriarty, Natalie Morales, Jamie Yuccas, and some of your favorite 48 Hours producers as they share their experiences investigating the compelling crime and justice cases from this season.

She was last seen leaving a casino. Her killer was convicted without saying where he left her body. Could her mother and investigators team up to find her body 15 years later? "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.

10-year-old Krystal Surles was attacked on December 30, 1999, with her friend Kaylene Harris at her Del Rio, Texas home. A knife-wielding intruder slashed both girls’ throats and Kaylene died. Krystal not only survived the attack but was able to help a police sketch artist draw an image that led to the arrest of her attacker, Tommy Lynn Sells. After his arrest Sells confessed to the crime and reve...

On December 14, 2005, the charred corpse of a young woman was found in a burned-out Jaguar on a Las Vegas, Nevada desert road. The car was registered to Kelly Ryan, who was married to Craig Titus, and both were stars of the body building world. Craig and Kelly claimed their car had been stolen the day before by Melissa James, their 31-year-old live-in assistant and a dancer, who was headed to New...

A 13-year-old girl vanishes in 1981. Detectives believe she was murdered. Years later, a woman appears and claims to be the missing girl. Is she an impostor? "48 Hours" correspondent Maureen Maher reports.

In December 1990, sisters Linae and Tricia Tiede were held hostage by two men -- Von Lester Taylor and Edward Steven Deli. The Tiede family had gone to spend Christmas at the family cabin in Oakley, Utah. Taylor and Deli shot their mother, father, and grandmother and planned to burn down the home. The sisters owe their survival to their heroic father, Rolf, who, though wounded, was able to get on...

When police respond to a 9-1-1 call at the home of Maria Muñoz, they discover a chaotic scene: Maria, unconscious on the floor, and her husband, a trained nurse anesthetist, performing CPR. Only hours later, Maria is declared dead. Producer Marcie Spencer and 48 Hours correspondent Erin Moriarty discuss how this mother of two ended up with a deadly combination of drugs in her system, including pro...

A young wife and mother dies unexpectedly with a strange mix of drugs in her system. Investigators turn to her journals for answers. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.

On December 16, 1998, Ronda Reynolds' husband found her lifeless body with a gunshot wound to the head in her home on Twin Peaks Drive in Toledo, Washington. The death was quickly ruled a suicide. Refusing to accept the findings, Ronda’s mother, Barb Thompson, launched her own investigation. She enlisted the help of world-famous true crime writer Ann Rule, who eventually wrote the bestseller “In t...