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48 Hours
48 Hours

48 Hours

—This newsmagazine investigates intriguing crime and justice cases that touch on all aspects of the human experience. Over its long run, the show has helped exonerate wrongly convicted people, driven the reopening -- and resolution -- of cold cases, and changed numerous lives. CBS News correspondents offer an in-depth look into each story, with the emphasis on solving the mystery at its heart. The program and its team have earned critical acclaim, including multiple Emmy, Peabody and Edward R. Murrow Awards.
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    My Daughter's Killer
    The Enemy Within
    A Time to Kill
    Invitation to a Murder -- Revisited
    The Death of Todd Stermer
    A Knock on the Door
    Vengeance in Vegas
    For the Love of Cayley Mandadi
    The One Who Got Away

  • A father/daughter relationship in Ohio ends in murder.
  • My Daughter's Killer

    A woman confronts the murderer of her daughter.
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  • The Enemy Within

    A teenager accused of her mother's murder; conflicts between parents and children following a divorce.
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  • A Time to Kill

    17-year-old Sterling Barber is accused of murdering Gerald Douglas Wyatt, a church deacon; the Carnesville, Georgia teenager claimed that he acted in self-defense because Wyatt, known to be a predator, was trying to molest him.
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  • Invitation to a Murder -- Revisited

    A man is hailed as a hero for trying to stop his wife's murder, then a twisted plot unravels.
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  • The Death of Todd Stermer

    A Michigan woman accused of setting fire to her family home and murdering her husband in 2007 speaks out.
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This newsmagazine investigates intriguing crime and justice cases that touch on all aspects of the human experience. Over its long run, the show has helped exonerate wrongly convicted people, driven the reopening -- and resolution -- of cold cases, and changed numerous lives. CBS News correspondents offer an in-depth look into each story, with the emphasis on solving the mystery at its heart. The program and its team have earned critical acclaim, including multiple Emmy, Peabody and Edward R. Murrow Awards.

Starring

Erin Moriarty, Peter Van Sant, Natalie Morales, Jim Axelrod, David Begnaud, Jericka Duncan, Michelle Miller, Jonathan Vigliotti, Maureen Maher, Richard Schlesinger, Tracy Smith, Troy Roberts, Susan Spencer
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