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The First 48 follows detectives from around the country during these first critical hours as they race against time to find the suspect. Gritty and fast-paced, it takes viewers behind the scenes of real-life investigations with unprecedented access to crime scenes, autopsies, forensic processing, and interrogations.
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14 this season · 682 totals08e01 Gone 2009-01-02 02:00
Gone
When Dallas Detective Dwayne Thompson checks out a missing persons apartment and finds it covered in blood, he's launched into one of the strangest cases in his career--a case that he must solve without the victim's body. Chasing a trail of clues, Thompson and the Dallas homicide team are always one step behind their suspect.
s08e02 Return to Sender / Death Camp 2009-01-09 02:00
Return to Sender / Death Camp
In Dallas, Det. Rick Duggan investigates the murder of a young man shot in the backseat of his friend's car. While scouring the crime scene, Duggan finds an interesting lead--mail. He hopes this clue will lead him to the killer. And in Minneapolis, Sergeants Bruce Folkens and Chris Karakostas must find the person who savagely beat a homeless man to death.
s08e03 Crashing the Gate / 6000 Motives 2009-01-16 02:00
Crashing the Gate / 6000 Motives
In Dallas, Det. Randy Loboda is called in to investigate the murder of two people--gunned down while idling in a car at the entrance gate of an apartment complex. With few leads, a surviving witness may be the only key to solving the case. In Miami, Det. Orlando Silva investigates the brutal stabbing death of an elderly man in his home.
s08e04 Blood Money / Fifteen 2009-01-23 02:00
Blood Money / Fifteen
When Tucson Detectives John Dorer and Kathi Kelley arrive at the murder scene of a young man gunned down behind an apartment complex, their investigation is hampered by hostility from the victim s friends. Detectives think the friends know more than they are telling, but will they be able to get the friends to cooperate in order to find the killer?
s08e05 Out of the Past / Feud 2009-01-30 02:00
Out of the Past / Feud
In Dallas, Detectives Randy Loboda and Scott Sayers are investigating the murder of a 54-year-old family man, gunned down in his home in front of his wife and children. Detectives must determine whether he was killed during a robbery gone wrong or if he was the target of a mysterious and sinister plot. And in Cincinnati, a gunfight in broad daylight ends the life of a 23-year-old man.
s08e06 Devil Inside / Rattlesnake 2009-02-06 02:00
Devil Inside / Rattlesnake
In Tucson, Det. John Dorer and his team investigate the gruesome murder of a 58-year-old woman found naked and dead under a highway overpass--a satanic symbol near the body is written in blood. When detectives learn about a similar case, they believe they may have a serial killer on their hands and quickly enlist the help of the entire Tucson PD to track down the killer before he strikes again.
s08e07 Blame Game / Chasing Shadows 2009-02-20 02:00
Blame Game / Chasing Shadows
In Birmingham, a thirty-year-old man is found murdered next to his car in an apparent robbery gone bad. When Detectives Warren Cotton and Cynthia Morrow round up the suspects, they're forced to pit brother against brother to get to the truth. In Louisville, Det. Will Brown and his team investigate the shooting of a thirty-two-year-old family man found dead in a parking lot.
s08e13 Up in Flames/Drive-By 2009-02-27 02:15
Up in Flames/Drive-By
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s08e08 Live Bait / Drama at the Classic 2009-03-06 02:00
Live Bait / Drama at the Classic
A man meets a young lady on the bus. He gives her his number and later she calls. He and a friend go over to her apt. but are ambushed as they enter. Where they set up, or was this just a coincidence? Were the girls live bait? At an annual celebration that coincides with a football game a man is killed. During the investigation it's learned that the dead man's ex-girlfriend may have something to do with this filling. Is that the case?
s08e09 Out of Sight / Missing Piece 2009-03-20 01:00
Out of Sight / Missing Piece
In Minneapolis, after a night out with friends, a college student is stabbed to death while getting on his scooter to ride home. During a canvass of the crime scene, lead investigator Sgt. John Holthusen is confronted with the neighborhood's escalating violence when he catches a man being attacked. Holthusen must determine if the assailant is also the killer.
s08e10 Shattered Dreams / Left to Die 2009-03-27 01:00
Shattered Dreams / Left to Die
A Somali man who immigrated from Darfur to America and opened a store is murder during an apparent robbery. And a man is shot and killed, and his girl friend is shot and left for dead in what looks like a home invasion.
s08e11 Up in Flames / Drive-By 2009-04-17 01:00
Up in Flames / Drive-By
During a family get together in Minnesota a car drives by and gun's down a teen-ager with no known connections to any criminal activity. Police wind up taking more then the usual 48 hours investigating this crime. Meanwhile in Birmingham Alabama firemen are called to a burning house only to find a burning truck in the back yard with a body in the bed of the truck; burned beyond recognition. The investigation leads to yet another house fire and some surprising suspects
s08e12 One Heart 2009-04-24 01:00
One Heart
Miami Sgt. Armando Aguilar and Det. Leo Tapanes are assigned the homicide case of a 20-year-old Rastafarian, shot and robbed on Christmas Day. Surveillance footage and leads from the Rastafarian community help the detectives identify three potential suspects. But when the suspects start pointing fingers at one another, the detectives try an unusual tactic.
s08e14 One Heart 2009-04-24 01:00
One Heart
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