Tag: 48 Hours
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Illinois shooting survivor defies the odds after taking bullet to the brain
Leslie Reeves and Chris Smith were shot during their first date. Only Smith survived. A look at how he defied the odds to make a remarkable recovery. The scene of the crime The exterior of Chris Smith’s Farmersville, Illinois, home. Illinois State Police On the night before Thanksgiving 2021, Smith went on a first date…
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A Minnesota woman is fatally shot in her bathroom. Who pulled the trigger?
It was a week before Christmas in 2022, when Saint Paul, Minnesota, police officer Ching Vang and his partner Officer Justina Hser set off on their regular patrol of the city. Natalie Morales | “48 Hours” contributor: The overnight hours, it’s December 16th, 2022. What time do you get that call? Officer Ching Vang: On…
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Tracking the hours before a young Minnesota woman became a murder victim
On Dec. 15, 2022, Matthew Ecker was headed to work when he said he got a frantic call from his former co-worker and friend Alex Pennig. He said Pennig told him she got in a fight with her boyfriend Shane Anderson and was scared of what he might do. So, Ecker took his gun, which…
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Inside the story of the notorious Menendez brothers case
The question is not whether Lyle and Erik Menendez killed their parents. They admit that they did. Instead, the focus of the case has long been on why they did it. They say they killed out of fear and in self-defense after a lifetime of physical, emotional and sexual abuse suffered at the hands of…
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Cathy Krauseneck cold case: Jim Krauseneck, husband of woman murdered with an ax, convicted 40 years after her death
This story previously aired on Sept. 8, 2023. On a wintery night near Rochester, New York, retired Detective Marc Liberatore shows “48 Hours” how he helped bring one of the coldest cases in America to trial. On Feb. 19, 1982, police officers arrived at the Brighton home of Jim and Cathy Krauseneck and encountered a…
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Unconventional relationship holds answers to Florida woman’s violent murder
In April 2018, in the sleepy Florida Gulf Coast town of Eastpoint, it appeared a killer had struck. “I received a call that a body was located .. off of Highway 98,” Lt. Ronnie Jones, from the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, told “48 Hours” correspondent Peter Van Sant. Badly beaten and with no identification, the…
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Last-known images of missing mom Jermain Charlo are caught on tape. Will they lead to a break in the Montana case?
On Highway 93, en route to Missoula, it’s hard to miss this billboard and Jermain Charlo’s haunting gaze. Missoula police detective Guy Baker has been searching for Jermain for more than six years. Det. Guy Baker: When I see that billboard … I’m frustrated. … We’ve … just time and time again, come up empty…
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Where’s Ray Wright? High-speed chase leads to clues in Sacramento man’s abduction and “revenge” murder
This story originally aired on Feb. 3, 2024. Ray Wright‘s daughters were worried when their dad didn’t show up at his carpentry shop and didn’t answer any calls or texts. “I knew something bad was happening to him. I felt it,” says Haley Kendall. Dean Wright felt it too. He headed to his brother’s house…
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The investigation into Montana mom Jermain Charlo’s disappearance
When Jermain Charlo‘s cellphone went silent in June 2018, her family suspected something was wrong. “She was very active on social media … she posted about everything,” Valenda Morigeau, Charlo’s aunt, told “48 Hours.” “So for her to not be active on social media, then I knew something was not right.” When Charlo didn’t respond…
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Why a Maryland oral surgeon became a murder suspect in girlfriend’s overdose death
It’s the morning of Jan. 26, 2022. Sarah Harris, 25, lies unresponsive on the floor of the home she shares with her boyfriend, 48-year-old Dr. James Ryan. She is found in the living room, which is in disarray. Ryan tearfully talks with Montgomery County, Maryland, police at the scene. The conversation is recorded on a…