• Air date: 11 Jan '07 14 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (14)
    • 1. Up In Smoke; Shot in the Dark

      11 Jan '07
      A young couples goes missing in Memphis. Family members contact the local police for help, the fear the worst might have happened. While detectives investigate they soon realize they may not be investigating the loss of two lives but rather helping to return them to their families. Behind a barbershop a young man has been gunned down in cold blood. As the detectives investigate they quickly realized not everything is as it appears.
    • 2. Fatal Pickup; Bad Neighbor

      18 Jan '07
      A sixty-one year old man becomes an unlikely suspect when a double shooting takes place. Investigators try to wrap their brains around the tragic murders and the unlikely suspect. A murder victim is found dumped in a park their body full of bullets. As detectives dig deeper into the life of the victim they start to unravel man secrets.
    • 3. Blood Trail; 50G Murder

      25 Jan '07
      A burning truck reveals the fiery grave of two murder victims. Detectives are set in motion to track suspects so they can find a killer. A woman is found murdered in the streets. Detectives are left with few clues to work with, anyone could be the killer.
    • 4. Live to Tell; Field of Lies

      21 Feb '07
      A woman has been stabbed and left to die in the streets. When a witness comes forward with a license plate number detectives must resort to trickery to bring a suspect in. Found dead in his dental clinic, an elderly man’s murder has few clues. Suddenly a woman comes forward with some information leaving detectives to wonder…it is too good to be true?
    • 5. Stray Bullet; Payback

      01 Mar '07
      A woman is found murdered in a lot. Detectives work to identify a killer before he strikes again. As a victim clings to life…it is their identification that will lead the detectives to the culprits.
    • 6. The Good Book; Nightmare

      08 Mar '07
      A man is shot and killed while inside his apartment. Detectives believe the shooter was mistaken and took an innocent life. Time is of the essence while Detectives look for the man who was in the killers sights. A new Detective in the middle of his first big case has a triple murder to solve. As things quickly get out of hand…he must maintain control and work to solve the case.
    • 7. To Die For; Highway Revenge

      15 Mar '07
      Shots ring out in the night, two victims lay dead while another clings to life. Detectives will need the eyes of the third victim to help catch this killer. A veteran police officer is puzzled when he locates a body burning inside a car. Relying on hold fashioned footwork will be what helps find this killer.
    • 8. Final Investment; Writing on the Wall

      05 Apr '07
      Even Detectives have a hard time separating themselves from their cases. Which holds true when an elderly man is shot dead. Interstate 96 is where one motorist meets his end. Found in his car along the highway Detectives must track and gang to locate a brutal killer.
    • 9. Silenced

      12 Apr '07
      When the only witness to a murder is a young girl, detectives must look to her mother for help. Will she allow the detectives access to the young girl? Can she point to the shooter? Gang violence is growing and one gang in Miami, is thought to of taken the life of a homeless man. Will graffiti be the writing on the wall to help solve this murder?
    • 10. Last Dance; Deadly Deal

      19 Apr '07
      The murder of an unidentified young woman sends detectives on two hunts: to identify the victim and to hunt a killer. The leads are few, but detectives hope the cell phone and her clothes will point them in the right direction.
    • 11. Hard Fall

      24 May '07
      Two dead and four more with gunshot wounds, surveillance cameras cannot identify the shooter. Detectives must look to witnesses for the information they need to solve this case. A man found dead in his pickup clutching money and drugs, stumps detectives. Lucky for them forensics turns up several good prints, will the point to a killer?
    • 12. Reversal of Fortune; Running Scared

      24 May '07
      A man is stabbed to death in his car, investigators learn that he is an executive with an airline. Two suspects emerge, victim and suspects both had promising futures..but not any more.
    • 13. Reversal of Fortune; Running Scared

      31 May '07
      In Texas detectives find a body in a rug. It will take time and leg work to find the person who killed and left a body by the side of the road. A detective gets personal when a Cuban man is found murdered.
    • 14. Missing Witness; Who's Knocking

      21 Jun '07
      The sun is bright and a man is gunned down. A blood trails leads to where the killer could be hiding out. Or will there be not killer at the end of this blood trail? A man is gunned down outside of his apartment, by an unknown stranger that knocked on his door. Can detectives identify this visitor before he gets away?