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29 Episodes 2022 - 2023
Episode 1
Sat, Sep 17, 2022
Michael Barisone, a former Olympic equestrian and trainer, speaks out in his first television interview since the end of his trial for the attempted murder of a former student and her boyfriend.
Episode 2
Sat, Sep 24, 2022
48 Hours correspondent Peter Van Sant investigates the 2006 disappearance of a recent college graduate, Lori Ann Slesinski in Auburn, Alabama, and the case against her killer, Rick Ennis. Four days after Slesinski went missing, her car was found engulfed in flames on a deserted street. She was still nowhere to be found. Police believed Rick Ennis was the last person to be with her before she disappeared. But Ennis had moved away from Auburn after he talked with police. It would take 12 years before authorities made a case against him. In 2018, Ennis was charged with Slesinski's murder, even though her body was never found. It was not the first time Ennis was charged with such a horrific crime. In 1993, when he was 12 years old, Ennis murdered his parents.
Episode 3
Sat, Oct 1, 2022
48 Hours correspondent Peter Van Sant investigates the case against Megan Hargan who was suspected of killing her mother Pam Hargan and her sister Helen Hargan. When investigators entered the McLean, Virginia home of millionaire mother Pam Hargan, they discovered the bodies of Pam and her youngest daughter Helen Hargan, who was found dead with a rifle. Hours later, police told the family that Helen's wound looked self-inflicted, and that it was probably a murder-suicide. Did Helen Hargan shoot her mother dead and then take her own life? Her sister, Megan Hargan, told investigators Helen Hargan had been struggling emotionally. Megan's defense strategy had an unusual theory: that her sister Helen killed their mother and then killed herself with her toe on the trigger.
Episode 4
Sat, Oct 15, 2022
Three friends in a small Georgia town, college professor Marianne Shockley, her boyfriend and a former psychologist, got together one spring night to swim, play and listen to music. Marianne Shockley was a respected University of Georgia professor and renown entomologist. By morning, she and the former psychologist, Clark Heindel, were dead. Only her boyfriend, Marcus Lillard, was alive.
Episode 5
Sat, Oct 22, 2022
August 2017, Lafayette, LA: Schanda Handley and her daughter Isabella Cumberland discuss Schanda's kidnapping from her home at gunpoint by her estranged husband Michael Handley, and her eventual escape. Her husband was found guilty and was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Episode 6
Sat, Nov 5, 2022
Bart and Krista Halderson had a beautiful home in Windsor, Wisconsin, and two adult sons they adored, so when Bart and Krista suddenly disappeared in July 2021, it stunned their community. Will information found on social media would lead investigators to their killer?
Episode 7
Sat, Nov 12, 2022
This cold case rape/murder crime did indeed seem unsolvable for 34 years, until genetic genealogist Gabriella Vargas was able to pinpoint the possible suspect, Patrick Wayne Gilham, in four days. Roxanne Wood, nicknamed "Rock", age 30, had been raped and murdered in February 1987 in her home in South Bend, Indiana. In the end, Patrick Gilham was arrested at age 67 and pleaded "no contest" to the murder. He will have to serve a minimum of 23 years in prison.
Episode 8
Sat, Nov 19, 2022
This installment details the investigation into the 1982 murders of two young women, 29-year-old Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer and 21-year-old Annette Schnee, near the resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado.
Episode 9
Sat, Nov 26, 2022
Charged with killing his mother when Michael Politte was just 14 years old, this Missouri man who is out on parole after 23 years behind bars fights to clear his name, claiming the real killer is still out there.
Episode 10
Sat, Dec 3, 2022
On September 4, 1981, Jeff Slaten, age 15 and his brother Tim, age 12, were awakened by Lakeland, Florida, police. The boys were told that their mother, Linda Slaten, had been murdered. Investigators collected a rape kit and lifted a palm print from the windowsill where the killer had entered. They questioned a slew of suspects, but no one was charged, and the case went cold for 40 years. Prior to, and after Linda Slaten's murder, Tim's football coach, Joe Mills, would regularly drive Tim to and from football practice. Coach Joe became a role model for the young boy, who proudly hung up his football team photo in his room. In the photo, Coach Mills stood right behind Tim. Linda's sons spent decades living in fear of the man they called "The Monster". Nearly 40 years later, advances in DNA technology revealed Linda Slaten's likely killer: Coach Joe. "I looked up to this guy," Tim tells "48 Hours" contributor Jim Axelrod. "And I had a picture in my house ever since then, and never knew it was him." "He's a cold-hearted monster, that's for sure," says Jeff.
Episode 11
Sat, Dec 10, 2022
Young wife and mother Mengqi Ji Elledge, age 28, was a Chinese foreign exchange student at University of Missouri. She went missing in October 2019. Her husband, Joseph Elledge of Columbia, Missouri, reported her disappearance to the police. Everybody felt that it was strange that Mengqi went missing without her cell phone or her young toddler daughter. Mengqi's parents came to America from China to try to help the investigation. The police asked the public for help and searched exhaustively for Mengqi. In March 2021, her body was found. In the end, Joseph Elledge, now age 26, was brought to trial and was found guilty of killing his wife. He was sentenced to 28 years in prison, the maximum amount allowed by law.
Episode 12
Sat, Jan 7, 2023
Details surrounding the murders of four University of Idaho students and the investigators' cross-country hunt to capture the alleged killer.
Episode 13
Sat, Jan 14, 2023
A woman is charged with second degree murder with a weapon in the stabbing death of her fiancé.
Episode 14
Sat, Jan 21, 2023
This installment outlines the following murdered women and children left along Interstate 45 from Houston, Texas to south Oklahoma: Laura Kate Smither, age 12, who went missing on April 3, 1997; Kelli Ann Cox, age 20, who went missing on July 15, 1997; Tiffany Johnston, age 19, who went missing on July 26, 1997; Jessica Cain, age 17, who went missing on August 17, 1997. Also detailed is Sandra Sapaugh, who was kidnapped on May 16, 1997 and survived by jumping out of the kidnapper's vehicle. For years, detectives had suspected that sex offender William Reece was behind the crimes. In 2016, Reece agreed to talk to the Texas Rangers. He was arrested and convicted of several of the crimes through his interviews and also DNA. Reece is currently serving a life sentence.
Episode 15
Sat, Jan 28, 2023
Eatonton, Georgia, 2020: The wife of an Eatonton, Georgia Police Department officer, 44-year-old Amanda Perrault, phoned 911 and made allegations on January 28, 2020 of abuse against her husband, Seth Perrault. Days later, she was dead due to a gunshot wound to her head. Seth claimed that she took her own life by shooting herself in the head. The medical examiner ruled Amanda Perrault's death a suicide. But when the Putnam County Sheriff saw the way her body was lying in the couple's bed, he says he didn't see a suicide, he saw a murder. In the end, Seth Perrault was arrested and convicted of Amanda's murder. Perrault was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
Episode 16
Sat, Feb 11, 2023
Vista, California, November 2000: Bank manager and mother, Michelle Renee, age 35, is forced to rob her employer, Bank of America, after she and her daughter, Breea Renee, age 7, are held hostage and threatened with guns and dynamite. Things go downhill when the defense attorney falsely accuses her of masterminding the plot. In the end, three of the bank robbers are caught and sent to prison.
Episode 17
Sat, Feb 25, 2023
The 1982 murder of Cathy Krauseneck and the case against her husband, Jim Krauseneck, who says he found her dead in their bed with an axe in her head. Jim was convicted of her murder.
Episode 18
Sat, Mar 4, 2023
This installment details the "double life" of the once-prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh and his stunning fall from grace.
Episode 19
Sat, Mar 11, 2023
Worcester, Massachusetts, May 2014: An 11-year-old girl, Angelina Fernandes, woke up to the sound of her screaming mother. Young Angelina peeked out of her bedroom to see blood on the floor and her mother, Stephanie Fernandes, in distress. The blood belonged to Stephanie's fiance, Andrew Wagner, who did not survive the attack. Stephanie was taken to the Worcester Police Department, where she was interviewed for almost three hours. Stephanie claimed she acted in self-defense, and was eventually charged with murder. Now as an adult, Angelina looks back on a night that changed her life, and tells her story.
Episode 20
Sat, Mar 18, 2023
The 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping was the abduction of a school bus driver and 26 children, ages 5 to 14, in Chowchilla, California, on July 15, 1976. The three kidnappers (James Schoenfeld; Richard Schoenfeld; and Frederick Newhall Woods IV) held their captives in a box truck buried in a quarry in Livermore, California, intending to demand a ransom for their return. After about 16 hours underground, the driver and children dug themselves out and escaped, all surviving. The quarry owner's son and two of his friends were convicted of the crime, each receiving a sentence of life with the possibility of parole. In this installment, a kidnapping survivor discusses her Chowchilla ordeal and her fight to keep her kidnappers behind bars.
Episode 21
Sat, Mar 25, 2023
May 2, 2017, Cullman, Alabama: When a young woman, 32-year-old Tiffiney Crawford, is found dead in her car, her husband Jason Crawford claims that she took her own life. However, when the investigation deepens, authorities find that there are two bullet wounds in her head. This cannot be a suicide.
Episode 22
Sat, Apr 8, 202341 mins
Three days after a Washington woman's disappearance, surveillance footage of a mysterious man in a fedora leaving her car is discovered.
Episode 23
Sat, Apr 15, 2023
When two women are dumped outside hospitals by masked men after a night out, authorities question whether they are good Samaritans or if the men were involved in the women's death.
Episode 24
Sat, Apr 22, 2023
After a man manipulates his children into thinking he wants to get back together with their mother, he holds her captive and attempts to kill her.
Episode 25
Sat, Apr 29, 2023
Lamar Johnson, exonerated after nearly three decades in prison for a murder he did not commit, talks about his fight to prove his innocence. Greg Elking, whose testimony helped convict Johnson, explains why he lied at the trial.
Episode 26
Sat, May 6, 2023
This installment discusses the June 20, 2014 disappearance and murder of Diana Duve, age 26, the Vero Beach nurse who went missing while having a "night out" at a bar with her "on-again, off-again" boyfriend Michael Jones.
Episode 27
Sat, May 13, 2023
In May 2023, Lori Vallow Daybell was found guilty by a jury of killing her two children, JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan, as part of a "Doomsday Cult" plot. She was also found guilty of conspiring to murder Tammy Daybell, the ex-wife of Lori's husband, Chad Daybell.
Episode 28
Sat, May 20, 2023
Colts Neck, New Jersey: On July 7, 2013, shortly after midnight, Donna Ongsiako was stabbed repeatedly in a violent home invasion. She was in surgery for over seven hours, and miraculously survived, even though she had lost an astounding 75% of the blood in her body. The vicious perpetrator, sixteen-year-old Brennan Doyle, was convicted via a plea bargain and sentenced to 15 years in state prison. The law requires him to serve at least 85 percent of that time.
Episode 29
Sat, Jun 3, 2023
In August 2016, Olga Tsvyk, a beauty stylist in Queens, New York, became gravely ill and lost consciousness after her client, Viktoria Nasyrova, came to her home and gave her a piece of poisoned cheesecake. The two women happened to look very similar to each other. Viktoria Nasyrova then stole Olga Tsvyk's passport and work permit in a bizarre identity-theft plot. Olga Tsvyk survives the poisoning attempt. In the end, Viktoria Nasyrova was arrested and convicted of attempting to kill her "look-alike" friend. She was sentenced to 21 years in prison.