The BEST episodes of The First 48 season 8
Every episode of The First 48 season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The First 48 season 8!
Follows detectives during the hours immediately following a homicide.
#1 - Cold as Ice
Season 8 - Episode 16 - Aired 6/23/2009
The body of a man is found in the snow. Detectives work to find a killer, but first they have to get the friend to tell what she knows.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Torn/Gun Crazy
Season 8 - Episode 21 - Aired 8/11/2009
A love triangle turns deadly, and detectives work to untangle the web. Gun fire erupts in a car leaving one man dead and another injured.
#3 - Ditched
Season 8 - Episode 19 - Aired 7/21/2009
Passing motorists discover the decomposing body a person reported missing by a friend. As detectives search for the friend, they quickly realize this is going to be a long road.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - Last Wish
Season 8 - Episode 14 - Aired 6/16/2009
After celebrating his birthday with friends and family, the man is found dead on a sidewalk. Twists and turns lead detectives down a crazy path. Finally appealing to the public, they get a lead.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - Return to Sender/Death Camp
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/2009
A young man lays dead in the backseat of his friend's car. Detectives start looking around the scene and find some mail. Could this be the clue that breaks the case? The streets of Minneapolis are 'home' to the homeless. The brutal beating death of a homeless man sets detectives on a hunt for a killer.
#6 - Gone
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2009
Detectives are called to the scene at an apartment, blood covers the apartment. There is no possible way the victim survived this brutal attack. No body is found at the scene and detectives start the search for the killer...and their victim.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - Devil Inside/Rattlesnake
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/5/2009
An elderly woman is brutally murdered and left under a highway underpass. When satanic symbols are found by the body, police investigate and learn about a similar case. With lots of help they set out to catch a possible serial killer. Local teenage is recklessly shot and killed, the community is gripped by fear. The investigators talk to the neighbors hoping to get one of them to speak.
#8 - Blame Game/Chasing Shadows
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/19/2009
Two brothers are suspects in the murder of 30-year-old man, in what looks like a robbery gone wrong. Detectives try to get the brothers to turn on each other to see who the killer is. A man is found gunned down in a local parking lot. The clues are few and far between. Detectives get the break they need when the run across surveillance footage.
#9 - One Heart
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/23/2009
Detectives are after the killer of a 20-year-old gunned down on Christmas Day. Using surveillance footage detectives identify suspects that point fingers at one another.
#10 - Out of Sight/Missing Piece
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/19/2009
After a night out with friends a college students prepares to go home as he is stabbed and killed. Once on scene detectives realize the violence in the area is growing, they come across a man being attacked. Could one of these men be the killer? Three teen boys have an argument, later one of them is shot in a backyard. Detectives set out to find out if these are friends or foe.
#11 - Blood Money/Fifteen
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/22/2009
A young man lays dead behind an apartment building. Detectives run into problems with the victim's friends. Do they know more than what they are saying? Can the detectives convince them to talk before a killer gets away? A young girl is struck by a stray bullet from an AK-47. This senseless tragedy is made worse by few leads. Detectives will have to track down possible witness after witness to try to find this killer.
#12 - Up in Flames/Drive-By
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/16/2009
A truck is found burning with the body of a murdered man in the back. The fire as destroyed almost all of the evidence. The detectives start with the last known people to see the victim alive. A teenager is playing football in his front yard when gun shots ring out during a drive by, killing the teen. Witnesses are afraid to speak out; detectives must convince them to talk to catch their killer.
#13 - Live Bait/Drama at the Classic
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/5/2009
A young man met a young lady earlier in the day on a bus. They meet up later and he is robbed and murdered, was the victim was set up or killed at random? A man is murdered at an annual football game. Talking to witnesses they determine there was tensions between the dead man and his former girlfriend and her new beau.
#14 - Obstruction/Flight Risk
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/15/2009
Detectives are called to a shooting that has left a man dead. When a woman shows up to retrieve something from the scene detectives wonder if she knows more than she lets on. A man guns down a mother of two, a witness comes forward to tell detectives the man is headed for Mexico. With the help of the SWAT team, they attempt to cut him off before he can flee.
#15 - Crashing the Gate/6000 Motives
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/2009
Two people are consumed by gun fire while they sit waiting at the gate of an apartment building. With little to go on detectives rely on the surviving witness to help them solve the case. An elderly man takes a drifter into his home, when the elderly man turns up dead...the drifter is the likely suspect. Detectives will search state to state looking for this suspect.
#16 - In Broad Daylight/Fight Club
Season 8 - Episode 18 - Aired 7/7/2009
A young woman is shot and killed in the middle of the day. Detectives race to identify the victim and catch her killer. Outside of a strip club a young man is brutally murdered. Using onsite surveillance and forensics detectives track their killer.
#17 - Road Hazard/Cold
Season 8 - Episode 17 - Aired 6/30/2009
A motorcycle club president was run off the road, and then shot in the head. Detectives work to find answers and a killer. A woman is strangled in her apartment. Detectives are on the hunt for this killer that has left seven children without a mother.
#18 - Caught Up
Season 8 - Episode 20 - Aired 7/28/2009
A young father is gunned down in the middle of the day. Detectives work quickly to establish witnesses and get leads. With a license plate number and a security camera, detectives start their search to bring this killer to justice.
#19 - Signs of Violence/Live By the Gun
Season 8 - Episode 15 - Aired 6/23/2009
A deaf man is stabbed to death in the doorway of his home. Detectives are on the trail of their suspects, who might be linked to an unsolved murder. A street party is interrupted when shots ring out, leaving a young man dead. Witnesses are few but when found their information may lead detectives to a killer.
#20 - Shattered Dreams/Left to Die
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/26/2009
A Sudanese man from Louisville who fled genocide in Darfur is shot to death in his clothing store, police notice surveillance cameras in the store and look to them for clues. To their horror the cameras fail to identify the suspects. A young couple is shot in their home. The man dies at the scene and the female victim clings to life. She gives detectives the names of two possible shooters, it is up the them to find these suspects and determine whether these two suspects are indeed the killers.
#21 - Out of the Past/Feud
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/29/2009
A man is gunned down in front of his wife and children. Detectives look for clues to determine if the murder has a deeper meaning or if it was a robbery gone wrong. A young man is killed in the middle of the day in the prime of his life, in a hail of gunfire. In order to track this killer the surviving victim must be located to get details of the shootout and why it happened.
#22 - Blind Rage/Those Closest to Us
Season 8 - Episode 24 - Aired 9/15/2009
A man is shot inside his home, a woman calls 911 from inside then flees the scene. Detectives set out to find this woman to see if she is just a witness or if she is a cold blooded killer. A homeless man is stabbed in the park and left to die. Detectives search for clues and get a tip the victim was last seen with a friend. They race the clock to find out if this friend is actually a killer.
#23 - Johnny Black/Stranger Than Fiction
Season 8 - Episode 22 - Aired 9/1/2009
In the first of two homicides less than ten blocks away, detectives head out to the shooting of man in the middle of the day. They investigation leads to a suspect who is a friend of the victim. Then, shots ring out and a young man is gunned down by a man on a bike. When a witness comes to them, they have a hard time believing her story. Is truth really stranger than fiction?
#24 - Heart of Gold/Last Breath
Season 8 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/8/2009
A woman is stabbed multiple times. Once detectives arrive they realize they are familiar with the victim. They turn to friends and family to help isolate a killer. A dieing man speaks his final words to his sister after he was shot. Will his words lead to his killer?