The BEST episodes of 20/20 season 47
Every episode of 20/20 season 47, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of 20/20 season 47!
20/20 brings you hard-hitting investigative reports, news-maker interviews and compelling human interest and feature stories.
#1 - Deadly Vows
Season 47 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/2023
When a woman vanishes, police uncover her husband's dark past; the missing woman's own past comes under scrutiny;
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Happily Never After
Season 47 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/2023
The stunning case of an illicit affair, manipulation and murder.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - Catch Us If You Can
Season 47 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/2023
An inmate and corrections officer vanish. Was it a kidnapping - or a forbidden romance?
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - First Divorced Then Dead
Season 47 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/2023
Reporting on a verdict in the case of a beloved law professor's gruesome murder.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - Ruby Franke
Season 47 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/22/2024
Ruby Franke's YouTube channel "8 Passengers" was a portrait of social media success. For years, the wife and mother of six, who were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, amassed nearly 2.5 million followers documenting the daily life of her children. However, the image of the perfect family began to crack when her controversial videos displayed her strict parenting. In August of 2023, one of Ruby's children, malnourished with duct tape and wounds on his wrists and ankles, escaped the home of Franke's friend and business partner, Jodi Hildebrandt, and asked a neighbor for help.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - She Was Almost Home
Season 47 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/2023
A young woman’s mysterious disappearance and the search-and-rescue operation that led police to a barn full of dark secrets.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - Am I Next?
Season 47 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/5/2024
When 36-year-old Bill Payne and 23-year-old Billie Jean Hayworth were found in their Tennessee home shot dead with their 7-month-old son, unharmed in his dead mother's arms, investigators said the murder looked like it could be a professional hit. Authorities soon learned the young couple had become embroiled in a bitter online feud and uncover a deadly catfishing scheme.
#8 - The Murderer in the Minivan
Season 47 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/2/2024
Three women -- one missing, one murdered, one kidnapped -- and the clues leading to a killer.
#9 - Into the Darkness
Season 47 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/8/2024
When 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel stopped answering text messages mid-conversation during a spring break trip in April 2009, her friends and family instantly knew something was seriously wrong. Drexel — who was last seen on video camera footage leaving a hotel in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina — had seemingly vanished into thin air, creating a heartbreaking mystery that would haunt her friends and family for more than a decade. Now, "20/20" gives viewers an exclusive inside look at how a new FBI team assigned to the case finally brought justice to Brittanee with the arrest of convicted sex offender Raymond Moody and brings viewers inside the dramatic courtroom confrontation between Brittanee's mom and her daughter's killer for the first time.
#10 - A Killer Renovation
Season 47 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/23/2024
When Shanti Cooper-Tronnes, a beloved mom and successful businesswoman, is found dead in the Florida home she shared with her husband, David Tronnes, police suspected it was a robbery gone wrong. Why else would her $15,000 diamond ring be missing? When investigators dismiss that theory, they turn their attention to a home renovation that the couple had undertaken, which was to be profiled on the A&E show "Zombie House Flipping."
#11 - Highway Hunter
Season 47 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/15/2024
In the spring and summer of 1997, four young women vanish in quick succession. Two of them go missing just off Texas Interstate 45, and the other two disappear just a few hours north. Could a serial killer be roaming the highways between Texas and Oklahoma? ABC News correspondent John Quiñones takes viewers inside the decades-long cold case investigation and four families' quest for answers. The report features exclusive footage of a hypnosis session with a fifth survivor that helped lead police to the killer and behind-the-scenes details into the killer's confession.
#12 - Killer on Campus
Season 47 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/1/2024
A Florida university campus is on edge when a student disappears; police say love, lies and obsession led to murder; a new witness comes forward with a claim that could potentially overturn the case.
#13 - Love Honor Betray
Season 47 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/16/2024
Sgt. Tyrone Hassel III had beat the odds. Growing up in what was considered a "tough neighborhood," Tyrone was an honors student who excelled at sports and won a college scholarship to study engineering. He later joined the Army, where he quickly rose through the ranks and would start a family alongside his wife, Army Specialist Kemia Hassel. When he was gunned down while visiting his family for the holidays, police wondered – who would want Sgt. Tyrone Hassel dead?
#14 - Diary of a Killer
Season 47 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/8/2023
The murder of a beloved mom sparks an international manhunt; police uncover clues in an accused killer's diary.
#15 - Baby Holly Found
Season 47 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/2023
Forty years after a young couple is murdered, their true identities lead to a shocking twist.
#16 - Sealed With a Kill
Season 47 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/9/2024
When Erik Maund, a prominent, wealthy auto executive from Texas, had an affair with an escort, Holly Williams, on a trip to Nashville, he might have thought there would be no consequences. But when Holly's partner, Bill Lanway, attempted to extort Maund for $25,000 and threatened to expose his affair with Williams to his family, a deadly murder-for-hire plot ended in tragedy. On March 12, 2020, Williams and Lanway were shot to death, and their bodies were left in an abandoned car in Nashville.
#17 - How'd You Rather Die?
Season 47 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/12/2024
When 16-year-old Skylar Neese disappeared, authorities initially suspected she was a runaway. The only lead police had was a mysterious security surveillance video showing Skylar getting into the back seat of an unknown vehicle shortly after midnight. After months of searching, the tight-knit West Virginia community was shocked when Skylar's two best friends confessed to luring Skylar out of her family's apartment, stabbing her to death, and hiding her body under branches in the woods.
#18 - The One That Got Out
Season 47 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/2023
When multiple women are murdered in Texas, police hunt for a serial killer – but is he closer than they think?
#19 - Snatched
Season 47 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/2023
When a boy is kidnapped riding a bike, parents, police and a blogger work to bring him home.
#20 - Three Shots in the Dark
Season 47 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/5/2024
When a pro athlete is murdered, police embark on an international chase for the killer.
#21 - All American Murder
Season 47 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/2023
When a Texas couple is murdered in their bed, authorities investigate whether the culprit is a masked intruder or someone closer to home.
#22 - Missing From the Mall
Season 47 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/12/2024
On a November afternoon in 2003, Dru Sjodin, a senior at the University of North Dakota, was finishing some Christmas shopping when she vanished from the parking lot of her local mall. When authorities arrived at the scene, they discovered a chilling piece of evidence — the sheath of a handheld knife.
#23 - There Is a Monster in Me
Season 47 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/19/2024
When a woman is killed in a small Texas town, a secret diary reveals the killer's motive;
#24 - Gypsy Rose: The Next Act
Season 47 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/26/2024
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard's story of murder, family, romance, deception and abuse; her first interview after her release from prison.
#25 - 'Til Death Do Us Part
Season 47 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/19/2024
It seemed like life in the small town of Selmer, Tennessee, revolved around the well-known and beloved church pastor Matthew Winkler. Matthew, along with his wife Mary and their three daughters, were seen as a perfect family — until parishioners discovered their pastor's body in the family's home, and Mary and the daughters were nowhere to be found.