The BEST episodes of 20/20 season 48
Every episode of 20/20 season 48, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of 20/20 season 48!
20/20 brings you hard-hitting investigative reports, news-maker interviews and compelling human interest and feature stories.
#3 - Can I Prey First?
Season 48 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/2024
When 27-year-old Laura Ackerson from Kingston, North Carolina, goes missing – not showing up for work, not answering phone calls and failing to pick up her children at custody exchange – her friends and family begin to panic. Police launch a cross-country investigation that leads to a rural muddy creek in Texas and uncover a trove of evidence and troubling surveillance video.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#5 - The Menendez Brothers: Reversal of Fortune?
Season 48 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/2024
The latest on the case of Erik and Lyle Menedez, the brothers who killed their parents in Beverly Hills, and the newfound support in the effort to free the brothers. Plus, the never-before-seen excerpts from the "20/20" interview with the brothers.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#7 - You Left Me For Dead
Season 48 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/14/2025
When two women are shot in their home -- one dead and the other fighting for her life -- stunning police body camera footage and a teen's bombshell revelation help unravel the hunt for a killer.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - The Lies Beneath
Season 48 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/17/2025
Correspondent Eva Pilgrim reports on this gripping case, detailing how Michael, a theme park mechanic, stopped showing up for work in November 2015. His wife, Laurie, claimed he had driven off one evening in a black SUV, seemingly abandoning her and their two children. For more than two years, no trace of Michael was found, and his disappearance left the small town of Utica, New York, baffled.
Watch Now:Apple TV#9 - Explosive Secrets
Season 48 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/24/2025
A famed real estate developer, Gary Triano, is murdered in his car by a remote-controlled pipe bomb; money, lies and revenge are the motivations, with evidence leading authorities on an international search to find the killers responsible.
Watch Now:Apple TV#10 - Dirty Little Secret
Season 48 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/21/2025
Matt Baker was a charismatic minister of a small church in Hewitt, Texas, just outside Waco. Married to Kari, a Sunday school teacher, the couple seemed to have a happy and loving marriage and two young daughters, but when Kari was found dead, the carefully crafted facade Matt created soon started to unravel.
#11 - Family Lies?
Season 48 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/4/2025
Newly obtained investigative files provide fresh insight into one of New England's most notorious mysteries, which unfolded after Nathan Carman and his mother Linda Carman took a fateful fishing trip in 2016. Was it lost at sea...or was it murder?
#12 - Cold Blooded
Season 48 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2024
An investigation into an Alaskan doctor's death reveals a secret romance, theft of nearly half a million dollars of property from his home and a suspect with a motive to kill.
Watch Now:Apple TV#13 - Fatal Disguise
Season 48 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/2024
It was one of the most notorious murders in the Atlanta area when a father was gunned down while dropping his young son off at preschool just days after a mysterious person was seen lurking outside his home with a gun.
Watch Now:Apple TV#14 - Fire and Vice
Season 48 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/2024
The senseless murder of firefighter Robert “Robbie” Doerr in his own driveway sent shockwaves through Evansville, Indiana, launching a five-year quest for justice.
Watch Now:Apple TV#15 - Meet The Other Me
Season 48 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/2024
Officers race to find a kidnapped woman, not knowing that saving her would lead to the capture of a serial killer.
Watch Now:Apple TV#16 - Run, Run, Run
Season 48 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/31/2025
Weeks after a loving husband is found murdered in his home, his wife receives a chilling death threat on her doorstep; investigators must unravel a web of dark secrets dating back decades.
Watch Now:Apple TV#17 - Small Town, Big Con
Season 48 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/2025
The investigation into a multimillion-dollar con in a close-knit community helps investigators uncover the murder of a young father.
Watch Now:Apple TV#18 - The Last Text
Season 48 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/3/2025
Blaze Bernstein was a 19-year-old pre-med student at the University of Pennsylvania in January 2018. During winter break from college, meeting a former high school classmate ended in a deadly encounter.
Watch Now:Apple TV#19 - Gabby Petito: Her Parents Speak Out
Season 48 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/21/2025
Gabby Petito's parents speak out about their daughter's murder, and the circumstances around it.
Watch Now:Apple TV#20 - File M for Murder
Season 48 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/7/2025
When a beloved insurance salesman is murdered in his office in a quiet Missouri town, evidence points to a very top secret relationship, making his wife the prime suspect --- until new DNA technology helps authorities to find the real killer.
Watch Now:Apple TV#21 - Mountain of Lies
Season 48 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/28/2025
A woman falls to her death while hiking in the Rocky Mountains. Was it a tragic accident or a deadly crime?
Watch Now:Apple TV#22 - The Code Breakers
Season 48 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/7/2025
After two young women are murdered, their cases go cold for decades until police turn to cutting-edged forensic technology to catch the unlikely killers in both cases.
Watch Now:Apple TV#23 - Sex, Knives, and Videotape
Season 48 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/11/2025
A beloved celebrity hairstylist is found murdered in his own home. Was it a burglary gone wrong or something more sinister? His family searches for justice and answers. Who killed Fabio?
#24 - Forever Young: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey?
Season 48 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/2024
The unsolved murder of JonBenét Ramsey, the 6-year-old pageant queen found murdered in her home, including an all-new interview with John Ramsey and never-before-seen footage of Barbara Walters' interview with both parents, John and Patsy Ramsey.
Watch Now:Apple TV#25 - Unlucky Numbers
Season 48 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/18/2025
When a lottery winner vanishes under mysterious circumstances, police begin an investigation, and there is no shortage of possible suspects.