The BEST episodes of 48 Hours season 32

Every episode of 48 Hours season 32, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of 48 Hours season 32!

Television's most popular true-crime series, investigating shocking cases and compelling real-life dramas with journalistic integrity and cutting-edge style.

Last Updated: 12/19/2024Network: CBSStatus: Continuing
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9.00
2 votes

#1 - #FindPeterChadwick

Season 32 - Episode 27 - Aired 5/11/2019

A multimillionaire investor accused of killing his wife and staging a kidnapping scheme leads U.S. Marshals on a global manhunt. Have you seen him? Correspondent Tracy Smith investigates.

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9.00
2 votes

#2 - Live to Tell: The Vendetta

Season 32 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/13/2019

A judge and her son are ambushed in front of their home. Shot multiple times, the judge refuses to be intimidated and works to stop other attacks. CBS News' Jim Axelrod reports.

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8.33
9 votes

#3 - Was Kevin Cooper Framed? Part 1

Season 32 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/26/2019

Nearly 20 years ago a death row inmate wrote to "48 Hours" that he was framed for the murder of four people. Was evidence planted? New DNA tests could answer that question. Correspondent Erin Moriarty investigates.

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8.33
3 votes

#4 - What Happened to Rachael?

Season 32 - Episode 28 - Aired 5/18/2019

A popular teacher is gunned down in a quiet Pennsylvania city. Who would want her dead? Turns out, there might be a few people. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty investigates.

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What Happened in Apartment 4C?
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8.27
11 votes

#5 - What Happened in Apartment 4C?

Season 32 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/2018

Joey Comunale, a successful 26-year-old from Connecticut did what many young people do every weekend -- go clubbing in New York's hot Meatpacking District. Comunale ended the night at an after-party that seemed like any other ... but this time, he disappeared.

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8.20
5 votes

#6 - Peter Chadwick: Caught

Season 32 - Episode 30 - Aired 8/10/2019

Millionaire real estate investor Peter Chadwick and his wife Q.C. vanished from their posh Newport Beach, California, home in the middle of the day. Hours later, Peter called 911 from a gas station near the Mexican border. Hear excerpts of what he had to say.

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The Mysterious Death of Casey Kasem
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8.18
11 votes

#7 - The Mysterious Death of Casey Kasem

Season 32 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/2018

Four years after his death, a family feud erupts over radio legend Casey Kasem, exactly how he died and who was responsible -- an estate that could be worth $100 million is at stake. "48 Hours" Peter Van Sant reports.

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Jayme Closs Comes Home
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8.17
6 votes

#8 - Jayme Closs Comes Home

Season 32 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/12/2019

A look inside the Closs case, the extraordinary stories of other children found, and the the heartache of families with children still missing

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8.00
6 votes

#9 - Out of Reach

Season 32 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/9/2019

Peter Van Sant and the team investigate the 30-year-old murder of American teacher Carolyn Abel, who was living in South Korea at the time of her death and whose murderer could avoid going to trial due to a specific loophole in American laws.

In the Name of Hate
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7.91
11 votes

#10 - In the Name of Hate

Season 32 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/2018

A brilliant Ivy League student is murdered after he went to a California park with a former high school classmate. Was he killed because he was gay and Jewish? Correspondent Tracy Smith investigates.

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7.89
9 votes

#11 - Cold-Blooded Killer

Season 32 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/2018

A father goes hunting in a Florida lake and vanishes. Many people thought he was eaten by alligators, but not his mother. Seventeen years later, a stunning confession proves she was right all along.

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7.89
9 votes

#12 - The Case Against Enrico Forti

Season 32 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/4/2019

A former TV producer and windsurfing champion says he’s in prison for a murder he didn’t commit -- the only physical evidence against him: a teaspoon of sand. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty investigates.

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7.88
8 votes

#13 - A Death in Payson Canyon

Season 32 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/27/2019

A teenager’s death appeared to be a suicide -- but investigators say she was helped by a friend who recorded it and weeks earlier texted “it's like getting away with murder.” CBS News' David Begnaud investigates.

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7.86
7 votes

#14 - Portrait of a Killer

Season 32 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/23/2019

A teenager said after he killed an elderly couple “it felt amazing.” Now a controversial new California law could set him free at 25. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty investigates. Air Date: Feb 23, 2019

Knock Knock
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7.83
6 votes

#15 - Knock Knock

Season 32 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/19/2019

Can a podcaster and a driven detective using cutting-edge technology solve a stone cold double murder? "48 Hours" correspondent Richard Schlesinger investigates.

Defending DJ
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7.75
8 votes

#16 - Defending DJ

Season 32 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/2018

"48 Hours" goes inside a family’s mission to restore their son’s reputation seven years after he was fatally shot by a police officer. CBS News special correspondent James Brown reports.

FindJodi
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7.63
8 votes

#17 - FindJodi

Season 32 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/2018

More than two decades after Iowa TV anchor Jodi Huisentruit disappeared, "48 Hours" reveals new information into the investigation. CBS News' Jim Axelrod reports.

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7.58
12 votes

#18 - Murder on the Dark Web

Season 32 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/2018

Known as the internet's evil twin, the dark web is a place where services offering hit men-for-hire are just a computer click away. "48 Hours" explores the alarming world of murder-for-hire on the mysterious dark web and exposes an international criminal organization in a hunt for a self-described murder mastermind who uses the name Yura. A six-month investigation spans the globe and leads "48 Hours" to information in the U.S. and beyond, about murder plots bought and paid for -- but not yet carried out. Who is Yura? Where is Yura? And can police intervene before someone else gets killed?

Sugar Land: Life or Death
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7.44
9 votes

#19 - Sugar Land: Life or Death

Season 32 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/5/2019

A Texas father targeted by a hit man fights for the life of the person who ordered the murder -- his son. "48 Hours"' Peter Van Sant has the latest in the case.

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7.33
3 votes

#20 - Karrie's Choice

Season 32 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/23/2019

Could a teenager be brainwashed by one parent to help murder the other parent -- and then make it look like a suicide? "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty investigates.

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7.20
5 votes

#21 - Was Kevin Cooper Framed? Part 2

Season 32 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/26/2019

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7.14
7 votes

#22 - Fatal Crossing

Season 32 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/2/2019

A pregnant, South Carolinian mother and her infant daughter are found dead near railway tracks. Though determined to be a suicide, the victims' family suspects their son-in-law.

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7.11
9 votes

#23 - Dead Ringer

Season 32 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/2018

Ramon Sosa, was a former pro boxer who owned two gyms in Houston, Texas. He was on top of the world — until he learned someone was trying to hire a hit man to kill him. He came out fighting, helping police in an elaborate sting which meant he'd go down for the count in a most unusual way. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant goes inside the twisted case of a man whose murder was ordered – and who lived to talk about it.

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7.00
8 votes

#24 - Live to Tell: Standoff at Trader Joe's

Season 32 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/16/2019

"48 Hours" Live to Tell: Hostages chillingly reveal the terrifying three hours they spent held captive by a gunman inside a California supermarket. CBS News' Jim Axelrod reports. Air Date: Feb 16, 2019

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7.00
1 votes

#25 - In Jason's Name

Season 32 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/20/2019

An Irish businessman is killed by his American au-pair-turned-wife and her father. They claim self-defense -- the dead man’s sister fights to clear his name. "48 Hours"' Maureen Maher investigates.