The BEST episodes of 48 Hours season 36
Every episode of 48 Hours season 36, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of 48 Hours season 36!
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#1 - Alisa Mathewson's Night Terrors
Season 36 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/22/2023
A woman is attacked in her sleep and kidnapped by her estranged husband. The dramatic story of her captivity and rescue. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.
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#2 - Crosley Green's Hard Time
Season 36 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/22/2023
He was free for two years and then sent back to prison for a murder he swears he didn't commit. Yet Green still has faith he'll see his loved ones again. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty has the latest on the case.
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#3 - The Tree that Helped Solve a Murder
Season 36 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/10/2022
When a young mother disappears, DNA from a tree helps lead to her killer. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.
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#4 - A Man With a Past
Season 36 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/2022
A young woman vanishes. The prime suspect has a criminal past — he murdered his parents when he was a child. Did he kill again? "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.
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#5 - The Brighton Ax Murder
Season 36 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/25/2023
A young mother is killed in her bed, her toddler unharmed. Unsolved for 40 years, how the unusual crime scene helped close the case. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.
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#6 - Kassanndra's Secret
Season 36 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/8/2023
A young woman vanishes. Eerie surveillance video captures a man in a hat. Investigators learn the two are linked by a secret. "48 Hours" contributor Natalie Morales reports.
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#7 - The Kidnapping of Schanda Handley
Season 36 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/2022
A daughter watches in horror as her mother is kidnapped from their home by intruders posing as deliverymen. "CBS Mornings" lead national correspondent David Begnaud reports.
#8 - The Snapchat Clue
Season 36 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/2022
When his parents disappear, Chandler Halderson’s social media helps investigators unravel the case. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.
#9 - The Idaho Student Murders
Season 36 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/7/2023
Four college students are found stabbed to death in their home. Police say the suspect had studied the criminal mind. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.
#10 - Melissa Turner's Closing Act
Season 36 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/2023
A cosplay actor finds herself in the spotlight when she's accused of murdering her boyfriend. Can she convince a jury it was self defense? "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.
#11 - The Daughters Who Disappeared
Season 36 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/2023
In 1997 four families are shattered when their daughters go missing. As they grieve, one man claims to have answers. Can he be trusted? "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports on the final chapter of a case she started covering more than two decades ago.
#12 - The Mysterious Death of Tiffiney Crawford
Season 36 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/25/2023
A young mother found dead in her car. Could she have shot herself twice? "48 Hours" contributor David Begnaud reports.
#13 - Christy and Hilda's Last Dance
Season 36 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/15/2023
After a night out, two women were dumped outside hospitals by masked men. Were the men good Samaritans or did they play a role in the women’s deaths? "48 Hours" contributor Jonathan Vigliotti reports.
#14 - Where Is Diana Duve?
Season 36 - Episode 28 - Aired 5/6/2023
When a 26-year-old Florida nurse goes missing after a night out, investigators look into her on-again, off-again boyfriend, with whom she was last seen.
#15 - The Death of an Officer’s Wife
Season 36 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/28/2023
Amanda Perrault died of a gunshot wound to the head. The unusual position of her body raised questions about who pulled the trigger. "48 Hours" contributor Anne-Marie Green reports.
#16 - The Trial of Alex Murdaugh
Season 36 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/4/2023
"48 Hours" explores the double life of a once prominent lawyer and his stunning fall from grace. Murdaugh is now an admitted drug addict, thief and convicted murderer. "48 Hours" contributor Nikki Battiste reports.
#17 - Lamar Johnson: Standing in Truth
Season 36 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/29/2023
A man gets his life back after spending 28 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. "48 Hours" investigates and is there as Johnson is freed in time to walk his daughter down the aisle. Correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.
#18 - Death Hits Home: The Hargan Killings
Season 36 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/2022
Megan Hargan was suspected of killing her mother and sister. Her defense had an unusual theory: her sister was the one who pulled the trigger – with her toe. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.
#19 - Remembering the Chowchilla Kidnapping
Season 36 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/18/2023
The segment airing on CBS and streaming on Paramount+ follows the story of the infamous 1976 school bus kidnapping, in which three masked gunmen abducted 26 children and school bus driver Ed Ray. They were buried alive beneath a rock quarry and in an old moving truck, spending more than 16 hours in the dark before they were able to escape.
#20 - The Case Against Michael Politte
Season 36 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/2022
At 14 he was accused and later convicted of murdering his mother. But he claims he knows who the real killer is and he’s still out there. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.
#21 - What Angelina Saw
Season 36 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/11/2023
A young girl peeks out of her bedroom to see blood on the floor and her mother in distress. As an adult she looks back on a night that changed her life. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.
#22 - Gabby Petito: The Untold Story
Season 36 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/2022
“48 Hours” explores Gabby Petito’s final days and the missed warning signs that might have saved her. "48 Hours" contributor Jericka Duncan reports.
#23 - Last Seen in Breckenridge
Season 36 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/2022
In 1982 the bodies of Annette Schnee and Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer were found outside a luxe ski town. A man rescued from a snowdrift the night of the murders turned out to be their killer. "48 Hours" contributor Natalie Morales reports.
#24 - The Kidnapping of Michelle and Breea Renee
Season 36 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/11/2023
A mother is forced to rob a bank to save her daughter’s life, then her abductor falsely claims the mother was in on the crime. "48 Hours" contributor Tracy Smith reports.
#25 - The Shooting of Lauren Kanarek
Season 36 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/2022
Did social media posts drive an Olympic horseman to shoot his own student? "48 Hours" contributor Nikki Battiste reports.