The BEST episodes of The First 48 season 2
Every episode of The First 48 season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The First 48 season 2!
Follows detectives during the hours immediately following a homicide.
#1 - A Serial Killer Calls
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/2005
Homicide detectives led by Sgt. Doug Niemeier are drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a serial killer who calls 911 to direct them to bodies he's hidden around Kansas City. Niemeier and his team must race against time to stop the elusive killer before he kills again.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#2 - Hostile Takeover/Shot in the Back
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/2005
In Miami, a young man's body is found next to a high-rise, a victim of an apparent suicide. But the investigation takes a twist when Sgt. Joe Schillaci discovers signs of a struggle on the victim's body. The man was seen with a mysterious woman only hours before his death--but the woman has disappeared. Is she the killer--or yet another victim? Detectives in Dallas find two burned up bodies in opposite sides of town on the same night. The investigation leads to a motel where they find a bloody room and the possible murder scene. Were the two victims killed by the same killer?
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#3 - Murder in the Driveway/Double Shooting in the Beans
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/21/2005
In a case of young man shot dead in Little Haiti, Miami Detective Ervens Ford and his team learn the suspected killer is a member of a notorious gang. The team must hunt him down, before he flees the country. And when two teenagers are brutually gunned down in the Pork-n-Beans project, Sgt. Pepi Granado and Det. Freddy Ponce learn there's a witness who saw the murders go down. To solve the case, they must get the witness to reveal what he knows.
Watch Now:Apple TV#4 - Fallen/Texas Burning
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/9/2005
Just because two victims are found in different places doesn't mean they weren't murdered by the same person and sometimes its hard to distinguish if a suspect is the killer or another victim.
Watch Now:Apple TV#5 - Deadly Betrayal
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/3/2005
With Hurricane Jeanne threatening Miami, Sgt. Joe Schillaci and Det. Olga Rome must solve the murder of the owner of a popular strip club. The club's surveillance video reveals three men ambushing the victim. Schillaci and Rome soon realize this was an inside job--the victim was betrayed by one of his workers. They must race against time to catch the killers before their investigation is halted by the approaching hurricane.
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#6 - Downstream Drifter/Murder in Room 162
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/17/2005
LOCATION: SAN ANTONIO / PHOENIX In San Antonio, TX, Detective Timm Angell and his partners find a nameless man beaten to death floating in a creek; they must race to identify the victim and find anyone who may have known him. And in Phoenix, Detective Mike Polk and his team painstakingly reconstruct the final hours of a man found dead hogtied in a hotel room; the case takes a dramatic turn when they learn the killers may have been captured by the hotel's surveillance cameras.
Watch Now:Apple TV#7 - Murder on the Interstate/House of Santeria
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/2005
LOCATION: MIAMI In Miami, homicide Sgt. Joe Schillaci and his squad must solve a murder of an innocent college student during a hectic Memorial Day weekend; and Sgt. Carlos De Los Santos and his team tackle a murder of a doctor found hogtied in his house and learn that the key to the case may lie with the voodoo-like Santeria shrines found at the crime scene.
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#8 - Silence in the Grove/Show Stopper
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/7/2005
Shots are fired in Coconut Grove and three of the four men inside a car are killed. Sgt Joe Schillaci is taked with solving this near impossible mystery. In Showstopper, Det Emillano Tamayo and his rookie partner Det. Kevin Ruggerio are assigned to a case of the death of a local celebrity where the only clue is a missing cell phone.
Watch Now:Apple TV#9 - Roadside Burning/Blood Ties
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/17/2005
A body found on fire by the side of the Highway leads the police to investigate the victim's secret life. Meanwhile, the secrets of a Mexican migrant worker unfold as the police investigate.
Watch Now:Apple TV#10 - Devil's Candy
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/12/2005
Your past does not always stay in the past, as Sgt. Schillaci realizes as he is forced to go undercover to find a killer and prevent the deaths of futher victims.
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#11 - Hunt for Teeth / Coyote Blue
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/3/2005
In Kansas City, KS, Capt. John Cosgrove and his team of homicide detectives must track down a man suspected of beating his best friend to death with a cinder block--before he can flee the country; Dets. Greg Lawson and Mike York are hot on the trail of their murder suspect they know only as "Teeth."
Watch Now:Apple TV#12 - Twisted Honor/Vultures
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/14/2005
In Phoenix, Det. Dave Barnes must track down desperate lovers on the lam to solve a savage shotgun murder. And in San Antonio, Det. Tom Froelick and his team find a body of a woman in a wooded area and learn that she was last seen alive with a mysterious stranger.
Watch Now:Apple TV#13 - Deadly Attraction
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/11/2005
LOCATION: MIAMI In his final case as a homicide investigator, Sgt. Joe Schillaci teams up with Dets. Mayree Morin and Olga Rome to solve a baffling murder of a man found murdered in his bed. Schillaci and his team soon learn the killer may be a worker for a traveling carnival. They must enter into a murky and dangerous world of carnies.
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