"The First 48" follows the nation's top police departments during the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations, giving unprecedented access to crime scenes, interrogations and forensic processing.
In North Charleston, a construction worker is killed by a stray bullet during an attempted robbery inside a trailer park, but when investigators follow the trail of the suspects, things are not what they seem.
After a North Charleston mother of four is found beaten to death in the bushes, a rookie detective battles it out in the interview room with her suspected killer.
When a young father is executed in broad daylight, Gwinnett County detectives race against the clock to figure out if one man was passing innocently through the neighborhood...or if he's the killer.
In Tulsa, detectives follow a trail of blood to a community where one person's accusations have deadly consequences. In Mobile, a possible collision between two strangers escalates into a deadly shooting.
