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The Best Episodes of 48 Hours Season 30

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Every episode of 48 Hours Season 30 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of 48 Hours Season 30!

This newsmagazine series investigates intriguing crime and justice cases that touch on all aspects of the human experience. Over its long run, the show has...
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  • NEEDS DELETED
    8.2/10(8)
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    #1 - NEEDS DELETED

    Season 30 Episode 29

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  • The Evidence Room
    7.9/10(17)
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    #2 - The Evidence Room

    Season 30 Episode 10

    Aired 12/23/2017

    Accused of murder, a young woman's life hangs in the balance. "48 Hours" goes behind the scenes with her lawyer and a forensic animator -- can they save her? CBS News correspondent Tracy Smith investigates.

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  • The Clown Did It
    7.7/10(13)
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    #3 - The Clown Did It

    Season 30 Episode 24

    Aired 4/21/2018

    Two witnesses who watched as a woman was gunned down in her Florida home by a mysterious clown speak out for the first time on network television.

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  • Natalie Wood: Death in Dark Water
    7.5/10(9)
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    #4 - Natalie Wood: Death in Dark Water

    Season 30 Episode 15

    Aired 2/3/2018

    Nearly four decades after the unexplained drowning death of Hollywood star Natalie Wood, Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators speak for the first time and tell 48 HOURS that her then-husband, actor Robert Wagner, is now a person of interest. Investigators want to speak with Wagner about the circumstances surrounding her death that night in 1981, they say in interviews for 48 HOURS.

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  • Storm of Suspicion
    7.4/10(14)
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    #5 - Storm of Suspicion

    Season 30 Episode 6

    Aired 10/28/2017

    48 HOURS gained unprecedented access inside the command center in Baytown, Texas, a suburb of Houston, as investigators searched for a beautiful young mother reported missing just before Hurricane Harvey hit.

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  • A Brother's Mission
    7.4/10(12)
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    #6 - A Brother's Mission

    Season 30 Episode 9

    Aired 11/25/2017

    A woman accused of killing her husband in 2007 flees to her homeland, Brazil, where Brazilian law prevents its citizens from being extradited.

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  • Grapes of Wrath
    7.4/10(11)
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    #7 - Grapes of Wrath

    Season 30 Episode 12

    Aired 1/6/2018

    As California's wine country begins to rebuild after wildfires that tore through it last fall, Tracy Smith and 48 HOURS investigate the unlikely showdown between Tawfilis and Dahl that gripped the region three years ago.

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  • Live to Tell: Trafficked
    7.4/10(10)
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    #8 - Live to Tell: Trafficked

    Season 30 Episode 21

    Aired 3/31/2018

    Alyssa Beck was a 15-year-old Jacksonville, Fla., runaway looking for a way out of her family home. She ran right into the hands of a violent sex trafficking group. Beck reveals her fight for survival and the horrors she faced.

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  • Rodney Alcala: The Killing Game
    7.3/10(10)
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    #9 - Rodney Alcala: The Killing Game

    Season 30 Episode 16

    Aired 2/17/2018

    A photographer who was on "The Dating Game" became one of the nation's deadliest serial killers eight years after "48 Hours" first report, new victims emerge.

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  • Operation Murder
    7.1/10(15)
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    #10 - Operation Murder

    Season 30 Episode 4

    Aired 10/14/2017

    Moataz Azzeh, a decorated former U.S. army soldier who pretended to take on a hit job for two Houston area doctors in a murder-for-hire plot, speaks out about the shocking case for the first time ever.

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  • Taken Away
    7.1/10(15)
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    #11 - Taken Away

    Season 30 Episode 8

    Aired 11/18/2017

    A father dreams his daughter has been killed, then later she disappears. What does her boyfriend know and could the dad's nightmare have been real? "48 Hours" correspondent Maureen Maher investigates.

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  • All-American Murder: The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez
    7.1/10(24)
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    #12 - All-American Murder: The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez

    Season 30 Episode 13

    Aired 1/20/2018

    Best-selling author James Patterson investigates the life and death of convicted murderer and former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez.

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  • The Last Ride Home
    7.1/10(11)
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    #13 - The Last Ride Home

    Season 30 Episode 25

    Aired 4/28/2018

    A wealthy labor lawyer shoots his high profile wife from the backseat of a car -- was it an accident or just plain murder? "48 Hours" correspondent Maureen Maher investigates.

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  • Don't Scream
    7.1/10(14)
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    #14 - Don't Scream

    Season 30 Episode 26

    Aired 5/5/2018

    Did she really try to kill herself, or did her husband want her dead? Erin Moriarty and 48 HOURS investigate that fateful night, Mead's road to recovery and the police search into what happened.

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  • The Widow on Solway Road
    7.0/10(18)
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    #15 - The Widow on Solway Road

    Season 30 Episode 2

    Aired 9/30/2017

    48 HOURS kicks off its 30th anniversary season with a Saturday night double feature of all new back-to-back editions, Sept. 30, on the CBS Television Network. At 10:00 PM, Erin Moriarty investigates the case against Raynella Leath, a Tennessee woman with two dead husbands -who both died under strange circumstances - and the stunning outcome, in the season premiere of 48 HOURS, "The Widow on Solway Road." Leading into the season premiere, CBS News Special Correspondent James Brown tackles the impact of the O.J Simpson murder trial and how it reverberates throughout the country today, in "O.J. Simpson: Endgame".

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  • Secrets of Waco
    7.0/10(13)
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    #16 - Secrets of Waco

    Season 30 Episode 11

    Aired 12/29/2017

    In his first interview ever, a retired Texas United Parcel Service driver reveals to 48 Hours that he unwittingly delivered large boxes of military grade guns and ammunition to Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh in the months and weeks before the siege that would capture the attention of the world in 1993. Now, as the 25th anniversary of the standoff nears, Peter Van Sant and 48 Hours investigate the cult and what led to a deadly 51-day siege in Secrets of Waco.

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  • Reality Kills
    6.9/10(10)
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    #17 - Reality Kills

    Season 30 Episode 7

    Aired 11/11/2017

    Did being on camera for a true-crime television show influence the way an Atlanta detective investigated an alleged rape and murder? Erin Moriarty and 48 HOURS investigate what impact that TV show may have had into the search for clues in the death of a Marietta, Ga. man and the murder case against the woman who shot him dead.

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  • The Fitbit Alibi
    6.9/10(15)
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    #18 - The Fitbit Alibi

    Season 30 Episode 20

    Aired 3/24/2018

    A suspect in a murder swears he didn't do it – can his Fitbit prove he's innocent? "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty investigates.

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  • The Lost Boy
    6.9/10(22)
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    #19 - The Lost Boy

    Season 30 Episode 23

    Aired 4/14/2018

    Richard Schlesinger and 48 HOURS investigate the disappearance of Etan Patz and the case against Pedro Hernandez, the man charged in 2012 with killing him.

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  • Sins of the Father
    6.8/10(8)
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    #20 - Sins of the Father

    Season 30 Episode 14

    Aired 1/27/2018

    Nearly 60 years after Irene Garza disappeared after going to confession on Easter weekend, the priest accused of murdering her goes on trial - but is it too late? Richard Schlesinger and 48 HOURS report on the case against Father John Feit, the last man believed to have seen Garza alive.

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  • Moment of Truth
    6.7/10(17)
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    #21 - Moment of Truth

    Season 30 Episode 3

    Aired 10/7/2017

    A daughter hears her father's last words – he was a former NYPD officer and bodyguard to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt – can she help put her dad's killer in prison? "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty investigates.

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  • O.J. Simpson: Endgame
    6.6/10(14)
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    #22 - O.J. Simpson: Endgame

    Season 30 Episode 1

    Aired 9/30/2017

    48 HOURS kicks off its 30th anniversary season with a Saturday night double feature of all new back-to-back editions, Sept. 30, on the CBS Television Network. At 10:00 PM, Erin Moriarty investigates the case against Raynella Leath, a Tennessee woman with two dead husbands -who both died under strange circumstances - and the stunning outcome, in the season premiere of 48 HOURS, "The Widow on Solway Road." Leading into the season premiere, CBS News Special Correspondent James Brown tackles the impact of the O.J Simpson murder trial and how it reverberates throughout the country today, in "O.J. Simpson: Endgame".

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  • Lorenzen Wright: No Defense
    6.5/10(12)
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    #23 - Lorenzen Wright: No Defense

    Season 30 Episode 27

    Aired 5/12/2018

    Who wanted Wright dead, and how does a beloved basketball player's life end that way? CBS News special correspondent James Brown and 48 HOURS investigate the life and death of Wright and the hunt to find out what happened that night.

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  • Murder on Red River
    1.0/10(1)
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    #24 - Murder on Red River

    Season 30 Episode 28

    Aired 5/19/2018

    Jim Axelrod and 48 HOURS investigate the murder of Jennifer Harris and the search for clues to what happened to her. One of the coldest investigations in Fannin County, Texas, with only a couple of initial suspects and no arrests, the case has hung over the town of Bonham since she was killed.

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  • Red Notice for Murder
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    #25 - Red Notice for Murder

    Season 30 Episode 5

    Aired 10/21/2017

    Peter Van Sant and 48 HOURS investigate the search for a fugitive, the man who hunted her down and a daughter's desperate search for answers to her mother's disappearance.

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Season 30 Ratings Summary

"NEEDS DELETED" is the best rated episode of "48 Hours" season 30. It scored 8.2/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/1/1970. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Evidence Room".