The First 48

The First 48

7.6/10
A&E Running Crime

28 Seasons · 555 Episodes · Premiered June 3, 2004

The First 48 follows detectives from around the country during these first critical hours as they race against time to find the suspect. Gritty and fast-paced, it takes viewers behind the scenes of real-life investigations with unprecedented access to crime scenes, autopsies, forensic processing, and interrogations.

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Next Air Time: Fri, Apr 24 2026 12:00 AM GMT+0000

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

13 episodes
E01
Gangs of Little Havana / Execution in Coconut Grove
Fri, Jun 4 2004 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
A wall of silence from a frightened community hampers efforts to solve a brutal murder; and a mother of two is shot execution-style in her kitchen in an affluent neighborhood. In a visual style more like drama than reality show, we tail Miami homicide investigators as they race time to solve these murders.
E02
Overkill / Left for Dead
Fri, Jun 11 2004 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Miami homicide detectives race against time in the critical first hours of investigation to find the evidence necessary to charge two suspects in a brutal murder case; & police find a man who's been shot and left for dead, but with no evidence, witnesses, or even a name for their victim, the detectives have got their work cut out for them. Find out if these driven detectives can make their cases.
E03
Blood in the Snow / Swope Park Killing
Fri, Jun 18 2004 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
In Kansas City, an ambitious captain and two veteran detectives face their first homicide of the year and must make deals with wanted drug kingpins to find the killer of a young woman; and a female homicide sergeant and her all-male team get a tip that leads their murder investigation into a dark subculture of drugs, guns, and buried safes.
E04
Double Murder on Haskell / Back Alley Revenge
Fri, Jun 25 2004 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
When a couple is found shot to death, Kansas City investigators track down two suspects and must convince one of them to give up the other--his own father; and detectives must rely on inhabitants of a drug-ridden area to help solve a murder, hoping that the word on the street will crack the case.
E05
Body in the Park / Ruby Street Shooting
Fri, Jul 2 2004 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
In Philadelphia, Sergeant Irma Labrice and Detectives Leon Lubiejewski and Michael Gross don't have much time to find a murder suspect, and they don't have much to go on--the victim's body was burned beyond recognition.
E06
Killing Spree
Fri, Jul 30 2004 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Police try to convince the frightened residents of a Miami housing project known as the "Pork and Beans" to help them track down the man who's been terrorizing the community. But after the third murder in a month, no one even calls 911.
E07
On Ice / Body in the Canal
Fri, Aug 6 2004 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Employees of an ice rink arrives at work only to find the door ajar and blood all over the floor. When the police arrive the overnight employee is found beaten beyond recognition and the facility robbed. Since who ever did this seemed to have knowledge detectives turn to former employees to start the investigation. In another case a woman walking by a river in Phoenix she's what she believes in a body wrapped in plastic in the water. Detectives don't have an identity, or crime scene making this a difficult investigation.
E08
Fire in the Rain / Family Feud
Fri, Aug 13 2004 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
In Dallas, a motorist discovers a man's body alongside the highway— with his genitals on fire. The investigation propels detectives on an odyssey through a rowdy world of Texas prostitutes and drugs. And when a hard working Mexican migrant supporting his young family is found dead in a parking lot, detectives can't find a motive. As their investigation deepens, they must navigate a complex web of family ties and loyalties to identify the killer ... and catch him before he flees the country.
E09
Desert Bones / Party's Over
Fri, Aug 20 2004 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Detectives Dillian and Jewell join forensic anthropologist Laura Fulginiti to determine the identity of a female skeleton found in the desert. And the shooting of a teenager at a high-school party puts Detectives Rodriguez and Kulesa on the trail of a shooter wearing a ski mask.
E10
At Death's Door / Wrong Side of the Tracks
Fri, Aug 27 2004 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Miami homicide detective Mayree Morin and her team, who find a man who's been shot assassination-style at least a dozen times, must move fast to find the killer before he slips away. And the murder of a celebrated doctor's son leads veteran detective Ervens Ford and his rookie partner Kevin Ruggiero down a shady path of halfway houses and strip clubs.
E11
Stripper's Revenge / Dead on Arrival
Fri, Sep 3 2004 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Hours after a jealous stripper vows revenge, her two-timing boyfriend is shot and killed. But the girlfriend is not the shooter, and it's up to Detective Tom Kulesa of Phoenix PD to unravel the mystery. And when a young father is dragged screaming from his bed in the middle of the night and gunned down in his doorway, Detective Mike Polk must figure out fact from fiction in witnesses' stories before the killers' trail grows cold. 
E12
At Close Range / Murder in Motor City
Fri, Sep 17 2004 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
When Phoenix homicide Detective Tom Kulesa realizes a potential witness to a double murder has gone missing, he must race against time to stop another vicious killing; and in Detroit, Sergeant Jo Ann Kinney must turn to forensics to solve the murder of a man found dead in a brand new Cadillac Escalade.
E13
Silent Witness / Halley Street Slayings
Fri, Nov 19 2004 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
In Miami, when a hard-working store worker is cut down in a hail of gunfire, a veteran Sgt. Pepi Granado and his team must turn to a silent witness--the store's video surveillance system, which caught the entire murder on tape; and in Detroit, Sgt. Jo Ann Kinney and Detective Ed Williams tackle the case of a young couple found brutally killed in their house and learn that the victims knew their killer. They must track down reluctant witnesses deep in the narcotics game...before their killer has a chance to get away.

Season 2

13 episodes

Season 3

12 episodes

Season 4

19 episodes

Season 5

13 episodes

Season 6

18 episodes

Season 7

30 episodes

Season 8

12 episodes

Season 9

17 episodes

Season 10

18 episodes

Season 11

41 episodes

Season 12

30 episodes

Season 13

36 episodes

Season 14

28 episodes

Season 15

35 episodes

Season 16

23 episodes

Season 17

25 episodes

Season 18

18 episodes

Season 19

30 episodes

Season 20

25 episodes

Season 22

23 episodes

Season 23

16 episodes

Season 24

8 episodes

Season 25

8 episodes

Season 26

7 episodes

Season 27

12 episodes

Season 28

8 episodes

Season 29

17 episodes

Cast

Dion Graham
Dion Graham as Narrator

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