48 Hours Season 14

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14x01 Service Please! aired Sep 21, 2000

America may be moving toward becoming a service economy. But just how good is the service customers get these days? As part of an investigation of growing... read more

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14x02 Gold Rush aired Oct 05, 2000

They are drawn to California's Silicon Valley, New York's Silicon Alley, and places all over the country where Internet and high-tech work abounds. These... read more

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14x03 The Enemy Within aired Oct 12, 2000

Why did Vicki Robinson, a single mother and real estate agent with no enemies, disappear? That's the question police initially asked in July 1998. When he... read more

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14x04 Lori Berenson aired Oct 19, 2000

Lori Berenson was just 26 years old when she was sentenced to life for helping to plan a terrorist attack on Peru's congress. It's a crime she says she did n... read more

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14x05 A Grandmother's Mission aka Deadly Truth aired Oct 26, 2000

Dr. Mary Howell is probably the last person you'd expect to be unraveling a 17-year-old murder case, but it's one that still haunts the 87-year-old still-pra... read more

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14x06 Heroes Under Fire aired Nov 02, 2000

On December 2, 1999, a vacant warehouse caught fire in Worcester, Mass. As many as 40 firefighters tried to put out the blaze. Some entered the building, try... read more

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14x07 Rage aired Nov 16, 2000

Have you noticed? Everyone seems angry these days; people are acting out. Newspapers are filled with stories of road rage, air rage - and even teen rage. Are... read more

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14x08 Ecstasy aired Nov 30, 2000

The drug Ecstasy is profiled.

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14x09 The Colonel's Wife aired Dec 07, 2000

Retired Colonel George Marecek is one of the most decorated Green Berets in the Army's history. And he's still tough as nails. Over 36 years, he has fought i... read more

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14x10 The Fight to Forgive aired Dec 21, 2000

Forgiveness doesn't always come easily, even during a season of good will. In some cases, however, it can provide a chance to shed the burden of anger and mo... read more

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14x11 Great Dames aired Dec 28, 2000

They are women of distinction, from all walks of life, making a difference, doing so on their own terms, each with her own unique perspective. 48 Hours has c... read more

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14x12 David's Journey aired Jan 04, 2001

Imagine you're living inside a bathroom for more than two years. And that the confinement is self-imposed. Sound implausible? That's the reality of a 27-ye... read more

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14x13 Getting Away With Murder? aired Jan 11, 2001

What's worse than learning of the death of a loved one? Believing you know who the killer is, but not being able to prove it. 48 Hours tracks two familie... read more

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14x14 Cybercrime aired Jan 25, 2001

The Internet has become a haven for some of the oldest scams in the book. Among the criminal offenses in cyberspace, 48 Hours reports, are adoption fraud, py... read more

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14x15 Krystal's Courage aired Feb 01, 2001

In the early morning hours of December 31, 1999, 10-year-old Krystal Surles and her friend Kaylene Harris, 13, were brutally attacked by a knife-wielding int... read more

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14x16 Krystal's Courage: The Trial aired Feb 08, 2001

On Dec. 30, 1999, a drifter named Tommy Lynn Sells broke into a home in Del Rio, Texas, and brutally killed 13-year-old Kaylene Harris. Krystal Surles, 10 ye... read more

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14x17 A Mother Accused aired Feb 12, 2001

Paulette and Kelly Welch were living an idyllic life in Idaho Falls, Idaho. They had adopted two children through the church, were active in the community an... read more

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14x18 The Boston Strangler aired Feb 15, 2001

Over an 18-month period from 1962 to 1964, the city of Boston was terrorized by a serial killer, the infamous "Boston Strangler." But in 1964, Albert DeSalvo... read more

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14x19 Tug of Love aired Feb 22, 2001

What makes someone fit to be a parent? 48 Hours, in conjunction with Reader's Digest, investigates a complex, emotional custody case that pits a California c... read more

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14x20 Living with the Enemy aired Mar 05, 2001

In nice neighborhoods all over the country families are hiding lives of violence. According to the U.S. Justice Department, 1.5 million women are targets of ... read more

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14x21 Slim Chance aired Mar 14, 2001

Despite leading the industrialized world in obesity, America is obsessed with being thin. Fashion magazines are filled with unrealistic - and for many, unatt... read more

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14x22 Survival of the Fittest: Eco-Challenge aired Mar 21, 2001

Long before Mark Burnett ever dreamed of trapping 16 Survivors on a deserted island, he stranded 300 people in some of the most remote and forbidding places ... read more

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14x23 Dead Certain aka Save Our Father aired Mar 26, 2001

Jerry Jones spent a decade behind bars proclaiming his innocence after being convicted of killing his wife. And with the help of his devoted daughters he got... read more

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14x24 Campus Insecurity aired Apr 03, 2001

In April, hundreds of thousands of high school seniors will have to decide which college and university to attend. One of the things they probably won't cons... read more

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14x25 Sleep Tight aired Apr 19, 2001

48 Hours reports on the strange world of sleep. According to the National Sleep Foundation, 7 of 10 adults say they have frequent sleep problems, while hal... read more

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14x26 The Road Back aired Apr 26, 2001

Being a celebrity isn't always easy. For some, the stress can be overwhelming. 48 Hours reports on five famous people who have faced crisis and persevered. ... read more

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14x27 Against All Odds III aired May 02, 2001

48 Hours profiles ordinary people who have faced extraordinary tests of survival. Among the people you'll meet: Four people who survived a jumbo jet c... read more

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14x28 Prisoners in Paradise aired May 24, 2001

Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands, is simply paradise - a place where the wealthy can sail and sun on private beaches and yachts. For more than 20 yea... read more

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14x29 Bitter Pill: A Wife on Trial aired Jun 04, 2001

In 1988 in Washington state, Stella Nickell was convicted of killing her husband Bruce, and Sue Snow, a bank manager, by putting cyanide in Excedrin capsules... read more

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14x30 Day of Reckoning aired Jun 11, 2001

48 Hours marks the moment in history when Timothy McVeigh received his sentence, focusing on the outlook for the future and on survivors' struggle to rebuild... read more

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14x31 Medical Mysteries aired Jun 14, 2001

Over the past century, many medical problems have been solved or tamed: polio and influenza, for example. But many more such mysteries continue to vex resear... read more

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14x32 For Better or Worse: Divorce?? aired Jul 05, 2001

Tim and Stephanie Farrell are one of the two sad statistics of this story. They talked to 48 Hours about their decision and its aftermath. Tim: The night o... read more

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14x33 Murder They Wrote: While Innocents Slept aired Jul 20, 2001

This is a story of passion, greed, violence and death - a story so compelling that it attracted the attention of one of America's most insightful true-crime ... read more

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14x34 Murder They Wrote: The End of the Dream Pt. 1 aired Jul 27, 2001

On Thanksgiving eve, 1996, in Seattle, Wash., just after 5:30 p.m., the biggest bank robbery in American history got under way. The robbers fled with more th... read more

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14x35 Murder They Wrote: The End of the Dream Pt. 2 aired Jul 27, 2001

Scott Scurlock’s family was never quite sure what he did for a living. "Scotty was someone my sister and I used to laughingly call the master of disinforma... read more

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14x36 Murder They Wrote: By Two and Two aired Aug 03, 2001

James White, the confessed killer of Jack Wilson, was the key prosecution witness in the murder trials of Betty Wilson and Peggy Lowe. Even though Betty was ... read more

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14x37 Murder They Wrote: Precious Angels aired Aug 10, 2001

The gruesome murder of the two eldest Routier boys resulted in a huge amount of evidence. There was blood throughout the family room and kitchen, both of whi... read more

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14x38 Murder They Wrote: Double Jeopardy aired Aug 17, 2001

There is no mystery about who killed Brenda Shaefer. Everyone in Louisville, Ky. knows that Mel Ignatow did it. The mystery is why Ignatow is still a free m... read more

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14x39 Murder They Wrote: Murder in Spokane aired Aug 24, 2001

Serial killers don't always look like creepy drifters. These monsters can appear to be polite, likable people. Ted Bundy, for example, seemed to be the sort ... read more

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14x40 Everybody Has a Story aired Aug 31, 2001

Imagine a TV crew from CBS News calls you up out of the blue and tells you they want to put your story on television. You're not a Washington power broker, o... read more

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14x41 Silent Killers aired Sep 05, 2001

They can invade your home, making you sick and forcing you out. They can stalk you on vacation, turning a dream trip into a nightmare. They are the silent ki... read more

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14x42 Enough Trauma for a Lifetime aired Sep 20, 2001

If anyone in America is prepared for the devastation at the World Trade Center, it’s 49-year-old Tim Gallagher, former firefighter and now a leader of the Te... read more

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