Episode
48 Hours: A Fatal Attraction
Overview
Was a teenage girl involved in stabbing her own mother to death... and was it all over a boy? Forbidden young love ends with a mother's violent murder. Richard Schlesinger reports.
Details
- Series
- 48 Hours
- Season
- Season 25
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2012-01-28
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
A Fatal Attraction is Episode 12 in Season 25 of 48 Hours. It aired on 2012-01-28. The runtime is 60 min.
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