Episode
The First 48: Bad Medicine
Overview
New Orleans Detective Ryan Vaught investigates a gruesome and horrific murder: a grandmother and her four-year-old grandson shot in her bedroom, leaving the grandmother dead and the four-year-old struggling to survive.
Details
- Series
- The First 48
- Season
- Season 14
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 2014-08-14
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Bad Medicine is Episode 9 in Season 14 of The First 48. It aired on 2014-08-14. The runtime is 45 min.
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