Episode
The First 48: Smoke / Touch of Evil
Overview
A man is found dead outside in a vacant lot. Detective have no leads, no witnesses and the motive for the killing. Can the detectives track down suspects in time? Murder is always bad, but the murder of an innocent child drives detectives to work harder. When a young mother and her 10-year-old son are brutally stabbed and killed, detectives work against the clock to track killers.
Details
- Series
- The First 48
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 28
- Air date
- 2008-09-23
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Smoke / Touch of Evil is Episode 28 in Season 7 of The First 48. It aired on 2008-09-23. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 27: Snapped / Fallen Angel
Two teenage suspects are questioned when a man is found beaten to death in a stairwell. Detectives are shocked at the boys ages and what prompted the attack. An up and coming singer is found shot in a car, it looks like a drug deal has gone bad and left the man dead. Could a troublesome past in Mexico play a role? Or is it just random evil?
Episode 29: After the First 48: Murder on the Interstate / At Close Range
UPDATE: Follow this case through the justice system. We have already seen the bodies discovered and the arrests made. Now we get to see the court process and the verdicts handed down.
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Along the bank of the mighty Mississippi River is the body of a unknown man. The victim is homeless which makes identifying the man even more difficult. Working against a ticking clock detectives work to find a suspect of the beaten homeless man.
Episode 30: After the First 48: Fool For Love / Crash
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Episode 25: In Cold Blood / Red Handed
A grandfather hears a knock on his door, little does he know that a killer stands on the other side of it. The suspect flees the scene and crashes his car just down the road. Will the car be the key to identifying the killer? In a bedroom and elderly man lies dead, his killer strangled him. Is the strange man people saw knocking on doors the killer? Can detectives identify him and find him in time?
Episode 31: Coma / Disappeared
In Dallas, two teenaged boys are shot outside a nightclub—one is critically wounded, the other is left in a coma. As Detective Eddie Ibarra puts the pieces of the case together, he is temporarily pulled away to assist in the search of woman who has been missing for six days.
Episode 24: Collateral / Driven to Kill
The lone survivor of a triple shooting lay dieing in a hospital bed. Can detectives get the information they need to put the double murderer behind bars in time? A man is run over by a crazed driver. He is left for dead as detectives search for a killer. They locate two suspects, now they have to determine which one was driving.
Episode 32: Obstruction / Flight Risk
Cincinnati police investigate the shooting death of a 28-year-old from Detroit; Dallas police enlist the help of the Travis County SWAT team after they get a tip that a murder suspect is headed for Mexico.
Episode 23: Unwelcome Guest / Wrecked
Inside an apartment a victim lay dead from a brutal beating. With little evidence and no witnesses the lead detective must rely on the crime scene to give them a suspect. A car accident leaves a man dead, but not because of the wreck because someone pulled a gun. As a suspect comes into sight they zero in on him, and see how a accident turns to murder.
Episode 22: Moving Out / Among Thieves
A man lays dead outside his home, he has been gunned down. Investigators find a witness to the crime. After following leads they are surprised when their witness turns into the suspect. A silver Infinity is spotted at he scene of a carjacking gone bad that leaves one man dead. Leads are few and far between, detectives on the case must look under ever stone to find these killers.
Episode 21: The Last Yard / Root of All Evil
The murder of a football player at the University of Memphis, is making top news. The young man was cut down in his prime by a killer with a gun. Did someone have a vendetta? Or was it an accident? A married couple found shot to death in their own home, has detectives jumping through hoops and over state lines. Two suspects fled the area the day after the double homicide. Can detectives find them in time?
Episode 20: Blackout
Investigators lead a cross country search for the killer of a young man killed during a robbery. With nothing more than street names for their killers to go on, the set out on their manhunt.