In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, 48 Hours is granted unprecedented access to both Ground Zero and the command center of New York's Office of Emergency Management.
You are more likely to die from a lightning strike than you are to be the victim of a chemical or biological attack, but some people disagree. 48 Hours speaks to a mom who goes to extreme measures to stay safe.
Dr. Alan Louie had been working on an anti-anthrax foam long before anthrax was sent through the US postal system in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. 48 Hours' Susan Spencer reports on these efforts to counteract the threat from anthrax.
48 Hours looks at 'Great Pretenders' - people who have achieved success aping others. Includes an interview with Jocko Marcellino and 'Screamin' Scott Simon - founders of Sha Na Na.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder may be most controversial health issue in United States. 48 Hours follows two families struggling with this confusing, difficult condition.
In 1994, real estate millionaire Ron Rudin disappeared from his home in Las Vegas. When the police find his charred body in the desert, his wife Margaret becomes the prime suspect - but she has gone on the run.
In February 2000, the body of Bob Dorotik was found by a mountain roadside, and forensics showed he was beaten and strangled. His wife Jane was subsequently arrested for his murder, but she protests her innocence.
Sydney and Lexi Stark are twins joined at the hip, but crucially, not sharing any internal organs, meaning surgery to separate them was a possibility. 48 Hours follows the twins and their parents following the operation.
A look at the abuse of the powerful prescription painkiller Oxycontin, including the story of Shauna Ulman, whose death was the first in a growing number of overdoses attributed to OxyContin in central Florida.
48 Hours examines stories of family love and devotion - including a 5-year-old piano prodigy who ends up living in a trailer in rural Maine; a man who lost of twin brother in the 9/11 attacks; and a couple who have adopted 11 children.
Rodeo is a brutal, dangerous business. And it's also one of America's fastest growing sports. 48 Hours gets the inside story on this exciting, peculiarly American pursuit.
The Internet has become a haven for some of oldest scams in book. Among criminal offenses in cyberspace, 48 Hours reports, are adoption fraud, pyramid schemes and Internet pen pals.
In 1997, Bob Angleton drove home only to be told by law enforcement that his wife, Doris, was dead, having been shot seven times. Could Bob's shady career as one of Houston's biggest bookies be a factor?
48 Hours examines several weight-loss methods, including the controversial Atkins Diet, the Fobi Pouch, an 84-year old woman known as "the food Nazi" and prescriptions and over-the-counter diet methods.
Martin and Gracia Burnham, missionaries from Kansas, were taken hostage by an Islamist group in the Philippines eight months ago. Correspondent Susan Spencer brings viewers an exclusive interview from the desperate captives.
Since September, America has scrambled to fortify its homeland defenses. Now, with Salt Lake City Winter Olympics just a few days away, country faces an enormous security challenge.
After a year-long investigation, 48 Hours uncovered a black market organ transplant trade in the U. S. and abroad. Findings include the discovery that Americans are traveling abroad to buy kidneys.
48 Hours looks at four compelling stories and asks what would you do? These include a woman who has a tough decision to make after she went into labor nearly four months early.
Husband and wife Peter and Rinette Bergna were driving in the Sierra mountains when their pickup truck veered down a cliff, killing Rinette. Peter was ejected and miraculously survived with cuts and bruises. Was it an accident, or murder?
Young mother Judi Eftenoff is found dead at her home in Phoenix from a cocaine overdose. Her husband, Brian, was charged with murder. Was her death an accident, or a murder?
48 Hours takes an inside look at some fascinating animals and people who love them. Topics covered include losing a pet, pet scams, the possibility of cloning your pets, and bitter custody battles over beloved pets.
Former Hells Angel Glen Heggstad was on adventure of a lifetime: a year-long motorcycle trip from his home in California. Then, while traveling through Colombia, he was kidnapped.
In 2002, former fashion writer Christa Worthington was fatally stabbed at her home in the tony town of Truro on Cape Cod. It was the first murder in the town for 30 years. 48 Hours takes a look at the case.
Aaron and Lynda Kass have raised 2-year-old Spencer as their own since the day his birth mother, Crystal Kane, gave him up for adoption. However, the biological father, Michael Elskes, contests the adoption.
48 Hours travels to Panama City to profile spring breakers, and interview Joe Francis - founder of the 'Girls Gone Wild' series of films, who is in Panama to videotape women willingly exposing themselves.
48 Hours profiles former police officer Patrick Bradford, who is serving 80 years in prison after he was convicted of murdering his girlfriend, Tammy Lohr.
Liona Boyd and her husband, Jack, live alongside some of the oddest neighbors in Beverly Hills - namely Ozzy Osbourne and his family. 48 Hours looks at how they get on.
In January, 2000, with her daughter's wedding coming up, Angie Paquette, a 47-year-old Tampa housewife and mother of three decided to treat herself to a tummy tuck.
48 Hours covers the story of Danny Petrole, the son of a retired Secret Service agent, who was shot dead in an affluent suburb near Manassas, Virginia.
Mickey Thompson was an American racing legend, once one of the fastest men on earth. However, in 1988, he and his wife Trudy were shot dead outside their home. Thompson's sister, Colleen Campbell, believes she knows who is responsible.
48 Hours looks at several cases of honesty and integrity, including several U.S. Navy midshipmen expelled for cheating on an exam; a woman who stumbled on a bag containing $120,000; and a Little League "age falsification" scandal.
48 Hours returns to the small town of Roby, Texas, where 43 individuals shared a huge lottery win in the 1990s. Several of the winners reveal how they have fared since the windfall.
After he was caught shoplifting, Anthony Haynes' parents sent him to a boot camp - the America's Buffalo Soldiers Re-Enactors Association. On the third day there, a tragedy occurs in the stifling deserts of Arizona.
48 Hours examines the issue of "battered woman syndrome" - a state of fear and helplessness, says host Dan Rather. Stories covered include the case of an Ohio woman who was convicted of shooting her husband.
When the Amirault family were accused of sexually abusing children, Cheryl Amirault was convicted and spent eight years in prison. 48 Hours reports on dramatic new developments in this case, which it first covered in November 1998.
As the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, 48 Hours visits the New Jersey town of Middletown, which lost 32 of its citizens that September day.
