"The First 48" follows the nation's top police departments during the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations, giving unprecedented access to crime scenes, interrogations and forensic processing.
In Tulsa, when a man is gunned down at an apartment complex, detectives run up against elusive witnesses and dead ends in their search to figure out who wanted him dead.
When a young father is found shot and killed in the parking lot of an apartment complex, Tulsa Homicide discovers he may have been lured there under false pretenses.
In New Orleans, a 17-year old high school student is shot over a gaming controller on his way to school and a star witness identifies her boyfriend's killers.
A man is carrying a box moments before he is shot; a man is found shot dead in a notorious drug den; a man is robbed and shot multiple times on his payday; and a young man is found shot in his driveway.