
After the First 48 Episode Rating Graph
Oct 2008 - present

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Oct 2008 - present
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S9 Ep11
10.0
1st Aug 2024
Tulsa detectives investigate how a young rapper was found shot dead on the street of an affluent suburban neighborhood. At trial, the defense accuses the prosecution's key eyewitness of pulling the trigger.
S9 Ep9
9.5
23rd May 2024
A man shoots four people in broad daylight, leaving Tulsa detectives, attorneys, and everyone impacted struggling to explain his mental state. His case hangs on the question, and on the heated reaction of the victims' families to the course of justice.
S1 Ep10
9.0
15th Jul 2010
On March 26th, 2006, homicide detectives were called to the site of a burning car. Inside were the charred remains of 22-year-old Xenia Wilson, the mother of a four-year-old daughter. Detectives Rick Duggan and Randy Laboda closed the case by arresting three suspects: Jose ""J.J."" Verduzco, Chito Rojas and Ismael ""Boogeyman"" Moreno. Verduzco and Rojas pled guilty and agreed to testify against Moreno. The trial would take turns that surprised both defendant and prosecutor. And the case itself would have a tragic postcript.
S9 Ep10
8.0
25th Jul 2024
In Tulsa, a party becomes the scene of a murder. For investigators and prosecutors, the case is riding on two accomplices betraying their friends, despite the risks.
S9 Ep8
8.0
16th May 2024
Tulsa homicide delves into a dark world of drugs and prostitution to solve the murder of a man executed in his car in a motel parking lot.
S9 Ep7
8.0
9th May 2024
In Gwinnett County, a beloved rapper is gunned down in a hail of bullets from a drive-by shooting. With little hard evidence, detectives and prosecutors need to rely on a tipster to testify--despite the risks--and bring the suspect to justice.
S9 Ep5
8.0
14th Dec 2023
When three people are gunned down in a Tulsa home, detectives face two suspects, and a web of lies. Prosecutors are left with circumstantial evidence to clinch the case against a calculated, cold-blooded killer
S8 Ep12
8.0
10th Aug 2023
After a man is gunned down at an after-hours club, investigators and the prosecutor are left with no witnesses who are willing to say they saw the shooting; that leaves the case hanging on the defendant's claim of self-defense.
S8 Ep11
8.0
3rd Aug 2023
Evidence at the crime scene leads detectives in Mobile, Ind., to believe a young victim was murdered by two gunmen; a high-stakes trial leaves the jury wrestling with the question of whether one of the suspects could be found not guilty.
S8 Ep6
7.8
13th Apr 2023
When two boys find their mother in the back of her car, Tulsa detectives turn to her family for help catching her killer. But at the defendant's trial, his explosive testimony leaves the prosecution's case hanging on one key piece of evidence.
S10 Ep7
7.7
13th Mar 2025
After New Orleans detectives find a woman's burned body in her car's trunk, they discover that her desperate 911 call went unheeded. But her determined mother won't be silenced, as she turns to prosecutors to bring her beloved daughter's killers to justice.
S9 Ep1
7.7
26th Oct 2023
In Mobile, a woman in a volatile relationship is found dead in her car. Detectives suspect her boyfriend, but, at trial, he takes the stand to brazenly claim she was actually the victim of a drug deal gone bad.
S10 Ep4
7.6
5th Dec 2024
A young father is gunned down, a rookie homicide detective draws from her own experience.
S8 Ep9
7.6
13th Jul 2023
After a former Marine is gunned down in broad daylight, Tulsa detectives must track down a family of three, suspected in the killing. But, at trial, justice hangs on whether the gunman and victim are actually who they appear to be.
S1 Ep1
3.7
7th Oct 2008
As the First 48 ran out on Phoenix detectives, 16-year-old Lonny Bassett stood accused of brutally killing his two friends with a shotgun. Would his claim to self-defense hold water or would the evidence detectives collected in the first 48 be enough to convince jurors of his guilt? In Miami, a minor altercation on the highway ended with a shooting that took the life of an innocent young man. The offender was facing a minimum 25-year sentence with the charge of second-degree murder. But will his defense team convince the jury that the homicide was an accident.
S4 Ep3
6.0
28th Feb 2013
In Liberty City, Miami a well-liked husband and wife are brutally murdered in an ambush shooting. The eyewitness to the crime is the couple’s ten-year-old daughter. She is the only thing linking the suspect to the crime. It’s up to her to sway the jurors as she gives an emotional testimony in the hopes of putting her parents’ killer behind bars.
S4 Ep4
6.0
7th Mar 2013
When a Honduran immigrant is found stabbed to death in his Miami apartment, his brother claims it was a suicide. But as investigators dig deeper, all evidence points to the surviving brother. His attorney claims self-defense, citing Florida’s stand your ground law–but the prosecution fights hard to send the defendant to trial, and ultimately, to prison.
S9 Ep3
6.4
9th Nov 2023
When a Mobile mother of four is shot just blocks from her home, detectives look to her loved ones to identify her killer. But, at trial, his attorneys claim he acted in self-defense.
S7 Ep9
6.5
9th Jun 2022
Just before Christmas, a man is killed during an armed robbery gone wrong. Tulsa detectives and the District Attorney’s Office will try and convince a jury to convict one of the armed men for murder, even if he didn’t fire the fatal shot.
S10 Ep3
6.5
21st Nov 2024
In Tulsa, there's little evidence and no clear motive after a beloved 24-year-old is gunned down in the backseat of a car; in a tragic case of mistaken identity, it's up to his friends to help detectives and prosecutors deliver justice.
S7 Ep4
6.5
24th Mar 2022
In Tulsa, Okla., detectives must break a family's code of silence to solve the gruesome murder of an 18-year-old; at trial, justice hinges on a critical witness who initially refuses to testify.
S9 Ep6
6.6
21st Dec 2023
When a transient man is gunned downed, the only eyewitness Mobile detectives have is also a suspect. At trial, reluctant witnesses, defendants pointing fingers at each other, and a surprise ruling from the judge leave a novice prosecutor struggling to clinch his case.
S10 Ep1
6.6
7th Nov 2024
After a violent melee leaves two young men brutally gunned down, Mobile detectives have to track down multiple suspects to piece together what happened. But without an eyewitness, the prosecution must rely on the defendants themselves to reveal the truth.
S7 Ep5
6.6
31st Mar 2022
After an elderly man is murdered, the suspect shocks prosecutors when he goes against his lawyer’s advice in court.
S10 Ep5
6.8
27th Feb 2025
After a beloved Mobile man is gunned down in his front yard, conflicting eyewitness accounts leave detectives wondering if the suspect might have acted in self-defense. To find justice, the prosecution will need the community the victim stood up for to come forward at trial.
S7 Ep1
6.8
3rd Feb 2022
In Tulsa, the brutal murder of a man gunned down and left to die alone in the street tears apart two families.
S7 Ep8
6.9
2nd Jun 2022
When a homeless woman is raped and murdered, Tulsa detectives team up with prosecutors and the suspect’s previous victim, hoping to stop him before he strikes again.
S7 Ep11
6.9
14th Jul 2022
After a devoted father is gunned down in Georgia, detectives uncover a string of shootings that terrorized the community. Police and prosecutors must rely on circumstantial evidence to put the shooter behind bars.
S1 Ep1
3.7
7th Oct 2008
As the First 48 ran out on Phoenix detectives, 16-year-old Lonny Bassett stood accused of brutally killing his two friends with a shotgun. Would his claim to self-defense hold water or would the evidence detectives collected in the first 48 be enough to convince jurors of his guilt? In Miami, a minor altercation on the highway ended with a shooting that took the life of an innocent young man. The offender was facing a minimum 25-year sentence with the charge of second-degree murder. But will his defense team convince the jury that the homicide was an accident.
S1 Ep2
7.0
14th Oct 2008
In Dallas, Detective Rick Duggan arrested two suspects for the murder of Leonel Valle. Now the justice system needed to determine which of them was most responsible - the girlfriend, Marsela Cortez, whose fingerprints were found on his empty safe, or her jealous ex-boyfriend, Gerardo Hernandez?
S1 Ep3
12th Feb 2009
In Dallas, Detective Eddie Ibarra used surveillance video to track down Jose Castro who was accused of brutally murdering a fifty-one year-old woman in the lobby of her office building. Castro now faced the death penalty, but his defense team would come up with an unexpected counter argument that could change the outcome of the case.
S1 Ep4
26th Feb 2009
In San Antonio, TX, Det. Tim Angell and his partners find a nameless man beaten to death floating in a creek. They must race to identify the victim and find anyone who may have known him. And in Phoenix, Det. Mike Polk and his team painstakingly reconstruct the final hours of a man found dead hogtied in a hotel room.
S1 Ep5
14th Jul 2009
Detective Robert Arredondo and his team find themselves involved in a cross country manhunt for suspects in the brutal shootings of three young men.
S1 Ep6
18th Aug 2009
Ashes and Snow: A strangled woman is found in a partially burned car. Backyard Murder: A murder is born from a gun sale that went wrong.
S1 Ep7
18th Feb 2010
On a Sunday night in June 2007, Christian Marton and his girlfriend Monica Stafford drove two hours from Axtell, Texas to Dallas where Christian had arranged to buy a 1995 Chevrolet Caprice. By the end of the evening, Christian was dead - shot in a robbery attempt.
S1 Ep8
29th Apr 2010
A father of five found stabbed over 50 times shocks friends and family. Cleveland Homicide follows a bizarre trail of evidence that takes the case someplace they least expected.
S1 Ep9
3rd Jun 2010
In Dallas, detectives investigated the disappearance of a 20-year old woman who suddenly went missing. After a six-day search, detectives arrested Douglas Edwards who confessed to the murder of his ex-girlfriend, found strangled and burned in a remote field. Two years later, in the hope of begging the court for mercy, Edwards opts to have his sentenced determined by a jury.
S1 Ep10
9.0
15th Jul 2010
On March 26th, 2006, homicide detectives were called to the site of a burning car. Inside were the charred remains of 22-year-old Xenia Wilson, the mother of a four-year-old daughter. Detectives Rick Duggan and Randy Laboda closed the case by arresting three suspects: Jose ""J.J."" Verduzco, Chito Rojas and Ismael ""Boogeyman"" Moreno. Verduzco and Rojas pled guilty and agreed to testify against Moreno. The trial would take turns that surprised both defendant and prosecutor. And the case itself would have a tragic postcript.
S1 Ep11
26th Aug 2010
In Dallas, detectives investigated the shooting death of 26-year-old Daniel Barron, who was killed in the doorway of his home. Detectives soon discovered that the victim's residence doubled as a drug den and that he was robbed. A tipster called-in and eventually six suspects were arrested and charged with capital murder. All six individuals admit involvement in the crime and point to 19-year-old Callie Marshall, mother of two, as the group's ringleader. A year and a half later, Callie finally faces a jury of her peers. Will they see a confused girl who organized the robbery in order to bail her boyfriend out of jail in time for Christmas, or a coldblooded killer?
S1 Ep12
7th Oct 2010
In Dallas, Texas in 2007 Darell Billingsela was charged with brutally attacking and killing twenty-two-year old Jessica Lewalling in a jealous rage. Billingslea was a two-time convicted murderer out on parole. Prosecutor Jennifer Bennett was determined to make sure Billingslea would not slip through the system again. And, in February 2007, thirty-six-year old Antoine, “Tony” Hamilton was found shot dead, and left behind a vacant house. His friend, Carlos Mitchell, confessed to the crime. Prosecutor Jenni Morse thought she had a slam dunk case–until the verdict in a similar case shook her confidence in getting a conviction.
S1 Ep13
14th Oct 2010
In November 2006, Dallas detectives investigated the murder of a twenty-nine-year-old mother of four, found burned beyond recognition in her car behind a remote warehouse. Detectives soon discovered that the victim’s former boyfriend and father of her infant son, had been stalking her for months, leading up to her death. After tracking down two homeless witnesses and finding a piece of crucial evidence, police were able to charge James Bartley with capital murder. The Dallas DA’s office was responsible for bringing the case to a close. In order to do that successfully, the prosecutor and her investigator had to keep close tabs on their key homeless witnesses for years, while the cased awaited trial. When Bartley finally stood trial in 2009, the prosecution worried the jury wouldn’t believe the testimony of two homeless crack addicts and find the evidence insufficient to prove Bartley guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
S1 Ep14
21st Oct 2010
Suspects in the case of a cab driver who was robbed and murdered face their day in court.
S1 Ep15
28th Oct 2010
Now that some of our strongest cases have been adjudicated, we can take viewers inside the powerful and dramatic events that unfolded after the arrest, up to and including the conviction.
S1 Ep16
4th Nov 2010
Now that some of our strongest cases have been adjudicated, we can take viewers inside the powerful and dramatic events that unfolded after the arrest, up to and including the conviction.
S1 Ep17
11th Nov 2010
Cases involving a football game murder and a shooting at an illegal dentist office go to court.
S1 Ep18
18th Nov 2010
In 2008, 19-year old Mikael Hudson was shot in Texas, two suspects were arrest. In 2005, Virginia Rodriguez was murdered, and her husband was caught and extradited to the US, but Prosecutor Treena Kay had concerns about getting a conviction.
After the First 48 is an American documentary television series on A&E. It is the companion series to The First 48. While the original series deals with the steps taken to discover, locate, and apprehend the person or persons involved in a homicide, After the First 48 continues by shedding light on the judicial aspects of the case including the verdict and sentencing from the trial along with behind the scenes interviews with detectives, prosecutors, defense attorneys and family members of the victim.
The first episode of After the First 48 aired on October 07, 2008.
The last episode of After the First 48 aired on December 05, 2024.
There are 107 episodes of After the First 48.
There are 10 seasons of After the First 48.
Yes.
After the First 48 is set to return for future episodes.