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 early morning hours of December 31, 1999, 10-year-old Krystal Surles and her friend Kaylene Harris, 13, were brutally attacked by a knife-wielding intruder.
What makes someone fit to be a parent? 48 Hours, in conjunction with Reader's Digest, investigates a complex, emotional custody case pits a California couple against a biological father.
Being a celebrity isn't always easy. For some, stress can be overwhelming. 48 Hours reports on five famous people who have faced crisis and persevered.
48 Hours profiles ordinary people who have faced extraordinary tests of survival. Among people you'll meet: Four people who survived a jumbo jet crash in Taiwan in 2000.
48 Hours marks moment in history when Timothy McVeigh received his sentence, focusing on outlook for future and on survivors' struggle to rebuild their lives.
This is a story of passion, greed, violence and death - a story so compelling that it attracted attention of America's most insightful true-crime writers.
On Thanksgiving eve, 1996, in Seattle, Wash., just after 5:30 p.m., biggest bank robbery in American history got under way. The robbers fled with more than $1.08 million.
Scott Scurlock's family was never quite sure what he did for a living. "Scotty was someone my sister and I used to laughingly call master of disinformation.
If anyone in America is prepared for devastation at World Trade Center, it's 49-year-old Tim Gallagher, former firefighter and now a leader of Texas Urban Search-and-Rescue team.