The Spirits of El Segundo

48 Hours correspondents Anne-Marie Green and Peter Van Sant discuss Dakota Black, a tracker and detective who relentlessly hunted for answers when Makayla Meave went missing in 2023. This episode last aired on 11/18/2025. 

A detective hunts for answers when a woman goes missing. For Tracker Black it's personal. This episode last aired on 11/17/2025. 

In this Dateline classic, two women believe they have information on a decades-old cold case that has been virtually forgotten. And when the Los Angeles Police Department opens a new cold case unit, the stories the women tell would give detectives a chance to catch a serial ki ...

On June 2nd 1985, San Francisco police were called to a lumberyard to apprehend a shoplifter. By the time they arrive the suspect had already fled, but the man's partner is still at the scene. The man in in possession of a gun fitted with an illegal silencer, so they arrest him. ...  Show more

Two felons who met in prison decided to stay friends on the outside. They spent the summer and fall of 1979 kidnapping and murdering teenage girls in southern California. Police didn't even have them as suspects. Until an unlikely source came forward with crucial information. Lea ...  Show more

When two girls are murdered in a small Indiana town, police are shocked to find a grainy video of the killer on one of their phones… After 5 years, investigators finally “solved” the case, but did they have all the evidence? Did the convicted killer actually do it or is there a m ...  Show more