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48 Hours Mystery

In April 2006, Matt Baker, a pastor from Waco, Texas, returned home to find his wife Kari unconscious, with an empty bottle of Unisom and a suicide note beside her. Police ruled it a suicide. However, her family believed otherwise.

A report on the three-year manhunt and eventual capture of Dr. Yazeed “Yaz” Essa, a Cleveland doctor accused of murdering his wife, Rosemarie. In February 2005, weeks after Rosemarie’s death, tests proved that she had died of cyanide poisoning.

A report on George Wright, who was sentenced to prison for the 1962 murder of New Jersey service station owner Walter Patterson, and who after spending 8 years in prison, escaped, and spent 40 years on the run from the authorities.

A report on Colton Harris-Moore, also known as the “Barefoot Bandit,” because of his habit of committing crimes barefoot and leaving chalk outlines of his feet; and whose exploits included stealing planes, guns, yachts, and escaping to foreign countries.

John and Susan Sutton were sleeping in separate rooms in their Florida home, when a gunman entered their house and shot both of them several times. Susan was killed, but John survived. Nothing was taken from the house, proving the murder premeditated.

A report on the disappearance of Shannan Gilbert, near Gilgo Beach, New York. The search for Shannan led to the discovery of a total of ten bodies in the scrub brush of Gilgo Beach, leading police to suspect the work of a serial killer.

In July 2007, Shea McDonough returned home and left the back door open for her brother, not knowing he wasn’t coming home for the night. Hours later, when her father went to her room to check on her, he saw a masked man standing over her with a knife.

On February 15, 2009, Cathy McNaughton was stabbed to death in her home in Sharpsburg, Georgia. The day had started with her husband Alec serving her breakfast in bed.

A report surrounding the July 2009 death of Jeffrey Locker, whose body was found slumped over the steering wheel of his car in Harlem, New York. When authorities tracked Locker’s ATM card to Kenneth Minor, Minor said Locker had begged Minor to kill him.