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The First 48

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Detectives in major cities around the country race against the clock in the wake of homicides, knowing that if they don't find a lead within the first 48 hours, their chances of solving a case are cut in half. The series shows how detectives use forensic evidence and witness interviews to help identify suspects.

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The First 48 End Game

In Mobile, a professor of economics is found shot dead outside his bedroom door when he doesn't show up for class.

11:00 AM on A&E Canada

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The First 48 A Murder in Mobile

Police detectives uncover a petty motive after a shooter guns down a homeless man on a sidewalk in Mobile, Ala.

12:00 PM on A&E Canada

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The First 48 Cruel Intentions

Mobile, Ala., detectives investigate the murder of a young mother of two and unravel the deadly plot that took her life.

1:00 PM on A&E Canada

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The First 48 The Break

In a crowded Mobile, Ala., bar, surveillance video captures the shocking murder of a man after a game of pool.

2:00 PM on A&E Canada

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The First 48 R Is for Random

When a young father is executed in broad daylight, Gwinnett County detectives race against the clock to figure out if one man was passing innocently through the neighborhood or if he's the killer.

3:00 PM on A&E Canada

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The First 48 A House Divided

After a Tulsa man returns home from jail to find another man with the mother of his children, he is shot and killed in the middle of the street.

4:00 PM on A&E Canada

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The First 48 The Devil's Hands New

In Gwinnett County, a 20-year-old woman is found in her apartment a day after being brutally stabbed over 40 times. In Mobile, dozens of bullets are fired at a busy intersection leaving two men dead in a crashed car.

5:00 PM on A&E Canada

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The First 48 Tripped Out

When a teenager is found shot and dumped in the street, detectives struggle to figure out who he is and where he was killed.

7:01 PM on A&E Canada

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The First 48 The Price of Kindness; The Woman at the Door

Tulsa homicide detectives must find a possible victim by getting her killer to lead the way; a young Mobile man is found shot in a car minutes after another man gets ambushed.

8:04 PM on A&E Canada

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The First 48 The Devil's Hands

In Gwinnett County, a 20-year-old woman is found in her apartment a day after being brutally stabbed over 40 times. In Mobile, dozens of bullets are fired at a busy intersection leaving two men dead in a crashed car.

9:03 PM on A&E Canada

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