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Erin Moriarty investigates: Was It Murder? | "48 Hours" Full Episodes

2025-09-20 News & Politics
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Investigating Homicide Allegations, Digital Influence, and Legal Maneuvering Across Three Crime Cases

Explore how conflicting forensic evidence complicated a murder charge in Colorado, how digital words became a murder weapon in Massachusetts, and how a psychological autopsy overturned initial suicide findings in Kansas.

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  • Decide whether evidence inconsistencies (Sonnenfeld) warrant dropping murder charges and allowing a suspect to flee internationally.
  • Understand the groundbreaking legal precedent set when digital texts influenced a physical death (Carter).
  • Analyze how forensic psychology (Trickle) successfully challenged initial medical examiner rulings that favored suicide.

This segment dissects critical moments in three diverse criminal investigations: the Kurt Sonnenfeld case involving international extradition, the prosecution of Michelle Carter for encouraging suicide via text, and Colby Trickle's murder trial centered on his wife's death. These stories highlight how physical evidence, digital communication, and expert testimony define judicial outcomes.

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Erin Moriarty investigates potential murder cases. Watch the YouTube mini-marathon, which includes "The Strange Case of Kurt Sonnenfeld," "Death by Text" and "Kristen Trickle: Autopsy of the Mind." 00:00 The Strange Case of Kurt Sonnenfeld 40:30 "Death by Text 1:22:48 Kristen Trickle: Autopsy of the Mind. Crime. Social justice. Impact. "48 Hours" investigates the most intriguing crime and justice cases that touch on all areas of the human experience including greed and passion. "48 Hours," which premiered in 1988, has developed a rich history of original reporting and impact journalism that has helped exonerate wrongly convicted people, caused cold cases to be reopened and solved, and along the way changed lives. Subscribe to the "48 Hours" YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/48hours Watch full episodes of "48 Hours": https://cbsnews.com/48-hours/full-episodes/ Listen to the "48 Hours" podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/48-Hours Listen to the "My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty" podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/CBSNewsMLOC Follow "48 Hours" on Instagram: https://instagram.com/48hoursCBS/ Like "48 Hours" on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/48hours Follow "48 Hours" on Twitter: https://twitter.com/48hours Subscribe to our newsletter: https://cbsnews.com/newsletter/ Download the CBS News app: https://cbsnews.com/mobile/ Try Paramount+ free: https://paramountplus.com/?ftag=PPM-05-10aeh8h For video licensing inquiries, contact: [email protected]

Top Comments (10)

@JungleFawn 2025-09-20

The fact that he left pretty much right away and out of the country!!,,, is suspicious period

541 14 replies
@bbrodher1180 2025-09-20

What kind of a mother subjects her daughters to all that pressure and pain for media sympathy? Awful!

518 6 replies
@kareenwatson6084 2025-09-21

Never envy people. Appearance can be very deceiving because half of what you see is not real.

369 6 replies
@thisisme3238 2025-09-20

It's a shame that Nancy loved Kurt, but Kurt never loved Nancy.

243 2 replies
@gblili 2025-09-23

SHAME ON PAULA AND THE JUSTICE IN ARGENTINA!!! I am from Argentina and here there is a big problem with the corruption also corrupts judges!!😡😡😡😡😡

236 10 replies
@RONNYMORRISMUSIC 2025-09-22

kurt sonnenfelt what a joke. Guilty for sure, if not why is he running?

225 10 replies
@christophermchale2971 2025-09-30

The minute a defense attorney says they are 100% confident that their client is innocent I know they are 100% guilty.

222 1 replies
@cl3165 2025-09-22

Second wife is eerily similar to first wife. Plus, using kids to publicize their narrative is despicable. Shame on them. I feel bad for their kids and those who believe him and helping him.

154 5 replies
@ingredpaulson4530 2025-10-29

No one could possibly love Kurt more than he loves himself.

128 5 replies
@phabulouss1 2025-10-10

He’s trying too hard to prove innocence. Using their children as pawns for sympathy is parental manipulation. Disgusting.

94 1 replies

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