The First 48 - Critical Minutes

In New Orleans a night out ends with a deadly morning after a random encounter; in Tulsa an argument over a cell phone escalates into a double homicide; and in Birmingham a lovers' breakup goes very wrong in a public park.

In New Orleans, close friends fight over money and one of them ends up dead; in Broward County, Florida, an elderly man makes a fatal mistake with some new friends; and in Dallas, childhood friends have a wild night that ends in tragedy.

In Tucson, when a homeless woman is brutally gutted under a highway underpass, the suspect's motive haunts investigators. And in Tulsa, the shooting of a man in an apartment sets off a chain of events unlike anything Tulsa Homicide has ever seen.

This episode looks back at three cases that stayed with detectives. In Dallas, a man is dismembered and burned and dumped in a lake. Then, in Tulsa, two kids find their mother dead in her car. And in Dallas, two friends are found burned in a car.

Three cases are highlighted from The First 48 archive that feature stories with female detectives. In Atlanta, Detective Summer Benton investigates a deadly dispute between roommates.

In Rochester, investigator Terry Dearcop breaks open the case of a husband's murder.

In Miami, a Thanksgiving interrogation takes a surprising turn, while in Tulsa, an argument among a group of friends becomes violent and none of their stories match up.

In Cleveland, a family is torn apart when a beloved uncle is killed. In Tulsa, when a young man disappears and is believed to be dead, detectives face a family's code of silence.