48 Hours (1988)
Season 36: Episode 18
The Brighton Ax Murder
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2025-12-06
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1988
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2025
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A young mother is killed in her bed, her toddler unharmed. Unsolved for 40 years, how the unusual crime scene helped close the case. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.
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