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The First 48

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The First 48	comment	American documentary series running from 2004 to the present. It follows homicide detectives in a number of US cities as they solve real-life murders.It's a good antidote to the glamorised crime dramas out there, especially CSI: Miami, since Miami is a frequent location in the show.
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The First 48 / int_109dbb51	type	Pull the Thread
The First 48 / int_109dbb51	comment	Pull the Thread: a standard goal of interrogating a suspect is to get them to admit to a small thing and proceeding from there until their story falls apart.
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The First 48 / int_16e362fb	type	Bilingual Backfire
The First 48 / int_16e362fb	comment	Bilingual Backfire: A suspect called his home from the Miami Homicide interrogation room and told his father, in Creole, to hide the murder weapon. Even described it so the father knew what it was. A Haitian-born detective watched on a monitor in another room, and translated the call with a big grin on her face. The detectives barely managed not to howl with laughter.
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The First 48 / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The First 48 / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: In one episode, a couple was gunned down in their home, with their young daughter calling 911 for help. After arresting the gunman, one of the officers mentions that he thanked the gunman for not hurting the children in the house; according to the officer, the gunman's face became "very disturbed," and he said that people "in his game" don't do anything to children.
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The First 48 / int_3577923b	type	Murder by Mistake
The First 48 / int_3577923b	comment	Murder by Mistake: Has happened quite a bit. In one case the victim of the episode was killed by a stray bullet inside a gas station—the intended target of the shooting had been standing just outside and was shot in the leg.
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The First 48 / int_3e084baf	type	Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers
The First 48 / int_3e084baf	comment	Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers: Subverted in "House of Santeria." The first major suspect is a friend of a murdered doctor, who was allegedly a boyfriend of the victim and who was allegedly on bad terms with the victim and who the victim apparently tried to use voodoo-like practices to control and curse. When the suspect receives a phone call from police, he tells them they have to talk to his lawyer first. The sergeant in charge of the case expresses dismay and disbelief that "he lawyered up over the phone." The suspect ends up talking to the police and providing an alibi. Later, someone else confesses to the crime.
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The First 48 / int_4211d102	type	Confess to a Lesser Crime
The First 48 / int_4211d102	comment	Confess to a Lesser Crime: Frequently, people will end up confessing to crimes such as prostitution and drug possession. Sometimes the people who confess to lesser crimes include the ones who end up being charged with murder. In one case, a man was found in possession of a homicide victim's cell phone. While apparently caught red-handed in possession of stolen property, he said that all he had done was buy the phone from a "crackhead." The "crackhead" he identified, in turn, eventually said that he had stolen the phone from the victim's dead body but denied killing him. This didn't stop said crackhead from getting life without parole for first-degree murder after an eyewitness identified him as the shooter. A common and idiotic version is when one of the participants in a robbery that ended in death confesses to involvement in the robbery but claims (truthfully or falsely) that they aren't the one who did the killing, thinking they will get off on the big charge. Then, all the robbers usually end up getting charged with murder for being involved, even if some of them didn't directly participate in the killing (or weren't even there) and had no idea a death was going to occur.
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The First 48 / int_44c279ae	type	Guilt-Ridden Accomplice
The First 48 / int_44c279ae	comment	Guilt-Ridden Accomplice: Sometimes, someone who accompanied the killer during a robbery or drug deal gone bad, or was involved in a murder conspiracy, will claim to be this and point to someone they say is the one who physically killed the victim.
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The First 48 / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The First 48 / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: you'll see partial shots of corpses and bloody crime scenes, but you usually won't see bullet wounds or a victims's contorted dead face.
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The First 48 / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
The First 48 / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: Happens reasonably often during interrogations.
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The First 48 / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The First 48 / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Occasionally, an episode will end without a case being solved.
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The First 48 / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The First 48 / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Double example: in "One Gram" (Harris County, Texas), a drug dealer threatened to kill another dealer who sold him four ounces of cocaine and said it was five. The latter dealer responded to the threat by killing him. In another case, two men were killed because their friends cheated other criminals (and ended up dropping off a ransom at the wrong place).
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The First 48 / int_5d6710a	type	Pixellation
The First 48 / int_5d6710a	comment	Pixellation: a lot of it. The show uses this technique to hide the faces of witnesses, corpses, and (innocent) suspects. This leads into a meta-version of Genre Savvy: when a suspect's face is not hidden by Pixellation, it's a sure bet that they end up arrested and charged for the murder.
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The First 48 / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
The First 48 / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: As the show is about homicide detectives, most of whom who have been on the job for years and have seen many bodies killed in assorted horrible ways, they tend to be dispassionate about most of the cases they deal with, casually discussing the scene and chatting or even joking with each other. The exceptions tend to be when children or other purely innocent and/or helpless victims are involved.
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The First 48 / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
The First 48 / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: As they are much rarer in Real Life than they are in fiction, they've only had a few in the years they've been on the air, the first being Terry Blair (Kansas City). Remarkably enough, however, he tried to engage in Criminal Mind Games by calling to taunt the authorities, and in an even yet more unbelievable bit, they narrow down his location by identifying the cell towers being used and identifying the sound of a train in the background to narrow it down to the right street. The killers in the episode Killing Spree were accused of killing three people, execution-style, in the same area within two months. The main culprit was only convicted of two murder counts, though, and the only other person convicted as of the time the episode was aired was convicted on one count. In the episode "Loose Ends," the main defendant was accused of being behind five murders and one attempted murder. He was only put on trial for one murder and the attempted one, though. He ended up pleading guilty to all five murders after being convicted of the attempt. The episode "Predator" involved the arrest of Texas serial killer Steven Hobbs.
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The First 48 / int_7a5c7db1	type	DuelingShows
The First 48 / int_7a5c7db1	comment	Dueling Shows: With the Indianapolic-centric The Squad.
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The First 48 / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The First 48 / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In one case, the police, lacking evidence to arrest their main suspect for murder, arrested him for driving with a suspended license. This ended up being useful, as it allowed them to tow his car and search it for evidence, then use the car as bait to lure the suspect back to be arrested for murder once they had more evidence.
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The First 48 / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The First 48 / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: quite often they don't recover usable fingerprints, DNA, or other forensic evidence that audiences have come to expect in crime dramas.
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The First 48 / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The First 48 / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Det. Thompson of the Dallas Police Department delivers one to the voicemail of a suspect on the run. They got him.
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The First 48 / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The First 48 / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Although they make a point of mentioning family members left behind, and pointing out they don't make judgements about the victim, many of the murder victims are criminals with the motive being things like a drug deal gone bad. You can sometimes guess when the end result will be one of the rare cases of justified homicide on the part of someone who wasn't involved in criminal activity when they defended themselves because the show, when presenting facts about the victim, won't provide such sympathetic information about them.
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The First 48 / int_94cc2c28	type	Exact Time to Failure
The First 48 / int_94cc2c28	comment	Exact Time to Failure: We constantly get a nice digital countdown of the time remaining in The First 48, even though the statistic is undoubtably an approximation.
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The First 48 / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
The First 48 / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Louisville detective Kevin Trees has a prosthetic left leg.
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The First 48 / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
The First 48 / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: The first victim talked about in the episode "Loose Ends" was apparently one of the perpetrators in a robbery that ended in murder. He was apparently killed by a fellow robber who was angry that he had failed to dispose of a cell phone that he had used to set up the robbery. They show pictures of the victim when he was younger and have his mother talk about how devastated she was by his death, how proud she was when he graduated from high school, how she always knew that he would stay at home with her even after his siblings moved out, and how distressed she was when she heard that he had himself been involved in committing a homicide.
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The First 48 / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
The First 48 / int_c36cba70	comment	Mooks: The show has scads of White meth dealers and Black crack dealers who all tend to run together after a while.
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The First 48 / int_c913ec99	type	Felony Murder
The First 48 / int_c913ec99	comment	A common and idiotic version is when one of the participants in a robbery that ended in death confesses to involvement in the robbery but claims (truthfully or falsely) that they aren't the one who did the killing, thinking they will get off on the big charge. Then, all the robbers usually end up getting charged with murder for being involved, even if some of them didn't directly participate in the killing (or weren't even there) and had no idea a death was going to occur.
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The First 48 / int_c914e68d	type	Cigar Chomper
The First 48 / int_c914e68d	comment	Cigar Chomper: Cleveland detective Ignatius "Nate" Sowa.
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The First 48 / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
The First 48 / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: The First 48: Missing Persons is a spinoff launched in early 2012. It covers missing persons investigations rather than homicide (though homicide can frequently happen to missing persons).
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The First 48 / int_e288e579	type	Lying to the Perp
The First 48 / int_e288e579	comment	Lying to the Perp: Not used that often during interrogations, but it sometimes does happen.
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The First 48 / int_e6e5e3bf	type	True Crime
The First 48 / int_e6e5e3bf	comment	True Crime: A series detailing about, well, true crimes.
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The First 48 / int_fd7267dd	type	Master of Disguise
The First 48 / int_fd7267dd	comment	Master of Disguise: Miami detective Joe Schillaci is a former undercover narcotics agent and he puts his old talents to good use in one case, impersonating a drug-addled homeless man to track down a heroin dealer who murdered one of his rivals.
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