A predator who killed two girls admits that he would kill again.
48 Hours – Vegas Heat
Trapped Inside a World of Glamour, Fitness and Fury, a Vegas Dancer is Found Dead
48 Hours – The Whole Truth
An LAPD cover-up keeps an innocent man in prison for 26 years.
48 Hours – The One Who Got Away
On Sept. 27, 1992, 19-year-old Jennifer Asbenson, a nursing assistant in Palm Springs, Calif., was running late to work when she missed her bus and accepted a ride from a kind stranger, Andrew Urdiales. So charming was Urdiales, that the next morning she accepted another ride from him without hesitation. Little did she know that this pleasant man was really a serial killer…and that she would be the only one of his victims to survive. Fifteen years after her attack, Jennifer Asbenson, the sole survivor of serial killer Andrew Urdiales, faced him in a Chicago court speaking not only for herself but for the eight other women whose lives he took. A jury convicted Urdiales and sentenced him to death, marking the end of his deadly spree. Correspondent Susan Spencer reports on 48 HOURS MYSTERY “The One That Got Away”.
48 Hours – Diary of a Showgirl
It was the start of a murder mystery that had it all: sex, lies, greed, a savage crime and a beautiful showgirl. That showgirl, Marjorie Orbin, is now in Phoenix, Arizona’s Estrella Jail, charged with the brutal murder of her husband, Jay Orbin. “On Oct. 23, 2004, a man – a transient living in the desert – came across a container wrapped in heavy black plastic. He decides to open the container. He sees the torso of a body,” Det. Dave Barnes of the Phoenix Police Department explained. “All of the insides, all of the internal organs, intestines were missing… I thought, ‘Who could do this to human being? Cut off his arms, his legs, his head?'” Prison stripes are a far cry from the diamonds and furs Marjorie was accustomed to. In a “48 Hours” exclusive – six months of Marjorie’s video diaries from jail and unprecedented access to a woman facing the possibility of death row.
48 Hours – Grave Injustice
Convicted of murder and sentenced to death – 16 years later students help set him free. Richard Schlesinger reports.
48 Hours – Family Affair
In a small Southern town, an extramarital affair turns into a fatal family affair. Susan Spencer reports.
48 Hours – Blood and Money on Horseshoe Bay
Charlie White was a larger-than-life Texas millionaire. Ambitious, bold and brash, he lived a lavish lifestyle that included a private jet, luxury vacations, parties and beautiful women. But it all came to a gruesome end in 2005 when police were called to his lakeside mansion. The eccentric millionaire had been murdered, mercilessly beaten, with an extension cord wrapped around his neck several times. By first impression, White was a very likeable person, but as police began investigating his murder, a darker image of White began to emerge, one of a cruel man with a dangerous mean streak sharpened by arrogance, alcohol and women. With an unbridled passion for the fairer sex, White bedded and rated the sexual prowess of over a thousand women, including strippers and prostitutes. And White didn’t stop there, satisfying his sexual appetite with the girlfriends of his own son Darin, who he also used to pick up women to fulfill his needs. With his outrageous lifestyle and sexual conquests, White had no shortage of enemies. “Somebody had had enough,” says a family friend, “somebody wanted him dead.’ Correspondent Peter Van Sant reports on the case.
48 Hours – Addicted to Love
Lesa Buchanan died on the Fourth of July weekend in 2005, after spending a good portion of time with her boyfriend, Dr. Christ Koulis, having sex. Koulis, a plastic surgeon, called 911 when she stopped breathing, and says he performed CPR but that there was no pulse. Investigators quickly focused on drugs. Prosecutors allege Dr. Koulis had injected Lesa with a powerful painkiller during the course of the weekend, which eventually led to her death. But Koulis claims Lesa injected herself, and that she had a drug problem – a claim her family and investigators have disputed. As correspondent Troy Roberts reports, the case ended up in the hands of a jury, who had to decide if the doctor was responsible for his girlfriend’s death.
48 Hours – The Long Road
The 1986 wedding pictures of Dyke and Karen Rhoads show a predictably joyous young couple, ready for a wonderful life together in the small town of Paris, Ill. Karen was 24 when they married, and had a job as an office assistant at a factory; Dyke worked in landscaping. There was no hint that just months after their wedding their lives would come to a violent end. As correspondent Susan Spencer reports, in the early morning hours of July 6, 1986, a fire engulfed their home.
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