When a person goes missing, every second counts. A&E’s new real life series The First 48: Missing Persons follows the Chicago Police Department’s missing persons unit in the critical first 48 hours of the search for missing loved ones.
EPISODE 1
The Good Student / Left in Danger / Lady on a Bridge
A missing college sophomore is seen on video walking toward the waterfront; a woman threatens to jump off a bridge; a drug deal gone bad forces a gang member into hiding, endangering his family.
EPISODE 2
Critical Care
Caretaker reports her 63-year-old cancer patient is missing; a missing mattress may solve the case.
EPISODE 3
Tangled Web / Street Justice
A missing man's life is under threat; a missing teenager has a rare sleep disorder.
EPISODE 4
Taken / Scorcher
Detectives search for a 14-year-old girl who was snatched by an older teen with possible gang connections; an elderly man with serious neurological problems goes missing.
EPISODE 6
Long Gone / Mother's Day
The children of an Iraqi immigrant worry she is trying to return to Baghdad; daughters fear their mother was a victim of foul play.
EPISODE 7
The Graduate
A talented man vanishes on his bicycle; detectives must untangle the past to uncover the truth.
Bill Mondy
Gary Sherman
Conrad Riggs
Robert Schneiger