Killer Coincidences | '48 Hours' Full Episodes

“48 Hours" reports on cases involving coincidences, lingering questions and surprising outcomes. Watch the YouTube mini-marathon, which includes "Broken Hearts," "The COVID Cover-Up: Searching for Gretchen Anthony" and "The Missing Millionaire: A "Tiger King" Mystery."

00:00 Broken Hearts
41:14 The COVID Cover-Up: Searching for Gretchen Anthony
1:23:58 The Missing Millionaire: A "Tiger King" Mystery

Crime. Social justice. Impact. "48 Hours" investigates the most intriguing crime and justice cases that touch on all areas of the human experience including greed and passion. "48 Hours," which premiered in 1988, has developed a rich history of original reporting and impact journalism that has helped exonerate wrongly convicted people, caused cold cases to be reopened and solved, and along the way changed lives.

[johnmartyn]

How could anyone not tear up knowing 30 yrs later the Dr still is in contact & loves his patient!?

[alexandradixon]

A few years ago I was in a Goodwill store in San Francisco when a woman brought her two young daughters in and one of them coughed all over everything for 30 minutes without once covering her mouth. I was leaving when an elderly Black woman walked in and for some reason I said to her "Listen there was a little girl coughing all over the merchandise, just so you know." She immediately said "Oh thank you so much, I'm a heart transplant recipient and I have to be careful not to get sick." We chatted for a while and she said that she knew the name of her donor, he had been a young man who had been fatally injured in a motorcycle accident.

When I got home I looked up the heart donor's name and found a tribute page to him where his friends had written memories. I added a comment that I had actually met his transplant recipient, she was doing great (I think she'd had the heart for 8 years at that point?) and she was so grateful that she was alive to see her children get married and have grandbabies for her!

His friends were so happy to find that his heart had done so much good for the recipient.

[CharlotteLaBouff]

That surgeon is such a jewel. How precious is he, he made me cry.

[kemsaigon]

She's right. It doesn't matter where the heart came from. The heart gave her the ability to live on, and it allowed her to raise two beautiful children.

[antoneeyuh]

I'm an ER nurse and recently had twin boys, after which I was diagnosed with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and had a 20% ejection fraction. They were considering a heart transplant, but with the improvement in medication management my heart is now back to 50-55%. It's still not normal but here I am four months later with my twin boys, slowly getting better.

[seraphik]

I'm a surgeon. Not a CT surgeon - it's honestly way too hard a life - but when I was in medical school I watched a quadruple bypass. It wasn't even something as extraordinary as this, an actual heart transplant, but it was still the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life. The quiet feverish intensity with which two separate teams were working - one at the chest, where the heart needed to be exposed and a vein had to be harvested, and another at the thigh, where another vein had to be taken. The absolute electricity in that room as the heart was stopped, put on ice, and the patient's life was given over to a machine. I think they had 40 min to finish the critical part of the surgery before the heart has to be restarted, and someone in the room was literally counting down. Thirty minutes. Twenty minutes. Ten minutes. Five. Then when everything was sutured together and watertight, they put the defib paddles right on the naked heart and let me hit the button, and I watched this heart come jolting, heaving back to life. If you've never seen an exposed heart beat, you'd be shocked by how it looks. It's an incredibly violent, powerful contraction, and the whole heart practically jumps with every beat. We hardly think of our hearts beating, we think it's just quietly whirring away like a pump, but in reality it's literally fighting for our life every time it spasms and forces blood through our veins. I feel like there's a metaphor in that, that life isn't easy or clean, it's bloody and grit toothed and you claw every second from death's grasp.

Anyway. This man had no pulse for forty minutes, chest cracked open on an operating table, and the next day he was sitting up in bed saying thanks doc. It was incredible. I get goosebumps just thinking about it. If I could have had infinite time and energy, if I didn't have to worry about any other factors, that is 100% the specialty I would have chosen.

[patriciakelly]

What an ❤ story. My son had a heart transplant just over a year ago and he’s been given the gift of life from a very special and kind family.

[TheIddieMorris]

As an open heart nurse, when I heard Eva was getting grouchy about surroundings and hospital food, I knew she was going to be alright.
Blessings and prayers to all involved in this remarkable story.❤️

[liseklerekoper]

I actually worked at INOVA Fairfax Hospital at the time Eva received her new heart. The entire hospital was so emotional, excited, & proud of Dr. Edward LeFrak & his transplant team. One of my co-workers was the social worker for Eva, & Eva was as delightful & genuine as she came across here. Loved that this episode portrayed Dr. LeFrak in such an accurate way. He’s brilliant & was a man of few words, but he cared deeply about healing his patients & didn’t care about how famous he became for doing the first heart transplant in the MD/DC/VA area.
So sad that after living decades w/ her new heart, Eva died from Covid-19. What an amazing woman & mom she was.

[BasketCase]

My brother's heart was donated in 1979. We heard it was a sucess( donors and recipients didnt meet back then)
So happy she made it, her spirit is so adorable!❤

[JustAThought]

The first episode in this Marathon is THE BEST 48 Hours show I have EVER WATCHED!!! Recently a cardiologist was called into my hospital room as I unexpectedly suffered cardiac arrest. After two hours of medical labor, I was finally resuscitated by that cardiologist. Now I have a pacemaker. So, this story was a blessing to watch.❤

[lilliedoubleyou]

So glad "48 Hours" uploaded the "Broken Hearts" episode. For me, easily the most moving and powerful episode this show has ever produced.

[dkcorderoyximenez]

How about Dr. Christian Barnard coming all the way from South Africa to urge the board's approval...??? He was an incredibly humane pioneer in the world of heart surgery...!!!

[Tomatohater]

I was an Operating Room Nurse for 34 years. Although I never did a heart transplant, I assisted on just about every other type of transplant surgery. This story occurred about 2 years before I started nursing school, and all these years later now in my retirement, this story is beyond inspirational.

[RLU-wtvi]

Sadly, Eva Baisey passed away 9/11/21. 34 years, 256 days after her transplant. She was 55 years old and succumbed to Covid. One of the few who we can honestly say, 'She changed the world.'

[smontone]

Eva’s story has to be the most incredible 48 hours story I have ever seen. I can’t stop crying. God bless them all❤

[Rubytheblueeyedwolf]

First time I've ever cried, watching 48 hours. When the Dr. cried tears of love, it broke me for some reason. What a group of stellar, beautiful, brilliant human beings. ❤❤

[brenf]

Broken Hearts has to be one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking stories I've seen on 48HRS. RIP Karen and Eva Baisey.

[virg_lemnade]

wow, the heart transplant story was so cool.
That doctor is truly a credit to his profession ❤

[johnbrett]

Wow that Eva story was so touching triumph over heartache. RIP Karen and Eva.