The First 48: The Girl Next Door

In New Orleans, the day before Thanksgiving turns tragic when a woman is found stabbed to death and stuffed in a trash bin. Detective Bruce Brueggeman spends the holiday uncovering the victim’s tragic downward spiral of addiction in search of her killer. In Atlanta, a mother finds her 25-year-old son stabbed and bleeding to death on the floor of their home. She says the victim’s friend and girlfriend were both in the apartment at the time, but neither knows the victim died from his injury–a fact Detective Smith keeps hidden until he can unravel the truth.