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48 Hours

Dark Side of the Desert

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.97K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In November 2001, Michael Blagg returned to his Colorado home to find a bloody bed and an empty jewel box, but his wife and their six-year-old daughter were missing. When investigators learned that Blagg and his wife had argued over his addiction to hard-core pornography, Blagg became the prime suspect. “48 Hours" Correspondent Susan Spencer reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 3/24/2007. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Kate's just off to work after sleeping in the best bed in the business.

0:05.0

And my word, doesn't she look ready for anything?

0:08.0

Something about her smile is just brighter.

0:10.0

Her eyes seem glintier, and she just feels so much more...

0:15.0

Kateier?

0:16.0

Of course it's no surprise really, because last night she slept at Premier Inn,

0:20.0

and she got up to

0:21.5

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1:22.6

Hey, where are you? I'm just calling to see how you're doing. And I guess I'll just keep trying to get hold of you.

1:30.3

Come home, go inside, pick up the normal packages on the way in,

1:36.3

and open the door.

1:38.3

And I can see down the hallway into my master bedroom

1:42.3

and there's stuff on the floor. Papers and her's stuff on the floor.

1:45.0

Papers and her purse is on the floor and I can't really see everything that's in there

1:50.5

but I know that that's not right and the bed's not made. On top of that my daughter's not

1:56.4

running out to me, Daddy, Daddy. And by the time I get most of the way down the hallway, I can see there's a large blood

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