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48 Hours

Getting Away with Murder

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, News, News Commentary, Tv & Film

3.97K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Imagine the heartache when a loved one suddenly disappears but investigators can't figure out what happened, or even if there had been a crime at all? And what about deaths that authorities have dismissed as accidents but the families are sure were calculated killings? “48 Hours" Correspondents Erin Moriarty and Peter Van Sant report. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 9/6/2001. 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

An assassin took Charlie Kirk's life, leaving Erica Kirk a widow and the leader of one of the most powerful conservative groups in the country.

0:08.0

Can she help unite a fractured America?

0:10.4

A town hall with Erica Kirk, Saturday on CBS.

0:15.4

Music.

0:20.2

Mm-hmm. Yeah. When you have someone who's missing in your life, there is no answer.

0:35.6

They meet in a brownstone in Brooklyn, New York.

0:41.3

I consider us all part of this lonely hearts club, these sad souls.

0:46.3

But no one wants to be here.

0:48.3

They didn't pay attention to her. She can count.

0:52.3

Everyone here is related to a missing person.

0:56.0

But we know that she did not, could not, and would not disappear voluntarily.

1:03.0

And every story they tell is heartbreaking.

1:07.0

I still feel that maybe somebody's holding her, and that maybe one day they'll let her go or she'll escape.

1:13.6

But perhaps no story is more mysterious and frightening than this woman's.

1:19.6

I love Christine. I would choose to be with Christine over anybody.

1:23.6

Her name is Kathy Kukka, the organizer of the group. Her sister Christine disappeared.

1:30.3

And by now, Kathy has accepted the sad fact that her missing sister was probably murdered.

1:37.3

What she won't accept, she says, is somebody getting away with that murder.

1:42.3

And Kathy says she knows exactly who it is.

1:46.0

Like this is so horrible that, you know, I know people try to understand, but it's so horrible

1:52.0

that people can't understand.

1:54.0

And I think the hardest part is that someone could take someone away from me that meant so much

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