My Mother's Double Murder Case Part 1
48 Hours
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4.1 • 7.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
A daughter suspects her mother of a double murder. Years later courtroom drama brings unsettling answers. Jim Axelrod reports. This episode last aired on 6/2/25.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Damien Chandler. |
| 0:11.0 | I have been accused of double homicide and I am innocent. |
| 0:19.0 | Is it hard to believe you're sitting here again to talk about this? |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah, it really is. I didn't think 20 years later that this is what would be happening in this situation. |
| 0:32.6 | July 7th of 2002, my dad and his fiance, Karen, were shot and killed in their beds. |
| 0:45.3 | I was 17 and my brother was 15 and there was just shock. |
| 0:52.3 | The only person that hated them was my mom. |
| 0:57.0 | Dana. |
| 0:58.0 | What should people understand about the fact that you, Dana Chandler's daughter, |
| 1:03.0 | thinks Dana Chandler killed your father? |
| 1:06.0 | I do have a mind of my own, and I'm not bias in this situation. |
| 1:12.2 | I don't want it to be her. |
| 1:14.3 | I want the truth to come out. |
| 1:17.0 | And I want true justice for my dad and Karen. |
| 1:21.9 | Mike and Karen were together for the weekend alone. |
| 1:24.3 | They did everything. |
| 1:25.5 | They loved each other. |
| 1:27.0 | They drove up to a casino, spent a few hours there, and then arrived back home in the early morning hours. |
| 1:33.3 | They were found Sunday afternoon, July 7. |
| 1:35.3 | The killer made it downstairs, shot Karen Harkness multiple times, shot Mike Cisco multiple times. |
| 1:43.3 | It's unnerving to think that somebody could sneak into a house and do this and leave quietly |
| 1:49.0 | and nobody knows about it until the next day. |
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