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48 Hours

Post Mortem | The Gaslighting of Hannah Pettey

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.17.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

48 Hours correspondents Natalie Morales and Anne-Marie Green discuss the survivor story of Hannah Pettey, a young mother from Alabama who was poisoned with lead. They discuss why police first suspected both Hannah’s mother and her husband, Brian, why Hannah believes Brian had attempted to previously kill her in a car crash, and her incredible recovery.

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Okay.

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Welcome to postmortem. I'm 48 hours correspondent Natalie Morales, stepping in to host today to talk with Anne-Marie Green about a story she reported on. It is about the attempted murder of Hannah Petty, who incredibly survived after being poisoned with lead.

1:12.9

Anne-Marie, thanks for joining me.

1:14.5

Thank you.

1:15.2

It's good to be here.

1:16.3

And what an incredible story and a survivor's story as well.

1:20.3

But this isn't the first poisoning case that we've unpacked together, right?

1:24.6

Actually, it is not the last time we spoke about a poisoning case. It was a case that

1:29.1

you had worked on, Angela Craig. And we did this actually live on stage at CrimeCon. It was about a

1:35.5

Colorado dentist who was accused and then recently convicted of poisoning his wife using

1:41.3

milkshakes. And milkshakes actually sort of make an appearance in this case as well.

1:47.8

Yeah, we're going to get into all of that. First, though, a reminder, as always to our listeners,

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