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48 Hours

Troubled Waters

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.17.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Don North was on an adventure, sailing the Caribbean waters. It’s the life he had dreamt of, but his dream would be violently cut short. His disappearance and presumed death led authorities to the discovery of a potential serial killer. “48 Hours" Correspondent Peter Van Sant reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 8/11/2012. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+.

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0:00.0

That's the wind dancer. That's my uncle's boat.

0:17.0

You can see on the bow that used to say My uncle's boat.

0:25.6

You can see on the bow, that used to say Wind Dancer. The boat is just trashed.

0:29.6

Something really bad happened there.

0:38.3

I'm Ezra North and Don North is my uncle.

0:42.3

Don decided that he was going to go do what everyone dreams to do.

0:47.3

He sailed the entire Caribbean and found absolute paradise.

0:55.0

It is breathtaking.

1:01.0

We understand why Don loved it so much there.

1:05.0

My uncle lived on this boat for 22 years.

1:09.0

This was his life. Don just wanted to live his life in nature.

1:13.6

He was a beautiful person. Don knew that bad things did happen, that there were pirates.

1:30.3

He did have a gun.

1:35.3

He bought a taser, just in case something did happen.

1:40.3

In mid-January, we started asking each other around the family,

1:45.0

have you heard from Don?

1:47.0

And all of us said no.

1:49.0

We sent an email to him.

1:51.0

I said, Don, hey, what's up, buddy?

1:54.0

People are looking for you.

1:55.0

Where are you?

1:56.0

But, you know, Don didn't write back.

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