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Seven years ago, Iowa farmer Todd Mullis was convicted of killing his wife, Amy, with a corn rake. Now, their 21-year-old son, Trysten, is speaking out for the first time. In an exclusive interview with 48 HOURS correspondent Erin Moriarty, Trysten says lawyers and investigators got it all wrong, and he's fighting to clear his father's name. Moriarty reports in "The Corn Rake Witness."

Susan Vesey, a 21-year-old mother of two, was murdered in 1980. Four years later, Judy Weaver, a divorced mother, was sexually assaulted and strangled in her home. For more than 40 years, no one was held responsible. Then, cold-case detective Susan Logothetti linked both cases to Mitchell Gaff, a known predator released in 2018 after serving 33 years for violent sex crimes. But she needed fresh DNA to charge him, so she helped devise "the gum ruse," an undercover plan to get that DNA from a piece of chewed gum. The DNA tied Gaff to both murders and he was sentenced. Detective Logothetti did her first and only television interview on the case with 48 HOURS correspondent Peter Van Sant in "The Detective and the Chewing Gum Sting." 

When Savannah Tolbert's lifeless body was discovered in a car at a strip mall, police went looking for witnesses. Some of the best clues to help solve the case came from not one, but multiple security cameras. 

After Julie Harding, a high-ranking California police captain, married Mike Harding, a successful businessman she'd met online, the couple seemed set for a happy life. They bought a "dream" retirement home – a spectacular mansion in Tennessee that locals say is cursed. Mike was murdered, and Julie was found dead. 

On February 25, 2023, Jade Benning, a 24-year-old professional chef, planned a date night at her apartment with Blaise Taylor, then a 26-year-old former star football player at Arkansas State University. Hours later, a phone call Jade made as she was dying became a crucial piece of evidence in a Nashville murder trial. Did Jade's final call implicate Blaise? 48 HOURS correspondent Natalie Morales reports in "Jade Benning's Final Call."