The Ghosts of El Segundo Forty Eight Hours : Season 18 Episode 2
TV-14 CBS 1h 00m int(0)
Aired: July 5th, 2005 @ 10:00 PM EST on CBS
In July 1957 two young police officers on a routine traffic stop in El Segundo, Calif., a Los Angeles suburb, were gunned down and murdered by a man who the police did not know had just committed robbery and rape at a nearby lover's lane. The gunman fled, triggering one of the largest manhunts in California's history. It would take detectives and modern science close to half a century to bring this case to a startling conclusion. Correspondent Bill Lagattuta reports