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48 HOURS
Air Date: Saturday, August 15, 2020
Time Slot: 10:00 PM-11:00 PM EST on CBS
Episode Title: (#3215) "Live to Tell: Murder on Prom Night" (Repeat)
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A WOMAN REVEALS HER SEARCH FOR HER FAMILY'S KILLER, AND HER WILL TO SURVIVE, IN AN EMOTIONAL ENCORE OF "48 HOURS: LIVE TO TELL: MURDER ON PROM NIGHT"

Saturday, August 15

Jessi Toronjo was just 9 years old when she returned from a sleepover at a friend's house to find out her mother, stepfather and two sisters were murdered in their Indiana home. More than three decades later, Toronjo shares her emotional story of the search for her family's killer and putting her life back together, in an encore of 48 HOURS: "Live to Tell: Murder on Prom Night" to be broadcast Saturday, August 15 (10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Anchored by Jim Axelrod, "Live to Tell: Murder on Prom Night" is the heartbreaking and inspiring story of a woman's search for answers after her family was murdered and how she has tried to cope with her terrible past. Told through Toronjo's point of view, she tells viewers how her family was torn apart by murder then rocked again 17 years later when her stepbrother was convicted for the crime. Authorities believed Jeff Pelley killed his family over an argument over the prom. The case continues to wind its way through the courts to this day. 48 HOURS: "Live to Tell: Murder on Prom Night" takes viewers inside Toronjo's story from that terrifying morning and how her life has unfolded since that fateful day.

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