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The Woman in the Woods – 48 Hours

Nick and Mindi Kassotis believed they were being hunted. According to friends and family, Nick’s classified military work had put them both in danger, so much so that Mindi rarely left the house. But the couple also shared they were expecting a child. Then, just after Thanksgiving, Mindi died suddenly in the hospital. Soon after, Nick died too. That’s what everyone who loved them believed, that is until a woman’s dismembered remains turned up in a wooded area. Stories started to unravel and a mysterious new figure emerged. “48 Hours” correspondent Erin Moriarty separates fact from fiction in a case built upon unimaginable layers of deception.

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Stark Raving Mad Oct 21, 2026

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Nick takes the stand in his defense but the prosecution has a theory about a motive. Friends and family come to terms with the truth about the man they trusted for years.

Stranger Than Fiction Oct 14, 2026

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Nick heads to trial for Mindi's murder, and the prosecution lays out their case. The jury hears from Mindi's parents and from Nick's friend who had been unwittingly financing his life on the run. Third wife Samantha also explains what she thought she knew about Nick. Still, the prosecution is nervous. Nick convinced so many people over the years that he was telling the truth. Could he also convince a jury?

Jim McIntyre Oct 07, 2026

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Nick has been living under a new identity and when investigators interview him after his arrest, they are shocked by the story he tells. For years, Nick claims, his and Mindi's lives were under the control of a mysterious FBI agent named Jim McIntyre. Who was this man in the shadows and what did he want with the Kassotises?

Nick's Double Life Sep 30, 2026

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Nick's first wife Heather reveals more about their contentious divorce and why Nick may have really been on the run. Meanwhile investigator Jack Frost details the evidence he believes ties Nick to Mindi's murder. Along with a DNA match, Nick is arrested, leaving his new wife in disbelief about the man she married.

Who Is She? Sep 23, 2026

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An unlikely person makes a surprising connection between the woman in the woods and Mindi, just as law enforcement spend months trying to determine the woman's identity. Investigator Jack Frost gets creative working with existing evidence to track down a possible suspect and learns more about Mindi and Nick through her parents.

Dead Again Sep 16, 2026

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Mindi Mebane was a romantic, and when she met and married Nick Kassotis, her best friends believed she had finally found her match. Nick was handsome, well-educated, and worked as a Navy lawyer. But Mindi started sending her friends fearful messages: she and her husband were receiving threats related to her husband's work. Mindi and Nick seemed to be on the run but then Mindi messaged that things were looking up: she was pregnant and might soon come out of hiding. So when Mindi's friends learn that she died, and soon after hear that Nick is also dead, they wonder: had whatever Mindi and Nick were running from caught up to them?

Twice Dead | The Woman in the Woods Sep 08, 2026

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When a hunter discovers the body of a woman in the woods of Georgia in December 2022, law enforcement struggle to identify her. After months of investigative work and some artist's sketches, they have a name: Mindi Kassotis. But this doesn't make any sense to Mindi's friends and family who believed Mindi had died in a hospital. As investigators begin to unravel what really happened they uncover a strange mystery where the dead reappear, the living disappear, and one man who may never have existed at all.