48 Hours Stranger Danger was released two days ago exclusively on CBS and Paramount+ with three separate true-crime cases. Each of these crime cases has one similarity, and that is that all the victims met with strangers by chance. The episode revisits the shocking murder of Nicole Lovell, the disappearance of Hannah Graham, and a brutal shooting of Leslie Reeves and Chris Smith.
The first 48 Hours case tells the story of a 13-year-old Blacksburg girl, Nicole Lovell, who was killed after signing into the chat app Kik in search of a friend. While searching, she found her killer instead of finding a friend. Nicole entered the dangerous space of anonymous online chatting with only a few taps on her smartphone. She entered a space where predators create false identities and fake profiles to target victims.
The second case revisits the disappearance and murder of an 18-year-old second-year University of Virginia student named Hannah Graham. On September 13, 2014, the Britain-born student went missing but was last spotted early that morning at the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia. After five weeks, Hannah’s remains were found on Old Lynchburg Road in southern Albemarle County…