A true-crime episode revisiting a real case from 1979 pulls viewers back into a night that shattered the University of the Pacific community — when an 18-year-old student was murdered by the boyfriend who lived just across the street. What followed wasn’t just a trial, but a relentless, decades-long fight by the victim’s family to keep her killer behind bars, even as time, appeals, and shifting laws threatened to undo what little justice they had left.

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“48 Hours” this week revisited a 1979 murder that stunned Stockton’s University of the Pacific community and sparked the victim’s family to wage a decades-long battle to keep the killer behind bars. “The Boy Across the Street” investigates the brazen killing of Catina Salarno, an 18-year-old freshman at Pacific shot to death on campus by her ex-boyfriend, Steven Burns. The … Read more