48 HOURS: NCIS is Friday's No. 1 Broadcast with Viewers at 10 pm

48 HOURS: NCIS: "To Catch a Killer" was Friday's #1 broadcast at 10:00 PM with viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for May 12. The broadcast delivered 4.97 million viewers and a 1.0/03 with adults 25-54, the demographic that matters most to those who advertise in news.

Narrated by NCIS series star Rocky Carroll, 48 HOURS: NCIS is a six-part documentary series from the award-winning team at 48 HOURS that gives viewers unprecedented access to some of the biggest cases handled by the real Naval Criminal Investigative Service. The series explores the kinds of difficult cases that have inspired CBS Entertainment's successful primetime series NCIS, the #1 drama on television, NCIS: LOS ANGELES and NCIS: NEW ORLEANS.

Friday's broadcast featured D'Wayne Swear, a former NCIS agent who inspired CBS Entertainment's NCIS: NEW ORLEANS, bringing viewers inside the real-life cross-country search for the killer of a young woman in San Diego. The 1992 murder investigation went cold until a woman in Louisiana told police that her boyfriend, a former Marine, admitted to her that he had strangled a woman and dumped her body in a lake. It took a multi-agency approach, dubbed Operation Jambalaya by Swear, to close the case.

Also in this episode, a team of NCIS agents in Virginia revealed the investigation into the murder of Meghan Landowski, a 16-year-old ballerina who was the stepdaughter of a Navy sailor. The investigators' initial hunch on a suspect was cleared by DNA evidence. That led them on a trail of a killer who wasn't on anyone's radar.

48 HOURS: NCIS: "To Catch a Killer" is produced by Anthony Venditti and Alec Sirken. Jud Johnson, Phil Tangel and Marcus Balsam are the editors. Paul LaRosa is the senior coordinating producer. Anthony Batson is the senior broadcast producer. Susan Zirinsky is the senior executive producer.

48 HOURS: NCIS will next air on Tuesday, May 23 at 10:00 PM ET/PT.

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