Final Witness: Season 1

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Season Details & Credits

ABC | Season Premiere Date: June 27, 2012

Starring: Karis Paige Bryant, Morgana Shaw, Chae Balistreri

Summary: The true crime series uses voice overs, interviews, and reenactments from the victim's point of view to examine murder cases.

Genre(s): News, Documentary

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E7. What the Boy Saw
Air Date: August 8, 2012
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S1:E6. A Mother's Revenge
Air Date: August 1, 2012
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S1:E5. The Devil You Know
Air Date: July 25, 2012

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Jessica Shaw

Jun 25, 2012

This new ripped-from-the-headlines series amps up the cheese even further by mixing Desperate Housewives-style narration with actual non-reenacted interviews. Read full review

Uncle Barky Ed Bark

Jun 27, 2012

Final Witness has more texture and bite than most of TV's myriad explorations of the true crime realm. Read full review

Linda Stasi

Jun 26, 2012

[Final Witness is] a very good true-crime show. But that voice-from-beyond narrator is just so very wrong. Read full review

Verne Gay

Jun 26, 2012

A grim, macabre march through a terrible crime, deploying a bad twist--the voice of the deceased. Read full review

David Hinckley

Jun 27, 2012

The best face it can put on terrible murder cases is philosophical, and that may not be enough to keep viewers from the somber takeaway that someone they like has ended up dead. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Jun 26, 2012

It's a skeletal construct, all right, but there's nothing lovely about it. Read full review

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: June 27, 2012
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  S1:E7. What the Boy Saw
  Air Date: August 8, 2012
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  S1:E6. A Mother's Revenge
  Air Date: August 1, 2012
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  S1:E5. The Devil You Know
  Air Date: July 25, 2012
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  S1:E4. Vixen's Elixir
  Air Date: July 18, 2012
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  S1:E3. Fatal Devotion
  Air Date: July 11, 2012
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  S1:E2. Graveyard Love
  Air Date: July 4, 2012
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  S1:E1. The Caffey Family
  Air Date: June 27, 2012