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48 HOURS: “Fatal Crossing” was Saturday’s #1 primetime program with viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for March 2. The broadcast delivered 4.12 million viewers and a 0.7/03 with adults 25-54, the demographic that matters most to those who advertise in news.

Saturday’s broadcast featured Peter Van Sant and 48 HOURS’ investigation into the mysterious circumstances surrounding Kadie Major and her 10-month-old daughter, River Lynn, who were found dead along railroad tracks in South Carolina in 2008, and the search for what happened. It is a case about unusual deaths, an unusual reaction by a husband who lost a wife, a daughter and an unborn child, and a mother unwilling to give up the search for answers. It is also a case that got new life when 48 HOURS producers began asking questions of a new sheriff who was willing to have his team take a second look.

Major, who was married, was found dead alongside a section of railroad tracks in Moncks Corner, S.C. Her little daughter was found drowned in a pond 100 feet away. Law enforcement initially believed it was a murder-suicide and said a note found in Major’s pocket was a piece of compelling evidence showing that she was delusional at the time.

Major’s family never believed she was delusional or that she would take her own life. She was happy, they say, and also five months pregnant with a son she hoped to name Aadon. She had married the love of her life, Aaron Major, in 2003. She had no reason to take her life.

Kadie Major’s mother, Vicky Hall, vowed to get to the bottom of what happened and pressured investigators. Hall started her own investigation. But then her work on the case slowed down. In 2015, seven years after her daughter’s death, a 48 HOURS producer reached out about her investigation.

In 2015 48 HOURS approached the new Berkeley County Sheriff Duane Lewis. He asked his newly formed cold case squad to look into the Major case. A decade after her daughter’s death, Hall finally got her chance to talk with detectives about her case and 48 HOURS was there. In September of 2018, Lewis announced at a press conference that the case had been reopened

Was it a murder-suicide as investigators initially reported? Or were Kadie Major and her baby daughter murdered?

48 HOURS: “Fatal Crossing” is produced by Liza Finley and Ryan N. Smith. Lauren A. White is the field producer. Diana Modica, Doreen Schechter, Ken Blum and Karen Brenner are the editors. David Dow is the associate producer. Anthony Batson is the senior broadcast producer. Nancy Kramer is the executive story editor. Judy Tygard is the executive producer.

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