In celebration of the ninth season, The First 48 and A&E are giving away free copies of “The Best of The First 48″ on DVD to a few lucky Shockya.com members. Now in its ninth season, The First 48 on A&E is still one of the most hard hitting and dramatic real life series shows on television! Here is a bit more about the new season.

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THE FIRST 48, the most watched non-fiction investigative series on cable, comes back for another strong season of taking viewers behind the scenes of real-life investigations with unprecedented access to crime scenes, forensic processing and interrogations. The series, which follows homicide detectives in real time during the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations, follows the nation’s top police departments, including Miami, Minneapolis, Louisville and Birmingham.

The First 48 airs Tuesdays at 9/8c on A&E