IN A SMALL TEXAS TOWN, A MOTHER'S WORST NIGHTMARE BECAME A TRAGIC REALITY

"48 Hours" Investigates the Chilling Murder in "The Plot to Eliminate Alyssa Burkett"

Saturday, Nov. 16 at 10:00 PM, ET/PT

On the morning of Oct. 2, 2020, in Carrollton, Texas, a mother received a frantic call urging her to rush to her daughter's workplace. As she made her way there, she already sensed the unthinkable. 48 HOURS correspondent Peter Van Sant takes viewers inside the tragic and harrowing case, uncovering a story of jealousy, obsession and murder in "The Plot to Eliminate Alyssa Burkett," to be broadcast on Saturday, Nov. 16 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network and streaming on Paramount+.

Burkett was in the middle of a bitter custody dispute with Andrew Beard, the father of her 1-year-old daughter. On the day of the murder, Burkett's mother, Teresa Collard, is heard on police body cam video recalling something Burkett said about Beard, "... She even said, 'I think he's the kind of person that's gonna try to kill me,' and he did. And he did. Oh my God."

The all-new episode explores how the investigation quickly zeroed in on Beard. Carrollton Police detective Jeremy Chevallier recalls that the case took a clear direction from the start. "Within an hour of getting to the crime scene, we knew that we had needed to look for Andrew Beard," he says. But as it turned out, Beard was only the beginning of this complex story.

Over the course of the investigation, detectives uncovered a twisted plot involving Beard's new fiancée, Holly Elkins. Police came to conclude she was the mastermind.

And at 9:00 PM, ET/PT, when a mother of two is found dead in her home, her father obtains death scene photos that help solve the case. Contributor David Begnaud reports in an encore of 48 HOURS: "The Suspicious Death of Megan Parra."

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