48 Hours “Live to Tell: Three Days Before Christmas” December 20 2025 Recap & Preview

CBS’s 48 Hours delivers a powerful and emotional episode this Sunday, December 21, 2025, with Live to Tell: Three Days Before Christmas. The special installment features the first extended television interview with Linae and Tricia Tiede, two sisters who survived a brutal home invasion that shattered their family just before Christmas.

Set against the snowy backdrop of Oakley, Utah, the Tiede family had gathered at their remote cabin to celebrate the holidays in peace. But the festive mood turned into a nightmare when two men broke into the cabin, armed and merciless. In a matter of minutes, the intruders fatally shot the sisters’ mother, Kay Tiede, and grandmother, Beth Potts, before turning the gun on their father, Greig Tiede. Despite his serious injuries, Greig summoned extraordinary strength to fight back, managing to help his daughters escape what could have been an even more devastating outcome.

The attackers then set the cabin ablaze and fled with the sisters, holding them hostage during a tense standoff that ended only after a daring intervention by their uncle and a swift response from law enforcement. The details of those hours are harrowing—but what followed was just as powerful: a story of survival, resilience, and family unity.

Now adults with families of their own, Linae and Tricia speak candidly with 48 Hours about the trauma they endured and the long path to healing. Their testimony is a reminder of the unimaginable strength that can emerge in the darkest of moments and how tragedy can forge unbreakable bonds.

Live to Tell: Three Days Before Christmas airs Sunday, December 21 at 10:00 PM ET/PT on CBS and streams on Paramount+.