Peter Van Sant is an award-winning correspondent for 48 HOURS, where his reporting is featured across multiple CBS News broadcasts and platforms. Additionally, Van Sant hosts the top-ranking podcast BLOOD IS THICKER.

During a career that spans nearly five decades, Van Sant has covered many of the most significant events of our lifetime, including the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Boston Marathon Bombings, the Virginia Tech shootings, the shootings of five Dallas police officers, and the first Gulf War.

Since joining 48 HOURS in 1998, he’s reported on such issues as human trafficking, the murder of four Idaho college students, a murder-for-hire ring on the dark web, and conducted countless unscheduled interviews with suspected murderers. In 2006, he was the writer and producer of “Three Days in September,” a searing documentary on terrorists seizing and destroying a school in Beslan, Russia.

Van Sant’s work has earned virtually every broadcast journalism award available, including multiple Emmy Awards, three Edward R. Murrow Awards, a Sigma Delta Chi Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, a Columbia University - Alfred I. duPont Award, an American Women in Radio and Television Award, a New York Press Club Award, and a National Headliner Award.