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-- Dateline NBC -- On Dateline Friday, 9:00 PM: Tonight Barbara Walters returns to NBC for an exclusive interview with "Dateline NBC's" Jane Pauley. Walters and daughter Jackie Danforth talk for the first time about Jackie's troubled childhood, and how Jackie has put her past to use helping another generation of teens. Walters tells Pauley, "I'm doing an interview like this because Jackie said to me, 'Tell other parents... I get calls all the time from people who say, How did this happen?' ...Tell them, Mommy, if it can happen to you, it can happen in any family.'" In 1968 Walters and her husband Lee Guber adopted a baby girl they named Jacqueline. With two high-powered parents, Jackie grew up in a lifestyle that she had trouble relating to. By thirteen, Jackie was sneaking out at night, experimenting with drugs and skipping school. But worse was to come. During the interview, Walters tells Jane Pauley, "Had I been wiser I would have seen things coming. Look, she's adopted, I don't want to make too much of that, but she is. She's too tall at [age] 12, she feels. Her father and mother are divorced, and her mother is some kind of celebrity. That's tough for a child to live with." In the summer of 1984, Jackie ran away from home and for a month Walters did not know where her 15-year-old daughter was. When Jackie was found Walters made the difficult decision to send her daughter to an alternative school for troubled teens in Idaho. Danforth stayed in the program for three years and credits the program with saving her life. Today, Danforth has come full circle. After meeting and marrying wilderness guide Mark Danforth, she opened a camp in northern Maine called "New Horizons." At a recent visit to the camp she told Pauley she feels her own experiences help her get through to teenage girls at risk. "These girls obviously are doing the same things that I did. So when some of the girls act out, try to run, and things like that, which is very normal, typical, I have a better understanding of what my Mom went through." These days, Danforth's life is focussed on other people's daughters, troubled teenagers like she used to be, but she has made the decision not to have children of her own. As for Walters, "She wants grandchildren bad," Danforth tells Pauley. "She loves kids. My mom is the most nurturing person in the world." After the show, you can log on to our Web site at http://www.Dateline.MSNBC.com to learn more about Danforth's wilderness program, New Horizons. = This email is never sent unsolicited. You have received this NBC Dateline Newsletter because you subscribed to it or, someone forwarded it to you. To remove yourself from the list (or to add yourself to the list if this message was forwarded to you) simply go to http://www.msnbc.com/tools/newstools/e/emailextra.asp?nfeature=6
Coming up on Dateline Friday
-- Dateline NBC -- Tonight a special two-hour DATELINE FRIDAY: They leave a trail of victims and shattered lives. They unravel communities and bait investigators. They're ruled by dark minds and dark secrets. Tonight, KILL AND KILL AGAIN. Along a lonely stretch of river, body after body is found. A murderer is at work. His victims -- shown no mercy. It is the largest serial killing spree in U.S. history -- a two-decade mystery. There were dozens of victims -- hundreds of loved ones left behind. And one determined lawman. He had to be dedicated, because along with vital clues to a serial killer, came serious setbacks. But one thing that's never wavered: his commitment to those he's known only in death. DATELINE producer Peggy Holter says of Sheriff Dave Reichert, "What was impressive was his steadfastness. He stayed on the case for 20 years because he was determined to track the killer down for the families of the victims." But for all his brilliance and tenacity, Holter says, "Reichert isn't arrogant. He's soft-spoken and self-effacing and, despite the fact that his task force may well have caught the worst serial killer in our nation's history, he refuses to grandstand about it." DATELINE Correspondent John Larson reports on the Green River Killer and the man who'd stop at nothing to find him. And less than 300-miles away, DATELINE Correspondent Keith Morrison probes a murder spree that would haunt a city for years. One after another, women were turning up dead -- victims of a serial killer who left few clues. Who was he and could he be stopped? The answer would lead to a most unlikely suspect -- a man leading a double life, hidden from his family and friends. DATELINE producer Jason Raff says this story really lets you inside the serial killer investigation from the point of view of the suspect's wife and family, who spoke to DATELINE in an exclusive interview. "That's really unusual," says Raff, "and also heartbreaking because they simply did not know about the double life that their much loved husband and father was leading." So who was behind these murders and would families ever discover why the killer did it? KILL AND KILL AGAIN, a special two-hour DATELINE, beginning at 8pm EDT/7pm CDT tonight. --Dateline NBC http://www.Dateline.msnbc.com = This email is never sent unsolicited. You have received this NBC Dateline Newsletter because you subscribed to it or, someone forwarded it to you. To remove yourself from the list (or to add yourself to the list if this message was forwarded to you) simply go to http://www.msnbc.com/tools/newstools/e/emailextra.asp?nfeature=6
Coming up on Dateline Friday
-- Dateline NBC -- Tonight on Dateline: The very latest in the story that has captured America's attention and ended a Congressional career: The mysterious case of Washington Intern Chandra Levy. Now that she has been found, will the mystery ever be solved? The discovery of Chandra's remains in the deep woods of a Washington park is only raising disturbing new questions -- some aimed at investigators themselves: How did Chandra Levy die? And did police do all they could? NBC's Norah O'Donnell, who's been covering this case for more than a year, asks some tough questions about the police investigation. And what will these late developments mean for Congressman Gary Condit? Dateline brings you the newest information on a still baffling case. Dateline is also presenting Brother's Keeper, the disturbing story of two brothers-- one in prison for murder, the other in a prison of his own making. Lorenzo Branch says he's being eaten up inside, knowing that his look-alike kid brother Lamont has been in prison for 13 years for a crime he says he didn't commit. How does Lorenzo know this -- you'll hear this amazing story tonight. Correspondent Mike Taibbi says he's done a number of these 'wrong man' stories in his 30 year career, but this one is particularly interesting. "In this one, both brothers stories are so compelling," he says. "The family has been down to the precinct and has taken lie detector tests to support the contention that the wrong man has been locked up for all these years. And even the judge says he has a gnawing sense something is wrong here." Plus -- a look at what it takes to walk away a BIG winner of sweepstakes prizes. Janice Strell has won trips to Hawaii, Florida, the islands, Argentina, the Superbowl. She's won cash-- and even a car. How does she do it? She'll share her tips tonight. And just in time for the holiday weekend rush, we'll have the latest crash test results from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. For the past seven years, Dateline has covered a number of crash tests, most of them with your safety in mind. But tonight the experts are looking at something else: the cost of repairs for minor fender benders involving midsized cars. These are slow-speed crashes that don't look that serious. Even producer Yolanda McCutchen, who has covered five different crash tests, was surprised at this one. "Most of the collisions don't look very bad, there's no flying glass or anything, but I was surprised at how much they cost, because of the underlying damage. One of the cars had damage to the radiator. That's something you don't expect from a fender bender. " And tonight you'll be able to check out the repair cost for fender benders on other cars -- maybe yours -- by visiting our Web site. The address is http://www.Dateline.MSNBC.com . So enjoy the holiday, drive safely, and watch Dateline Friday at 8, 7 central. -- Barbara Bernhard Producer, Dateline NBC = This email is never sent unsolicited. You have received this NBC Dateline Newsletter because you subscribed to it or, someone forwarded it to you. To remove yourself from the list (or to add yourself to the list if this message was forwarded to you) simply go to http://www.msnbc.com/tools/newstools/e/emailextra.asp?nfeature=6
Coming up on Dateline Friday
-- Dateline NBC -- Coming up on Dateline Friday, at 9 PM It's an unprecedented live TV event, marrying the global reach of the internet with the powerful investigative tools of broadcast journalism. "Dateline:Lost and Found" brings together people separated by time and circumstance. Using the same tools journalists use to investigate stories, Dateline has tracked down and reunited dozens of individuals. Tonight, you'll see just how it was done and the poignant reunions that resulted. Producer Christopher Scholl says the idea for Lost and Found came to him while surfing the internet. He was moved by the posted messages requesting help in finding loved ones, lost friends, even kind strangers. "It occurred to me almost everyone has someone they'd like to reconnect with," he says. "And while most people don't know how to be investigators and don't need to be familiar with investigative tools, we do this all the time and could step in and fill the void." Filling the void has led to some extraordinarily powerful stories. You'll meet James Shumate, a teenager who wanted Dateline to locate the father he had not seen since he was a baby, a man he wanted to meet to answer some questions about his own life. Dateline was able to find his father-- and discovered that he had never stopped thinking about his son, filling his home with pictures of James as an infant. Their reunion moved everyone to tears-- even the crew and the producer. You can be part of "Dateline:Lost and Found" by sending in your request to locate someone in your life. Just visit our Web site at http://www.Dateline.MSNBC.Com. Log on now, during or after the broadcast to provide information on the person you'd like to locate and to pick up some tips for finding people on your own. Portions of these emails will be read live, on air. So join us for this incredible television experience -- a special Dateline: Lost and Found, Friday at 9pEDT/8pCDT. Barbara Bernhard Producer Dateline NBC http://www.dateline.msnbc.com = This email is never sent unsolicited. You have received this NBC Dateline Newsletter because you subscribed to it or, someone forwarded it to you. To remove yourself from the list (or to add yourself to the list if this message was forwarded to you) simply go to http://www.msnbc.com/tools/newstools/e/emailextra.asp?nfeature=6
