• Child Violence Prevention Groups

    Visit the website of two organizations, dedicated to preventing violence against children and supported by the Smart family and:

    radKIDS: http://radKIDS.org

    The Surviving Parents Coalition: http://spcoalition.org/

    Watch this web exclusive video of Ed Smart speaking about his mission to protect children:

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  • Dec. 17: 'Elizabeth Smart', 'Trouble in Paradise'

    After her mysterious abduction, Elizabeth Smart's triumphant return to her family left many wondering what really happened during the nine months she was held captive. Natalie Morales reports on the largely unknown details behind the kidnapping, recounting Smart's chilling story that helped lead a jury to convict her abductor on all charges.

    Four years after an American business man is murdered in Thailand, investigators are faced with more questions than answers in a case involving an alleged hit man and an ex-fiancée. Though the search for justice continues, friends, family and the FBI believe someone could be getting away with the perfect crime. Chris Hansen returns with this report.

    Join us this Friday at 9pm/8c for Dateline NBC.

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  • Dec. 10: 'Somebody's Daughter'

    Josh Mankiewicz reports on the mystery behind the West Mesa Murders— a story that made national headlines after the remains of 11 female bodies were found in a desert graveyard outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2009. Airing Friday, December 10th at 9pm/ 8c, the story of this unsolved case has investigators racing against time to find the killer, leading them to search for clues in Albuquerque's "war zone," where drugs and prostitution create a breeding ground for danger and even death.

    Told through the eyes of the city's missing persons detective Ida Lopez, viewers watch as the clues unfold in a story that has captured the attention of media across the country but has yet to lead to an arrest. With the killer still potentially at large, Lopez is intent to see that these women, most of whom were prostitutes and whose disappearance went largely unnoticed for years, get a fair shot at justice. "I have to keep believing that we'll find an answer soon. Soon could be months, could be years. But I have to keep believing that today could be the day. Today could be the day," she says.

    Watch a special update from Josh Mankiewicz out in the deserts of New Mexico:

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  • Up in the air and on the ground in Haiti...

    Izhar Harpaz is a Dateline NBC producer, currently in Haiti with Ann Curry and others from the Dateline team for an upcoming story. Follow Ann's tweets from the field and read Izhar's travel updates below:

    Up in the air.

    52 minutes to Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. I have a bad back, which means that when I fly, I have to get up frequently and walk up and down the aisle to loosen it up. That is also a great opportunity to take a look at your fellow passengers -- fleeting glances: here, an old Haitian woman wearing three wide-brimmed hats, the top one with a colorful yellow ribbon; there, a middle-aged man in suit and tie, staring straight ahead through thin-rimmed glasses and somber.

    I'm on my way to Haiti, on assignment for Dateline NBC, to chronicle an extraordinary rescue mission. The elements: an isolated mountain community, ravaged by the earthquake and the rapidly-spreading cholera epidemic in desperate need of help. An American medical team, divided into two groups, willing to parachute into treacherous terrain and climb up a difficult mountain pass, to save a few from certain death and provide relief for thousands more. But that is for the days ahead.

    Right now, walking up and down the aisle of American Airlines flight #837, I'm wondering what kind of country many of my fellow Haitian passengers are returning to. To the outside world Haiti is an island of rubble and disease, of poverty and despair. I wonder, is that the only story I'll be able to find?

    I tighten my seat belt.

    Through the window I see a green landscape littered with roofless buildings and shacks. As the Boeing 747 gently lands on the runway of Port-Au-Prince international airport someone in the back starts to clap. A few seconds pass, and it seems as if this solitary expression of excitement will fade into the surrounding motor-drone silence. But then another person joins in, and then another, and soon the entire plane is clapping. From the row behind me I hear the man in the suit and tie and the thin-rimmed glasses say: "I'm home.