ABC News' '20/20' Interviews Kent Whitaker Who Made a Final Plea This Week for State to Spare Son From Execution, Airing Tonight
by Tori Hartshorn
- Feb 22, 2018
After a dinner out, the Whitaker family was ambushed upon returning to its Sugar Land, Texas, home in what authorities initially thought was a burglary gone wrong. All four members were shot - killing mother, Tricia, and younger son, Kevin, and wounding father, Kent, and elder son, Bart. The case took a twisted turn when Bart turned out to be the mastermind behind the murder-for-hire plot intended to kill his entire family and injure him as part of the cover-up. Bart has since been convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to death.
ABC News' 20/20 Interviews Mothers Of Teenage Girls Who Stabbed 12 Year Old Friend 19 Times 2/17
by Tori Hartshorn
- Feb 16, 2018
It is every parent's nightmare. After 12-year-old Payton Leutner was invited to a sleepover, her two 12-year-old friends stabbed her 19 times leaving her for dead in the Wisconsin woods. The defendants Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier claim they committed the horrendous attack to appease a mysterious fictional character - known as Slender Man. After a judge determines how long Morgan will be placed under state mental commitment this week, '20/20' features interviews with mothers of the perpetrators - Angie Geyser and Kristi Weier.
20/20 Features First Television Interview With Angelika Graswald After Being Released From Prison Tonight
by Tori Hartshorn
- Feb 15, 2018
What began as an apparently loving couple on a kayaking trip across the Hudson River in New York State ended in tragedy when Vince Viafore drowned in the frigid water. His Latvian fiancée, Angelika Graswald, survived and was convicted of involuntarily killing her fiancé. On Friday, “20/20” revisits the case that made headlines nationwide. Anchor Elizabeth Vargas sits down with Angelika in her first television interview since she was released from prison. Angelika – the only person alive who knows what really happened that day – talks about the death of her fiancé and what life is like now that she is free again. “20/20” airs on Friday, Feb. 16 (10:00–11:00 p.m. EST), on ABC.
20/20 Has First Network Interview With Gypsy Rose Blanchard From Prison
by Tori Hartshorn
- Jan 25, 2018
Gypsy Rose Blanchard, whose mother claimed she was terminally ill and wheelchair-bound since childhood, made national headlines intriguing the entire country when she not only pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the stabbing of her caregiver mother, Clauddine 'Dee Dee' Blanchard, but also proved that she could walk and did not suffer from the variety of medical illnesses that her mother claimed.
20/20 Features Survivors Who Spoke Out About Abuse By Ex-USA Gymnastics Doctor Larry Nassar
by Tori Hartshorn
- Jan 25, 2018
The gymnastics sexual abuse scandal that rocked the world, and included accusations by Olympic gymnasts Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney and Gabby Douglas, continues to dominate national headlines as an astounding 156 women have testified against ex-USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar since last week. On the heels of these emotional impact statements detailing over two decades of abuse they say was inflicted by him, Anchor Elizabeth Vargas interviews survivors who open up about their dreams of gymnastic glory, their harrowing stories of abuse by Nassar, why they decided to come forward, what the future holds for them and questions who failed to protect them from the abuse. 20/20 airs on Friday, Jan. 26 (10:01 11:00 p.m. EST), on ABC.
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