close friends, and, a summer night in the park. they had this look out, and you can see the harbor bridge that up. it s really pretty when the stars are out. it was the next morning that they found it. i could see the two girls laying. there it was horrifying. there was duct tape on their mouse, on their hands. a mystifying scene. the only thing we have our cigarette beds and suspicion. dna would 0.1 way. it was like star you gotta take a look at. this a bombshell message would point another. i read a letter, and immediately knew this was something very important. a twisted trail leading to a sinister suspect. take some special kind of mind that wants to do something like that. to crack a case this kind of alluded, it might just take a miracle. that was extraordinary. i just couldn t believe it. welcome to dateline, two young women were discovered in a park bound and gagged both were sexually assaulted and shot in the head. one died, but th
very different happened? the dog told you a dead body had been in the back of lyle s car? correct. but with few clues, hollywood detectives with strange a dramatic press conference hoping to flush out a killer. i was just floored by what was happening. hello and welcome to dateline. aasha davis moved to hollywood with big dreams and her sister lesley followed to support her. then leslie went missing. and was desperate to find her. in a town built on deception scripted to smoke out a suspect and the stakes were high. here is josh mankiewicz with a sister search. in the movies and on tv, people can just disappear without a trace, leaving family and friends with nothing more than memories, questions, and worry. in real life, vanishing is more a magicians trick than an everyday occurrence, which brings us to that crossroads where magic and entertainment collide. hollywood. the cops who world on the streets call it holly weird, because they know anything can hap
there s no longer this theory of what popular entertainment must be. incoming! who are the heroes? the people who watch this show. this is the week when the major broadcast networks unveil their fall lineup of shows. and every executive in hollywood knows how well the sopranos is doing on cable, which is a network problem. i think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there were no commercials. we are dependent on sponsors. there s so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, in terms of sex. to a large degree, a lot of executives were just sanding off the edges of what was interesting. i think hbo is looking at the world and going, okay, how can we matter? for quite a long time, movies and boxing were the bread and butter of hbo. people watch a show because you re partly a [ bleep ]. i think what we learned through shows like the larry sanders show or oz is that we could do serious television. there s somethin
heart wrenching details, specific momentus in the time line of this massacre, decisions by law enforcement that officials now acknowledge were mistakes including 80 minutes. that s how much time passed between the gunman entering the school and the time a tactical unit entered the class room where he was holed up. for an hour and 20 minutes, as many as 19 officers were in a hallway outside the classroom as terrified students called 911 pleading for police to come inside, and yet, officers waited to breach the room. officials admit that delayed response was a mistake as cnn s shimon prokupecz pushed for answers. listen to this. why was this decision made not to go in and rescue these children? again, you know, the on scene commander considered a barricaded subject and that there was time and no more children at risk. of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision, period. reporter: that wrong decision is adding to the anguish of grief stricken parents
the killer exchanged gunfire with police wounding two officers before being shot and killed by law enforcement. the 18-year-old used a rifle to carry out the nation s deadliest school attack in a decade. these photos were posted to an instagram account linked to it. one of his social media posts read, quote, kids be scared. a fire fighter on the scene says the gunman was inside that school for about 30 minutes before law enforcement ended the siege. to figure he was in there for so long in that classroom and the officers initially on scene couldn t do anything. well, you got to take into account when you have someone with this intent to just kill anybody, have no regard for human life and also with a rifle, he can kill numerous people in a matter of seconds. so those officers were able to respond at a moment s notice. there could have been further loss of life if they weren t on scene to break those windows and rescue any children and teachers inside that classroom. thi