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Than 30 hostages at a high school. We can only make an appeal to the gunman, stop, theres been enough already. Across the nation, people were paying attention to this. The officers struck him with batons between 56 and 66 times. For 13 months, los angeles has been a pressure cooker. We find the defendant while the nations eyes are glued to los angeles. Police have been called to a bizarre crime scene. Fbi agents have joined the search for a missing new jersey executive, sidney risso, if the pres...

The footage. and here we had no footage. >> that night, investigators get a new lead. >> may 1, around 9:30 at night, we had received a call that directed me to morris park. they said that the second letter could be found under a white rock near a fence. we did in fact find a letter. they wanted a plane, they wanted the money put? edie bauer bags. we wanted to make sure that sidney riso was alive. we had a lot of concerns about sidney risos well-being. >> this is an nbc news special report. >> p...

They were poor people. then suddenly the story wasnt a racial story, it was an economic story. >> looters of every race and color, just like their victims. >> by late morning, it was clear that if anything, the lawlessness was increasing. >> fbi agents have joined the search for a missing new jersey executive, sidney riso, president of the exxon international corporation went missing this morning. >> on the second day, exxon received a phone call and the message of the phone call was that a lett...

>> now dahmer is facing judgment for the final outstanding murder trial in ohio. >> gruesome as his crimes were, people began showing up at the county courthouse in order to be one of the 35 spectators allowed to see the proceedings firsthand. >> its not often that somebody famous comes to akron, i just wanted to see what goes on and how its handled. >> he had letters from women proposing marriage to him. he had mail like he was a rock star, i havent seen anything like it, and i havent seen anyt...

From the suspects apartment, among them police say, photographs and drawings of dead, mutilated bodies. >> sidney riso disappeared yesterday, and this case is being handled under the assumption of foul play. >> parents are waiting to get word. >> murder, kidnapping, hostages, major stories playing out in america, while all eyes are on the riots raging in l.a. >> at least 27 people are now dead since it all began following the acquittal of four police officers in the rodney king beating trial. >>...

And quite often, the tv trucks would get there before the police did. >> los angeles is bracing for a second night of burning, killing and looting, in response to the rodney king verdict. >> now officials prepare for night fall. >> i cant predict what will happen, but its going to be worse. >> good evening, the saga of >> good evening, the saga of sidney riso is now a kidnapping case. >> in the case of exxon >> in the case of exxon executive sidney riso, investigators are trying to get cluing fr...

Was going to be, when the door to building c burst open, a bunch of kids came running out. >> some 25 people, 24 of them students and at least one teacher seem to have escaped what is now a very dangerous situation there at lindhurst high school. >> there was two people in there, a teacher and a stay tuned, and we have a person who has committed homicide. >> we know that eight people have been shot, including at least four students. >> medical authorities are calling this a phase 3 disaster, the...

>> in new jersey, what started as a missing persons case is now being treated as a criminal abduction. >> sidney riso headed to work and disappeared. hes the president of exsoften -- exxon international. >> we realized that what we probably had was a kidnapping and asked the fbi to come in and assist us. >> we looked at all possible motives and certainly the exxon valleu valdes, which had occurred just a few years prior to that. we thought that it could be related to an environmental terrorist g...

Theyre locals. >> mrs. riso says shes concerned about her husbands health. he had a heart attack three years ago, but she has faith. >> hes courageous and hes honest and hes good. so if anybody can survive any set of circumstances like that, he can do it. >> the suspect has been identified by the sheriffs department as eric houston. >> in olive hurst, california, the local community is facing a terrifying hostage situation. >> are we any closer to understanding what it is he wants? >> no, we sti...

Affiliation to a environmental organization. >> thats when we learned about the kidnapping of victor samuelsson. >> 18 years earlier, plant manager victor samuelsson had been kidnapped by marxist guerrillas. >> theres no word from argentina today about the whereabouts of american oil executive victor samuelsson who has been kidnapped. >> after $14 million in ransom was paid, samuelsson was returned unharmed in april 1974, 18 years to the day sidney riso disappeared. >> we need to know if indeed ...