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The Family (Failed Adoption / Kidnapping Case) #637587

NBC Evening News for Monday, Mar 12, 2001
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.

(New York: Kelly O'Donnell) The kidnapping of a child after a failed adoption attempt featured; details given of the arrest of Barry Smiley for kidnapping and the reunion of missing son Matthew Propp with his birth father. [PROPP - says his parents planned to turn themselves in; talks about meeting his siblings.] [In 1984, birth mother Deborah RUSSINI - says she is sick of waiting.] [Birth father Anthony RUSSINI - says he thought about his son every day.]

Reporter(s):
Brokaw, Tom;
O'Donnell, Kelly
Duration:
00:02:30

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