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 president of Exxon Corporation is missing from his home. His wife said he left home early that morning, later that evening his car was left idling in the driveway of their home. They had followed their routine, they had breakfast together and she walked him to the door and said goodbye as she always did around 7 30. Miss his car never got to the end of the driveway, and there was no sign of him, the guy had just gone poof. Friends say riso is just like the house they live in, solid. If youre a cynic
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 riso s well-being. this is an nbc news special report. president bush addressed the nation regarding the l.a. riots. i want to talk to you about violence in our cities and justice for our citizens. two big issues that have collided on the streets of los angeles.
they were poor people. then suddenly the story wasn t 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 letter could be found in the livingston shopping mall, taped to a lamp post. federal authorities say they prefer not to speculate on the conditions or whereabouts of sidney riso while they re still searching for him, only that they hope to find him alive.
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. it s not often that somebody famous comes to akron, i just wanted to see what goes on and how it s handled. he had letters from women proposing marriage to him. he had mail like he was a rock star, i haven t seen anything like it, and i haven t seen anything like it since then. while the trial unfolds in akron, it s been three days since exxon executive sidney riso was kidnapped and no one has herd from him. the media wanted answers and a lot of the time we just didn t have them. it s enormously frustrating. frankly i remembered so many more details about the l.a. riots than i did about a story i was covering, so dramatic was
from the suspect s 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. on friday may 1, there were still a lot of hot spots, but the authorities were better organized. and my assignment was we got word that rodney was going to make a statement. an enormous assemblage of media gathered around this yard area around this podium, because we hadn t heard from him. i just want to say, you know, can we all get along? can we get along?