Lactaid, 100 milk, no discomfort. Try lactaid ice cream. Seconds. Good even. Thanks for joining us. Tonight an emotional investigation to findhe mother who left her baby in a manger. And what happens in one jawdropping moment when he meets his family 44 years later. Heres abcs Elizabeth Vargas. Reporter it could have been mistaken for a christmas miracle. Instead, it was a mystery. This is where it all began for you. Thats right. Reporter a newborn baby boy wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. Part of this Catholic Churchs nativity scene 44 years ago. Reporter no clues as to who abandoned him. His mother missing. But another mother watching over. I got a feeling like this might have been where my mother waited and trying to muster the courage to do it. Reporter on that silent night, left with only a handful of disposable diapers, but left by whom . Two prayerful parishioners find him but it falls to katherine allen, a 23yearold rookie with the houston childrens protective service, to rescue the baby in the manger. I laid him on my shoulder and he was quiet. At christmas in a nativity scene. Exactly, what could be more dramatic . Reporter he would eventually be named d. J. Williams. D. J. Went from the manger to below the masthead as frontpage headline news. But if anybody knew hot mother was, they didnt bear witness. Was there a plea for information . No one called. No leads to go on. What do you think that means . I would say she didnt want eventually be adopted and grow up in a rural houston suburb with a loving mother, father, and older brother. But he would never stop wondering about his humble beginnings. When i would be working on School Projects or filling in family trees, i had to kind of make it up as i went along. Reporter today d. J. Is a manager at a starbucks inside a Grocery Store in baltimore, maryland. He lives with his partner, mike, and their 6yearold camerashy son, zephyr. They were home watching Television Last year when they believed their prayers were answered. Howd you hear of pam . We had seen her on the 20 20 episode with is phone booth baby. It was on this corner, 80th and columbus, this is the phone booth . Reporter it was the episode about louise jones. The woman abandoned as a baby in a new york city phone booth. With investigative genealogist pam slaton on the hunt for the missing mom. And said to his partner, thats the girl thats going to help me. How old were you when you finally got the full story of where you were found and how you were found . I was probably about 15. And i had been helping my grandmother. And she showed me some newspaper clippings. Reporter we track the reporter of those old articles to hopefully shed some light. Gary taylor. Reporter gary taylor, cub reporter on the evening crime beat in 1971. You were discovered about 5 00 p. M. On a wednesday. On friday somebody, one of our photographers, came over to wherever you were and took this set of photos of you. Looks like me yawning. Reporter next stop we take d. J. To see bennett greenspan, ceo of family tree dna. Lets go and lets look at your dna. There were two people who came up matching his dna very closely. So the question then became, are these two people related . Reporter two dna matches. And thats when once again pam strikes gold. She figures out the man is d. J. s uncle and that woman . She is d. J. s halfsister. Wow. I mean, that for me was christmas. That was mindblowing. That it was such a direct dna hit. Reporter pam calls her. Her name is rose. I said, could you tell me what church your family attended . She said, i know that my mom attended st. Annes. St. Annes . Yes. The church where d. J. Was left . So that was like, wow. Reporter pam drives to baltimore where d. J. Lives now to dlir the stunning news. What we found out is that person that matched you is your uncle. And your halfsister, because we were able to determine who your birth mother is. Yeah . I would say shocked. C. J. Is your birth mother. Oh, wow. I have hermile. Yes. Thats crazy. Reporter but pam has heartbreaking news about the woman in the photo. Unfortunately, she passed away. She passed away in 2013. Reporter still, this is not the end of d. J. s journey. Because pam has found four halfsiblings. The family d. J. Has always longed to know. Id honestly given up hope for the longest time. Wow. I just cant believe it. Thats amazing. Reporter and in houston, d. J. Williams is all set to meet for the first time in his life blood relatives. Three halfsisters. Hi reporter d. J. s first hug, and its a long hug, goes to rose its so good to see you. Hi. Reporter authenticatety, robert, and finally kirsten. For the First Time Since he was left alone, d. J. Is in the arms of the biological family he never knew. What are you thinking . You look like our uncle john. Yeah. Reporter amid the joy there is tension as well. Because d. J. Now has to tell them he was abandoned, left in a manger alone. I guess i should start with my story begins in texas. When i was about 5 days old, i was found in the nativity scene of st. Annes catholic church. I think that i was left there because that was the safest place that i could have been left at that time. So it was around christmas time. And i know that this information is a bit of a shock for you guys. This is the article that ran in the houston post. I know this is a lot to take in. Reporter as for his birth mother, sadly d. J. s halfsiblings, all born later, have no clue why she did what she did. But d. J. Says he can live with that. I mean, for me it was about finding that connection. Like youre just floating in this sea and you dont have any anchor to hold on to. Hold on to. And im not let going on. 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Simpson trial america seemed transfictioned on a baffling murder. Her husband, the nfl great, on trial for murder, denying it all. Tonight how hollywood is taking on the case and what the actors thought about o. J. Then versus now. Heres abcs Deborah Roberts. We the jury in the aboveentitled action find the defendant, orenthal j. Simpson, not guilty of the crime of murder reporter before that verdict nearly 100 million watched as o. J. Simpson fled police in the twohour bronco chase. Im peter jennings. Lets go to a picture in los angeles reporter it felt like a made for tv movie. Now it is one. Got two victims in Brentwood Brentwood . Nobody gets killed in brentwood. Reporter the captivating case with its memorable cast of characters is back in an fx tenpart miniseries, the people versus o. J. Simpson. Cuba gooding jr. Stars as o. J. Simpson. This was the hardest role ive done. It took me a good month or so after filming the show to finally get back into my right frame of mind. Nothing to hide reporter simpson continues to claim hes innocent and didnt kill his exwife, nicole brown simpson, and her friend, ron goldman. The miniseries chronicles the nearly ninemonth trial. Canny simpson attorney Robert Shapiro portrayed by john travolta, his First Television role in decaded. What was appealing about this to bring you back to tv . The material was powerful. The comments that it was still making about contemporary issues, about the legal system, about the judicial system, about racism. Reporter another key player in the courtroom drama, no nonsense prosecutor marcia clark, played by sarah paulson, with that unmistakable curly hair which would become fodder during the trial. I too was going what are you doing . Why is your hair like that . And the truth is, it was really just not the point. Should not have been on my mind at all. Reporter who can forget charismatic johnny cork ran i aint trying to be respectful, im trying to win. Are you a lawyer . Yes, well, i used to be utah but not criminal. Reporter David Schwimmer transforms into simpsons close friend robert kardashian. Why in the hell were you in there alone . I dont know, man at that point, nobody really knew much about robert kardashian. Hes just a regular man who suddenly found himself, one year later, incredibly famous. Reporter uncomfortable with notoriety, kardashian never lived to see the explosive fame his daughters and exwife would later enjoy. Schwimmer says he spoke with kris jenner, learning things few of us knew about o. J. s confidant. Incredibly loyal and compassionate and generous. Perhaps the most valuable thing to me was learning that he was a man of deep faith. Very religious man. I do think he was conflicted at times. Beliefs did change in the course of the trial. Reporter in a documentary the secret tapes of the o. J. Case, kris jenner recalls watching her exhusbands face as the verdict was announced. I think he was shocked. He was definitely stunned. I mean, you could look at his face and see it, knowing him my sbif liar entire life. I know that he was floored that that was the verdict. Reporter one of schwimmers scenes was filmed in the kardashians former home. Give me the gun. Give me the gun what was that scene like for you . One of your closest friends has a gun to his head, is about to kill himself. What do you do . Do everything you can to stop it. Reporter simpson flees police with his friend a. C. Cowlings behind the wheel. This is the call to police this is a. C. , i have o. J. In the car, hes still alive but hes got a gun to his head. Doing a tv series on o. J. Simpson they say, let me tell you where i was when the bronco chase happened. People are stopped alongside the road do you remember where you were during that bronco chase . Yeah. Watching the knicks game. Then they cut into the bronco and the small corner of the screen and everybodys like, thats o. J. Simpson hes got a gun in his mouth reporter two hours later, with the nation transfixed here he is now, the car pulling into the driveway reporter simpson is back at his brentwood mansion and soon under arrest, charged with murder. We do have sufficient evidence to convict him and prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Reporter in an instant, marcia clark is thrust into the blinding limelight. She had the courage of her convictions and wanted to go the distance to make sure that this man was put away. And to all of a sudden be thrust on the National Stage and have the predominant conversation be about what she looked like. And her manner. And was she feminine enough. Was she strident. Was she a bitch. I think. Reporter the series shows how a highprofile murder trial soon becomes a racially charged courtroom drama. 70 of whites thought o. J. Was guilty. 70 of blacks thought he was innocent. Did this film shatter your perceptions one way or another . For me the biggest discovery was the things that were not submitted to court. The furman tapes. The legal battle behind the scenes. Reporter which includes the dream teams strategy. Mark furman reporter pointingingers at lapd, which has a history of alleged misconduct. Officers accused of planting evidence, mishandling it, and framing simpson. Did you plant or manufacture any evidence in this case . Reporter the actors hear the real explosive audiotapes of detective mark furman spouting racial slurs like this. First thing, anything out of a [ bleep ] mouth for the first [ bleep ] lie mark furman is a lying, perjuring, genocidal racist. The bile that this man said about black people. And i was the frustration and anger i felt. You know, having sons having two boys that are now at that age where they have to deal with not just Gang Violence but police brutality. It just it gets me frustrated and angry. Sir, out of the car now reporter the miniseries triggered personal emotions around race and police encounters. Im going to have to cuff you. Reporter vance, married to actress angela basset, says he personally relates to his characters struggles. How did that impact you as an actor . We live in a very nice neighborhood. And it happened to me. E police came to our house and they had heard that somebody was pacing around the neighborhood. I come outside and they scream hands behind my back. Eventually they would realize and recognize that they had made a mistake. But the difference is, in life, as what were seeing nowadays with all these episodes in chicago and the ferguson case, we should not be rehashing this. Thats why i think its so important that were doing this project. And more is involved since we agreed to the project. In the last year it seemed to escalate. Reporter with the spate of recent cases alleging police brutality, the simpson story may strike a chord with viewers and also prompt the question many are uncomfortable with did you come away with a stronger opinion about whether hes guilty or innocent . Are you convinced in your mind now . No. What the truth is . No, no. Im not convinced either way. You know, he was found innocent by a group of his peers. But my opinions are all over the place now. Reporter for nightline, im Deborah Roberts in los the people versus o. J. Simpson American Crime story premieres february 2nd on fx. Up next barbies massive makeover. These new dolls hitting the shelves after a dramatic transformation. E trade is all about seizing opportunity. So im going to take this opportunity to go off script. So if i wanna go to jersey and check out shotsy tuccerellis portfolio, whats it to you . Or im a scottish mason whose assets are made of stone like me heart. 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