Missing Persons & Cold Cases

Geraldo Rivera’s decades of reporting on America’s missing — the children who vanished, the cold cases that never closed, and the families who never stopped searching. This shelf gathers the investigations that kept the nation asking questions: JonBenet Ramsey, Jacob Wetterling, and the countless runaways and disappeared whose stories Geraldo brought to prime time, always with a focus on the people left behind. It is a record of the cases that changed how America thinks about abduction, awareness, and the search for answers.

For viewers of true crime, this is the other half of the story — not the crime itself, but the absence it leaves behind. Where the serial-killer shelf follows the offenders, this collection follows the vanished and the loved ones who keep their names alive. From the Amber-Alert era to today’s renewed interest in cold cases, these episodes are both a historical archive and a reminder that some searches never end.

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What could be worse for a parent?  These cases of missing children feature their parents' insights as well as John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted.  January 19th, 1993.

"..his program has already captured, help capture over 200 fugitives.  They've also returned 4 youngsters to their parents....I think John's efforts have kept hope alive." 

The panel consists of Patty Wetterling, mother of Jacob Wetterling.Terry and Carl parents of Jaycee Lee Dugard, Jenny mom of Kristy Luna and Christal the mother of Michael Dunahee.  The program is put on to try shedding light on these missing kids cases and furthering insights about the system that tries to find them.  John Walsh joins the panel to help.

John Walsh is introduced along with the terrible story of his son Adam whom was brutally kidnapped and murdered.  Keeping hope alive is the most important thing for these parents.  Even accepting a tragic outcome is easier than not knowing what happened to your child.  

The parents review their cases in detail, what happened, last contacts, efforts made to find the children.  Every case has a belligerent, there is some perpetrator to catch and justice must be served.  John Walsh describes techniques and other tidbits during the audience questions section later in this show.

Of the missing children Jacob Wetterling's remains were discovered in 2016, Jaycee Lee Dugard re-appeared in om 2009, Christy Luna disappeared though a person of interest was identified in 2016, Michael Dunahee was never seen again.

This day, Geraldo's Television History. 1993. America's Missing Children, the Jaycee Dugard story full Geraldo episode

1993. America's Missing Children, the Jaycee Dugard story full Geraldo episode

Geraldo Rivera August 10, 2026 1:00 pm