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Sep 2024
40m 44s

The Day Akia Disappeared

NBC NEWS
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When a woman who is eight months pregnant vanishes before her own baby shower, her family begins a desperate search. As detectives struggle to unravel the chilling mystery, they wonder: is it a missing persons case, or something far more sinister? Josh Mankiewicz reports.

Josh Mankiewicz and Keith Morrison go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’:

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