Solving Crimes and Cracking Police Cases

A woman escaped from prison at 20 and led a law-abiding life for the next 32 years. Should she be required to serve out her sentence?

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Starting an orphanage was the easy part. Trekking into the Himalayas to find the families of 24 "lost children" would take everything he had.

James Spring went looking for adventure. What he found: two little girls caught in a fractured family saga.

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