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U.S. television history

• In Television in the United States: Reality TV

  America’s Most Wanted (Fox/Lifetime, 1988–2012) and Unsolved Mysteries (NBC/CBS, 1988–99; Lifetime, 2001–02) used actors to dramatize stories about crimes for which the suspects were still at large. Traditional journalists decried the use of these reenactments, but hundreds of criminals were apprehended as a result of…

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Vargas

• In Elizabeth Vargas

  …years later she began hosting America’s Most Wanted on Fox; the show sought to catch fugitives.

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