>> tonight on "nightline." breaking news, a malaysia aircraft boeing 777 with 239 people onboard has gone missing. among the passengers, at least four americans, including an infant. losing contact with air traffic control about two hours after takeoff is seen here on this flight path. right now, an urgent search under way. we have the latest. and cowboy crime wave. they're on the run and we're on hunt. it's straight out of the old west. two cowboys who allegedly turned to a life of time.

>> in the old days when they found someone stealing cattle and horses they just strung them up. >> the sheriff is on the trail of these suspected cattle rustlers. tonig tonight the case of snag and wallace.

good evening. we begin with breaking news tonight. a malaysia airlines flight with 239 people onboard, including four americans has gone missing. at this hour, a desperate search is under way for mh flight 370 which departed kuala lumur at 12:41 local time. it was due to land in beijing at 6:30 a.m. air traffic control lost contact

with the plane two hours after takeoff. whether it's due to mechanical problems, pilot error or terrorism is yet to be determined. gloria rivera is at the beijing airport with the latest. >> cynthia, it was more than four hours before officials announced anyone awaiting word on flight 370 should head back to beijing to meet with representatives from malaysia airlines. we saw many chinese police here dispatched to keep control, as so many wanted answers when they were none. the boeing 777 aircraft, similar to the one pictured here was carrying 239 people. from malaysia's capital to beijing. radar contact with the plane was lost in vietnamese air space. the airline confirms four americans onboard, one of them a child. in total there were 14 different nationality on the flight. as the day wore on, families in

tears, lacking information. the beijing bound flight departed kuala lumpur was scheduled to land in beijing at 2:30 a.m. it was listed as delayed. >> we have every reason to expect this is not going to be a good outcome. a big airplane like this, losing radar contact, it usually ends up in tragedy. it was over water most of the trip. there was a it went down in the water which would make recovery that much harder. >> the airlines saying quote, we have deeply regret we have lost all contact with flight mh 3 70. this type of jet, the boeing 777 has a nearly spotless safety record since it began flying in 1995. though last summer, it was an

asiana airlines boeing 777 that crashed while landing in san francisco, killing three passengers. for"nightline," gloria rivera, abc news, beijing. >> our thanks to gloria rivera. because flight 37was a boeing aircraft, it is likely that american aviation authorities and the manufacturer will be involved in some way in the investigation. going forward. abc news will of course stay on this developing story and keep you updated with all the latest. now we're moving closer to home, the american west, where things are still more wild than you might realize. fugitive cowboys are stealing cattle because, well, they're valuable. and we're there for a bust straight out of a hollywood western, as two suspected crime rings collide. here's abc's nick watt.

>> with big eddie, gritty patrick and the boys, they are the cowboy cops. tonight in the case of mccoy's missing cattle, they are on the hunt for snag and wallace, two cowboys they say have crossed to the dark side. they leave no stone unturned in their hunt. the prerp tai tors for this crime are now blightening the west. >> cattle theft. >> we're calling cattle rustling. straight out of a john wayne western. >> i i don't expect to get there with one single head of beef. >> reporter: and the crime back on the rise in 21st century america. the west is still wild. we're talking "rayhide" meets "breaking bad." >> these outlaws stealing the farm equipment, cattle and stuff

are using drugs. >> yep, he's saying meth addicts are stealing cattle worth $1,000 to finance their habits. cattle rustling is a crime now dirtying up what i though was no longer the wild west. thievives bag backed a big rig d snatched the whole herd except for this last guy, left mooing for his buddies. >> if it were up to me, i would fix it so they couldn't steal anymore. >> yep, that's jet mccoy of "amazing race" victim. have you ever done anything

else? >> no, i have never done anything else. i can't see myself doing anything else. >> you don't want to move to new york city and work in fashion? >> no. no. i mean, this is just what i do. >> reporter: it's his cattle that were missing. about 100 heads stolen in all. it took a while before mccoy even noticed they were gone. you can't be watching them all the time. >> you can't be. unless you have a shepherd on them 24/7. >> $100,000 worth of stolen cattle is serious business. >> it's no surprise to me in the old days when they found somebody stealing cattle and horses they just strung them up. >> just like in the movie hang em high. these days the penalty is three to ten years in jail for each animal stolen.

it's still a serious frame. jerry flowers and his nine agents make up a crack unit dedicated to tracking down cattle thiefs. like modern day wyatt earps, they control oklahoma's vast prairies and cattle ranchers. >>' we're not all hat and no cat. we're the real deal. >> reporter: flowers and the cattle cops swung into action. >> the criminals that we are arresting out here in these rural crimes in the middle of nowhe nowhere are the same criminals they're arresting in oklahoma city and tulsa and los angeles, even new york. they're all criminals. >> reporter: and based on the word around the campfire, they're on the trail of these guys. david wallace and larry smith, aka snag. both work as ranch hands. >> somebody will call us and tell us where snag is to get the pressure off them. that will be the plan, buddy. >> i know both of them. one of the guys worked here on the ranch. >> snag and wallace have been around cattle all their life.

and quite frankly, they're pretty good cowboys back in their days. but their down fall was they got strung out on dope. >> reporter: the cops say snag and wallace, known felons have left a paper trail here at the stockyards. they used their own names to sell the stolen cattle. chief flowers put his posse on their tails. >> we started to develop information about these two individuals taking cattle and taking them to the livestock market. >> reporter: selling stolen cattle is ease sirr than you might think. markets like this move thousands of head of cattle a week. and a lot of them aren't even branded. >> someone gets their cattle stolen, it's hard to identify. >> i had people say jerry, i had a couple of my steer stolen. i say what do they look like? well, they're 500-pound black steers. >> check the motels.

>> my guys are putting in 12 to 14 hours a day on this. we're eating on the run. we're not getting any sleep. we're not seeing our families and, you know, that's what we get paid to do. >> reporter: finally, a break in the case. >> apparently there was a blue car with the tag that had david wallace on it. >> that's david wallace. >> take your feet out. do that. turn around right there. >> reporter: for wallace, the jig was up. >> i've been getting up every morning for over 40 years doing this. this right here today is the reason why. >> now david wallace, being in jail, that's excellent news. having a guy roaming the country that's capable of stealing that many cattle has a fellow nervous. >> we saw the pt cruiser, and he was running 80, 58 miles an h85 hour. >> he could be cooling his feet in the joint for 25 years if convicted. flowers and his men caught up

with his rustling partner snag a week later. now both are awaiting trial and have yet to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. >> as long as there's cattle are people going to try to steal them? >> that's right. it's gong to be something that's been here hundreds of years and it's going to stay here. i still enjoy every morning pulling my boots on and enjoying the thrill of the hunt. >> reporter: modern day american heros with more than just a whiff of the bigone era. i can i'm nick watt for "nightline" in oklahoma. >> we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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people have long been fascinated with the notion of returning from the dead. and abc's new program "resurrection" is giving the whole idea new life. "20/20" co-anchor elizabeth vargas has our story.

>> a child mysterious turns up in a rice patty field in china. >> jacob? i'm agent jay martin bellamy. >> but this is no ordinary missing child's case. >> arcadia? >> 8-year-old jacob says he's from the small town of arcadia. >> my son died 32 years ago. >> but when he rooifs arrives a home of the langstons, there's an incredible twist. >> daddy! >> honey, who is it? jay sob? >> what if someone you lost returned. this is the provocative question at the heart of abc's drama "resurrection." >> they're seeing their own child who died 32 years before. you can imagine the mix, the sort of stew of emotions.

you feels by belief, elation, fear. the show attempts to explore an impossiblehenomenon in an impossible way. >> part investigative mystery, part fliler, the thought proking thriller turns out into a story line that turns chilling, heart warming and deeply philosophical. >> it's a deeply compelling theme because it is universal, it is wish fulfillment. you're constantly being asked to question your assumptions about the show. >> francis fisher plays jacob's mother. of. >> as a person who has lost another beloved, we've all wanted to have just one more day, one more moment to say the things that we wanted to say. >> critics and theologians alike say the buzz over resurrection is no surprise. >> we just want to be around.

>> we don't really want to die. >> yes. it's just an avoid dance of the truth of mortality. >> the concept of bodily resurrection, life after death is at the heart of one of the world's oldest and most revered stories of all time, the story of jesus christ. i traveled to jerusalem a beck cade ago to visit the place where christians believe this world changing phenomenon occurred. >> so this is where the bodies would be laid, basically fit first into -- >> yeah. and then once the body was inside, it would have been sealed up. >> the belief in jesus' resurrection is profound. >> lazareth rocks out of the tomb. >> they're shocked. >> reporter: elijah rose the people from the dead to the hindu concept of reincarnation to the islamic faith looking forward to the day of