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here now, matt gutman. >> reporter: the toddler's arm was as thick as my thumb.nths old, malaika's body is shutting down. garan hassan, holding her daughter, baby malaika, pulled me aside. what is she trying to say? she pointed out her child. i can see she's -- i mean, it's -- she's so incredibly thin. >> reporter: tonight we take you to te heart of the hunger crisis in somalia through the eyes of mothers desperate to save their children. >> 10 centimeters? >> less than 10, 9.5. >> malaika's arm is less than 2.5 inches in circumference. this means she's pretty significantly malnourished. >> reporter: even surrounded by the starving, malaika is so critically malnourished, they rush her to the front of the line. too weak to stand on the scale, they weigh her in that bucket. as it twists slowly around, the 18-month-old doesn't fuss. tonight, malaika's journey to survive. >> oh, no, she's cold. >> reporter: the teams on the ground rushing to save her. her life hanging in the balance, like so many other children in somalia. she's one of more than 500,000 children unde

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here's abc's chief national correspondent matt gutman. >> reporter: sherri papini, the california momaded guilty to faking her own kidnapping, sentenced to 18 months in prison. now in an interrogation video obtained by abc news, we're seeing the moment police confronted papini with her lies. husband keith by her side. >> reporter: november 2016, papini vanished. the search for her gaining international attention. three weeks later, thanksgiving morning, she was found on a highway, seen here, bound in chains. her breathless cries captured on this 911 call. >> please! >> sherri, i need you to listen to me. >> reporter: papini had claimed two hispanic women had kidnapped, beaten, branded her. injuries seen in images obtained by abc news, her husband tearfully describing her condition days after her return. >> her poor face. i got nauseated just looking at her. the bruises were intense. >> reporter: three years later, police would trace dna on papini to an ex-boyfriend, james reyes. police say papini planned it, tricking reyes into taking her to his home where she self-inflicted injuries,

our chief national correspondent matt gutman has been following this story since the beginning. hael. those new details coming from the first time that police questioned sherri papini right after she reappeared. you mention that video. never before been seen by the public. papini wrapped in a ball, a bandage across her nose from a self-inflicted injury and she describes in incredible detail how she had been held by these captors in orange county and she does so so convincingly that this hoax held for nearly six years. >> i feel like sometimes it's easier with my eyes closed -- >> reporter: in those newly released tapes, a battered and bruised sherri papini appears on edge, even reluctant to talk to police just days after her return. >> that's another thing i'm scared about. i don't know you guys. i don't know if you're in my corner. i know my husband. i know my husband is in my corner, but, you know, there was a lot of other things and i know that you guys know everything about everything. it's embarrassing. >> well. >> and yucky and that's weird for me. that's weird for me. >> r

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unraveling of that hoax resulted in an 18 month prison sentence for lying to federal agents abc's matt gutmanys, there's so much you to see tonight in a case many of us already feel like we know. it's only really in the last 10 days that we've gotten our hands on all of this trove of data from the shasta county sheriffs and other investigators. and for the first time we can hear sherry papini in her own words for the first time. we see the images of her abound and shackled on the side of i-5 when she reappeared and is found and has taken in by police. 2020 the vanishing act airs tonight at 9 right here on abc 7 and here at abc 7. we're inspired by people who are working to create change and committed to sharing their stories with use so that we can all be allies in action and this hispanic heritage month. we want to acknowledge samantha ramirez who's the coordinator of the marin county youth commission ramirez is recognized as san rafael citizen of the year in may. here's abc 7 news reporter liam melendez. what i want people to know about me is that i care deeply about social justice and bein

our matt gutman is in l.a. with the latest. d dead at a friend's house late yesterday. no foul play suspected. and you mention those tributes still pouring in and that's because his work from the '90s still so resonates today. "gangsta's paradise" streamed over a billion times. ♪ come along and ride on the fantastic voyage ♪ >> reporter: he's the hip-hop artist whose clever lyrics took us on a fantastic voyage. ♪ as i walk through the valley of the shadow of death ♪ ♪ i take a look at my life and realize there's nothing left ♪ >> reporter: and showed us "gangsta's pair radise." ♪ been living most my life in the gangsta's paradise ♪ >> reporter: overnight abc news confirming coolio is dead at 59. police say he was visiting a friend wednesday afternoon at this los angeles home when he was found unconscious in the bathroom hours later. >> we don't show any indications anything associated with any criminal activity. right now we're still trying to gather all the information that we can about what occurred. ♪ get your women on the fl

we'll talk to dan abrams after this report from chief national correspondent matt gutman in sacramento, matt. >> reporter: good morning. the judge calling a very tearful sherri papini a manipulator and that stiff sentence ending a six-year saga, but it also allowed for a trove of evidence used against her to be unsealed. that included images of the severe beating she inflicted on herself and a shocking video in which police finally confront her with the truth. sherri papini, the california mom who lied to authorities about being kidnapped and tortured was sentenced to 18 months in prison monday and this morning we're learning how her hoax slammed to a grinding halt in august of 2020. >> we have everything that says that he said he told the truth. >> reporter: in new video obtained by abc news, we see for the first time a shasta county investigator confront the woman they tenderly treated as a victim for the previous four years. her husband in the room by her side. that's him in the blue shirt as the officers confront papini about her lies. >> the reason why you can describe the room is

killing his wife, shooting her while big game hunting in africa to collect her life insurance, and matt gutmanbia for the story. he joins us with an exclusive interview. good morning, matt. >> reporter: good morning, cecilia. our "20/20" team spent months investigating the death of bianca rudolph, and when we traveled to that remote hunting camp in zambia, we realized it was a terrible place for an accident to happen, but a perfect place for a murder to happen, and that dentist might have gotten away with it had it not been for a bartender who overheard something years later. visiting the famed hunting grounds at this national park in zambia in late september of 2016 ws a wealthy american dentist larry rudolph and his wife bianca. who had an reputation as an extra marksperson. on october 11, 2016, bianca and larry are getting ready to leave zambia when suddenly a shotgun blast rings out. >> standing near to her body, crying. what am i going to tell my children? what am i going to tell my children? just kill myself because my wife, she has committed suicide. >> something was amiss. something wa

her husband keith speaking with our matt gutman just days after she was found. >> and her poor face,he bruises were just intense, the bumps from, you know, being hit and kicked and whatever else. >> reporter: he has since filed for divorce and sole custody of their two children. following her return papini not only accepted sympathy but money as well, including more than $127,000 in disability benefits after seeking treatment from a therapist for anxiety and ptsd according to court filings. >> this whole case has been about her lying and manipulating and so why all of a sudden are we supposed to believe magically now she's remorseful? i don't buy that one bit. >> reporter: and so right now papini's current therapist is trying to provide the court with an explanation to her criminal conduct trying to mitigate her culpability, but the state warning that those opinions should be weighed carefully. the state also noting that papini misled her previous therapist for more than four years. you guys, she is set to be sentenced on monday. >> okay, kayna, thanks very much. let's bring in dan a