in new york city, this is "nightline," may 24th, 2012. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. 33 years ago tomorrow, 6-year-old etan patz vanished while walking to the school bus. for decades, the search for etan and whomever abducted him was never put to rest and it helped ignite the national movement to find missing children. well, tonight, a major break in this case, as police announce that a new jersey man has confessed to his murder. finally, it seems, his long suffering family may find justice. here's abc's david muir. >> reporter: tonight, nearly 33 years after that little boy, 6-year-old etan patz, disappeared on the walk to his school bus, a break in the case. pedro hernandez is under arrest for murder, seen here in this "inside edition" photo of hernandez. abc confirm this is the man that was arrested. hernandez allegedly confessing to police he was the one who stole that little boy on that walk to the bus. >> we believe that this is the individual responsible for the crime. >> reporter: the day etan patz disappeared was the first morning his parents let him walk alone to the sch

in new york city, this is "nightline," may 11th, 2012. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. tonight, a new controversy has reignited that american obsession. which way is the right way to parent? with mother's day approaching, something called attachment parenting is causing a major uproar. as "time" releases a cover showing a young mother breastfeeding her nearly 4-year-old son. so, is there really anything wrong with this? or are these people onto something? abc's juju chang met with "time's" cover model to see what all the fuss is about. >> reporter: it's the "time" magazine cover that has everyone talking. >> that boy is like 32 years old. he's in college. >> it is pretty hard to miss the cover of "time" right now. >> he says sometimes i want that boobie. >> reporter: jamie grew may is the 26-year-old cover girl. it begs the question -- how old is too old to nurse. what do you call nursing? >> ah, nursing. >> reporter: there are a lot of people who say, if a kid can ask for milk, he's too old. >> i know. that's a cultural thing. i don't know who came up with that, but it

in new york city, this is "nightline," may 25th, 2012. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. well, flying these days is often called taking the bus in the sky. reference to the not so elegant experience of security lines, middle seats and most of all, those annoying fees. everything from meals to blankets, even that little overhead bin space. now, a way for the airlines to make more money. so, why have carriers taken such extreme measures and what can you do to avoid them? here's john donvan. >> reporter: these doors at the airport terminal, they used to be the gateway to adventure. now, when you get here, it's more the moment of truth. just how much is that flight you thought you paid for really going to cost you? because they are adding on fees for everything. to choose your own seat ahead of time. to get a pillow and blanket on board. to watch a movie. to be handed a bottle of water. and last month, to carry on your own bag. you are doing the heavy letting. but the price you pay for the privilege of storing it in the overhead, $10 to $35. not quite as high as spirit's carr

>> announcer: from the global resources of abc news with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," may 2, 2012. >>> good evening. i'm cynthia mcfadden. tonight, the glossy world of fashion magazines where very young girls can never be too thin or too flawless. so what happens when real girls can't measure up to the manipulated measures of perfection? one expert says it can be more dangerous than drugs. abc's linsey davis brings us one 14-year-old girl determined to change things. >> reporter: long, lean legs, a teeny, tiny waist, perfect skin and glossy hair. just exactly who looks like this? actually, nobody. while models have always been made to look beautiful, never before have they been looked so skinny, airbrushed and impossibly perfect. and it turns out that can be dangerous. that is why 14-year-old julia traveled from maine to new york city to lead this protest, a mock photo shoot on the doorstep of one of the biggest teen magazines in the industry. >> we wanted to show "seventeen" we love our bodies just the way we are and we don't nee

i'm terry moran. tonight it's the weight loss movement that's all about getting help from on high. a bible-based diet that extolls the virtues of fewer loaves, lots of fish. it's a new front in the fight against obesity. improving your health using the power of christ and using the good book over any cook book. >> step on the scale. >> one by one they step up for the weigh-in. michelle, and karen. >> 165.4. >> reporter: and mike. and alice. >> ate too much dinner. >> reporter: on and on just like in a weight watcher's meeting. >> right on the nose. >> reporter: but this is different. >> it will be lower next time. >> reporter: this is church, sort of. >> let's have a prayer. >> reporter: definitely on sunday mornings it's church. they sing and pray and the pastor meets his flock. on sunday nights it's sort of a combo. >> welcome to losing to live. >> reporter: a church and a pastor. >> a biblical program and a weight-loss celebration. show us how to do it! >> reporter: it's pulling in the crowds, and the crowds are dropping the pounds. it's called bod for god. he's created a weight

i'm terry moran. you're about to meet a 17-year-old who says he became addicted to internet porn at age 12. you'll meet a young woman who spent her high school years hiding a shameful secret. both of them hypnotized by all the glowing images on their computer and led down a path of secrets and lies as astonishingly young ages. it's an epidemic that some professionals say exploding with porn just a click away on computers and smart phones. >> reporter: it's after school. nathan hog is out walking bonnie, the family dog. because it's his turn and that's the kind of kid he is. >> these are just a fraction of the merit badges i have. >> on his way to eagle skounts. a 3.75 grade average, student counsel and into sports. and his connection to his family, one of eight children. the oldest of those still living at home. it almost doesn't hit how he once managed to cover-up from everybody a habit he could not shake. an addiction, online pornography. >> from 12 to 13, all the way up to 14, it was kind of there,

. >>> good evening, i'm terry moran. well, this weekend queen elizabeth ii celebrates her diamond jubilee. as buckingham palace prepares for a party of rile proportions, katie couric sat down with two people who know her majesty best, the princes who call her granny. katie met with prince harry in brazil and later with prince william back in london. in these rare interviews, the princes let down their royal guard, talked about their jitters and, the wedding, and the women on their minds on that famous day. >> reporter: prince william's marriage to a commoner was dubbed a modern-day fairy tale. from the bride's arrival by car and not carriage, to her vowing to love, not obey, to their impulse to kiss not once but twice on the palace balcony. >> it was one of those days where you feel elated, also completely terrified. the prospect of two billion people watching was quite daunting. >> i heard there was a small wedding at westminster abbey last year. you said you were as nervous as your brother at the time. >> i was massive

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," may 17th, 2012. >>> good evening, ooipt sii'm c mcfadden. tonight, groundbreaking evidence into the investigation of what really happened the night trayvon martin was shot by neighborhood watchman george zimmerman. it's the case that sparked widespread outrage across the country, igniting racial tension and massive protests. abc's matt gutman has been closely following this story and now he brings us the latest from sanford, florida. >> reporter: tonight, the very first video ever seen of trayvon martin. february 26th, the night he was fatally shot in florida. here, he's in the 7-eleven, wearing the hoodie that would become the symbol of his death, triggering marches and protests. a death that tonight is becoming increasingly complex. just hours ago, a document dump by the prosecution, seeking a second degree murder charge. hundreds of pages of documents, pictures, audio and video. in them, a different portrait of the 28-year-old neighborhood wat

." >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," may 3rd, 2012. >>> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. tonight, more bad news for air travelers. spirit airlines announced today it will charge up to $100 for a carry-on. so, in a world where everything seems to cost extra on airplanes, some people are arguing that overeight passengers should cough up cash for packing their extra pounds. abc's juju chang brings us the great weight debate. >> my hands are clammy. >> reporter: why? >> i just find myself getting anxious as i get closer to the airport. >> reporter: this woman is doing something she absolutely dreads. >> is it possible to change my seattle so that i'm not sitting next to someone? okay, so, this is 18-inch seats? okay, perfect. >> reporter: she's about to catch a flight home to new orleans. she says she only bake a nervous flyer last may when she was humiliated by a southwest airlines gate agent. >> the gate agent came up to me and he began -- he asked me how much i weighed, what my, w

. >>> good evening, i'm terry moran. tonight authorities are throwing the book at one son of a preacher man, accusing him of targeting christian church goers with a multimillion-dollar ponzi scheme. alleged victims tell us, he quoted the bible, and gained their trust and then billked them out of their entire life savings. we followed the money for tonight's "nightline" investigation. >> your life is about to change. >> on this morning, the pastor was eddy long, one of the most powerful black preachers in america. >> everything he says is based off the word of god. >> reporter: four years ago, he introduced his mega church to this man, and lives did change. put your hands together to receive my friend, my brother, the great efren taylor. >> reporter: he's a self--made millionaire and he spoke the language of the church. to these families, he was a financial wizard. >> we gonna show you how to get wealth and use it for the building of his kingdom. >> reporter: all part of his wealth tour, but by the time he was done in atl

. >>> good evening, i'm terry moran. as you know, today is a day for our heroes, those who put their lives on the line for what matters most, the men and women of america's armed forces. as we all know, from a long decade of war, many never return from battles abroad and many who do return are never the same. injuries seen and unseen. but as only heroes can, they don't complain. instead they've taken things into their own hands. here's abc's bob woodruff of those who defend the american dream. >> it was november 2004 when dale bady and his best friend john gallina were in iraq, returning from a mission. >> we had been up late that night, preparing the vehicle. it was a last-minute, you know, hey, here, tomorrow you're going out on this mission. >> so we were taking a video of us, filming everybody in the trucks, took a little video, put it back in my pocket, and right then we got hurt. >> reporter: the explosion rocked their humvee, 200 feet in the air. john suffered a brain injury and back wounds. dale lost both his leg

>>> good evening, i'm terry moran. it's been said that all is fair in love and war, but in a world of very angry ex-spouses, and very tiny miniature cameras, i seems all bets are off. thanks to evolving technology that makes snooping simple, people are bugging everything, from eyeglasses to pens, even their own kids. but what happens when squabbling ex-s try to use that in court? >> reporter: it's the latest weaponry in the hi-tech relationship war, spying and snooping, via surveillance footage like this, recorded secretly a michelle russell. she'd been living with marcus for three years when she started to suspect he wasn't being faithful. >> tell me he had to work late a lot of approximate rushing off the phone when i would call him. i'm like, that's weird. >> have suspicions and want to conduct your own investigations? >> she turned to cheaters, which provides do it yourself spy equipment to lovers with suspicions. >> they gave me a clock cam, basically it has a camera already installed, i just had to place it in my

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden, and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," may 30, 2012. >>> good evening, i'm bill weir. bath salts, it's not a term you think would strike dread into the hearts of cops nationwide, but it's become the street name for a potent drug that could be available at your local mall or convenience store, right next to the vitamin supplements. not only does it bring an extreme high for some, but it's also been said to cause excited delirium. some think a ghastly crime in miami is just the latest consequences. here's abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: watch this police video of a man in a psychotic state called excited delirium. the violence and superhuman strength. bloody, naked and hallucinating, they fight their demons. and anybody near them. walking through bullets, snapping off tase taser prongs. growling like caged animals. those afflicted by it are literally cooking in their adrenaline-fueled bodies. most of them are overdosing on drugs and lately increasing numbers on a new drug, legal for the

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with ter terry moran, cynthia mcfadden, bill weir and tonight, juju chang in new york city, this is "nightline," may 10th, 2012. >> good evening, i'm juju chang. we have breaking news tonight. just hours ago, a massive man hunt that has riveted much of the nation for days ended with two little girls found alive and unharmed. adam mayes, the man suspected of kidnapping them, had been on the run from the fbi and shot himself during a police confrontation. may else was suspected of having killed their mother and 14-year-old sister. abc's yunji de nies has been following this story, apnd tonight, she has the very latest. >> reporter: it all ended here in the woods behind this search in guntown, mississippi, just a few miles from adam mayes' home, two hours away from the place he first kidnapped the girls and killed their mother and older sister. police say mayes was found by mississippi highway patrol officers who came upon him in the woods. >> reports indicate may else shot himself in the head and was later pronounced dead. >> reporter:

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," may 18th, 2012. >> happy friday, everyone. i'm bill weir. well, in the late '90s, you could buy a new tech stock for ten bucks in the morning and sell it for $600 that night. today was not one of those days. though facebook was the most anticipated stock to hit the open market in years. it opened at $38 a share and to better understand mark zuckerberg's big day, took up a collection, set out to buy the "nightline" staff a single share in the company that changed human connection. the company that will probably have to keep changing to avoid yet another dot com bust. crossroads of the world. times square, the nasdaq. >> facebook frenzy. >> reporter: site of a delicious collision of social media and the american dream. mark? tell mark we want to buy one share. it will take two minutes. we just want to buy one share. too bad you can't actually buy stock here. what do you mean he's not here? in fact, you don't even have to be here to ring the bell. s

. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," may 4th, 2012. >> good evening, happy friday, i am bill weir. for couples that have lost that loving feeling, how is this for a rehab strategy? a prescription for seven straight days of getting busy. no malter how busy they get. it's meant to be a radical solution. can a healthy sex lichl really be the cure-all for an unhappy marriage, or, for these couples, is the missing piece of the puzzle something a lot less sexy? here's abc's juju chang. >> you're right. this time we are fighting. >> you can't be putting anything on this pot. look what happens. >> reporter: for these couples, marriage once always a battlefield. >> just do it yourself, please. >> reporter: once upon a time, anna and anthony were madly in love. >> like everything new, it is always good. >> reporter: for chantal and derek, it's been ten years. >> it was love and first sight and the courtship was good. >> oh, we were on fire. >> first of all, made it work in the beginning, we h

terri moran did so anyway. you did not like that.l me about your thinking on that issue. >> it came up while i was in the control room. we were on the air for 24 hours a day, seven days a week with no commercials or anything else, and i was in the control room because there was constant reporting coming in during that time, and we were having to vet to make decisions about what to do and not to do, and peter couldn't help, and i had to really be involved in the decision process. they came to us and said we're being asked whiure not wearing lapel pins because a number of other outlites, particularly cable news -- fox news in particular, and they integrated the american flag into the back drop and the bumpers and the teases and everything else. we had long had a policy that we wouldn't let abc news we wouldn't wear any lapel pins at any sort, the theory being when you are reporting the news, you should be reporting the news, not taking a position and i said quickly, wither going to stick with our policy and stand by that and i believe

terry information. that is going to apple. apple is sitting there with a guy in a cup of coffee and glasses reading all of your text messages. >> no moran nonmou-- no more ans comment. you can write the rudest thing the meanest thing about someone and it never tracks back to you. >> in the tech business we call these people trolls. you ever see nasty comments call them trolls they don't have a picture associated with their name. they have a fake name. >> no one is held accountable. they have a bull they think it will fly. >> the issue is that if you can create web sites you have a facebook profile you have a picture and a name. your name is less likely to be held accountable. on fox we have a sign in process. you have to sign in. you can sign in with facebook but there is your face. if you are mean we know who you are. >> you love this week. >> it is national geek pride day. you know why? there are a couple of things that happen. 35 years ago today star was w-- star wars was released. >> did you read the series. >> national towel day. all geeks will know. it is also national towel day. >> coming up math, science, english all standard cl