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Nina-Del-Rey4230 t1_j3swebd wrote

How do you deal with the families that do not want to be involved due to it being for media yet are critical to your investigation.?

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abcnews OP t1_j3sxm9f wrote

In most cases, if the family didn't want to be involved we chose to shelve that story and pursue others instead. Out of the six episodes in season one, there is only one episode where we didn't interview family members, which is Michael Deng. In that case, it was our understanding through family representatives/contacts that the parents are supportive of efforts to share their son's story, but just personally are no longer able to handle the stress of interviews. So we still moved forward with the story, and just leaned on people like Doug Fierberg, who worked with the family during that time.

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