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Grace doing 50 shows on missing people

PASADENA, Calif.

HLN’s Nancy Grace on Monday will launch two months’ worth of special programs on missing persons, hoping prime-time attention can loosen fresh clues in some cases that are as much as 20 or 30 years old.

“Nancy Grace: America’s Missing” will air 50 separate cases on 50 weekdays at 9 p.m., after Grace’s regular nightly program.

Grace said it’s often frustrating on her show when a missing-persons case is covered that it often gets quickly shoved aside when something new comes up.

Her effort starts Monday with the story of 10-year-old Lindsey Baum, from Washington state, who last was seen leaving a friend’s house in June 2009. The majority of the cases involve children or teenagers, but not all: Grace will talk about a 27-year-old television anchorwoman from Iowa who has been missing since 1995, for example.

Grace said she’s not naive enough to think that many, or any, of the missing people will be discovered alive through the attention paid on her show. But she said if information can be uncovered that would lead to closure for a suffering family, that would be valuable.

Associated Press