April 6, 2011 11:50 AM

Richard Schlesinger

Richard Schlesinger

Richard Schlesinger (CBS)

(CBS News) 

Richard Schlesinger is a correspondent for "48 Hours Mystery" and contributes to the "CBS Evening News" and other broadcasts.

He previously served as a full-time correspondent for "48 Hours" (1990-97), reporting on a wide range of topics, including innocent Americans behind bars, marriage and divorce in the 1990s and the middle-class recession. He was the sole reporter for "48 Hours: Death by Midnight," an in-depth profile of one convict facing the death penalty and for "48 Hours: Searching for a Cure," an unprecedented look at an experiment for a potentially groundbreaking new AIDS treatment.

Schlesinger was the reporter for "CBS Reports: "Enter the Jury Room," for which he won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. The two-hour 1997 documentary, anchored by Ed Bradley, examined the American jury system and marked the first time network television cameras were given access to actual jury deliberations.

Schlesinger is the recipient of nine Emmy Awards.

He joined CBS News in 1984 as a reporter in its Miami bureau and covered stories throughout the southeastern United States and South America before becoming a correspondent in the CBS News northeast bureau (1987-90). He also served as an investigative reporter for the "CBS Evening News" and has been a substitute anchor for both morning news and weekend editions of the "CBS Evening News."

Before joining CBS News, Schlesinger was the Washington bureau chief for the Post-Newsweek television stations (1980-84). He had previously been a political reporter for WPLG-TV Miami (1976-80) where he won a Sigma Delta Chi Award.

He was born in New York and graduated from the University of Missouri in 1976 with a degree in journalism.

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sr. that girl that killed/helped kill her mother said she had 2 inner traits.good/evil that advise her.at age 6 i also was taken away at hos.inthee 50/they did not no about child rapers they,asumed thee child was sick as in my case.i was raped repeatedly.but had no way of telling .my point i am 59 an have been sick with this. 52 years.i still have a good adviser an a very evil,creepwhoshows up just like she said in times of troubles.some get marry speaking words of wisdom,some get,666.some get both..my v.a. DOCTOR.said it is a sickness.THEE KEY WAS AT AGE 6 when her mother like mine, lost control an beat her.then in her eyes.she had to go to jail.-hell our mental hos.because she in her eyes she was wrong,our bad.in a child IN A make be leave world.she did something VERY WRONG,I 2 BE-LEAVE SHE DID it./ but, .thee county let her down as a little kid.THE GUY IS stupid.some one told him he would get 20 years for being with her.I bet she was his first,an she schooled a love sick fool.that is how thee evil side works it finds a fool,be that in love our,enny other ism..most unschooled kids,think evil means low I-Q. BUT DOCTORS OF THEE MIND NO BETTER.IF their was no evil in d.n.a. we would all still be fish/our lord only knows.our,maybe,rev.knots,an his 15 year old wife.he was 59,.i like your shows.drquacky.
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