(CBS News Correspondent, 48 HOURS MYSTERY)

Bill Lagattuta was named a correspondent for 48 HOURS in July 1995, the same year he received an Emmy Award for "America's Mission," a 48 HOURS report about Bosnia. He was the sole reporter for a critically acclaimed 1998 broadcast that exposed the lack of regulation in the fertility industry, told through the story of a little girl who, at one time, could legally have been the child of five different people. He received a George Foster Peabody Award for an interview with a homeless woman accused of starting a warehouse blaze in Massachusetts that killed six firefighters.

Lagattuta was a correspondent for the CBS News magazine "Eye to Eye" (October 1993-July 1995), contributing a wide variety of reports ranging from a profile of Sophia Loren to the aftermath of the Los Angeles earthquake and one of the first stories exposing cyberstalkers. He also covered the first Rodney King trial, the riots in Los Angeles following the King verdict, the first presidential campaign of Ross Perot and the famine and relief efforts in Somalia.

Lagattuta joined CBS News as a Los Angeles-based correspondent in March 1992. He had previously been a reporter and weekend anchor for KNBC-TV Los Angeles and a contributing correspondent for NBC News (1985-92). He filed reports from Kuwait on the Gulf War and from Beijing on the massacre in Tiananmen Square, among other major stories.

Prior to joining KNBC-TV, he was a primary anchor and reporter for KGW-TV Portland, Ore. (1983-85). He was a reporter and anchor for KMGH-TV Denver (1982-83) and CBS affiliates KPIX-TV San Francisco (1980-82) and KFMB-TV San Diego (1978-80). He began his broadcast journalism career as a reporter at KOOL-TV Phoenix in 1976.

Lagattuta has received a Southern California Golden Mike Award for spot news, a Los Angeles Press Club Award for spot news, two local Emmy Awards in San Diego for investigative reporting and journalistic enterprise and two Arizona Press Club Awards for spot news, general reporting and investigative reporting.

He was born July 7, 1956, in New York and raised in Phoenix. He attended Arizona State University. He lives in Los Angeles and is married to Judy Starkman, a producer-director.