Elizabeth Vargas is an American television journalist best known as a co-anchor of the ABC (American Broadcasting Company) news programs World News Tonight and 20/20. From 1999 to 2002 she anchored the debut series 20/20 Downtown, and she then joined 20/20 as a co-anchor in 2004. In 2005 she became one of the most prominent reporters in the United States as a co-anchor of World News Tonight. Vargas--who was expecting her second child with husband Marc Cohn stepped down as co-anchor in May 2006 but returned to 20/20 later that year. In 2016 she published Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction, in which she detailed her struggles with alcoholism. Vargas left ABC in 2018 and subsequently joined A&E Networks as host of A&E Investigates. Three years later she began hosting America's Most Wanted on Fox; the show sought to catch fugitives. Vargas earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1984 and soon began working as a reporter and anchor for KOMU television in Columbia, Missouri.