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A terrific installment of "Crime Stories" (9 p.m., Court TV) tells the complicated and ultimately irresolvable story of the 1998 Wichita kidnapping case that involved four countries, three little boys, two faiths and one very unhappy marriage. Rhonda and Naji Shakhtur were a young couple when they faced the dilemma every interfaith couple confronts: How do we raise our children to respect the religious traditions of both parents? That question then got tangled in the family's declining fortunes. Once the family emigrated from Kansas to Jordan, where Islamic law and custom prevail, things took several turns for the worse. The first act of tonight's program is expertly scripted like a spy thriller as Rhonda tries to undo her mistake and return to Wichita. The legal drama that plays out afterward is no less riveting. It's an enlightening and, in some ways, morally ambiguous story about the rights of nations, religions, families and women. >>>