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Post by Scumhunter on Jul 1, 2014 9:05:17 GMT -5
One more note, I don't know about Canada but the first five seasons of IAGAWI are available on US Netflix.
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Post by Scumhunter on Jul 19, 2014 11:08:09 GMT -5
I re-watched the Michael Alonso episode and something I found interesting. I forget which Mexican city he was in- but in one of them Alfonso was stopped and sent to jail for a few months because he didn't have any proper identification. He said everybody else in the holding cell for the same reasons were all fugitives and some of them he had actually recognized from America's Most Wanted (yet another fugitive who watched the show) and some of them still haven't been caught yet. It would take cooperation but I wonder if there's any way the U.S. can get more input from Mexico about their holding cells if Alfonso's claims are true. It could potentially net us a few more fugitives.
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Post by pakman on Jul 19, 2014 22:28:22 GMT -5
I remember seeing that and was incredibly curious as to who he had spotted - was it anybody who has subsequently been captured, or were they fugitives that continue to remain at large? Then again, he could just be making it up too. It would still be worth investigating, though, just to see if it is true.
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Post by Scumhunter on Aug 2, 2014 18:53:18 GMT -5
Watching season 1 on Netflix and Richard Garber was also not only an I (Almost) Got Away With It- but also on I (Almost) was on AMW fugitive. They actually mention him going to his cousin's house because of the pressure and finding out he'd be on AMW (they refer to it as a national crime show of course). His cousin had been alerted by authorities to tell them if he knows anything long before AMW and he tipped them off. So even though this was an indirect result, in the re-enactment the police come as he's in the middle of watching AMW! (They show Michael Alfonso's wanted poster as the fugitive he's watching at the time). I looked into this, and he apparently had inside information he was going to be on AMW soon. He indeed would have been aired had he not been caught, but not that night. (I do feel if it wasn't for knowing he'd be on AMW he would have never fled from San Jose to his cousin's house in the first place, but it of course isn't enough for a direct result, especially when he hadn't even been aired yet www.lasvegassun.com/news/2000/feb/29/suspect-nabbed-while-watching-americas-most-wanted/
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Post by Scumhunter on Aug 9, 2014 10:43:51 GMT -5
Found another one from season 1 while watching Netflix- Michael Brown, an Oklahoma prison escapee serving time for a robbery and murder. One of the co-workers from a video store Brown wound up owning talks about how he recognized Brown from AMW's website. I don't know if he was ever on AMW but I assume he may have been since they didn't really have web-exclusives in the 1990's (at least I don't think they did) And I also didn't know this but he was also the first ever Unsolved Mysteries fugitive case! They mention the debut of a crime show profiling him on April 10th, 1988. Seeing as AMW was February 7th, it was obviously UM. In the end it was neither show that caught him though. With an ailing wife wanting to see her family and worn out from being on the run, Brown decided to turn himself about a decade and a half after his escape.
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Post by HeadMarshal on Aug 9, 2014 10:59:27 GMT -5
Based on very early web.archive.org entries, I believe AMW debuted it's website after the series revival in November 1996.
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Post by Scumhunter on Aug 10, 2014 11:43:20 GMT -5
Saw the season 1 episode on Jerry Lee Bowen (season 1- episode 12)- and based on it, he should have been an AMW direct capture. According to the episode, a woman is watching a "national crime show" and recognizes Bowen as the man dating her sister. Her and her husband call the FBI's violent crimes squad who arrests Bowen. I don't get how Bowen wasn't counted as direct based on this. Because they called the FBI and not AMW?
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Post by pakman on Aug 10, 2014 17:20:55 GMT -5
From what I understand, it was an Unsolved Mysteries tip that led to Bowen's capture, not AMW. Bowen's page from the archived UM website seems to indicate that: web.archive.org/web/20051206021554/http://www.unsolved.com/0114-JerryBowen.htmlPS, I HATE the part of that episode where they show Bowen destroying his fingerprints by dipping them in acid. I understand criminals are desperate, but how desperate to avoid capture do you have to be to mutilate your own body?
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Post by Scumhunter on Aug 10, 2014 17:26:02 GMT -5
Oh I never thought of the possibility UM covered the case also. At least IAGWI is kind enough to say national crime show and not give credit to AMW OR Unsolved Mysteries LOL Yeah that burning fingerprints part made me squirm a little too. And usually that doesn't even work and the fugitive is found out anyway- you can burn your hands but in the end they'll still know who you are.
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Post by Scumhunter on Sept 16, 2014 17:52:31 GMT -5
Anyone remember Juanite Liebman on AMW? Watching season 3 episode 2 of the show and her mother claims they put her on America's Most Wanted. She, along with two other men, were accused of beating a man to death in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Post by pakman on Sept 17, 2014 8:42:55 GMT -5
What was the time frame? The name sounds familiar, but she wasn't profiled between 2002-2012.
EDIT: Never mind, I saw it happened in October 2007. I'm fairly certain she wasn't profiled on AMW. She might be thinking of something else or just bragging.
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Post by Scumhunter on Sept 17, 2014 8:46:42 GMT -5
I think perhaps she was on local tv and such since when word was out she was in North Carolina they alerted the public. The mother might have saw her case over the news and just assumed she was. Who knows. In any case, AMW got a free mention
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Post by ninja108 on Mar 1, 2019 0:40:31 GMT -5
Just saw a couple of episodes of this on TV the other day. Joseph Crouch(capture 747) is one cold blooded SOB who shows no guilt whatsoever over what he did to his wife of 40 years and seems proud of the fact he was a 60 year old armed robber while on the run. Him talking about not wanting to do a trial because it would be terrible on his family is laughable considering that he took a loving mother and grandmother away with his actions He only cared about saving his own skin,nothing more. Courtney Savage(capture 1033) is still really,really angry at her ex-business partner and still claims she wasn't trying to hurt anyone with her attacks on her ex-partners house. The numerous bullets fired into the house that narrowly missed hitting the people inside say otherwise. Unlike Crouch,who won't be eligible for parole until he's 118 year old,she will be getting out in nine years. One can only hope that when she gets out at 53,she'll decide whatever remaining time she has left on earth will be better spent outside of prison then in it and let the grudge she has against her partner go. If not,she'll be back in prison in short order.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2019 8:39:18 GMT -5
Who was the AMW profiled fugitive out of I think it was Houston, TX he was a con man, identity thief, thief/burglar, and he was a getaway driver......... He and an accomplice had mugged and seriously hurt a woman they were following from a grocery store and she was beaten or something by the accomplice and her ring was taken and it was worth a good chunk of change?
I know the name I just can't picture the face but I do know that I e been a fan of IAGAWI for years and I didn't see his name on the list of profiled AMW dirt bags who were shown on IAGAWI.
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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 1, 2019 8:46:32 GMT -5
Who was the AMW profiled fugitive out of I think it was Houston, TX he was a con man, identity thief, thief/burglar, and he was a getaway driver......... He and an accomplice had mugged and seriously hurt a woman they were following from a grocery store and she was beaten or something by the accomplice and her ring was taken and it was worth a good chunk of change? I know the name I just can't picture the face but I do know that I e been a fan of IAGAWI for years and I didn't see his name on the list of profiled AMW dirt bags who were shown on IAGAWI. That was AMW direct capture #1189 Brian Maurice Fuller. I don't know why I left him out but I got busy with other stuff so I haven't been able to update the thread in the past few years so that's probably what happened.
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