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Post by 912thamwuser on Sept 3, 2023 14:15:53 GMT -5
An absconder from the sex offender registry, now wanted for killing 1 and wounding 2, makes this one of the worst cases Memphis has ever seen recently.
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Post by 912thamwuser on Aug 30, 2023 19:56:55 GMT -5
Assuming my tally is correct, that's also 30 of my 160 leftover manhunts of '022 solved in just under 2/3 of the way into '023.
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Post by 912thamwuser on Aug 30, 2023 19:55:48 GMT -5
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Post by 912thamwuser on Aug 26, 2023 17:05:50 GMT -5
If screen actor Matthew Broderick ever gets word of this case, I hope he'll donate a few Grand to turn up the heat on this fugitive.
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Post by 912thamwuser on Aug 21, 2023 19:02:02 GMT -5
Sorry if this comes off as insensitive, but... did you ever complete your 50 States 50 Fugitives list project from back in '016?
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Post by 912thamwuser on Aug 17, 2023 18:41:10 GMT -5
Back in the spring of '002, a wanted stalker named Nelson Strickland was an aspiring gospel singer, and AMW thwarted his record deal plans when they busted him as Capture #705. Unless Drayton already has a record deal which I haven't heard about, she could be planning one, and while our society has social media to expose suspects in crimes this heinous before they can make it big, we don't have America's Most Wanted or any show that's as good at tracking down fugitives with tasks like these as its forte, even if network television still had any of the potential to catch fugitives that it did back in '988.
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Post by 912thamwuser on Aug 16, 2023 18:05:19 GMT -5
If he has juvenile-onset epilepsy, that's more dangerous than late-onset, in the same way that type 1 diabetes is more severe than type 2. Roulack also needs to be taken back into custody for his own safety on top of everyone else's.
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Post by 912thamwuser on Aug 14, 2023 10:14:32 GMT -5
I watch a lot of independent progressive media channels on YouTube, and they frequently call out fundamentalist ministries for evil acts such as political malfeasance, financial fraud, and covering up child abuse. Depending on the reputation of the ministry Shenk was attached to, these commentators will likely also cover this case.
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Post by 912thamwuser on Jul 25, 2023 19:06:28 GMT -5
To xstep: When you return, I hope you'll prioritize putting the names of the indirect captures back up which had been taken down.
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Post by 912thamwuser on Jun 25, 2023 17:12:00 GMT -5
My first takeaway from this, is that someone or another systematically buried exonerating evidence and deprived the defence attorneys of a proper case.
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Post by 912thamwuser on Jun 25, 2023 16:48:44 GMT -5
Come to think of it, that of all airings should've brought Plemons in. I can only see this case ending the way the Wedding Dress Attacker, William Leslie Arnold, and Gregory Marc "Abra" Riviera did.
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Post by 912thamwuser on Jun 24, 2023 16:32:50 GMT -5
Today marks 2 decades since Macatangay's murder. Any word on how much progress the In Pursuit airing has enabled detectives to make in this manhunt?
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Post by 912thamwuser on Jun 19, 2023 17:27:38 GMT -5
Reading about the budget slash and truncated season of In Pursuit, I have a question: Does anyone here know enough about the TV industry or TV economics to explain why the transition to a primarily streaming oriented nation has been so bumpy? I'm having a harder time making sense of it than with feature film economics.
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Post by 912thamwuser on Jun 11, 2023 21:53:04 GMT -5
A gracious YouTuber has kindly uploaded the April 23, 1994 episode! All four of the fugitives featured in this episode, as far as I can tell, have been captured. They include Robert Endres, who became Capture #308 a month and a half after this episode aired. Some other notes: - The woman wearing the blue shirt in the Mark James reenactment is none other than Edie Falco! I've seen this clip shared in different AMW retrospectives but I didn't know what case it was until now. Also, the clip of James shooting at the victim has been recycled multiple times over the years. - James Rankin was also profiled on Final Justice. The archived CourtTV website also misspells the name of the cop/victim's father.
Endres was one of the few remaining Direct Result captures I knew nothing about. Some time tonight, I'm determined to update the Captures Directory for him. But I still have 2 questions: I can't find anything about Mark James or his case online. Any idea when and where he was captured? Was that Rankin's first profile on the show?
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Post by 912thamwuser on Jun 4, 2023 20:26:27 GMT -5
Watching the episode, I noticed a few discrepancies with the amw.com archive. The Carnegie Deli triple murder and eventual FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive Ruben Hernandez Martinez were supposed to be introduced that night, but they both apparently got pushed back, the former to the May 26 broadcast.
To Pakman: For what it's worth, you can apply these to an episode guide for the 5-19-001 broadcast.
Segment 1 -The murder of Derwin Brown. This sheriff-elect in DeKalb county, Georgia, was a veteran of the force since 1978, and had been elected to unseat incumbent Sidney Dorsey in late 2000. As the electorate was growing tired of corruption, he campaigned on cleaning out the department. Derwin was shot to death on his front lawn in mid December, just minutes after a sheriff training seminar. Between 20 and 40 police department staffers had gone to prison on corruption or similar charges by this point, and 38 previous staffers had been ordered to resign by the time Derwin was to get sworn in. It was the US' first political assassination of its kind since at least 1980. Multiple statewide agencies spent almost a year looking into who shot the sheriff, and on the night before December 2001, the aforementioned Sidney Dorsey was arrested alongside ex-deputy Melvin Walker and short-lived Sheriff's Department recruit David Ramsey, none as a Direct Result of the show. -Theophilus A "Tony" Williams. Wanted since mid March 2001 for a carjacking, kidnapping, and murder, amidst a drug-related robbery, after a blown deal ended with a truck getting stolen. The dealer was bludgeoned in a former DeKalb county jailer's front yard, leading to a 59-bullet gunfight, then Theophilus' co-conspirators took the dealer to a nearby park and shot him dead, also with a TEC-9 rifle. It was speculated to possibly be connected to Derwin's murder, but it's unknown whether they were indeed related. Police quickly rounded up 3 other co-conspirators but Theophilus got away. The FBI retraced Theophilus' personal history, sent some leads to the NYPD, and had an acquaintence track Theophilus down. He was nabbed in the back room of a Brooklyn home later that year, on November 3, not as a Direct Result either. At the end of November, the ex-jailer struck a plea bargain in that murder.
Segment 2 -Roger Leroy Johnson. Late breaking news alert, wanted for the murder of his ex-girlfriend's mother and 3 children, aged 4 through 6 outside of Stockton, California. He died by suicide the night of this airing, having severed one of his arteries atop his wife's grave. -Brian Michael Jones. After a woman, then known only as Mary, traveling in Nevada on a hot summer night in late August 1999, got her car stuck in some sand by the side of the road, she decided to accept help from anyone who seemed like a good Samaritan, against her own better judgment. Jones happened by, told her he left his truck at his mansion in a gated community, promised her to tow her car out of the sand once he retrieved it, and convinced her to look through his telescope. She had obligations, and was in a hurry to leave, but when she tried, he flew into a rage, beat her up, bound her in his bed, and sexually assaulted her for 18 hours. The next morning, she tried telling him a little bit about herself, in an attempt to make him see her as a human being, but ended up having to record a video that made it look like everything was consensual in order to convince him not to kill her. Once he went into the shower, she gathered her belongings and tried to seek help at his neighbor's house, but the neighbor ignored her pleas. Two more people happened to open the community gates, which she ran through just as Jones pulled up in his truck. These rescuers were left with an impression after seeing how much of a scared animal Mary looked like. Jones was soon arrested and got out on bail, but in September 2000, he stopped showing up to his parole officer meetings. John Walsh, in order to congratulate Mary on her bravery and survival, later named Jones his #2 most wanted fugitive of 2001. He was captured in February 2007, teaching English in Thailand, but not as a Direct Result.
Segment 3 -Update on the Precious Doe case. Kansas City, Missouri's community was really touched by the profile of this unidentified girl the previous week. Many callers thought she might've been a more famous missing child, such as Teekah Lewis or Ashani Creighton, none of which panned out. She was identified 4 years later, and arrests were made on May 5, 2005. -The Murder of Bonnie Lee Bakley. Profiled as a half-minute inbump. She was the wife of an actor named Robert Blake, who portrayed the titular cop in the TV show Baretta in the second half of the 1970s. The LAPD found her body earlier that month in the couple's car outside an Italian restaurant in Studio City. Blake initially told police that, on the night she was murdered, he'd gone to that restaurant to retrieve a gun he'd accidentally left there just before finding her murdered, but restaurant staff couldn't corroborate it, noticing he seemed free to take his time, and asked only for a glass of water. The couple had also been in a dispute over their then 11 month old daughter, and were living in different houses on the same property. Shortly after his bodyguard and driver was taken into custody, Blake was arrested for this murder on April 18, 2002, at his daughter's house, but not as a Direct Result. Blake was later acquitted, but sued for wrongful death in civil court and found liable. -The Murder of Sherlyn Fleming. She was a retired officer in Detroit who had a colorful style of lecturing K-12 students on the consequences of crime. Her mother was overjoyed when she retired from the force, because she seemed to be out of danger, but in early February 2001, a robber burst into the dry cleaning business she was picking up her clothing from, and went for Sherlyn's purse. Leaning into her police instincts, she pulled out her gun and demanded the robber back down, but the robber fired 3 shots, piercing her heart. No idea whether this case was ever solved.
Segment 4 -StreetSmart Cyber Security special feature. With the growth of clandestine cyber-hacking identity theft, John Walsh was recommending the StreetSmart security system with a money back guarantee. I have no idea whether the software ever went into the news again. -Captain D's Triple Murder. Central Tennessee was just starting to breathe a sigh of relief in the spring of 1997 when Paul Dennis Reid, a fast food restaurant worker and dish washer who'd recently been laid off, was sentenced to a statewide record-setting 7 times death for multiple robbery-murders at 3 fast food restaurants in the region, including two in another Captain D's. But on July 12, 2000, disaster struck at another middle Tennessee fast food restaurant, a Captain D's seafood joint in the Nashville suburb of Smyrna. A woman driving a truck for a garbage company made the call of a young man found seemingly idling in a car behind a Big K discount store around the corner. When an officer responded, the man, identified as 18 year old Troy Snell, was pronounced dead. His first instinct was to look for any warning signs of a suicide, but all he found was a gunshot wound behind Snell's head and a Captain D's shirt in front of one seat, and it was ruled a homicide. The only person they could find at the restaurant proper was a pest exterminator who didn't know there was anyone there at first. The police left, then the exterminator got a feeling something was wrong, and found two managers' bodies in a freezer, shot the same way. None of the 3 victims had any mortal enemies, and as a timeline of that night's events was assembled, it was concluded that the killers had first robbed the till, marched the managers to the freezer and shot them dead, forced Snell to drive behind the Big K, then shot Snell to death from inside his own car which he was working diligently to keep up on the payments for. A witness saw a man behind the store at one hour, and a woman in the store at another hour, and investigators told AMW viewers to look for a missing keychain, belonging to one of the managers, with the words "All I want is some peace and quiet. Give me a piece and I'll be quiet." On November 9, 2001, a tipster identified the killers as already having been sent to jail that summer. LaTonya Taylor had been initially pinched in Nashville on July 19, 2001 on robbery charges, and Percy Lee Palmer had been pinched in Denver, Colorado on August 6, 2001 for breaking and entering. LaTonya and Percy were then marked as Captures #685 and #686 respectively. Both were eventually convicted. LaTonya was initially sentenced to death, but may or may not have been commuted to life in prison, and Percy was sentenced to 3 times life.
8-second commercial break airing -Ronald Sabik. Wanted out of Pennsylvania for raping 4 young boys over the summer of 1999, including some of his own friends' children. Working on recent leads surrounding a fake ID he'd assumed out of New Jersey, he was captured living out of a boat on a marina in Sebastian, Florida 3 days later, not as a Direct Result.
Segment 5 -National Police Week special feature. Respects were being paid through candlelight vigils in DC near an officers' memorial slate, but Walsh needed our help to capture one more fugitive suspected of murdering Clayton "Scooby" Hicks in south Memphis, Tennessee on the night of November 13, 2000. -Antonio Marquette Huntsman. Hicks had been enthusiastic about being a law officer practically since he was born, and had won multiple community commendations throughout the years. He supervised multiple neighborhoods, including the one Antonio Marquette Huntsman grew up in. Marquette-Huntsman was a varsity sports star in high school, but turned into a leader within the Growth & Development, Inc, the Memphis chapter of the Gangster Disciples, in a few short years. In the late 1990s, Marquette-Huntsman had racked up charges for drug trafficking and weapons, but that Monday night, he and a few other men were invited to a party where Hicks happened to be hanging out with his brother at. Marquette-Huntsman's girlfriend had previously had a run-in with Hicks, which made things contentious, and other detectives then suspected that Marquette-Huntsman fired several shots, one of which killed Hicks, as Hicks cut the party short and tried to flee. On June's Eve 2001, Marquette-Huntsman surrendered in Shelby County, Tennessee via a well-known attorney as Capture #672, but for reasons unknown, most likely a profoundly successful legal defence, Marquette-Huntsman only served 3 1/2 years in prison.
Segment 6 -John Walsh reiterated the difference the AMW audience has made, and continued to make, before the ending credits.
I'd have to leave the episode notes and pop culture references up to you, however.
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