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Post by TheWebDetective on Mar 14, 2024 16:14:18 GMT -5
Law enforcement in Cook County, Illinois are looking at a cold case of the murder of a convenience store clerk in 1997. AMW at least featured this case in March, 1999. From the AMW archive. " Police in Cook County Illinois are looking for the person who fired one fatal shot, killing a convenience store clerk in 1997. Cops say, on April 17, 1997 Robert Collins, the overnight clerk at the Shell station in Orland Park, Illinois was alone in the store when a lone person entered the store, fired one shot at Robert and left. Robert died hours later. Police are unsure whether or not the shooting was a botched robbery. No money was taken. Months after the shooting, Cook County Sheriff's Police received a phone call from a man named Bob Reynolds from Poole (sp) Trucking Company. He gave police details about the case they were not publicized. Suddenly, Reynolds hung up. Police do not consider him a suspect, but want to talk to him and find out everything he knows about the shooting. Shell has offered a $20,000 reward leading to the arrest and conviction of the shooter." Thoughts? There's really not much to go on. Even the "Bob Reynolds" angle doesn't give us much. If you have any information concerning this case, please contact the Cook County Sheriff’s Police at (708)-865-4700:www.cookcountysheriffil.gov/contact/web.archive.org/web/20010212052831fw_/http://www.amw.com/site/archives/19990320/unrcollins.htmlwww.cookcountysheriffil.gov/case/robert-collins/www.chicagotribune.com/1997/04/17/night-clerk-at-gas-station-is-found-slain/
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Post by TheWebDetective on Feb 27, 2024 12:10:44 GMT -5
I look at it differently. Looking back at old AMW harkens to what I said, a crime is a crime is a crime and AMW never shied away from even "minor" crime. Plus given such crimes have been more prevalent as of late, I can see why they are included. I also think that they can be good gateway for people to be engaged since they are less intimidating (compared to their more major cases) and I feel FBI'zing the show can do more harm than good.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Feb 27, 2024 11:32:50 GMT -5
And yeah constructively I would like to see less unserious caught on cameras and more 15 seconds of shame type fugitive deals (caught on cameras are ok here and there but should be limited to known fugitives or a very serious crime- not run of the mill neighborhood stuff). I’d also like more of a focus on the worst of the worst as opposed to variety for the sake of variety. But overall this was leaps and bounds better than Season 1 of the reboot and I can’t wait for AMW to come back. And of course In Pursuit returns soon as well! I like to push back on your criticisms on the caught on camera segments. A crime is a crime is a crime and a lot of these segments include serious crime. Plus if I were to be honest the 15 seconds of shame were as less helpful. At least with the caught on camera there's more context.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Feb 25, 2024 16:51:16 GMT -5
I’m sure the OJ angle was coincidence. It is a shame that Michael might not have got as much as publicity otherwise but then again the case is still unsolved. To be precise, the theory posits that OJ could truly be innocent and that the real killers could be related to Nicole and Ron's connections to the drug world and the restaurant Ron and Michael worked at. In which such people murdered Nicole, Ron and Michael.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Feb 17, 2024 3:32:46 GMT -5
I'm of the opinion that he likely fled to Latin America. Especially since a segment in AMW on him noted that two of his associates, a pair of sisters and Peruvian nationals also fled. Though if he decided to continue the drug business since then, I can't be sure he had it easy. Being an American in the belly of the beast so to speak.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Feb 17, 2024 2:55:25 GMT -5
Does anyone have a video segment of this case on youtube? Here you go. It's the first segment.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Feb 17, 2024 0:12:42 GMT -5
According to an AMW segment on him back in 1996, the girls he shot were targets. Apparently in retaliation towards a rival gang in the area. Assuming he's not still on the run, I wouldn't be surprised if said rival gang got a hold of him before police did or eventually the gang life did him in some other way.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Feb 17, 2024 0:07:07 GMT -5
Law enforcement in Hollywood, California are dealing with a cold case on the murder of an aspiring actor on September, 1995. AMW have at least featured the case in January the next year. From a Reddit summary on the case: " Michael Nigg (April 28, 1969 – September 8, 1995) was an aspiring actor who worked as a waiter at a Beverly Hills restaurant. He was shot and killed during an apparent robbery attempt in Hollywood. The Los Angeles Police Department later arrested three suspects but soon released them for lack of evidence. No other suspects have ever been identified, and the killing remains unsolved. The case attracted some media coverage at the time, because Nigg had formerly worked at the Mezzaluna restaurant in Brentwood, where he had been a friend of Ronald Goldman's. Almost 15 months earlier, Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson had been found slain at her home near the restaurant, after he had gone there to return her mother's eyeglasses, which had been left behind at Mezzaluna. Simpson's ex-husband, former football star OJ Simpson, had been charged with the murders, and his highly publicized trial had reached closing arguments. On the evening of September 8, 1995, Nigg and his girlfriend Julie Long were on their way to a restaurant in his Mercedes. They stopped at a bank branch in Hollywood, so Nigg could withdraw some money from his account. Long stayed in the car, parked in the branch lot, while Nigg went up to the automated teller machine, where he withdrew $40. As he did so, two men walked up to him and demanded money. When he refused, one of the men shot Nigg in the head. Afterwards, both robbers walked away, departing in a waiting car. Long, who witnessed the entire incident, was not harmed. The killers did not appear to have taken anything despite their initial aims. The crime was reported promptly. The LAPD looked for the suspects over the weekend but found no leads. On the night after the killing, Nigg’s friends gathered in the parking lot for a candlelight vigil. Among them was actor Mickey Rourke, who spoke to television news crews that came to cover the event. "If anyone knows anything about the shooting that took place," he said, "just give the cops a call." Three months later the LAPD arrested three suspects, including the alleged getaway driver. However, they were quickly released for lack of evidence. Authors Donald Freed and Raymond Briggs claimed in Killing Time (1996), their book about the Simpson case, that an unnamed source told them that while Nigg had lived in Colorado, he was known to law enforcement there to be "involved in the narcotics culture" in Aspen (where another branch of Mezzaluna is located) and Denver. According to journalist Joseph Bosco, who had a reserved seat at the entire trial, Nigg "lived beyond his apparent means", driving a Mercedes and living in a luxury condominium while ostensibly deriving most of his income from waiting tables and occasional low-level acting jobs. " Thoughts?: Descriptions of the suspects have been vague depending on the source but the 1996 AMW segment noted two black males (one the triggerman wearing a stripped shirt and the other possible lookout with composites shown above). Although the OJ connection has some food for thought, I don't put too much stock in it since this seems like a typical robbery gone wrong. If you have any information concerning this case, please contact the Los Angeles Police Department at 1-877-275-5273:www.lapdonline.org/www.lapdonline.org/lapd-contact/west-bureau/hollywood-community-police-station/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Michael_Niggcrimeimmemorial.com/2023/03/17/michael-nigg/www.unresolvedhomicides.org/victim/nigg-michael/www.deseret.com/1995/9/12/19192326/goldman-friend-is-slain-resisting-robberymedium.com/@daisyaspencer4/was-his-murder-connected-to-the-o-j-simpson-murder-case-the-unsolved-murder-of-michael-nigg-27e9d46b4d0dwww.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/fhdgbp/the_unsolved_murder_of_michael_nigg/books.google.com/books?id=gctUAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Michael+Nigg&article_id=1327,655213&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiig-Sly7GEAxVzG9AFHcSBDbMQ6AF6BAgKEAI#v=onepage&q=Michael%20Nigg&f=false
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Post by TheWebDetective on Feb 15, 2024 2:29:50 GMT -5
This year unfortunately marks thirty years since the murders and the disappearance of Tyrom Theis. In my opinion, I find it hard to see an identified suspect such as him for cases such as this slip away for so long without the person being dead or in hiding with help. Which are the only two possible scenarios on his fate.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Feb 13, 2024 0:12:41 GMT -5
Not much as how he died. Which can indicate the likely profile of his killer.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Feb 12, 2024 23:55:02 GMT -5
I'm just amazed how he was able to slip through the cracks in both America and Ireland. It's a good possibility he died but I also recall that he fled to Canada with another woman he married.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Feb 12, 2024 23:17:32 GMT -5
I can confirm that Anthony Smith was at least featured on AMW in March of 1995. He also is definitely a Jamaican national which I believe he's at if he's not hiding in the eastern US. Unfortunately, there's not much info on him online.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Jan 23, 2024 20:19:00 GMT -5
I chalk it up to lack of promotion and the current tv landscape. They should've heavily promoted this comeback online even go so far as to sponsor some notable true crime Youtubers. Maybe this is the young millennial in me talking but the internet is killing the tv star. TV for a lot of people these days are just for sports or big events. Plus keep in mind that it's been over a decade since Walsh last took the helm on AMW. Most who would watch AMW for Walsh have tuned out completely or even assumed Walsh retired or was dead. If I hadn't kept my interest in AMW since joining the forums, I would've been out of the loop too.
Though it is an argument to keep AMW while not worrying about ratings. I say bring it back to Saturday nights and treat it as FOX's answer to 48 Hours (which one would think that was the point all along). Even treating it similar to the educational shows they broadcast when the major networks stopped doing the Saturday morning kids blocks (AMW is doing a better public service than those shows anyway).
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Post by TheWebDetective on Jan 22, 2024 22:11:26 GMT -5
I watched the official trailer on the Youtube channel for FOX. They seem to be operating on what I suggested modern AMW should do. Can't stress it enough that it shouldn't be your dad's AMW. Calling itself the original true crime show, use of the internet, even liked Cal's lighthearted callouts to "armchair detectives".
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Post by TheWebDetective on Jan 22, 2024 21:59:30 GMT -5
This is the rare times where I wish I didn't cord cut and just have to wait till tomorrow to watch on Hulu. It sounds like they starting well.
As to answer billsfans568. I'm going to come out and say it that any new AMW can do without reenactments. They might have been important in 1988. But if they distract from the main point of AMW, I'm not going to mourn them.
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