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Post by pakman on Mar 12, 2024 20:07:15 GMT -5
Yeah he was part of that slew of FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives that were added in rapid succession in 2001 but ended up getting caught before their addition was publicly announced. There were about 3-4 of them over the course of several months.
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Post by pakman on Feb 21, 2024 17:23:05 GMT -5
Nick Sullivan's grandparents weren't murdered. I assume the case you are referring to is Ryan Morris, who was profiled in the segment that has been uploaded to YouTube. Sadly, Ryan was later found murdered. His father, Mark Morris, was later charged with Ryan's death, in addition to the deaths of his grandparents, Lee and Helen Morris. As I mentioned, Nick Sullivan - who was confirmed to have been profiled on this episode through multiple news sources - apparently had his profile cut off on this episode. I assume he was profiled at the top of the show (the first segment would seem to have been a capture report) or the start of the second act (since the Magallon's profile starts in progress, I assume there was a short segment prior to that).
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Post by pakman on Feb 19, 2024 11:51:40 GMT -5
This was posted in another thread, but here's the Jan. 6, 1996 episode. Most of the show is here but it's missing at least one segment - missing child Nick Sullivan was known to have been profiled on this episode (he and his abductor were found as a direct result of this airing, and an adult Nick made an appearance on the 2010 "1,000th" episode) and that segment isn't included.
Of these cases, Anthony Kuchta and Jaime Magallon are confirmed to still be fugitives, and Michael Nigg's murder remains unsolved. The only fugitives I can't find information on are the Molla sisters - associates of Kuchta's. I can only find one article on them from 1991, pre-dating this profile, where they were about to stand trial, which definitely did not happen as planned. I can tell you that neither woman was included in Kuchta's 2002 or 2004 profiles, but that doesn't necessarily mean they were caught.
Every other case from this episode has been solved.
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Post by pakman on Feb 1, 2024 22:41:32 GMT -5
Hart was one of my personal most wanted fugitives of 2012, so I'm really glad that this manhunt is finally over, even if it's not in the way I was hoping.
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Post by pakman on Jan 2, 2024 22:12:10 GMT -5
And the weirdest part about going with 1186? On the capture counter screen, several photos of AMW captures were shown. One of them was Brian Maurice Fuller, who was not only a Lifetime capture...but he was Capture #1189! Who even knows what they were thinking? I'm guessing somebody just picked an arbitrary number or something.
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Post by pakman on Dec 14, 2023 15:45:18 GMT -5
Obviously I'm very excited that the Walsh family is returning to AMW. It'll certainly make the show better, but I'll wait to reserve judgment until I see it for myself. While Season 26 had some great going for it (Elizabeth Vargas was a great host, and I loved that some older AMW fugitives got new airings), there were also plenty of issues with it.
Here's what I'm hoping for:
1. A better balance of older and newer cases. I truly think they should only air one archived AMW fugitive per episode, and the rest of the cases should be more recent ones, preferably those with less publicity.
2. Pace and plan the episodes better. Nearly every case in Season 26 had a two-part segment. That's not necessary. Josephine Overaker did not need two full segments to talk about how she's an accused eco-terrorist. At most, she should have gotten an APB-length airing.
3. Related to that, have smaller airings of fugitives/missing persons sprinkled throughout the show. And don't let them be all unknown cases with grainy surveillance footage.
4. Most importantly to me, get a better writer. HeadMarshal alluded to this in his post, but as professional writer myself, I was horrified at some of what Elizabeth Vargas was reading off her teleprompter. ("If you saw Larry Chism in 1978...call our hotline now." I don't think the U.S. Marshals care if someone saw Larry Chism in 1978, I think they'd rather know what he's doing at this moment.) I'm not blaming her for that, but viewers aren't going to care that someone wrote that, they care that somebody said it.
Still, I'm really curious to see AMW's return and I'm hoping John and Cal can bring new life into it.
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Post by pakman on Dec 12, 2023 10:48:52 GMT -5
I believe that recording may actually be from a master tape provided to Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County. The "commercial breaks" are blank screens, and the Break Four Tease appears AFTER the credits, which take up the entire screen. Interesting to see that Joseph Maloney received a full profile, since I was under the impression the show was only giving him APBs by this point.
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Post by pakman on Nov 5, 2023 23:30:32 GMT -5
John Walsh says it's Jan. 7, 1990 at the beginning of the episode. The following week's episode, Jan. 14, 1990, has been online for the past few years.
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Post by pakman on Nov 2, 2023 22:07:00 GMT -5
^ Is this the episode you're referring to? It's a special edition dedicated to the (still-unsolved) murder of JonBenet Ramsey. Plus it features Tony Amati, who became AMW Capture #501 as a direct result of this airing.
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Post by pakman on Jul 25, 2023 0:07:49 GMT -5
A 1989 AMW episode has resurfaced!
The house that appears in this episode belonged to the uploader's family.
What excites me personally about this episode is the profile of Jerome Bargo, a prison escapee who AMW profiled multiple times from 1989-1999. Somehow, he ended up becoming a direct capture in 2003, more than four years after his final profile.
EDITED TO ADD: A couple more interesting notes about this episode:
- Clips from this airing were featured in the intro of the 1,000th episode, airing in March 2010.
- We have another well-known actor appearing in an old AMW reenactment! In Richard Sturdy's case, they make note of a bank teller who helped him out with his scam. The actress portraying the bank teller is Kathryn Joosten, who, about 10 years after this episode aired, would portray Dolores Landingham, the president's secretary, on the popular ABC drama The West Wing.
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Post by pakman on Jul 21, 2023 20:52:23 GMT -5
The I-70 Serial Killer was featured on a new episode of the ID show People Magazine Investigates that aired this past week. It didn't really reveal anything that wasn't already known, but the show did interview the Texas woman who may be the sole survivor of the killer (although she said she believes it was the killer who targeted her, police can't say for certain since there's no solid evidence linking them together).
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Post by pakman on Jun 15, 2023 16:58:31 GMT -5
Whoa! Yeah, I was not expecting this one! Great work by the tipster who gave him up to the US Marshals!
Of all the officially-designated AMW cold cases that aired in 2005, believe it or not, he is the SECOND one to be caught after Adam Zachs. Teddy Ellis and John Gentry remain at large.
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Post by pakman on Jun 12, 2023 8:25:25 GMT -5
^ I have no clue if this was Rankin's first profile or not.
But I can tell you this was at least Mark James' second profile. Someone uploaded William White Graham's profile from February 1993 and the profile includes a preview of James' case. I looked him up in the New York Department of Corrections and there's a record for a man named Mark James convicted of murder in 1996 serving a life sentence. The age matches up to the one on James' profile card, so I'm certain that it's the same person. Unfortunately I can't pinpoint a capture date, but I would assume it would have been in 1994 or 1995.
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Post by pakman on Jun 11, 2023 19:48:36 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.
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Post by pakman on Jun 6, 2023 11:51:57 GMT -5
^ Thank you for that! It'll be awhile yet before I get to that point in the episode guide, but I appreciate your help!
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