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Post by pakman on Mar 8, 2023 8:24:06 GMT -5
The fugitive - Kyle Dobschensky - was profiled twice in January 1999, according to the AMW Archives. That's all the information I have for now but I'll see if I can find anything else later. I unfortunately do not have either of the episodes he was featured on.
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Post by pakman on Mar 5, 2023 11:18:29 GMT -5
I can't believe it, but I've finally reached the end of the 2005 Episode Guide! When I started this guide, I was living in a completely different state lived a different life than I do today! But I'm happy to have finally finished this guide, and I'm ready to share with you the final three episodes of 2005!
Episode #829 – Dec. 3, 2005 Ronald Young Capture (Full segment) Correspondent: John Turchin / Edited by: Ryan Stone John Turchin has the story of a fugitive, on the run for nine years, who was taken down in just 48 hours thanks to an AMW tipster. Ronald Young is an accused scam artist wanted out of Colorado, whose victims include an ex-girlfriend and a friend. But Young is also wanted for questioning by Arizona police for the bombing death of real estate agent Gary Triano. Young had been dating Gary’s ex-wife, Pam Phillips. When AMW aired Young in November, one tip in particular had investigators excited. The tip was from a chiropractor in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who said that Young was one of his patients, and he was schedule to come for an adjustment that Monday. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Task Force was assembled, and immediately after his appointment, Young was taken into custody, making him Capture #868. Investigators learned Young, who had a loaded handgun on him when he was arrested, had never stopped scamming people, and his own chiropractor almost became a victim.
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Peter Braunstein (Full segment) Produced by: Jon Leiberman / Edited by: Joan Perry The manhunt for accused rapist Peter Braunstein continues. Braunstein is alleged to have set two fires outside a New York City apartment, knocked the woman inside out with chloroform and then sexually assaulting her for 13 hours. AMW interviews a photographer who had been acquainted with Braunstein. The photographer talks about how the fugitive was obsessed with fame and how mentally unstable he was. When Braunstein stood the photographer up for an assignment, he told him he wasn't going to work with him anymore, and he said Braunstein would send him harassing emails, which only stopped after the fugitive’s play about Andy Warhol flopped. Braunstein then got in trouble for making up a story about how his ex-girlfriend assaulted him, then stalking that same woman, pleading guilty to lesser related charges. In the latest developments, AMW tips have placed Braunstein in Ohio. He spent a week there, posing as a retired cop from Los Angeles and being driven to area strip clubs. He was last spotted in Columbus, where the trail went cold. Just a week after this profile, a tipster in Tennessee finally led to Braunstein, making him Capture #871.
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Bruno Arreola (15 Seconds of Shame) – An alleged member of a drug ring responsible for bringing over 1,000 kilos of marijuana into the U.S. Arreola was indirectly captured in Mexico in 2011.
John Evans (15 Seconds of Shame) – Wanted for molesting five young girls in Arizona. Evans fled before his sentencing. Still at large
Roman Saldarriaga (15 Seconds of Shame) – Police in Naples, Florida, are seeking Saldarriaga for a drunk driving incident where he crashed his car, killing a mother of two. Still at large, and reportedly he is living openly in Colombia.
John Ramirez (15 Seconds of Shame) – Former Marine wanted for stabbing a man to death during a botched robbery in Corpus Christi, Texas. Ramirez was indirectly captured in 2008.
Unknown Fairmount Park Rapist and Murderer (Full segment) Produced by: Gavin Portnoy / Edited by: Gary Meyers In the middle of a busy park in Philadelphia, women are on high alert. That’s because an unknown suspect has been raping women for almost two years. In 2003, the first known victim was jogging in Fairmount Park at night when the suspect came up behind her, threatened her with a knife and raped her. While the first victim lived, the second victim, Rebecca Park, wasn’t as lucky. Three months after the first attack, police say the rapist killed her after he pulled her off the jogging path. Investigators believe she was killed because she fought back against the suspect. And three months after that, there was a third victim. But much like Rebecca, this victim, who was targeted in broad daylight, fought back. Although she was stabbed, something scared off the suspect before he could rape her. The woman recognized the suspect from the composite sketch that had been broadcast on the news. Eventually, the rapist struck again in 2007 in another nearby park. Still at large
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Lashawn Tanner and Henrietta Rollins (All-Points Bulletin) – The FBI and Indiana police are looking for this couple on drug charges. Investigators say Lashawn Tanner, a high-ranking member of the Renegades street gang, is a major cocaine trafficker. It’s alleged that his girlfriend, Henrietta Rollins, helped in the drug operation by driving the cocaine to its destinations. Rollins was last seen in Florida working as an exotic dancer, while Tanner vowed to fight if he were arrested. Both were indirectly captured at different times; Rollins a little more than a month after this profile, and Tanner nearly three years later in 2008.
Fred Wert (All-Points Bulletin) – Carnival worker wanted for murder. Wert had met his girlfriend when they were both traveling circus workers. After his girlfriend got pregnant, they moved to Michigan. However, after he began abusing her, she kicked him out of the house. In March 1993, Wert showed up at her house in a fit of rage. When his ex’s new boyfriend tried calming him down, police say Wert shot him and fled. Still at large
Manuel Virgen (All-Points Bulletin) – Police in California say Virgen killed a teenager for simply asking a question. After getting into an argument with his girlfriend, Virgen was angry. A 15-year-old boy asked him if he and his girlfriend had broken up. In a rage, police say Virgen grabbed a gun and shot the teenager, killing him. Still at large
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Sueann Ray (Break Four Tease) – Missing woman who disappeared from Georgia in August. Two months after this profile, her body was found and her husband was charged with her murder.
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Roger Kemp Fights Back (Full segment) Produced by: Dave Bolton / Edited by: Joan Perry When Roger Kemp suffered a tragedy that no parent should ever go through, he chose to fight back instead of giving up. In June 2002, his 19-year-old daughter, Ali, was killed while working at a pool in suburban Kansas City, Kansas. Roger found her body. A witness helped develop a sketch, and while AMW aired the case, Roger decided to do more. Speaking with Lamar Advertising, he was able to get a billboard put up with the killer’s sketch, which led to 7,000 tips. Soon, Roger began working with other agencies to help put up billboards, leading to more and more arrests. Roger also started a self-defense course called TAKE – The Ali Kemp Educational Foundation. In the meantime, tips eventually led to the arrest of Benjamin Appleby in connection with Ali’s murder. And while the case works itself through the courts, Roger has vowed to keep moving forward, saying he’s going to finish the fight that Appleby started with his daughter.
In the Line of Duty – Officer Dillon Stewart (New York City Police Department, New York)
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Recap – Peter Braunstein, Unknown Fairmount Park Rapist and Murderer, Henrietta Rollins & Lashawn Tanner, Fred Wert, Manuel Virgen
Episode notes: - This episode was filmed in the AMW Studio…except for the introduction of the first segment, which was filmed in Broward County, Florida with members of the Broward County Fugitive Task Force. I doubt this was filmed specifically for this episode, but I don’t know when it would have been filmed. The only other recent time John Walsh would have been in Broward County will be an upcoming episode in February 2006, but I doubt they would have filmed it this far in advance.
- Recycled/Repurposed Reenactments: James Bennett (used for John Evans’ 15 Seconds of Shame profile); Steven Harrison & Tamika Hamilton (a scene with Hamilton stripping is used to describe Henrietta Rollins’ work as an exotic dancer)
- Ronald Young’s capture is one of a few where the actual moment he was taken into custody was captured on camera, as AMW sent a camera crew to tag along with the Broward County Fugitive Task Force.
- Sgt. Abby Tiger, with the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, and who is featured in the Ronald Young capture report, is a frequent face with AMW. She’s been featured pretty much every time the show has come to Broward County, and in 2012, she’ll actually get her own feature.
- That said, her name is spelled two different ways in this episode; the on-screen credit when she appears calls her “Abbey,” whereas the transcript of the radio traffic prior to Young’s arrest calls her “Abby.” The latter is the correct way to spell her name.
- Also, she refers to Ronald Young as “Kelly Young” during the briefing before his capture. After she says that, John Turchin narrates, “Kelly Young, whose actual name is Ronald…” which makes the whole scene look awkward. I keep thinking that there had to have been a better way to edit that.
- John Walsh asks viewers who believe they may have been scammed by Ronald Young to call the AMW Hotline.
- Ronald Young would eventually be charged with Gary Triano’s murder in 2008.
- During the COPS Credits, a preview for Peter Braunstein’s case is shown, which includes the photographer telling the fugitive to turn himself in and get psychiatric help. This clip is not shown during Braunstein’s profile.
- Peter Braunstein’s profile ends with John Walsh saying, “Now, the manhunt’s just getting started, so stay with us.” John typically said this at the end of the first act, but this is the second. I’m wondering if Braunstein was meant to be the lead case, but they ended up going with Ronald Young’s capture instead.
- During Roman Saldarriaga and John Ramirez’s 15 Seconds of Shame profiles, the last four seconds of each have no narration, and there’s simply just the background music and photos. I don’t know if this has happened before, but it’s really noticeable here.
- Despite the fact that Lashawn Tanner was the accused mastermind of the cocaine operation, the show seems to put more focus on Henrietta Rollins. She takes up more of the APB story, is listed first on the profile card, John Walsh talks about her first in the recap, and as I recall, her amw.com profile was uploaded weeks before Tanner’s. This makes me think the case was originally supposed to air on the Bad Girls episode the previous week, but they ultimately decided against it. Interestingly, when Tanner gets his second profile in late 2006, it will be a 15 Seconds of Shame airing, suggesting to me that they didn’t think he alone had a compelling story worth dedicating much time to.
- Although Fred Wert is also wanted for rape out of Texas, this was never mentioned in any of his AMW profiles. This is despite the fact his mugshot from that arrest is shown during nearly all of his profiles.
- Sueann Ray’s profile card misspells her name as “Sue Ann Ray.”
- One of the billboards shown during the Roger Kemp story is of Philip Hughes, who AMW tips caught in December 2004 (he was a tacked-on profile to Benjamin Appleby’s capture report). Strangely, AMW’s role in Hughes’ capture is not mentioned, although it’s implied that AMW tips helped catch Appleby – who was an indirect capture.
Episode #830 – Dec. 10, 2005 Jason Howard (Full segment) Produced by: Angeline Hartmann / Edited by: Gary Meyers Jason Howard was a troubled man living outside of Savannah, Georgia. A convicted armed robber, the 34-year-old Howard was living at home with his mother and stepfather, while also caring for both of them. In May 2004, a woman who was friends with Howard’s mother received a mysterious letter stating that the family home had been abandoned, and it also had detailed instructions on how to care for his dog and other details, including stating something had happened on April 1, 2004. Police investigated, but couldn’t find anything suspicious. A month later, Howard’s stepsister came down to help investigate, and a crime scene was discovered. Soon afterward, cadaver dogs were brought in, and they found the bodies of Howard’s mother and stepfather buried in a shallow grave in a barn on the property. Investigators believe that Howard killed both of them because he was sick and tired of caring for them, particularly his stepfather. Due to his schizophrenia, police worried Howard might be a danger to himself and others. In March 2009, almost exactly five years to the day of the murders, Howard was arrested, still in Georgia.
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Rashawn Capers Capture (Full segment) Produced by: Peter Gillespie / Edited by: Rudy Blyden A new crimefighting tool has led to the arrest of a fugitive who had spent nearly eight months on the run. In March 2005, Paterson, New Jersey Police Officer Wayne Smith responded to an early morning stabbing. When he arrived on scene, he was stunned to find that the victim was his 20-year-old son, Dayshawn. Despite his best efforts, Officer Smith’s son died a few hours later. Police say Rashawn Capers was the man who stabbed Dayshawn. After AMW aired the case, tips came in saying first that Capers was in South Carolina, then back in New Jersey. Over the summer, AMW installed a billboard over a highway showing Capers’ photo. That billboard did the trick; AMW got a tip from someone who had seen the billboard and said Capers was in The Bronx. When officers arrived, they arrested Capers without incident, even though he was using a 4-year-old child as a human shield. Capers was AMW Capture #867.
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Tommy Hardin (15 Seconds of Shame) – An armed robber, police say Hardin escaped from a prison in Kentucky by climbing through an air vent. A month after this profile, a tipster contacted AMW saying Hardin had been bragging about being on the show, leading to him becoming Capture #874.
Larry Woods (15 Seconds of Shame) – Indiana police say Woods, who was serving a 111-year sentence for murder, escaped from prison by hiding inside of a garbage dumpster. Still at large
Luis Soto (15 Seconds of Shame) – Accused burglar Luis Soto is the last of nine escapees from the Yakima County Jail in Washington state still at large. He was indirectly captured just five days after this airing.
Leobardo Villarreal (15 Seconds of Shame) – Accused of shooting a federal agent during a drug stakeout in Texas. Although he was arrested, he escaped from prison. Villarreal was indirectly captured in March 2006.
Peter Braunstein (Full segment, but classified as breaking news) – Rick Segall is hot on the trail of an accused rapist out of New York. Police say Braunstein, while posing as a firefighter, raped a woman for 13 hours on Halloween night. The latest tips place Braunstein in Ohio, where he told one bar owner that he was a TV producer and asked to be driven around so he could scout potential filming locations. The bar owner told AMW that Braunstein claimed that he had a deceased wife and a college-aged daughter, and that he flashed a U.S. Marshals badge and said he likes seeing peoples’ reactions to it. Braunstein fled to Columbus, but police lost his trail there. This ended up being Braunstein's final profile; a mere six days later, he was finally caught in Tennessee, making him Capture #871.
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Arthur Vitasek (Full segment) Correspondent: Ed Miller / Edited by: Jim Robinson Ed Miller heads to Arizona to tell the story of a man police say is a child predator. By day, Arthur Vitasek is a skilled skip tracer; someone who tracks down people who are late on their car payments and other bills. His bosses all say he’s one of the best in the business. But police say Vitasek is also one of the most prolific child molesters they’ve ever seen. He allegedly befriends single mothers with young boys, then works to drive a wedge between the child and his mother. One victim said Vitasek made him think his life was horrible and that he would be able to help him out, and would also buy the boy gifts. Vitasek is also accused of using his victims to help him find other victims. When one boy came forward, Vitasek fled. About nine months after this profile, Vitasek was indirectly captured.
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Heaven Ross (Break Four Tease) – Northport, Alabama police say 13-year-old Heaven Ross disappeared while walking to her school bus stop. Her body was found in late 2006.
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Bablu Hassan (Full segment Produced by: Peter Gillespie / Edited by: Lee Cobb and Joan Perry In July 2000, a woman and her daughter were brutally attacked by somebody they thought could be trusted. In the middle of the night, 5-year-old Chastity Adams woke up to see her mother, also named Chastity Adams, being stabbed by her boyfriend, Bablu Hassan. When the little girl ran to her mom’s aide, Hassan allegedly slashed the little girl across the chest before running off. Though she was severely hurt, the elder Chastity asked her daughter to call 911, and the little girl was able to alert a neighbor. Little Chastity survived, but her mother slipped into a coma and died two months later. Hassan is still at large
John Walsh tells viewers that Hassan was first profiled back in 2000, and was named his #1 most wanted fugitive of the year. Since that time, six of those fugitives have been nabbed, although Hassan is still out there. Next week, he invites viewers to tune in to see who was named to his Ten Most Wanted of 2005.
In the Line of Duty – Officer Odel Fite and Officer Brandon Breland (Wiggins Police Department, Mississippi)
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Kids Safety Tips: Holiday Shopping (Brief, approx. 2 minutes) – In a brand-new feature presented by Walmart, safety instructions are shared with the audience. With the holiday shopping season ongoing, parents are asked to designate a meeting place in case they get separated, make a mental note of what their kids are wearing, and tell their children, if they get lost, to alert someone in a uniform or a store employee.
Recap – Jason Howard, Bablu Hassan, Peter Braunstein, Arthur Vitasek
Next week on AMW – John Walsh once again reminds viewers that next week, he will share his list of his personal Ten Most Wanted Fugitives of 2005.
Episode notes: - Much like last week’s show, this episode was filmed in the AMW Studio with the exception of the first segment, which was filmed on the farm owned by Jason Howard’s mother and stepfather outside of Savannah, Georgia.
- Recycled/Repurposed Reenactments: Timothy McGhee (the scene where the TVR gang got into a shootout with police is used for Leobardo Villarreal)
- One month after it was supposed to be shown, AMW finally airs Jason Howard’s profile. And with this airing, a possible explanation for the delay is revealed. Howard’s first profile is 13 minutes long, much longer than his other profiles that we’ll see in the future. On that same episode he was supposed to be profiled, Daniel Hiers received a 15-minute profile. There was probably no possible way both cases could have been aired on the same show.
- Several parts of Howard’s profile are cut out of future airings. Most of them involve Howard’s history with mental illness, and how his mother and stepfather had him videotape all of their family vacations. This profile went more in-depth with Howard’s family, whereas future airings mostly just focus on the crime in early 2004.
- During the portion of Howard’s profile that talks about how the cadaver dog found the bodies, a graphic appears on screen stating something to the effect of, “To learn more about Molly, the heroic police dog, log onto amw.com.” At the time, amw.com had a feature story about the dog, who had since passed away, and everything she’d done to help solve crimes.
- Oddly, the dog in the reenactment looks absolutely nothing like the real dog. My guess is that the dog in the reenactment was her replacement, which happened to be a different breed than Molly was.
- John Walsh says that not only was the Howard case filmed at the actual scene of the crime, but the actor playing Howard wore his actual glasses, while the actress playing his mother wore her actual clothes.
- Not only was a camera crew on hand to capture Rashawn Capers on camera immediately after his arrest, but they were also present for Officer Wayne Smith learning of the fugitive’s arrest.
- When talking about how a billboard led to Rashawn Capers’ arrest, John Walsh says, “Those billboards really. Do. Work.” The way he said it, plus the tone of his voice, almost sounds like he’s trying to convince someone of something, although what that is, I don’t know.
- All four fugitives in 15 Seconds of Shame were wanted for escape. John Walsh actually recorded a special intro and closing; “Now, four escapees who’ve earned their 15 Seconds of Shame,” and “Now that they’ve had their 15 Seconds of Shame, let’s get these guys back behind bars.” Additionally, behind their photos, you can see stock footage of a razor wire fence.
- John Walsh introduces Peter Braunstein’s case with a generic, “Now, we’ve got a breaking news update on a case we told you about last week.” Curiously, the update doesn’t reveal any new information other than an interview with a bar owner that Braunstein interacted with. The previous week, John Walsh vowed to stay on Braunstein’s trail until he was caught, so perhaps he just wanted to air him again. Given that he was caught almost exactly a week later, it’s probably safe to say that strategy worked.
- 1-800-CRIME-TV is missing from Heaven Ross’ profile card.
- While John Walsh says six of his Ten Most Wanted of 2000 have been captured, at this point, it had actually been seven. The one that’s not pictured is Jerry Bowen, who was #7 on his list.
- The six fugitives John Walsh mentions that have been captured from his Ten Most Wanted of 2000 list are all pictured. They are Stephen Tatro (#9), Stephen Briller (#8), Tito Dominguez (#7), Jesse James Hollywood (#5), Javon Capers (#4) and Jeremy Sanchez, one of the Unknown Linda Lebrane Attackers (#2). It’s curious that Jerry Bowen is missing, since he was caught BEFORE Hollywood.
- Interestingly, Daniel Perez, who was #10 on John Walsh’s 10 Most Wanted of 2000, would be caught just over a month after this episode aired. To date, he’s the most recent capture, as Bablu Hassan and Esnel Jean are both at large.
- Kids Safety Tips was a short-lived feature sponsored by Walmart that offered advice on how to protect children in different situations. It’ll be seen sporadically throughout 2006. Interestingly, I’m fairly certain it aired more often than The Safety Chick and Call to Action features.
Episode #831 – Dec. 17, 2005 (John Walsh’s 10 Most Wanted of 2005) #10 – Alfredo Lopez-Cruz (Full segment) Produced by: Paula Simpson and Sedgwick Tourison / Edited by: Rudy Blyden Police in Hamilton, Ohio are on the hunt for an accused child rapist. Over the summer, Alfredo Lopez-Cruz allegedly abducted his nine-year-old neighbor as she was riding a bike with her friend. He then brought her to his home and allegedly repeatedly raped her for three hours. The little girl escaped and told her dad, but when he went to confront him, Lopez-Cruz tried assaulting him with a baseball bat. In the commotion, he got away, and days later, vigilantes torched Lopez-Cruz’s house. Lopez-Cruz was indirectly captured in early 2011.
#9 – Jason Brown (Full segment) Produced by: Miles Perman / Edited by: Jim Robinson Investigators in Phoenix, Arizona are looking for accused killer Jason Brown. He’s wanted for shooting and killing an armored car guard outside a movie theater as the guard was carrying receipts from the busy Thanksgiving weekend box office haul. Brown fled the scene on a bike, which gave police a fingerprint that they were able to use to identify him as the suspect. It turned out that Brown was a bit of a playboy and party animal who couldn’t afford his lifestyle anymore, which police believe is why he targeted the armored car guard. It’s believed that Brown had been stalking the armored car driver for days, figuring out his route. But by the time investigators figured out where Brown was staying, he was already gone. Still at large
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#8 – Kenneth Cofer (15 Seconds of Shame) – Wanted out of Oklahoma City for shooting a Vietnam War veteran to death during an argument. Still at large
#7 – Donald Lynch (15 Seconds of Shame) – Tennessee police say that, when Lynch was entrusted with babysitting two little girls, he allegedly raped them. He was indirectly captured in 2007.
#6 – George Saravanos (15 Seconds of Shame) – Authorities in New York want to question Saravanos about the murder of an off-duty correctional officer. In 2007, AMW tips led to Saravanos’ arrest in Ecuador, making him Capture #969.
#5 – Andre Harris (15 Seconds of Shame) – During a home invasion, Harris allegedly shot and killed a man in front of his wife and teenage daughter. Still at large
#4 – Jean-Marie Jean-Francois (Full segment) Correspondent: John Turchin / Edited by: Paul Waide John Turchin reports on a fugitive from Miami who investigators say lived a double life. Jean-Marie Jean-Francois seemed like a good Christian man. He even befriended a local priest whom he would talk about the Bible with. But police say he actually practiced Voodoo, and would use it to carry out revenge on his ex-girlfriend after she got a restraining order against him. He allegedly beat her to death, and waited for her 12-year-old daughter to come home from school. She said he tied her up with tape and left her alone for 20 hours before police were called on a welfare check. Though she was rescued, Jean-Francois had gotten away. Still at large
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#3 – Fabian Urrea (Full segment) Produced by: Amy DiDomenico / Edited by: Jim Robinson Ed Miller reports from California on a soldier who lost his life in his own backyard. Jorge Estrada was a California National Guard member serving in Iraq while his wife, National Guard Reservist Diana Estrada, was pregnant. While the baby’s father was her ex-boyfriend, Fabian Urrea, Jorge vowed to raise the child as his own. Jorge returned home on leave to see his daughter’s birth, but Urrea demanded to see the child. When Jorge and Diana went to see Urrea, he allegedly pulled out a gun and shot Jorge in the parking lot of his apartment, then nearly ran over his body as he pulled out. Jorge died before help arrived. After more than a year on the run, Urrea was indirectly captured in January 2007.
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#2 – Israel Barretero (Full segment) Produced by: Jonathan Winfrey / Edited by: Jim Robinson Police in Dallas are looking for a violent fugitive with a hair-trigger temper. In March, Bernardo “Lalo” Andrade, a new father to twin girls, went out for a night on the town with three of his friends. While at a bar, their group got into a fight with another group, which included Israel Barretero. Police were called, and Barretero left to take one of his friends to the hospital. Later that night, after the bar closed, Lalo and his friends headed home, unaware that Barretero and one of his friends were following them. When they stopped at a light, Barretero allegedly stood through the car’s sunroof and began firing an assault rifle into Lalo’s car. Even though they sped off, police say Barretero kept shooting, not stopping until after Lalo’s car crashed. Police arrived seconds later and found Lalo and two of his friends dead, while another friend was hurt, but survived. While Barretero’s accomplice was captured, he managed to slip away. But it turned out, he didn’t go far. Mere weeks after this profile, an AMW tipster led to Barretero’s capture in Dallas, the same city he was wanted out of. He was Capture #873.
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Dr. Zehra Attari (Break Four Tease) – Authorities in Oakland, California are looking for a woman who went missing a month earlier. Just days after this profile, her body was found submerged in the Oakland Estuary. She’d accidentally driven off a boat ramp in bad weather.
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#1 - Daniel Hiers (Full segment) Produced by: Angeline Hartmann / Edited by: Ozana Halik A former police officer is on the run in South Carolina from multiple charges impacting multiple families. Hiers had befriended a young girl who was taking karate lessons at the same dojo as him, and soon became a father figure to her and a trusted man for her mother. But he’d been lying to her family, first claiming that his wife, Mila, left him, when she was still with him. More seriously, in late 2004, the girl told her mother that Hiers had been molesting her. Hiers tried fleeing, but ultimately turned himself in and resigned as a police officer due to the allegations. And despite his wife staying by his side, shortly before Hiers was charged with more serious sexual abuse charges, he allegedly shot and killed Mila, then disappeared. In 2018, Hiers was located in China, but bureaucratic red tape and limited information, plus lack of an extradition treaty, means that nobody truly knows what’s going on, or even if he’s still in custody.
In the Line of Duty – Officer Andy Stevens (California Highway Patrol)
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Upcoming on AMW (Brief, approx. 15 seconds) – Don LaFontaine reveals that, thanks to viewer tips, career criminal Jody Thompson has been captured. The story of his capture will be told in an upcoming episode, but for those who can’t wait, they can visit amw.com to read the story and watch an exclusive jailhouse interview with the suspect.
Recap – Alfredo Lopez-Cruz, Jason Brown, Kenneth Cofer, George Saravanos, Donald Lynch, Andre Harris, Jean-Marie Jean-Francois, Fabian Urrea, Israel Barretero, Daniel Hiers
Episode notes: - This episode was filmed in the AMW Studio
- John Walsh records special narration for 15 Seconds of Shame. His introduction is, “Fugitives 8-5 have the dubious distinction of being on my year-end 15 Seconds of Shame,” while he closes with, “Now that they’ve had their 15 Seconds of Shame, let’s get these Top 10 fugitives off my list and into custody.”
- This year marks the only time fugitives who exclusively appeared on 15 Seconds of Shame were named to John Walsh’s annual 10 Most Wanted List. (In this case, Donald Lynch and Andre Harris) There’s a lot of speculation that perhaps they’d replaced fugitives who were caught at the last minute (much like how Greisy Valencia replaced Juan Nieto in 2004) but it’s hard to definitively say (especially since Peter Braunstein, who I thought was guaranteed a spot on the list, was only caught the day before. It would have been really tricky to edit that out and replace him with someone else, though not impossible). Either way, it is odd that two fugitives who had only received 15 second profiles were named to a year-end most wanted list.
- There are a couple interesting notes about George Saravanos’ profile. Firstly, John Walsh says he’s only wanted for questioning. Secondly, this marks the first time AMW had a real photo of his “Blaze” tattoo, and it was aired as part of the profile. Previously, a graphic artist designed a facsimile of what it might have looked like. The real tattoo looked nothing like the illustration.
- Before John Walsh reveals Daniel Hiers as his #1 Most Wanted Fugitive of 2005, a minute-long montage plays, highlighting the fact his most wanted fugitive of the year, since 2001, has been caught. They were Luis Ortiz (#1 in 2001, Capture #671), Michael Brashar (#1 in 2002, Capture #763), Pinkney “Chip” Carter (#1 in 2003, Indirect) and Jahbir & Alfonso Fowle (#1 in 2004, Capture #s 831 and 832).
- But there are a couple errors in the montage. There are no quotation marks around “Chip” when the name “Pinkney Chip Carter” appears, implying that was his middle name and not a nickname. Also, Alfonso Fowle’s name is misspelled as “Alphonso.”
- This montage would be repurposed for The Ones That Got Away, one of the most frequently-rerun episodes in AMW history, starting in 2007.
- While his first profile was a whopping 15 minutes long, this time around Daniel Hiers profile is pretty much chopped in half, only lasting about 7 minutes. This would also become his default airing going forward.
- Although the recap lists John Walsh's 10 Most Wanted in order, George Saravanos and Donald Lynch switch places. Because actual numbers aren't listed, you would only know this if you were paying attention to the rest of the show.
- John Walsh acknowledges that the show will be taking a two-week break for the holidays before returning on Jan. 7.
- Most likely because it was the last show of the year, John’s “You CAN make a difference” is changed to, “You DO make a very big difference.”
And there you have it! Every single episode of AMW that aired in 2005 has been highlighted! I'm not quite 100% done with this project just yet - as with previous years, I plan on listing my Top 10 Favorite and Least-Favorite episodes of the year, plus a general summary of the show as a whole in 2005. Expect to see that sometime this week.
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Post by pakman on Feb 20, 2023 12:54:42 GMT -5
The most recent article on Newspapers.com about Gerardo Garcia-Michel is from 1998, when he was still a fugitive. I utilized Iowa Courts Online and I could not find a case file/number for him. The best I could do is a traffic ticket a few months to a year before the incident he's accused of, and a civil suit the victim's family filed against him in 1998.
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Post by pakman on Feb 18, 2023 2:11:54 GMT -5
Hello everyone! I thought I'd give an update because I've actually come across some of the episodes in my original post! Thank you to those who have provided me with copies of those episodes.
But I'm still looking for these episodes. If anybody has a copy of any of these episodes, please DM me!
Season 15, Episode 38 (aired July 27, 2002) This episode primarily focused on the seemingly endless epidemic of missing children, as 2002 saw a number of very high-profile child abductions. Andre Neverson also received his first profile, and AMW Investigators Ron Antoci and Joe Matthews returned to provide an update on their investigation into the unsolved murder of Ray Guidry.
Season 16, Episode 23 (aired April 5, 2003) As far as I'm aware, this episode didn't have a particular theme, but it did air several cases. Mustapha Atat had his first profile, and this ended up being the last profile of Brian Martin, and an unknown capture report aired as well. It may have been either Larme Price (the New York Sunrise Killer) or Annette Hernandez, but I can't confirm this.
Season 21, Episode 44 (aired Aug. 23, 2008) A rerun of the Jan. 26, 2008 episode. John Walsh was on location with the Coast Guard, and the cases that were profiled included missing person Jimmy Trindade, accused gang member Joseph Garcia, and a capture roundup that included Leslie Raymond and Robert Gaye, both of whom were featured on the April 2008 50 States/50 Fugitives show.
Season 24, Episode 22 (aired April 2, 2011) I know I had a copy of this episode at one point, but it somehow vanished. Fugitive Werner Francisco was profiled, in addition to the unsolved murders of Nori Amaya and Bill Powell.
Fox Special #1: 50 States, 50 Fugitives (aired Oct. 29, 2011) The first Fox Special that aired after the network canceled AMW in 2011. This was the second 50 States, 50 Fugitives show that aired in 2011, and it also discussed the four fugitives that had been captured since AMW's cancellation.
As you can see, my list of episodes has significantly dwindled since my initial post, but on the off chance someone has these episodes too, I would greatly appreciate it!
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Post by pakman on Feb 16, 2023 19:01:04 GMT -5
^ Oh, Braunstein wasn't only 15 Seconds of Shame. Just his first profile! His three others were full profiles.
That's so awesome you got to meet Angeline Hartmann! She actually stayed on as a correspondent right up until the end, I think. By the time Fox canceled the show I think it was just her, Tom Morris and John Turchin.
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Post by pakman on Feb 16, 2023 16:03:04 GMT -5
Well, it's four months later than I intended to, but at long last I have all four episodes from November 2005 ready to go for the Complete AMW Episode Guide! Like most Novembers, this one is a really interesting month filled with unique episodes and stories (because November is also sweeps month for network TV, so AMW isn't alone in running interesting shows). Enough of my talk, though - here are the episodes!
Episode #825 – Nov. 5, 2005 Israel Barretero (Full segment) Produced by: Jonathan Winfrey / Edited by: Jim Robinson Police in Dallas are looking for a violent fugitive with a hair-trigger temper. In March, Bernardo “Lalo” Andrade, a new father to twin girls, went out for a night on the town with three of his friends. While at a bar, their group got into a fight with Israel Barretero and two of his friends. Police were called, and Barretero left to take his friend to the hospital. Later that night, after the bar closed, Lalo and his friends headed home, unaware that Barretero and one of his friends were following them. When they stopped at a light, Barretero allegedly climbed out of the car and began firing an assault rifle into Lalo’s car. Even though they sped off, police say Barretero kept shooting, not stopping until after Lalo’s car crashed. Police arrived seconds later and found Lalo and two of his friends dead, while another friend was hurt, but survived. While Barretero’s accomplice was captured, he managed to slip away. Weeks after being named John Walsh’s #2 Most Wanted Fugitive of 2005, a tip led to Barretero’s capture in Dallas, the same city he was wanted out of. He was Capture #873.
Gary Lasher Capture (Full segment) Produced by: Louie Maggioto and Sarah Kosem / Edited by: Lee Cobb John Turchin has great news on a story AMW first profiled exactly one year earlier. Gary Lasher was wanted out of two states for a series of horrible crimes. Not only did his wife say he raped her at their home in Arizona, but she also found a video of Lasher molesting one of her students. After his arrest, Lasher bonded out and allegedly kidnapped his mother-in-law in southern California, throwing her in the back of his trunk. She was able to open it up and get out, saving herself. After AMW aired the case, a tip came in saying Lasher was in Mexico, working as some type of water sports instructor. However, despite their best efforts, investigators couldn’t find him. Months later, the FBI received another tip with an exact location for Lasher, who was now working in Playa del Carmen as a kite-surfing instructor. Investigators set up a sting and arrested Lasher without incident. During his walk of shame, Lasher blamed drugs for the crimes he was accused of and claimed to have no memory of what happened.
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Arthur Lopez Jr. (15 Seconds of Shame) – Wisconsin drug kingpin who is not only accused of smuggling more than 1,000 kilos of cocaine into Milwaukee, but he allegedly shot a man to death after mistaking him for a rival gang member. In 2010, thanks to an amw.com tipster, Lopez was captured in Mexico, making him Capture #1,136.
Andrew Edwards (15 Seconds of Shame) – Wanted out of Brooklyn for being a drug dealer and for intimidating witnesses who were set to testify against him. Edwards was indirectly captured three months after this profile.
Marco Garcia (15 Seconds of Shame) – Nashville police are looking for Garcia after he allegedly ambushed and killed his neighbor. Police say Garcia’s girlfriend had gotten into an argument with the man. Still at large
Morris Jackson (15 Seconds of Shame) – Jackson is wanted out of Florida for allegedly shooting a police officer back in 1976. Still at large
The Erie Collar Bomber, Part 1 (Full segment) Produced by: Donna Brant / Edited by: Steve Kobren More than a month after AMW dedicated an entire show to the Erie Collar Bomber, new information has come in. The case started in August 2003 when pizza delivery driver Brian Wells robbed a bank in Erie, Pennsylvania with a bomb around his neck. He claimed the bomb was put on his neck by three unknown men, but it went off and killed him before he could reveal more information. Brian had been given a nine-page note filled with scavenger hunt-style instructions on how to deactivate the bomb. The FBI also found Brian was carrying a cane that was actually a gun, which he used in the robbery. Following Brian’s death, strange things continued happening in Erie. First a coworker of Brian’s died of a drug overdose, then a man’s body was found in a freezer that had been in a home Brian passed on his way to deliver his pizzas. The home was owned by Bill Rothstein, who alleged his friend, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, killed the man. She, in turn, accused Rothstein of harboring a fugitive accused of rape, Jay Stockton, in his own home. And it could very well be that Stockton is the key to linking everything together.
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Charles Thompson (Breaking news, approx. 30 seconds) – Tom Morris reports on an urgent case out of Texas. Death row inmate and convicted killer Charles Thompson has escaped from the Houston County Jail. Thompson was captured indirectly two days after this profile in Louisiana.
The Erie Collar Bomber, Part 2 (Full segment) – AMW investigator Joe Matthews has an intriguing update on the Collar Bomber case. He starts by asking if the Collar Bomber may have left something of himself behind on either the bomb or the cane gun or even both? While Joe believes that Bill Rothstein is the mastermind of the Collar Bomb case, he also thinks that Jay Stockton is involved. He interviews Stockton’s ex-wife, Janet, who reveals some troubling information about him. According to her, Stockton and his old friend Rothstein used to hang out in the same place where Brian Wells said he was assaulted. She said Stockton also used to make pipe bombs and blow them up in the woods, and is convinced that he was the one who wrote the nine-page instructions for Brian. Included in the letter is language that Stockton would use (“act now, think later”) and equal signs, which his ex-wife said he loved to draw. She also said he loved choking people, which fits in line with the collar bomb. But after watching AMW, Janet realized something else; as John Walsh mentioned, investigators believed that the handle of the cane gun was made by two letter J’s that would be found in a hardware store. Janet said the two J’s stood for “Jay” and “Janet,” and that Stockton would often use the double-J motif to describe their relationship. This made her more convinced than ever that Jay Stockton was involved. He was never charged, though; in 2007, the FBI charged Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong and her friend, Kenneth Barnes, with the Collar Bomber case.
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Natalee Holloway (Full segment) Produced by: Fred Peabody / Edited by: Joan Perry Rick Segall heads to Aruba for the latest information on the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. The Alabama high school senior disappeared while on a trip with her classmates. She was last seen with three young men who have since been released. Rumors have plagued the investigation, though many of the rumors involve a burglarized beach hut. Another rumor is that someone used a boat to dump a body into the sea. Natalee’s father, Dave Holloway, went to Aruba to look for himself. He was joined by Tim Miller, with Texas EquuSearch, and a Florida team specializing in underwater investigations. As they searched the shallow waters, they discovered a large cement block. Nobody could figure out if it was a boat mooring or if it was something else. But as they were getting ready to bring in more sophisticated equipment, the deputy police chief said he didn’t have time to approve it, effectively ending the investigation Dave and Tim were undertaking. Though she was legally declared dead in 2011, Natalee remains missing, although one of the suspects in her presumed murder, Joran Van der Sloot, is serving a 28-year sentence for killing another woman.
In the Line of Duty – Officer Stanley Reaves (Norfolk Police Department, Virginia)
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Tara Grinstead (Break Four Tease) – Police in Georgia are looking for a 30-year-old high school teacher who went missing last month. A former student at the high school and his friend were later charged in connection with Tara’s disappearance, though no body has ever been found.
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Next week on AMW – John Walsh says the show will be in Savannah, Georgia to investigate a “troubling murder.”
Episode notes - This episode was filmed in the AMW Studio.
- Recycled/Repurposed Reenactments: Jahbir and Alfonso Fowle (clips of rival gang members sitting around and of them yelling at the Fowle brothers are used for Andrew Edwards); Timothy McGhee (the scene showing McGhee gunning down a man walking down the street is used for Marco Garcia); Armando “Chato” Garcia (the clip of Garcia shooting Deputy March is used to illustrate Morris Jackson’s alleged crime); and Cassandra Woods (a scene showing Woods’ racist gang getting up off a couch was used to illustrate Charles Thompson’s ties to the Aryan Nation).
- As you may have noticed in my summary, this episode marks a subtle change for AMW, but it's one that I absolutely love. Starting with this episode (and lasting up until the show's cancellation in 2011), AMW now credits the producers and editors for every full segment. I'm a writer by profession, and I'm so happy that AMW finally decided to give the crew who worked on these stories the credit they deserve. Because of this, I had to reformat my summaries, so let me know what you think of them!
- AMW reenacts the moment Gary Lasher was arrested. Strangely, the video style looks more like AMW's reenactments from the late-80s and early-90s than what modern-day reenactments looked like. It's hard to describe, but if you look up Toru Sakai or Lance Bedgood's reenactments on YouTube, you'll get an idea of what I mean.
- Sarah, Lasher’s ex-wife, is one of a number of victims who had their reaction to the fugitive’s capture caught on camera. John Turchin explained they played it off like they were just filming a new interview for Lasher, and Sarah had no idea what they were going to tell her.
- Although Lasher was an indirect capture, it sounds like AMW at least pointed cops in the right direction, in that the show did get a tip saying he was on a beach in Mexico.
- The first segment of the Collar Bomber two-parter is essentially the abbreviated first part of the Sept. 17, 2005 episode with some other details added in.
- AMW doesn’t mention it, but Charles Thompson was on death row for a 1998 double-murder. He also was apparently in a jail, and not a prison, because he was being sentenced for a second time. They also didn’t say that he escaped by using a forged ID badge and posing as someone with the attorney general’s office. He’s still on death row today.
- For some reason, amw.com listed Charles Thompson as a direct capture, but they never assigned him a capture number. He was caught after making a drunken phone call to someone, which certainly seemed to have nothing to do with his AMW profile.
- Although Jay Stockton was never charged with the Collar Bomber case, there are many people that believe he was the catalyst to solving the crime. I’ve heard a lot of people speculate that he turned informant and agreed to talk to the FBI in exchange for immunity. I think it’s quite obvious that he had knowledge of the Collar Bomb case, and the fact he was never charged makes me agree with this theory.
- While the following week’s show did take place in Georgia, the case that John Walsh mentions (Jason Howard) was not actually profiled on that episode. Instead, he would be profiled in December.
Episode #826 – Nov. 12, 2005 Daniel Hiers (Full segment) Produced by: Angeline Hartmann / Edited by: Ozana Halik Investigators in Charleston, South Carolina say that former police officer Daniel Hiers is wanted for child molestation and murder. In late 2004, a young girl, whom Hiers had met in a karate class both belonged to, told her mother that Hiers had been molesting her. He had befriended the girl and her family, while also lying to them about his wife, Mila, leaving him. She hadn’t, and he’d also kept his relationship with the victim and her mother a secret from his wife, whom Hiers married when she was only 16. Hiers tried fleeing, but ultimately turned himself in and resigned as a police officer due to the allegations. Following a romantic weekend getaway, Hiers allegedly shot and killed his wife for reasons that weren’t entirely clear. Hiers’ car was found abandoned in Laredo, Texas, but nobody knew where he was. In 2018, Hiers was located in China, but bureaucratic red tape and limited information, plus lack of an extradition treaty, means that nobody truly knows what’s going on, or even if he’s still in custody.
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Peter Braunstein (15 Seconds of Shame) – New York City fugitive who is accused of posing as a firefighter to break into a woman’s apartment, then repeatedly raping her for 13 hours. AMW would stay on Braunstein’s trail for several weeks before a college student in Tennessee recognized him and led to his arrest, making him Capture #871.
Oscar Lopez (15 Seconds of Shame) – Wanted out of Massachusetts for stabbing his wife to death. Lopez has a deformed right eye and two gold front teeth. Still at large
Danny Gordon (15 Seconds of Shame) – Accused violent drug dealer who police say shot a woman to death in Columbus, Ohio. Still at large
Miguel Sanchez (15 Seconds of Shame) – California police say that Sanchez shot a man in the back during a fight. He could be hiding in Mexico or Washington state. Still at large
Tara Grinstead (Full segment) Produced by: Karen Daborowski / Edited by: Rudy Blyden and Tim Miller Angeline Hartmann has the story of a mysterious disappearance in rural Georgia. Tara Grinstead, a high school teacher and former beauty queen, disappeared after hanging out with friends in late October. There were very few clues left behind. Her car was found unlocked, while her front door to her home was locked, and some items were knocked over. It was speculated that maybe her beauty queen past had something to do with her disappearance. Some thought maybe her ex-boyfriend did something, or that a former student – who had been stalking her – was involved. In 2017, Ryan Duke, a former student at the school where Tara worked at, was arrested and charged with Tara’s murder (though he did not attend at the same time as Tara). Police alleged she came home and interrupted a burglary, and he had killed her. Last year, however, he was acquitted of her murder. The only part of Tara’s body that was recovered were some bone fragments.
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Amber McEntire & Darrell Yates (Breaking news, approx. 30 seconds) – Police in Nacogdoches, Texas are looking for Amber McEntire in connection with the murder of her own toddler son, whose body was found a week earlier. Investigators also allege her boyfriend, Darrell Yates, is involved. The pair was indirectly captured less than a month after this profile.
Jose Garcia (Full segment) Produced by: Jonathan Winfrey / Edited by: Gary Meyers Investigators in Kentucky are looking for Jose “Joey” Garcia after he allegedly raped a coworker. The coworker, Christy, said Garcia was obsessed with her and she believes that he had stolen her house keys and logged into her work computer. Some time later, a masked man unlocked her door and went into her house while her husband was away on business. Over the next few hours, the man raped Christy repeatedly, eventually leaving and dropping off cash behind him. Christy noted that the rapist never spoke to her, and then realized it might have been Garcia. Police got Garcia to submit a DNA sample, and the results matched the rapist, but by then, he had fled. Still at large
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Natalee Holloway (Update, approx. 1 minute, 30 seconds) – Rick Segall is back with an update in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. Following last week’s show, where volunteer searchers were forced to return to the United States after Aruban authorities refused to continue helping them, Natalee’s mother and Alabama’s governor announced a boycott of the island, and encouraged others to participate. Meanwhile, Texas EquuSearch, which was handling the deep water investigation, is looking for private funding to see if they can continue looking for Natalee without the Aruban government’s cooperation. Natalee is still missing, though she’s been declared legally deceased.
Miguel Torres (Full segment) Produced by: Sarah Kosem / Edited by: Lee Cobb Pennsylvania authorities say that Miguel Torres killed his wife after the two of them had only been married a year. His wife, Barbara, had left him after accusing him of domestic violence. He tried getting her back, but when she continued to refuse to see him, police say he showed up in the parking lot of her workplace and shot her as she was preparing to get into her car with a friend. While the friend was not injured, Barbara was killed. Torres was captured in Italy in 2013, not long after he was added to the U.S. Marshals’ 15 Most Wanted List.
In the Line of Duty: Sgt. Jonathan Dragus (Oklahoma City Police Department, Oklahoma)
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Leslie Adams (Break-Four Tease) – Atlanta woman who went missing in late October, with foul play being suspected in her disappearance. Her remains were found three years later in October 2008, and eventually an ex-boyfriend was charged with her murder.
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Upcoming on AMW (Brief, approx. 40 seconds) – Don LaFontaine says that recently, a 9-year-old boy swam from Alcatraz to San Francisco. So if he could do it, how come people think three adult men couldn’t have? Next week, AMW will dive into the case of the three Alcatraz escapees and find out how tipsters may be helping investigators get closer to closing the case once and for all.
Unknown Virginia Cell Phone Bandit (Breaking news, approx. 30 seconds) – An unidentified woman has been robbing banks in northern Virginia over the past month. What makes her unique is that, during the robbery, she’s talking on her cell phone the entire time, though nobody knows who she’s talking to. In every robbery, she passes a note demanding money. Within a week of this profile, Candice Martinez was arrested in connection with the robberies.
Recap – Daniel Hiers, Miguel Torres, Peter Braunstein, Tara Grinstead, Amber McEntire & Darrell Yates, Jose Garcia
Next week on AMW – John Walsh says he’ll be in Aspen, Colorado to head up some cold cases. This will include the three men who escaped from Alcatraz back in the '60s. John reveals their case has been reopened thanks to AMW tipsters.
Episode notes: - This episode was filmed in Savannah, Georgia. The specific theme of the episode was “good and evil,” which is why John Walsh’s segments were filmed in the Garden of Good and Evil.
- Recycled/Repurposed Reenactments: Antonio Delacruz (the scene showing Delacruz stabbing his victim was used for Oscar Lopez); Marcus Head (the part of the reenactment that showed Head shooting his victims was used for Danny Gordon); Leonardo Cisneros (the scene with the victim looking at his wife in a concerned way is used in Miguel Torres’ story to show how he was getting abusive towards his wife); William Fischer (a scene in the reenactment showing Nancy Hyer, one of the victims, falling backward, was used to show that Torres was abusive).
- Despite stating on the previous week’s show that Jason Howard was going to be profiled on this episode, this ended up not happening. Given that he was wanted out of Georgia, it would have made sense to profile him here, but I suspect Daniel Hiers’ profile took up too much time (see my next note for more information). Howard would eventually be profiled in early December.
- Daniel Hiers’ profile is considerably longer in this episode than any of his other airings. Here, it took up 14 minutes of the episode. All of Hiers’ future airings cut the profile down to less than half of that time. Among the parts of the story that were cut out: an interview with Mila’s sister; going more in-depth with all Hiers did for victim Angela and her mother, including the fact that Angela’s mother wanted to go to the courts to make Hiers her daughter’s legal guardian; more details about Hiers’ attempt to flee his initial arrest; more details about the vacation Hiers and Mila took the weekend before she was killed; and an interview with a brothel owner about how Hiers had visited there days before Mila’s murder.
- As we all know by now, Hiers’ victim, Angela, publicly identified herself when Hiers was profiled on The Hunt with John Walsh, and was revealed to be mixed-race. However, the reenactment portrays her as a blonde white girl. There has been much debate on this forum as to whether or not AMW did the right thing in portraying the victim as a different race than she actually is, and while I won’t share what I think about this personally, I will say that I can see reasons in support of this decision and against.
- This episode marks the first appearance of Angeline Hartmann as a correspondent. I think she’d been with AMW since 2004, but only as a producer. Most of Angeline’s cases were out of Georgia, including Nacole Smith’s murder and the Mamadou Barry case. While this is her first credited on-air appearance, her voice had been heard in the Phillip Williams’ profile where she recited a letter written by his alleged victim.
- John Walsh introduces Miguel Torres’ segment with a generic, “We’re at a dead end on this next case and we need your tips to help us solve it tonight.”
- Although I have Torres’ profile classified as a full segment, it was only about 2 and a half to 3 minutes long, a length usually reserved for All-Points Bulletin profiles.
- John Walsh introduces the Unknown Virginia Cell Phone Bandit segment with a generic, “Now, we’ve got a late-breaking case we need your help on tonight.”
Episode #827 – Nov. 19, 2005 (Cold Case Special Edition) Ronald Young (Full segment) Edited by: Ozana Halik & Ryan Stone Police in multiple states are looking for Ronald Young on a variety of cases. Aspen, Colorado authorities say Young is a conman who scammed money from multiple people, including a former girlfriend, a former business partner, and a woman named Pam Phillips, whom Young had dated while she was getting divorced from her husband, Gary Triano. Triano himself had a shady past and made a lot of enemies during his career as a prominent developer who made lots of money, but also lost it. He and Phillips had a very contentious divorce, and in 1996, he was killed when a bomb exploded inside of his car at a Tucson, Arizona golf course. Police wanted to question Young about Triano’s death after finding divorce papers, a map of Tucson and a sawed-off shotgun in his abandoned car, while Aspen police wanted Young for financial crimes. Within 48 hours of this profile, AMW tips found Young in Florida, where he was arrested after nine years on the run. Young was Capture #868.
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Peter Braunstein (Full segment) Produced by: Jon Leiberman / Edited by: Joan Perry & Ozana Halik A prominent New York City writer is on the run, accused of committing a horrible crime. Peter Braunstein is alleged to have dressed up as a firefighter on Halloween to get himself into a woman’s apartment, where he then tied her up and raped her for 13 hours. Investigators say Braunstein actually knew the victim; they were former coworkers. Braunstein has a long history of disturbing behavior towards women; he pleaded down to lesser charges after his ex-girlfriend said he was stalking her, and he once wrote a story about his obsession with supermodel Kate Moss. Police believe that Braunstein is living out a fantasy and may actually have been enjoying the publicity. AMW stayed on Braunstein’s trail and two weeks after this profile, he was caught in Tennessee, making him Capture #871.
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Kevin Donner (15 Seconds of Shame) – Wanted out of Florida for sexually assaulting a young boy. He had been arrested, but bonded out and disappeared before his trial. Still at large
Leobardo Villarreal (15 Seconds of Shame) – Accused of shooting a federal agent during a drug stakeout in Texas. Although he was arrested, he escaped from prison. Villarreal was indirectly captured in March 2006.
Jason Nedobity (15 Seconds of Shame) – Connecticut police say that Nedobity gave a 16-year-old girl drugs, which subsequently killed her. He surrendered in early 2012.
Darlin Fajardo (15 Seconds of Shame) – Wanted out of New York for stabbing his boss to death. He may have fled to Honduras. Still at large
Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris, Part 1 (Full segment) Produced by: Margaret Parker / Edited by: Joan Perry Deputy U.S. Marshal Michael Dyke has been assigned as the lead investigating agent on the infamous escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island. On June 11, 1962, three inmates – Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin – escaped from Alcatraz by cutting out of their cells and utilizing a life raft made from raincoats. For years, speculation has been that they died, but after America’s Most Wanted aired the case in May 2003, several tips came in that were so convincing, the U.S. Marshals reopened the case. One of them is from a historian who claims that the Anglin brothers were in attendance at their mother’s funeral dressed as women. Prior to investigating, Deputy Dyke visits Alcatraz to learn exactly how these three men made their escape, and talks to experts on their thoughts as to whether or not they may have survived the choppy waters, and finds a variety of opinions. He also recruits forensic artist Lee Hammond to create age-enhanced sketches of what Morris and the Anglin brothers might look like today. With the new sketches in hand, Deputy Dyke heads out to interview the AMW tipsters about what they know.
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Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris, Part 2 (Full segment) – Deputy U.S. Marshal Michael Dyke heads out to interview some of the tipsters who called in to AMW following the May 2003 airing of the three Alcatraz escapees – Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin. One tipster, a retired San Francisco police officer, said a body washed up on the shore not long after the escape, and he’s convinced it was one of the men. Another tipster from Madera, California claimed to have met a man in the mid-80s who confessed to him that he had escaped from Alcatraz. The man said they’d thrown off three life jackets as decoys before heading out themselves on a raft. He said the man resembled the age-enhanced sketch of John Anglin, and what stood out to him the most was the man’s “jailhouse shuffle” walk. Deputy Dyke then heads to Reno, Nevada to speak with a retired nurse’s aide who said she treated a patient named Clarence Anglin that claimed not only that he escaped, but that he and the others took shelter in the caves near the San Francisco bridge. This tipster correctly identified Anglin’s age-enhanced sketch, and was so shaken she asked that it be put away. The fourth tipster, an anonymous man living in rural Georgia, said that he’s overheard relatives of the Anglin brothers say that the men are still alive, and that they had help from a local sheriff in staying under the radar. The last this tipster heard, the Anglin brothers were still alive and living in Florida. If the three men are still alive, they’d be in their 90s. As of 2023, they are still at large.
In the Line of Duty – Lt. Robert Cabral (Swansea Police Department, Massachusetts)
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Pamela Waldher (Break Four Tease) – North Carolina police say 17-year-old Pamela Waldher is missing and does not have medication that she needs. Her remains were found in September 2007 near Fort Bragg, not far from where her backpack had been abandoned, and nobody has ever been charged in the case.
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Rakeem Baskerville Capture (Brief, approx. 10 seconds) – John Walsh encourages viewers to check out amw.com to see the takedown of one of the U.S. Marshals’ 15 Most Wanted.
Recap – Ronald Young; John Anglin, Clarence Anglin & Frank Morris; Kevin Donner; Leobardo Villarreal; Jason Nedobity; Darlin Fajardo; Pamela Walder
Episode notes: - This episode was filmed in Aspen, Colorado.
- Recycled/Repurposed Reenactments: Brian Jones (the scene showing Jones assaulting his victim was used for Peter Braunstein); Unknown OC Smith Attacker (the scene with a man in shadow on a computer is used to illustrate Peter Braunstein’s work as a writer); William Bradford Bishop (the part where Bishop sneaks into his son’s room is used to illustrate Kevin Donner’s case); Timothy McGhee (the scene where the TVR gang got into a shootout with police is used for Leobardo Villarreal); and Antonio Delacruz (the part where Delacruz stabs his victim is used in Darlin Fajardo’s profile).
- For some reason, no producer is credited with the Ronald Young case, but two editors were.
- I can’t prove this, but I’m fairly certain Ronald Young was profiled sometime in 1997 or 1998. The way the reenactment is filmed makes it look like a ‘90s-style reenactment, and unusually for a reenactment in the mid-2000s, the story is told with a LOT of talking from the actors. Not to mention, the lack of a producer credit makes me think it was done by someone who, at that point, was no longer working for AMW.
- I highly suggest looking up the Ronald Young case, because it’s an incredibly complicated one. I didn’t even mention the fact that an associate of Young’s was killed by another car bomb in the mid-80s and that Young was a possible person of interest in that case (though to my knowledge he was never actually charged with it).
- Both Ronald Young and Pamela Phillips would eventually be charged with Gary Triano’s murder. Phillips herself would get her own AMW profile in 2008, shortly after both were charged.
- The murder of Gary Triano is perhaps one of the most frequently featured stories on true crime shows. I've seen at least three that have profiled the case.
- There is a really amusing error in 15 Seconds of Shame. After all four fugitives are profiled, their photos are shown on screen with their names next to them. But in this episode, "Villarreal" is the only accurate name to be next to his photo. The other three are “Gale” (next to Donner), “Halligan” (next to Nedobity) and “Gomez” (next to Fajardo). These three names are in reference to Jacqueline Gale, Sherry Halligan and Maria Gomez, all of whom will be profiled on the following week’s 15 Seconds of Shame. I remember seeing this when I was watching the episode off its original airing and being really, really confused.
- This was the last time the Alcatraz escapees were profiled on AMW, although they would get a very brief mention in 2009 during an Escapes special edition.
- John Walsh inexplicably refers to sketch artist Lee Hammond as “Agent Hammond” in his recap of the case when the second part of the Alcatraz escape begins.
- During the recap, John Walsh says “Here’s a quick review of some of tonight’s cases,” but the only case missing is Peter Braunstein.
Episode #828 – Nov. 26, 2005 (Bad Girls Special Edition) Jody Thompson (Full segment) Produced by: Craig H. Shepherd / Edited by: Ryan Stone Federal and Las Vegas investigators are looking for Jody Thompson, who may only be 25 years old, but he’s a career criminal. At 16 years old, he escaped from juvenile detention, where he was in custody for stealing cars. After being sent to an adult prison and serving time, Thompson then began robbing bars under the rouse of needing money for his son’s cancer treatments (though he had no children). Police eventually caught up to Thompson, who was sentenced to 50 years in prison, but even that didn’t stop him. He charmed a prison dental assistant into giving him a cell phone, then using tools from the prison’s workshop, snuck into a truck delivering furniture and cut his way out of the trailer. Rather than keeping a low profile, investigators say Thompson went right back to committing bar robberies, and they were afraid he would become more violent and desperate. Thanks to AMW tips, Thompson was located in Las Vegas within 48 hours of this profile. Despite taking hostages, he was able to be arrested without anyone getting hurt. He was Capture #870.
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Jacqueline Gale (15 Seconds of Shame) – Iowa police are looking for Gale in connection with a 2002 incident where she was allegedly driving drunk and slammed into a car, killing a mother of two. Gale had actually been captured the day before her case was aired, although it apparently had nothing to do with her impending profile.
Patty Kenley (15 Seconds of Shame) – Wanted out of Texas for allegedly molesting an 11-year-old boy. She may be traveling with her husband, Philip Kenley, who is also wanted for the same crime. Still at large
Sherry Halligan (15 Seconds of Shame) – Accused of shooting her boyfriend to death in Illinois. Halligan would be profiled several times on 15 Seconds of Shame before she was indirectly capture in July 2010.
Maria Gomez (15 Seconds of Shame) – Illinois police say Gomez allegedly used a lottery scam to bilk elderly victims out of thousands of dollars in cash. Gomez was indirectly captured five months after this profile.
Amber McEntire & Darrell Yates (Full segment) Produced by: Evan Marshall / Edited by: Dani Froelich Rick Segall has the latest on a sad, senseless case out of Texas. A 22-month-old boy named Harold “Doc” Harris was loved by his grandparents, who "practically raised him." Doc's mother, Amber McEntire, began hanging out frequently with her new boyfriend, Darrell Yates. Soon, she pulled Doc out of her parents' care and moved in with Yates. Around this time, Doc was also pulled out of daycare and was reportedly seen with a black eye. When McEntire wouldn’t let her parents speak with her son, they went to investigate and found a note on McEntire’s door stating that she, Yates and Doc had decided to start a new life. They also found a revolting home filled with garbage and broken items. Police were called, and eventually found Doc’s body thrown into the woods not far behind the home. McEntire and Yates were suspected of killing the boy, and had been charged with abusing him. Within two weeks of this profile, McEntire and Yates were indirectly captured.
(commercial break) Heather Tallchief Capture & Roberto Solis (Full segment) Correspondent: Ed Miller / Edited by: Jim RobinsonEd Miller has an update on one of the strangest heists in Las Vegas history. In 1993, Heather Tallchief, who was working as an armored car driver for Loomis, drove off during her shift with more than $3 million. Police say she met up with her boyfriend, Roberto Solis, and the two of them fled. Over the years, the pair was profiled nine times on AMW, but none of the viewer tips ever panned out. Then in September, out of the blue, Tallchief surrendered to federal authorities in Las Vegas. She told them that she had been living in Europe pretty much ever since the robbery and decided to turn herself in because it was the right thing to do, and because of her son – whom she’d had with Solis, someone she said she hasn’t seen in over a decade. She also claimed that she had been brainwashed by Solis and manipulated her into thinking that the FBI would shoot her dead the second they cornered her. As of this profile, Tallchief was set to plead guilty to charges related to the heist. However, as John Walsh points out, there’s still one major piece of this puzzle that’s missing. Roberto Solis still hasn’t been caught, and now viewers are being asked once again to help find him. Solis is still at large. (commercial break) Lindsay Harris (Full segment) Produced by: Donna Brant / Edited by: Steve KobrenRetired Detective Joe Matthews heads to Las Vegas to investigate the disappearance of a young woman. Lindsay Harris grew up in upstate New York with a loving family. When she turned 18, she met a hip hop promoter named Solomon Barron, and unbeknownst to her parents, started dating him. She moved out to Las Vegas and began secretly working for an escort service. Her parents knew none of this, and only learned what Lindsay was doing in early 2005. Months later, they received a call from Solomon stating Lindsay had gone missing. She was last seen on surveillance video depositing money into her bank account on May 4, the day before she went missing. Dozens of theories abound, with some thinking Lindsay was stalked, others thinking it was a random attack, and some thinking that she just disappeared willingly. Solomon tells Joe that he was not involved in Lindsay’s disappearance that she was special to him. Unknown to all involved, Lindsay’s body had already been discovered in Illinois, but it wouldn’t be identified until 2008. Lindsay’s killer is still unidentified. In the Line of Duty – Officer Brian Jackson (Dallas Police Department, Texas) (commercial break) Ashley Martinez (Break Four Tease) – 15-year-old went missing from St. Joseph, Missouri. Ashley has piercings on her tongue and naval. Still missing (commercial break continues) Next week on AMW – Don LaFontaine says that, after last week’s show, a man wanted for questioning for a bombing death in Colorado has been captured. The full story of Ronald Young’s capture will be told next week, but if you can’t wait, check out amw.com for all the details. Recap – Jody Thompson; Lindsay Harris; Amber McEntire & Darrell Yates; Sherry Halligan; Jacqueline Gale; Roberto Solis Episode notes:- This episode was filmed in Las Vegas.
- Recycled/Repurposed Reenactments: William Bradford Bishop (once again, the scene of him sneaking into his son’s room is utilized for an accused pedophile – this time it’s Patty Kenley); Anthony Lee (the scene with the victim’s wife shooting at Lee is used for Sherry Halligan); Unknown Vancouver Serial Killer (non-reenactment footage of prostitutes shot for this story is used to highlight that Sherry Halligan has been arrested for prostitution); and Desiree Lingo-Perkins (the scene with police dogs searching the woods is used for Amber McEntire & Darrell Yates)
- Once again, despite Jody Thompson being a member of the U.S. Marshals’ 15 Most Wanted List, AMW never mentions this. Truly, I have no idea what their aversion was to mentioning these fugitives’ status when they were being profiled.
- John Walsh actually segues Thompson’s case into the show’s theme of Bad Girls in a really clever way. Though Thompson is male, he used women to help him commit his crimes, like the dental assistant who was charged with aiding his escape. He actually says, “Well, that’s one bad girl who’s behind bars,” then says when they return, they’ll be profiling female fugitives who need to be caught.
- A special introduction is used for 15 Seconds of Shame, with John Walsh stating, “Now, four bad girls who’ve earned their 15 Seconds of Shame.”
- When Rick Segall is breaking down the clues for Amber McEntire, the blue background that was frequently show behind profile cards from late 2001-October 2003 is used.
- During the credits for the Heather Tallchief/Roberto Solis case, no producer credit is given, but Ed Miller is credited as a “correspondent.” I’m about 100% certain he was also the producer of the segment, since there have been other cases with correspondents that did not list them in the credits.
- There is so much I have to say about Heather Tallchief’s capture report. Firstly, looking at the profile through modern eyes, it’s kind of hard to see Ed Miller essentially call Tallchief a liar for claiming that Roberto Solis brainwashed her into committing the robbery, especially after seeing her story on the Netflix show “Heist.” Secondly, I remember in the AMW Insider email that AMW claimed they would not be airing the interview that Tallchief did with Dateline – which offered its footage to AMW – because they didn’t want to give her more attention. Yet they ended up airing portions of that interview. Finally, John Walsh acts really tough too, saying, “Well, that’s Tallchief’s story, and she’s sticking to it. At least for now.” But there’s a behind the scenes clip online from the 2009 Bad Girls show, where this case was aired again, in which John says, “I’m going to give her the benefit of the doubt.” So, I don’t know if his views changed over time, or if he realized that maybe he shouldn’t be so hard on her since she did end up surrendering.
- Speaking of Tallchief’s surrender, she admitted on “Heist” that one major reason she turned herself in was because her fake passport was about to expire and she had no idea how she would end up with a new one without getting caught (Solis was the one who got it for her). As for Solis, “Heist” producers asked her about him and she’s convinced he’s dead. She also said that, when she told him she wanted to leave, he surprisingly just let her. He didn’t argue with her at all, basically just saying, “Okay, that’s fine.”
- At this point, it was not known that John Walsh had a personal connection to Lindsay Harris and her family. And he also never outright accuses Solomon Barron of being involved like he would several years later, but when he’s recapping the case, he says, “Lindsay’s boyfriend CLAIMED he spoke to her as she was leaving the casino.” I didn’t pick up on that at the time, or at least it didn’t seem out of the ordinary for John to say that.
- A brief shot of Officer Brian Jackson’s funeral is shown during In the Line of Duty.Next month on AMW:Dec. 3, 2005- The hunt for an accused rapist in New York City continues. AMW tracks down some people from Peter Braunstein's past to learn more about him and why he is the way he is.
- In Pennsylvania, there's another rapist on the loose. But not only is this rapist's identity not known, he's also wanted for murder after one of his victims fought back.
- When Roger Kemp’s daughter was brutally murdered, he could have let the grief consume him. Instead, he used his anger and sadness to make a difference. Dec. 10, 2005 - When a Georgia woman received a mysterious letter, she thought something bad might have happened to an elderly couple she know. After their bodies were found, police have put the word out for their son, who may be a danger to both the community and himself.
- Nobody thought anything was odd when a man in Arizona offered to help single women watch their sons. But what they didn't know was that this man had bad intentions which would cause these boys much harm.
- Five years ago, police in New York responded to a stabbing and found a little girl and her mother injured. Since that day, police have been on the hunt for the man accused of this violent attack. Dec. 17, 2005 - It’s time for John Walsh to reveal his 10 Most Wanted Fugitives of 2005. The worst of the worst are wanted for crimes ranging from sexual assault of a child to murder. - What should have been a relaxing night on the town for a new father and his friends turned tragic after he tried breaking up a fight. The suspect, out for revenge, allegedly gunned down the group of friends as they were returning home. - The worst of them all committed the ultimate betrayal. Once a beloved protector of his community, a former police officer is accused of two unthinkable crimes – molesting a child who trusted him, and killing the woman who stood by his side.
I won't make promises as to when I get December finally completed (especially since I'm working on another recapping project too) but I will say it won't be as long of a wait as it was to get this analysis done.
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Post by pakman on Feb 11, 2023 22:08:05 GMT -5
I saw this in my YouTube notifications! Great work in finding this and thank you for the upload! Stephen Harrington is still a fugitive, unfortunately, and as far as I know, the San Francisco robbery is still unsolved. Leslie Rogge and Richard Church have both been captured, though.
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Post by pakman on Feb 9, 2023 18:23:25 GMT -5
^ I think most of those we already knew about, but it's nice to have them in one place.
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Post by pakman on Feb 2, 2023 21:20:08 GMT -5
Genetic genealogy does it again! Unfortunate that this creep can't be brought to justice, but I'm thankful that we know who he is now.
One interesting note. When AMW first aired the Wedding Dress Attacker, they believed he had been linked to at least one other crime where there was no DNA evidence left behind (he assaulted a woman, but she fought back and scared him off). Turns out, that crime was committed by a completely unrelated fugitive who was nabbed shortly after the November 2006 airing.
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Post by pakman on Jan 27, 2023 21:38:08 GMT -5
^ Vicky's mother Linda, who was still living at the time of Burns' capture in 2010, passed away in 2014. I was able to find her obituary to confirm this. I remember AMW cameras were on hand to get her reaction to Burns' arrest, and I'll never forget the first thing she said - "Oh, I was hoping he was dead."
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Post by pakman on Jan 24, 2023 18:37:01 GMT -5
I think there was an unknown case profiled too. Years ago on YouTube there was a preview for the first episode and they showed both Roberts' mugshot and a composite. What that case was, I have no idea, unfortunately.
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Post by pakman on Jan 16, 2023 1:19:32 GMT -5
A profile of the Unknown Rick DeVecchi Killer has been uploaded. This appears to be the case's 1999 airing.
Randy DeVecchi, Rick's brother, is the one who uploaded the story.
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Post by pakman on Oct 31, 2022 22:17:11 GMT -5
Liz's murder was featured on the latest episode of On the Case with Paula Zahn. It revealed some interesting details that haven't been discussed here before.
- Police suspected the killer might have been someone Liz and her husband Sergio knew through the Star Wars community (as mentioned, they were both superfans of the franchise). The suspect can be seen on the video wearing tall white boots, similar to the ones people wearing Stormtrooper costumes have. But they ruled out every member of the Star Wars fan club that the Barrazas belonged to.
- Sergio said he thinks his father might have been behind Liz's murder. Apparently Sergio's father was in massive debt and cheating on Sergio's mother. Liz had a really large life insurance policy (which initially made police think Sergio did it, but they've ruled him out) and Sergio thinks his father wanted Liz killed so he'd get the money and his father would use it to pay off the debt he owed. Again, police can find no evidence of this being the case.
- It appears the killer is wearing a wig to disguise themselves.
- Sergio and Liz's parents knew about the incident immediately because all of them were connected to the Barraza's Ring doorbell and received an alert when the shooting happened.
- It's believed that Liz knew the killer. Whoever it was knew that she was having a garage sale that day and knew what car Sergio was driving, because whoever it was didn't pull onto the street until he left for work.
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Post by pakman on Oct 29, 2022 11:19:32 GMT -5
What an amazing experience! I can't even imagine what it would be like to have the opportunity to do that!
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Post by pakman on Oct 26, 2022 22:21:51 GMT -5
John mentioned in tonight's In Pursuit that the Boca Raton PD will not comment on the Bochicchio case because it's an ongoing investigation. Now I really want to go back and re-watch the original AMW profiles of the case because I can't remember if they interviewed anybody with the police department or not. I definitely remember Nancy's sister being interviewed, but now I'm really confused if this has always been their policy like John stated or if it's a new policy.
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