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Post by catchumall on Dec 7, 2016 12:37:50 GMT -5
I looked it up and it's Farewell to Manzanar but I wouldn't have been able to spell it either. I've never seen either movie though. Thanks for the correction. I remember my sister read the novel for a high school assignment. The tv movie was made in the 1970s.
McCarthy and Mako's characters in "Pacific Heights" were renters of an apartment in a building owned by Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine and who were terrorized by a psychopathic Michael Keaton.
Getting back to Toru Sakai...he speaks English well without an accent...I think he probably settled in the US or Canada and living a quiet life to stay low.
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Post by catchumall on Dec 6, 2016 20:39:35 GMT -5
I recognize the actress playing Toru Sakai's mother in the AMW reenactment as Nobu McCarthy. She appeared in the film "Pacific Heights" and the Japanese internment camp tv movie "Farewell to Manzinar" (spelling?).
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Post by catchumall on Dec 6, 2016 20:36:18 GMT -5
If he is alive, he probably aged badly advanced of his years (white hair, sun-tanned skin)
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Post by catchumall on Dec 6, 2016 20:32:14 GMT -5
I get a "Sheldon from 'The Big Bang Theory' or the Jack Black character from the film "High Fidelity" nerd vibe from this guy...
since Scoville ran stores in music buy back and collectibles that he may have a fussy know-it-all demeanor as a discriminating collector. If fellow collectors can recognize his personality as a stand-out as controlling and ruthless as a collector and an embezzler/murderer, it could lead to his capture..if he is still alive as a hi-fi collector as a fugitive.
I read in a crime magazine that Scoville also wrote science fiction stories as a hobby. He could frequent comic book and science fiction conventions.
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Post by catchumall on Dec 6, 2016 20:21:38 GMT -5
Can imagine a homeless transient lifestyle for this guy.
Long hair, unwashed body, and roaming around in search of his next drug fix.
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Post by catchumall on Dec 5, 2016 19:50:40 GMT -5
The AMW profile coincided with the theatrical premiere of the 2006 film "The Black Dahlia" that was directed by Brian DePalma and starred Josh Hartnett as lead detective Dwight "Bucky" Bliechert, Aaron Eckhart as Detective Lee Blanchard, Scarlett Johannsen, Hilary Swank, and Mia Kirschner as the ill-fated Elizabeth Short. The film got mixed reviews with the unpleasant subject matter.
There was also a made for tv movie in 1975 "Who Is The Black Dahlia?" that starred Lucie Arnaz as Elizabeth Short..which was tamer in content for network tv viewing.
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Post by catchumall on Sept 17, 2016 19:23:44 GMT -5
I never thought about that but it makes a lot of sense Catchumall. I do have to wonder why he would drive all the way from Pennsylvania to Rhode Island, just to cross a river. There wouldn't be any other explanation for the blood trail to lead to that river. Maybe the pain from the bullet wound in Webb's leg caused him so much agony that he couldn't continue the drive to his planned destination to meet a contact or that his leg went numb or paralyzed from the loss of blood and the tissue damage that he couldn't accelerate or brake his car any more.
Desperate measures for a desperate killer.
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Post by catchumall on Sept 17, 2016 19:10:34 GMT -5
The black tear drop tattoo under the eye...
Isn't that a prison thing that murderers usually get with the number of tear drops equaling the number of murder victims that the convict was convicted of killing?
That alone should make Ellis stand out in a crowd.
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Post by catchumall on Sept 17, 2016 19:01:02 GMT -5
The reenactment had the mortally wounded Chief Adams shooting Webb in the leg as Webb (or whoever the shooter may be) was getting into his car to get away. The car was found abandoned with a trail of blood stains leading to a river close by.
I probably think Webb's attempt to navigate a river on a gimpy leg probably had him gotten swept away in the currents...there weren't any hospitals in the vicinity reporting treating any patients with a bullet-wounded leg at the time...I don't know if a gun shot wounded patient qualified as something a doctor would not report to the authorities...especially if there might be an APB out for a wounded suspect in a murder of a town police chief.
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Post by catchumall on Sept 16, 2016 18:56:07 GMT -5
The same. I'm not connected with law enforcement. Just a regular viewer of AMW.
The stolen bank documents were never found. Bearer Bonds might have been part of the haul.
There were composite sketches of the suspects that came from a description from a bicycle store sales clerk in San Francisco who might have sold similar brands of bikes to two male customers not long before the crime went down.
San Francisco Chronicle newspaper article on the crime 11 years after it happened:
www.sfgate.com/crime/article/San-Francisco-s-Perfect-Unsolved-Die-Hard-Crime-2715539.php
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Post by catchumall on Sept 16, 2016 18:50:42 GMT -5
True. Having a prime-time network time slot and backing to provide for the phone hotline and the staff to jot down the tips and having actual law enforcement personnel assigned to the cases profiled on the show's broadcast on camera helped in "AMW's" and "Unsolved Mysteries'". Of course, John Walsh's sincerity, conviction, and enduring tragedy himself add integrity to whatever project he is involved in.
"Prime Suspect" mostly had Host Hegedus in a studio set introducing and narrating the various fugitive profiles. Not sure if he interacted with any law enforcement officials connected with the cases or with the crime victim's relatives and acquaintances much. Very low budget show. Syndicated programs shown at varied times and days across the US can be difficult to attract a wide consistent audience and to keep the cases at a high profile level as well. Valiant attempt, though.
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Post by catchumall on Sept 16, 2016 18:10:32 GMT -5
Fischer's twisted reasoning probably had him thinking it was a mercy killing...
putting the kid out of his misery while having one less debt to pay and bumping off his girlfriend as one less witness to mess up his plans.
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Post by catchumall on Sept 16, 2016 14:20:25 GMT -5
I'm not sure if this case is on this board or not...the case hits a little close to home since I happened to be working in an office two blocks from the robbery/murder location...and a month before the infamous San Francisco Giants-Oakland Athletics World Series Earthquake on October 17, 1989. This was shown on AMW with John Walsh visiting San Francisco and profiling crimes committed there in the program and later repeated in the AMW Final Justice series.
On September 7, 1989, two men on bicycles had ambushed a Brinks armored car guard bringing out a sack of bank documents outside of the Bank of America's then-office headquarters at 555 California Street in San Francisco during the daytime hours on a weekday. One man shot the guard and the other took the sack. They also shot a second guard and a bystander and both survived their wounds. The robbers high-fived each other and rode their bicycles through busy downtown traffic to escape. The bikes were found abandoned in the South of Market area with the serial numbers sanded off. The stolen sack did not contain any money. The suspects were not wearing masks and were described as Caucasian males in their 30s and wearing white baseball caps. . A possible witness sighting had a third accomplice picking up the suspects in a station wagon. The first guard, Joseph Arriola of Vallejo CA. died at the scene.
It was something of a high-profile case at the time. Haven't heard much about the case since the Final Justice rerun.
Being two blocks from an AMW crime scene...the case did stir my interest in being a fan of AMW since then.
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Post by catchumall on Sept 16, 2016 13:55:08 GMT -5
Anyone recall an "AMW"-type fugitive hunt series that aired in syndication for one season in the mid-1990s. I remember the show aired on Saturday afternoons in my local city but there wasn't a website for the show and there are no reruns to view online.
The series was hosted and produced by Mike Hegedus, who had worked as a news reporter for KPIX CBS affiliate in San Francisco before the series premiered, and later worked for CNBC. The series profiled wanted fugitives in each half hour show using news footage and reinactments. Viewers can contact the show by a toll-free phone number with tips.
One case I remember had profiled actor Joel Kenney, who starred in the Walt Disney film "Midnight Madness" in 1980, who was wanted for child molestation. An online search revealed Kenney was arrested years after the Prime Suspect show ended and was serving time in prison.
I think AMW and the Prime Suspect show profiled a few of the same fugitives but I'm not sure. Anyone remember other details?
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