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That was a really good episode but did anyone else notice that we didn't get a preview for next week?

I know there will be a new episode but it only makes sense to promote it.

They just showed a preview for Margaret Smith on CNN. Interestingly enough, they show who I'm assuming is Dylan Loughery (Smith's hired hitman) giving a jailhouse interview. We've seen this on AMW on some rare occasions but this is the first time I believe that The Hunt has ever interviewed an accomplice of a fugitive in prison, or any inmate for that matter.

P.S. I still don't see any articles about Paul Winklebleck, so I'm wondering if since he's dead they cut out his segment and expanded the Margaret Smith case to an entire hour. I guess we'll find out on Sunday.

tvguide.com has an episode titled "Fighting for Life" without a description for August 23rd as well. Perhaps The Hunt had time to replace a case after all or they just pushed the Dion episode back (having a one-hour already captured case would be the way to go against the debut of Sunday night football lol). While there could be more than one case, fighting for life, who knows with that description what it could be. Seems to indicate an attempted murder case, with the victim fighting for life, obviously. But we won't know until there's a description or when CNN uploads the case on their website.

Ok episode review time. Once again spoilers below....




Margaret Smith case was very good. While I thought the Lifetime re-enactment was a decent one, this was obviously even better, went into more detail, and it was interesting to see The Hunt do their first prison interview. Dylan Loughery maintains his innocence and says he believes Margaret killed George Smith herself. He says the fact the murder was so sloppy proves a hitman couldn't have done it.

The problem with that is police say one of the phone numbers that was in contact with Margaret Smith the night of the murder belonged to Dylan's girlfriend's cell phone. In addition, investigators say other informants say Dylan was the culprit.

In fairness to Dylan's argument, he is right that it did look sloppy. However, the only explanation for him being on Margaret's phone records is if she wanted to frame him for murder- and she never mentioned him to investigators. You'd think she would if she wanted to.

I do believe Dylan would have never killed anyone if it wasn't for Margaret Smith and she was the brains and manipulated him. However, since he was convicted and proven guilty, he needs to live with the consequences.

It was ridiculous Margaret had a lower bail than Dylan though.

Also, Winklebleck segment was good and was that real time footage on the cell phone? If so that's frightening. Also, even though the Smith case took up about 35-40 minutes, and this case was truncated, it still managed to expand from AMW (which is John Walsh's argument for only 1-2 cases an episode) and show his child molester past.

While it is disappointing they couldn't have replaced Winklebleck with another fugitive since he was likely found deceased, at least this case was hopefully a good learning experience for any young girls or parents of young girls if they happened to be watching the show- to not believe any guy who claims to be an undercover cop or parking lot security or whatever outside a concert.

Also, this deviated from the AMW story a bit. In that re-enactment both girls were fighting Winklebleck. In this one, only one did while the other one ran. I do think they said they were both fighting him in their AMW interviews. So maybe The Hunt just glossed over that they were both fighting initially.

But yeah a pretty good episode of The Hunt and hopefully it can finally capture the AMW Lifetime debut fugitive.