Upcoming in "The Hunt With John Walsh" Season 2- 2015

Next Week, I think it's Bruce Sawhill and New fugitive yet to decide

You know what I'd like to see that hasn't happened yet? A Hunt direct capture BEFORE the broadcast. Like someone sees the preview on The Hunt's CNN website or through a CNN article or Facebook post and recognizes the fugitive. Would also be interesting to see how The Hunt handles that. I'm sure it will happen one day if the show continues for a few more seasons.

Don't mean to double-post, but I just had this thought about Dylan's sloppiness accusations. Perhaps it was sloppy because it was done by a hitman who had never done it before? I feel like that's what prosecutors would have said at his trial

I should have mentioned this earlier but thanks to Progressive for sponsoring the Second Season of The Hunt.

Also, I want to say, I know Katie's parents and sister were beating themselves up over her death- but her death in my opinion is to be blamed on one person and one person alone- and that's Bruce Sawhill.

This isn't a case where you go "they just met the guy and they're letting him babysit?"- the father had known Bruce since the two were teenagers. Bruce grew marijuana so his excuse for prison being marijuana charges made perfect sense.

And they tried to get Katie help and asked her if she was ok but she kept up a front that she was ok and kept the demons within herself.

I feel bad because in so many shows the victims beat themselves up, and blame themselves, and except in some rare circumstances (*cough* Patricia Said *cough*), it's usually not their fault.

I hate to be the one to bring this up- but the Hunt has experienced a bit of a capture lull right now. Next week will be the half-way point of 8 episodes (9 if you count the "Still Running" episode). Only Megan Everett has been captured.

There are some reasons to be optimistic- last year The Hunt had only caught Charles Mozdir at the halfway point (Shane Miller's body was discovered- but we've already discussed that really wasn't because of The Hunt). Also, Genevieve Kelley would become a direct capture a few months later (even that's debatable but for argument's/this conversation's sake I'll give the Hunt credit for Genevieve's capture).

In addition there are a few fugitives like Tomas Gonzalez, Herbert Maldonado, and Prakashanand Saraswati where even if The Hunt led to their hideout it would take additional time to arrest and/or extradite likely being in other countries (heck, even Margaret Smith could be in Mexico too). (Or even Yaser Said if he's in Egypt).

Still, I feel John Walsh has exaggerated The Hunt's success, as much as I love the show. As much as I loved The Hunt and AMW, Walsh exaggerates captures. He claims 1,230 captures for AMW when the final total was 1204. He claims credit for AMW capturing Eric Rudolph when they never took credit for Eric Rudolph. And he keeps saying The Hunt captured four guys last season. ONLY Charles Mozdir and (once again arguably) Genevieve Kelley is there any tangible evidence that The Hunt was the direct result for season 1.

Megan Everett has been the only season 2 fugitive captured.

There is no proof Shane Miller and Kevin Stoeser's body discoveries, and Victor Barnard's capture had anything to do with The Hunt.

All the season 1 remaining fugitives are still at large despite multiple repeats and even more extra sets of eyes thanks to Netflix airings.

The Hunt has aired a total of 20 fugitives so far who weren't caught before the show premiered- they've had 3 direct captures out of that 20. That number isn't that good.

It's a catch-22 situation. I do agree The Hunt is a better show than AMW because they expand. You take a look at every fugitive they've aired that they also aired on AMW, and for most cases- you have to admit The Hunt airing was better, had more detail and got you even angrier at the fugitive- this includes Yaser Said, Margaret Smith, Paul Jackson, and Bruce Sawhill. And probably Rick McLean. (Maybe not Dave Burget).

At the same time- there comes a point where you want to actually capture these guys.

I remember I read a quote from a Producer once where they said something like "and if we happen to capture one of these guys, that's even better."

And I think therein lies the problem.

I think AMW, although not as good a show towards the end, made more of an effort to actually catch these fugitives. The Hunt does a better job at telling the story, but their focus is more on the story.

Sorry if this sounds harsh. I love The Hunt, and I think it's better show than AMW was its' last years on Fox (and arguably the Lifetime season). It's just I really don't get why they can't have like a 15 seconds of shame or do something to broadcast more fugitives. The Justice Network has been having tremendous success with 30 second PSA's. Not enough fugitives are getting caught the same pace as AMW. Even the fugitives aired aren't getting caught at the same pace as AMW. (I'm sure they had a better batting average than 3-per-20).

I just felt this needed to be brought up again. If not for The Hunt to think about airing more fugitives, than at least for Walsh and company or someone else to think about bringing AMW back or doing a new breaking news type show in addition to The Hunt that can show a few more cases.

Aside from the fugitives that have been arrested or those that are now dead, most of the fugitives The Hunt has profiled are probably more difficult to apprehend than most fugitives. Genevieve Kelley surrendered was a good cold case fugitive direct capture but they don't happen that often. Also even though efforts to find fugitives in foreign countries have gotten better, there are still challenges in finding fugitives that flee the US, especially the cold case ones.

The push for additional viewer ratings is resulting in airing these more emotional and complex cases which for the most part have been told very professionally and well in my opinion, but Scumhunter is right, this does result in less captures.

Why not post additional fugitives that Law Enforcement are looking for on the official website, and manage the archives better than amw.com did. In the latter years of AMW, a lot of great captures occurred off the website, including Bruno Salgado who to date is the longest-running fugitive caught by a John Walsh hosted program.