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Post by 912thamwuser on Mar 27, 2013 21:30:57 GMT -5
Derek had a thread in the old AMW forums for listing and describing the old AMW captures, and I've decided to restart the thread with better forums that have more bells and whistles, with a deeper single-post capacity, so that fewer posts may be needed to list them all. Links will be added by request, but I'll need advice on FreeForums' terms of use policy so I don't accidentally violate them. My goal is to have ~100 old captures per post, so it won't be as choppy as before. Starting with Captures #1 through #20, and updated periodically. Any missing or additional details on the listed captures would be appreciated as well. UPDATE: All the first 100 captures are now listed! EDIT FROM SITE ADMIN: The below capture directory information is not an official management posting and was compiled by a member of the forum based on their research and what they found on their own. If there are proof of any inaccuracies, please e-mail the website contact form (whining and complaining that one of the fugitives who is your father, cousin etc... is on here and it's unfair because they were innocent or "not the monster they were made out to be" does not count as inaccuracies (unless they were found innocent in court), but anything about what they were wanted for, how much time they received etc... may apply). Here is the link to the website contact form: amwfans.com/board/33/website-contact-form David James Roberts, #1, Fbr 11, 1988 A master criminal out of Indiana and one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. He has been in trouble with the law nearly his entire adulthood. In 1966, he committed some of his earliest rapes and robberies. In January of 1974, he murdered a couple and blew up their home, leaving their baby to die of smoke inhalation. That October, he raped a woman and set down her infant son just outside of her car, leaving the little boy to die of cold air exposure. He was caught and condemned to death, then commuted to 6 life terms. In October 1986, he pulled a hidden gun on two officers whom he'd convinced to take him to lunch at a McDonald's and loosen his shackles, then escaped from prison. The next month, too sick to flee south of the US border, he headed to Staten Island, stumbled into a men's homeless shelter, worked his way up the ranks, and earned good regards from the homeless community. In April of 1987, he ascended to coordinator when the previous one handed in his resignation, and was moved to the top of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, but the posters had a badly inaccurate and therefore ineffective mugshot of him. Promotional clips from early February of 1988 teased much more accurate photos of him, after which more than a thousand tips busted him. He's currently serving 6 life terms as before he escaped, thus far hasn't taken responsibility for the killings, and accuses the justice system of railroading him. Though still alive, he has been on blood pressure medications for several decades. Donald B Adams, #2, Mrc 17, 1988 In the last days of March 1987, he was out on parole following a robbery charge when he raped a woman in Massachusetts. He was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison for rape and parole violation, but was erroneously set free that November. AMW busted him in Boston, Massachusetts. He was relieved that his run was over because he could see his family again. Paul Steven Mack ( DECEASED), #3, Mrc 22, 1988 A self-proclaimed graduate of the Le Cordon Bleu cooking school, turned convicted burglar and forger who'd recently been paroled in 1985. In February 1987, he lured a California beauty pageant champion named Karen Grace Winslett, who'd just won Las Vegas' Miss English Leather contest, with an empty promise of a photo shoot for a calendar spread, then used a pain killer to drug and rape her. In order to finish her off, he raised the dosage enough to kill 25 people, then left her body in her car, parked behind a motel in North Sacramento. A few months later, he even appeared as a guest chef on a national TV show. In 1981, he sexually murdered a 19 year old girl named Annette Huddle, who once worked for him as a secretary in Marion, Ohio, with a similar M.O. In Utah, he used his charms to marry a woman who worked with him as a chef, then became violent and abusive. It escalated until one day, he skipped town after his wife woke up, suspected he'd raped her, and took in a drinking glass for a fingerprint test. A tip from a woman in Ohio recognized him as having formerly worked at a country club there, and sent a tip that busted him stepping out of a home in Salt Lake City, Utah, that he purchased under an alias, working as a novelty items, sporting goods, and apparel salesman. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in California, 1/4 century for the murder of Winslett alone. In 2017, his health was declining, and he was transferred to the California Health Care Facility, and in 2018, he was pronounced dead. Before then, Ohio had minimal evidence to convict Mack for Huddle's murder, and while he'd confessed to his lawyer, he never confessed to police, which left her murder investigation open, but his lawyer testified afterward that Mack told him things only the killer could've known, so Huddle's case was closed. Karl "Fabulous" Dunstrom, Steven McMillian, and Kirk Bruce, #4/#5/#6, Apl 9/Apl 15, 1988 In January 1988, these three people burst into an apartment in Landover, Maryland with machine guns, sprayed bullets, and assassinated 5 crack gang members in a drug war dispute. Previously, in late November 1987, Dunstrom had also murdered a 17 year old boy in NYC. Dunstrom was busted in a basement in NYC after a brief struggle on April 9, 1988. On April 15, McMillian and Bruce were busted at McMillian's mother's house. Curtis Ray Morgan ( DECEASED), #7, Apl 21, 1988 During his marriage, he'd habitually beaten his wife and terrorized the rest of their family. In August 1987, he shot her father, a prominent Sun Valley, California gas station owner to death following the divorce. He was busted in St. Petersburg, Florida, sentenced to 27 years to life, and died in 2010. James Charles Stark ( DECEASED), #8, Apl 25, 1988 In May 1987, he shot a 19 year old girl to death in Alabama. In late February 1988, he kidnapped and raped a woman at gunpoint in Hemet, California. He was busted working at a car wash in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In June of 1991, he made a failed attempt to escape, then committed suicide shortly later. Steven Randall Dye, #9, May 20, 1988 In May 1981, he killed a motorcyclist in Cleveland, Ohio. In October 1986, he shot and wounded a man in a trailer in New Jersey. After a suspected accomplice in the New Jersey wounding was captured, AMW honored a request to air him on the 5-08-988 broadcast. He saw himself on AMW, flagged down a San Diego cop, and identified himself. He was the first person to become an AMW Direct Result capture by surrendering. Mark Austin Goodman, #10, May 17, 1988 A career criminal on the US Marshal's 15 Most Wanted list. He had robbed at least 10 banks in Oklahoma, escaped from at least 7 prisons, and was wanted for other charges in 4 or 5 other states. In mid May 1988, tipsters recognized Goodman serving 2 1/2 months in a minimum security prison stockade, so corrections officers were hoping to transfer him to a more secure prison, but by then, Goodman scaled up one of the stockade's walls and escaped yet again, but within the next day or two, an off-duty deputy In Jupiter, Florida, who saw him on AMW, acted on those tips, spotted him outside a mall, and arrested him. William Joseph Walker, #11, May 20, 1988 Details are uncertain, but he may have been wanted for armed robbery out of St Charles County, Missouri. Busted in Detroit, Michigan. John "Jack" Darrell Farmer ( DECEASED), #12, May 30, 1988 The head of Chicago's "Little Mafia" and one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives. He was a person of interest in the murders of 2 people who owed him debts. When he was held on other charges related to the Little Mafia, he bound and gagged his defence attorney and fled an Illinois prison. He was busted in Florida, working in a local food store warehouse. A prosecutor recommended a 9 decade sentence, citing Farmer's determination to kill him and likely many other people, but the jury could only secure 4 decades. 5 years into his term, in 1993, he hanged himself in his cell. Denice "Bobber" Stumpner ( RELEASED), #13, Jne 29, 1988 A motorcycle gang banger. In 1983, he and several other men raped a woman in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He fled partway through the assault, but a co-conspirator slashed her throat a few minutes later, and another co-conspirator hid the body in a manure pit. The very next year, he started over at a horse farm, and worked there until he was busted. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison and got out in early 2011. Ronald Jenkins and Bridgett Green, #14/#15, Jly 1, 1988 In January 1988, they went on a shoplifting spree in Georgia. It hit a breaking point when Jenkins stabbed a department store security guard to death in Atlanta. They were busted together in Missouri, becoming the first couple busted together in the capture roster. Robert Wayne Fisher, #16, Jly 17, 1988 In late August 1987, he shot his wife to death in Lake Charles, Louisiana, then fled a 175 Grand bond in January 1988. During his time on the run, he indecently abused a child. He was busted in El Centro, California, sleeping in a motel off of tips sent in to AMW by his roommates. Fernando Garcia, #17, Ags 2, 1988 A convicted child abuser. In August 1987, he was babysitting a 3 year old girl in Dallas, TX. He raped her, tried to eat her alive, and beat her over the head before strangling her to death. He was busted working in an auto repair shop in Bangor, Maine. He was convicted and condemned to death, but the sentence was later commuted to life in prison. Leroy Carter, #18, Ags 18, 1988 A serial con artist and police impersonator. In April 1988, one old woman in New York lost more than 12 Grand. Though his introductory airing didn't yield a capture, a tipster saw a promotion that mentioned he was scheduled to be re-aired, and busted him in Harlem, New York. Kevin Kelly and Kenneth Shannon (both RELEASED), #19/#20, Ags 15, 1988 Over a few decades, the Westies gang had operated in the Hell's Kitchen district of NYC. These two were the last two alphas, the two most active racketeers from 1985 to 1988. They were wanted for extortion, loansharking, and murder (1 dead, 1 wounded). After they saw themselves on America's Most Wanted, and once they were sun tanned and well rested, they surrendered to FBI agents in a Manhattan, New York attorney's office. Kevin Kelly was sentenced to 18 years in prison and got out in 2006, and Shannon got roughly 13 years and got out in 2001. Gregory J Scarpa Jr ( RELEASED), #21, Ags 29, 1988 In 1986, he inherited the Colombo crime family out of NYC after his father contracted HIV and AIDS from a botched blood transfusion. He was charged with kidnapping, drug trafficking, extortion, and worst of all, carrying out or planning 5 murders from 1981 to 1987. A notorious organized crime higher-up, though not to the degree of his father. He may have been on the US Marshals' 15 Most Wanted list, but that's uncertain. He was busted in New Jersey and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in circa 2035. In 1996, he testified against February 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, but in 1999, it was proven false, getting his sentence doubled to 4 decades. He was serving time in Florence ADX in 2005 when he sent in a tip that helped the feds recover some leftover, unused explosives owned by Terry Nichols, Timothy McVeigh's second in command, temporarily getting a decade shaved off the sentence until another court struck down that discount. By November 2020, he was in horribly poor health, namely late stage cancer that necessitated surgically ectomizing his salivary glands, as well as some warning signs of dementia, but was granted a compassionate release to spend his last years with his sister in Florida. James Ray Renton ( DECEASED), #22, Spt 6, 1988 He was suspected of conspiring with 3 other criminals to kidnap an Arkansas officer during a traffic stop and shoot him to death, was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list in the spring of 1976, and initially captured in the spring of 1977. He had escaped from several prisons starting in 1985. During a jailbreak in July 1988, he escaped a maximum security prison, and was added to the US Marshals' 15 Most Wanted list. He was busted in Austin, Texas, sleeping at night in a Salvation Army shelter barracks. He was serving life without parole, but succumbed to cancer in the early 1990s. In the contest for Best Capture of the 1st Century of Captures besides David James Roberts and John Emil List, Renton was the runner-up. Joseph Kindler, #23, Spt 6, 1988 AMW's first capture outside the United States. In 1984, he murdered an 18 year old crime witness in Pennsylvania and was condemned to death. He managed to flee justice, then got re-arrested on other charges in Quebec, Canada. In 1986, he killed his cellmate and escaped the Quebec prison. He'd managed to land a job in St. John, Canada, but his co-workers were terrified of him when they saw him on AMW, so they called in the tip and busted him. He was initially sent to death row, but in March 2018, his sentence was commuted to life in prison. Terry Lee Johnson, #24, Spt 8, 1988 One of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted. In 1976, he murdered his former neighbor in Alabama because he wouldn't let Johnson hunt on his land. He escaped his trial in 1981, then got recaptured, then escaped from prison in 1986. He was busted in San Diego, California after brandishing a gun during a high-speed chase. He's now serving life in prison. Frederick R "Peanut Butter Bandit" Merrill, #25, Spt 22, 1988 In 1965, he got in trouble with the law on a burglary charge just a single year after graduating high school, violated his probation, and got pinched shortly later. On Christmas of 1967, with roughly only 1.2 months left on his sentence, he planted a mannequin in his prison bed, climbed over a fence, and fled to his mother's house, only to get recaptured when cops predicted it. In mid December 1968, he escaped from prison again when his mother hid a gun, a handcuff key, and some cash in a jar of peanut butter, but was recaptured an hour or two later. In 1987, he was accused beating and raping a woman, then escaped from Connecticut's highest security jail that August. He was busted working at an apple orchard in New Brunswick, Canada, but the night before June 1989, he climbed over a sharp fence in an outdated Toronto jail and slid down a drainpipe, briefly escaping, hiding in the wilderness, and got recaptured 2 weeks later, disheveled and exhausted. After serving several years in Canada, he was extradited and sentenced to multiple decades in prison. He was granted a parole hearing in June 2012 and temporarily released in 2013. Unfortunately, he got caught with child pornography in 2014, sent back to prison until early 2022, and registered as a sex offender forever. Lewis Wesley Barnes, #26, Spt 27, 1988 He was arrested in Marion County, Florida for the murders of 2 antique dealers. In April 1988, he escaped while awaiting trial. He was busted in Texas, extradited to Florida, and sentenced to life in prison, but for some reason, he was sent back to Texas to serve the rest of his sentence. Donald Bruce Parsons, #27, Oct 27, 1988 Details are uncertain, but he may have been a twice convicted Colorado sex offender wanted for molesting another child. He was busted in Arizona. Kirkton Phenor Moore and Raylene ( RELEASED) Brooks, #28/#29, Oct 27/Oct 28, 1988 In September 1988, Kirkton committed a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles that wounded 3 people, with Raylene (born in circa 1971) as the getaway driver. A few minutes after the drive-by, Kirkton killed a police officer with an assault rifle. Just over a month after the 4 casualties, Kirkton and Raylene surrendered at a TV newsman's station in Hollywood, California. Kirkton was sentenced to 2 life terms with no parole. Raylene got 1/4 century to life, but because she was still under 18 at the time of the shootings, and was not the triggerman, the public wanted them to eventually release Raylene, even when the Los Angeles Police Department wanted her kept away forever. She even made promises to advise youth on how to avoid making the bad decisions she made in the late '980s, and America is counting on her to make good on it. Richard Toshishige Yoshino ( DECEASED), #30, Nvb 6, 1988 In 1974, he was serving time in a Hawaii prison on unrelated charges when he murdered 2 people and escaped. In 1984, he was arrested in Torrance, California, but fled again. He was aired on 10-30-988, busted in California, sent back to Hawaii, imprisoned forever, and died in 1995. Alvin Jackson, #31, Nvb 7, 1988 In Baltimore, he committed a crime spree during 1985 and 1986. He burglarized 3 buildings, robbed 8 people, raped 4 women, and made failed attempts at 2 people's lives. He was busted in Daytona Beach, Florida. James Allen Malloy and James Malloy Jr, #32/#226, Nvb 17/Nvb 18, 1988 The elder Malloy was a carpenter sought for car theft and probation violation in Georgia. He was last seen with a man believed to have been murdered, but no body has ever been found. He was busted in Tampa, Florida. Based on Capture #226 sharing a given name and surname with capture #32, and because they were busted within 24 hours in Florida, Capture #226, James Malloy Jr was most likely James Allen Malloy's son and criminal accomplice, but AMW didn't accept credit for the younger Malloy's capture until the latter half of 1992, just under 4 years after he went down. Michael Cooper, #33, Nvb 23, 1988 In Portland, Oregon, he posed as a pro football player. He raped 4 women in secluded locations, and tried but failed to rape a 5th victim. He was busted in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. Steven Ray Stout, #34, Dcb 6, 1988 In January 1988, in Utah, he broke into a woman's home. When her 19 year old daughter returned home from work, he murdered both of them using a knife, a ball-peen hammer, and a Pepsi bottle. He was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list a few months later. And a few months after THAT, an AMW tipster busted him working as a handyman in Gulfport, Mississippi. William and Rebecca ( RELEASED) Jo Hewlett, #35/#36, Dcb 19, 1988 In the 1970s, William was suspected in several bank robberies and bombings in the New England region on behalf of a terrorist cartel, including an April 1977 rape in West Virginia and an April 1983 rape in Naples, Florida. Throughout the early 1980s, he was wanted for questioning in countless rapes in Florida and West Virginia. His wife Rebecca was a wanted Social Security fraudstress. Both were persons of interest in the murder of a woman last seen with them in the Cades Cove sector of Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains, around the turn of September to October 1984. Her body was found 3 days before New Year's, going into 1985. The next Christmas, going into 1986, the Hewletts were wanted for questioning. For these crimes, William Hewlett was added to the US Marshals' 15 Most Wanted list. They were busted in northeastern Mississippi, having been visiting the area since that April and getting their motor fixed just days before. William was later convicted of sexually murdering the woman, failed a polygraph test regarding other rapes and murders, and was sentenced to 6 decades to life, and Rebecca pled guilty to lesser charges and got out on a half decade probation. Harold Hummel, #37, Dcb 22, 1988 A convicted murderer. He was imprisoned for bank robbery in Arizona, but escaped in July 1988. He was busted in the town of Syringa, Idaho, and sentenced to a century in prison. Stanley Faison, #38, Dcb 24, 1988 A Detroit drug conspiracy doorman on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. In 1965, he bludgeoned a man to death and stole his car. In June of 1987, he stabbed a fellow drug dealer to death. On Christmas Eve 1988, he was busted in Detroit, Michigan, unarmed underneath a bed. Rudy Mike Blanusa ( RELEASED), #39, Jnr 23, 1989 In October 1986, 2 brothers in Modesto, California accused Blanusa of robbing their house. He abducted the brothers and shot them dead. He was busted in Burnaby, Vancouver, Canada, working for a scaffolding company. He was sentenced to 35 years to life. By July 2017, Blanusa had been granted a parole hearing, and walked out a free man that December. Hopefully he's nowhere near as dangerous anymore. Frederick Raskin, #40, Fbr 1, 1989 An ex-lawyer. In March 1988, his wife filed for divorce. The next month, he shot her dead. Her body was found in Augusta, Georgia, in a warehouse, stuffed into a metal barrel. He was busted in Tampa, Florida, in a hotel that catered to transients. Gene Allen Wasson, #41, Fbr 13, 1989 A Vietnam veteran. In June 1984, he was suspected of stabbing his daughter's 18 year old boyfriend more than 30 times with an unknown motive, wrapped the body in tarpaulin, and left it floating in a Louisiana bayou, before taking his adoptive daughter and leaving her with family members in Ohio. He was busted in Roselle, New Jersey, working under an alias as a laborer for a plastic company. Darryl Lynn Templeton and Denise Susan Marino, #42/#43, Fbr 24, 1989 Templeton was an Elvis impersonator from America's SouthWestern Desert. In May 1988, he kidnapped a woman from a Tucson, Arizona gas station, drove her to the open desert, and raped her before releasing her. Marino, the accomplice, accompanied Templeton and helped him flee to the east coast. They were busted in Spartanburg, Florida, where Templeton was playing gigs as a local singer named Bubba Caldron. Templeton was released from prison in 1991, but in 2007, he became one of the earliest criminals arrested for refusing to obey the Adam Walsh Act. Vernon Norman Earle, #44, Mrc 7, 1989 Convicted of the November 1986 murder of an innocent bystander, he was named to the US Marshals' 15 Most Wanted list after getting ahold of wire cutters, cutting through chainlink fences, and escaping from a DC-area Virginia prison on a foggy night in September 1988. He was busted in Maryland. Details about his case are uncertain, but he may have been a national enforcer for the Shower Posse. Throughout 1988, over a dozen suspects had broken out of that same prison, creating drama between Virginia politicians about the security of prisons around there and who or what should've been running them. Clarence Swanigan ( RELEASED), #45, Mrc 14, 1989 In September 1988, he killed a cab driver in a wallet robbery. He was busted in Illinois. Prosecutors sought the death penalty at first, but they soon commuted his sentence to 6 decades. Gain time laws further reduced that to just under 3 decades, and he got out in late February 2019. Ronnie "The Colorado Prime Time Prowler" Hill, #46, Apl 5, 1989 He burglarized at least 25 Colorado homes during evening hours. His most distinct tactic was sneaking from room to room with the intent of avoiding notice. He was busted in Chula Vista, California. Hector "Tombstone" Fragoso Burgueno, #47, Apl 21, 1989 In Sonora, Mexico, he killed a man for drug-related reasons, then kidnapped, tortured, and murdered 11 witnesses. He was a person of interest in a quintuple murder in Tucson, Arizona, but was never charged in that case. He was busted in a rural district of Pima County, Arizona. Convicted in Mexico, he got a slap to the wrist; a 3 decade sentence with rumors of temporary release privileges for holidays. Robert Charles Witt, #48, Apl 25, 1989 He was charged with stealing 192 Grand in a credit union burglary, but escaped in 1987. He was busted in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Michael Douglas Taylor, #49, May 20, 1989 In California, he killed a jeweler and broke out of prison. After his escape, he kidnapped and tried to sexually murder a woman, but she survived. He then robbed 8 shoe stores and gas stations, then robbed some jewelry stores and fenced the jewels. He was busted in South Dakota. He was sentenced to life plus 1/4 century, was denied an appeal in July of 2015, and won't be eligible for another petition until 2030. John Emil List ( DECEASED), #50, Jne 1, 1989 A lawyer and accountant. In November 1971, he shot his wife, mother, and 3 teenage children to death in their crumbling 18 room mansion. In spring 1989, AMW hired Frank Bender to create an age-enhanced bust of what he might look like after more than 17 years. List was busted working as an accountant and attending church services in Richmond, Virginia. His appearance matched Bender's bust almost perfectly, glasses and all. Sentenced to life without parole, he died in March 2008. John A D'Ambrosio, #51, Jne 10, 1989 An East Coast methamphetamines boss. He supplied meth to Pennsylvania, Florida, and New Jersey. In March 1988, one lab blew up, and he was indicted that May. He kept trafficking meth until he was busted in New Jersey, near the border to Pennsylvania. Charles Frank Jordan, #52, Jne 15, 1989 A disgraced US Customs service agent. From 1982 to 1988, he and 3 other agents leaked confidential law enforcement information to marijuana traffickers in Florida. Police quickly rounded up the other 3, but Jordan fled. He was busted in Wyoming. Maurecio "El Gato" Aldana Acosta, #53, Jne 15, 1989 A former Los Angeles pro boxer. Somewhere along the way, he fell into drugs. He started losing matches frequently and his boxing record fell apart. In January 1989, he killed a fellow boxer in an argument. He was busted in Tijuana, Mexico, the first criminal in the capture roster to be caught south of the border. Carl Burns and Kimberly Edwards, #54/#55, Jne 27, 1989 The two of them molested Burns' 6 year old daughter, but they fled their trial. They were busted in Florida. Thomas "Possum" Dixon, #56, Jly 5, 1989 Details on his case are uncertain, but it's likely that, after domestically abusing her for hears, in 1987, he stabbed his ex-wife to death in Alabama when a custody battle over their son boiled over. A woman in Alvin, Texas likely recognized him cutting carpets for her window tinting business by his pair-of-cherries tattoo on his left arm, and FBI agents would've busted him 2 days after that. He was sentenced to life in prison with his earliest chance at parole in 2025. Teddy Unterreiner, #57, Jly 9, 1989 A Bay Area, California pedophile. His MO was to use his teenage to college aged appearance to make it easier to troll for victims in school yards and anywhere else he would go on a bicycle. One woman discovered inappropriate pictures of her preschool aged son in a notebook in May of 1979. After escaping from an asylum in Colorado, he went under an alias and volunteered as a student's tutor for Laotian boys in Oakland. That got exposed when one boy overheard other boys talking about Unterreiner's crimes. There were at least 20 victims. His arrest warrant was issued in June 1988, but he fled. In February 1989, he fled to Vancouver, British Columbia's Chinatown under an alias. In late March, he was taken to the pre-trial center for molesting a 10 year old Asian boy, then an AMW tipster led law enforcement to him in July. He's the earliest fugitive in the capture roster that we know of who was busted serving time in another prison on newer charges. Kelly "Sunshine" Lenah Loyd, #58, Jly 10, 1989 Her husband and she managed a brothel network in California that specialized in teen girls. Her M.O. was to drive a vintage Bentley through San Francisco to recruit runaways as victims, and the brothel's signature tactic was convincing their victims to act as young as possible. Somehow, it crashed a prominent San Francisco politician's career. Around May 1989, she was facing prostitution and narcotics charges, and while the husband was arrested, Kelly fled. She relocated to a truck stop in northern South Carolina, and was caught cold in the nearby town of Hartsville, in a trailer home located on a lonely back road. Michael Lee Price, #59, Jly 24, 1989 A convicted rapist who served only 2 years on that charge before being released on parole. In the spring of 1989, he murdered 2 Texas women in unrelated cases. He was acquainted with one victim's family and lived across the street from them. After he was busted, he led officers to a body that was missing before then. He's now serving 2 life terms Kendall Quinn Northern ( RELEASED), #60, Jly 28, 1989 In January 1980, he, back then a 17 year old runaway, took part in the murder of a taxi driver during a robbery in Utah. He escaped in October 1988. He was identified as an inmate in a Canadian jail and tried as an adult, but the jury concluded that he didn't wield the gun and reduced his sentence to 5 years to life. He served 2 years for the escape, got out on a plea deal, and thankfully that was the last time he's ever been in trouble with the law. George Schleuder, #61, Jly 30, 1989 In April 1988, he burglarized a home in Mendocino, California, and raped the owner, a woman born in circa 1907. He was identified as an inmate in a Spokane, Washington prison. Steven Ray Allen, #62, Ags 12, 1989 In December 1986, he abused and strangled his girlfriend's 3 year old son in Utah. In November 1987, he shot a man to death in a stolen property dispute in California. He was busted in Ravalli County, Idaho, roaming the mountains on a horse, badly malnourished. He got life in prison for the two killings. Ray Warren, #63, Ags 25, 1989 In 1979, cops in Billings, Montana thought he shot someone to death and skipped bail. He was busted in Arizona, but due to controversy surrounding how the gun might've been disposed, he was never brought to trial. Charles John Russ, #64, Ags 24, 1989 In January 1987, in California, he ran over his wife with her own car as she fled from a 3rd-party assailant. To go on the run, he scammed his mother-in-law out of her 83 Grand savings. He was busted in Hollywood, Florida and sentenced to life without parole. John Joseph Frank, #65, Ags 24, 1989 Details are uncertain, but most likely he was sought for a slew of charges out of the Florida peninsula, including defrauding an Orlando innkeeper and violating parole. He was busted in New York. Edwin Maldonado ( REDEEMED), #66, Ags 23, 1989 At the time John Walsh aired him, Maldonado was at the top of Walsh's personal most wanted list for illegal firearms trafficking on behalf of gangs. He was busted in New York. After serving his 15 year sentence, he started working as a bicycle repairman apprentice's master. The last time we heard about him, he was advising youth on how to stay out of gangs. John Patrick Eastlack, #67, Spt 11, 1989 Diagnosed with booze baby syndrome, his hit-or-miss performance in middle school ended with him getting rejected from a certain high school where he had dreams of being an athletic star, after which he started stealing and got sent to a youth detention camp where he earned his GED. Afterwards, he lived as a clumsy criminal, repeatedly getting caught. Around the turn of September 1989, he was serving 9 years for credit card fraud, where he escaped from a state prison in Tucson, Arizona. 3 days later, he was looking for a car to steal, knocked on an elderly couple's door, asked to use their phone, then beat them to death with a hearth poker. Just over a week after the murders, a tipster busted him in El Paso, Texas. He was sentenced to life in prison. During a jailhouse interview, he said of America's Most Wanted, "It's a damn good show. I mean, it caught me!" Wilson Lee "Sonny" Brook ( DECEASED), #68, Spt 13, 1989 In February 1962, a Wisconsin cop and Purple Heart veteran from World War II pulled him and his brother over because of a dangling license plate. The two dragged the officer across the ground, then Wilson killed him with 5 bullets from his own gun. He tried to turn off the police cruiser's red light, but hit the gas pedal and crashed it into a station wagon. The brothers were hoping to drop the car and the body off a cliff into a quarry, but crashed it beside a locked gate. In 1976, he was paroled, then in 1982, he violated it by committing robbery and burglary. In September 1988, he escaped a maximum security prison after getting word that a court would vote NO on his next request for parole. He was busted in Nevada and sentenced to at least 3 decades in prison. He was paroled a few days before August 2019, outraging the victim's son, and died almost exactly 2 years later, with a family obituary placing the date in the summer of 2021. Alan Buck Jones, #69, Spt 18, 1989 A South Carolina burglar and robber. In 1982, he faked his death in a boating explosion off the coast of South Carolina in order to collect 1/2 Megadollar of life insurance. His family helped him in his getaway by staging a funeral for him. David William Polson ( DECEASED), #70, Spt 20, 1989 On Christmas Day 1986, he murdered his live-in girlfriend. In January 1987, the body was found in Nevada. AMW tips led cops to Los Banos, California, but he shot himself to death before FBI agents could take him into custody. He's the earliest capture we know about who killed themselves just before they could be arrested. Leroy ( DECEASED) and Kathleen Chasson, #71/#72, Spt 22, 1989 During a drug deal discussion, Leroy stabbed a man to death. In 1982, his wife Kathleen helped him escape a hospital. AMW tips led cops to Colorado, where a man posed as a commoner. When the man identified himself as a police officer, Leroy opened fire, only to end up dead in the shootout. That night, Kathleen saw on the news that Leroy was dead, and surrendered. Pedro Luis Estrada, #73, Oct 1, 1989 A former professional boxer on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. In 1985, he was involved in drug trafficking and robberies. From May to August 1986, cops thought he shot 7 people dead in drug contract hits. He was busted in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, unarmed where his parents were staying, and was later convicted of about 2 of the murders, but charges may have been dropped in the others. Jerry Whittington and Diane Armstrong, #74/#75, Spt 29, 1989 Whittington was a conman who impersonated a law enforcement officer, a medical doctor, and a TV actor. In one heist, he impersonated a telephone repairman and stole the circuit boards to some of Mobile, Alabama's most advanced telephone systems, then sold them for at least 30 Grand on the national grey market. By 1986, multiple women whose families he married into were duped into giving them several hundred Grand, which for some of these families, was everything they had. When he resurfaced in Hawaii, he conned his way into becoming a beneficiary for 4 Megadollars. Armstrong was part of a stolen property trafficking crew in El Paso, Texas, that specialized in stolen flight engines. They were busted in California. John Brent Johnson ( EXONERATED), #76, Spt 23, 1989 Police alleged that in August 1986, Johnson broke into a home in Oklahoma, killed an accountant by stabbing him 24 times, then raped the man's girlfriend, tied her up, and left her in a closet. When he was aired on America's Most Wanted, he surrendered in Oklahoma City with a lawyer. DNA would clear Johnson, however, and in 2005, a peeping tom was convicted of killing the man, and raping the women, after being caught peeping in the same neighborhood as the 1987 murders. Roberto Contreras Urbaez, #77, Oct 1, 1989 In January 1988, he got in a violent argument with his ex-girlfriend in Washington, DC, that quickly escalated to the point where Urbaez blew her and her brother away with a shotgun. He was busted in San Diego, California and is now serving 47 years in prison. James Henderson, #78, Oct 6, 1989 Details are uncertain, but he was most likely sought for kidnapping his ex-wife, taking her to the Arizona desert, and beating her up. He surrendered in Tucson, Arizona before his scheduled airing, fearful of being profiled, after a film crew pulled a ruse by notifying his wife that an AMW film crew was in town to film a reenactment for his case, after they suspected his wife was in contact with him. Seymour Pinckney ( DECEASED), #79, Oct 22, 1989 In the mid 1960s, he started molesting his 4 step-daughters, and treated them cruelly during the day. His M.O. was to call a randomly-selected girl downstairs around bedtime and rape them in whichever spot of the house he could improvise. In one case, he impregnated one of the girls and convinced her to get an abortion. Years later, one of the girls arrived home 15 minutes late, and Pinckney flew into a rage, tied up the girl outside, accused her of seeing someone else, and threatened to kill her. By 1978, the girl escaped and was taken into protective custody. Around the time her eldest sister got accepted into college, she told social workers about Pinckney's sex crimes, even though she knew her eldest sister and mother were both still in Pinckney's house. Before the eldest sister was about to leave for college, Pinckney shoved them into the basement, shot the mother to death, then presented the corpse to the eldest sister and shot her to death, burying the bodies under a layer of concrete and cement. After more than a decade, this prolific child molester turned family destroyer was busted in Mathews Courthouse, Virginia, and presumably sentenced to life in prison. He died in 2017. Emilio Bravo, #80, Spt 22, 1989 In January 1987, he killed 2 men in Dade County, Florida, and got a life sentence. He escaped prison, only to fall for a drug sting. He was busted in Los Angeles, California, after a hostage crisis where he held another cop in jail. He's serving at least 2 life sentences. Steven Kelly Barnett ( RELEASED), #81, Oct 27, 1989 A meth dealer indicted as an accomplice to Vincent "Tape" Legrend Walters and his gang. By 1988, Legrend and Barnett were intimately involved in a meth cartel fronting as a chemical company, but as drug enforcement agents started running sting operations to figure out where the crystal meth plaguing the nation was coming from, Barnett and others, who used a little of the drugs themselves, started panicking. Barnett gave 2 pounds of crank, valued at 16 Grand, to a bag boy who was trying to get into the business, but the boy got scared of the DEA and entrusted a friend of his to hide it for him. After long enough for the boy to forget where the 2 pound bag was, the dealers were escalating in violence, and later took the bag boy, the friend of his, and one of the men's girlfriend hostage. Barnett managed to successfully extort the 2 pound bag back from the young men, but Legrend had fatally poisoned the girl with a potent toxic chemical he'd applied to a gag. Barnett was busted in Mexico. He got a 5 year sentence and got out in the former half of the 1990s. Tape fled far away, before he was nabbed in Mexico as an empty capture in July 2012. Samuel Earl "Sandman" Dillon, #82, Nvb 7, 1989 In 1981, he was suspected of supervising a contract killing, then killing the hitman because he let a witness to the first murder get away. He's likely to have also escaped from prison at least once. After seeing himself on America's Most Wanted, he surrendered in Illinois in order to convince the police to stop hounding his family. John Ray Bonds, #83, Nvb 8, 1989 A Hell's Angel hitman. In a mistaken identity shooting, he killed a music store manager in Ohio. Police quickly rounded up all the other suspects, but Bonds got away. He was busted in Kentucky and tried both in state and federal court, and sentenced to a total of 55 years in prison. In 2011, the federal prison system transferred him to state-level custody in Ohio, where he won't be eligible for parole until 2041. Lee Nell Carter, #84, Nvb 19, 1989 He was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list for a shooting spree in Alabama. His casualty toll was 1 dead, 2 wounded. He was busted in Eastern Detroit, Michigan. Ernesto Traslavina ( RELEASED), #85, Nvb 17, 1989 In 1987, he gave the order to a Caribbean drug trafficking ring to ship 660 lbs of cocaine to Nevada, then fled after authorities intercepted it. He was busted in Mexico City, Mexico, sentenced to just over 14 years in prison, and got out in 2004. Preston Ronald Jones, #86, Nvb 27, 1989 Busted in California for burglary and escape. Specific details are unknown. Bradley Melvin Hughes ( DECEASED), #87, Dcb 18, 1989 A master con artist out of Texas, Missouri, and several New England states. As a boy, he had a dream of becoming a first responder, constantly attracted to the sound of sirens. In 1982, he applied for the Houston police department, but couldn't meet all the criteria. In 1984, he moved to a town of 300 people in Missouri, but the department deemed his tactics, such as barking at people, including elderly motorists over traffic or speed violations, far too aggressive and fired him. He ran several elaborate schemes, and his most brazen act ended with him scamming a dealership out of a 42 Grand limousine. He also acquired a cell phone illegally and posed as his own bondsman in order to flee from prison in the last week before Christmas 1987. Some of his other scams included calling 911 for a 3-alarm fire that didn't turn out to be an emergency. A small-town cop whom he met at a convenience store in the New England states recognized him and his girlfriend as acting extremely friendly and unafraid of the police. He relayed the tip to the police department in Buxton, Maine. Initially, no-one answered the door to the apartment he was hiding in, but 9 hours after the 12-17-989 broadcast, he was busted after a car chase where he plowed through 3 speed traps. One officer forced the car into a snow bank before he could cause any casualties. He died of natural causes in December 2020. Leslie Ray Smith, #88, Jnr 3, 1990 A crooked New Jersey lawyer. Up to 1985, he swindled 16 clients, one of them a paraplegic woman, out of 493 Grand. In the 4 years he spent on the run, he became a dry cleaning store manager. An employee who saw the 12-31-989 broadcast busted him in a motel in Tucson, Arizona, where he gave up running before the takedown had a chance to get violent. Douglas Hicks Jackson ( DECEASED) and Debra Lynn Jackson ( RELEASED), #89/#90, Jnr 13, 1990 Hicks-Jackson was a former Texas chief deputy. In September 1980, three teenagers went on a joyride, and Hicks let his short fuse get the better of him. He took one of them into custody and forced another to drive the truck back to town at 80 miles per hour between two patrol cars. This second teenager knew that speeders with valid licenses could only be ticketed, not locked up. Hicks flew into a rage, beat this teenager with a flashlight, and threatened to bury him personally if he told anyone. The teen threatened a civil suit against him, and as the case drew near, Hicks blew up the office of the attorney he hired, albeit with no casualties, then sent a letter to the attorney, threatening his wife and children next. Instead of deterring anyone, it only made prosecutors more determined to go after Hicks. Hicks was transferred to Leavenworth, and in December 1986, he walked away from a minimum security honor program despite losing dozens of pounds, and Debra drove hum away. After some earlier airings, tipsters identified them as having been living in Pensacola near a nursing home where Debra was working in May 1987. By this time, Hicks' personality had shriveled to quiet, almost depressed. They were busted in Louisiana. Hicks-Jackson got out after 2 years, and Debra after a single year. They went their separate ways some time in the 17 years between Hicks-Jackson's release and the day Hicks-Jackson died in 2009. Paul Clarence Bolin, #91, Jnr 7, 1990 He wanted to carry on a tough guy image so badly, he claimed to be a retired Navy Seal with multiple kills, but his military past was a lie. In 1981, he killed a man with a shotgun blast in an argument and got paroled 2 years later. In 1986, he wounded a man by stabbing him 15 times, but a jury ruled that Clarence was acting in self-defence. In September 1989, he shot up a marijuana farm east of Bakersfield, California. Two men named Mincy and Hofstuttler were killed, and a man named Jim Wilson was wounded. Wilson had known Mincy and Hofstuttler, since Mincy was 5 years old, and while Mincy had known Clarence a long time, and in fact Hofstuttler was living with Bolin in a ramshackle cabin next to the marijuana farm, Wilson had only met Clarence a few hours before. Mincy and Hofstuttler had a past history of drug abuse, and Mincy managed to clean up his act while his father was having doubts about Hofstuttler. Mincy was planning to take his then single-digit-aged daughter to a local dance that night, and had even purchased a belt made in Texas for the occasion. Most likely, Clarence, after showing Hofstuttler his multiple breeds of marijuana, worth a combined total of 300 Grand, Mincy took it as a bridge too far for him, and Clarence was upset that Hofstuttler had brought Wilson, a stranger to Clarence, there. The argument escalated when Hofstuttler questioned why Clarence was allowed to show whomever he wanted around the farm. After the murders, Clarence made it look like a shootout with a rival drug dealer, drove an old man he was living with away from the scene, and left 4 pipe bombs in the abandoned cabin. Bolin was busted in Illinois and condemned to death. Darryl Bailey, #92, Jnr 18, 1990 As part of an initiation into the Bloods gang, he opened fire on a crowd and wounded 8 people, none of whom were involved in gangs. He was busted in St. Louis, Missouri. Two film directors realized the actor who portrayed Bailey, Tyrin Turner, looked so believable as a gang banger that they gave him the lead role in the critically acclaimed 1993 movie Menace II Society. Those same directors had also directed the Sophie David profile which likewise worked all too well; The actress who portrayed Sophie had to constantly carry a placard around reminding everyone she was only the actress, not the fugitive herself. Minh "Tony Playboy" Duytong Nguyen, #93, Jnr 22, 1990 An enforcer for a local chapter of a national Vietnamese gang known as the Nomads. This gang was known for several dirty tactics, such as scoping out homes to rob of cash, jewelry, and other valuables by planting blood under their scouts' noses, convincing the owners to let them in, then phoning their associates to charge in and collect their quarry. In late 1988, the gang wars were raging, erupting into a bar fight in which someone was shot. In the winter of 1989, he and several co-conspirators shot up a Houston, Texas sandwich shop, killing 2 people and wounding 3. By the end of that year, he was named a suspect in several vicious robberies across the east coast, where more Nomads chapters were concentrated. He was busted in Michigan. Thomas Edwin Walker, #94, Fbr 4, 1990 In Alameda County, California, he met a man outside a gay bar, then robbed and murdered the man. Busted in Las Vegas, Nevada. Shelly Rose Godwin ( RELEASED), #95, Fbr 7, 1990 In June 1987, her husband, a convicted murderer serving a long sentence, pulled the incredible feat of breaking out of California's Folsom Prison with the help of several others, including Shelly. She was busted in Texas. Married and pregnant, she got out of prison after about 2 years. A year after her arrest, Glen Stewart Godwin got arrested in Mexico, then allegedly murdered a fellow inmate before escaping again. Glen was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list in December 1996 and is still out there despite being withdrawn from the list in May 2016. Robert Thomas Hynds, #96, Fbr 11, 1990 First, he robbed a bank in Florida, then he beat up a police officer in Massachusetts. At the time of his airing, he'd last been seen trying to steal $100 worth of Lake Tahoe casino coins. He was busted in Nevada. James Edward Noel ( DECEASED), #97, Fbr 26, 1990 After being charged with raping at least 5 women, he was paroled. In October 1989, he killed a woman in Los Angeles after failing in his attempts to rape her. The victim was an apartment manager whose co-manager eventually became the infamous Hollywood Madam. He was busted in California, sentenced to life with no chance of parole, and died of natural causes before the end of the decade 201X. The eventual Hollywood Madam was later given an interview where she talked at length about her late friend. Felipe Concepcion and Thomas Cross, #98/#99, Mrc 4/Mrc 8, 1990 Concepcion was a convicted robber and parole violator. They were both wanted for a drug related shooting in a Bronx apartment. The casualties were 2 dead, 1 wounded. They were also sought for questioning in a 3rd murder and an unrelated kidnapping. Concepcion was busted in Connecticut, and Cross was busted in Indiana. |
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Post by 912thamwuser on Mar 28, 2013 0:55:49 GMT -5
AMW Capture Roster, 2nd Century
Segundo Balaguer "Cuco" Matias, #100, Mrc 11, 1990
A flashy, high-rolling cocaine trafficker. In 1986, he met a supermodel during a trip to Hawaii. Over about a year and a half, their ties grew until the winter of 1988, when he convinced her to help him smuggle cash. In late April 1988, he shot her dead for breaking up with him. In March 1990, an AMW tipster busted him in a Los Angeles residence he'd moved into with two other women. He was originally sentenced to life in prison, but was out on parole by the beginning of 2020.
Ren Men, #101, Mrc 12, 1990
From 1986 to the summer of 1988, he took 2 teenage girls from Utah to Modesto, California, either to hold them in his bedroom and take sexual favors from them ("concubines"?), or to trap them in a more elaborate slavery ring. In December 1989, he was indicted for violating the White Slave Traffic Act. A tow truck driver busted him working as a car mechanic in a body shop in Fresno, California.
Roger Dale Grubb (DECEASED), #102, Mrc 22, 1990
In late October 1988, he hired two hitmen to kill his 6 decade old father by shooting him in his own truck. In late October 1989, he stole a suicide victim's ID in hopes of staying on the run. Less than 5 months later, he saw himself on America's Most Wanted, flew from his hideout in Mexico to Greensboro, North Carolina, and surrendered. He was facing the death penalty, but got sentenced to life in prison, after which gain time laws reduced his sentence to about 19 1/2 years. He was paroled around September or October 2009, only to die 2 years later on Christmas Eve 2011.
Joey Mark Higgins (RELEASED), #103, Mrc 25, 1990
In an attempt to stage his own death, he killed a 19 year old hitchhiker in Illinois. In January 1988, the body was found in a killing field in rural Indiana. He was busted working at a tire store in Elko, Nevada, and sentenced to 1/2 century in prison, but due to Indiana's gain-time laws back then, he got out in 2013 after serving less than half that.
Jesse Allen Morrison and Michael Berry, #104/#105, Mrc 27, 1990
In Los Angeles County, he shot down an amateur boxer during a robbery and wounded the boxer's sister. After their airing, they surrendered in Maryland. The crime scene was so grisly that Morrison was condemned to death, and his criminal mentor Berry got life with no parole just for his involvement as an accomplice. The lead detective and the surviving woman fell in love and eventually got married.
Gandhi Guzman, #106, Mrc 30, 1990
A Cali Cartel hitman, drug trafficker, and parole violator. He killed 2 women in Miami and wounded 4 police officers. Miami created the law enforcement posse "Redrum" to seek out him and his cohorts. An AMW tipster took him down right there in Miami, after which he was extradited to New York and sentenced to 77 years to life. His earliest chance at parole will be in 2067.
Frank VanDyke-Hobbs, #107, Apl 15, 1990
A smooth-voiced yet disgraced radio host, known for having a way with women. From 1974 to 1987, he had a combined total of 6 wives, 3 at a time at one point. He was wanted out of Virginia for various financial crimes, including child support evasion, grand theft auto, and insurance fraud. One of the wives, who met him when she bought a horse from him, testified that he randomly ran off with her money one day when she was pregnant with her 4th child. In July 1987, he was flushed out of one town in Tennessee who'd just named him their citizen of the month, but before detectives could bring him in for questioning, he slipped out a back door after bidding his son farewell. Charged with bigamy out of Virginia 3 weeks later, he drove off from a shopping mall in Chattanooga, thrust a police officer into the asphalt in the process, and racked up 2 assault charges. In September 1987, cops caught up with him in Roanoke as he returned to pursuing his romantic interests. He faked a suicide attempt in order to go under psychiatric observation, then as a fellow patient was celebrating his birthday, he offered to split half of his slice with someone, then crawled out through a bathroom window. When cops recognized a stolen car he was racing through Jackson, Mississippi, they formed a barricade which Hobbs tried to ram through, only to be taken in on a gurney, after which he got out on probation. He fled to Houston, where he'd spent a short time in a homeless shelter before romancing a nurse who worked there and moving in with her. Every time the woman's sister asked Hobbs for more information, he kept proclaiming that such things weren't important. Instead, he insistently proposed to her, and she got married as his 7th wife in late March. Her youngest child, an 8 year old, had grown attached enough to VanDyke-Hobbs to go to the beach with him earlier in April. The rest of the family stayed home, saw Hobbs' profile, and felt like they got hit by a ton of bricks when they recognized him. The woman's sister called the hotline and busted Hobbs as he returned home 2 hours later.
Darryl Pierre DeVose, #108, Apl 28, 1990
A New Jersey extortionist. In 1985, he kidnapped a mailman and broke into a banker's house, extorting a 200 Grand ransom. He was busted in New York City.
Scott Anthony Haneline, #109, May 10, 1990
A teenage military deserter. In late May 1982, a woman hired him to kill her ex-husband, a soldier stationed in Fort Stewart, Georgia. He was living an ordinary, low profile life when he was busted in Monticello, Indiana, where he was recovering after he accidentally shot his hand. With so many mitigating factors, including that he demonstrated a low re-offence risk, he was paroled over 26.1 years later, in the last days before July 2016.
Kenneth Cole, #110, May 10, 1990
An ex-babysitter. In April 1989, he abducted a 5 year old girl he was obsessed with named Nicole Ravesi from Massachusetts. A campsite owner in Eastpoint, Florida recognized him and busted him. Ravesi was AMW Missing Recovery #1.
Steven Michael "Coyote" Burleson, #111, May 25, 1990
A serial rapist. In November 1970, he raped a woman and was sentenced to life in a North Carolina prison. In 1987, he escaped from prison. That December, he broke into a woman's home, then raped and robbed her. He was busted in California and returned to his life sentence.
Robert Joseph Hyde, #112, Jne 28, 1990
An ex insurance agent from Yuba City, California. He convinced an old Davis, California woman to make him a trustee so he could pay her bills, then wrote checks to himself, stealing somewhere from 168 to 218 Grand from her via a bank in Woodland. He fled in October 1989. The week after his AMW profile, he was busted in Norman, a suburb of Oklahoma City, having just handed in his resignation to an employment agency he was working as a job counselor at under an alias, off a tip sent by one of his own clients. Born between July and October of 1929, he is most likely deceased by now.
Don Ray Moore (RELEASED), #113, July 6, 1990
A South Central Los Angeles school teacher. From 1981 to 1984, he molested at least 4 girls and beat on at least 10 boys, all of whom were in the 5th and/or 6th grade. He was first implicated in 1986, then jumped a 25 Grand bail in August 1987. In 1988, he worked a short stint as a cook on an offshore oil rig, then fell in with the homeless community in 1989 by disguising himself as a recent widower, and despite his articulate nature, he thought of himself as a little bit better than everyone else there. A gas company district manager who paid him $30 in compensation after a December 1989 pipeline leak busted him in Ventura, California, in a homeless camp known as the "Hobo Jungle." Moore pled guilty the next spring, which got his potential 18 year sentence reduced to 14 years with a chance of parole in 7 years.
Sederick Earl "Koolaid" Scott, #114, Jly 26, 1990
An active Crips gang banger. In September 1989, a 14 year old boy discussed dealing cocaine with his partners in crime, including LaMacey Woods. A few sales went well until Woods suspected that one $40 load of drugs was different from what he gave the boy. He took part in beating the 14 year old boy while Woods bound and tortured the child with a clothing iron, salt, razor blades, and an extension cord. Woods tried to electrocute the child with a curling iron, but the cord was too short. After Sederick was given total control over the youth, Sederick had Woods and the youth at his mercy, during which Sederick took part in another torture, and Woods made even stronger threats to kill the child. Sederick was soon caught, but then escaped a prison in Wichita, Kansas. He was busted in Long Beach, California.
Jerry Donald Dowe, #115, Ags 7, 1990
In 1978, he blasted a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer with a shotgun, but the Mountie survived. He went to prison, and fatally shanked a fellow inmate in 1983, then escaped in 1988. He was busted in Canada.
Richard Allen Sturdy (DECEASED), #116, Ags 31, 1990
This multi-Megadollar fraud artist owned two grain elevators and posed as a corn and soybean broker. A computer system would print tickets at grain terminals, each good for a check from a grain company, but had next to no safeguards against unscrupulous brokers should one decide to cheat. His M.O. included offering hard-to-resist prices on grain that never existed alongside some criminal cohorts, paying in cash on the spot in order to endear himself with prospective victims when the norm was to write a check, and bribing grain elevator managers to rig scales just by planting a 2x4 plank in the underground machinery in a certain spot. A woman he dated for 6 years worked at the bank where he would bring the bad checks, who then cashed them without an endorsement, until she was convicted of defaulting on taxes relating to that money. He called this scheme "Operation GrainLord." An external auditor noticed that 1/50 of the grain routed through the elevator managed by one of the people Sturdy bribed went unaccounted for. The FBI joined forces with the elevator manager in August 1986, and in September, he met with Sturdy outside a church with the FBI listening through a wire. In June 1988, agents initially picked up Sturdy at a lakeside cabin, and all his cohorts pled guilty, but Sturdy got out on bail. He spent the second half of 1988 liquidating assets, exchanging the cash for rare coins and gems, gathering a year's supply of heart prescriptions, and planning his escape. In January 1989, he wrote a suicide note and planted some personal effects on a 100-foot high bridge, and went on the run. AMW led cops to New Orleans, where he fatally shot himself, committing suicide for real, before cops could arrest him.
Billy Robert Bright (DECEASED), #117, Spt 11, 1990
An enforcer for a drug syndicate out of the Bentonhurst district of Brooklyn, New York, also known as Little Italy. The cartel trafficked hundreds of pounds of cocaine, more than a kg of heroin, and hundreds of pounds of mariJuana per year. The leader of the drug gang was suspected of over 60 murders, including some crewspeople who were late with their payments by a couple days, and rival drug traffickers whom the network would steal from. In June 1990, a dragnet brought down more than 30 co-conspirators, but Bright slipped away. He was busted in Nevada, convicted of 2 of the murders, and given an unknown sentence, rendered moot by the fact that he was mortally stabbed in prison in late May 1994.
Wardell David Ford, #118, Spt 17, 1990
An FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive. He was known as a con man who always strove to acquire money without earning it through legitimate work. In 1983, he robbed an armored car in Detroit, killed his friend and the guard, and stole 45 Grand. He was busted in Groton, Connecticut, painting a General Dynamic Electric Boat shipyard.
Calvin Maurice "Critter" Warner, #119, Spt 16, 1990
A 19 year old gang banger. He was the triggerman in a June 1990 shooting that wounded 4 people. It was one of South Seattle's worst gang-related shootings back then. He was busted in the same state.
Orlando Maisonet, #120, Oct 8, 1990
In North Philadelphia, police thought he robbed the pizza store at which he worked, killing the owner. Cops suspected him of stabbing an accomplice to death to prevent him from snitching. He was busted in Puerto Rico and condemned to death, but in February 2019, it was discovered the prosecutors had broken some ethical codes, including withholding some vital information about lies told by some witnesses, and his conviction was vacated, even after he was retried and acquitted in one of the murders in 2005.
Charles Anthony Hoffman, #121, Oct 12, 1990
In June 1985, he shot a young couple to death in Sussex, Wisconsin. He was busted in Union County, Florida, assuming his dead brother's name as an alias.
Lawrencia Ann "Bambi" Bembenek (DECEASED), #122, Oct 17, 1990
A former cop and pin-up model. She sniffed out some blatant sexism in one police department, but as she tried to blow the whistle on it, her husband's previous ex-wife was shot and killed. Back in the 1980s, cops thought Bembenek carried out the hit, and she went to prison. A few years later, she escaped and coined the meme "Run Bambi Run!" AMW tipsters busted her in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. By then, most of the public agreed she'd been framed for the murder, so the judge gave her a plea deal for Time Served. Within the following 2 decades, she had not lived a happy life, and she rated her life a 2 out of 10 shortly before her death in 2010.
Robert Thomas "Mattress, Mumford" Nauss Jr, #123, Oct 30, 1990
A Warlocks Biker Gang vice president on the US Marshal's 15 Most Wanted list. Around the turn of 1972, he was facing charges of rape, robbery, and drug trafficking. Just before the trial, he murdered and dismembered his girlfriend and hung her head over a Pennsylvania apartment building. In November 1983, he broke out of prison for the murder. Over the following 7 years, he managed to start over with a new family in Michigan, and an AMW tipster busted him as he was driving with his wife and children. To this day, he's serving life in prison.
Thomas Chester Mitchell, #124, Nvb 2, 1990
In 1988, he robbed an antique store in Kentucky, during which he beat 2 women with a blunt weapon, wounding them, but luckily they both survived. He was initially caught, but a jail guard in Louisville mistakenly set him free. Over the next 2 years, he became a serial robber in Louisiana, until he fled back to Kentucky where an AMW tipster busted him.
James Charles Eggleston, #125, Nvb 12, 1990
In April 1990, he abducted a girl from a bus stop near her home in Pinellas Park, Florida, fled to the southwestern US, and passed her off as his daughter as he traveled with her. He was busted in Las Vegas, Nevada.
William Joseph Moore, #126, Nvb 30, 1990
A butcher shop executive. In 1985, a man hired him to beat the man's ex-wife to death over a divorce settlement. After that, he faked his own death in Maryland. He was busted in the town of Edgewood, where we'd earned a reputation as a darts champion while working as a butcher.
Carlton Stroud, #127, Dcb 7, 1990
He was wanted for distributing drugs within a 1000-foot radius of a schoolyard, then escaping a dragnet named Operation Southern Star. He was busted in the Miami-Dade area 3 weeks after AMW aired a segment about the operation.
Dennis Ray Butler, #128, Dcb 7, 1990
In December 1988, he and his girlfriend, a topless dancer named Kimberly Phillips, met a man at a night club whom Phillips wanted to seduce, and Butler planned to rob. In March 1989, they went to his home in Alabama, and while Phillips stole his wallet and credit cards, Butler stabbed the man when he went to the shower. Police made short work of Kim, but Butler got away. He was busted in New Orleans, Louisiana, having established himself as an outgoing character whom almost everybody loved, save for one woman who didn't want him around any businesses she worked for. The locals joked about him as a dead ringer to a murderer portrayed on America's Most Wanted until the detective was faxed a tip which proved they were the same person. The actor who portrayed Butler wrote in the request to find his friend's killer, Kisha "Key" Marie Rutledge, whom tipsters busted in the summer of 2009 as Capture #1088.
Gerald Ray Reeves, #129, Dcb 8, 1990
A delinquent juvenile and infamous hustler. By age 16, he had a mile-long rap sheet, mostly for robbery and theft. At age 20, he escaped a youth reform camp. In April 1990, he robbed a sunglasses salesman in Hollywood, California, and stabbed him to death. Over the next 7 months, he stayed on the run by using bisexual charms to convince men and women to let him crash at their homes for a few days, and stole from them instead. He was busted in Reno, Nevada, taking a vacation at the Circus Circus Hotel and Casino. He sobbed in the courtroom in an attempt to buy sympathy as he was sentenced to life without parole.
Susan Marie Peterson and Raymond Mitchell (both RELEASED), #130/#131, Dcb 24, 1990
In December 1985, they joined forces to murder Susan's ex-husband in Oregon. They were busted together in Cheyenne, Wyoming, pled guilty, and were originally sentenced to 18 to 40 years in prison. They might have gotten out as early as 2009.
Thomas Ludd Findley Jr. (DECEASED) #132, Dcb 29, 1990
A lifelong loner who never had any chance at a romantic relationship. With no prior criminal history, nobody knew he was capable of any wrongdoing until he snapped. In January 1990, he thought he had his only chance at happiness or fulfillment in his life when he made a marriage proposal to a South Carolina woman. She spurned him and kicked him out of her house, and he killed her in revenge. Just under a year later, he was busted in Orlando, Florida, picking up paychecks at a Social Security office. He was sentenced to life in prison, where he succumbed to natural causes by the end of the decade 201X.
David Corey Gist, #133, Jnr 2, 1991
Convicted of wounding a woman he once attended high school with by cutting her throat and shooting her in the buttocks, he was serving a 1/4 century sentence in Mississippi for aggravated assault when he broke out of prison. He was busted in Arkansas.
John Alexander "Dean" Riccardi, #134, Jnr 4, 1991
A mob burglar who killed his girlfriend and her best friend in 1983 by shooting them in the head in a jealous rage. The girlfriend, Connie Hopkins-Navarro, was the mother of Dave Navarro from 2 rock bands, including the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He was busted 7.8 years later in Houston, Texas, self-employed with a briefcase full of 1 Megadollar in spoils. He was condemned to death, but the judge concluded his trial was unfair, and commuted his sentence to life in prison.
Michael Fitzgerald, #135, Jnr 9, 1991
A high school dropout who barely knew his father. He was also described as a mean drunk whom the smallest things could set off. At the end of 1988, he was celebrating Christmas Eve at a bar in Philadelphia when another patron said something about how long it would be until Fitzgerald's stepfather, a convicted murderer, would be getting out. That night, Fitzgerald and at least 8 accomplices confronted that man about it, which ended in the man getting beaten heavily with a baseball bat. Most of one of that victim's ears had to be amputated. In late June 1989, he was calling up a young woman from a pay phone, but a man next to her cut it short so he could hear the TV when he was watching a sports game. Fitzgerald let a ragtag entourage into the house from both yards and beat the man with a teakettle. That victim suffered gruesome damage to his jaw and skull. A few days before August 1989, a young couple was getting out of a party when Fitzgerald and several other men got violent. Fitzgerald attacked a van with a wooden baseball bat and wounded the man. Most victims were left with impairments and disabilities such as having to subsist off a liquid diet which, though temporary, took an average of half a year to recover from. He was busted in Pennsylvania and got 9 to 25 years in prison. If he hasn't been released yet, he'll probably be freed soon.
Lorenzo Lovell Perry, #136, Jnr 12, 1991
In December 1988, a nurse he was dating broke up with him because he took up illegal drugs. As revenge, he robbed and fatally stabbed her. He was busted in North Carolina.
Roger Bobsie Hanson, #137, Jnr 14, 1991
In July 1986, he sliced up his wife with a machete and burned her corpse using gasoline in North Carolina. He was busted in Canada.
Donald Ray Castille, #138, Jnr 19, 1991
A Bloomington, Florida criminal network alpha. His modus operandi was convincing women to accompany him to night clubs, having the women seduce and drug victims, then robbing them. He collected at least 3 Megadollars of stolen property. He was busted in Florida.
Raul Alakaii, #139, Mrc 2, 1991
A New Jersey scam artist. He impersonated an immigration officer and stole 100 Grand. His scheme unraveled in October 1989, and he was busted 1.4 years later in Philadelphia.
Leroy Coates, #140, Mrc 5, 1991
A robbery crew member. In one attack, he impersonated an electric company operator and severed the power to a whole city. In 1981, he escaped a squad car by shooting a police officer in the head, but miraculously the officer survived. He was busted in New York.
Edward Albert Dunn (RELEASED), #141, Mrc 9, 1991
He, along with his father William John Dunn and a man named Gordon Wallace Mackie, ran a bank scheme in Oregon. Starting in 1981, the three swindled elderly women by claiming they needed the money to catch crooked bank officials. The schemes netted at least 1 Megadollar a year from at least 100 people's savings accounts across 3 states. The three were originally arrested in April of 1987, but before their scheduled court date, fled back to Canada. Edward Albert Dunn, who posed as one "Agent 286" and collected the money in envelopes when the victims withdrew the cash from their accounts, was busted off the 3-01-991 broadcast, hiding in the open in Calgary, Alberta and performing on stage at a bar, where he earned the nickname "Chainsaw" by playing the lead on a bass guitar aggressively.
Peter J Balodis Jr (EXONERATED), #142, Mrc 18, 1991
In the late 1980s, he was charged with raping 2 preteen boys for 3 months in Pennsylvania. He was busted in the same state, and was sentenced to about 24 years in prison. In 2001, the victims confessed that the abuse never happened, and Balodis was cleared.
Charles Daniel O'Donnell, #143, Mrc 23, 1991
A multiple felony sex offender out of West Virginia. In February 1991, he fled before his sentencing hearing. He was busted in Greensboro, North Carolina, asleep in a tractor trailer. Specific details about his sexual abuses are unknown.
Sally Jill Woodland (RELEASED), #144, Apl 13, 1991
Around Thanksgiving 1986, she was driving drunk in Palm Beach, Florida. She caused a 3 car pile-up, with the latter car striking and killing a 17 year old boy. After receiving a 1 year sentence, she fled in 1988. She was busted in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where she'd been frequenting swanky bars. She presumably got out after a year or two in the early 1990s.
James C Thompson, #145, Fbr 14, 1991
Busted in Canada, but AMW didn't take credit for the capture until 2 months later. Details are uncertain, except a James Robert Caesar Thompson was a serial rapist out of Washington, DC, busted in Calgary before his scheduled profile, and sentenced to life in prison.
Marti A Greer, #146, Apl 15, 1991
In Missouri, she shot her boyfriend to death, got convicted of 2nd degree murder, and was sentenced to life in prison. In late March 1991, she escaped with Lisa Dawn Harris. AMW tipsters took Greer down less than 3 weeks later in Illinois, and AMW was ready to roll on Harris, who was busted in the winter of 1996 as Capture #403.
Arthur Flournoy (ACQUITTED), #147, Apl 19, 1991
A retired corrections captain. In late August 1990, cops thought he shot a New York state senator to death after losing a fraud case against his ex-wife. He was busted in Chicago, Illinois, and soon acquitted.
Vergilio Pablo Paz-Romero (RELEASED), #148, Apl 23, 1991
A self-proclaimed Cuban anti-Communist. In September 1976, the Chilean government hired him to assassinate a foreign ambassador with a remote-controlled bomb in Washington, DC. 2 people, including the former ambassador he targeted were killed, and 3 were wounded. 14.6 years later, AMW tips led to Boynton Beach, Florida, where he was running a landscaping business. Before he was busted, he picked a shootout with the police, which was caught on tape. He was sentenced to about 12 years in prison, but only served 6 years. America tried to have him deported to Cuba, but Cuban exiles fought against it, and America had to set him free on a technicality. In 2015, Chilean courts requested America extradite him there to face other charges, but so far the American government hasn't granted it.
Leroy Meyers, #149, May 5, 1991
In May 1990, he broke into a home in Willingboro, New Jersey, then raped and robbed a woman born in circa 1926. He was busted in a Philadelphia soup kitchen.
Rosetta Magaddino, #150, May 18, 1991
In 1984, she got involved in a drug trafficking ring based in Italy. She was convicted in absentia in 1989 of laundering money for her boss. She was busted in Charlotte Harbor, Florida.
Derek Boss, #151, May 28, 1991
Busted in California. Details are unknown.
John Felix, #152, May 29, 1991
Busted in California. Details are unknown, but he and Derek Boss may have been wanted in the same manhunt.
Richard Flowers (RELEASED), #153, May 31, 1991
He was involved in the murder of a boat captain in Florida, but it's unknown how the murder played out or why, and the victim's body was never recovered. He ran his car into a ditch in Georgia, and a local sheriff who happened to pass by sent in the tip that busted him, recognizing him as having family connections to the area and a record of getting pinched for minor crimes. He pled guilty to 2nd degree murder and served 12 years in prison.
Charles David Tidwell and Richard Edward Ellen, #154/#155, Jne 7/Jne 8, 1991
A pair of traveling carnies. In July 1989, a man got into a heated exchange with Richard's wife. Tidwell and Richard ambushed the man with a mallet, drove him to a cornfield, and finished him off with a lead pipe. Tidwell was initially arrested quickly, but escaped prison during a work detail in September 1989. AMW tips led cops to Tidwell in Summerville, South Carolina. They spotted him through a screen door, and he was surprised at his arrest. Ellen was busted the next day in Oregon, in a Dairy Queen parking lot. Tidwell pled guilty and got sentenced to 1/2 decade to a decade on the escape charge. It's unknown what came from the murder charges in Tidwell's case, but Ellen was convicted and sentenced to life plus 5 to 15 years.
Kelvin LeRoy "Jit, Whimp" Bryant, #156, Jne 22, 1991
In February 1991, several people tried disguising one co-conspirator as a prostitute and robbing the johns, but no-one fell into they trap, so they conspired to abduct a Miami assistant policeman's sister and a man she was traveling with from a motel. They tied the two victims up, assaulted the man over the head with a rock, drove them to a train track, and threw them over a bridge into a bay. The man, an experienced swimmer, slipped out of the tapes and swam to safety, but the woman drowned. A female co-conspirator identified the victim as one of her own past classmates. Another co-conspirator boasted that they'd used a twig to rape the female victim, but the forensic investigation turned up no signs of sexual trauma. Cops quickly rounded up 5 other suspects, but Kelvin got away for 4 months, until AMW busted him in Florida. He's now serving life in prison.
Darryl DeMetrius "Mutt" Smith, #157, Jne 23, 1991
Before he became a familiar face on AMW, he'd been convicted of 2nd degree murder. In October 1990, he struck again, shooting a rap singer to death in front of a crowd in Sarasota, Florida after a street dispute boiled over. First aired on the June 14, 1991 broadcast, tips tracked him to South Carolina, then Georgia, then AMW tipsters busted him in nearby Miami after a follow-up airing. He's now serving a life sentence. In the contest for Best Capture of the 2nd Century of Captures besides Vergilio Pablo Paz-Romero, Smith was the runner-up.
Steven E King, #158, Jly 3, 1991
AMW's first capture to go down in South America. On Halloween 1990, he robbed a store he worked at in Saginawa county, Michigan. He bludgeoned his co-workers with a hammer and stole $40 from the register. His death toll was 2 dead, 1 wounded. AMW caught him in the nation of Guyana.
Vance Wyrostek (ACQUITTED), #159, Jly 7, 1991
In February 1991, someone made sexual comments at his sister during a house party in New Mexico. Cops thought he beat the man unconscious and burned him to death in a ditch. He was busted right there in New Mexico, but was acquitted.
John Cornelius Jenkins, #160, Jly 22, 1991
A convicted felon. In 1989, he killed 2 men in a drug dispute in Detroit, Michigan, then opened fire on a police cruiser with an AK-47, but missed. He was initially caught quickly, but escaped from prison shortly later. He was profiled on the 3-08-991 broadcast and busted in a rooming house in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, without incident 4 1/2 months later.
Carl Anthony Terry (DECEASED), #161, Jly 27, 1991
He committed his first murder in the 1960s and was condemned to death. When the state of Missouri outlawed the death penalty, he was commuted to life in prison. He was mysteriously admitted into a program for inmates with good behavior which she shouldn't have, then escaped the correctional facility in 1990. He killed his second victim after the escape, then attacked several witnesses to his older crimes, killing 2 more and wounding 1. His total casualty toll was 4 dead, 1 wounded. He was busted in California, sent back to Missouri, and was given another life sentence or three. He died of a massive heart attack in 2012. The hardcore AMW fans voted Terry the best capture of the 2nd Century of Captures besides Vergilio Pablo Paz-Romero.
Vincent "Kojak" Giattino, #162, Jly 29, 1991
A Bonanno Mafia hitman on the US Marshal's 15 Most Wanted list. In Brooklyn, New York, he shot an FBI informant to death several days before September 1988. He was also suspected for some role in a woman's murder, where only the torso was found in New York with the hands and head missing. He was busted in Pompano Beach, Florida and convicted in the informant's murder. It's uncertain what the verdict was regarding the female victim, but his defence attorney argued that the man who accused him had a drug addiction and had gone mentally ill from it.
John Barrett Hawkins (REDEEMED), #163, Ags 1, 1991
A would-be actor who laundered insurance fraud money through a sweatpants company. To collect insurance, he and his partner were involved in a scheme where a man was killed in order to fake his boyfriend's death. An AMW tip led to Southern European waters, and after various agencies passed around a tip that Hawkins had vitiligo in his genitalia, some agents convinced him to drop his pants, which identified him. He was busted jet skiing off the coast of Sardinia, Italy, just after he fled his Amsterdam, Holland hideout. Hawkins got out of prison after 2 decades, paroled after his work counseling troubled youths led to numerous recommendations from parents that he get a second chance. Hawkins claims he didn't know his partner was going to kill his victim, and calls the crime senseless. He now lives in San Diego and continues to counsel troubled teens.
Richard Johnson (EXONERATED), #164, Ags 3, 1991
A freeloader with a history of beating up on one girlfriend. In September 1990, a University of Colorado graduate student picked him out of a photo lineup for raping and robbing her. He was busted in North Miami, Florida, after which several more people called the hotline to thank a 13 year old girl who spoke out about her bad experiences in class. Johnson was convicted because his attorney neglected to present DNA evidence proving him innocent. He served about 4.6 years in prison before being exonerated in March 1996.
Michael Antonio Lucas, #165, Ags 12, 1991
A career criminal on the US Marshal's 15 Most Wanted list who hasn't been formally employed since 1983. In 1985, a fellow Washington DC drug dealer was robbed, and he killed the thief's brother in retaliation. He was convicted and sentenced to 2 decades to life. In July 1990, he was transferred from a Virginia correctional facility to a lower security jail in Texas. 4 months later, he and two other inmates cut a hole in the rec center's roof and climbed out. 3 escapees were quickly rounded up but the other two, including Lucas, got away. A month to the day after his airing on the 7-12-991 broadcast, a tipster led Marshals to a green van in Baltimore where he and a prison visitor who'd been harboring him were busted. He was heavily armed, including a pistol he almost drew from his pocket and another pistol in the back seat.
Kevin Ira "Peanut" Smith, #166, Ags 29, 1991
He was wanted for an attempted murder drive-by shooting in Alexandria, Louisiana, and sought in a huge drug investigation in Indiana, and was busted in the town of Evansville. Details about the drug conspiracy, along with casualty toll and motive for the attempted murder, are unknown.
Walter Anderson, #167, Ags 31, 1991
A young drug trafficker. After committing his 3rd bank robbery, he chased a young girl up a high-rise building and held a family hostage until cops gave up the search for him. In December 1989, he held his girlfriend hostage and threatened to kill her and several cops during a standoff, but dropped the gun 4 hours later and was arrested. He got several lucky breaks before making bond and running off. He traveled across America, to the Philippines, then to Tijuana, Mexico. When he saw himself on AMW, he decided there was no more use in running, so he drove across the border to San Diego, and as he was arrested, he smiled and said he was glad the officer was the one he'd met in nearby El Cajon. He was sentenced to 6 decades in a federal penitentiary, and gave a jailhouse interview where he detailed his life of crime and his downfall, and told all the other at-risk youth who were watching him that crime doesn't pay.
George Hamilton, #168, Spt 4, 1991
Busted in New Jersey. Details are unknown. No relation to the filmmaker of the same name.
Gregory Tarkenton, #169, Spt 6, 1991
In October 1979, he beheaded a woman in Pennsylvania whom acquaintances described as his girlfriend using 3 large blades, including a sword. He escaped a Harrisburg prison four days before 1983. AMW busted him in Englewood, Colorado, studying to become a nurse's aide. He's now serving life in prison.
Roy Lee Buff (DECEASED), #170, Spt 10, 1991
A lifelong grifter, loner, and beach bum. In December 1989, he played a penny pitching game in a South Carolina bar for $500 a throw, but sustained over 4 grand in debts from countless rounds. When the tensions erupted, he opened fire on several men. His casualty toll was 1 dead, 1 wounded. He scavenged every coin and dollar bill he could find, making off with at least 9 1/2 Grand, perhaps more than 10 Grand. An AMW tipster busted him in Delray Beach, Florida, after recognizing the stolen Chevy Blazer he was driving. He was slimmer than before, with a longer beard, and working as an exterminator in a trailer park while scrounging up cash on the side from other odd jobs. He was facing overwhelming evidence and almost certain execution in the electric chair if convicted at trial, so he pled guilty and was sentenced to 2 decades to life. The mortal victim's son forgave Buff, but the rest of the victim's family overrode it, so he lost 3 parole hearings between 2011 and 2016, ultimately dying in August of 2020.
Steve Edward Allen (RELEASED), #171, Spt 18, 1991
A gang banger. He killed a minor league baseball player turned rival gang banger in Los Angeles. He was busted in Illinois, and somehow earned a 2 year sentence, either by bargaining down his sentence or getting convicted only of a lesser charge. The victim's mother admitted she felt the justice system cheated her.
Henrietta Marie Ganote (RELEASED), #172, Oct 18, 1991
In Lincoln, Nebraska, she went to prison for fatally beating her 15 month old daughter in 1980. She and another woman broke out of the York, Nebraska prison in 1984. The other escapee was captured quickly but Ganote vanished into hiding. She was busted in Monroe, Tennessee, married with two more small children. At one time, her crimes were being charged as a chain of habitual offences, but she struck a plea deal that would get them punished merely as an isolated incident. She served 3 1/2 to 4 years in prison before getting out in 1995.
Timothy Lee Brewster Sr (RELEASED), #173, Oct 20, 1991
A convicted rapist. He and his son joined forces to overpower 2 prison guards in an Ohio hospital, allowing him to escape while his son held the guards at gunpoint and threatened them. The son was caught quickly and sentenced to 8 years in prison. He was busted in West Virginia. His precise sentence was unknown, but he eventually got out, moved to Maryland, and registered as a sex offender forever.
Kenneth H Bass (RELEASED), #174, Nvb 3, 1991
In 1988, he accidentally killed a woman in Providence, Rhode Island. In September 1990, he was released on bail, but fled his trial. He was busted in North Carolina and served a 15 year sentence.
Jessie Lee Baker, #175, Nvb 8, 1991
AMW was after him, both for shooting a woman to death in Florida in January 1991, and for bombing a building in Texas. In Atlanta's Fulton County jail, his fellow inmates were watching the show through prison television, and they yelled "Hey, that's you!" Baker ran and hid before being arraigned for the murder and bombing. He was convicted and originally sentenced to 3 decades in prison, but gain time laws got his sentence reduced to 15 - 17 years. Unfortunately, he broke the terms of 4 different probationary releases, the latest in 2018, and he won't be eligible for his 5th chance at probation until 2023.
Jeremy Abshire (ACQUITTED), #176, Nvb 9, 1991
In August 1991, cops thought he stabbed a woman to death in a Salt Lake City transient camp. He was busted working on a British Petro oil rig in Galveston, Texas, and was soon acquitted.
William John Dunn and Gordon Wallace Mackie (both RELEASED), #177/#178, Nvb 11, 1991
Partners-in-crime in Edward Albert Dunn's multi-Megadollar bank examiner impersonation scam. William used the nickname "Mr. Ryan" to call up the eventual victims, and Wallace disguised himself as a customer in order to surveil the victims as they delivered the money to Albert. After William's son Edward Albert Dunn got busted in Canada, AMW aired the case again in May and got in touch with John's and Wallace's attorneys, starting a half year of negotiations. AMW tipsters were ready to roll on the other two, busting them 8 months later in Portland, Oregon, near the scene of the scams. A reporter secretly monitored John and Wallace as they were riding 1st class on an American Airlines flight from Buffalo, New York, and they repeatedly insulted the AMW crew during their walkshots. The three co-conspirators struck a plea deal for a 1/2 decade suspended sentence, 1/4 year in jail, and a 50 Grand fine to reimburse 4 victims, including one who was forced to move out of her home back in 1986. She paid the bank back the 4 1/2 Grand originally stolen from her and 3 Grand interest to get her old home back 2 days after John's and Wallace's captures. The three criminals were deported back to Canada after serving their jail sentence.
Christopher Rodriguez Bentley, #179, Nvb 13, 1991
An executioner for Eric Vassell's Brooklyn drug trafficking network "the Gullyman Posse." While the posse essentially held siege over a particular apartment complex, he trafficked drugs and guns in a minimum of 3 states to the tune of more than 60 Grand per day, and was suspected of the murder of a gang lieutenant who got out of line with Vassell. In December 1990, a few key members, including Eric and Rodriguez-Bentley, evaded a raid on the posse's headquarters. He was busted in Tampa, Florida, after a 6 day long stakeout and a high-speed chase, with a fake ID suggesting he was born there, but his Jamaican accent gave him away.
Gary and Orlando Fernandez, and Maria DeLoris Monserrate, #180/#181/#182, Dcb 10/Dcb 6, 1991
In July 1990, Gary Fernandez, his son Orlando, and Gary's girlfriend Maria, kidnapped and murdered a couple in a Jacksonville, North Carolina house robbery. Detectives connected them to the crimes via a bloody towel and a break-in at a pawn shop. All three fled to the Dominican Republic where AMW tipsters busted them over the course of 5 days. All 3 co-conspirators were extradited and sentenced to life in prison.
Milton Gabriel English (RELEASED), #183, Dcb 11, 1991
During a taxi robbery, he shot and killed a cabbie and another person when they couldn't produce enough money to satisfy him. He was busted in New York, convicted of 2nd degree murder, and sentenced to 1/4 century to life. He got out at the beginning of 2017, then was deported to another country.
Stanley W Beatty (RELEASED), #184, Dcb 19, 1991
In July 1990, he shot into a crowd in Sacramento. A college football star was killed, 3 were wounded, and 200 were unharmed. He was also a person of interest in 1 other wounding. In Brooklyn, New York, he saw himself on America's Most Wanted, called a lawyer, and arranged a surrender in a church. He served 14 years in prison, and the fatal victim's friends, football coach, and late mother all accused the justice system of failure.
Charles Webster Ferguson (DECEASED), #185, Jnr 2, 1992
In Gary, Indiana, he made a failed attempt to kill his ex-girlfriend. In November 1986, he pulled a gun on a bailiff and escaped merely minutes after his conviction. An AMW tipster recaptured him in Bell City, California. His sentence was unknown, probably pretty lengthy, but he died in July of 1996.
Billy Ray Riggs and Hilda (RELEASED) Sims Riggs, #186/#187, Jnr 17, 1992
Billy, a car mechanic, had at least 3 divorces after beating his wives, and had been sought since 1972 for murdering his brother. In April 1990, he collaborated with his last wife, Hilds Sims Riggs, to steal a car at whatever cost. They lured a young woman and took her out to dinner, kidnapped her, and shot her to death on the Arizona Interstate highway in order to steal her Volkswagen. The body was found in a citrus grove. They were busted in Los Angeles, California before they had a chance to eat some Chinese takeout. The box of food was found on their table, still warm. Billy was condemned to death, and Hilda, with her case mitigated by solidly believable claims of battered wife syndrome, was sentenced to 1/4 century to life, after which she got out in November 2014.
Rene Cruz Reynoso (RELEASED), #188, Jnr 23, 1992
A drug cartel soldier. In 1991, his landlord, a wholesale developer, was threatening to evict him. He paid a motorcyclist to kill the landlord in revenge. He was busted in Guadalajara, Mexico, and served 2 decades in prison.
Joaquin Carlos Amelo-Brito, #189, Jnr 23, 1992
In March 1990, his girlfriend broke up with him. As revenge, he sexually murdered her 20 year old sister and her unborn fetus in Tucson, Arizona. AMW tipsters led the FBI to Detroit, Michigan where he was trying to call his wife. They traced his call and busted him. He has since been sentenced to life in prison.
Richard Lee Roberts (DECEASED), #190, Fbr 8, 1992
In 1987, this convicted murderer started molesting his 7 year old stepdaughter. In October 1990, she confided in a school teacher who relayed the message to police. In January 1991, a judge let him out on bail, but he broke the terms yet the court let him stay on bail... twice. AMW tips led to California, where he'd been working as a manual laborer and painter, and cops busted him riding in a car in the Lakewood suburb of Los Angeles, California. He was sentenced to 36 years in prison, and within the following 3 decades, he was dead. No relation to televangelist Oral Roberts' son of the same name.
Lawrence Nyburg, #191, Fbr 20, 1992
In May 1991, he beat a man to death and left the body in the victim's apartment in Chicago, with the intent of withdrawing all the money off the victim's ATM card. He was busted working at a restaurant in Manhattan, New York, and was sentenced to 7 decades in prison.
Alan David Hurwitz (DECEASED), #192, Mrc 16, 1992
The Unknown Great Lakes Zombie Bandit. AMW's first Direct Capture of an Unknown fugitive was once a well-respected educator with a passion for social justice who fell into a cocaine habit, then robbed 18 banks in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. His blank facial expression, vacant eyes, and slow, lumbering gait earned him the nickname. In the winter of 1992, he was busted between Lansing and Detroit, Michigan. He served more than a decade for those heists, but was sentenced to somewhere from 15 to 17 years for 4 more December 2008 bank robberies in Oregon and northern California. He was sent to North Carolina to serve this sentence, and due to be released in July or August of 2023. By the spring of 2020, he'd survived emphysema and other lung diseases, hypertension, at least 2 heart attacks, and 4 cancers, and was transferred to home confinement somewhere else in the US, in an attempt to save him from the COVID-19 pandemic, but it was already too late. The debate rages on about the recent boom in the elderly prison population, and how to weigh their health needs against their different personalities and types of crime, as well as what to do about coronavirus outbreaks in the US prison system.
Linda Allende Santos and Emilio Carrasquillo Rosario, #193/#194, Mrc 17, 1992
Allende-Santos paid Carrasquillo-Rosario and another of her many boyfriends to kill her husband in San Juan, Puerto Rico. When one of the men cut them off on the road, Carrasquillo-Rosario walked out of the car and shot the husband dead. The other boyfriend was caught quickly but Santos and Rosario fled to the American mainland. They were busted in Hialeah, Florida, off a tip from the 2-21-992 broadcast.
Florencia A Gooding (DECEASED), #195, Mrc 19, 1992
A Connecticut real estate scammer. In early 1981, as her charade started to unravel, she burned a home in New Haven in order to cover it up. By the spring, she checked herself into a mental hospital, and jumped out of a window to escape that May. Around July of 1981, she burned down her brother-in-law's home in Campbell, California, after living there for a month or two. Many children inside these houses were wounded, but no deaths were reported. After her profile on the 3-13-992 broadcast, she was busted in Miami, Florida, served 13 years in a Connecticut prison, and as people correctly predicted, she stayed out of trouble after getting out in circa 2005, until her final breath in 2019.
Carmine Esposito (ACQUITTED), #196, Mrc 20, 1992
The son of a Genovese crime family soldier. Cops believed that, in 1983, he shot a man dead in a New York City restaurant. He was also wanted for questioning in other charges, including bond default and a failed attempt to burglarize a bank. He was busted in West Los Angeles, eating lunch at a pizza parlor he was known as a regular customer at, and later acquitted of the murder.
Cesar Uriel Mazariego-Molina (DECEASED), #197, Apl 6, 1992
An undocumented worker from El Salvador convicted of raping his female cousin. He murdered 4 people: His own uncle, a fellow worker, a California deputy, and one other man. A tipster led cops to Plattekill, New York. They thought he was reaching for his gun, and so shot him dead.
Neil Wilson Wilding, #198, Apl 4, 1992
In late August 1988, he broke into an apartment in Florida and sexually murdered a woman. He was connected via DNA evidence in July 1991. AMW tips led law enforcement to Oklahoma, where he was arrested on a traffic violation. He was initially sentenced to death, but soon got his conviction and sentence set aside, then he got convicted at a retrial and commuted to life in prison.
William Cecil Brandon Jr, #199, Apl 19, 1992
In December 1991, a 13 year old boy in Baltimore played a ding dong ditching prank on Brandon's father, taunting him repeatedly. In a fit of rage, Brandon grasped the child and shot him to death. He was busted in the same state.
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Post by 912thamwuser on Mar 30, 2013 2:24:50 GMT -5
AMW Capture Roster, 3rd Century
Stephen Leslie Wilson, #200, Apl 2, 1992
In the 1970's, after he got married, he started acting extremely strange, especially with how he antagonized and killed the family dog. After their breakup, in late May 1979, he shot his ex father in law to death. In August 1984, he escaped from California's Folsom Prison. Over the next 7.6 years, he repeatedly bragged that he'd never be caught. A lead from an AMW tipster had him followed to his girlfriend's motel room in London, England, where he was taken into custody. He's now serving life in prison.
Norman "King Curly" Ackison, #201, Apl 15, 1992
In Ohio, he repeatedly raped his 5 year old daughter and at least 20 of her playmates, nearly all under age 8. He surrendered in Columbus, Ohio after seeing himself on AMW. He was released within 2 decades, but he got arrested for kidnapping a woman in April 2011.
Kenneth Allen McDuff (EXECUTED), #202, May 4, 1992
The Broomstick Serial Killer. His series of 14 murders started in August 1966. He shot 2 people dead and sexually murdered a teenage girl in Fort Worth, Texas, using a broomstick handle as a bludgeoning weapon. Sent to the electric chair, they commuted his sentence literally seconds before he would've been fried. He was released in 1989, and over less than 3 years, he murdered the other 11+ victims. An AMW tipster busted him in Kansas City, Missouri, making a delivery for a refuse collection company just a few weeks after the last murder, and by July, there were congressional hearings in Texas about parole officers, their consultant-like habits at the time, and the practice of releasing inmates due to overcrowding, especially when officials started looking into roughly 2 Grand McDuff's family had given some of them. He was executed in November 1998, becoming the first AMW capture to die by such.
Juan Benito Lopez, #203, Mrc 26, 1992
In 1988, he fatally stabbed a woman he was dating in Texas. The body was found with more than 40 wounds. He was busted working at an auto upholstery shop in Miami, Florida.
Philip White, #204, Apl 21, 1992
In 1989, he murdered an American tourist in the Bahamas. AMW tips led an organized crime squad to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was busted. In September 2011, the victim's grandson was murdered. AMW busted the grandson's killer in April 2012 as Capture #1179.
Gwendlen Carol Dowell Benton (RELEASED), #205, Apl 25, 1992
She committed 15 armed jewelry and firearms robberies, then convinced many men to harbor her. She was also wanted in connection with a murder. She was busted in Ohio and sentenced to at least 14 years in prison, and got out in 2006.
Russell Edward "Rusty" Garrett, #206, Apl 17, 1992
A frequent guest at horse sales complementing his reputation as rough on animals, who always had some tale to spin, including boasting that he could break any animal even though one horse gave him a bad leg. Starting in 1988, he was carrying an affair with a friend's wife in West Virginia. In May 1990, her husband asked her to come clean and make sure there was nothing between her and Edward. However, despite their occasional fallings out, Edward didn't want her to break the affair off. Edward camped out in the woods near the couple's house and killed her with a hunting rifle. For at least a month, during turkey hunting season, the locals didn't give the loud gunshot bang much thought, and in July, he got out of jail the day after his arrest for cockfighting in Ohio, but that August, some ginseng hunters found her skull and wedding ring. He was busted in North Carolina. Juan Benito Lopez's, Philip White's, Gwendlen Carol Dowell Benton's, and Russell Edward "Rusty" Garrett's capture reports were most likely not aired on the show until May 1992 at the soonest.
Granville Stephen Pinion, #207, Jne 1, 1992
In late May 1992, he snatched a 12 year old girl at gunpoint off her bicycle in a suburb of Pensacola, Northern Florida. He might've made some sexual contact with her. A few days later, he was busted in Mobile, Alabama after his camper malfunctioned, and was sentenced to 3 decades to life.
Ricky Dale Brock (DECEASED), #208, Apl 30, 1992
A car mechanic by day, and member of a North Carolina crime ring that dealt in counterfeit cash by night, previously known for associating with criminals who had far longer rap sheets than him. By November 1980, a national economic recession hit the Piedmont community particularly hard, and times were rough as nearby mills shut down in quick succession. Brock concocted a scheme to sell 30 Grand in counterfeit money for 10 Grand in real cash to a well-respected community leader who owned a hybrid video arcade and pool hall, but whose investments were going sour. Brock's co-conspirator lured the arcade owner with a deal, and shortly later, the two went to collect the real money from the arcade owner, but an argument started over the briefcase and its lock combination, which quickly spiraled into Brock shooting the arcade owner dead with several shots from a handgun the co-conspirator didn't know he was carrying and a blast from a shotgun stored elsewhere in the garage. In exchange for sparing the co-conspirator's life, the co-conspirator helped him dispose of the body under a bridge. The co-conspirator surrendered less than a week later, gave his testimony, and served 3 years. Ricky was captured quickly and sentenced to life but escaped in May 1991. He was profiled on the 11-22-991 broadcast, busted in the same state, and died in November 2001.
Elizabeth Ann Stone (RELEASED) and Garrett Stone, #209/#210, Jne 3, 1992
Garrett Stone had molested, raped, and psychologically tortured 3 of his daughters in rural Massachusetts for almost a decade. Elizabeth Ann Stone, despite Garrett beating her up, didn't report the crimes, and was charged with said failure in court. Garrett was arrested eventually, and faced 9 different child sex crimes. They fled their trial in 1983 and Garrett was convicted in absentia. They were busted in San Rafael, California, living on houseboats and cleaning houses for a living. Elizabeth was sentenced to 2 years in prison, and Garrett was sentenced to 36 to 54 years.
Sadie Franks, #211, Apl 27, 1992
In Jamaica, her husband was in the process of filing for divorce. To make sure he never saw another woman's face again, she splashed his face with sulfuric acid, intent on blinding him. She was busted in a Florida hospital, recovering from hip surgery. Granville Stephen Pinion's, Ricky Dale Brock's, Elizabeth Ann's and Garrett Stone's, and Sadie Franks' capture reports likely weren't aired on the show until June or July 1992 at the soonest.
Donald Francis "The Snake Man" Verbridge, #212, Jne 2, 1992
A credit card fraudster wanted out of Ohio and Albuquerque. His technique was to steal the carbon prints off of receipts, buy expensive reptiles, mostly snakes, and sell them to pet stores for a profit. In February 1990, he was arrested once, with one officer getting a nasty surprise when he reached into a bag and noticed one snake wrapped around his arm. An officer with a fellow passion for snakes and other exotic reptiles recognized him from a May 1992 profile and busted him in St. Joseph's County, Indiana, with 2 Grand and some books on reptiles and birds, but no animals were recovered. In the courtroom, Verbridge told the officer who'd originally arrested him in Ohio in February 1990 that he was lucky, because the other bags contained venomous species. His capture report was aired on the 7-17-992 broadcast.
Omar Moreno, #213, Jly 18, 1992
In late October 1991, he was suspected of shooting and badly wounding a supermarket owner in the Bronx. Right after the broadcast, a tipster flushed him out of a hideout in Hialeah, Florida, but it's unknown what his verdict was.
Maurice Moseley (RELEASED), #214, Jne 6, 1992
The Unknown Shadow Bandit. His spree started in 1984, and he hit 30 banks and businesses before AMW caught up to him. In one case, he tried to grab an officer's gun during an altercation. He would vanish from the bank so fast, victims and witnesses compared him to a fleeting shadow, hence the nickname. His capture report likely took until late July 1992 to air on the show. He was busted in Nevada, sentenced to 1/4 century in prison, and got out in 2017.
Timothy Anderson, #215, Jly 21, 1992
In 1986, he killed a man in Washington, DC, and was sentenced to 2 decades to life. In February 1991, he escaped from a jail in LaSalle County, Texas. In June 1992, he was added to the US Marshals' 15 Most Wanted list. He was busted in rural South Carolina. He probably committed the same murder and prison escape as Michael Antonio Lucas (Capture #165).
Jeffrey Linn Boston (RELEASED), #216, Jly 27, 1992
His father died in early April 1977, and the will said that the mother would inherit the money unless she died within 90 days later. Their son, Jeffrey Linn Boston, saw a cold-hearted opportunity to claim the money for himself when the last of the 90 days coincided with the Fourth of July. It was then that he gathered 3 accomplices to shoot her to death with the pistol blasts "camouflaging" with the firework booms. Police quickly rounded up the accomplices, but Boston got away. That was until 15 years later, when he was busted in Florida. He was convicted of giving the orders to kill his mother and sentenced to 3 decades in prison, but good behavior got his sentence reduced to 21 years. After getting out in the 2013 - 2014 school year, he moved back to Florida.
Patrick Gerard "Rico" Bannon, #217, Ags 26, 1992
A bouncer with a warrior's build. In July 1992, he was working a bar in the Bayside district of Queens, New York. He got into a brawl with an off-duty housing police officer and another man. Thinking someone had thrown a bottle at his head, the feud boiled over. He murdered the officer by shooting him execution-style, shot the other man dead a minute later, and wounded a 3rd victim. He was sentenced to 3 decades to life. One publication mentions he became a bouncer following the stock market crash of October 1987 because there were no jobs left in his old line of work.
James Otis Sims, #218, Spt 4, 1992
A serial abuser of girlfriends, charged with kidnapping, rape, arson, and false imprisonment. More specific details are unknown. He was busted in a California theatre, seeing the movie Basic Instinct. He got out after less than a year, but in 2000, he killed a Tuscaloosa, Alabama city inspector, for which he's now serving 1/2 century to life.
Wade Russell Meisberger (DECEASED), #219, Ags 23, 1992
A high school dropout and 1 year military veteran whose childhood was tainted by his parents' divorce and scant overall emotional support. Since the 5th grade, he, alongside Mike Sawyer and Marcus Hurt, had seemed to be best friends, and had even written a manuscript about them. Later in elementary school, Wade had been leading Sawyer on various misadventures, such as convincing Sawyer to pedal bicycles with him from their rural home town to Indianapolis, and when an officer had to bring Sawyer home, Sawyer's mother started questioning Meisberger's influence on them, and as they neared the end of their K-12 years, they only grew further apart. In 1987, Meisberger faked a suicide threat to announce his father had gotten him into the navy after Meisberger showed an unwillingness to get a job. By the early 1990s, Sawyer had better career prospects and more supportive parents, but no romantic or sexual history, and Meisberger claimed he was off on medical leave when he'd been plucked out of the military for theft. Meisberger tried leading Sawyer and Hurt to a woman's house, in an attempt to convince her to make some moves on Sawyer, but after an hour, Sawyer and Hurt honked their horns, and the three hightailed it away. In July 1991, Meisberger lured Sawyer to some woods under the ruse of crashing a keg party, then beat Sawyer to death with a 2x4 plank during a botched robbery, slashed his throat, and stole his car. He then drove to Florida to convince an old girlfriend to help him hide before taking the car all the way around the country and selling it for some quick cash. At the time, everyone was stumped on the true motive, but the most likely was that Meisberger was secretly involved in a Colombian drug racket and was paranoid Sawyer might've been skimming from it. He was profiled on the 8-21-992 broadcast, where Walsh told Meisberger his parents still loved him, but needed the facts to come out. He was busted in Charlotte, North Carolina and initially got 48 years in prison, but due to gain time laws in Indiana at the time, it was reduced to 2 to 3 decades. He was paroled in 2012, but promptly violated it by registering a fake address and neglecting to meet with his officer, before stripping his clothing and diving into a river in Kentucky. Around that time, he made a long, rambling, paranoid video on YouTube. He was paroled again in 2015, but had decades of probation to serve. For a few years, he worked as a speaker for the National Alliance on Mental Health, and sometimes collaborated with prison and criminal rehabilitation outreach groups. But on Half Year's Eve 2020, he stole a big rig, drove it through northeastern Pennsylvania, and opened fire on a playground. After a 3 hour standoff, he was shot dead.
Terry Wayne Hart (DECEASED), #220, Spt 4, 1992
In September 1991, he sought revenge after his long-time girlfriend broke up with him. He raped her 15 year old daughter in an Oklahoma City apartment, then stoically returned the girl to his ex, badly beaten, intent on giving an alibi. Within the next year, he'd fled to Tennessee. When he saw himself on America's Most Wanted, he wrote a suicide note to AMW, and his body was found as he'd described.
Donald Nelson Soldano, #221, Ags 28, 1992
In 1971, he was cruising the neighborhoods of Cincinnati, Ohio, claiming to be lost and looking to return some overdue books, then kidnapped and raped a 12 year old girl who tried to turn him down, threatening to attack her family and her dog if she told anyone. In 1977, he claimed to be lost in a neighborhood in Los Angeles, trying to return some overdue library books again, and kidnapped and raped a woman who was carrying a months-old baby. When she first tried to escape, Soldano tried to drive away from the scene with the baby in the back seat. He was soon caught and served 7 years in prison. In February 1987, he told a woman in Salinas, California, he needed the pastor's phone number for his dying mother, but instead, he followed this woman into the church's office and raped her just hours before a wedding reception, which she kept silent about that night just to make the occasion go smoothly. In January 1992, he beat up a woman living with him in Redmond, Washington and also committed obstruction of justice, which got the Cincinnati case traced back to him. He was busted in Escondido, California off of tips from a 2-part profile in July 1992. Wade Russell Meisberger's, Terry Wayne Hart's, and Donald Nelson Soldano's capture reports likely weren't aired on the show until September 1992 at the soonest.
Philip Velvin "Filthy Phil" Nutte, #222, Spt 10, 1992
Born and raised in Richmond, California, long after the city's ship-building heyday, he was initially considered a genius at writing, particularly rap lyrics, and was prognosed some of the best odds of escaping life in the ghetto. In his early teens, he was serving as a role model to his younger brother, teaching him how to read despite the younger brother's learning delays. By July of 1988, he'd racked up dozens of traffic violations on his record, and he suspected the police department of targeting him just for enjoying his car too much and having a good time when he drove. In the meantime, he started hanging out with some malinfluential crowds, and by the spring of 1989, he landed himself a few years probation and 10 days in the county jail for somehow attacking an arresting officer. In April 1991, his signature album, full of dark lyrics and bleak subject matters, got released, featuring the hit single "Consequences." But one night that July, after a night with his home boys, despite his best efforts to convince them to dispose of anything illegal to own, an officer tried to pull the car over and take all the men to jail, but instead, a shootout left the policeman with major hip injuries. He was busted outside a rap studio in Georgia. It's unknown how long he was sentenced to, but if he's still alive, he's since gotten out.
Roger Lloyd Hummel, #223, Oct 9, 1992
In 1987, he beat his girlfriend to death and buried her body in a shallow grave in Dallas, Texas. He was busted in El Cerrito, California.
Henry David Turkel, #224, Oct 9, 1992
In Palm Beach County, Florida, he contacted the widow of a deceased man and told her he needed 350 Grand to invest in a restaurant business. When he got the money, he ran off instead. He was busted in Sarasota, Florida, and most likely got himself a plea deal that meant he didn't have to serve any time in exchange for paying the money back, but in 2016, he got pinched again for grand theft, and was put back on probation until 2020.
Denver Blackwell, #225, Oct 21, 1992
In May 1992, he was hard up for money, and late that month, he was suspected of shooting his ex best friend in the back and killing him, then chasing the man's wife down and wounding her with 5 gunshots and several stab wounds to the face. He surrendered in Georgia the day before his scheduled AMW profile, and let out on a measly 5 Grand bail later that autumn before promptly getting recaptured. He was sentenced to life in prison, most likely without parole. At least one of the survivors had been in hiding ever since, and one interview regarding him involved Claire McCaskill, who later served in the Missouri senate from 2012 to 2018. The judge in question was also pursuing another murderer turned prison escapee named Mark Abernathy who was profiled that night and nabbed as an empty capture.
Carlos Saavedra (ACQUITTED), #227, Oct 1, 1992
An early suspect in the Austin I Can't Believe It's Yogurt quad murder. He was busted in Mexico. Shortly later, it was proven that investigators tortured him to coerce a confession, and he was acquitted.
Robert Nelson Burroff Jr., #228, Oct 20, 1992
Wanted for molesting and raping his 4 children in Brunswick County, North Carolina. He took his family to Reno, Nevada, where he was busted. Today, he resides in Sunset Beach, North Carolina.
Dr. Mohamed F Ali, #229, Oct 16, 1992
A Tennessee doctor. In December 1989, he allegedly raped a female patient while she was under anaesthesia. In October 1992, he was spotted in Cairo, Egypt, from where AMW helped extradite him. In June 1998, he eventually sued Fox over his portrayal on the show.
Arvis Michael Sexton (DECEASED), #230, Oct 26, 1992
A convicted robber and attempted murderer. In Charlotte, North Carolina, he shot and killed his girlfriend and her brother. He was busted in Jacksonville, Florida and sentenced to life in prison, where he died in late September 2019.
Charles Elliott, #231, Oct 20, 1992
In 1989, he kidnapped a 14 year old girl who was under the care of the south east's Families and Children Authority. Cops looked across 6 states, and AMW aired the case in November 1991. He was busted in Rockmart, Florida. Carlos Saavedra's, Robert Nelson Burroff Jr's, Dr Mohamed F Ali's, Arvis Michael Sexton's, and Charles Elliott's capture reports likely weren't aired on the show until late October 1992 at the soonest.
John Wesley Amunson, #232, Dcb 6, 1992
A Texas drifter. On Veteran's Day 1992, he beat and stabbed an 11 year old boy to death. AMW tipsters led law enforcement to Daytona Beach, Florida, where he was in jail for driving drunk without a license. He was sentenced to life in prison.
Phuong Van Dinh, #233, Dcb 5, 1992
A Vietnamese immigrant worker. He blew away a friend of his with a shotgun after losing a game of poker, and the man likely died soon after. He was busted in Hawaii.
Loukisha LaVonne Rouser, #234, Dcb 8, 1992
A high school dropout with a reputation for causing trouble. In the early 1990s, three high school classmates in Michigan denied any interest in one of their male classmates. After some arguments with some of the more problematic youth in their neighborhood, Loukisha produced a gun and threatened to kill anyone who challenged her. One boy went back home to get his own gun, narrowly escaping the crisis before one of Loukisha's partners in crime convinced her it wasn't worth it. Loukisha, however, wasn't about to leave without a fight, and wanted to show off with one last drive-by shooting. One of the girls barely survived a bullet lodged in her liver, which kept her hospitalized for months. She was busted in Illinois.
Fortino Prado, #235, Dcb 1, 1992
After a girl from a Chicago suburb ran away with him, he was charged with unlawful restraint. AMW tipsters busted him in Georgia and recovered the girl unharmed.
Joseph Florczak (DECEASED), #236, Nvb 22, 1992
From 1961 to 1971, he beat and tormented his wife in Connecticut. In October 1978, he stabbed her to death following their divorce. From summer 1979 to 1991, he committed countless small robberies to make a meager living. For most of 1992, he lived in a federally subsidized apartment in Sacramento, California, then was introduced on AMW that August. When AMW tips closed in on him 4 months later, he returned to Connecticut and shot himself in the chest in front of her grave, but survived. Fortino Prado's and Joseph Florczak's capture reports were likely not aired on the show until mid to late December 1992 at the soonest. In 1994, he was convicted and sentenced to 18 years to life, but in October 2003, he succumbed to a combination of his wounds and old age.
James Henry Hampton (EXECUTED), #237, Dcb 20, 1992
In August 1992, he broke into a home in Missouri and tied up a couple in a failed extortion plot. He then kidnapped and murdered the woman, a widow who was due to be remarried. Within the next day, he was homeless in New Jersey until he became a church's handyman in exchange for a room in the priest's and his wife's house. Everyone appreciated his work, until he killed another woman in a horse stable that September. He was busted in West Orange, New Jersey, walking northbound, and had a gun in his hand, possibly to shoot it out with police, but he stumbled against the police car, and the gun went off, ripping through his head. A surgeon miraculously saved his life, and speculated that he'd either be more distant and reserved, or more active and aggressive. Hampton was executed in March 2000.
Jesus Angel Delgado (DECEASED), #238, Dcb 23, 1992
A former career criminal. Around June or July 1990, his girlfriend's father bought a dry cleaning business from a couple in Florida, hoping it could straighten Delgado out. He soon forgot the instructions, botched the customer service, slowed productivity to a near halt, and rendered the machinery faulty. That August, the couple demanded to buy the business back, but he refused, due to Delgado's own arrogance about owning the business. With Delgado blaming them for failing to prepare him for the job and embarrassing him in front of Miami, it sparked a huge argument, and he shot the couple to death when it boiled over. He was busted in Miami, and was sentenced to 2 times death, and just after the 2-decade anniversary of his capture, he carried out his own death sentence in a prison cell in January 2013.
Ivor Henry, #239, Jnr 7, 1993
He raped and impregnated a 13 year old girl. After the abortion, Broward County prosecutors had intended to use a genetic test as evidence against him, but he fled in May 1992. He was busted in The Bronx, New York, working as a security guard at a supermarket.
Juannito A "JC Jiles" Edwards, #240, Jnr 25, 1993
The first Unknown homicide solved by AMW. In February 1990, a mysterious man, previously known only as "JC Jiles", answered a Mercedes Benz classified ad, in the pretense of taking it for a test drive. Instead, he kidnapped, robbed, and fatally shot the seller. In February 1991, he killed a woman in another robbery. At the time AMW aired his case, all they had was a sketch considered "awful" in one America's Most Wanted related book, and the alias "JC Jiles". An AMW tipster knew his real name, Juannito Edwards, and busted him in Newport News, Virginia.
Jacinto "Jesse, Poppy" Martinez, #241, Fbr 13, 1993
In Pontiac, Michigan, he molested and sodomized 3 young boys aged 10 and under. He fled a 7 count indictment in June 1992, only for an AMW tipster to identify him as an inmate serving time in Orange County, Florida, for raping 2 more boys.
Robert Edward Colligan Jr., #242, Fbr 16, 1993
He was suspected of repeatedly beating up his 3 step-children in Arizona and raping his 15 year old stepdaughter. Around 1989 - 990, she told on him, and after he was charged, he fled to Colorado. AMW busted him in another Arizona city roughly a half week after his 2-12-993 broadcast. After pleading guilty, he was sentenced to 5 to 8 years in prison plus 2 decades of probation.
James Henry Pauley, #243, Jnr 25, 1993
His last wife knew him as a sadist who fantasized about torturing women, and cops suspected him of several murders, including one each in Kentucky and Florida. In July 1992, he tortured and murdered a prostitute in a Louisiana hotel to fulfill one such fantasy, and in January 1993, he raped a woman during an unrelated party spree in Mesa, Arizona. After his AMW airing, he turned himself in in Arizona. His capture report was likely not aired on the show until the back half of February 1993. It's unknown what his sentence was for those murders, but for the Arizona case alone, he was sentenced to roughly 1/4 century in prison.
Keith Terris Caldwell, #244, Mrc 5, 1993
His first huge offence was raping a woman in 1985. During parole, he kidnapped and murdered his pregnant cousin in October 1992. In the last month before his capture, he was suspected of killing 2 policemen in Compton. After seeing himself on America's Most Wanted, he called his mother and surrendered to a newsman in California. Another criminal was later arrested and charged with killing the Compton policemen, and the charges against Caldwell in the latter murders were dropped.
Kenneth Norman Lovci, #245, Mrc 20, 1993
A former reserve cop. He molested a 10 year old boy in Rollingwood, Texas. An AMW tipster in Salt Lake City, Utah, recognized him as the new replacement for a murdered restaurant cook whose killer was profiled on the same broadcast, and thus AMW busted him. The previous cook's killer was shortly nabbed as an empty capture. Lovci initially served roughly 7 years in prison, but AMW briefly aired him again in early 2000 for violating the terms of either parole, supervised release, or the sex offender registry. He was likely recaptured shortly later, but was not a direct result that time.
Daniel Kaple (DECEASED), #246, Apl 10, 1993
In late March 1993, in Georgia, he strangled his fiance to death in the last month before their scheduled wedding in Tennessee. He stole her car in order to drive the body to Ohio. He was busted by a coworker in a book store in Birmingham, Alabama, roughly 3/5 month later, and sentenced to life + 2 decades. He succumbed to multiple sclerosis in 2009.
William White Graham (RELEASED), #247, Apl 14, 1993
By May 1972, he'd dropped out of high school after his and another family's bad experiences with working class life, the Vietnam War, and other political tectonic shifts under the Nixon presidency. In June, he was having problems at home and fell in with another family, whose father's grudge against the corporations manufacturing chemical weapons drove him, his two sons, and White-Graham towards radical revolutionary attitudes. In July, he joined the Army, went through boot camp, and picked up experience with weapons of war while the two brothers brushed up on basic electrical skills and the father made plans for a bank heist that would finance their prospective new political organization. In October, the two brothers went 10 feet underground and tampered with an Arlington, Virginia neighborhood while White-Graham held a bank manager and a worker at gunpoint. As the bank's team confronted the phony electricians, it went haywire, and Graham and the other family killed the manager and an officer who responded to the scene, and wounded the other worker. They spent 4 days traveling south to Georgia, then westward to Houston, hoping to get treatment for one of the brothers, but the doctor they were hoping to see wasn't practicing there anymore, and nobody else on staff could fill in for that injury. They settled on hijacking an Eastern Airlines flight in Atlanta that was headed to upstate New York, running past and soon gunning down a gate guard, and wounding a fueler they chased off the runway. They threatened all the passengers, held them hostage, and invited them to join in their cause, none of whom accepted. The plane landed safely in Cuba, but they ended up hungry and impoverished in Havana for a few months, after which the co-conspirators returned to the US under aliases. One of the brothers was captured in early 1973, and the other brother and father panicked and surrendered shortly afterward. One of the brothers also escaped during the next decade and a half, surrendered after going hungry and cold for a short time, and got sent to a maximum security prison. The father mortally blew an artery in 1988. Shortly after the 2-05-993 broadcast, Graham surrendered in Washington, DC under mounting pressure from AMW. At 20.5 years, it set a record for oldest case AMW had ever solved at the time. He was sentenced to 21 years in prison, and got out in 2014. To this day, it's the oldest triple homicide AMW has ever solved.
Ralph Edward Solomon, #248, Apl 30, 1993
In Louisville, Kentucky, he raped and sodomized his own daughter from 1978 to 1985, starting when she was 4 years old. He fled his preliminary hearing in June 1987. The victim wrote a 6-page letter to America's Most Wanted, which revitalized the case against him, in hopes of rebuilding bonds with her mother, who'd recently moved to Alabama. He was busted at his workplace in Giles County, Tennessee, where he'd lived since circa 1989, only 3 hours after his airing. His sentence was unknown, but the records show he's been compliant on the sex offender registry.
Cesar Francesco Barone (DECEASED), #249, April 20, 1993
He was born as Adolph James Rode Jr., a violent child sociopath. He served 2 months in juvenile hall for attempting to strangle his 1908 born neighbor, a retired teacher, in Broward County, Florida, back in 1976. In 1978, he was convicted of burglary and served 1 1/2 year in prison. It's believed he sexually murdered the elderly neighbor in November 1979, shortly before his 19th birthday. In spring 1980, he seemed to get away with beating and wounding his own grandmother. He served time in a Florida prison in 1986 where he bragged of associating with the more prolific Ted Bundy following that serial killer's final arrest. He changed his name to Cesar Francesco Barone and enlisted in the military Rangers unit to overthrow Panama dictator Noriega in 1989, but in 1990, he exposed himself to a female officer. From there, officers discovered his criminal record and he was expelled. After that, he traveled to Oregon and committed a series of home invasion rapes. In April 1991, he sexually murdered an elderly woman in her own home in Hillsboro. In October 1992, he shot and immobilized a nurse, dragged her out of her car, and sexually murdered her. That December, he sexually murdered a young woman in Portland. In January 1993, he broke into a Portland apartment and raped a middle-aged woman who died of a heart attack before Barone could strike a fatal blow. He was busted there in Oregon, but his capture report was likely not aired on the show until early May 1993 at the soonest. Within 2 years, he was convicted and sentenced to 3 times death plus 9 decades. When Florida courts found out he'd already been condemned to death in Oregon, they decided against trying him for the retired teacher's murder, citing a shortage of evidence. In December 2009, he died of natural causes. The hardcore AMW fans voted him best capture of the 3rd Century of Captures besides Kenneth Allen McDuff.
Brian Thomas Vowell, #250, May 7, 1993
He was wanted out of Carlsbad, California for sexual assault and busted in nearby Encinitas. Specific details of how his crime played out or his victim's age and special vulnerabilites are uncertain, but his victim may have been 13 years old.
Douglas Ross Bonde (DECEASED), #251, May 8, 1993
In November 1992, he robbed a home in Los Angeles, held the family at gunpoint, and stole some checks and jewelry. AMW tips led cops to the city of Ontario, California, where he provoked police and got shot to death.
Anthony Lyn Kimbrough, #252, Jne 5, 1993
A cocaine trafficker. In April 1993, he killed a Tulsa, Oklahoma police officer with a gunshot to the head. He was busted in California and sentenced to life with no parole.
Larry Williamson, #253, May 20, 1993
In August 1992, he killed a man in an argument outside a Kentucky bar. He was busted in Florida and originally sentenced to 3 or 4 decades, but got released early, some time between 2010 and 2013. However, he got arrested for possessing methamphetamines and was put on probation until 2022.
Sengthet Chanthaluxay, #254, Jne 12, 1993
He shot a 4 decade old woman to death in Whittier, California, but further details are unknown. He was busted in Washington, DC, working in Fort McNair's mess hall.
Joseph Marshall, #255, Apl 8, 1993
A violent and irrational man who, from 1966 to 1970, served 4 years for a murder committed shortly before his 18th birthday. In 1977, he and 4 co-conspirators committed a robbery spree in east Cleveland, Ohio. The crime wave ended in a family business grocery store where one of the robbers shot the owner's 16 year old daughter dead and wounded the owner's father as she rushed to protect her family and see what was going on. It was a store that, in the 3rd quarter of the 1970s, was locally famous for carrying merchandise nowhere else in the neighborhood had, and one the community relied on for friendship or to help a starving family make it through the night in exchange for paying back the credit. Cops rounded up his partners in crime, but Marshall got away. The victim's younger daughter was shaken, but by 1993, was practicing medicine in Detroit. Marshall was busted in California. Larry Williamson's, Sengthet Chanthaluxay's, and Joseph Marshall's capture reports were likely not aired on the show until mid to late June 1993.
John Walter Mann (DECEASED), #256, Jne 25, 1993
A former Walt Disney World Pleasure Island restaurant employee. In April 1990, he raped at least 2 college interns in Orange County, Florida. Liberal estimates put his victim count at 8. AMW busted him in Stockton, California. He was sentenced to 24 years in prison, but at the time, gain time laws got his sentenced reduced to less than 11 years, after which he got out in 2004. Several days before Halloween 2006, he died of unknown causes.
Donald Ray Gideon, #257, Jly 17, 1993
A former youthful offender, who made a failed attempt to rape a woman back when he was 12 years old. In 1982, he raped another woman. In June 1993, he raped 2 more women, then sexually murdered one last victim. After his airing on AMW, he surrendered in Volusia County, Florida.
Bolton Mitchell, #258, Jly 10, 1993
A hitchhiker. One day, he abducted and robbed a school teacher, tied him up in his bedroom, and firebombed his house, nearly killing him. Cops found two wallets that he'd accidentally left behind, followed a paper trail, and named him the suspect. He was busted in Florida, but his capture report was likely not aired on the show until late July or early August.
Norman Bramson, #259, Jly 28, 1993
A malpractice insurance scam ringleader out of Columbia, Maryland. He stole 10 Megadollars in total, and fled the charges against him in October 1991. He was busted in La Jolla, California.
Michael L Reese, #260, Ags 12, 1993
Busted in Maryland. He may have raped or attempted to rape at least 9 women and girls starting when he was a teenager, gotten several slaps to the wrist over the years, been through youth sex assault counseling, and even graduated successfully from Oregon State Hospital's sex offender treatment program before he attacked his 8th+ victims.
Daniel Spencer, #261, Ags 11, 1993
A former mental hospital patient. In Tacoma, Washington, he stabbed a woman to death, hid her body under a waterbed, and stole her car. He was busted in Willows, California. The jury recommended a 3 decade sentence, but the judge, realizing how brutal the murder was, feared Spencer would strike again if given the chance, and raised it to 5 decades.
Irving Jones, #262, Ags 14, 1993
A drug dealer and paroled armed robber. He told his wife he was reformed, and was hoping to open a bakery. In July 1991, a heated argument boiled over, and he shot her and her cousin to death. He was busted in Brooklyn, New York, attending his mother's funeral. For these 2 murders, he was sentenced to 37 years to life, with very slight chances at parole in 2030. However, in January 1994, a mass swindler and murder suspect whose criminal history spanned more than 4 decades paid 2 people to relay an order to carry out a hit on a woman who was due to testify against Burnett for check counterfeiting. In April 1995, Jones was indicted for recruiting the hitmen, so even if he wins parole, he will only be transferred to the federal prison system.
Robert Brent Black, #263, Ags 30, 1993
A serial armed robber who escaped police custody over a dozen times, and boasted a 2 decade long rap sheet. In one incident, he slipped out of the back seat of a police car and ran off. In another, he calculated the way two automatic switch-activated doors would open and close, and ran through. After one profile, he fled from Detroit to NYC and moved into an apartment. A fellow tenant kept an eye on him for several months looking for an opportunity to send in a tip, hesitating amidst Black's combative outbursts. In August, he was pinched on drug charges and held on a $750 bond, and that's when the tipster seized upon it, helping match his fingerprints to his alias.
Jessie Overman Beeson (RELEASED), #264, Spt 1, 1993
For over a year, he'd beaten and molested his 3 stepdaughters in various disturbing ways. When Beeson was charged with a 56 count indictment, the children's mother raised bail, then took him, her son, and the three girls on the run throughout the American Southwest. After his profile on America's Most Wanted, he fled from Arizona to Sacramento, California, where he was busted. He was later shown on Final Justice, where a girl said, "They caught Jessie!" He served an unknown sentence, presumably between a decade and 1/4 century, and he's since gotten out and living in Colorado Springs, but is registered as a sex offender.
Kenneth Drayton II, #265, Spt 22, 1993
A former Kansas University wide receiver. In June 1993, he kidnapped and raped 3 women in Florida. In early September, he was convicted, but escaped a jail 2 days later. Within the next 2-3 weeks, he was busted in Tampa, Florida. He was sentenced to 85 to 95 years in prison, with a projected release date in 2078.
Marc Adams (DECEASED), #266, Jly 16, 1993
The notorious part of his criminal history started in the 1970's when he became a serial robber targeting teenagers. In 1979, he tried to divide the loot from one heist in Modesto, California, but upon realizing that 3 teen boys were hiding in a baseball diamond, he opened fire. The casualty toll was 1 dead, 1 wounded, 1 unharmed. The policeman who responded to the scene was the mortal victim's uncle. For 7 years, he participated in every activity that could get him out of his cell and score leniency with the corrections department, until 1986, when he escaped from the infamous San Quentin prison, one of the only criminals to manage this feat. Starting in 1987, he'd lived as a model citizen of Puerto Rico for about 6 years before AMW tipsters busted him, but his capture report was likely not aired on the show until late September or early October 1993. In March of 1994, a guard shot him dead in a prison fight. In December 1998, his family was awarded 2.3 Megadollars in an excessive force lawsuit.
Edward Tiberius James, #267, Oct 6, 1993
In Florida, he got into an argument with another family he'd lived with for years. After mixing drugs all afternoon one day, he beat the family's youngest child to death, raped her corpse, tied up their older daughter, left her in the bathroom, and stabbed the children's grandmother to death. He sold the grandmother's jewelry across several pawn shops across the midwest, then was busted in an unemployment office in Bakersfield, California where his missing upper teeth gave him away. He gave a jailhouse interview where he suddenly regretted his own crimes, admitted no apology would ever make up for them, and claims even he didn't understand what made him so angry. He was later convicted and sent to Florida's death row, but in early 2019, a Supreme Court ruling said that only unanimous jury votes for the death penalty would count. He faces one more trial, and if even one juror votes NO on the death penalty, James will be transferred to lifer's row.
Amotta McCullough, #268, Oct 20, 1993
During a fight outside an Ohio apartment, another man held a rival down while McCullough stabbed the victim through the heart. The other killers were arrested but McCullough got away. He didn't flee far, and was busted in Ohio.
Gerald DeLane Murray, #269, Spt 9, 1993
In September 1990, he robbed, tortured, and sexually murdered a woman in Florida by strangling her with a power cord. He escaped from a prison in November 1992 before they could indict him. He was busted in Las Vegas, Nevada, with 2 fake ID cards, and was condemned to death. His sentence had been commuted back and forth between life with no parole and death row twice in the following decade, but he's on death row to stay.
Donald R Waterhouse, #270, Oct 6, 1993
A disgraced Navy shipman and radio operator turned alcoholic. Two days before New Year's Day 1992, he slashed his throat in the middle of a diner. Reuniting with his mother for the first time since circa 1981, he was released into her care in rural Tennessee and ordered to attend therapy. During his deployment, her letters and phone calls never made it to him, and later that winter, he blamed her for his father's absence during his childhood. He was sent to a counseling session to receive treatment for clinical depression, but resented how the counselors treated him, further escalating tensions between him and her. One woman knew he was becoming dangerous, and told her to consider putting him out on the road. In March 1992, he killed his mother and her husband with a pistol she kept around the house, then stole and abandoned the stepfather's truck and credit cards. He was busted in Ponca City, Oklahoma, in a bus parked outside a McDonald's. Gerald DeLane Murray's and Donald R Waterhouse's capture reports were likely not aired on the show until late October 1993 at the soonest.
George Hardebeck, #271, Oct 26, 1993
In August 1993, he shot up his family on a Ripley, Indiana farm after a heated argument. He killed his mother, two of his brothers, his sister, and his sister's husband for a total of 5 dead. 2 to 2 1/2 months later, he was flushed out of a barn in Kentucky in which he hid.
Jonathan Kliem and Chad Beers, #272/#273, Oct 21/Oct 26, 1993
The Unknown Wesley Hanscom Abductors. On September 23, 1993, two then-unknown spree criminals took pictures at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, then crossed over to Lawrence, Arkansas where they broke into a budget car lot, stole what was incidentally its least valuable car, then robbed a convenience store in Clarksville at gunpoint. Then, they couldn't start that car, nobody would help them with it, and the two robbers ran to a nearby garage, left their Graceland pictures and the money from the robbery behind in a bag, and stole one of two cars there, which was already out of gas. They fled to the home of a circa 1914 born man named Wesley Hanscom, drove him to Oklahoma, bound and gagged him, and abandoned him in a motel. Before the profile, one of them was arrested temporarily, but escaped custody in transit to a medical examination. They weren't known to have killed or seriously injured anyone yet, but on the 10-12-993 broadcast, AMW was determined to capture them before it escalated. Kliem was busted in Kansas, and Beers went down in Corpus Christi, Texas 5 days after.
Francis Howard Hatmaker, #274, Nvb 17, 1993
In September 1990, he abducted his then 4 year old son from Long Island. AMW tipsters busted him in Arizona.
David Connell Cox (DECEASED), #275, Nvb 19, 1993
In the first Unknown homicide case without even an alias solved by AMW, a 14 year old runaway girl named Naomi Marie McMahill was sexually murdered in February 1981, and her body was found next to a cement culvert on a rural Oregon road. But with nothing like an ID card on her and truly nothing to identify her with, she was buried as a Jane Doe, and it took until 1986 before computer work proved who she was. In 1991, a truck driver's wife sent in a tip implicating her husband for picking up a teenage hitchhiker, taking her into the bed quarters of a big rig, telling the wife the girl was dead, and doing something like this every so often just to relieve tension. But with the killer's power and resolve to strike back, she hung up without giving either the killer's name or her own. A teletype from the detective reignited the case for a time, but with no leads on the killer's or initial tipster's name, they brought the case to AMW. A tipster from Sacramento, whose secretary knew the initial caller, led a caravan of officers to Carson City, Nevada, where the caller from 1991 was quickly recognized. She then identified her ex-husband, David Connell-Cox as the killer, and he was busted in the northern highlands of California. He was disguising himself as a disabled man with hearing aides, crutches, and back injuries, in an attempt to make it look like he wasn't physically capable of McMahill's murder. A volunteering citizen secretly recorded Connell-Cox washing his van freely with those disability tools long gone. He faked the disabilities during his trial even after he was exposed in those secret tapes, then was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. In the summer of 1998, during AMW's decadial anniversary special, John Walsh cited this as his favorite capture up to that point, because of how it proved that justice delayed doesn't have to be justice denied. Connell-Cox died in an Ontario, Oregon correctional facility in the winter of 2011.
George "Tank" Eason (DECEASED), #276, Nvb 10, 1993
In Pennsylvania, he shot and killed a teenage girl with an AK-47 because she wasn't romantically interested in him. AMW tips led cops to Georgia, where he shot himself in the chest before cops could bust him.
Joseph Hamilton Harper, #277, Oct 22, 1993
A disgraced ex-cop from Woodbury, upstate New York. In August 1978, he blew up a sewage treatment plant, a railroad, and an electric transformer using dynamite, dealing more than 200 Grand worth of property damage, and in the case of the transformer, plunging New York's central valley into darkness. His motive was to infiltrate the department from the inside and boast of being first to the scene, in an attempt to prove himself better than everyone else on the force. But his colleagues, with a former classmate of his as chief of police, suspected something was off because few individual officers ever investigate a bomb blast, and Harper being first to two such crimes in a row sat wrong with the department. Later that summer, the polygraph jumped, and by the end of 1979, he'd gone on the run. From his first airing in 1990, he fled from eastern Florida to Slidell, Louisiana, where he'd stolen a second classmate's identity in order to purchase a vehicle, then got busted in Oxnard, California, with a surprised look on his face. He warned his arresting officer not to let the pressures of working law enforcement get to him too. George "Tank" Eason's and Joseph Hamilton Harper's capture reports were likely not aired on the show until late November or early December 1993 at the soonest. With a 3rd classmate as the District Attorney, he was sentenced to 1/4 century in prison with his first chance at parole in 2000.
James Pierce (DECEASED), #278, Jnr 3, 1994
In Indiana, he lured a 3 year old girl out of a discount store and molested her. In November 1993, he returned her to a WAL*MART, got caught, and fled bond. That December, the family told their tragic story on AMW. A month after that, he returned to Indiana and surrendered. At the end of 1994, he was sentenced to 4 decades in prison, but with Indiana's gain time laws, his sentence was shortened to 16 years. He had a projected release date in 2010, but died of natural causes before that day could come.
Armando "Scarface" Garcia, Toribio Dagoberto Garcia, and Victor Zapata (all RELEASED), #279/#280/#282, Jnr 18, 1994/Jnr 26, 1994
The last of the corrupt police crew and drug racketeers The Miami River Cops. In July 1985, Armando "Scarface" Garcia stormed 2 ships with cocaine aboard. Three guards dove into the river and drowned, for which Scarface was charged with 3 counts of murder. Over the next 2 years, Scarface and Toribio conspired to kill government witnesses, but the contract hit plot failed. Scarface and Toribio were busted in Cali, Columbia 5 years after Scarface was named to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted. Less than a week later, Victor Zapata surrendered in Puerto Rico. After cooperating with federal agencies to break up several major drug trafficking networks, their sentences were reduced to somewhere between 6 and 12 years in prison. Toribio got out some time between 2000 and 2003, and Scarface and Zapata got out in 2006.
Quincy Foster, #281, Jnr 19, 1994
In April 1993, he robbed a woman and her mother of 24 cents at gunpoint in a dark alleyway in Chickasha, Oklahoma. The gun went off, killing the daughter. He was busted in Salt Lake City, Utah, and was sentenced to 17 years to life.
John Gilbert Goodloe, #283, Oct 6, 1993
A Detroit, Michigan auto theft ringleader. In May 1992, he was charged with local thefts and burglaries, but that October, he was indicted for stealing 1/2 of a Megadollar in cars and parts from Ford. After he was profiled in late September 1993, he fled one hideout where national heat was building up, but on October 5, Goodloe told another tipster he met at a gas station he was ordering a pizza. That last tipster put the word out to all the pizza parlors with a scheduled delivery in Bremerton, Washington, and Goodloe was busted the next morning.
Alex Warren Yancey, #284, Dcb 22, 1993
Wanted for his role in the Tokars cocaine business, particularly a conspiracy involving counterfeit money. Busted in California.
Jimmy Don Thornton and Starla Dawn Ownbey, #285/#286, Dcb 27, 1993
A serial shoplifting racketeer couple. They stole over 1 Megadollar annually for several years in the southeast. Ownbey, Thornton's sister-in-law, was his Bonnie & Clyde style accomplice. They were convicted in Texas in 1989, then absconded from Oklahoma in 1992. AMW tips led a Utah K-Mart security guard to them as they tried to return an electric shaver. They had no identification with them when they were busted.
Magaly Isumy Gonzalez-Carr, #287, Nvb 10, 1993
Throughout 1990, she stole 1 Megadollar from her business partner, the founder of a British surgical supply company. When he flew in to Miami to confront her, she and 2 other men shot him dead outside his plane just as he flew in. Gonzalez-Carr was the last of the 3 suspects still at large. AMW busted her in Sarasota, Florida. When her arresting officer asked who she was, she said, "You know who I am." John Gilbert Goodloe's, Alex Warren Yancey's, Jimmy Don Thornton's, Starla Dawn Ownbey's, and Magaly Isumy Gonzalez-Carr's capture reports were likely not aired on the show until February 1994 at the soonest. She was facing the death penalty, but the victim's family opposed death row, so her sentence was commuted to 1/4 century to life. She lost in her first parole hearing in 2019, and her chances of ever getting released are minimal.
David R Korecky, #288, Fbr 27, 1994
A twice convicted child molester. He was wanted for raping 2 siblings, both under age 10, in Columbus, Ohio. He was busted in Texas.
Robert Joseph Moody (DECEASED), #289, Jnr 5, 1994
A former financial analyst. In autumn 1993, he murdered 2 women in Tucson, Arizona over 2 weeks, then tied up his family and stole their car to flee a month later. He went to Orange County, California and claimed he was suffering from amnesia, and an AMW viewer recognized him, but his capture report was likely not aired on the show until early March 1994. He was convicted at trial and condemned to death, but it eventually got overturned. His second trial was before a judge instead of the usual jury trial, and he was again convicted and condemned to death, but a Supreme Court ruling struck down his death sentence because it was given by a judge instead of a jury. It was commuted to life without parole, and he died a few days before Halloween 2019.
Roy David Summers, #290, Mrc 15, 1994
A paroled drug trafficker. In May 1993, he got into an argument over a woman in a Los Angeles night club, and shot the other man dead, then managed to flee despite accidentally shooting his own leg. He was busted in North Carolina.
Alton Gillespie and Stephanie Collins, #291/#292, Fbr 18, 1994
Busted in South Carolina. Details are unknown.
Jeanne Hayes Siffin Rode and Donald Anthony Durant, #293/#294, Dcb 17/Dcb 16, 1993
In 1972, Durant shot a Cleveland, Ohio businessman to death in a failed robbery. He was implicated in 1983. For the following decade, he committed several burglaries and thefts in Nevada. Siffin-Rode failed to appear in court for carrying a concealed weapon, and helped Durant escape more than 10 police agencies. They were busted about 24 hours apart in Tucson, Arizona. Alton Gillespie's, Stephanie Collins', Jeanne Hayes Siffin Rode's, and Donald Anthony Durant's capture reports were likely not aired on the show until March 1994 at the soonest.
Fonisha Michelle Jones (RELEASED), #295, Mrc 4, 1994
In March 1992, she beat and knocked out her ex-boyfriend's new 18 year old girlfriend and her 8 months unborn child, dragged her to a bathtub, and drowned her in a fit of jealous passion, after which her sister helped her flee San Bernardino, California. She was profiled in April 1993, and was herself pregnant when she was busted at a friend's house in Louisiana. She threw a kick at the cameraman during her capture report, but probably missed. She was sentenced to 1/4 century to life, and was granted parole around the turn of 2019 to 2020. California governor Gavin Newsom didn't reject it, so she's a free woman so far, provided those murderous impulses have subsided forever.
Robert Joseph Ballarin, #296, Nvb 2, 1993
Once, he attempted but failed to rape his ex-girlfriend. He got pinched and served a year in prison for it, but in 1992, he shot her at a car repair shop, paralyzing her below the waist. He was busted in Reno, Nevada, in a hotel in which he didn't belong and sentenced to 33 years in prison. Once the state of Washington realized the parole board yawned at her warnings about Ballarin, in 1998, the state government eventually awarded her a Megadollar and 900 Grand. In 2001, her wheelchair sunk into the ground near a horse pasture, and she died of exposure to the elements trying to crawl home, for which the courts couldn't lengthen Ballarin's sentence despite the injuries he inflicted paving the way to her death.
Martin Rasim Bulichi, #297, Oct 30, 1993
A self-employed machinist. In August 1993, two men in his Washington State neighborhood renovated their garage into a makeshift disco hall. The loud music led to an argument between the men and Rasim-Bulichi. It quickly got out of hand, and he killed one of them and a woman with gunshots to the head. He found out he was scheduled for an AMW airing 3 days before the show, and surrendered in Snohomish, Washington. He got life with no chance of parole.
Roggie Smith, #298, Dcb 13, 1993
Details are uncertain. In the winter of 1979, an officer so beloved by his community in Brunswick, Georgia, that he frequently did personal favors on request, relayed divorce papers and a court summons to Roggie. For a while, the officer lent the soon-to-be ex-wife moral support, but that April, Roggie shot the officer as he was walking her to her car. Unbeknownst to Roggie, the officer had just convinced her to start considering giving Roggie one more chance. America's Most Wanted introduced him in August of 1992, and he was busted in Philadelphia a year and a third later. Robert Joseph Ballarin's, Martin Rasim Bulichi's, and Roggie Smith's capture reports were likely not aired on the show until late March or early April 1994 at the soonest.
Richard LaMar "Romeo, Slick Rick" Chambliss, #299, Apl 14, 1994
An Atlanta drug dealer, known for keeping himself anonymous, always planning his next robbery. In June 1993, he robbed, stabbed, and killed a young woman who lived down the hall in the same apartment complex. The victim was known as a rising star in the high fashion modeling world, a graduate of Barbazon Fashion School in Fort Lauderdale, and had dreams of opening a children's home that would help young girls off the streets who otherwise couldn't afford fashion school, and had volunteered at youth centers twice weekly. It's likely he once had a crush on her, in which case his attempts at winning her over didn't pan out. He was profiled on the 9-07-993 broadcast, busted nearby, and is now serving a life sentence.
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Post by 912thamwuser on Apr 5, 2013 18:03:22 GMT -5
AMW Capture Roster, 4th Century. If any of you, especially Derek (again, I inherited this topic from you!) have any comments on any of the captures, be it missing information, any inaccuracies in the description, memories of the captures, or just which ones stood out to you, I'd like to hear it. That applies to all the captures for this entire thread.
John William Ed Childers (DECEASED), #300, Apl 16, 1994
A ballroom dancing aficionado with an abusive streak towards adolescents. In 1975, a 13 year old girl named Laure Catherine Green, who'd lived a miserable life and never had any father figure to look up to, ran away from home. Childers, born in circa 1932, took her in and gave her a fake ID with the alias Debra Childers. Shortly later, they went into a common-law marriage, and in 1978, they had a son. In the second half of the 1970s and early '980s, Laure worked long hours while John rarely did any. By 1983, their marriage was on the rocks, riddled with screaming matches. Around October, she found a new man, making for the only day in her life she'd ever been happy. That November, after she told John it was over, John fatally stabbed her in the head with a cleaver designed after the Rambo movie franchise, and stuffed her body in a septic tank in North Fort Myers, Florida. His then 5 year old son witnessed the murder and ran out into the street screaming, but John snatched him and took him back into the trailer before attempting to clean up the scene. A neighbor who heard an unusually long and loud argument and several minutes of screaming from inside the Childers trailer tried tailgating John a few days later while the son tried to communicate with her, and after John abandoned the son with relatives, he was adopted into a much more loving family, but John had run off. Around January 1984, he met a woman in Memphis, Tennessee, in a dance hall, and in 1986, he moved in with her to SE Arkansas where he started a mobile home rental business. He was introduced on AMW in 1992, a month after he was sighted in Cottondale, north Florida. His 2nd broadcast in early November 1993 flushed him out of Arkansas, and cops knew that, within the preceding decade, he'd contracted asthma, emphysema, diabetes, and hypertension. Shortly later, he got pinched, but the FBI was unsatisfied with the identity he provided, and unwittingly let Childers go before the fingerprints could be matched to his 1975 arrest for aggravated assault in St. Augustine, Florida. His 3rd broadcast the next week chased him out of a motel in Prattville, Alabama. From there, he fled to Montgomery, traded in his RV, then checked into another motel. The 4th broadcast drove him out just a few hours before cops could arrive. The 5th broadcast, around Christmas 1993, led detectives to check various medication databases, and traced his insulin meds to Jacksonville, Florida, where he proposed to a woman born in circa 1923. In April 1994, he missed his 7th broadcast, and was busted outside her home after a night of dancing in another ballroom, tired of running. By Halloween 1996, he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. He died in July 2013.
George Hartleroad, #301, Apl 19, 1994
In 1983, he abducted and raped a woman in Hastings, Minnesota. Over the following 12 years, he was transferring between various prisons and halfway houses, breaking out of prison, and getting recaptured. In February 1994, he was given a mandatory supervised release, but ran off for the last time. He was busted in Iowa.
Larry Donald George, #302, Apl 24, 1994
A victim of a child-beating father and submissive mother. In November 1986, he was expelled from the army for reckless behavior and insubordination. He returned to Alabama, but he was unhappy there. He took his anger out by beating and controlling his wife. After she moved out and secured a restraining order, he violated it in February 1988. He stormed into a neighbor's house, shot and crippled his ex-wife, and killed a neighboring couple. It took 5 airings, one per year, until AMW tipsters led him to Delaware, where he'd set up camp using a generator. He was busted trying to flee down Delaware's Christina River and condemned to death.
Terence Bunker, #303, May 20, 1994
In April 1994, he abducted his 9 month old daughter and went on the run, but was busted in California the next month.
Robert W LeGare and Rhoda Claire Bolton, #304/#305, May 29, 1994
A couple of investment fraudsters whose MO was to wine and dine investors, take them to beach resorts, convince them to invest in phony stocks, and promise fast returns. It was a ritzy version of a "Make Money Fast" scam. They stole 420 Grand from 9 investors before prosecutors in Alexandria, Virginia indicted them in May 1993 on 63 counts (7 for each victim). Police believe they never stopped the scams until AMW tipsters busted them working at a restaurant called Mr. Fish in Pompano Beach, Florida. Curiously, Bolton had previously worked as a bookkeeper for Mr. Fish's corporate cousin, Triple M Seafood. By 2013, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert, a woman who divorced from Robert LaGare, ran for congress in South Carolina.
John T Midgette (DECEASED), #306, Jne 1, 1994
A delusional man who kept a hit list of 7 people he was convinced were plotting against him. In circa 1989, his boss, a Virginia road building contractor, was found murdered in a ditch. In February 1990, he was acquitted by reason of insanity in his boss' murder, and was taken to a mental hospital. In early 1994, his security status was relaxed, and on April 23, he escaped the unfenced psychiatric prison after working a canteen shift. The victim's relatives had to change their names, take leave from their jobs, flee their homes, and go into hiding for about a month before he was busted in North Carolina. After serving a short sentence, he never committed any more violent or bodily harmful crimes, but he repeatedly violated his post-release conditions for decades, most recently in 2018. He died in 2021.
Robert Todd Welty, #307, May 24, 1994
A Columbian cocaine trafficker. His conspiracy collapsed when he was caught trafficking 220 lbs of cocaine from Columbia to Charlotte County, Florida in July 1993. He was busted in Ocala, Florida, though his capture report was likely not aired on the show until late June 1994 at the soonest. He was sentenced to 1 decade to life, and initially got out some time in 2003. However, in 2015, he got pinched for drug trafficking again, and got sent back to a Florida prison for 6 more years. His next projected release date was some time in 2020.
Robert Endres, #308, Jne 27, 1994
Prior to the relationship that ended with him on the run from law enforcement in Suffolk County, he passed himself off as a classic boy next door, but he changed for the worse when he and his girlfriend got engaged. After helping her sister study for an exam one night, she came home late, and he flew into a rage and slugged her, thinking she was cheating on him. The day after, she gave the engagement ring back, and he refused to settle for any other woman, even telling a gym trainer about the bouquets of flowers he was sending her. During a birthday celebration, she wore makeup and dresses that Endres never let her wear before. But on her way there, Endres charged into her car while she was at a stoplight and held her at gunpoint. He drove to a transition point, bound her with duct tape, and stuffed her in the trunk of a getaway car. In the back on an abandoned building, he tried to convince her to shoot him, and as Endres further lost his temper, she claimed her parents forbade the engagement, but Endres feared going to jail if her parents tracked them down. After driving her away from the scene, Endres allowed her to call her mom, who instantly realized he'd hurt her. She convinced Endres to take her to a hospital for her wounds, and to seek help there for himself. Endres was pinched, and the girlfriend given a protective order against him, but she thought intensive counseling would be better than jail time for Endres, so she arranged a plea bargain. He apparently expected her to visit him, but after a short time, he grew tired of waiting, then picked another argument with her. Over half a week, he slashed her tires, smashed her car windows, and pointed a gun at her, after which an arrest warrant was issued for him. Police staked out her house, but when Endres saw through their plain-clothes disguise, he led them on a short chase. Months later, her car was blown up in the middle of the night, albeit with nothing solid to link Endres to it. Two months later, he was busted, still in New York. No relation to another Robert Endres, who asked for AMW's help to find Patrice Tamber Endres, who went missing from Georgia in spring 2004.
Rufus "Weasel" Sims, #309, Jly 6, 1994
The ruthless head of West Side Chicago's Four Corner Hustlers drug gang. He moved over 300,000 packets of heroin and cocaine in the late 1980s, laundered at least 5 Megadollars, and fled his indictment in February 1992. He was busted in Los Angeles, California.
David Askew, #310, Jly 12, 1994
A 17 year old tagger for the graffiti crew WDC, which stands for We Don't Care. He and his friends were looking to make a name for themselves beyond the infamy that scrawling their nicknames could provide. In November 1993, he shot and wounded a man in South Central Los Angeles. Less than a week later, he robbed, shot, and terminally wounded a man born in 1923 after a failed demand to be let in his house. In February 1994, he shot a man to death in an argument in his own home, then shot and wounded a witness. His total casualty toll was 2 dead, 2 wounded when AMW took the case on in March 1994. He was busted in California.
James Michael Hartley Jr (RELEASED), #311, May 29, 1994
In late 1992, he was indicted for hiring someone to kill his wife and a prosecutor in Raleigh, North Carolina, but the efforts failed. A Newport News, Viriginia officer who'd seen him on America's Most Wanted in December 1993 recognized him in a Chesapeake, Virginia convenience store. He'd been complained about for wandering through traffic, was clearly intoxicated, and led cops back to a suite he was renting in a lodge. Inside, police found a suicide note and a multitude of pills, but his attempt to drug himself to death failed. He was convicted and sentenced to an unknown prison term, but has since gotten out.
John Nathan Coakley (RELEASED), #312, Jne 8, 1994
Throughout the 1980s, he burglarized countless places and forged countless documents before getting sent to prison. Then, he broke out of a North Carolina prison in 1990, and stole dozens, perhaps hundreds, of payroll checks from countless companies, cashing them at a different bank each time. 16 states lost upwards of 900 Grand. An AMW viewer called the FBI and told them Coakley was driving on Interstate 95 towards Richmond, Virginia, telling the Bureau everything about the car Coakley was driving in, license plate and all. The FBI relayed the message to troopers in Virginia to be on the lookout for Coakley, and one of them pulled him over just outside of Richmond and busted him. He served a few years each in North Carolina, Kentucky, and Florida, before he was granted parole in 2006. He completed it in 2015, and has managed to stay out of legal trouble ever since.
Stuart Lee von Adelman (RELEASED), #313, Jne 10, 1994
A former Cambridge University nuclear physicist and rare book thief. He was known for stealing historical documents and ceremonial artifacts that dated as far back as the 1600's. In May 1991, he snuck into the Folger-Shakespeare Library in DC, disguised as a visiting professor, and sliced manuscripts out of books to sell to antique dealers illicitly. He also leached off of former collegiate colleagues and took their credit cards at will. He used these cards to make expensive purchases and international phone calls, then left the charges on the ones whom he deceived. One day, he returned to that library when law enforcement thought he was skipping town, got arrested, spent a half year in the Schuylkill prison camp, and fled to Canada. In order to keep a roof over his head, he faked stroke symptoms in order to get admitted into hospitals, and each time, he walked away from dozens of grand in unpaid bills and long-distance phone call charges. In July 1993, he turned to a rabbi for help whom he'd barely met, stayed in his house for 3 weeks, used that rabbi's credit card to place fraudulent mail orders, and used his computer and address to run a phony company. After Adelman fled, he used the credit card for both scientific long-distance calls and phone sex hotlines, racking up several Grand more in debts. On June 4, 1994, Adelman's 56th birthday, he was introduced on AMW and busted in Toronto. James Michael Hartley's, John Nathan Coakley's, and Stuart Lee von Adelman's capture reports likely weren't aired on the show until late July or August 1994. A coworker at a telemarketing firm that sold credit cards recognized him as a coworker under one of at least 3 aliases. A key found during a search of his hideout led to a storage locker full of expensive books and nuclear fusion equipment. Some of his ingredients were commonly used in manufacturing uranium, a crucial component in nuclear weaponry, so other nuclear physicists were fearing he was planning to sell something of the sort for his own profit. He was sentenced to 7 years in a federal prison, after which he got out in 2001.
John Patrick Kravec, #314, Spt 1, 1994
In Syracuse, New York, he and another man kidnapped, robbed, then beat and stabbed a man before throwing him into a ravine, but he survived. The accomplice was arrested but Kravec fled. A prison inmate in Pensacola, Florida, saw his airing on the city's last remaining prison television and told AMW where Kravec was. He was sentenced to over 2 decades in prison, and was paroled in June of 2013, but it will take until 2021 to expire.
John Cosby III, #315, Spt 10, 1994
In early July 1994, Cosby was arrested for a series of armed robberies in Detroit. That August, some other criminals threw guns over the fence of the jail he was housed in, with which he and 9 other inmates escaped. The month after that, a tip from some other inmates busted him in New York, where he was recovering in a hospital. He was sentenced to 28 to 50 years in prison, with his earliest possible release date in 2022.
Diana Ledford and Timothy Moore (both RELEASED), #316/#317, Spt 20, 1994
An odd couple of sex offenders. Ledford was a bisexual convicted forger, and Moore was a former gigolo. On Mischief Night (the night before Halloween) in 1992, the two raped a stranded TV news producer in Fort Smith, Arkansas. In August 1993, Moore made a failed attempt at the sexual murder of a pregnant woman in Lafayette, Louisiana. They were busted in Tallahassee, Florida, where they were working at a Capital Recycling Center. At the place they were renting, their extended-stay hosts had been asking them to leave until AMW led to there. It's unknown how long they were in prison, and nothing is known about Moore's case in Louisiana, but they've both gotten out, albeit registered as sex offenders forever. Somewhere between the 1990s and 2010s, Moore was listed as disabled.
Terry Schermerhorn (RELEASED) #318, Spt 7, 1994
Around Thanksgiving 1993, he killed his wife in San Jose, California with one bullet and hid the body in their SUV in the garage, then covered it up by telling their 4 children she'd left him. After a month of not paying the rent, the children were evicted from the home. Terry fled 30 miles south into a national forest, where he made a bare-bones living by selling aluminum cans to recycling centers. By the time AMW tipsters led cops to his hideout, he hadn't eaten in over a week. His capture report was likely not aired on the show until mid to late September at the soonest. He pled guilty, got sentenced to 1/4 century to life, was paroled in late 2019, and moved back to San Jose.
Shar-Ron Eugene Buie, #319, Spt 26, 1994
A temperamental disgraced marine. After his divorce, he invaded his ex-wife's house and opened fire, hoping to kill her. He killed a male friend of hers (not a romantic partner) in front of her young child. He was busted in Gary, Indiana 5 hours after his airing, and when brought in for an interview, spoke his mind, and vowed to do as a Marine would do and face his charges instead of hiding from them.
Diana Kay Conrad (DECEASED), #320, Spt 26, 1994
A nanny-for-hire known for her body weigh of about 400 pounds. In 3 states, she stole at least 100 Grand from her clients' families. The actress who portrayed her looked so authentic, it initially terrified the children when the reenactment was shot. AMW tips busted her in Hanover County, Virginia, but before she could be arraigned, she died of coronary heart disease a few hours after her arrest.
Dennis James Skillicorn (EXECUTED), #321, Oct 6, 1994
His murder spree started in 1979 when he broke into a home in Missouri and shot a man to death. Sentenced to 35 years in prison for 2nd degree murder, he was released after just over a decade. In the early to mid 1990s, he murdered 4 good samaritans in America, and traveled to Mexico where he killed a woman in a diner. He was busted in San Diego, California 1 1/2 months after the murder of Richard Drummond, his 4th victim, in Missouri, whose murder he was condemned to death for. He was executed in May of 2009.
Earl Robert Parlier, #322, Oct 12, 1994
Starting in 1990, he scammed more than 70 Grand from at least 2 women in the mid-Atlantic region of America. His MO was to convince them to pay him for home improvement work, then take off without performing it. He was busted in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Eric "Chinaman, Brooklyn Barry, The IRS" Vassell, #323, Spt 14, 1994
The head of Brooklyn's Gully Posse. Throughout the decade 198X, he made 10-20 Megadollars a year by trafficking drugs and guns, and through various white collar crimes. His tactics included keeping his soldiers under slavery-esque contracts, setting tight allowances on what they could provide for their families, and collecting debts in a brutal and stingy fashion. It's said he ordered 10 murders. He was busted in Jamaica, but his capture report likely wasn't aired on the show until mid October 1994 at the soonest. He was sentenced to about 29 years in prison.
William Houser (RELEASED), #324, Oct 20, 1994
In 1992, police charged him with his wife's death when an argument boiled over. Some judges planned his trial for April of 1994 but also let him out on bail, during which he fled. Half a year later, AMW busted him in California. In early 1995, he took an Alford plea, neither admitting guilt nor proclaiming innocence, but conceding that the case against him was insurmountable. The court settled for a half decade sentence, and he got out in early 2000.
Christopher Cornelius Goins (EXECUTED) and Monique Michelle Littlejohn (EXONERATED), #325/#326, Nvb 17, 1994
A Virginia drug dealer from an abusive childhood. In 1992, he started a sexual relationship with a 14 year old girl in Richmond. In March 1994, she was impregnated. That July, the girl suffered complications, and received treatment in the same hospital where Goins' other girlfriend, convicted drug dealer and forger Monique Michelle Littlejohn, worked. In October 1994, he and several drug-dealing accomplices entered the girl's low-income public housing apartment, which was infamous for drug sales and consumption. An hour after the accomplice showed Goins the ultrasound picture, Goins opened fire on the family. The girl's parents, 3 of her younger siblings, and unborn child were killed. The girl and her youngest sibling, then 1 1/2 year old, were wounded. For a month after the murder, Littlejohn stored some of Goins' guns and ammo. Goins and Littlejohn were busted by the SWAT Team in Brooklyn, New York. Goins was sentenced to death plus 4 life terms and 3/4 century in July 1995, and executed in December 2000. Littlejohn was originally convicted on a litany of accessory charges and sentenced to nearly 2 centuries in prison, but in March 1997, she appealed. The courts couldn't prove beyond much doubt that Littlejohn knew Goins would kill the girl's family, and her conviction was overturned.
John Sciadini (RELEASED), #327, Oct 27, 1994
A corrupt Davie, Florida cop. From 1985 to 1991, he committed a wave of federal crimes, mostly grand theft, burglaries, and stolen property trafficking. He was busted in Vancouver, Canada, but his capture report was likely not aired on the show until late November 1994 at the soonest. He was transferred between 2 or 3 prisons, each prison sentence lasting 1 to 3 years, before getting out.
Ronald Monroe Stewart, #328, Nvb 28, 1994
The unknown Lyndon "Skipp" Reese-Turner Killer. Reese-Turner was a Morgan State University, Maryland student who was shot to death and disposed in a trash bin. The body was found in July 1993. Later that summer, the suspect was seen on surveillance video using Reese-Turner's ATM card. A woman whose brother was murdered, and whose case was still unsolved, relayed a confession from her boyfriend, Kevin Flight, who relayed the confession to investigators in the latter half of 1993 before committing suicide that December. Monroe-Stewart was identified as an inmate serving time for an unrelated probation violation in Hagerstown, Maryland. He was convicted in June of 1995 and sentenced to life in prison.
Lawrence White and Christie Ann White (both RELEASED), #329/#333, Nvb 30, 1994
This couple was wanted out of Louisiana for several counts of burglary and grand theft. They were busted in Texas, although it took until December 1994 or early 1995 to recognize the show's role in capturing Christie Ann. They served a few years in prison, and haven't been in trouble with the law since.
Kong Chung Bounnam, #330, Nvb 18, 1994
A Laotian immigrant. In 1987, he robbed the Jade East restaurant / jewelry store in Raleigh, North Carolina, killing 3 workers and wounding 1. He managed to flee despite a gunshot wound to the leg which he never sought medical attention for. The next year, the survivors sold the restaurant because the memories of how it ended were too painful. Instead, they moved their jewelry store to East Memphis, relying on word of mouth and loyal customers to keep business flowing. Bounnam was busted in Ontario, Canada, living in secret after blending in with other East Asian communities. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
Tracy Lamar Hemphill, #331, Dcb 1, 1994
In December 1993, he and another suspect borrowed a small time Pompano Beach drug dealer's car, then saw him with a load of cash. They used his keys to sneak into the man's house. In their attempts to steal the cash and some drugs, they bound the man's mother with duct tape, but the man came in to investigate before they finished, and the two suspects shot the man twice in the head, killing him. They got away empty-handed. One suspect, Darrin Hines, surrendered shortly after, but AMW busted Hemphill a year later. An AMW tipster identified him by his assumed name, already in jail on new charges. His partner in crime testified that Hemphill shot the dealer after Hines fled the house. Tried for first-degree murder, Hemphill struck a plea bargain 2 weeks later. It not only spared him the death penalty, but could've gotten his 4 decade sentence for 2nd degree murder reduced to 23 years, depending on whether he passed a lie detector test.
Lee Nelson, #332, Oct 28, 1994
Busted in Florida. Details are unknown. Lawrence White's, Kong Chung Bounnam's, Tracy Lamar Hemphill's, and Lee Nelson's capture reports were likely not aired on the show until late December 1994 at the soonest.
Charles Frank Wilson Jr., #334, Jnr 7, 1995
In 1977, he was sentenced to 3 decades to life for raping a Delray Beach woman at knifepoint. In 1992, he was released early due to prison overcrowding. In July 1993, cops believe he broke into another Delray Beach, Florida woman's home, raped her, and robbed her of $2. In August 1994, his newly engaged bride helped him flee on the night before his scheduled trial. He was busted in Baltimore, Maryland.
Daniel Scott Harney, #335, Jnr 7, 1995
A former financial administrator. On Boxing Day (the day after Christmas) 1994, he killed his ex-wife and wounded another man in Maryland, then took his two sons on the run. He had just enough time to take the boys to Disney World and retreat into a Charlotte, North Carolina motel before AMW tipsters busted him after just 13 days on the run, following a half-minute Breaking News Alert. He was sentenced to 24 years to life.
Bartolome Moya (DECEASED), #336, Oct 18, 1994
A New York City drug ring leader. His underlings carried out 12 murders, along with many bomb blasts and kidnappings. For whatever reason, this crime lord was given a heart transplant, then he escaped house arrest in July 1994. He fled to the Dominican Republic, where he'd gotten ahold of black market prescriptions, and seemed to be in better health by the time AMW busted him there. He was sentenced to 1/4 century in prison, then soon suffered complications from the transplant. He only followed a handful of the instructions it took to stay in shape before dying in late March 1999.
James W Stromer, #337, Nvb 21, 1994
A former college professor sentenced to life in prison for raping one woman and a failed attempt to sexually murder another. At the end of July 1994, he escaped a maximum security North Carolina prison. AMW led cops to a trailer park in Orlando, Florida, where a bite from the K9 unit did him in.
Timothy Peay, #338, Dcb 19, 1994
A child molester convicted in Buffalo, New York. After a conviction in 1982, he only spent 1/3 of a year in jail, suggesting a failure in the justice system. By 1992, he'd bailed out after more charges of sexual contact with a minor and rape. Around April 1993, he was picked up for drunk driving, but authorities in New York declined to seek extradition. That July, he bonded out after charges for attempting to break into a woman's apartment were reduced to a misdemeanor. The day after, he cruised the streets of Chico, California, went looking for a woman he was convinced lived there but apparently didn't, and asked to use a Chico State college senior's phone. When he couldn't get a dial tone, he invited her to a party that night, but when she had a heavy workload, he turned hostile and slugged her over the nose, stuffed her face with a pillow until she fell unconscious, and raped her. To make his getaway, he dragged her into a closet and threatened her with a fictitious armed accomplice outside her door. Peay sought out and brutally raped another woman 4 hours later. His attorney requested an in-person suspect lineup, during which Peay smirked at one of the victims. Soon, he got out on a 1 Megadollar bail which the judge and deputy district attorney weren't aware the warrant specified. Since Peay had no steady income, the bail was reduced to 100 Grand. 2 days later, Peay turned out to have a brother working as a physician who was offering the required fraction worth of collateral, so the prosecutor told the judge to reevaluate and revoke the bond, but Peay skipped out on a hearing 2 weeks after. He was finally made to pay in a Toronto, Canada apartment with his subsequent girlfriend, and most likely sentenced to 57 years in prison. Bartolome Moya's, James W Stromer's, and Timothy Peay's capture reports were likely not aired on the show until mid January 1995 at the soonest.
Alfonzo Forte and Janice (RELEASED) Hubbard, #339/#340, Jnr 22, 1995
Forte was a serial rapist and robber serving a decade to life. After his conviction, Janice Hubbard, a prison guard, secretly married Forte, then drove him off the grounds of a Washington, DC prison in the front half of January 1995. They were busted in Virginia 3 days later, possibly after a Breaking News Alert segment airing on January 21. They pled guilty, and Hubbard was sentenced to 2 years in prison.
Renard Elvis Nelson (RELEASED), #341, Jnr 30, 1995
In 1993, he kidnapped his ex-girlfriend's 7 year old daughter out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and molested her. AMW profiled him under one of his aliases as Elvis Raynard Nelson, after which he was busted in California, convicted, and originally sentenced to 6 decades in prison. He soon appealed and got his sentenced reduced to 2 decades, but because of gain-time laws, he got out in July of 2004, after only 9.5 years.
Matthew Gerard Duerr, #342, Fbr 4, 1995
A young transient skilled in living off the land. At the beginning of the 1990s, he made a failed attempt at gold prospecting in El Dorado County, California, then fell in with progressively rougher crowds in local bars. In circa October 1991, he was arrested for public drunkenness, and his favorite World War II dagger was confiscated. He blamed the man who dropped him off at that bar for setting him up somehow, sparking a hot feud and striking fear in that man fit for a live prey hunting cannibal. Duerr later moved to Oregon, but moved back to El Dorado County in June 1992. In late September 1992, he and a friend shot that man to death in his sleep, while the victim's girlfriend was pregnant, and threw his body down an embankment when they couldn't retrieve the $130 Duerr figured he needed to buy the dagger back. In September 1993, he was working at a ranch and almost caught, but fled again. He was busted camping on the southwestern Oregon coast. That June, he pled no contest to involuntary manslaughter and got 16 years in prison.
Edward H "Fast Eddie" Mayrand (DECEASED), #343, Fbr 4, 1995
A wandering convicted rapist. In November of 1983, he strangled a woman after she left a restaurant in Massachusetts. In July of 1987, he murdered his second known victim in New Hampshire and buried her body in a shallow grave, after which a hunter stumbled upon the body that November. In December 1994, he killed a woman in Providence, Rhode Island after meeting her at a bar, dismembered her body, and disposed of the remains in a vacant house. He was busted in a New Haven, Connecticut homeless shelter, and at the time, cops exclusively suspected him in the first two murders, but had too little evidence to formally charge him back then. He was convicted of the last murder and sentenced to 6 decades in prison with possible parole in 3 1/2 decades, where he succumbed to metastatic lung cancer in 2011. In December 2014, new DNA tests linked him to the first two murders. Nobody has any idea how many people he's killed over the decades.
Gabriel Cruz Jr., #344, Fbr 4, 1995
In September 1994, he and 3 others broke into a Massachusetts home, hogtied the family, and robbed the house. Two adults were wounded when the robbers severely beat them, but worst of all, the youngest child, a 7 year old girl, choked to death on the duct tape. Police quickly rounded up the accomplices, but Cruz got away. He was busted in Sterling, Virginia, and his co-conspirator, Francis Sepulveda, was nabbed as an empty capture a couple days before July 2001.
John Anthony Bertsch, #345, Fbr 5, 1995
In December 1985, he and an accomplice abducted, bound, and sexually murdered a woman in Imperial County, California. The accomplice was arrested but Bertsch went on the run for almost a decade before he was busted in Arizona. He was soon condemned to death. His capture set a record for most cases solved by AMW in one 24-hour window.
Kenneth Othello Brown, #346, Jnr 22, 1995
A Shakespeare enthusiast who shamelessly adopted the name of one of the Bard's infamous wife killers, and his crimes gave credence to his pseudonym. In 1983, his first wife went missing, and deputies spent decades investigating it. In February 1993, one week after marrying his 3rd wife, he stabbed his second wife to death in Savannah, Georgia and disposed of her body in an illicit garbage dump in the city's Hutchinson Island district. That September, he severed his monitoring device, and fled to Lakeland, Florida, where he worked as a maintenance man. He was busted off a tip from his landlord's wife and sentenced to life in prison. His capture report was likely not aired on the show until early February 1995 at the soonest.
Tammy J Weller (RELEASED), #347, Fbr 12, 1995
A party girl and cheap thrill seeker. In March 1990, she shot her boyfriend in the head for no reason during a drunken rage. He survived, albeit wheelchair-bound. The attack took place in Las Vegas' Caesar's Palace parking lot. She escaped a Nevada prison in December 1993. She was busted in Wytheville, Virginia, and eventually got out after less than 1/4 century.
Pierre L Weaver, #348, Fbr 12, 1995
He was wanted out of Arkansas for knowingly transmitting HIV to 1 woman, perhaps 4, via unprotected sex. He was busted in Atlanta, Georgia.
Steven William Bray (DECEASED), #349, Fbr 2, 1995
In November 1982, he murdered his estranged wife and mother-in-law in Kentucky. He was busted in Canada, after which Kentucky had to waive the death penalty in order to get him extradited, which may have taken until mid to late February 1995. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, and even after the first conviction was struck down, he got the same verdict and same sentence in his new trial, then died in 2019.
Alfred Earl "AK47" Owens Jr., #350, Fbr 24, 1995
Wanted out of Michigan for murder (2 dead, 1 wounded). AMW tips led the SWAT Team to Nashville, Tennessee, where he engaged them in a 5 hour standoff at the door to an apartment, yelled profanities, and threatened to kill every agent on the team before an agent called his mother, who solicited a surrender. With 2 other people in the apartment, they had to take every precaution in the book. He was sentenced to life, possibly as many as 3 life terms. Rural singer Neal McCoy contributed to an article about the takedown one month later.
Stephen David Lewis, #351, Dcb 21, 1994
A San Francisco computer expert by day, and NAMBLA member by night, who hung out in video game parlors and was wanted for sexually abusing young boys, luring victims by acting like he didn't know how to play the arcade games, taking them to fast food restaurants, and escalating the relationship from there. By the winter of 1995, he'd violated probation. The hosts of a mail answering service in Santa Clara recognized him, and weren't sure whether Lewis had seen his AMW profile. 3 days later, he was busted driving with a 15 year old boy he'd been molesting for several years. It turned out Lewis had seized on the opportunity after the boy's father was caught beating him up. His capture report was likely not aired on the show until late February 1995 at the soonest. For a 1991 molestation conviction he absconded from alone, he faced 6 to 8 years in prison.
Juan Manuel "Porky" Garcia, #352, Fbr 26, 1995
In June 1994, he met a transgender woman in El Paso, Texas, while out celebrating his 27th birthday, but when his cousin found out she was born a man, he shot her dead. After the murder, he fled across the border to Juarez, but he missed the west Texas night life, and in February 1995, he crossed back north. Not completely determined to evade arrest, he was warming up to play music at a bar, but started provoking people, then he put a gun to the head of a barkeeper who confronted him over it. Police tracked him down to a liquor store a few blocks down, where he tried to pass himself off as an illegal alien before they booked him for aggravated assault. At first, none of the guards knew he was a wanted murder suspect, but two high-ranked detectives, both named Castro, watched the 2-25-995 broadcast. To be sure, one of them traveled 2000 miles and the two detectives met. Garcia was relieved to be through with running, and Walsh was glad to oblige.
Joseph Solar Jr. (RELEASED), #353, Mrc 5, 1995
He was wanted out of Louisiana for molesting an elementary school aged girl who relies on sign language to communicate, battery, and resisting arrest, and busted at his son's house in Mountain Springs, California. He was convicted and sentenced to an unknown prison term, but got out after less than 1/4 century.
Gerald Lydell Voyles (ACQUITTED), #354, Mrc 5, 1995
A suspect in an auto theft ring. In 1981, police thought he and 2 accomplices shot an informant and a young man who happened to be at the scene dead in Florida and dumped the bodies into a pond. The accomplices were arrested quickly but Voyles fled. In an act of brazen foolishness, he surrendered in Polk County, Florida, thinking he'd know how to collect the reward money for his own capture! During his trial, his lawyer blamed it all on the other two suspects, and argued that Voyles wasn't even there when the murders happened. A jury found this argument credible and acquitted Voyles.
Ramon "Suicidal" Reyes, #355, Dcb 28, 1994
In October 1992, he and an accomplice robbed a California supermarket, killing a Coca-Cola delivery salesman with an execution-style gunshot. The getaway driver turned himself in shortly later and was sentenced to 26 years to life, but the two shooters, Ramon Reyes and Luis Velarde, got away. Reyes was busted at his family's meat packing plant in Durango, Mexico, but his capture report was likely not aired on the show until mid March 1995 at the soonest. However, extradition efforts fell through, and they had to let him go. He has never been recaptured. It's unknown whether Velarde was ever nabbed as an empty capture, or even held temporarily.
Vincent Dominic Antonucci, #356, Mrc 26, 1995
A serial fraudster with a criminal history dating back to 1963. By 1988, he was running a baseball memorabilia shop of ill repute. He scammed baseball hitter and hall-of-famer Ted Williams by promising him a deal worth a Megadollar and convincing him to sign artist lithographs, after which Williams wrote a 38 Grand check and Antonucci deposited it into his own bank account. After spending a Megadollar and a half on litigation, Williams didn't recoup any of the losses, but Antonucci was caught and served a year and a half in prison. Vincent then sold more than 2 Grand worth of memorabilia in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, all of it forged. In the subsequent 7 years, Williams' family attributed 3 strokes to Antonucci's cons. He was convicted, but fled before his sentencing in 1992. He was busted playing craps in a small Native American casino in Anacortes, Washington, flashing bags of cash. In the last year or so before then, he made a promise to a woman in Arizona to split roughly 60 Grand in casino winnings after she invested 15 Grand, then made off with a 24 Grand share of that fortune.
Gregorio Morales, #357, Dcb 30, 1994
He was serving 1/4 century for drug smuggling when he and two fellow inmates overpowered two guards and broke out of a Weleetka, Oklahoma prison in circa May 1993, crawling through a forest full of swamp ponds and manure. The other escapees were recaptured in 3 days, but Morales succeeded in the escape by running from a cop, even when they knew the officer was willing to fire his gun. He spent a few days on the run hiding in deserted buildings near an old courthouse and under buses near a high school, then stole a car, fled across Dallas and Phoenix, then to Agua Prieta, Mexico. He worked at a club for 7 months, returned to the United States, fled back to Mexico after he saw himself on America's Most Wanted, and gave up once the pressure got too heavy. His capture report was likely not aired on the show until late March 1995 at the soonest.
Byron Gregory Johnson (RELEASED), #358, Mrc 26, 1995
When he was 19 years old, he shot a man dead because that man stepped on his shoes. He served 3 years for it, married and moved in with a woman, and molested his stepdaughter for several years, starting when she was in 4th grade. Before he fled in circa 1992, he threatened to kill them both if they ever said anything. He joined forces with two classmates from grade school to deal drugs, but one night in May 1993, one of them smoked $40 worth of the supply, and couldn't pay it back, after which Johnson killed him with multiple gunshots in a fit of rage. He fled to Dallas, Texas, where he set his violent temper aside, told a local welder he was with God, and even sang for the local church choir. Just as he was building an endeared reputation in the city, a fearful tipster acting off the 4-01-995 broadcast busted him. He was sentenced to 2 decades in prison, but gain time laws shortened his sentence to about 10.7 years, after which he got out on New Year's Day 2006. No relation to Capture #614, Byron "BJ" Johnson, who didn't go on the run until circa 1999.
William Dwight Dotson (RELEASED), #359, Apl 22, 1995
A career criminal on the US Marshals 15 Most Wanted. In 1975, he robbed a bank in Atlanta by tying up several staff members and threatening to kill them and the husband of one woman who only knew half the vault combination. He held everyone there hostage until the man who knew the other half arrived, and stole roughly 40 Grand. After trying to get the other 130 Grand shipped to him, he was captured and sent to prison for a decade. On New Year's Day 1990, he violated parole and led police on a high-speed chase through the backwoods of eastern Tennessee. He fired several shots, and had his partner in crime charge out of a cul-de-sac by knocking the officer's door in and trying to injure him. He was last seen running his getaway car into a lake and swimming away. He was busted leaving a trailer home in Greenville, South Carolina from a tip off the 4-08-995 broadcast and served 6 years in prison.
Billy Eugene Browning, #360, Apl 25, 1995
A serial rapist whose MO was sweet-talking his victims and threatening to kill them if they didn't submit. In his worst attack, he enlisted the help of a 17 year old girl to pick up a truck from Alabama. Instead, he drove her into a forest, led her into a ramshackle house, and raped and sodomized her. He was arrested in Mississippi the following April, then escaped from an Alabama prison the following October. In Florida, a 12 year old boy became upset after recognizing his neighbor as Browning from the show, and called the hotline. Cops chased Browning until he was pulled from underneath a trailer. The city hall rewarded the 12 year old boy with a plaque a few weeks later.
Brian Earl Tilley, #361, Mrc 19, 1995
A drug smuggler and marijuana trafficker. His conspiracy unraveled when authorities in a Texas airport spooked him into returning to Mexico where he'd planned to pick up a shipment. He managed to flee to Canada before getting busted, and extradition likely took until late April or early May 1995.
Mark Alan Mallett (DECEASED), #362, Apl 12, 1995
In 1989, he was operating a secret mariJuana farm near the Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii's Big Island. In January 1990, he asked another family to let him launder the drugs through their company, but the operation collapsed when he got pinched that October. He became paranoid and irrational, and shot their son to death after getting out. He was temporarily arrested in Key West, Florida in 1993, but got released before police could identify him, then he laid low in San Diego, in a food garden behind a restaurant. He found the TV Guide listing for his profile in February 1994, after which he took a bus to Canada and resumed mariJuana growing operations. In the spring of 1995, once he found out AMW was going to profile him again, he sauntered into a police station and surrendered in Vancouver. Hawaii has no death row, so it was much easier to convince Canadian authorities to send him back, compared to the southeastern states, but it may have taken until late April or early May 1995. In January 1996, he hanged himself in his cell before the courts could try him for the murder.
Paul Moroz, #363, May 13, 1995
In October 1993, he stabbed a man and a secretary at a Baltimore car insurance company. The man died, but the woman survived. He was busted in Venice, California, doing handiwork for a ministry.
Chuck Adair III (RELEASED), #364, May 25, 1995
A Las Vegas chapel cleric. In 1993, he ran away with an emotionally and socially volatile 16 year old girl and intimately assaulted her. He was busted in Nevada and served a decade in prison. He was last seen traveling to various prisons and counseling people on how to stay out of trouble, but it's unclear how reformed he really is.
James Stacy (RELEASED), #365, Nvb 27, 1994
In Maricopa County, Arizona, someone stole some of his money. In an act of revenge, he paid 3 men to strangle the thief. He was busted in France, but faced with capital murder charges, Arizona had to agree not to condemn him to death before they'd extradite him, which likely took until the turn of May to June 1995. The courts could only secure a conviction for manslaughter, and he served 12 1/2 years in prison.
Dale Glaesmann (RELEASED), #366, May 13, 1995
He was wanted out of Colorado for vehicular homicide. He was busted in Kansas, though his capture report was likely not aired on the show until early June 1995 at the soonest. He was sentenced to 9 years in prison, and got out in 2004.
Lawrence D "Leo" Catcheway (RELEASED), #367, Jne 15, 1995
He managed a child porn network that raped and videotaped at least 17 children. He was busted in Arizona. Because he only took part in one of the assaults, he settled a plea deal and served 16 years in prison.
John Paul Smith Jr, #368, Apl 29, 1995
Growing up, he was known for constantly looking for fights. In July 1991, he stole a pistol, picked up a young couple from their home in Oklahoma alongside his more peaceful cousin Steve, and drove them to a more secluded part of town. By then, she was scared of getting in trouble with the law, and reluctant to let John take the car. He took them into a deserted barn and forced them to play Russian Roulette. They all survived, then John forcibly took the girl's hand in a mock marriage, took indecent liberties with her, and drove everyone involved along a mountain highway, abandoning them, taking the car, and threatening to kill the couple if they told anyone. The next day, 14 police agencies combed the wilderness and took the Smith cousins to jail. In May 1992, Steve was sent to prison for 19 years, but John escaped that Christmas Eve. He was busted in Mexico, and extradition may have taken until the back half of June 1995.
Ernie Lopez, #369, Jly 6, 1995
Busted in Arizona. Details are uncertain, but could be one "Ernesto Jose Lopez", wanted out of Avondale, Arizona for his role in a March 1995 drive-by shooting that killed two teenage girls. No relation to a criminal of the same name who was convicted in 2003 of raping a 6 month old baby in October 2000, recklessly and fatally injuring her.
Dan L "Poonie" Bright, #370, Mrc 8, 1995
In late January 1995, a man was shot dead outside a New Orleans pool hall after the victim collected 1 Grand in sports betting winnings. Bright and his alleged co-conspirator were picked out of a photo lineup, but Bright was erroneously released. He ran for just over 6 weeks before seeing himself on AMW and surrendering to nearby authorities, although his capture report was likely not aired on the show until July 1995 at the soonest. He spent just under a decade on death row before The Innocence Project revealed that prosecutors rigged the trial by deliberately withholding exonerating evidence, which led to his release in 2004. For roughly a decade, a woman, likely a prosecutor from the same county at the time, used Bright's exoneration as an example of an argument against capital punishment. Unfortunately, in March 2019, he got back in trouble with the law when he stabbed a man in an argument numerous times, wounding him. Our stance is that The Innocence Project was right to challenge the conviction in the 1995 murder because, if some prosecutors, the ones with ulterior motives, use the district attorney's office as a political and career elevator by artificially securing convictions, misbehave and rig trials with no accountability, the whole justice system would be doomed to fail.
Isaiah Clarence "Rusty" Enault, #371, Jly 9, 1995
A violent homophobe and transient hitchhiker. In June 1993, he stabbed a man to death in Washington. The argument started over something the victim said or did that Enault mistook for a sexual advance. Sent to a mental hospital to measure his competency to stand trial, he scaled up a fence and ran off into the woods that November, shortly before he was found competent to stand trial in absentia. AMW tips led cops to Tampa, Florida, where he was in jail on prostitution charges.
Sebastian Eccleston, #372, Jly 27, 1995
In December 1994, he killed an Albuquerque, New Mexico high school star in a drive-by shooting a few minutes after a heated exchange. Sentenced to 3 decades to life, he escaped prison by sliding down a pole to freedom. He was busted in New York, and later was given a plea deal that will allow him parole in circa 2030.
Francis Patrick "Cadillac Frank" Salemme Sr (DECEASED), #373, Ags 11, 1995
Head of the Patriarca crime family from March 1990 to the end of 1994. This self-professed hitman who might've participated in as many as 14 murders had enabled the bombing and wounding of his criminal higher-up's lawyer to scare him out of testifying against members of the Family. He was charged with kidnapping, racketeering, and extortion. The Boston Police Department indicted him and fellow Irish Winter Hill Gang higher-up James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger in January 1995. Salemme skipped his son's funeral in order to go on the run. AMW tips busted him in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was sleeping in a rented house with his wife. He served an additional year on a newer perjury charge. Whitey, the other organized crime captain sought by the same police operation, traveled the world using pre-stashed bank accounts before he and his wife Catherine Elizabeth Greig were nabbed as empty captures in June 2011. In August 2016, Salemme was arrested again for one of at least 2 murders he participated in one day in May 1993, the strangling of a Bostonese night club owner. He was finally convicted roughly 1/4 century later on that last charge, sentenced to life in prison, and died on December 18, 2022.
Jimmy Johnson, #374, Ags 5, 1995
Busted in Arizona, with the capture report likely taking until mid August 1995 to air. Details are unknown. No relation to NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson.
Brett Pelch, #375, Ags 22, 1995
An enforcer for a California robbery crew. His team had pulled 27 heists. In June 1995, 7 teenagers were bound and held hostage in a home until one of their mothers opened a bank vault. One of his underlings had even held 2 toddlers and their mother at gunpoint during one heist. He was busted in Monterey, California, where he'd been subsisting off of 5 maxed-out credit cards. He was sentenced to 2 life terms + 34 years.
Marvin Earl "Smash" Wooten (RELEASED, #376, Spt 3, 1995
An underling of "The Name" Ruffin, a drug trafficker posing as a community leader in a Connecticut slum. During a birthday celebration on the 4th of July weekend in 1993, his higher-ups were seeking revenge on a rival Jamaican gang. They charged into an apartment courtyard and picked a shootout with their rivals, during which a 7 year old girl was fatally shot. He was busted in Akron, Ohio and served 15 years in prison on an involuntary manslaughter charge. At the beginning of 2013, he got pinched again, on a crack cocaine charge, but got back out in 2020.
Charlie Scott, #377, Spt 7, 1995
A Private First Class turned robber known for antisocial personality, impersonating others, and deceitful manipulation. From 1990 to 1992, he raped at least 20 women, getting more aggressive each time. He escaped through a Virginia courthouse wall in March of 1993. He was busted in California and sentenced to 4 decades in prison.
James David Brown Jr, #378, Spt 5, 1995
A cocaine dealer. In February 1995, he tried to collect a drug debt from a long-time friend in Alaska. A gun went off, killing the man in front of his wife. He was busted there in Alaska, although it took until the middle of that month for AMW to accept credit for his capture.
Roger Fein (DECEASED) and Janet Herring (RELEASED), #379/#380, Spt 20, 1995
Fein was a career criminal with an arrest record dating back to 1967, and Herring, his common-law wife, was wanted for narcotics trafficking. Fein's worst crime was a failed attempt at an Ohio cop's life. AMW tips led cops to Jeffersontown, Kentucky, where they killed Fein in a shootout and captured Herring alive. Herring was sentenced to about 6 years in prison, and got out in 2001.
William Thomas "T-Bone" Bell, #381, Oct 19, 1995
A member of the Gangster Disciples. Two runaway girls were roaming the streets, completely broke, when T-Bone pulled up to them in a Cadillac, offering to take them home. One girl set off the alarm, and T-Bone forced them to make him some money as street prostitutes. During their 4 nights in a motel, T-Bone and his accomplice beat and further abused the girls. The men left, and the girls called law enforcement, who cooperated to set a trap, quickly taking down T-Bone's accomplice. One of the girls was soon reunited with her family, but the other returned to the streets. He was busted in Tennessee.
Jeffrey Alan Belpulsi, #382, Oct 19, 1995
A mentally ill, convicted home invader, grand thief, and false fire and police caller. In July 1991, he strangled his sister to death with a phone cord as she and her fellow tenants kicked him out of their apartment in Ohio. He was busted in Tennessee. Depending on whether he and #381 were busted in the same city, it could be a similar "24 hours, 2 captures, 2 unrelated cases, 1 city" takedown as Steven Frank Valadez (#872) and Israel Barretero (#873) a decade later.
Franklin Carrico, #383, Nvb 5, 1995
A member of a strange sect based in the Pacific Northwest called the Embassy of Heaven, known for believing they're not bound by local laws. Cops believe that he raped a girl for 3 years, starting in 1989 when she was only 4 years old. He fled his trial in July 1993 after calling the judge a "black-robed minion of Satan". After seeing himself on America's Most Wanted, he surrendered in Minden, Nevada, saying God would protect him as he went into custody.
Patrick and Darlene Dickinson, #384/#385, Nvb 9, 1995
A couple of former Kissimmee, Florida police explorer managers disgraced in Osceola County, Florida's biggest child rape conspiracy ever. Patrick and Darlene collaborated in a scheme to rape upwards of 50 underage boys in the Police Explorer program. They jumped bail in September 1994. They were busted in Buffalo, New York, under a fake surname with their 3 daughters. In the contest for best capture of the 4th century of captures besides Skillicorn and Goins, this couple was the runner-up.
Rafael Armando Quintero, #386, Nvb 16, 1995
In June 1995, a car full of men, believed to be illegal immigrants, was driving through Tucson, Arizona. When a deputy US Marshal tried to stop them to measure their immigration legality, they opened fire, wounding her before driving off and crashing. Two suspects were quickly caught, and one had his charges dropped, but at least two more, including Quintero, got away. Just 5 months later, someone he knew saw his airing on AMW, called Quintero up, and convinced him to return to Tucson, turn himself in, and face newer cocaine charges. No relation to the Narco of Narcos, Rafael Caro Quintero.
Greg Palmer, #387, Nvb 21, 1995
The Unknown Citgo Gas Station Robber. Busted in Missouri. Details are unknown on how the robberies played out, how much was stolen, how many stations he hit, or any casualties.
Paul H Plouffe (DECEASED), #388, Nvb 26, 1995
A former TV performer. In 1983, he raped a woman in Columbia County, New York, but the case went cold. A tip from his daughter busted him working as an apartment manager in North Adams, Massachusetts. He was sentenced to 14 1/3 years in prison, with a chance at parole every 3 years. He lost every such petition, and was due to get out on April Fool's Day 2010, but died on his 73rd birthday, just 2 days short of a release.
William Cody Harvey (RELEASED), #389, Nvb 29, 1995
In late June 1992, in rural West Virginia, a woman scratched him with her fingernails, and said something like, "I gave you AIDS and you can die from that!" He produced a gun, then said, "and you could die from this!", shot her to death, and dumped her body by the roadside. Within a few days, he was arrested in Delaware. In late December 1992, he was convicted. In January 1993, he was given a life sentence with mercy and a chance at parole in a decade. He complained of chest pains, was treated at the hospital, and returned to jail for dinner. During that moment when he was unrestrained, he sprinted from the jailer who was unlocking the door and ran off into the night. In mid September 1995, a tip was faxed in, saying Harvey was living in a cave behind his mother's house back in West Virginia, only coming to the house on cold nights. Nearly a week after Thanksgiving, he returned to the house, intent on spending one last Christmas with his family and turning himself in afterward, but was busted less than a day after he arrived, still sleeping in bed. He faced an additional 1/2 decade in prison on the escape charges. However, between his escape and the indictment, there was a change in state law that would make escape convictions too easy to appeal too many times at too much cost, and his escape charge was dropped over that procedural problem. The escape stayed on his record, which initially seemed to cut into his chances of ever getting released on parole, but some time in the 2010s, it was granted.
David Allen Mackey, #390, Nvb. 30, 1995
In October 1993, he and one of his contracting business workers traveled from Forth Worth, Texas, to paint motels in Louisiana. In the town of Opelousas, the man made a long-distance call to his girlfriend in Florida. Mackey flew into a rage, feigned a Russian Roulette game, and shot the man through the throat. The man died 4 weeks later. He appeared for jury selection, then fled his main trial, and in 1994, he was convicted of 2nd degree murder in absentia. 3 women recognized him painting a motel room near Texas' US 259. A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper was eating breakfast when he was sent to interrogate Mackey. First, Mackey acted suspicious, claiming that he had no identification, didn't drive, and had worked odd jobs for less than 4 days a week. Then, he caved in, gave his social security number, and said, "I'm the one you're looking for". The trooper was sure Mackey would go to prison for the rest of his life.
Thomas Scott Smithson, #391, Dcb 6, 1995
A man of mystery who killed a Florida hitchhiker following a robbery. His favorite song was "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, which he sang often. An AMW tipster in Millcreek, Pennsylvania heard him singing it and busted him. He was sentenced to 2 decades in prison, but due to some since-repealed gain time laws, he was released in 2004 after serving roughly 8 1/2 years. In March 2006, Smithson started a relationship with a woman in Indiana, but was caught draining out her checking account. During that argument, he stabbed and wounded her, for which he's now serving 1/4 to 1/2 century in prison. His earliest chance at parole is 2032.
Ronald Craig Vahue (RELEASED), #392, Dcb 28, 1995
Starting in 1988, he lured and sodomized 3 young girls in Greece and Rochester, New York. In March 1994, he was convicted, but fled on bond before his sentencing. He was busted living as a model hotel tenant in Orange, California. He was sentenced to at least 16 years in prison and was paroled in January 2012, but is registered as a sex offender forever.
Steven Paul Oliver, #393, Dcb 29, 1995
A disgraced school aid. In a faintly similar case to Capture #110, he abducted a 13 year old girl he was obsessed with who attended the school he worked at in Wisconsin. The case was also profiled on Unsolved Mysteries. He was busted in Houston, Texas, and the girl recovered alive. Oliver was convicted of physical and sexual abuse and sentenced to 4 decades in a federal prison.
Michael Condiff (RELEASED), #394, Jnr 2, 1996
The Unknown Casino Bandit. For 2 months in 1995, he committed a series of casino robberies in Nevada, California, and Texas. 2 robberies took place in Reno, and 2 in Vegas, so it works out to a minimum of 6 robberies. He was busted in Texas shortly after his last robbery. He served 13 years in prison, and later won an award for a book that detailed and confessed his exploits.
Rickey Allen Bright, #395, Jnr 7, 1996
A convicted pedophile on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. In 1979, he was convicted of child rape and was supposed to go to prison for life, but got out after a decade and a half. In October 1995, he abducted a 9 year old girl from a trailer in North Carolina, took her to Charleston, West Virginia, and beat and raped her before releasing her. He was a person of interest in a similar sexual attack. Profiled on both November 4, 1995 and January 6, 1996, He was busted in Nashville, Tennessee where he'd been drumming for a local bar band the day after his second airing, then was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
Jason James Murphy, #396, Jnr 6, 1996
A teenaged child molester. His crimes ranged from the autumn of 1993 to November 1995. He abducted his last victim, a preteen boy, from his elementary school in Washington, then AMW busted him just 3 days later in New York. In the 2011-2012 academic year, he was revealed to be working at a film studio with children under an alias, and was arrested again for breaking the terms of sex offender registry.
Albert Llewellyn McGolrick Jr, #397, Jnr 6, 1996
A Seminole County, Florida school teacher who sexually assaulted 7 female students, one of them in a bathroom under construction. He fled his trial in February 1989, then was busted in Lake Worth, Florida, the night of a short profile.
Alshamoon Thompson, #398, Jnr 19, 1996
A Newark, New Jersey prison escapee. In April and November 1995, he attacked and shot a corrections officer, killed 2 drug addicts, and fired but missed at one other person. He was busted in Florida and was sentenced to 45 years to life.
Dino McGill, #399, Jnr 21, 1996
He was wanted for hit-and-run manslaughter in Fresno, California. After seeing himself on AMW, he turned himself in at an Oceanside, California police station.
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Post by Scumhunter on Apr 5, 2013 18:36:31 GMT -5
Looking good so far! I will try to little by little go through them and see if I can provide anything! I'm looking through the details unknown captures first to see if I can provide any additional information and of the one's so far, found some interesting info on capture #69, Alan "Buck" Jones, although I couldn't find a sentence. Anyway, it wasn't just robbery he was wanted for. He was awaiting trial on a robbery charge. He also staged his own death in a boating accident/explosion in South Carolina in 1982 in order to collect 500,000 in life insurance. His father was also charged, so I take it he was the one who tried to get the money. Jones' family went so far as to even have a memorial service for him! Of course, AMW has never had a problem finding con fugitives who are supposedly dead. As AMW direct capture #1104 Larry Deffenbaugh also learned. articles.sun-sentinel.com/1989-09-19/news/8903030983_1_jones-caps-allen-jones-jones-fatherwww.apnewsarchive.com/1989/Man-Who-Allegedly-Staged-Own-Death-Arrested/id-a4426bf1e181fb824d225275d74a8fdd |
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Post by Scumhunter on Apr 5, 2013 19:07:49 GMT -5
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Post by HeadMarshal on Apr 5, 2013 19:19:11 GMT -5
Excellent job. There's not much I can provide information wise right now but I can list the direct captures so far that were featured on AMW: Final Justice (to my knowledge, I might be wrong on a couple of them).
(#8) James Charles Stark (I think)
(#50) John List
(#71-72) Leroy & Kathleen Chasson
(#73) Pedro Estrada
(#95) Shelly Godwin (Glen Godwin was aired on an episode)
(#109) Scott Haneline
(#118) Wardell Ford (I think)
(#122) Lawrencia Bambenek
(#134) John Riccardi
(#138) Donald Castille
(#148) Virgilio Paz-Romero
(#154-155) Charles Tidwell & Richard Ellen (msn.tv has a very similar crime description for an episode)
(#161) Carl Terry
(#163) John Hawkins
(#171) Steve Edward Allen
(#172) Henrietta Ganote
(#179) Christoher Bentley (Eric Vassell was aired on an episode)
(#192) Alan Hurwitz
(#193-194) Linda Santos & Emilio Rosario
(#195) Florencia Gooding
(#200) Stephen Wilson
(#201) Norman Ackison
(#202) Kenneth McDuff
(#205) Gwendlen Benton (I think)
(#206) Russell "Rusty" Garrett
(#208) Ricky Dale Brock
(#209-210) Elizabeth & Garrett Stone (I think)
(#211) Sadie Franks
(#219) Wade Meisberger
(#220) Terry Hart
(#233) Phuong Van Dinh (Still don't know the charges)
(#240) "JC Jiles" Edwards
(#242) Robert Colligan
(#243) James Pauley
(#247) William White Graham
(#255) Joseph Marshall
(#258) Bolton Mitchell
(#263) Robert Brent Black
(#264) Jessie Beeson
(#266) Marc Adams
(#267) Edward James
(#276) George "Tank" Eason
(#279,280-282) Miami River Cops
(#287) Magaly Gonzalez Carr
(#297) Martin Bulichi
Now that's mainly from the 65 CourtTV mentioned episodes, youtube and msn.tv. I estimate there were still approximately 70 episodes that were never re-aired in 2001 (CourtTV) and 2004 (FOX Reality TV). What I want to know is why so many of the first #100 captures were apparently neglected from Final Justice?
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Post by Scumhunter on Apr 5, 2013 19:41:28 GMT -5
Found out some more info on #218, James Otis Sims Jr. It seems he was charged with a stalking law and whatever his sentence was it was a light one, as he couldn't have been sentenced to more than a year. He was already sentenced to 60 days and 5 years probation on a stalking charge, and faced up to only a year for violating his probation by fleeing. (I assume AMW found him dangerous to be on the loose and that's why they aired him, regardless of the little jail time he was facing) articles.latimes.com/1992-09-05/local/me-5775_1_orange-countyHowever, get this: apparently some time after his capture, years later he murdered a city inspector in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 2000. He was declared not to be eligible for parole at least 50 years, making him 98 years old by the time he is. The case had nothing to do with what he was wanted on AMW for, but obviously he proved they had reason to be concerned about him: www.wtok.com/news/headlines/49491.html?site=full |
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Post by Scumhunter on Apr 5, 2013 19:42:41 GMT -5
Excellent job. There's not much I can provide information wise right now but I can list the direct captures so far that were featured on AMW: Final Justice (to my knowledge, I might be wrong on a couple of them). (#8) James Charles Stark (I think) (#50) John List (#71-72) Leroy & Kathleen Chasson (#73) Pedro Estrada (#95) Shelly Godwin (Glen Godwin was aired on an episode) (#109) Scott Haneline (#118) Wardell Ford (I think) (#122) Lawrencia Bambenek (#134) John Riccardi (#138) Donald Castille (#148) Virgilio Paz-Romero (#154-155) Charles Tidwell & Richard Ellen (msn.tv has a very similar crime description for an episode) (#161) Carl Terry (#163) John Hawkins (#171) Steve Edward Allen (#172) Henrietta Ganote (#179) Christoher Bentley (Eric Vassell was aired on an episode) (#192) Alan Hurwitz (#193-194) Linda Santos & Emilio Rosario (#195) Florencia Gooding (#200) Stephen Wilson (#201) Norman Ackison (#202) Kenneth McDuff (#205) Gwendlen Benton (I think) (#206) Russell "Rusty" Garrett (#208) Ricky Dale Brock (#209-210) Elizabeth & Garrett Stone (I think) (#211) Sadie Franks (#219) Wade Meisberger (#220) Terry Hart (#233) Phuong Van Dinh (Still don't know the charges) (#240) "JC Jiles" Edwards (#242) Robert Colligan (#243) James Pauley (#247) William White Graham (#255) Joseph Marshall (#258) Bolton Mitchell (#263) Robert Brent Black (#264) Jessie Beeson (#266) Marc Adams (#267) Edward James (#276) George "Tank" Eason (#279,280-282) Miami River Cops (#287) Magaly Gonzalez Carr (#297) Martin Bulichi Now that's mainly from the 65 CourtTV mentioned episodes, youtube and msn.tv. I estimate there were still approximately 70 episodes that were never re-aired in 2001 (CourtTV) and 2004 (FOX Reality TV). What I want to know is why so many of the first #100 captures were apparently neglected from Final Justice? My only guess is perhaps they thought viewers would be more interested in recent captures, or they decided to keep it somewhat current when they chose who to profile? |
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Post by Scumhunter on Apr 6, 2013 17:31:25 GMT -5
Got some more info for #250 Brian Thomas Vowell- At the very least, I know his victim's age was thirteen. It seems he was possibly released on parole but I can't say for sure. But if you google his name it mentions him being a registered sex offender and lists an address for him in California even though he was imprisoned in Texas (my guess is he was released but had to register): sexoffenders.kens5.com/offender/vowell-brian/1508819www.sorarchives.com/offender/view/1276528And for #270- Donald Waterhouse apps.tn.gov/foil/results.jspIf you look his name up there, it has to be him since his sentence start date is listed as the same day he was captured. It says he's eligible for parole in 2017, and his end date is July 4th, 2034. If his parole is denied, he'd be 80 years old by the time he's released. |
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Post by HeadMarshal on Apr 6, 2013 18:31:42 GMT -5
Terry Schermerhorn (#318) was wanted for the murder of his wife in San Jose, California. He was captured in a national park 30 miles from the murder site where he had been selling aluminum cans to make a living. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0ifaDe2-pkAccording to PakMan88, Juan Garcia (#352) killed a transgendered women when Garcia found out he wasn't kissing a "woman". Brian Tilley (#361) was a pilot who planned on picking up a marijuana shipment from Mexico. When Tilley traveled to a Texas airport with the marijuana shipment, he turned back into Mexico when authorities intercepted him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WtKgOyjOaI |
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Post by 912thamwuser on Apr 7, 2013 0:35:10 GMT -5
AMW Capture Roster, 5th Century
Yehia Elham Badawi, #400, Jnr 28, 1996
He robbed a Pennsylvania supermarket, then shot at 3 police officers, wounding 1 one of them before fleeing on a bicycle. He was busted in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he'd been hiding since the robbery.
Fred Leonard Hansen, #401, Jnr 29, 1996
After he was paroled from San Bernardo County, California, in 1992, he befriended several people in Fontana, then sexually assaulted 3 of their daughters nearby where he lived out of his truck. In July 1995, he raped an 8 year old girl in Florida, and America's Most Wanted started producing the case that October when central California authorities found out. He was profiled on 1-27-996 and busted in Nevada 2 days later.
Ronald Anthony Collington (RELEASED), #402, Jnr 30, 1996
In October 1983, a Florida Highway Patrol officer tried to stop him. During the confrontation, he got cornered in a residential neighborhood, shot and wounded the officer, and ran off. He was busted in New York and sentenced to 2 decades in prison, but gain time laws got him out in 2006 after 1 decade. Once released, he was deported to another country.
Lisa Dawn Harris, #403, Fbr 5, 1996
When she was 21 years old, she and a crowd of people high on drugs accused a man of raping one of their clique. In retaliation, one of them stabbed the man to death with a claw hammer. She was the youngest woman to be sentenced to life without parole (or "semicapital punishment") in the state of Missouri back in her day. Eventually, she and Marti A Greer broke out of prison. AMW tipsters took Greer down in early 1991 (#146), and 4.8 years later, Harris was busted in Wyoming.
Michael Angelo Jendrock, #404, Fbr 8, 1996
In August 1995, he and some fellow skinheads realized their car had blown a rod, and took note of a young black man who lived 3 doors away. He and an accomplice named Kenneth Jay Kent broke into that house and demanded the man, who had experience working with cars, steal a Pontiac Grand Am, in order to assuage Jendrock's bitterness over the black man living in a house Jendrock's brother had recently been evicted from over defaults on bills. Jendrock and several accomplices spent that night drinking, smoking crank, and partying at random houses, but by 6:00 the next morning, Jendrock and Kent realized the victim still hadn't delivered the car. They deceived their way into the man's house, tied him and his roommate up with duct tape, and stole all their personal belongings, then Jendrock shot the black man dead. Two other killers were caught quickly but Jendrock and Kent fled. Kent surrendered at a rural-western bar in Las Vegas in mid to late January as an empty capture, and Jendrock was busted at his grandfather's house in Hesperia, California, having grown mid-length black hair.
Kimberly Hellems and James Worrall, #405/#406, Fbr 29, 1996
A couple of serial department store thieves. Their hit count, amount of money stolen, and MO are unknown. An AMW tipster in a Sears in Kentucky recognized her by the eccentric mannerism with which Hellems put a stick of gum in her mouth, and busted the couple near the entrance to the store.
Catherine Suh, #407, Mrc 8, 1996
In October 1987, she killed her mother by stabbing her in the back. In late September 1993, she convinced her brother to kill her boyfriend in Chicago. She'd tried to disguise herself as a girl of grandeur in Hawaii, buying her next boyfriend an expensive-looking ring, and lived fairly comfortably until America's Most Wanted joined the hunt. As she buckled under pressure from AMW, she left her boyfriend and surrendered at an FBI station, barefooted with tattered clothing. She was sentenced to life in prison.
Sarajini Lalla LeVine, #408, Mrc 10, 1996
On Halloween 1991, shortly after raising insurance on her 12 year old daughter, she torched their house in San Antonio, Texas, killing the girl. In October 1995, she stole money from a church to raise bond, then fled. She was busted in Crystal Beach, Texas, where she'd been renting property from an elderly couple. She was sentenced to 4 decades in prison for the murder plus 1 decade on theft and license fraud charges, with the possibility of parole in 13 years. She lost her case in 2009, and is unlikely to get an early release from prison before her sentence expires in 2045.
Juan Sanchez, #409, Apl 11, 1996
Busted in Mexico. Details are uncertain, but a man by the name Juan Sanchez Arreola, arrested that same day in the town of Ojinaga, was wanted for correspondence with The Unabomber, most likely as a material witness, for new leads in the Ted Kaczynski manhunt, or to help prosecutors build a case against Kaczynski. Sanchez-Arreola was pronounced dead in August 1997.
Gordon "Woody" Mower Jr., #410, Apl 13, 1996
An 18 year old arson suspect out of Richfield, New York. Near the end of March 1996, he gunned down his parents, then fled with his 14 year old girlfriend. He was busted in Dallas, Texas and the girlfriend was recovered safely. He was sentenced to life in prison.
Michael Eugene Moore, #411, Apl 19, 1996
In July 1994, his wife split up with him, and in May 1995, she was preparing divorce proceedings. During that child custody battle, cops in Virginia say he stabbed his wife 33 times over their impending divorce, badly wounding her, as their daughter begged him to stop attacking her. He then fled with their daughter. By early 1996, a man in Miami had taken him in and given him a construction job. On April 8, a tip to America's Most Wanted barely missed him, but helped recover the then 5 year old girl, but it took another 11 days to bust him in California. Within the next 1/4 century, he was charged with an unrelated assault and battery out of Virginia, then he was wanted for questioning in an armed robbery where the perpetrator tied up a woman and stole her car. A license plate reader recognized another stolen car and led to his re-arrest in Florida. No relation to the documentarian Michael Moore.
Jerome Frierson-Bey (RELEASED), #412, Apl 28, 1996
Arrested in New Jersey for 9 bank robberies, 3 kidnappings, and 1 prison escape. Further details are unknown, but he most likely was sentenced to about a century and a half in prison, but it somehow got reduced to 2 decades, after which he got out in 2016.
Gordon Herbert Hales, #413, Apl 28, 1996
In 1980, he had sex with his own 9 year old daughter in Broward County, Florida. He was busted in the Dominican Republic and sentenced to life in prison.
Frederick R Hutzenlaub, #414, Apl 29, 1996
A former insurance adjuster known for conning women out of money. In January 1995, he robbed a Suffolk County, New York bank and shot a police officer, but the victim survived. He was busted in Nevada.
Jae Sik Chang, #415, May 3, 1996
In January 1995, he and several cohorts burglarized a successful businessman's house in New Jersey. They forced their way under the garage door and stabbed the man's wife to death in an altercation. After his AMW airing, he surrendered in Missoula, Montana.
Dennis L "Chubb" Miller, #416, May 5, 1996
Towards the middle of 1995, he held a gun to his wife's head. After she convinced a Pennsylvania court to parole him early, he sexually murdered her that November. He was busted in Florida and condemned to death.
Christopher Lawrence Jeburk, #417, Jne 27, 1996
A serial bank robber, 19 years old at the time of his introduction on AMW. From October 1995 until he was caught, he robbed 11 banks and escaped from 4 prisons. He was busted in Georgia and is now serving life without parole.
Kareem Harris, #418, May 14, 1996
He robbed a body shop in New Jersey and fired at 3 people, wounding 1 of them. He was busted in New York. Further details are unknown.
Gregory LaMar Blackmon, #419, May 15, 1996
A person of interest in a murder. In 1993, he was named a person of interest in a failed attempt at another murder. In winter 1996, he robbed a restaurant, but got tackled and restrained. After being taken to jail, he lied about the severity of his injuries to earn a doctor's visit. Then, he overpowered the guards, and tried to shoot one officer, but forgot to disengage the safety. He was busted 2 months later in Florida and sentenced to between 12 1/2 and 14 years in prison. In January 2009, he got out, but that August, he committed one last armed robbery, for which a fed-up court sentenced him to life in prison. Despite much confusion over him, he has no relation to vegan fundamentalist bomber James Ray Blackmon who didn't go on the run until March 1997.
Curtis Dupree and Kelton Nakail Birdow, #420/#421, May 16, 1996
A crew of robbers carried out several bungled heists that involved ripping ATM machines off their foundations, loading them into trucks and vans, and speeding off, with their plans constantly getting foiled when the machines fell out behind them. After they were caught on camera unloading one of the machines under a street light, cops linked the crew to the robberies via a license plate that also fell off the truck. Police quickly rounded up everyone else in the crew, but Dupree and Nakail-Birdow got away. They were busted in Texas, and Dupree told AMW the producers, tipsters, and cops were good at their jobs. Since then, these robbers have become a planetary laughingstock, shown on various TV shows from World's Dumbest Criminals to Maury Povich. In 1998, police linked Nakail to a February 1994 double murder of a shift manager and a cashier at a Jack-In-The-Box that netted him $800 in cash, for which he was sentenced to 4 decades to life. Nakail-Birdow will be eligible for parole in 2038.
Mary Anderson (RELEASED), #422, May 19, 1996
Wanted for a string of bank robberies out of Michigan and busted in New York. She was sentenced to about 6 1/4 years in prison and got out in August 2002.
Leslie Isben Rogge, #423, May 18, 1996
A serial bank robber, fraudster, and stolen property smuggler whose crime wave started in 1978. After one of his earlier arrests in 1984, he bribed a corrections officer to let him escape. After that, he started another series of bank robberies, and throughout the 1980s, he showed pride in his bank jobs, succeeding at most of them without ever killing nor wounding anyone. In January of 1990, he was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted. By the spring of 1996, he was living in Guatemala. A teenager went to the FBI's website, sent a tip to amw.com, and as the FBI was expecting him to show up, he surrendered in an embassy. It was the first time the internet brought down an FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive. He was sentenced to between 38 and 65 years in prison, and will be eligible for parole in 2034, but he was born in 1940, so it's somewhat unlikely.
Anthony Frank McKinley, #424, May 27, 1996
He was sentenced to life in a Mississippi prison for killing a man in an argument, but later escaped a local jail. He was busted in Louisiana and returned to his life sentence.
John Flaggs (RELEASED), #425, May 30, 1996
He was wanted for abducting his 4 year old son from Sacramento, California following a bitter divorce. He was busted still hiding out in California, but didn't appear to get any prison time.
Wayne Alfred Day, #426, Jne 21, 1996
A gang alpha of Los Angeles' Grape Street Crips. He trafficked multiple kilos of cocaine imported from Mexico. He was busted in Nevada.
Stacey Ann Sapp, #427, Jly 26, 1996
When police in Georgia knew she was driving drunk, they tried to pull her over, but she swerved to avoid them and picked up speed until the pickup truck flipped over several times, mortally wounding her 18 year old passenger. She was sentenced to roughly 8 years in prison, before initially getting out in 2003. Since then, she's constantly been entrapped in legal trouble, mostly for shoplifting and driving without a valid license.
Roland Lavar "Ramadan" Campbell, #428, Jly 30, 1996
A member of New York's Forty Thieves armed robbery gang. Starting in June 1991, he robbed 7 banks and post offices on the gang's behalf, and that October, a task force took down most of the gang, but Campbell slipped away, likely the most dangerous of them. That December, after getting picked up on drug charges out of Maryland, he altered his appearance and disguised himself as a fellow inmate who was nearing release, in order to escape. He was busted in Costa Rica after 3 profiles on the show and sentenced to 155 years in prison.
Randy Eugene "Igor" Keyes (DECEASED), #429, Ags 5, 1996
A Montana drug dealer, who himself had been addicted to many drugs since a college football injury, from opioids to methamphetamines. In 1994, a rival dealer in Billings opened fire at him in a drive-by shooting, and Keyes gave chase with his truck. Keyes fired back, not knowing a woman was riding in his rival's car. She was killed, and 2 other people were wounded. He was busted in El Paso, Texas, had a Charismatic experience, joined a prison ministry program, and dedicated his life to becoming a minister. In exchange for testifying against his rival, he pled guilty to reckless endangerment, served 1.8 year in prison and 4 years on house arrest, then worked as a long-haul truck driver during his parole. He ministered to several people during his various stops, including the very same rival dealer who was serving time in Atlanta before his transfer to another prison. Everything went smoothly until 2005, when he was caught with a firearm and sent to federal prison for 4 years. Since 2009, he stayed out of any further trouble with the law, but died in a motorcycle wreck in October 2016.
Paul Anthony DeJongh (DECEASED), #430, Ags 23, 1996
Throughout 1995, he and several others rented an apartment in Knoxville, Tennessee. They spent a lot of time partying, including with a pool full of plastic spheres similar to those found in fast food ball pits. By the end of that year, something went wrong, and they were all evicted. In January 1996, DeJongh killed one of the men with 2 gunshots to the head and left the body in the apartment. He was busted at a home construction site in Georgia and sentenced to life in prison. By the end of the decade 201X, he was dead.
David Matthew Fitzpatrick, #431, Spt 10, 1996
The Unknown New Mexico Motel Tape Child Rapist. In 1992, this former stand-up comic drugged and sexually videotaped 2 preteen girls. After the then-unknown rapist checked out of a motel, he accidentally left the videotape behind, and a motel clerk found it, thus opening an unsolved case. About 4 years later, an AMW viewer identified Fitzpatrick as the suspect. A time share office he worked at in Mexico sacked him, so he fled to Puerto Vallarta, where he was apprehended.
Vincent Duane Martin, #432, Spt 17, 1996
A meth trafficker from the New Mexico prairie. He was notorious for brutally punishing his manufacturers via physical torture. In December 1995, cops stormed his trailer, confiscating some guns, vehicle ID change plates, weed, and 1/4 pound of meth. After making bail, he vowed to find out who set him up and retaliate. In January 1996, he and an accomplice kidnapped a woman from a party and shot her to death because he was falsely convinced she was the snitch. At first, no-one even knew the victim's last name... except her daughters, who knew something was amiss when she didn't show up for a critical family reunion. In June, buzzards led a farmer to her body. He was busted in New York.
Donzel Mignott (DECEASED), #433, Oct 24, 1996
He escaped from a Brooklyn prison during his trial on 2nd degree murder charges, after killing a man in an argument when a street craps dice game went sour. He was busted in Virginia. His fellow escapee, a convicted armed robber, was nabbed as an empty capture. Mignott was convicted of multiple charges, including the murder, and sentenced to 1/3 century to life. His earliest chance at parole would've been in circa 2029, but he died of natural causes in late May 2015.
Noble Cunningham (RELEASED), #434, Nvb 7, 1996
The only criminal in the capture roster sought for crimes against the environment. Starting in 1979, he'd illegally stored at least 280 tons of barium chromate on his farm in Ohio. It's a carcinogenic byproduct of the family business which sold machines that removed chrome from manufacturing plants' wastewater. The chemical was found in rusting, corroded metal barrels, following an empty promise he made to take it in for recycling. In September 1986, the county granted PetroGas digging rights to lay a natural gas pipeline which cut through Cunningham's property. That ended in Cunningham shooting and destroying county machinery with his shotgun in an attempt to keep sheriffs away from the sludge, which had made his neighbors' running water taste strange and even infected a young girl with lymph node cancer. In July 1988, the Ohio state EPA ordered Cunningham to clean it up, at a 100 Grand expense to the Cunningham family. By 1989, he'd discovered a gas log manufacturing company in Atlanta whose owner knew Cunningham's sister, but when the barium chromate's chemical properties didn't fit what Cunningham promised, the deal fell through. Noble asked for a 5 Grand check and a fake purchase order to prove to Noble's brother that his time in Georgia went to some good use. In 1989, while his family argued in court that barium chromate wasn't a toxic waste under EPA jurisdiction due to its possible subsequent industrial applications, he rented several tractor trailers to sneak the toxic waste into Atlanta, deceiving the drivers into thinking the cargo was legal. A relentless barrage of containers showed up at the gas log company over 3 weeks, but the owner knew something was off because the trucks never arrived during the mid-day, and the initial scheme unraveled. That June, Noble tricked a garbage truck driver into hastily moving the waste to the Atlanta city dump. However, the truck wasn't meant to carry that heavy of loads, and the tires went flat. The driver was soon fired, the toxic mess drove the gas log company bankrupt after less than a year, and taxpayers lost a whole Megadollar overall. Cunningham fled, but court rulings in Ohio and Georgia had the Cunningham family company convicted in October 1994. He was busted in Ohio, where he could've faced 2 decades, but was only sentenced to just over 4 years in a federal prison. He got out 2 days before December 2000.
Alan Eugene White, #435, Nvb 9, 1996
The lead story on the first broadcast of America Fights Back, and one of John Walsh's earliest Public Enemy #1s. In Salina, Kansas, in July 1996, he bludgeoned a 5 year old boy and his great grandmother to death, and sexually murdered the elderly woman's daughter. He was busted in Boston, Massachusetts 4 months after the massacre, watching a movie in a homeless shelter. He was spared the death penalty, but got a 14 decade sentence with no chance of parole.
Edwin Joseph Arendes (DECEASED), #436, Nvb 18, 1996
A formerly beloved elderly handyman. In August 1991, he raped a 5 year old girl in a Texas home where he'd worked. He was busted in Florida and sentenced to 4 decades in prison, but he died in April of 2007. His family didn't claim the body, so he was buried in the prison's designated cemetery.
Jeffrey K Sibley, #437, Nvb 23, 1996
A wannabe hitman. In July 1996, he lured a young man into a forest in Maine, then shot him execution style for reasons unknown. AMW tips led to Valley City, North Dakota, where he'd just checked into a hotel. He was seen sleeping like a baby, and was arrested very silently, especially for an aspiring hitman.
Joseph Matthew Mrozek, #438, Dcb 1, 1996
In July 1990, he was facing an impending breakup. After a night out on the town, he shot her to death while uttering the cliche phrase of jilted Casa Novas, "If I can't have her, no-one will!" His case got caught in a legal error, and a mistrial was declared. His new trial was scheduled for September 1993, but he'd fled. AMW busted him in Lakewood, Tennessee, where he'd just been hired at a restaurant. He was arrested while sleeping in bed with his latest girlfriend.
Ronald Mark Robb (RELEASED), #439, Dcb 13, 1996
A sideshow barker for a traveling carnival, known for a metal plate in his forehead which he frequently stuck magnets on as a trick. In June 1995, he and his coworker had too much to drink in New York. They raped and tortured a good samaritan, and tried to finish her off by tying her to a tree and leaving her to die from starvation and the elements. She survived the attack, and the partner-in-crime was arrested but Robb fled. Following AMW tips, cops in Toronto, Canada brought him from the funhouse to the big house. He was convicted and sentenced to 18 years in prison, but towards the middle of 2014, he got out a few months early, after which he registered as a sex offender forever.
Asa King, #440, Dcb 18, 1996
In 1977, he was only 17 years old when he killed a man in New Jersey. In October 1995, he escaped from prison. In September 1996, he joined forces with his 16 year old cousin to rob a bank, then went on the run for the last time, vowing never to be taken alive. After his airing, AMW tipsters chased him out of Atlanta, but another tipster busted him outside a store in Detroit, Michigan. He went down spitting at the camera crew. If he wouldn't have escaped, he would've been eligible to get out in 2021, but it's highly unlikely it was ever granted.
Lloyd Earl Grass, #441, Jnr 5, 1997
In October 1992, he stabbed his wife to death in Missouri during a hallucination in which he saw a minion of Satan in her place. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He escaped a St. Louis mental hospital in August 1996. He fled to New York City and found work as a telemarketing sales agent. He was caught sound asleep at 200 Hours in the morning.
Nathaniel Crockharn, #442, Jnr 14, 1997
A serial New Orleans, Louisiana convenience store robber. He was convicted in 1982, escaped prison in 1983, and went on a burglary spree in Alabama a week later. At the time of his airing, he'd last been seen on Christmas of 1995. AMW tips led to his girlfriend's house in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he'd just returned to. He was caught hiding behind a refrigerator. It's believed he's now serving 115 years in prison.
Charles Zimmerman, #443, Jnr 14, 1997
A Philadelphia career criminal. In December 1996, he robbed a jewelry store. Despite one clerk complying with his demands, Zimmerman shot him, crippling the man for life. AMW led cops to Redding, California, where he'd been holed up in a Motel 99. Luckily, they apprehended him before any shots could be fired. His sentence was unknown, but there is an unconfirmed rumor he may have been beaten to death shortly before his projected release.
Alan Ray "Big Red" Crook, #444, Dcb 26, 1996
A 17 year old gang banger. In February 1992, his gang associates shot up a slumber party in San Antonio, Texas, killing 1 teenage girl and wounding 7 other people. He was sought for driving the getaway vehicle. He may have never left San Antonio, and surrendered there when he found out he was scheduled for an airing. He got 35 years for his role in the shooting.
Terry Pelletier (RELEASED), #445, Jnr 23, 1997
In April 1983, he got into an argument during a pool game in a Florida bar. During the late hours of that night, a shot rang out, the other man was dead, and the gunshot was easily traced back to Pelletier. By the time of his airing, he'd fled to a bordering country. After the airing, he booked a flight to Miami for the sole purpose of surrendering, even though he knew he faced death row. However, the District Attorney felt they had nothing on him, so they gave him a plea deal for 2 years of house arrest and 8 years probation, which he successfully completed.
Edwin Oswald "Black Ed" Smith, #446, Jnr 29, 1997
A crooked high school dropout, infamous throughout the neighborhood as willing to do anything to elevate his reputation in the Crips. In January 1984, he broke into a high school in South Central Los Angeles, looking for Bloods to fight, and got into a gang shootout where one Blood and an honor roll high school student, the latter of whom the Boston Red Sox were scouting and UCLA had just accepted, were killed. For almost a decade, Edwin and his associates made particularly strong threats to kill anyone's family who spoke up, and in April 1984, the case against him was dismissed, with no-one having bothered to tell the younger victim's mother about the court date. In January of 1993, a woman with a great track record of cracking cold cases was assigned to take over, reigniting the manhunt. In October 1993, Edwin, now a seasoned cocaine trafficker, was connected to a 3rd man's murder, and a witness finally came forward after a speech at a halfway house. In November 1994, the new detective built a new case against Edwin. Despite a fake ID and weight gain, he was busted in Lancaster, California without incident as he was driving a red Camaro. He got a life sentence, with the possibility of parole in 49 years at the soonest.
Joni Denise Nellems, #447, Fbr 10, 1997
In May 1995, she led 3 accomplices to an acquaintance's home in Peoria, Illinos, burglarized it, and beat the victim up, all because she felt like it. How much property might've been stolen is unknown. Police quickly rounded up the accomplices, but Nellems got away. After her airing, she was busted in Anderson, Indiana. She'd been rolling up clothing with the intent to run from the AMW tipsters. She served about 3 years in prison, but has been in and out of jail for crimes like retail theft, brought about by a serious drug problem.
Christopher Daniel "Tree" Burgess, #448, Fbr 16, 1997
On Christmas Eve 1996, he was put in charge of watching over a 1 1/2 year old girl in Sacramento, California. When she had a toilet training accident, he flew into a rage. He slammed her head through a wall, threw her down a flight of stairs, and pounded a huge dent into her head with a metal spoon, then calmly bathed and dressed her, then put her to bed where she stopped breathing and died. Sacramento law enforcement described it as breaking the record for most violent crime against a child they'd ever investigated. He was busted in West Chicago, Illinois, holed up in his grandfather's house, and was sentenced to 6 decades to life.
Brittany "Angel Eyes, Satan's Daughter" Marlowe Holberg, #449, Fbr 17, 1997
A topless dancer and crack addict. In Nvb. 1996, she disguised herself as a damsel in distress in order to ruse her way into an old Amarillo, Texas man's apartment. After trying to rob it, she stabbed and beat him with 10 different utensils and appliances, administering the finishing blow with a kitchen knife. The body was found with a lamp pole crammed more than 5 inches down his throat. In February of 1997, a tipster directed cops to an airport in Memphis, Tennessee where she was performing topless dances. They set up a purchase, lured her to a McDonald's not far away, and busted her. She's since been condemned to death.
Huriberto O'Neill Jr, #450, Fbr 19, 1997
A 16 year old punk. In November 1994, he killed a former gang banger turned college painting student in Hartford, Connecticut. He escaped prison in June 1995. By the time of his airing, he'd fallen in with a local gang in Chicago, Illinois. He was recognized by his frequent loitering.
Alex Lucero, #451, Fbr 27, 1997
A paroled murderer. After getting addicted to heroin and cocaine, he committed a spree of between 17 and 40 robberies in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was busted living on a horse farm in Adams County, Colorado.
Charles Edward Manley (DECEASED), #452, Mrc 10, 1997
A tall bully and moocher. In March 1995, he killed a school teacher with an execution style gunshot when she forced him to move out of her Las Vegas home. In January 1997, he skipped his preliminary hearing. He didn't last through the winter; After his daughter called her mother from a phone in a New Jersey motel, an AMW tipster busted him snoozing. He reached for his gun, but they took him down before he could grab it. In September 1997, he was soon convicted and condemned to death, but because of prosecutors abusing lawyer-and-client privilege, the conviction and sentence were overturned in June of 1999. He was convicted in a new trial, then in 2001, he died of Hepatitis C. In 2008, DNA linked him to an older unsolved murder from back in 1976, and it may take many more decades before detectives are sure how many other people he may have murdered.
Christian Rodriguez, #453, Mrc 7, 1997
The Unknown Lawrence Austin killer. Austin was the owner of a special one-of-a-kind movie theatre that specialized in silent movies and vintage film, with a mission of developing appreciation for such old-time fare. A man named James Leslie Van Sickle stood to inherit the theatre and its fortune from Lawrence Austin, but wanted to claim it early, so in January 1997, he hired a man named Christian Rodriguez to kill him. Van Sickle quickly went down for the murder, but wouldn't tell anyone who the hitman was. AMW tips identified Rodriguez as the killer, busting him in California.
Joel Orlando Benson (RELEASED), #454, Mrc 21, 1997
He was only 15 years old when he took part in a home invasion where his co-conspirators raped and robbed several women. He was identified serving time in Richmond, Virginia on newer charges. Due to his lesser role in the crimes and his young age at the time of the offences, he struck a plea deal with the District Attorney, confessed to the robbery charges, and served a few years in prison, most likely having gotten out in the early 00-Agents' decade.
Derald and Gerald Bernard Richardson, #455/#456, Mrc 22, 1997
The only pair of twins in AMW's capture roster. In September 1991, these Fort Worth, Texas drug enforcers robbed an old man who drove through their turf. They stomped on him and crushed his throat. The victim was terminally wounded and died in the winter of 1993. In February 1996, they managed to earn low bails, but fled after posting bond. AMW tips led cops to nearby Houston, where the manhunt ended after a car chase. Derald was caught in his common-law wife's apartment with another criminal in an unrelated case, and Gerald was caught without incident in his apartment.
Donald Brouillette, #457, Apl 7, 1997
A serial stalker, arsonist, and police impersonator. In February 1996, he broke into the backyard of his ex-girlfriend's home in Louisiana, then shot and killed her brother. He was busted staying in Houston, Texas' Midtown Lodge, sunbathing.
Eugene Ross, #458, Apl 9, 1997
A gang alpha. In December 1994, he led several of his underlings to bind, torture, and execute a man. Many hardened police officers described the scene as particularly shocking: The man had been shot several time, beaten and stabbed, torched, and a thumbnail was broken off. In September 1996, he escaped from a prison in Illinois. He was busted walking the streets of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Frank Whitman, #459, Apl 12, 1997
He was arrested for molesting his own granddaughter in Washington, but fled his sentencing in January 1996. He was busted in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he'd managed to establish a reputation as a kindly elderly neighbor.
Bobby Lee Gilkey, #460, Apl 17, 1997
In July 1990, he robbed a Safeway store in Arapaho County, Colorado, then led cops on a high-speed chase. When his truck blew a tire, he opened fire at 2 police officers, but missed. He was busted in Dallas, Texas and sentenced to 2 decades in prison. He was paroled some time in 2015, set to expire in April 2020.
Thomas Bimbo Jr., #461, Apl 22, 1997
He disguised himself as a utility worker, broke into several elderly people's homes, and robbed them. He was busted in New Jersey, then struck a plea deal with prosecutors where he returned 42 Grand in stolen money to his victims.
Curtis Allen Hemphill, #462, May 10, 1997
By the spring of 1997, he'd been named John Walsh's 10th most wanted fugitive still at large. Shortly before Halloween 1996, he kidnapped, tortured, and stabbed his ex-wife and a police officer she was dating in California, but luckily they survived. He was busted outside a bar in Ensenada, Mexico, where he'd been working as an exotic dancer. In 2012, he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in a fellow inmate's death.
Aaron Edward Borrero and Elizabeth Hernandez (both RELEASED), #463/#464, May 16, 1997
Two suspects in unrelated failed-attempted murders who joined forces to go on the run. Borrero was originally sought for abducting and hogtying a man, then throwing him into the Yakima River after a drug deal fell through. His victim survived by grabbing onto a tree branch sticking out of the river bank. Elizabeth was sought for luring, shooting, and wounding her ex-husband under a Seattle highway overpass in March 1997, then abducting her young son. They were busted in an abandoned house in the town of Visala in Tulare County, California. Hernandez was pregnant, but her older son was recovered safely. Hernandez served 8 years in prison, getting out in circa 2005, and Borrero served 16 years, getting out in circa 2013. They ended their relationship cordially, have remained friends, and they even have social media accounts suggesting they've truly reformed.
Donald Sattler, #465, May 18, 1997
A high school dropout. In November 1990, he burglarized a Columbus, Ohio home, kidnapped a 4 year old girl, and stole their van. The intent was to extort a ransom, but he abandoned her in the middle of nowhere before he could carry it out. Luckily, she was recovered safely. He knocked on the door of someone who happened to see him on America's Most Wanted, and the house's owner sent the tip to law enforcement. Sattler had run and hid in a nearby ditch, where he was taken into custody.
Rosendo Gutierrez Rojero (RELEASED), #466, May 13, 1997
In 1987, he molested his 4 stepdaughters in Maryland. He got away with it until he molested the girls again in 1993. Some freight workers from Tennessee saw his airing on AMW, and led cops to Mexico where he was busted. Extradition took just under a week, and he served about a decade in prison.
David Alex "Spooky" Alvarez, #467, May 20, 1997
A former pesticide technician on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted. A month after kidnapping his ex-wife, he sought revenge on her and her family after their divorce. In September 1996, in Los Angeles, he and a few accomplices kidnapped 10 people, 4 of them children, and soon shot them up. 2 men and 2 preteen girls died, 3 hostages were wounded, and 3 escaped unharmed. He was busted eating Chinese food for lunch in Tijuana, Mexico, and claimed he was being falsely accused the next day. That November, a young woman who conspired in the murders was captured without AMW, and soon sent to lifer's row. Unfortunately, Mexico refused to extradite Alvarez, and only agreed to try him because 2 of the victims were Mexican nationals. He's serving 9 decades in prison, and in the summer of 1998, he was transferred to a more secure prison after killing a fellow inmate.
Edward Lawrence Myers (DECEASED), #468, May 22, 1997
A rarely-employed drunkard and wife beater. In 1974, he distracted his stepchildren by directing them to a candy store, then shot their mother dead. In September 1996, he kidnapped his girlfriend in Ohio and stabbed her repeatedly, threatening to kill her. She was grotesquely wounded and dropped into tall brush, but a stray dog licked her over and over again to help her trudge to safety. He was hiding out with a woman in Kenton, Ohio when AMW tips led cops there. She mistakenly said "Ed", confirming he was hiding in that house. When he was arrested, he fell sick with intense cardiac trouble. In November 1997, he died on the operating table before medical personnel could operate on his heart.
Bobby Wayne Jones (RELEASED), #469, Jne 7, 1997
A worker at Amy Rica DeChant's commercial cleaning company. For helping her clean up after her boyfriend's murder in the summer of 1996, he was charged as a material witness. He was busted there in Nevada, sentenced to 3 1/2 to 5 years in prison, and got out in 2001. His leads sped up the hunt for DeChant and got AMW tipsters ready to roll on her, but it would take another 7 1/2 months to bust her as Capture #500.
Nan Farwell (RELEASED), #470, Jne 11, 1997
A corrupt public servant turned micro-economic fraudster. America's Most Wanted speculated that she might've been bored with her 3-letter palindromic name and was seeking a cheap thrill. She was wanted for bad checks, forgery, and theft out of Spokane, Washington. Her M.O. was to exploit her position as a licensing worker to steal several other women's identities, open fraudulent bank accounts under their names, and write worthless checks. 80 Grand had been lost, and most of the money was spent on luxurious items like jewelry. One innocent woman was even fired from her job and thrown in jail because her name got linked to some of Farwell's crimes. In February 1991, she fled forgery and misappropriation charges. An AMW tipster said she'd just been caught hiding in Mexico illegally, and the Mexican government was expelling her, after which she was busted in San Diego, California, near the US/Mexico border. After cheating that one victim out of her very freedom, courts had the audacity to give her a slap to the wrist and just under 5 years in prison.
James Allen Reed (RELEASED), #471, Jne 23, 1997
Over about a decade, he'd assaulted and wounded 7 police officers in feeble attempts to kill them. In July 1996, he got more violent, bludgeoning and wounding an officer in Kansas with a wooden club, causing bone fractures. He was foolish enough to ask for his old construction job back in Breckenridge, Colorado. An AMW tipster saw through his plea and busted him. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison, and got out in 2009.
Jamie Jarold McMahan (DECEASED) and Christopher Michael Kauffman, #472/#473, Jne 30, 1997
Partners in crime who shared the title of John Walsh's Public Enemy #1 for the last week of June 1997. Towards the middle of that month, the two committed a drug-fueled crime spree. They shot 2 women to death in Mahaska County, Iowa, stole the younger victim's car, and robbed a bank at gunpoint. They were busted in Florida and sentenced to 5 life terms. In mid-November 2017, McMahan hanged himself in his cell at Florence ADX SuperMax in Colorado.
Kenneth D'Cunha, #474, Jnr 28, 1997
A disgraced orthodontist. He was expelled from the orthodontics trade for his role in a huge child pornography network. Some of his worst crimes are drugging at least 3 young boys with narcotics and sodomizing them. At the end of January 1997, he was arrested in New Zealand. Thanks to information supplied by an AMW viewer, they secured an extradition warrant and flew him back to New York to face justice over 5 months later.
Bryan Richard Roser (DECEASED), #475, Jly 16, 1997
A serial sex offender. In 1985, he molested his own son and raped a 9 year old girl in Pennsylvania. It's likely he abducted and sexually murdered another 9 year old girl. In July 1997, a few days after his airing on America's Most Wanted, a tipster found his body at a campsite in North Carolina. He had hanged himself.
Tony Ross (DECEASED), #476, Jly 19, 1997
A member of a transient train crashing robbery gang. He was once believed to have slashed 2 men's throats. In October 1995, one of the bodies was found on a grain farm in Saginaw, Texas. When AMW picked up the case, they knew him as John Stanley "Dogman Tony" Boris. An AMW tipster knew his other name, Tony Ross, and busted him in La Crosse, Wisconsin, very shortly after his release from jail on other charges. The star witness got hit by a train before they could bring Ross to trial, then the case against him collapsed, and the charges were dropped. In spring 2012, he passed away.
Paul Wesley Taylor, #477, Jly 21, 1997
The Unknown Dean Phillips killer. On Christmas 1990, a laundromat in Texas was robbed, $30 in quarters were stolen, and a man born in circa 1908 had been fatally beaten and left in the building. After AMW aired the case, a tipster told a Utah corrections department that a man named Paul Wesley Taylor, imprisoned there on escape charges, killed Dean Phillips. A fingerprint test confirmed it.
John Steven Huggins, #478, Jly 8, 1997
The Unknown Carla Larson killer. In June 1997, a woman had been abducted from a Florida supermarket, and the body was quickly found. She had been strangled, and her jewelry had been stolen. Right after the murder, a DisneyWorld tourist named John Steven Huggins returned home with his wife, and started acting strangely. The wife knew it was no coincidence that the murder happened while the couple was at DisneyWorld and sent in the tip. Cops busted him in Maryland. Today he sits on Florida's death row.
Hector Christian, #480, Ags 5, 1997
He was sought for molesting and abducting his 2 daughters and step-daughter in Las Vegas, Nevada. He abducted 2 of the girls, taking them on the run with him while abandoning his other daughter. He was busted in Harden County, Montana, and the victims were taken into protective custody.
Patrick Floyd Wilson, #481, Ags 31, 1997
An illegal Jamaican immigrant. In late August 1996, a woman paid him 3 Grand to shoot another woman dead in Virginia. He was busted in a Takoma, Maryland apartment, where he'd been hiding out with his brother, a fugitive sought in an unrelated case.
Dereck Owens, #482, Spt 7, 1997
In the California town of Lompoc, he and several others robbed a bank. A man with crutches and a woman walked into the bank in the middle of the heist, and one of the robbers shot the man in the leg. The woman tried to run away, but another robber chased her into the parking lot and shot her to death. All of the robbers were quickly caught but Owens and partner in crime Shauncy LaMont "Jungle Blood" Bowen got away. After the AMW airing, Owens surrendered right there in California, telling officers AMW did a great job in capturing him, and Shauncy was soon nabbed as an empty capture.
Juan Jesus Fleitas, #483, Ags 3, 1997
In 1985, he killed a college student during a robbery with a gunshot to the face. In January 1995, he and 5 other inmates burrowed out of a Florida prison. Police quickly rounded up the other prison breakers, but Fleitas made a solid getaway. AMW tips led law enforcement to Merida, Mexico, where he'd gotten in an argument with 2 others in a backyard, where he was busted and returned to lifer's row.
Jack Volgares and Mona Gamble Volgares, #484/#485, Spt 20, 1997
Jack was an avid motorcyclist until 1990 when he lost a leg in a wreck, and suspected child molester named John Walsh's Public Enemy #1 in the summer of 1997. Mona was a recovering alcoholic who had her first child in 1985 at roughly 16 years old. In August of 1989, she gave birth to her second child, Seleana Marie Gamble, who promptly got taken out of her custody by social services in Florida due to roach infestations and an absence of food in her home. In the early 1990s, Jack and Mona got married, and in 1993, she completed a course in better parenting, but it was all a front, as the father suspected Mona of taking Seleana to a bar before she was in kindergarten. Jack, Mona, and Seleana moved to Ironton, Ohio, near the state border to Kentucky, in 1995. Mona was training for a certification in dietary specialty in June 1997 when Jack fatally wounded Seleana by throwing her into a wall and buried her body in a trash can in his brother's backyard with her dog's corpse. Mona abruptly quit her training in mid August, raising suspicion by the health center's administration that Jack wanted Mona out of work forever. Mona concocted a crazy story about the cost of driving Seleana to an airport in Columbus, and told people who asked that Seleana was visiting the biological father in Florida. This enabled them to flee justice, but the father didn't buy it because Seleana never arrived at the airport when he anticipated. That August, they fled the home with her other 3 children and abandoned a van at a gas station a few blocks down from the crime scene. 29 minutes after their airing, AMW tips busted them in Muskogee, Oklahoma, where they'd been working together on a roofing job. The remaining children were recovered safely. Jack was later sentenced to 37 years in prison with a projected release date in 2034 at the soonest, and Mona got 1/4 century. In the winter of 2019, she petitioned for an earlier release, claiming she'd been in an abusive relationship which cut into her judgment and prevented her from protecting her children, but a judge voted NO, knowing she was willing to throw her children under the bus to keep a man in her life. Today, it holds the record for fastest capture after an on-air profile. In the winter of 2022, Mona got out on parole.
Timothy Aoktorral White (RELEASED), #486, Spt 28, 1997
A criminal dunce. In October 1995, he was trying to collect on life insurance in Charlotte, North Carolina. Around Halloween, he drugged his wife, suffocated her with a pillow, and blew up the part of their house where her body had been left. He fled the city that December. He was busted in Georgia and sentenced to 21 years in prison, but in December 2015, he got out after serving 18 years.
William Edward Coday (DECEASED), #487, Oct 15, 1997
In 1978, he beat a college classmate to death in Hamburg, Germany. In July 1997, he fatally beat and stabbed his ex-girlfriend in the States after a bad breakup. He was busted in New York City and condemned to death, but several years before the executioner could give him the lethal injection, he mortally slashed his wrists at the end of April 2008.
Lorris Terriell Robinson, #488, Oct 22, 1997
A South Central Los Angeles Bloods gang banger named John Walsh's Public Enemy #1 in late September 1997. In late 1995, he shot 2 men to death. One victim was killed in a hotel room robbery, and both victims were the fathers of many children. He was busted in California.
James Brian Gordon, #489, Oct 29, 1997
He'd been sought since circa 1985 for raping 3 young boys, and was busted in Louisiana almost instantly after his airing. Further details are unknown.
Bobby O'Neal Negri Jr and Michael Brandon Lutz (both RELEASED), #490/#491, Oct 31, 1997
Negri was a Loomis armored car driver sought for a larceny plot. In Oklahoma, the two made off with 2 Megadollars and 600 Grand. They were busted in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and served 5 to 16 years.
Robert Milton Whitley, #492, Nvb 5, 1997
A cattle thief wanted out of 4 counties across America. Some men from his hometown spotted him in New Mexico and busted him there.
Allen Booten (DECEASED), #493, Nvb 5, 1997
The Unknown Jason Crawford killer. Crawford was driving on a highway when an unknown assailant intentionally ran him and his friend off the road. The car crashed into a tree, killing Crawford and wounding his passenger. The late victim's mother called up one of the crew members behind the reenactment to thank him for paving their way towards justice. Tips to AMW associated the assailing car with Allen Booten, and led cops to Texas, where he fatally shot himself in the head before the cops could cuff him.
Kenneth Paul Putnam, #494, Nvb 13, 1997
The Houdini of Georgia Inmates. After a series of bank robberies from 1979 to 1984, he became a serial prison escapee. In one incident, he fled through a manhole cover. He was busted running a carnival booth in Texas. He told a cop to loosen his painful handcuffs, but the cop knew better.
Michael Dongarra, #495, Nvb 20, 1997
A convicted Medicaid fraudster. From 1993 to December 1995, he stole church artifacts in California and Arizona, then used the stolen property to pull insurance scams. He was indicted in November 1996, and courts offered him a chance to accept a plea deal that would've gotten him locked away for only 1/2 decade, but he ran off. He was busted in Hingham, Massachusetts, living with 12 monks in an abbey monastery, and the courts in Arizona revoked his plea deal and sentenced him to 21 years in prison. After serving 18 1/4 years, he was paroled in February 2016, with a full release several days before June 2019.
Dean Robbins (DECEASED), #496, Dcb 15, 1997
A convicted felon. 2 days after Thanksgiving 1997, he went on a crime spree in Indiana, carjacked 3 people, held them hostage, and rammed a police car. AMW tips led Phoenix, Arizona police to a bar where he reached for his gun, and the cop shot him dead.
David Mitchell, #497, Jnr 9, 1998
A construction worker turned serial Minnesota bank robber whose MO was to dispose of his disguise and grab a bite to eat at a restaurant near the bank after robbing it. He claims he didn't really need the money, and wanted to see whether he could pull off a heist, and soon got addicted to the cheap thrill. Eventually, he saved up more money than he could store, then hoarded the remaining money in a forest behind his house. In Cleveland, Ohio, an armored car driver was shot and wounded. He was busted in Georgia, and was acquitted of the attempted murder because he proved he'd already been in Atlanta by then. Over the years, he gave several jailhouse interviews. In one of them, he told them that the armored car shooting was what drove America's Most Wanted to pursue him, and he didn't even do it, and he claimed he'd long since spent all the money. In mid November 2002, AMW aired the case one last time with another interview, he changed his story to say the money was still hoarded away somewhere, and cops tried to coax the whereabouts of the money vault. AMW told viewers to call in information on the money vault, and at the time the FBI was offering reward money of their own as an incentive.
Patrick Garrett Heaps, #498, Jnr 11, 1998
After robbing at least 2 banks in Utah, he kidnapped a crime partner and led cops on a high-speed chase. In November 1997, he escaped a minimum security prison. He was busted in nearby Midvale, Utah, emerging from his brother's home with a gun.
Jason Edwards, #499, Jnr 24, 1998
A 19 year old boy at the time of his crimes. After putting a car into high-speed and running down his brother in Louisiana, he was arrested for 2nd-degree murder, but escaped from jail on Christmas 1997. He was busted in Texas.
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Post by Scumhunter on Apr 7, 2013 8:16:47 GMT -5
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Post by 912thamwuser on Apr 7, 2013 21:41:59 GMT -5
AMW Capture Roster, 6th Century. Fishemout, I'd recommend cutting and pasting the text of your previous posts, putting them into a textpad document, pasting it into a new reply, then deleting your previous posts. Keep the post count! Amy Rica DeChant ( RELEASED), #500, Jnr 28, 1998 A black widow seductress and worker for a commercial cleaning company. In July 1996, she used her body to seduce a millionaire bookie in Las Vegas, convincing him to buy her a flashy car. His family knew from the beginning that DeChant was up to no good, but she plundered most of his wealth, and searched for 100 Grand in cash, but came up empty, then shot him dead. She used commercial cleaning chemicals to dissolve the body, convincing a fellow worker, Bobby Wayne Jones (Capture #469) to help clean it up. DeChant tried to accuse an organized crime family of the hit, but detectives saw through that because she left witnesses behind. Jones was charged as a material witness for that. The body was found in the Las Vegas desert in August 1996. She was busted fleeing a nudist colony in St Lucia, Florida, and had really mean words to say against America's Most Wanted when they brought her in. She was convicted and originally given a far longer prison sentence, but bad conduct by the district attorney got the conviction put on hold on a technicality. In lieu of a new trial, she got her 1st degree murder conviction overturned in exchange for pleading guilty to 2nd degree murder, and her sentence was reduced to between 12 1/2 and 25 years in prison. She got out on parole in 2011, and completed it by the winter of 2020. Tony Ray Amati, #501, Fbr 28, 1998 In May 1996, he burglarized a Las Vegas armory, stealing at least 75 firearms. Over the next 3 months, he participated in a shooting spree where he and his partners in crime killed 3 people. He was busted in Marietta, Georgia, selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door, less than a week after he was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. A court determined he pulled the trigger in only one of the murders and sentenced him to 4 decades to life. James Leo Russell, #502, Fbr 14, 1998 Throughout the 1980s, he'd molested children in Montana and Michigan. In mid September 1997, he lured an 11 year old girl into a Durham, North Carolina Home Depot and took indecent liberties with her. 10 days later, he was arrested, but posted a 60 Grand bail, and fled the next morning's court date. In winter 1998, law officers called his uncle in Tennessee, told them Russell was wanted, and after the uncle relayed the message to quit running, he surrendered in California. John R Leone, #503, Mrc 3, 1998 An Ohio trucking company owner who eventually fell into a cocaine habit. His crime was luring dozens of teenage boys back to his house, then drugging and raping them. In August 1995, one of the boys tried to flee, and Leone slashed him with a shaving razor before he'd fled the premises. He was busted in Mexico, convicted, and sentenced to 1/4 century in prison with minimal chances of parole. In 2018, he petitioned for an early release, but the courts made it clear they wouldn't oblige to him. As it stands, his projected release date is early 2023. Martin Luther Texada, #504, Mrc 2, 1998 A gang alpha for the Bossiers Street Hustlers in Louisiana, knowing for selling cocaine to teenagers. In June 1997, he orchestrated a shooting that wounded 2 women, and had conspired in multiple other murders and attempted murders, dates and victims unknown, before escaping from prison. He was busted there in Louisiana and sentenced to 3 centuries in prison. Darren E Henderson ( RELEASED), #505, Mrc 24, 1998 The Unknown Wig Bandit. He committed 5 robberies in California, Nevada, and Louisiana. An AMW tipster identified the robber as Darren E Henderson, and led cops to a Marriot hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he was busted wearing an outfit that matched the suspect. He pled guilty, served 13 years in prison, and got out in August 2011. Markeith Braxton, #506, Apl 25, 1998 In January 1998, he shot and killed a pawn shop clerk in a botched robbery. He was busted in California. His verdict and sentence were unknown, but Judge Lance Ito of OJ Simpson infamy read the sentence. Francis Joseph Reilly ( DECEASED) #507, May 8, 1998 The Unknown TieRob Bandit, sought for 27 robberies. AMW tips identified the bandit as Francis Joseph Reilly, and busted him in a hotel parking lot in Sedona, Arizona. He was convicted and given an unknown sentence, rendered moot by his death only 3 years later in June 2001. Carl Douglas Consolvo, #509, Jne 1, 1998 Through the winter of 1998, he went on a cross country crime spree. He carjacked at least 4 people, kidnapped a teenage boy, raped a woman, and injured 2 people. One of the attempted murder victims was an elderly man whom Consolvo shot in the leg, and the other was a police officer in Utah who survived 5 gunshot wounds. AMW tipsters led the FBI to Las Vegas, Nevada, and they quickly overpowered him before he had a chance to draw from his arsenal. For most of his crimes, he was sentenced to roughly 6 1/2 decades in prison, with a projected release date in 2062, plus a 1/2 decade to life in Utah for attempted murder of a police officer and 13 years in Virginia for rape. Sothi "Player Number 1" Menh and Sam Chan, #479/#510, Jly 29, 1997/Jne 9, 1998 Co-founders of the Asian Boyz street gang. The gang war against Wah Ching started in December 1993 in a California pool hall. Over the next 3.6 years, Menh murdered 5 people and wounded 7. AMW caught Menh in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In June of 1998, AMW busted Sam Chan, the other Asian Boyz alpha, as capture #510 in Utah. Chan's death toll was liberally estimated at 8. Over the next decade, the manhunt continued for their 3rd member, Marvin "Shy Boy" Aclaro Mercado, who was nabbed as an empty capture near the end of 2007. This case won the contest for Best Capture of the 6th Century of Captures. Trevor Mitchell, #511, Jne 9, 1998 In late August 1997, he and his accomplices broke into the home of a newly-appointed executive for a rural Oklahoma electrical cooperative, then shot him with a 20-gauge shotgun, bludgeoned, and wounded him, but not mortally, because they used birdshot instead. When they tried to attack the man's wife, she shot and wounded the 2 intruders, knocking off a shard of Mitchell's jaw and a few teeth, and piercing his tongue. Cops quickly rounded up 4 other attackers but Mitchell got away. The victim believed another of the electrical company's staff may have bilked the company of several grand, and Mitchell was either trying to cover it up (if Mitchell was in on the fraud) or get revenge (if Mitchell didn't commit the fraud). Some time between December 1997 and May 1998, agents thought he fled to Mexico, but he was working odd jobs in Winnipeg, Manitoba, before moving in with some traveling freelance roofers. By early June, tips placed him in a French-speaking part of Montreal. From there, Mitchell called from a motel outside of Montreal to a friend who'd happened to see him on the show. They enlisted a part-time construction worker and part-time Brossard police constable. He offered Mitchell a construction job, and to shuttle him there in an unmarked department car. Instead, the constable took Mitchell under a highway overpass where the Royal Canadian Mounted Police busted him. His eyes popped out, as if he didn't think it would happen so inventively, so soon. He and his father proclaimed their innocence, and Mitchell claimed he was running from some unidentified individual, but was eventually convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Frederick Rudolph Yokom ( DECEASED), #512, Jne 17, 1998 Previously on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list in 1968 (sequence number 286), he was wanted for robbery after stealing 308 Grand in fine jewelry, and busted in Virginia. He died in May 2015. Larry Logan ( DECEASED), #513, Jne 21, 1998 In 1976, he shot up several people in Georgetown, South Carolina, with a casualty toll of 3 dead, 1 wounded. In August 1997, he escaped a prison work detail. He was busted 10 months later in Jacksonville, Florida, and returned to his sentence of 3 life terms. He died in April 2022. Kevin Earl Jackmon, #514, Jne 26, 1998 In late April 1998, he robbed a McDonald's in Massachusetts. He emptied out the safe and cash tills, abducted 2 women, one of whom was pregnant, and shot at police. In the process, a stray bullet killed his partner in crime. He fled the scene, leaving 2 women stranded in a hotel room. He was busted in Raleigh, North Carolina. Jonathan Michael Tampico, #515, Jly 24, 1998 A laser scientist for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by day, and active NAMBLA member by night. On behalf of Nambla, he ran a child porn studio in Bangkok, Thailand where child rapists flocked to, disguising it as a foster facility. He was busted in Texas and sentenced to 3 decades in prison. Tom Curtis ( REDEEMED), #516, Jly 29, 1998 A Colorado high school homecoming king turned criminal. From 1996 to April 1998, he robbed 19 establishments in order to fund expensive cars and jewelry, then fled after another young man was accidentally shot in the testicle. His father was a lawyer, and after AMW aired his case, he called his father from Las Vegas, Nevada to surrender. He served about 7 years in prison, and it's said that he started turning his life around after his release in circa 2005. Michael Lawrence, #517, Jly 31, 1998 In 1995 and 1996, he and 2 other men committed a series of violent crimes in the Phoenix, Arizona area. In one incident, he fired at a police officer, but missed. The 2 partners in crime were quickly caught but Lawrence got away. He was busted in California. Jamie Denell Hawkins, #518, Ags 4, 1998 At the beginning of June 1998, he beat his live-in girlfriend's 2 year old daughter. The little girl died from bladder rupture. The girlfriend was arrested but Denell fled. He was busted in Florida 2 months later and sentenced to life imprisonment. Patrick McDaniel Adkins Jr, #519, Ags 16, 1998 He was wanted out of Winnipeg, Canada for armed rape, forcible confinement, and robbery. AMW tips led cops to Regina, Canada, where they followed him out of a dance club and apprehended him. Thomas Frank Cisco, #520, Ags 28, 1998 One of the Unknown KK's Corner Triple Murderers. In July 1997, a Lake Charles, Louisiana convenience store was robbed, 3 young people were shot dead, and their bodies were left in a cooler. AMW tipsters identified one of the killers as Thomas Frank Cisco, in prison on other charges. He was convicted and sentenced to 9 decades in prison, but at least 2 other killers got away. John Dennis Grubb, #521, Spt 13, 1998 From 1993 to September 1998, he robbed 27 banks in New England and the Mid-Atlantic. He was busted in Jerrardstown, West Virginia and sentenced to 9 to 11 decades in prison, with a projected release date in 2089. Needless to say, that won't happen. Tracey Lee Poirer and Pamela ( RELEASED) Kay Trimble, #522/#523, Spt 28, 1998 In July 1990, Tracey Lee Poirer robbed, kidnapped, and fatally stoned a physically impaired dwarf in Oregon. She was imprisoned in the state capital of Salem for 8 years, until the end of August 1998, when she seduced Pamela Kay Trimble, a prison guard. Trimble quit her job, followed Poirer in transit to another prison, cut through a perimeter fence, broke a window, and led Poirer to freedom. They had exactly a month before AMW tipsters busted them in Providence, Rhode Island. They were starting to set up a new life, forging a phony background where they claimed they broke off some abusive relationships and fled from elsewhere in the country. They'd been renting out a low-rent apartment with no bathrooms or kitchen. AMW tips led cops to Poirer in an Italian bakery, and they followed her to the sausage factory where Trimble was working. Poirer returned to her no-parole life sentence, and even got transferred to a more secure prison in California. Trimble served 1/2 year in jail, and told people in a jailhouse interview that she briefly thought she'd fallen in love before she recognized that Poirier didn't care about her, admitted she made a foolish mistake, but since getting out in early 1999, Trimble has never been in any further trouble with the law. Willie ( RELEASED) D White and Romel Valentino White, #508/#524, May 26, 1998/Spt 23, 1998 Romel Valentino White was wanted for an elaborate crime plot where he profited off of pimping out his nephew for sex to Romel's friends. His parents, Joan Mouton and Willie D White, tried to get him out of trouble, but failed. Joan was caught quickly in California after trying to pass a bad traveler's check, and Willie was busted by tipsters in the spring of 1998 after the case was aired on AMW. At the end of that summer, tips busted Romel for lewd acts in Mexico. Willie served an unknown sentence and eventually got out, but Romel was given an unknown, far longer sentence, and has been denied parole numerous times. He was up again in April 2020, but his chances were minimal. Jennifer Snow Walton and Christopher Dinwiddie, #525/#526, Spt 28, 1998 The Unknown Kansas ATM Thieves. All that's known is that they stole an ATM machine in Kansas City and were busted there. It's not even known whether they even tapped into the money in the ATM machine. One tipster had mistaken Dinwiddie for an unrelated murderer and escapee Tracey Lee Poirer, whose case was coincidentally solved that same day. Leonard Charles Brown, #527, Spt 30, 1998 The top hitman for the Boobie Boys gang out of South Florida. He was wanted in connection with at least 5 of the murders perpetrated by the gang, but his precise role was unknown. One of these murders was captured on a convenience store's security camera. He was busted in Quincy, north Florida, driving a black Chevy Impala, and demanding the crews get the cameras out of his face during the walkshot. He had a new driver's license and a receipt proving he'd assumed a new alias earlier that day. Some rap CDs found in the backseat suggested he might've taken the alias from a late music producer. AMW was ready to roll on Kenneth Sorrell "Boobie" Williams, who was spotted at the music store with Brown, and busted as Capture #566 the following spring. Toby Wayne Stacey, #528, Oct 10, 1998 He was wanted for kidnapping an orphaned girl he was convinced was his daughter, and busted in Alabama. Specific details are unknown. Fernando Palazuelos Villar, #529, Oct 14, 1998 A teenage boy involved in a family Roofies dealership. The dealership, which operated out of Chula Vista, California, was the biggest Roofies network on the west coast at the time. He, along with others in his family, were indicted in July 1997. Police quickly rounded up all his relatives, but Palazuelos-Villar got away. After a 10-second airing, he was busted in Oxnard, Ventura County, California. He tried using someone else's name, but his telltale tattoos marked him. Travis Sherod Wilkens, #530, Oct 20, 1998 In September 1998, he took part in a drive-by shooting. 1 dead, 4 wounded. One of the survivors was a teenage child who was crippled from his injuries. By the time of his 10-second airing, he had returned to his home town in New Jerset, was busted hiding in his girlfriend's house, had nothing substantial to say during his walkshot, and was facing a likely life sentence. Nick Basil Stoumbelis, #531, Oct 29, 1998 The Unknown South Florida Rapist. He sexually assaulted numerous females, about half of them children. The victim count was conservatively estimated at 9. In the latter half of 1998, AMW launched the Faces Program, which specialized in Unknown cases with composite sketches. An AMW tipster recognized the sketch for the South Florida Rapist as Nick Basil Stoumbelis, and led cops to a Greek cafe renovation project in North Lauderdale, Florida where he was busted. He was sentenced to 27 years in prison. Virginia Susan Caudill and Jonathan Wayne Goforth, #532/#538, Nvb 10 / Dcb 3, 1998 In March 1998, Virginia Susan Caudill orchestrated a robbery on her estranged boyfriend's mother with the help of Jonathan Wayne Goforth. While they stole the elderly woman's valuables and plundered her safe, Goforth killed the woman with a hammer, loaded her body into her car, stole it, drove it to a rural field, and blew up the car and the body. He then gave the safe key to Caudill. In November 1998, AMW tipsters busted Caudill in Louisiana, which sped up the manhunt. Tipsters were ready to roll on Jonathan Wayne Goforth, who was already in jail on sexual abuse charges in Gulfport, Mississippi. Both Caudill and Goforth were sent to Kentucky's death row in early 2000. Douglas "Zac" Harper Berry, #533, Nvb 15, 1998 An Oakland, California drug runner with ties to Columbian drug cartels. Throughout 1992, he trafficked the imported drugs to violent street gangs as a middleman of sorts. He was busted in Washington. Roy Lee McCall, #534, Nvb 15, 1998 In 1998, he robbed 2 Alabama food stores at gunpoint. In October, he got into a shootout with a clerk during the second robbery, but his gunfire missed. He was busted right there in Alabama, about a month after the second robbery. Jose Jiminez, #535, Jne 30, 1998 Might actually be Jorge Jiminez, wanted out of Utah. Jorge Jiminez got into an argument with a friend and opened fire in a Utah convenience store, during which a stray bullet killed an innocent bystander. He was busted in Mexico, most likely Tijuana, on Half Year's Eve, and extradited some time in the back half of November. Bertha Marie Keene, #536, Dcb 1, 1998 In the summer of 1969, Keene was a wild party-loving stripper. Late that summer on September 26, she and 2 friends returned to Baltimore, Keene's home town, to drink beer and perhaps take LSD. At one of the clubs she went to, she shot a bouncer to death after he demanded she show him an ID. She was convicted and sent to a correctional institute, but escaped and got recaptured thrice over the next decade, and started a long-distance relationship with a man who soon moved to Baltimore near where she was imprisoned. 2 days before September 1979, she escaped for the last time and disappeared with that man. The couple married and had a child, but as she stepped up her efforts to run, she divorced in 1995. The man soon surrendered, but Keene still got away. After about 3 years on AMW, tips led cops to Levy County, Florida, where they busted her in a marijuana sting. Robert Trevino, #537, Dcb 9, 1998 In November 1983, he was only 19 years old when he kidnapped and raped a woman, and served about a decade in prison for it. After his release, he carjacked a man in Oklahoma. At the time of the airing, he'd last been seen breaking out of a Colorado prison in 1996. He was busted in Vancouver, Canada. Jeffrey Scott Durham, #539, Dcb 18, 1998 Throughout 1997 and 1998, he impersonated an FBI agent in order to rob 5 banks and 3 law enforcement vans, pointed a gun at employees, and threatened to kill them if they moved before he fled the scene. He was busted in California by a tipster who recognized him from an episode of the Jerry Springer show about men in love with transvestites and sentenced to a century in prison. Selim "Jake" Kelmendi, #540, Jnr 25, 1999 In May of 1991, the nation of Yugoslavia had been torn by war, and Kelmendi sought political asylum as an illegal immigrant. After a “run-in” with police in New York, Kelmendi and several of his male relatives relocated to the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas where they operated a pizza parlor, “Nikki’s Pizza and Pasta”, in the city of North Richland Hills. Police and former employees say Kelmendi functioned as an enforcer over restaurant staff and sexually harassed the waitresses. In November of 1994, police suspected Kelmendi of making a failed advance on a married employee, forcibly invading her home, and raping her at gunpoint in front of her two young children. In January of 1995, police say Kelmendi savagely beat a convenience store clerk for asking him to leave the store. After Kelmendi's cousin conceived a child with a former waitress, police accuse him of threatening to kill her if she didn’t get an abortion. In March of 1995, U.S. Immigration agents and North Richland Hills police arrested Kelmendi and his relatives. After several months in custody, relatives bailed Kelmendi out and he fled. He was busted in Germany. Roger and Linda Mae Crouch, #541/#542, Jnr 14, 1999 Roger, a pedophile, was arrested for indecent liberties with 2 children in Virginia. In December 1998, he evaded his court appearance, abducted his urgently disabled 1 year old son, and ran off. His wife Linda Mae Crouch kept the family on the run from justice for about a month, until AMW tipsters busted them in Texas. It's unknown whether the child was recovered safely. Rusette Anne "Rusty" ( RELEASED) Medina and Shad Daniel Armstrong, #543/#544, Jnr 17/Jnr 18, 1999 In August 1996, Shad Daniel Armstrong violated his parole by burglarizing a home in Texas. In February 1998, he shot his sister and her fiance to death outside Tucson, Arizona to prevent her from going to the police on him. The bodies were buried in a shallow grave in his backyard. Rusette Anne Medina helped clean up the bloodsoaked trailer after the murders. They fled to Texas, where they were busted over the course of 24 hours. Shad Daniel Armstrong sits on Arizona's death row. Medina was sentenced to a decade in prison and got out in June of 2008 after serving 17/20 of her term. Edward Cook ( DECEASED), #545, Nvb 23, 1998 He was a notorious jewelry thief ringleader known for upwards of 200 heists that yielded a total above 100 Megadollars. Eventually, police rounded up all his cohorts but Cook got away. Around August or September 1998, an AMW tipster reported spotting him on a sidewalk in Florida, looking deathly ill. It didn't yield a capture immediately, and he died just before Thanksgiving 1998. 2 months later, AMW and a graveyard exhumation crew finally gathered the resources to dig up his grave. Officials identified the body as Edward Cook, just as the tipster had described, and he was finally marked as a Direct Capture. Timothy David Young, #546, Jnr 28, 1999 A disgraced former youth services officer for the Children's Service Department. In 1996 and 1997, he raped 3 young boys in Tennessee, then skipped court on a 7 count indictment. He was busted in Los Angeles, California and a missing 13 year old boy he'd been harboring was recovered. He was sentenced to 4 decades in prison and likely won't be released any sooner than 2039. Nathan Downs, #547, Dcb 29, 1998 He was wanted for shooting a man to death outside a night club in San Francisco, aired as an addendum to a special feature about the San Francisco Bay Area's elite homicide unit, and busted across the bridge to Oakland. It took AMW exactly a month to accept credit for his capture, and while he wouldn't necessarily get a life sentence, he most likely got a long sentence nonetheless. Mark Donald Hoosier, #548, Fbr 1, 1999 Starting in 1980, he molested roughly 10 young girls, including his own sister! In order to prepare for his flight from justice, he defrauded a bank and his mother out of 9 Grand. At the time, he'd just earned his Aviation Master's Degree. He agreed to surrender at the graduation ceremony, but ran off instead. He was busted in Canada. Ronald Gould, #549, Fbr 12, 1999 In 1989, he started hitting on his female roommate, but she tried to make it clear they were to keep their relationship merely as roommates, platonic friends at most. After she moved out, he broke into her subsequent residence and stabbed both her and her live-in boyfriend, but luckily they survived. Last aired on AMW in 1994, he was shown on a dash cam in late August 1997, struggling with an officer who pulled him over because his license plate was attached wrong and he had no drivers' license, during which they found several Grand worth of dirty cash and some drugs. He managed to run off, leading to a brief foot chase before he was booked under an alias. An AMW tip sent in in 1998 led to Idaho Falls, where he'd just been released. He was working the same auto repair shop job he'd been at for years. Adam Troy Peace ( ACQUITTED), #550, Fbr 11, 1999 A former radical vegan animal liberation activist. In March 1997, a mink fur research lab in Salt Lake City had been firebombed, and law enforcement thought Adam Troy Peace, along with James Ray Blackmon and one more suspect, were behind it. Blackmon was nabbed as an empty capture shortly after AMW aired the case, but a tipster busted Peace right there in Utah. He was acquitted in the 2003-2004 academic year, the last AMW capture to be found not guilty before the June 2004 - January 2009 version of the website went up. Eric Steven Stein ( RELEASED), #551, Fbr 12, 1999 The head of the "Sterling Group", a pyramid scheme disguised as a TV infomercial studio based in Nevada. Law enforcement gave him several dubious monikers, such as The Gizmo King and the 60 Million Dollar Man. Some of the illicit gadgets included talking tags for pets, and a smoke detector built into a Christmas tree ornament. In Nevada's biggest investment scam of the century 19XX, 1700 investors lost over 40 Megadollars, including a single mother who used to work for him. She lost all 10 Grand she had, and could no longer so much as buy toothpaste and toilet paper in the same week. One of his techniques for covering up his thefts included bonus parties every Friday. Constantly on the move since he saw himself on America's Most Wanted, he was busted on his way to dinner in Chula Vista, near San Diego, California, having recently dyed his hair yellow, and having nothing to say during his walkshot. Further investigation uncovered another scam he was running out of a business office he'd rented the previous month, where he ran a telemarketing scheme and asked for 5 Grand investments, forging a name on a rent check. The landlord noted his stealthy personality, and found it suspicious when he was told Stein was planning a wholesale distribution hub for importing and exporting exotic Mexican tequilas. In the office, he impersonated a representative for some big name national food and drink brands, but while liquid antacid was found, there were no beverages. Running apparently stressed him out so badly, he was lucky not to get struck ill that winter. Other surprises included a list of 5 through 8 decade old investors, and a palatial home in an affluent neighborhood. After one of the victims dedicated a letter to him about evildoers redeeming themselves, he served just over a decade in prison, but unfortunately, he got pinched for another scam in early 2012 and was sentenced to somewhere between 4 and 5 1/4 years. He got back out in 2016, and may or may not stay out of trouble this time. Martin Allen Johnson, #552, Fbr 21, 1999 Since at least 1978, he'd been known for trolling underage dance clubs in Portland, Oregon and gathering more than 150 potential victims' contact information by circulating fliers aimed at lowering the legal age for either drinking alcohol, working in night clubs, or consenting to sex. Over 2 decades, he'd drugged and raped numerous teenage Oregon girls by offering them booze, cigarettes, lingerie, luxury gifts, and expensive dinners. In February 1998, he drugged and sexually murdered a 15 year old girl named Heather Fay Fraser in Oregon and dumped her body off a bridge into the Columbia River, even after she went out with him countless times. In his room, investigators found thousands of pictures and 100 hours worth of audiotapes full of compromising images of teenage girls. 10 minutes after the airing on the 2-20-999 broadcast, a tipster out of Orlando, Florida realized the striking coincidences between Johnson and a man he knew with a preference for teenage girls, who'd recently moved to a trailer in Kissimmee. 2 days under a year after Fraser's murder, he was busted less than 48 hours after his airing on AMW, coincidentally at his own most vulnerable, with his pants down in the bathroom. This former sewage plant worker was taken from on the can to in the can. At the time he was only a person of interest, but he was later convicted of the murder and condemned to death. Later, he got his conviction and death sentence set aside after a judge ruled he'd been given ineffective counsel. Johnson wanted to argue that the sleeping pills killed Fraser, and that Johnson didn't intend to kill her, but his attorneys vetoed it. In the end, he admitted to drugging the girl, but argued that he didn't intend for her to die. By the end of 2019, he was convicted again. Recent amendments in Oregonese law have made it harder to send convicted murderers to death row, and other prosecutors, possibly hoping to spare the hassle of the appeals process, which goes on a lot longer with death row than lifer's row, resentenced Johnson to life without parole. Lena Dianne Townsend, #553, Fbr 21, 1999 She'd verbally abused her 4 year old step-granddaughter in Tennessee for months before beating her to death and leaving her in a bed in August 1998, then fleeing before her husband found the body. She ended up in western Phoenix, Arizona, where she claimed she'd been seeking refuge from a fictitious wife beater. She worked at a Denny's across town, and had no car, so she and her roommates shuttled each other to work. An AMW tipster saw her profile on the night of Fbr. 20, 1999, and called the hotline. An undercover cop disguised as a maintenance man busted her the next day. Her day was half-started, and she gave no resistance. She pled guilty, and got her prospective death sentence commuted to 51 years to life. Curiously, her mugshot at the time AMW aired her showed an American flag and a government seal behind it, and showed her in a military suit, suggesting she might've had a background in the American government or military. Oscar Thrash, #554, Fbr 24, 1999 A career con man. From 1970 to 1997, he stole more than 6 Megadollars through various scams. In January 1998, he impersonated a police officer in order to burglarize a home in Florida, robbed an old woman born in circa 1910 of 2 Grand worth of property, and fled on bond. He was busted in West Virginia. Carl Derek Havord Cooper, #555, Mrc 5, 1999 The Unknown Starbucks Killer. During the 1997 Independence Day weekend, he tried to rob a Starbucks in Washington, DC. It went haywire, and he shot up the employees, killing 3 and wounding 1, and leaving their bodies in a back room. All the victims were 25 and under, and one victim was an 18 year old boy. He was busted in Prince George's County, MD and later sentenced to life without parole. Francisco Rafael Camarena-Macias ( RELEASED), #556, Fbr 24, 1999 A notorious marijuana and cocaine smuggler. His technique involved an elaborate subterranean drug tunnel that ran underneath the border between Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. On the Mexican side, somewhere in Agua Prieta's Cocaine Alley district, was a pool table where a hydraulic system was used to lift the floor, and on the US side, near the drainage system in his cement mixing business, was a trapdoor that could only be opened from below. He'd even won several agreements to supply the small Arizona town's municipal construction projects, but in circa October 1988, border customs enforcement started looking into that cement mixing business and traced Camarena-Macias back to a major Mexican drug cartel. When AMW joined the manhunt during their 3rd season, Camarena-Macias had last been seen in May of 1990, and agents wondered if he might've known anything about the murders of 15 men who helped build the tunnel. In the autumn of 1995, he was arrested in Mexico, driving a boat with nearly 3 tons of cocaine under an alias, and a tip sent in late February 1999 identified him in prison, and some time in March, they confirmed his identity and marked him as a Direct Result capture. Camarena-Macias served a decade in prison. Unsolved Mysteries was also on the hunt for the drug tunnel's chief architect, Felipe De Jesus Corona-Verbera, who was nabbed as an empty capture in 2003. Darrin A "Bumper" Mills, #557, Apl 7, 1999 In late January 1999, he robbed a Battle Creek, Michigan health spa around midnight. He tortured and stabbed 4 people, then firebombed the building. The casualty toll was 2 dead, 2 wounded. Cops quickly rounded up his 3 accomplices, but Bumper got away. AMW tipsters busted him just over 2 months later in Nashville, Tennessee. He's now serving life in prison. Sean Harrill, #558, Apl 7, 1999 The Unknown Gerald Anderson killer. In late September 1996, a hooded black suspect was caught on surveillance tape gunning down a man named Gerald Anderson after a botched ATM robbery just after 3:00 in the morning. Anderson, a Los Angeles Post Office night worker devoted to his 3 young children, had withdrawn the money for a church service, and based on the victim's character, the case was considered extremely tragic even for an act of random violence. Anderson fell into a coma and died a few hours later. Law enforcement developed a composite sketch, and in the spring of 1999, AMW tips led to a man named Sean Harrill, who'd never left California. Randolph Allen Biernat, #559, Apl 2, 1999 Starting when she was 6 years old, he raped and sexually videotaped his step daughter in Michigan for over a decade and kept videotapes and photo albums which proved he had an obsession with fathers raping daughters. Until the first half of the 1990s, he threatened to show everyone the tapes if she tried to have him prosecuted, but her brother stumbled upon the pornographic tapes one day. She mustered the bravery to go to police, he was arrested, but after writing a note to the judge claiming he'd rather be chemically castrated than die in prison, he fled his sentencing hearing in June 1994. He was busted coaching a boy's soccer team in Canada, just as AMW feared he'd be doing to get more access to children, using a deceased 8 year old's name as an alias and living with a family he'd bought a used car from which included small children. He'd bought a soccer ball for their 8 year old son, but oddly enough, ignored their daughter. During his walkshot, he admitted it would be impossible to repay the damage he'd done to the stepdaughter he fled from. He was sentenced to 4 decades to a century in prison. His earliest chance at a release will be in 2040, when he'll be 85 years old, but it's a question of if he'll survive that long in prison. Kathy Toledo ( RELEASED), Fain ( RELEASED) and Richard Gonce ( RELEASED), and Eric Zessman, #560/#561/#562/#563, Apl 13, 1999 The Unknown Vegas Coin Vault Robbers. In the last 4 days before 1998, a slot machine vendor in Las Vegas, Nevada was robbed of about 1.6 Megadollar. Kathy Toledo helped set up the heist and held the security guard at gunpoint. Fain Gonce tied up the clerks and stole the sack of money from the vault. Eric Zessman, the heist's mastermind, had been convicted of 2nd degree murder in 1976. AMW rounded up Toledo and the Gonce brothers in New Mexico, but Zessman never fled Nevada, and was busted nearby. Toledo got out on a plea deal, the younger Fain Gonce was sentenced to 5 years, the older Richard got 6 years, and Zessman, who was sentenced to 2 decades to life, was paroled in 2018. James Bohanna Jr. ( RELEASED), #564, May 13, 1999 Despite his 5' 2'' height, police forces across the midwest feared him more than a rampaging elephant, and by the 1990s, he had a long and violent criminal record. He was wanted for shooting and wounding a Kansas City, Missouri police officer, and leading a Fairview Heights, Illinois officer on a 130 mile per hour chase, ending with him striking a street sign and an unoccupied SUV, then bolting from the scene. AMW led law enforcement to a seedy district of Las Vegas, Nevada, where he was busted after producing a gaudy fake ID. He was convicted of the attempted murder and several related charges, was sentenced to 2 decades in prison, and got out in 2019. Percy Wayne Froman, #565, May 14, 1999 A serial attacker from the South who robbed 2 men and beat them almost to death. In March 1999, after serving at least a year on an armed robbery charge, he started a relationship with a gay man in Birmingham, Alabama, but shortly after vising the man's house, stabbed him to death in a rage. No-one knows what set Froman off, but he had a nasty crack habit and needed constant money to fuel it. After the murder, he followed a young woman to Tyler, Texas on a bus, but after she refused to meet him, his temper grew, and he beat and wounded a hotel clerk. It had been less than 2 years since Andrew Philip Cunanan's mid-1997 murder spree, and law enforcement feared the next Andrew Cunanan was on the rise. AMW came to the rescue, busting him searching for his next prey near a Dallas, Texas halfway house. Kenneth Sorrell "Boobie" Williams, #566, May 23, 1999 A legendary South Florida drug czar and commander of the Boobie Boys drug gang. His revenue was conservatively estimated at 85 Megadollars, and his underlings had murdered at least 35 people. He was busted in Clarkston, Georgia, and as he went down, he wet himself "like a frightened child". He was given roughly 3 life sentences. Keith Milo Taylor ( DECEASED) and Matthew Ian Taylor, #567/#568, Jne 3, 1999 Around the turn of 1998, Matthew Ian Taylor gave some cocaine to his 15 year old girlfriend. She died that night, most likely by cardiac arrest. His trial was scheduled for April 1998, but he failed to appear. On Thanksgiving 1998, he and his father Keith Milo Taylor were eating dinner in North Carolina when police swooped in to arrest Matthew. They started a gunfight where 5 police officers were wounded. AMW tipsters led a police team to Arate, North Carolina over 1/2 year later. They were stashed with weapons for another shootout, and they started <another> gunfight. Keith was killed in the hail of gunfire, and Matthew surrendered afterward. Harry Joseph "Taco" Bowman ( DECEASED), #569, Jne 8, 1999 An international Outlaws Motorcycle Club president on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. His worst crimes started with the 1982 murder of an Outlaws member in Florida. Since then, in 1991 he killed a rival gang banger in Florida, then in 1995 he murdered another Outlaws member in Indiana. He ordered bombings of rival clubhouses in Cook County, Illinois and Orlando, Florida throughout 1994. In August 1997, he was indicted under RICO for the murders and bombings. He was busted in Sterling Heights, Michigan during a visit with a friend of his. He was sentenced to 2 life terms, and died in March 2019. Richard R Burdick, #570, Jne 13, 1999 From 1992 to 1995, he raped a girl in Massachusetts starting when she was 10 years old. In February 1998, he fled before his verdict was to be read. AMW tips led the SWAT team to Orland, Maine, but Burdick fired back. He took several bullets in the shootout, but was airlifted out alive. He was sentenced to 4 decades in Maine for the shootout plus life in a Massachusetts prison should he beat the odds and survive the finite sentence. Tibis Kneipp ( DECEASED), #571, Jne 10, 1999 A young transient. In September 1998, he stalked and sexually murdered a recent college graduate in Fort Collins, Colorado by beating her with a barbell, strangling her, and stabbing her through the heart. Like many AMW captures before him, he thought he could get away with it by fleeing the United States, but an amw.com visitor busted him reading tarot cards in a remote Livingston, Guatemala pizza shop. One woman at the bar recognized him as a former employee whom she'd dismissed as a nuisance and tried to kick out. She had to travel through a jungle to reach Guatemala City's only internet-access computer, from which she matched Kneipp to the case. He was most likely sentenced to life without parole, and he hanged himself in prison in July 2007. Kathleen Ann Soliah ( RELEASED), #572, Jne 16, 1999 A former soldier for the Symbionese Liberation Army. In 1976, she planted bombs under 2 LAPD officer's cars. Though they failed to detonate, one of her targets quit the force to avoid the risk of a second attack. Over the next 22 years, she started over in a quiet suburb in St Paul, Minnesota, where she'd been living an ordinary middle-class American life raising 3 children under the alias Sarah Jane Olson... but an AMW tipster recognized her after the SLA special was aired on the show. Cops were ready to roll on James William Kilgore, who was nabbed as an empty capture in November 2002. In 2009, a clerical error set her free, but she was quickly recaptured, and she finished her sentence around the turn of 2011. Byron Caesar Jones, #573, Jne 30, 1999 In January 1999, he shot and wounded 7 people in a Los Angeles nightclub, then led the LAPD on a high-speed chase. At the time of his AMW airing, he'd last been seen evading drug charges in Louisiana. He was busted in Fort Worth, Texas, just before he had the chance to make money on a major drug deal. Dennis Ronald Scott, #574, Jly 20, 1999 A young member of a squatter crew in Santa Monica, California. In February 1998, he and 2 other pseudo-Satanists lured a 14 year old girl into a vacant room, bound her to a chair, and strangled her in a ritual. The accomplices were quickly arrested, but Scott got away. AMW profiled him 4 times, but at the time the staff knew him only by his alias Jimmy Ronald "Linus" Turner. An AMW tipster told the hotline Turner's real name was Dennis Ronald Scott and busted him in Birmingham, Alabama. He was sentenced to 15 years to life on a plea deal, and got out on parole in 2014. Robert Clarence Bramlett, #575, Jly 28, 1999 In 1996, he raped 2 girls 12 times in Oklahoma City. In November 1997, their mother found them crying hysterically because they feared he'd hurt them again. An AMW tipster saw his 8-second commercial break airing and led cops to Zapata, Texas. They set up a sting by saying they needed him to perform a welding job, then busted him. Ricardo Londell Harris ( DECEASED), #576, Ags 4, 1999 An infamous criminal described by law enforcement as a black hearted sower of eternal evil. After committing a robbery in Michigan, he stole an officer's handgun and escaped custody while awaiting trial. After staying a week in a hotel in Oak Lawn, a city near Chicago, he robbed a liquor store and opened fire. Two brothers working there died, and two young sisters waiting in the checkout lane were badly wounded. The next day, he got a ride to Gary, Indiana, then fled further east. He was busted under an assumed name in Charlotte, North Carolina. In spring 2004, he was condemned to death. In spring 2011, Illinois governor Pat Quinn signed a state-wide abolition of the death penalty. In late winter 2014, he died on lifer's row. Michael Rainey ( DECEASED), #577, Ags 6, 1999 The Unknown Tower John Doe. An AMW tipster identified a dead body found in a Nevada mountain range as a missing 14 year old boy named Michael Rainey. Mysteriously, he was marked as a Capture instead of a Recovery. Who AMW thought the body was before identification, or any bizarre or unusual circumstances surrounding the dead body investigation or Rainey's last times alive are unknown, but AMW believed that Rainey had probably been murdered. Danny Glen Vanek, #578, Ags 22, 1999 In late 1997, he molested a 6 year old Sacramento girl twice, then skipped out on his court date. He was busted in a remote cabin in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of eastern California. Dirk Avron VanVelzen ( REDEEMED), #579, Ags 23, 1999 One of the most stylish fugitives AMW has ever pursued. This UC Santa Barbara student turned criminal robbed upwards of 30 commercial establishments throughout the west coast. He specialized in small businesses and gun armories. He'd returned to Santa Barbara where an AMW tipster put him in prison stripes. By March of 2018, Avron-VanVelzen had started a non-profit group with a mission of helping prison inmates make it through college and earn their degrees. Alan Lee Echols, #580, Ags 24, 1999 Described as painfully aloof, he never had any romantic history until he was 28 years old. In September 1989, in Raytown, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, his best friend, much older than him, had to cover for their boss at an auto cleaning center and asked Alan to keep his wife company. Alan went further than that, and took her out to a chain diner. Though she was also older, Alan was smitten with her, and likely seized upon the fact that someone besides her husband could've been interested in her. After Alan started dating her, his work ethic crumbled, and he suddenly developed a cocky streak. In late May 1990, she snuck away from her husband and secretly moved into an apartment with Alan while her husband was attending his daughter's graduation weekend. Alan and the woman grew apart when he spent less and less time with her. Their mutual boss knew there was danger in the air when Alan made a joke about the husband potentially dying in a motorcycle wreck. After Alan gifted her with roses, diamonds, and other gifts, she decided to go back to her husband, making Alan incredibly bitter. In October 1990, she and her husband had been back together for several weeks. After a night of trying to patch up the marriage, they were at a popular local night spot, but Alan followed them there. When the husband went back to the car to retrieve her ulcer medication, Alan confronted him, stabbed him to death, and stole his wallet to make it look like a mugging. A week later, Alan gave his confession in an interrogation chamber in Kansas City. He was convicted of 1st degree murder, faced a life without parole sentence, and disappeared after a judge temporarily released him to get his affairs in order. After just under 9 years worth of re-airings, AMW led law enforcement to Shreveport, Louisiana. They set up a used car purchase as a sting in order to bust him. Ted W White ( EXONERATED), #581, Spt 9, 1999 From 1996 to March 1998, he was accused of raping and sexually videotaping his stepdaughter in Missouri, starting when she was 13 years old. In February 1999, he was sentenced to almost 1/4 millennium in prison, but ran off after being released to get his affairs in order. He was busted in Costa Rica. He fought extradition, during which White's ex-wife had an affair with the investigator who testified against him. In April 2002, White won a new trial. Over the next 2 years, it was discovered that White was out on business trips at the time the supposed abuses took place, witnesses for White disproved the stepdaughter's testimony, and the ex-wife and detective had conspired to frame White and put him away so the paramours could be together. In June 2004, the jury deadlocked, and it was declared a mistrial, but the final vote was later 11 out of 12 for acquittal. The only juror who voted to keep the conviction had been involved in many civil suits, lied on the juror form, and tried to cover up how long White had been in Missouri. In 2005, the conviction was finally overturned. In summer 2008, White was awarded 16 Megadollars in damages from the detective and ex-wife, only for the illegitimate couple to appeal. In June 2011, White won his case again, and was awarded 15 Megadollars in damages from the city of Lee's Summit, Missouri. William Joseph Cerra, #582, Spt 12, 1999 In January 1995, he raped a teenage female passenger in his Philadelphia Taxi cab. AMW tips led to West Palm Beach, Florida, where he'd been working at a deli. He was returning home from a shift, badly drunk, when he was busted. Richard Allen Minsky, #583, Spt 15, 1999 An elderly career criminal with 80 arrests for scams on his record. Starting in 1979, he'd used phone books and pay phones to seek out about 100 elderly women across America, especially women with their full names listed, and scam them out of several Grand a hit. He would whisper over the phone under the guise of a friend or relative, which adequately hid his true voice, and claim to be a suspect in a hit-and-run car wreck who'd been spotted and identified by witnesses and were in serious legal trouble. He also sexually battered at least 30 of the victms, likely including one rape. In September of 1999, after Minsky's 3rd profile, detectives from Boston and Washington combined their knowledge and entered his wanted poster into an Airports Law Enforcement Network program. A few days later, one prospective victim got a call from Minsky, but turned the tables by capturing his caller ID, relaying the message to her husband, then to the phone company who traced the call to a pay phone in a Tampa airport. Reinforcements were called in, and turned his fake legal troubles into a real one as he loitered around that same pay phone. He was sentenced to life in prison, with a chance of parole in late 2145, on multiple sex crime charges. Stanley A Lacefield and Cicily K ( RELEASED) Mason, #584/#585, Oct 3, 1999 Lacefield was a serial child abuser whose MO was torturing his victims with everday objects and carpentry tools. Conservatively, he abused 5 children in Ohio and Arkansas. His last victim, a 10 year old boy, was tortured with scalding water, beer bottles, household paint brushes, hammers, and pliers. The child escaped, and was recovered walking the streets of Dayton, Ohio, badly beaten. Cicily helped Lacefield out in abusing the 10 year old boy, and helped Lacefield take 2 other children on the run. After their airing, one of Mason's daughters saw the couple on America's Most Wanted, but couldn't convince anyone to call the hotline. After at least 1 more airing, they were busted in Memphis, Tennessee without incident. In fact, together Lacefield and Mason shouted, "We're the ones!" as they were taken into custody. Lacefield was sentenced to 1/4 century in prison, and Mason served 8 years. Trig Colin Lewis, #586, Oct 5, 1999 On the day before August 1999, he kidnapped his 7 year old son during a supervised visit and ran off, all to spite Seattle's justice system after custody was granted to the mother. AMW tips busted Trig in Tyrone, New Mexico, and the child was recovered from a house of deplorable squalor. One man named Trig Colin Lewis who was born in 1964 was listed as dead in 2007, but it might not be the same man. Terry Leon Boyd, #587, Oct 10, 1999 In Washington DC, he shot his grandmother and her caretaker to death. Just over a week later, he was aired on the show, and the next day, AMW led cops to Lunenburg, Virginia. They closed on him a few hours after a party he'd been at, and he shot himself in the head before they apprehended him, but he survived. Adrian Rosales, #588, Oct 14, 1999 By August 1999, he was on the run from the law for fondling a preteen girl, after a long and particularly creepy history of sexually violating children. He made a failed attempt to kidnap another girl from Texas, during which he knocked her unconscious with a metal pipe. AMW led cops to San Antonio, Texas, telling the hotline he was trying to sell his story to the news media. Several cops were sent in undercover, disguised as HBO producers. Rosales fell straight into the trap and got beaten at his own game. He was sentenced to 6 1/2 decades in prison, and was rumored to be suffering from terminal brain cancer, but could be still alive more than 2 decades later. James J Hall, #589, Oct 31, 1999 In May 1999, he killed his mother in Concord, New Hampshire and stole the money from her bank account. The body was found in a garbage barrel. On Halloween 1999, AMW tips led to a mountain retreat facility in Topsham, Maine, where he was busted working as a janitor. Keith Bender, #590, Nvb 3, 1999 The Unknown Taos, New Mexico Slot Room Bandit #1. In January 1997, at least 3 people stole about 43 Grand by robbing a safe vault in New Mexico's Taos Casino. AMW tipsters led right back to Taos, where Keith Bender was working as a corrections guard in nearby Santa Fe. Keith Bender was also the primary suspect in the September 1996 robbery of a nearby bank. To this day, the other 2 thieves are still out there; they've never been identified since. Margaret L Rudin ( RELEASED), #591, Nvb 5, 1999 The most frequently profiled and interviewed female murder suspect on TV crime documentaries. Beneath her Southern Belle demeanor lay a deep covetousness and a propensity for whirlwind romances. By the first half of the 1990s, she'd been through 4 marriages and divorces with progressively wealthier men, but received very little money in all the divorce settlements, before settling in Las Vegas with her eventual 5th husband, a Vietnam veteran, real estate developer, and gun dealer-collector named Ron Rudin, known for his involvement in the pre-Y2K Las Vegas, back when the city was ruled over by organized crime cartels, before the city became known as a tourist hotspot full of bright lights. When she moved into Ron's modest 2-bedroom house with guard dogs, surveillance cameras, and other fortress-like security measures, she described both that residence and the marriage as a prison, while trying to leech off him and rig his wills to inherit as much of his wealth as she could. He even commissioned out 100 Grand to build an antique dealership, even though neither of them knew anything about antiques. As their marital problems grew more heated and Ron suspected her of violent intentions, he went out of his way to amend his will to cut off any inheritance if he would die violently. In December 1994, it boiled over, detectives suspected Margaret of shooting him several times through the back of the head in his sleep, decapitating the corpse, driving the body to the open deserts of Nevada, torching the car, and dumping the burnt body in a wooden chest designed for storing antique artifacts. Cops looked into Margaret's paramour as a post-fact accessory, but a court mistakenly granted him immunity, after which that man didn't drop any valuable leads, setting the investigation back. She was profiled several times on AMW thoughout the second half of the 1990s, and in the autumn of 1999, a tip said she was hiding out with yet another new man in Revere, Massachusetts, and trying to start over with an assumed name and a new appearance, out in the open. The city's police department traced her call and determined she was ordering Domino's Pizza. A cop stopped the delivery driver and quickly went undercover by donning the uniform. Thinking it was the pizza man, she had no problem answering the door, and was busted. In March of 2001, the hearings were described as an absolute circus, complete with a rambling, non-sequitur opening speech by the defence attorney, wheeling in a movie set, and a caricatured reenactment of their supposed takes on the murder, right on the courtroom floor. After Margaret's younger sister testified, the defence argued that Ron was trafficking guns to criminals in Columbia, who ordered him whacked when a deal went sour. Around May 2001, she was convicted and sentenced to 2 decades to life. Through about August 2001, she appealed, but the state supreme court struck down a judge's request for a new trial. Through the next 18 years, she lived as a model inmate and stood up for the rights of elderly female inmates, who'd historically been granted fewer opportunities to earn college degrees than elderly male prisoners. In November 2019, it was announced she could've been paroled as early as 12-15-019, after 20.1 years. She said she planned to move in with family, attend the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and earn a bachelor's degree, but despite her age (born in circa 1943), everyone who knows about her is terrified. She officially got out on January 10, 2020, and in May 2022, a court vacated her conviction because as she approached 8 decades old, officials agreed that she'd already done enough time, and prosecuting her any further isn't worth the cost. Ramon Ovalles ( RELEASED), #592, Nvb 24, 1999 Two days after Christmas, going out of 1997, he drove recklessly through Miami Beach with a BAC of double the legal limit and crashed. A 10 year old boy was killed, a 14 year old girl and the victim driver were wounded on impact, and a 20 year old passenger was ejected and killed. Ovalles spent early January 1998 recovering in the hospital before fleeing. In late October 1999, an NYPD officer arrested a man who was willing to drop the tip, and asked AMW for help. The information matched, and over a few days, cops set up surveillance before capturing him, and he admitted his true identity after countless hours of interrogation. He was sentenced to somewhere between 10 and 12 years in prison, and got out in 2010. Ronald Thomas Fleming, #593, Dcb 4, 1999 He was charged out of Michigan for raping several young boys and trafficking the photos and videos into the child porn trade. After confessing to it, he fled his trial in August 1997. Tips to AMW told them Fleming had assumed a soap opera character's name, and he was busted in Chicago's Gold Coast resort complex. He was sentenced to just over 15 years in prison, and got out in circa January 2015, but by about April, he neglected to register as a sex offender and got sent back to prison for 4 more years. He got out again in early 2019, with uncertain odds of staying out of any further trouble. Terry W Banks and Lynette Johnnie Moots Barnett, #594/#595, Dcb 18, 1999 Banks had been convicted of killing his previous girlfriend's drug-dealing husband near the end of their affair and imprisoned in Missouri. In late October 1999, Barnett donned a prison guard's uniform and guided Banks out of prison. They were busted in a trailer park in rural Victoria County, Texas less than 2 months later. After an hours-long stakeout on a foggy morning, cops managed to coax them out of the trailer they were hiding in. Kyle Kenneth Bell, #596, Jnr 9, 2000 A pedophile. In June 1993, he sexually battered, abducted, and murdered an 11 year old girl in North Dakota. In October 1999, he escaped a prison bus by getting ahold of a shackle key, slipping through an air duct, and running off. The company in charge of the prison bus admitted publicly they were highly embarrassed by the incident, but AMW tips put the embarrassment to rest in Dallas, Texas less than 3 months later. He'd been living in an apartment with a woman and 5 children, and returned to his life sentence. Frank Wayne Nason ( RELEASED), #597, Jnr 13, 2000 A higher-up in a major cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking ring. In middle 1995, he killed 2 suspected informants in Southern California. Normally a waiter would get the tip, but an AMW tip got him as a restaurant waiter in Orlando, Florida. He pled guilty, was sentenced to 1/4 century in prison, served 17/20 of it, and got out in July 2020. Eric Charles Grant, #598, Fbr 1, 2000 A jewelry robber in the Trash Can Gang which operated in Georgia and South Carolina. Their MO was breaking open display cases and scooping the jewelry into portable trash cans. Grant's series of heists took place in the summer of 1999. AMW tipsters busted him about 1/2 year later. Vance Williams, #599, Fbr 9, 2000 A college basketball star turned drug addict. Starting in May 1999, he robbed 16 convenience stores in Kansas. He was busted working at the Manhattan TV studio in New York City. |
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Post by 912thamwuser on Apr 8, 2013 2:55:46 GMT -5
AMW Capture Roster, 7th Century
Arthur Torres, #600, Jnr 28, 2000
A member of a California gang that had very little respect. In May 1999, during a meth high, he and his accomplices shot two teenage boys to death. About an hour or so later, he and his cohorts kidnapped a man, gouged out his eyes, and threw the victim off a cliff to kill him. The accomplices were arrested but Torres got away. An AMW tipster led the SWAT team to Arcadia, California. After a 2-day sit in, they cuffed him. Torres is now serving 4 life terms with no chance of parole, and at least one of his co-conspirators was sent to California's death row.
Francis Eugene White, #601, Mrc 5, 2000
In October 1996, he shot and wounded his wife's friend in Mississippi by posing as a telephone repairman. Two months later, his wife was murdered, and he was named a person of interest in that case. After his airing on America's Most Wanted in the winter of 2000, he fled from his hideout in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and staged 2 fake surrenders before an AMW tipster busted him in Atlanta, Georgia, and as of 2003, was sentenced to 2 decades in prison, but no-one had been held in the wife's murder.
Luther Fullerton Rickman, #602, Mrc 7, 2000
In January 2000, he fatally beat his girlfriend in Georgia during a domestic argument. The next month, he drove the body to an airport. A foul odor irritated workers and travelers until the cops traced it back to the car trunk where the body was rotting. And the next month, he surrendered to authorities in Texas after seeing himself on AMW and was soon sent to lifer's row.
Delvin Terry Groat (RELEASED), #603, Mrc 15, 2000
In March 1996, he took advantage of Washington State's foster care system in order to rape and sexually photograph 2 girls, both under 7 years old. He was busted in Elma, Washington, helping an old friend of his with construction work and sentenced to 17 years in prison, which he served and registered as a sex offender forever.
Algernon Delin Doby, #605, Apl 11, 2000
A convicted murderer. In July 1999, he robbed a home in Arkansas, stole $400, and shot a man and a pregnant woman. The man died from his wounds, but miraculously, both the woman and her unborn fetus survived the shooting. He was busted in Dallas, Texas driving a stolen car with 10 pieces of crack inside. He was sentenced to just under 1/4 century in prison, and may have gotten out in 2024.
Nicholai Alexander Kupczynski (RELEASED), #606, Apl 15, 2000
In February 1997, he met a woman at a campground in the northern Great Plains. He told her he needed 10 Grand to fund a business that sold computers, but once the money was in his hands, he ran off. He was busted in Williston, North Dakota, one of two towns where he was pulling similar scams. He was identified by his real name, Robert Brooks, under which name he had a much longer history of financial crimes in Illinois. He served a few years in prison, completed his probation, and doesn't appear to have caused any trouble since then.
Carlos Mario Felix, #607, Apl 22, 2000
In September 1996, he kidnapped a 17 year old girl in New Jersey, drove her to a Manhattan highway, then beat and raped her. She jumped out of his speeding car to flee from him. Afterward, he'd met 2 women, a mother and daughter, in a trailer park in Des Moines, Iowa, and started a new life of hard work, providing a decent living and good food for them, before AMW busted him there.
Charles Thompson, #608, Apl 25, 2000
The Unknown Red-Handed Burglar. From December 1998 to August 1999, nearly 50 buildings in San Diego, California's Gas-Lamp District were burglarized, several Grand of raw cash had been stolen, and many stolen goods had been sold. AMW tipsters led back to a criminal in San Diego named Charles Thompson, and busted him hiding out with his partner in crime. No relation to Charles Victor Thompson, a double murder suspect and prison escapee captured in November 2005 and erroneously listed as a Direct Result on the website.
Frederick Vincent Thiecke, #609, Apl 28, 2000
A then-recent Vacaville, California high school graduate. In early March 2000, his mother had his car repossessed to pay a debt he owed. When he found out, they started arguing on the phone. Over that night, he rode a bus to her house, shot the mother and her boyfriend to death, ran off into the nearby woods, and took his girlfriend, a missing 16 year old girl named Allison Steeves, on the run. Less than 2 months later, AMW busted him in Atlanta, Georgia and recovered Allison as she appeared for her shift at a strip club. He's now serving life in Folsom Prison.
Charles Allen Smith, #610, Apl 27, 2000
A convicted burglar. In August 1999, he killed a woman in Fayetteville, North Carolina by stabbing her with a pair of scissors. He was busted hiding out with his brother in Lexington, Kentucky.
Asgar Ali, #611, May 20, 2000
In February 2000, he fatally stabbed his ex-girlfriend's cousin in Indiana. In March 2000, in Florida, he staged a car purchase, but instead beat and choked the man in an attempted robbery murder. He was profiled in May 2000 during a COPS / AMW Crossover special, and an AMW tipster busted him working in a Jacksonville, Florida restaurant, having served a steak to John Walsh during the ride-along. He was sentenced to 3 decades in prison.
Raymond David Young (RELEASED), #612, Jne 1, 2000
In January 1993, he was convicted of pocketing millions of dollars that were meant to be used for fuel excise taxes. Due to be sentenced that April, he instead faked his suicide in the waters of Louisiana. For 7 years, he was believed to be dead until AMW flushed him out of his hideout in Costa Rica. He was sentenced to somewhere between 5 and 7 years in prison, and got out in 2005.
Daniel Mark Gagliardo Jr., #613, Jne 2, 2000
A former Texas juvenile crimes officer. From 1984 to 1991, he raped at least 3 underage boys, possibly as many as 10. In April 1995, he fled his sentencing. AMW busted him in San Francisco and recovered Christopher Lee Kimble, an 18 year old boy he was traveling with (Kimble was not charged with any crime). He originally got 6 decades in prison, but gain time laws got it reduced to just over 2 decades, with a chance at parole in the autumn of 2021. Around that time, however, the state of Texas won a court case to have him transferred to a psychiatric hospital, which he has no hope of ever getting released from.
Byron "BJ" Johnson, #614, Jne 21, 2000
In December 1999, he shot 2 men dead outside a New Orleans bar (the victims were brothers). An AMW tipster at a Charleston, West Virginia laundromat recognized his golden teeth, embossed with the letters B and J, and sent in the tip that busted him.
Mark Stephen Greenleaf, #615, Jly 5, 2000
In June 2000, AMW aired a special about an inordinate problem of child rape in Redding, California and went after 4 child rapists, most of whom targeted their stepchildren. Greenleaf was accused of raping his 10 year old stepdaughter from 1993 to 1995. An AMW tip led him to an elderly woman's home, coincidentally giving him a cold, hard, shiny pair of handcuffs for his 47th birthday.
Robert Elmer Barber, #616, Jly 6, 2000
The 2nd of 4 Redding molesters busted by AMW. His history of sexually assaulting children started in 1967, when he orally raped a boy. He'd had countless victims since then. From 1988 to 1996, he'd sexually abused a young boy in Redding. In January 1997, he fled a 2 Megadollar bail. AMW tipsters busted him in Puerto Panasco, Mexico. He was convicted and sentenced to somewhere from 16 to 73 years in prison.
Reginald Joseph DePalma Jr., #617, Jly 7, 2000
In 1981 and 1982, he molested 3 teenage girls in Danbury, Connecticut by relaxing the victims with alcohol. He even managed to convince his girlfriend to assist in the scheme. She was arrested, but in 1983, DePalma stole a man's identity and went on the run. It didn't fool AMW tipsters, and they busted him in Jacksonville, Florida. He was likely paroled and released in 2014, and in that case lives as a registered sex offender in Connecticut.
Dorene Priscilla Brown (RELEASED), #618, Jly 8, 2000
On Christmas Day 1999, she killed her ex-boyfriend over a $200 debt. After an 8-second commercial break airing, she surrendered to authorities in Topeka, Kansas from too much heat. She served just over a decade in prison before getting out in 2011.
William Thomas Hester, #619, Jly 11, 2000
In 1989, he was convicted of sodomizing his own 6 year old son. Paroled less than a decade later, he molested a girl in 1996. AMW busted him in Casper, Wyoming, working for their local Parade Day festival.
Leary Edward Townsend, #620, Jly 19, 2000
A long-time sexual deviant, and the 3rd of the 4 Redding molesters. From March to July 1994, he molested his girlfriend's 11 year old daughter in Redding, California. AMW busted him in Tennessee.
Kevin Moore, #621, Jly 25, 2000
A paroled robber and murderer. In December 1999, he stabbed his girlfriend to death in Connecticut, then somehow slipped away from the rest of her family. He was busted in Miami, Florida, working odd jobs and living in boarding houses, and sentenced to 4 1/2 decades in prison.
Harold Eugene Richardson (DECEASED), #622, Ags 7, 2000
The last of the 4 Redding molesters. He plied 4 girls with booze, cigs, and weed in order to rape them. He also took many more teenagers to and from sex raves. In May 1998, he was served a 25 count indictment, but he ran off. About a month after the Redding child rape crisis special was aired, he fled from his hideout in Mexico and surrendered in Shasta County, California. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison, but died in 2004.
Alecio Montenez Randle, #623, Ags 9, 2000
In May 2000, a cash dispute in Huntsville, Alabama boiled over. He was suspected of shooting two brothers and their father to death with a TECH-9 rifle. Less than 3 months later, an AMW tipster busted him in Tucson, Arizona. He ran and hid above a toilet before he was taken into custody, then was convicted and sent to lifer's row.
Trung Thanh Pham, #624, Ags 15, 2000
Pending a man's divorce, he hired Pham to kill the man's ex-wife in November 1996. In January 1997, Pham firebombed her house, killing her 9 year old niece. AMW staff speculated he might've been working as a fisherman in Alaska, but the flames were doused for him somewhere in Texas, standing in a parking lot next to his girlfriend. His co-conspirator, Tu Minh Truong, was later nabbed as an empty capture in December 2001.
Daniel Christian Bolls, #625, Ags 19, 2000
A South Dakota drug addict. In April 1998, his girlfriend and he were high on marijuana and meth. As she was driving, he tried to hurt her, making them crash. His girlfriend was wounded in the wreck, and a man in another car was killed. An AMW tipster spotted his El Camino truck in the parking lot of a Burlington, Iowa hotel, and busted him.
Thomas Kane, #626, Spt 2, 2000
A retired Massachusetts Transportation Authority worker. In 1993, he raped 2 girls and failed to appear in court. A young boy who'd seen his airing on AMW recognized him in a Rhode Island soup kitchen and busted him.
Ernest S Jackson and Kaia Jackson (both RELEASED), #627/#628, Oct 2, 2000
From 1985 to 1987, he'd bound, tortured, and starved Kaia's 8 year old son in New Jersey. In January 1988, the child was recovered wandering in a nearby gourmet restaurant. The case set a record for worst child abuse case Bergen County, New Jersey had ever investigated. While the child was building a case against the couple, Kaia took Ernest and the other 5 children on the run. AMW tipsters busted them in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and recovered 4 of the children, but Ashani Creighton was still missing. Ernest and Kaia served about 12 years in prison, got out in circa 2013, and were soon named Creighton's godparents.
Robert "LA, Lazy Eye" Wine (RELEASED), #629, Oct 18, 2000
The Bronx's Bodega Burglar. He robbed 18 bodegas at gunpoint, beat up some clerks, and fired shots in 2 of the robberies, but luckily no-one was wounded. An AMW tipster led law enforcement to East Point in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was already in prison on new drug charges. He was sentenced to 12 1/2 to 15 years in prison, and got out in 2013.
Ronald Bernard Thomas Jr (RELEASED), #630, Nvb 20, 2000
In August 1998, one of his friends was moving out of Jacksonville, Florida. Also there was a friend of the friend, a 19 year old boy that Ronald had a sordid history with. When the teen made a pejorative comment on Ronald's shorts, he killed the teen in an argument. He was busted in Winston Salem, North Carolina, after a short gunfight, luckily with no casualties. He was sentenced to 2 decades in prison, and got out in mid-December 2017 after serving roughly 85% of his sentence.
Richard J Terwilliger (DECEASED), #631, Nvb 26, 2000
He was wanted for raping 3 girls in New Jersey and threatening to kill 2 of one of their family members. He was busted in a homeless shelter in Tulsa, Oklahoma after his 8-second commercial break airing and sentenced to 2 decades to life. He would've been eligible for parole around Thanksgiving Day 2020, but he died in prison.
Bretley Albert Wilson (RELEASED), #632, Nvb 26, 2000
John Walsh's 2000 50/50 Fugitive #OR. In January 1998, he robbed a bank in Eugene, Oregon, then got caught and sentenced to 3 years in prison. In December 1999, he escaped and ran off to California to celebrate the New Millennium. He was busted in Oregon City, Oregon, holding some weapons as he tried to resist arrest, and sentenced to 3 more years on an escape charge. He served all his time and got out in circa 2005.
Mario Anthony Marro, #633, Dcb 2, 2000
A steroid dealer named the 2000 50/50 Fugitive #CT. In April 2000, he drugged and raped his ex-girlfriend after their breakup, then failed to appear in court. He was busted in Kirkland, Washington, as he offered people ecstasy and ketamine in a club, which reminded a tipster of his airing from two weeks before. He was relieved to be in custody because of how hard life on the run was. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison, and initially got out in December 2013, but got sent back to prison for breaking probation some time in 2014. After his subsequent release, he got sent back to prison for 3/4 of a year in 2018, but by the spring of 2019, he was conditionally walking free, with questions about whether he'll stay out of any further trouble.
Gregory Edwin Schoenfelder, #634, Dcb 5, 2000
John Walsh's 2000 50/50 Fugitive #SD. From 1987 to 1993, he'd defrauded a few South Dakota banks. In April 1997, he started distributing methamphetamines. Before he fled bond, he stole supplies from his plumbing company. He was busted in Campbellsport, Wisconsin, working for another plumbing company, one owned by his former cellmate, and got out within the next decade or two. He got a job as head of maintenance in a high school, but in the winter of 2019, he got pinched again for storing several power rifles and ammo in his home despite his felony convictions and bringing some of these weapons to the school. He was released on bail, pled guilty on January 9, 2020, and was sentenced to somewhere from 1 to 6 years in prison. He could be serving time for up to 2/3 of the '020s decade.
Raymond Kalun Pin, #635, Dcb 13, 2000
A Chinese restaurant owner. Throughout the year 1989, he sustained pool-related gambling debts to another man in Virginia. In late 1989, Pin stabbed his opponent and the man's stepdaughter to death after the argument got out of hand. A young boy in Manheim Township, Pennsylvania recognized him working in a Chinese restaurant, and busted him 11 years after the double murder and less than a month after John Walsh named him AMW's 2000 50/50 Fugitive #VA. He's now serving 2 life sentences.
James R Brown, #636, Dcb 12, 2000
A Washington State home repair scammer. Starting in February 1999, he targeted 10 elders, stealing a minimum of 3 1/2 Grand in scams and larcenies. He was busted in Sacramento, California, hiding behind a bedroom door with some rifles.
Thomas B Hansen, #637, Dcb 17, 2000
The Unknown Meijer Store Robber. Between April and December 1999, 3 discount superstores in Ohio and Indiana had been robbed. AMW tipsters told them the robber, Thomas B Hansen, was returning to East Lansing, Michigan after another robbery in South Bend, Indiana.
Jean Paul Gibson (DECEASED), #638, Dcb 29, 2000
In November 2000, after a weekend of visitation, he shot and wounded his ex-wife in Missouri, and mortally wounded a taxi driver who tried to rescue her, then abducted his 5 year old son before going on the run. AMW busted him in Del Norte County, California and recovered the child safely. He struck a plea bargain that got his sentence reduced to 29 years to life with a projected parole hearing around New Decade's Day 2030, but he died in 2010.
Stephen Edward "Two Bears" Tatro, #604/#639, Apl 1, 2000 / Jnr 8, 2001
A Native American art salesman. In December 1997, he blew away his business partner Daniel Duran with a deer rifle following a business dispute in Texas. Seeing that he was going to be profiled on the 4-02-000 broadcast of AMW, a tipster busted him in Apache Junction, AZ on April Fool's Day as Capture #604 as he was trying to sell a mule. In late August 2000, he found out a judge was going to revoke his bond. He faked heart trouble, went to a hospital, refused treatment, and escaped. 9 days after John Walsh named him his #9 most wanted fugitive of 2000, an AMW tipster busted him in rural Arizona unloading ranch supplies from a truck. He faked heart trouble again, but cops knew better that time. He's now serving 1/2 century in prison.
Leonard "Stockings" Parkinson, #640, Jnr 17, 2001
A career criminal and drug dealer. In February 1996, he shot at a Houston, Texas police officer, but missed. Police in Jamaica had named him a person of interest in 12 murders on behalf of a gang called "Moscow", believing he played a lesser role in the series of deaths. He was busted in Columbus, Ohio.
Terrance Shernard "Dirty" McCray, #641, Jnr 18, 2001
On Christmas 2000, he taunted a man in a debate over some athletic endeavors, then shot up a restaurant in Panama City, Florida. The casualty toll was 1 dead, 1 wounded, 200+ unharmed. He was busted in nearby Fort Myers, and cops had to coax him away from a female acquaintance in order to apprehend him. He was convicted of a lesser manslaughter charge and sentenced to 11.5 years in prison, then got out on parole in 2011, to be completed at the end of 2020.
George Angel Rivas Jr (EXECUTED), #642, Jnr 21, 2001
The de facto ringleader of the Texas Seven. In one of Texas' worst prison break cases ever, he and 6 other inmates serving time for murder, robbery, child abuse, or sex crimes broke out of prison. Following their escape, they shot a police officer named Aubrey Wright-Hawkins to death in a store robbery. George Rivas was originally sentenced to 18 times life on a litany of kidnapping, burglary, and robbery convictions. After the case was aired in January 2001, tips led to Colorado Springs, where they were disguising themselves as Televang missionaries playing tent revival type music within their neighbors' earshot. Rivas, Michael Anthony Rodriguez, and Joseph Christopher Garcia were the first to fall; they were busted hiding in a trailer in Woodland Park, Colorado. All of the Texas Seven who were brought in alive were condemned to death, and George Rivas was executed on Leap Day, the night before March 2012.
Michael Anthony Rodriguez (EXECUTED), #643, Jnr 21, 2001
The second of the Texas Seven to go down. He and his brother conspired with a hitman to murder his wife back in 1992, and he was previously serving life in prison on a Capital Murder conviction. He volunteered to be the first of the Texas Seven brought in alive to be put down, and was executed on August 14, 2008 for Aubrey Wright-Hawkins' murder. The hitman he hired in the first murder was executed in March 2017.
Joseph Christopher Garcia (EXECUTED), #644, Jnr 21, 2001
The 3rd of the Texas Seven to fall. He was serving 1/2 century for killing a man with a butterfly knife during a drunken altercation before he escaped. He was executed on December 4, 2018.
Randy Ethan Halprin, #645, Jnr 21, 2001
The 4th of the Texas Seven to fall. He was serving 3 decades for severely beating a young boy under his care, roughly a year and a third old, who barely survived, before he escaped. A few hours after Rivas, Rodriguez, and Garcia were busted, Halprin surrendered peaceably to authorities less than a mile away. His execution was scheduled for October 10, 2019, but his attorney contested it. The attorney suspected that the judge presiding over Halprin's sentencing trial made violent anti-Semitic remarks. In November 2024, the death sentence and conviction were both overturned temporarily, pending a retrial that hopefully won't be tainted by Judaiphobic bias. It's possible his death sentence will be commuted to life without parole.
Larry James Harper (DECEASED), #646, Jnr 21, 2001
The 5th of the Texas Seven to fall. He was serving 1/2 century for brutally raping a woman and beating and wounding a man. While Halprin surrendered, Harper shot himself through the heart before they could bring him in.
Trevor Williams, #647, Jnr 22, 2001
A member of New Orleans' "Seventh Ward Soldiers" gang. In July 1997, one of his criminal associates had shot someone to death. In August, he paid a fellow gang banger 5 ounces of cocaine to try and kill a witness. The last victim was wounded but survived. He never left New Orleans, and was busted there.
Lee Thomas Bjorn (RELEASED), #648, Jnr 26, 2001
Starting in early 198X, he'd molested several neighborhood kids in Watsonville, California. At the time he was finally charged in December 2000, two victims had come forward. He'd never left Watsonville, and a 13 year old girl saw his 8-second commercial break airing and busted him. He was convicted and sentenced to 14 years in prison, and after getting out in 2015, he was placed on the sex offender registry forever.
Kenneth Edward Waller, #649, Jnr 29, 2001
A serial check forger. He was named a person of interest in his wife's murder in early 198X. In December 1999, he shot his landlord to death in Houston, Texas during an argument. He was busted in Eufala, Oklahoma after his late 2000 All-Points Bulletin airing.
David J Carson, #650, Jnr 28, 2001
John Walsh's 2000 50/50 Fugitive #OH. Starting in 197X, he sexually assaulted 3 children, including his daughter and granddaughter, a total of 12 times. He fled his trial in March 1999, but was busted in Mexico.
Aristotle Napoleon Marr, #651, Fbr 7, 2001
In June 2000, he robbed a Seattle, Washington bank, shot and wounded a police officer, and burglarized an elder's home in order to make his getaway. His accomplice died in the shootout. He was busted there in Washington State.
Norman Aaron Thomley (RELEASED), #652, Fbr 11, 2001
In November 1996, he started driving from a party in Texas with an astounding Blood Alcohol Content of .295 percent. He crashed his pickup truck into a van full of people, triggering a massive blaze. The casualty toll was 3 dead, 4 wounded. A paperwork error promptly set him free. After a short airing on the 2-10-001 broadcast, he was busted about 12 hours later, working construction in a motel in Oxford, Mississippi. He was sentenced to somewhere from 16 years to 2 decades in prison, and got out by 2017.
Jarvis Thomas, #653, Fbr 12, 2001
In May 2000, he robbed a home in Georgia, tied up 3 people, burned a young man with a steam iron, kidnapped him and loaded him into the family's truck, then drove off, only to wreck it. The young man survived with moderate wounds and scars. The accomplices fell quickly but Jarvis got away. Ironically for a wanted home invasion robber, he was busted going door to door as part of a much more legitimate job selling Kirby vacuum cleaners in Modesto, California.
Pasquale Nigro, #654, Fbr 14, 2001
From 1978 to 1986, he sexually assaulted 3 children, including 2 stepdaughters, in California. In 1994 and 2000, he fled 3 arrest warrants in California and Pennsylvania. On Valentine's Day 2001, he was busted working as a cook in a restaurant named Tangelo's in St. Petersburg, Florida, off a tip sent in to amw.com, among the earliest captures off the website.
Robert Arthur "Bones" Ortiz, #655, Fbr 20, 2001
In November 2000, he allowed a Rottweiler to sit outside of a bank manager's home in San Diego, California. With a nearby woman coordinating it via intercom device, he and two other thugs broke into the home armed with rifles and tribal spears. The three men had them watch the movie The Perfect Storm on VHS, then tied dynamite, which later turned out to be phony, to the backs of the manager, her 7 year old daughter, and her roommate. They hid the child in a closet, pinned the roommate to the couch, and forced the manager to withdraw 360 Grand, but she managed to relay a message to the teller to call the police. Luckily, none of the three victims were injured, nevermind dead. Cops quickly took down his accomplices but Ortiz got away. He was busted in an apartment on the north side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, claiming he was confident the jury would find him innocent during his walkshot, then wanting to go home from the courtroom. He quickly got his way in a sense, getting extradited to San Diego, and while his sentence is unknown, he and his accomplices could've all potentially been sentenced to life.
Theodore David Menut, #656, Fbr 16, 2001
In late October 1981, he killed a teenage Florida nightclub security guard, then escaped prison in 1993. When he bragged about his AMW appearance in Faulkner County, Arkansas, a tipster busted him.
Chi Ali Griffith (RELEASED), #657, Mrc 5, 2001
A has-been in the rap world, best known for his hit single "Age Ain't Nothin' But a Number", recorded when he was a teen. In February 2000, it's believed he stole 60 rare CDs to cover a $300 debt. The argument reached a boiling point in a NYC convenience store, and it ended with him shooting his girlfriend's brother dead. He was busted in The Bronx and served about a decade in prison.
James Allen Kinney, #658, Mrc 6, 2001
John Walsh's 2000 50/50 Fugitive #WA. In October 1998, someone entrusted him to help a 20 year old woman in Washington find a job. Instead, he sexually murdered her and left the body in the mountains. AMW started profiling him a month later, and after at least 3 airings, he was busted working for a local electronic contractor in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. In his poor mental health, prosecutors and juries determined that he was just infirm enough to avoid the death penalty, but he was sentenced to life in prison.
Gregory Randeall Miller, #659, Mrc 7, 2001
In New York, he sexually assaulted his girlfriend's 2 preteen daughters from 1993 to 1997. In May 2000, a man hired to install a well water tank found a pornographic videotape in his basement, and his cover was blown, but he'd run off. He was busted all the way in Quito, the national capital of Ecuador, in South America.
Robert Cleveland Mitchell III (DECEASED), #660, Mrc 18, 2001
In 2000, he was having an affair, but it ended badly that August. He kidnapped his ex-paramour in Battle Creek, Michigan, bound and tortured her, and deprived her of food and drink for about 2 days. After he left the place, she broke free and escaped. He was busted in a Super 8 Motel in nearby Lansing and sentenced to 37 years in prison. By the end of the decade 201X, he was wheelchair-bound, and he was pronounced dead in October 2020.
Barry Dean White and Jennifer (RELEASED) White, #661/#662, Mrc 25, 2001
In West Virginia, he'd sexually abused Jennifer's 2 sons and 2 daughters for years, until he fled a 120 count indictment. To enable them to flee, Jennifer made threats to hurt the children's foster parents. They were busted in a trailer in Toronto, Kansas, where they'd been living a bare-bones lifestyle. In fact, the extremely primitive satellite dish they hooked up only featured 3 channels. Barry was sentenced to about 2 1/4 centuries in prison, with his earliest chance at parole at the beginning of the 23rd century, so he'll never leave prison alive. Jennifer got a slap to the wrist and served 8 years.
James Godfrey Jr, #663, Apl 5, 2001
He was wanted out of Jacksonville, North Carolina for the kidnapping and sexual murder of a 22 year old woman, either with his bare fists or a blunt object. Aired briefly on the 3-03-001 broadcast, he was busted a month later in Maryland, convicted, and sent to lifer's row.
Eric "Little Chicago" Jovan Quesada, #664, Apl 3, 2001
A Latin Kings drug dealer named John Walsh's 2000 50/50 Fugitive #TX. By the middle of 1998, he'd had some bad blood with numerous young men and teenage boys. Late that June, he shot at several of those teens in a car-to-car drive-by shooting. The casualty toll was 1 dead, 3 wounded. He was busted walking through the deserts of Mazatlan, Mexico after at least 4 airings, but to coax Mexican authorities into extraditing him, they had to commute his sentence from death to 3/4 century in prison.
Timothy Brent Brown (RELEASED), #665, May 2, 2001
A traitor to the Big Brothers mentoring program. In 1999, he raped and sexually videotaped his 10 year old "Little Brother" in Salt Lake City, Utah. He fled the state in December 2000. By May 2001, he'd been hiding out in Vancouver, Washington. After seeing his latest update on amw.com, he tried to flee, but got busted before he had the chance. He was sentenced to an unknown finite prison term which he served, and is registered as a sex offender forever.
Grady Onzo Mullins, #666, May 6, 2001
A convicted habitual sex offender. From 1997 to the end of January 2001, he tackled 4 women from Las Vegas, Nevada to Alabama in failed attempts to rape them. He was busted working as a Bourbon Street bouncer in New Orleans, Louisiana and sentenced to 31 to 78 years.
Daniel Navedo (REDEEMED), #667, May 7, 2001
John Walsh's 2000 50/50 Fugitive #MA. In August 1990, he was a 17 year old drug dealer. In the city of New Bedford, he fatally shot a man for rebuffing his offer of a drug deal. He never left New Bedford, and surrendered to authorities there. He served 6 years in prison, then told officials in an interview that he'd set a goal to hold down a job, get married, and start a family.
Bobby Frank Shamburger (RELEASED), #668, May 10, 2001
Starting in 1989, he masterminded a giant insurance fraud scheme that stole 1/5 of a Gigadollar from 16,000 policy holders. He fled his indictment in 1996, only to get busted in Queen Creek, Arizona's Oasis Gulf Course where he'd been posing as an acquaintance's husband. He was sentenced to somewhere between 12 and 16 years in prison, got out in late January 2014, and moved to Florida.
James Richard Bennett (DECEASED), #669, May 16, 2001
He continually raped his 2 daughters, starting in 1987 when the younger was 2 years old. He was charged out of New York and Missouri. The abuse lasted for 9 years until the girls were recovered during a cross-country road trip in 1996. After at least 6 airings starting in 1994, a tipster busted him in Lakewood, Colorado, where he was recovering after a heart attack. He got a slap to the wrist: 4 to 12 years in a New York prison, only to die 5 days before March 2008.
Adam "Sleepy" Dove, #670, May 23, 2001
A Snow White dwarf look-alike named John Walsh's 2000 50/50 Fugitive #NY. On Valentine's Day 1996, he was only 15 years old when he shot a man to death in a Brooklyn, New York apartment in an argument over a missing cell phone. He was busted in Baltimore, Maryland, where he'd been smuggling cocaine from Jamaica.
Javon "The Joker" Capers, #671, May 22, 2001
An enforcer for a drug dealer, named John Walsh's #4 most wanted fugitive of 2000. Throughout the middle of 1999, he carried out a series of shootings in New York and North Carolina. His casualty toll was 1 dead, 10 wounded, and 30+ unharmed. The worst shooting took place in August 1999, which alone had the 1 death and 1 of the woundings. AMW lead cops to Bushwick, New York, where he'd been operating under the nickname "The Riddler". Cops easily put the 2 Batman antagonists' names together and busted him. He served 7 or 8 years in New York for the drug charges, where agents waited outside the prison gates to extradite him to North Carolina. In 2010, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life without parole.
Antonio Marquette Huntsman (RELEASED), #672, May 31, 2001
A high school varsity class star turned gang leader in just a few years. In November 2000, he was suspected of shooting policeman Clayton "Scooby" Hicks to death at a party in south Memphis, Tennessee over an altercation involving Huntsman's girlfriend, who'd had a previous altercation with Hicks. Less than 2 weeks after his airing on the 5-19-001 broadcast, he surrendered to a well-known attorney in nearby Shelby County. His legal defence must've been really strong to get the charges downgraded, because he served only 3 1/2 years before getting out.
Catalino Morales, #673, Jne 20, 2001
Originally sought for failure to pay child support, he shot at 8 deputies repeatedly, but missed every time. Afterward, he led them on a foot chase, held a family of 4 hostage, and made his getaway. AMW tips led 2 more deputies to Hartford, Connecticut, where they caught him trying to steal a car. He fired at them, but once again he missed. Between the 2 prisons he's been sentenced to serve time in, his total is 77 to 117 years.
David Cosby Crowe and Martha Jackson Crowe (both RELEASED), #674/#675, Jly 9, 2001
From November 1993 until their initial arrest in March 1995, they operated a pyramid scheme disguised as a gold-harvesting company. 48 Megadollars were stolen from 96,000 people. In January 1996, they were released temporarily to get their affairs in order, but they ran off. They were busted renting a private community cottage in Key West, Florida. David was sentenced to 11 years in prison, and Martha got exactly a decade.
Douglas Oneil Hannam (RELEASED), #676, Jly 10, 2001
A Winer's Boys gang banger. In May 1999, he participated in the robbery and fatal shooting of a Fort Lauderdale, Florida body shop owner. Part of one perpetrator's thumb was bitten off, and the DNA evidence linked Oneil-Hannam to his role in the shooting. Police quickly rounded up the other killers, but Oneil-Hannam got away. He was busted in Queens, New York, in the bathroom of an Ozone Park home. He originally faced charges of first-degree murder, but pled it down to 3rd degree homicide. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role, and got out in May of 2014 after serving the mandated 17/20 of his sentence.
Joseph Sean Salley, #677, Jly 15, 2001
The Unknown Carnegie Deli Triple Murderer #3. The last of 3 suspects in a vicious shooting above New York's Carnegie Deli during a failed drug robbery. The casualty toll was 3 dead, 2 wounded. Within a few months after being named as a suspect, he was busted outside a homeless shelter in Miami. He's now serving 123 1/2 years.
Monty Ray Boston (RELEASED), #678, Jne 14, 2001
A convicted kidnapper, child molester, and child injurer. In November 2000, he badly beat a guard, then broke out of a prison in Idaho. He was first aired a month after the escape, but was scheduled to be aired again in June 2001. He surrendered beforehand in Tijuana, Mexico, and his re-airing was replaced with an airing of Jesse James "Alpha Dog" Hollywood at the last minute. It took about a month and a half to extradite him, and he was sentenced to just over 2 decades in prison. He got out in November 2021.
Adam Ezerski, #679, Ags 17, 2001
A murderer posing as a gay romantic. In late July 2001, he murdered 2 men in Florida and stole one victim's Ford Mustang. In the wake of Andrew Philip Cunanan's murder spree, cops feared he'd be the next Cunanan. After beating a man in San Francisco with a statue, he was busted in Reno, Nevada. Luckily his last victim survived. Video footage showed him with one more murder victim. Investigators feared Ezerski had a 4th casualty, but he was cleared in that man's disappearance. He's now serving 20-25 years in prison, and may have gotten out as of 2023.
Eric "Doc" Franklin Rosser, #680, Ags 21, 2001
A former keyboardist for John Mellencamp on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. From 1995 to 2000, he served as a high-ranking member of an international child porn ring between Indiana and Thailand. He also raped a minimum of 19 girls in Indiana himself. He was busted in Bangkok, Thailand, trying to apply for a job as an English instructor. He was sentenced to 15 or 16 years in prison, and was initially granted a conditional release in January 2017, where he moved to a town near Yakima, Washington. That June, he broke the terms when he admitted to viewing videos of teenage girls from around the world. He cashed out his life savings and tried to flee to Montana on a bus, where another passenger caught him viewing child pornography on a cell phone. Rosser told the man to mind his own business, but admitted he had a problem. The other passenger called the police, and agents captured him as he disembarked in Montana. They also found 70 Grand in suspicious cash, some of it taped to his legs, 1 Grand worth of criminally acquired mariJuana, and more disturbing child pornography photos than ever saved to his cell phone. He was sentenced to another decade in a federal prison, with a projected release date in 2027, plus a 2 year sentence given to him in Washington for breaking the terms of a conditional release.
Manuel Antonio Vasquez, #681, Ags 31, 2001
A Mexican Mafia gang banger. In mid August 2001, a fellow Mexican Mafioso had loaned him his Cadillac. As a Riverside, California officer was about to stop him, he shot the policeman in the face, but he survived. Just over 2 weeks later, he surrendered on the morning after a slow-speed chase right there in Riverside. He was sentenced to life in prison.
Kimberly Darlene Parker (RELEASED), #682, Spt 13, 2001
Her husband Dean was a notorious Detroit drug trafficker known for a docile demeanor. She laundered 900 Grand worth of Dean's drug revenues. They took their children on the run in March 1998. 3.5 years later, an employee in a Beverly Hills business office busted Darlene. From there, Dean's once calm demeanor exploded. He shot at every cop who passed by him for at least 3 weeks, then got killed in a police shootout as an empty capture. Darlene was convicted of money laundering, served 2 months in jail and 2 years on probation, and hasn't been in trouble with the law since.
Richard Peter Gilliland (DECEASED), #683, Oct 3, 2001
A Wisconsin church minister named John Walsh's 2000 50/50 Fugitive #WI for molesting 4 teenage boys. In 1997, he fondled 1 victim as he showed the boy some computer generated internet pr0n (different from regular porn in that it's found on the internet). Cops thought he'd be a tough catch because he used 27 aliases, but he was busted traveling with an 18 year old boy in Boston, Massachusetts, under his 28th alias. He was sentenced to a decade in prison, and whether or not he served the full term, his name was never found on any sex offender lists, suggesting he died before he was due to register.
Robert Johnson, #684, Nvb 1, 2001
In the Southeast, he molested 2 boys under age 7, including a friend's 4 year old son he was babysitting for. AMW tips led to a house in Starksville, Mississippi. He had locked himself in a closet and threatened to stab himself, but cops safely coaxed him out.
LaTonya Taylor and Percy Lee Palmer, #685/#686, Nvb 9, 2001
The Unknown Captain D's Triple Murderers. In July 2000, in an apparent robbery of a seafood restaurant in Smyrna, Tennessee, these two fugitives shot 3 employees to death. First, a caller from a garbage company found an 18 year old boy's body in a parking lot for a discount store behind the restaurant, then a pest exterminator found two managers' bodies in the freezer. In the first half of 1997, a laid-off cook and dishwasher at a fast food restaurant named Paul Dennis Reid had shot 7 people dead at 3 different fast food restaurants in middle Tennessee, and while Reid set a statewide record by getting sentenced to 7 times death, this case, also in a fast food restaurant, reopened middle Tennessee's old wounds 3 years later. LaTonya was already jailed on robbery charges in Nashville since July 19, 2001, and Percy was locked up on August 6, 2001 in Aurora, Colorado for breaking and entering. An AMW tipster identified them as the killers on November 9, 2001. LaTonya was condemned to death, and Percy got 3 life terms.
Michael Lee McGuffey, #687, Nvb 16, 2001
In late September 1993, he shot and killed his ex-wife in Washington State during divorce processes. The shooting took place during a meeting over their final joint tax returns. He was busted in Guadalajara, Mexico and sentenced to 27 years in prison.
Michael Alexander Robinson, #688, Dcb 6, 2001
In July 2001, he and 4 other inmates broke out of a Blount County, Tennessee prison through the recreational area. Cops quickly rounded up 3 of the escapees, but Robinson and one other named Warren Kent Smith had made off quite a distance. Robinson was busted in Ribeirao Preto, in the Brazilian state of Salvador. Kent was soon nabbed as an empty capture, then escaped again and got recaptured within the year 2002.
Marcel Mario Narro, #689, Dcb 13, 2001
A former East Los Angeles Community College student. In March 2001, he got into a fistfight at a bus stop, and shot his classmate to death in front of his family. He was busted in Albuquerque, New Mexico and sentenced to 24 years to life, with his first chance at parole in December 2025.
Charles Runyan, #690 (RELEASED), Jnr 7, 2002
From March 1999 to February 2000, he sexually battered his girlfriend's 13 year old sister in Florida and beat up the victim's brother. In one incident, he sat her on his lap, removed her panties, and fondled her. He was accused of 15 acts of intercourse. He was busted in Ray City, Georgia, where he was babysitting his next girlfriend's children in a trailer, and served a decade in prison.
Luis A Ortiz (RELEASED), #691, Jnr 8, 2002
Starting around the turn of 1998, he sexually abused a 10 year old girl in Miami. In a failed cover-up plot, he knocked her out of a power boat, tried to run her over, and held her underwater until she passed out. A coworker almost caught him red-handed, so he took her to a hospital. After she woke up, she told the doctors about Ortiz's crimes. To congratulate her for her bravery, John Walsh named him his #1 most wanted fugitive of 2001 over Robert William Fisher. Just 3 days after that title was designated, an AMW tipster busted him in Puerto Rico, making him the first Walsh Annual #1 fugitive to be busted as a Direct Capture. He said he was glad to be in custody so he could get it over with, and served about a decade in prison.
Wayne Anthony Davis, #692, Jnr 22, 2002
In 1988, he shot and wounded a Maryland police officer, forcing him into retirement. He was living in the remote hills of Jamaica when he found out he was on amw.com, and after he was busted, he confessed to the shooting in detail.
Arturo Aguilar, #693, Jnr 22, 2002
A deviant wife beater. After his breakup, he broke into his ex-girlfriend's apartment and raped her at least twice. At the end of January 2001, he stalked her in Indiana, snuck into an apartment after her friends had left a gathering, and stabbed her to death as she was using the restroom. He was busted in an apartment near his family in Phoenix, Arizona and sentenced to 65 years.
Christina Yvette Robinson, #694, Jnr 27, 2002
A cocaine abuser speculated to have worked as a prostitute. In April 2001, she and her boyfriend were at a house in the Midwest when another man came to collect a drug debt. When he came to the door, they blew him away with a shotgun and dumped the body in Michigan. The boyfriend was arrested but Christina fled. AMW tips led to Willowick, Ohio. A policeman asked a pizza delivery service to borrow a uniform, hid a gun in a pizza box, came to her door in disguise, produced the gun, and busted her. She was sentenced to 15 years to life, and her earliest release date was some time later in the '010s Decade.
Jamal D Starks, #695, Fbr 5, 2002
In late September 1997, he and several others killed an armored car driver and wounded the passenger in a robbery in New York. Cops quickly rounded up all the other killers but Starks got away. Starks was also a person of interest in another armored car robbery that took place in January 1998 with no casualties. He was busted in New Haven, Connecticut. As he was led away to begin his 15 year sentence, someone in the courtroom said, "I hope you rot in prison! I really do!" After getting out in 2017, he was put on probation forever.
Guierrin "Gary" Saintio (CHARGES DROPPED), #696, Fbr 13, 2002
A member of the Zombies drug gang from Miami, Florida. In late April 2001, cops thought he killed a man and wounded 2 people. In October 2001, he got arrested for robbery, but escaped police custody. The next month, cops thought he killed a man he mistook for a rival gang banger. He was busted in Warner Robbins, Georgia, behind a shelf of Valentine's Day cards in a discount store. For reasons unknown, all the charges against him got dropped.
Cassandra Denise "Poochie" Washington (DECEASED), #697, Mrc 7, 2002
In circa 2001, two teenagers went to her house in Texas to collect a debt from her husband. Four men jumped, robbed, and shot the teenagers. The 19 year old died at the scene, but the 17 year old managed to crawl to safety. After the case was aired, cops quickly rounded up the 4 men as empty captures. By the time AMW tipsters located Poochie, she was dead in a firebombed car in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. An AMW tip identified the 250 pound, badly decayed woman as her.
Alcee Brown, #698, Mrc 10, 2002
A convicted robber and burglar, acquitted of rape in 1999. In January 2002, he was sought for questioning in the rape of a woman in the back of a New Orleans Catholic church. He was busted in Los Angeles, California.
Kathie Ann Decker Harless (RELEASED), #699, Mrc 26, 2002
A neglectful at best mother with a long record of keeping her other children in deplorable living conditions. In April 2001, she was on break during her work at a flea market. At that time, she walked into an outhouse, delivered a son, and dropped him in the toilet, killing him. Just under a year later, a tipster busted her in a fishing camp in Seville, Florida. She was making a living by selling flea market items as usual, and the tipster called as she looked through a window at Harless. Initially, she was sentenced to life in prison. Her husband Doug remarried to Phyllis Ann Harless, an eventual visitation violator who tipsters would bust as Capture #882. Unbelievably, in December 2019, Kentucky governor Matt Bevin ended a fractally corrupt term with one nasty act he'd saved for last: Pardoning 400 convicted criminals, including Decker-Harless and several comparably brutal murderers, many of whose families gave him bribes. Too old to have any more children, she is considered a far milder threat to children, born or yet to be conceived, anymore.
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