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. He was executed in November 1998, becoming the first AMW capture to die by such. The hardcore AMW fans voted McDuff the best capture in the entire roster in the 1200 Milestone Capture Contest.
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 was released in 2006.
Russell Edward "Rusty" Garrett, #206, Apl 17, 1992
For a few weeks to a couple months, he was carrying an affair with a friend's wife. In May 1990, he killed her for breaking it off. The body was found that August in the mountains of West Virginia. He was busted in North Carolina.
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 member of a North Carolina crime ring that dealt in counterfeit cash. In November 1980, after scamming a local businessman, he shot his partner in crime to death. He was busted in the same state, sentenced to life in prison, 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.
Donald F 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. He was busted in St. Joseph's County, Indiana, with 2 Grand and some books on reptiles and birds, but no animals were recovered.
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. He was busted in Nevada, sentenced to 1/4 century in prison, and released 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 his release 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 was released from prison 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. In July 1991, he fatally beat his best friend with a 2x4 plank in Indiana during a botched robbery, slashed his throat, and stole his car. The true motive was that Meisberger was secretly involved in a Columbian drug racket and thought the victim was skimming from it. He was profiled on the 8-21-992 broadcast, busted in Charlotte, North Carolina and initially got 48 years in prison, but due to a good behavior sentence reduction law in Indiana, 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
Cops believe that in 1971, he kidnapped and raped a 12 year old girl in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1977, he kidnapped and raped another woman in Los Angeles and served 7 years in prison. In February 1987, he allegedly raped a female church employee in Salinas, California. In January 1992, he beat up a woman living with him in Redmond, Washington and also committed obstruction of justice. He was busted in Escondido, California.
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 been released.
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 arrested 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, but it's unknown whether he would ever be eligible for 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 connected to 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.
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. 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, he bought a dry cleaning business from a couple in Florida. 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. 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. 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 released 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, and 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.
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 was released 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.
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. 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. He was busted in New York.
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 been released 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. 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 Thomas James, #267, Oct 6, 1993
In Florida, he got into an argument with another family he'd lived with for years. When it boiled over, 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 was busted in an unemployment office in Bakersfield, California. 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 Waterhouse, #270, Oct 6, 1993
In March 1992, he killed his mother and her husband in Tennessee. He was busted in Ponca City, Oklahoma, in a bus parked outside a McDonald's.
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
In September 1993, they robbed a food store in Lawrence, Arkansas. Kliem and Beers then bound, gagged, and kidnapped a man, then abandoned him in Oklahoma. Beers was arrested during the robbery, then escaped custody in transit to a medical examination. 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 McMahill was murdered in 1981, and her body was found buried in a cement culvert on a rural Oregon road. AMW tipsters identified 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 and crutches, driving a van with accommodations for the disabled, but a tipster spotted him washing his van freely with those disability tools long gone. Apparently he was hoping to throw off district attorneys, but he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. He 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 suspected something was off because few 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. He was busted in Oxnard, California and sentenced to 1/4 century in prison.
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 was released some time between 2000 and 2003, and Scarface and Zapata were released 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." 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. 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.
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
Busted in Pennsylvania. Details are uncertain, but he may have killed a Georgia policeman by shooting him in the back, and he may have been caught at a credit card company building.
Richard LaMar Chambliss, #299, Apl 14, 1994
An Atlanta drug dealer. In June 1993, he robbed, stabbed, and killed a young humanitarian woman he once had a crush on after his attempts at winning her over didn't pan out. He was busted nearby.
