AMW Capture Roster, 7th Century
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.
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.
Delvin Terry Groat, #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.
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.
Nicholai Alexander Kupczynski, #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.
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.
Frederick Vincent Thiecke, #609, Apl 28, 2000
A recent Vacaville, California high school graduate. In early March 2000, his mother had his car repossessed to pay his debt. 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.
Raymond David Young, #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.
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), and it's believed he got 6 decades in prison.
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. Coincidentally with his 47th birthday, an AMW tipster busted him in an elderly woman's home.
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.
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.
Dorene Priscilla Brown, #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.
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.
Harold Eugene Richardson, #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 shot 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.
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 he was busted somewhere in Texas, standing in a parking lot next to his girlfriend.
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, #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.
Robert "LA, Lazy Eye" Wine, #629, Oct 18, 2000
The Bronx's Bodega Burglar. He robbed 18 bodegas at gunpoint. He 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.
Ronald Bernard Thomas Jr, #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.
Richard J Terwilliger, #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.
Bretley Albert Wilson, #632, Nvb 26, 2000
John Walsh's 2000 50/50 Fugitive #OR. In January 1998, he robbed a bank in Eugene, Oregon. In December 1999, he escaped a prison 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.
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.
Gregory E 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.
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.
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, #638, Dcb 29, 2000
In November 2000, after a weekend of visitation, he shot and wounded his ex-wife and a taxi driver in Missouri, 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.
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.
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.
George Rivas, #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 Hawkins to death in a store robbery. George Rivas was originally convicted of kidnapping and burglary. Rivas, Michael Anthony Rodriguez (#643), and Joseph Christopher Garcia (#644) were the first to fall; they were busted hiding in a trailer in Woodland Park, Colorado. All of the remaining Texas Seven were condemned to death, and George Rivas was executed in March 2012.
Michael Anthony Rodriguez, #643, Jnr 21, 2001
The second of the Texas Seven to go down. He was previously serving life in prison on a Capital Murder conviction. He was executed in August 2008.
Joseph Christopher Garcia, #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 before he escaped. He's still on death row.
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 (the child barely survived) before he escaped. A few hours after Rivas, Rodriguez, and Garcia were busted, Halprin surrendered to authorities less than a mile away. He's still on death row.
Larry James Harper, #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, #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.
Kenneth 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, #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.
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. He was busted selling Kirby vacuum cleaners door-to-door 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 Ortiz, #655, Fbr 20, 2001
In November 2000, he robbed a bank in San Diego, California of 360 Grand by binding 2 women and a 7 year old girl, torturing them, and holding them hostage with dynamite. Cops took down his accomplices but Ortiz got away. He was busted in an apartment on the north side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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. He 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.
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, #660, Mrc 18, 2001
In August 2000, his affair was blown. 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.
Barry Dean White and Jennifer 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.
James Godfrey Jr, #663, Apl 5, 2001
He was wanted out of Florida for kidnapping and sexually murdering a 22 year old woman. Aired briefly on the 3-03-001 broadcast, he was busted a month later in Maryland.
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.
Timothy Brent Brown, #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.
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, #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 be busted in Queen Creek, Arizona's Oasis Gulf Course where he'd been posing as an acquaintance's husband.
James Richard Bennett, #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 may have died in circa 2007.
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 May 1999, which alone had the 1 death and 2 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 characters' names together and busted him.
Antonio Marquette Huntsman (
RELEASED), #672, May 31, 2001
In November 2000, he shot a policeman to death in Memphis, Tennessee over an altercation involving his girlfriend. After his AMW airing, 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 being released.
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 (
RELEASED) and Martha Jackson Crowe (
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, #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.
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, #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.
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.
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.
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, #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.
Richard Peter Gilliland, #683, Oct 3, 2001
A Wisconsin church minister named John Walsh's 2000 50/50 Fugitive #WI. He molested 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. He was busted traveling with an 18 year old boy in Boston, Massachusetts, under his 28th alias.
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. Two bodies were found in the freezer and the third was found in his car in a nearby parking lot. 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 had made off quite a distance. Robinson was busted in Ribeirao Preto, in the Brazilian state of Salvador. The 5th escapee was soon nabbed as an empty capture.
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.
Charles Runyan, #690, 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.
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. He 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.
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!"
Guierrin "Gary" Saintio, #696, Fbr 13, 2002
A member of the Zombies drug gang from Miami, Florida. In late April 2001, he killed a man and wounded 2 people. In October 2001, he got arrested for robbery, but escaped police custody. The next month, 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.
Cassandra Denise "Poochie" Washington, #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, #699, Mrc 26, 2002
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. Her husband Doug remarried to Phyllis Ann Harless, an eventual visitation violator who tipsters would bust as Capture #882.
Michael Scott Bliss, #700, Apl 23, 2002
In 1991, he beat and almost killed 3 young boys with a baseball bat. Starting in September 2000, and going for almost a year, he'd raped and sexually videotaped a 9 year old girl in various cities in Vermont and western Massachusetts. That crime landed him on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted in 2001. He was busted in Los Angeles, working on the construction of a hotel. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison.