Post by Scumhunter on Jul 29, 2016 23:33:05 GMT -5
The title should be self-explanatory but I made a post like this a long time ago on the old amw.com message boards but the recent capture of Unsolved Mysteries fugitive (and apparently AMW Fugitive as well) William Claybourne Taylor made me think of this again.
Out of all years watching AMW, The Hunt, or reading about fugitives, there are some fugitives that seem like they would be more difficult to catch than others. Has there ever been a time where you've said "they'll NEVER catch that guy/girl" only to eat crow later?
Obviously William Claybourne Taylor stunned me. Another case that did was James Hammes even though he was a recent case. This guy seemed to me to be extremely intelligent with loads of money he had stolen and was likely hiding overseas. Yet it turns out he was hiding in plain sight living a relatively mundane life hiking the Appalachian Trail and captured thanks to a viewer of the CNBC show "American Greed: The Fugitives."
Also, AMW Capture Anatoliy Valenko surprised me but not because I thought he'd be good at hiding but figured even if in plain sight he was likely in Russia or the Ukraine where extradition is extremely unlikely if not impossible (As we've seen with the FBI having to remove Semion Mogilevich from their website). To my surprise, he wound up arrested in the Netherlands.
Who were your cases that stunned you and made you eat crow?
Out of all years watching AMW, The Hunt, or reading about fugitives, there are some fugitives that seem like they would be more difficult to catch than others. Has there ever been a time where you've said "they'll NEVER catch that guy/girl" only to eat crow later?
Obviously William Claybourne Taylor stunned me. Another case that did was James Hammes even though he was a recent case. This guy seemed to me to be extremely intelligent with loads of money he had stolen and was likely hiding overseas. Yet it turns out he was hiding in plain sight living a relatively mundane life hiking the Appalachian Trail and captured thanks to a viewer of the CNBC show "American Greed: The Fugitives."
Also, AMW Capture Anatoliy Valenko surprised me but not because I thought he'd be good at hiding but figured even if in plain sight he was likely in Russia or the Ukraine where extradition is extremely unlikely if not impossible (As we've seen with the FBI having to remove Semion Mogilevich from their website). To my surprise, he wound up arrested in the Netherlands.
Who were your cases that stunned you and made you eat crow?
