Post by pakman on Jul 15, 2013 15:24:18 GMT -5
We had a topic like this back on the old forums, but I figured I'd resurrect it so we could have a fresh discussion.
Starting in the early 90s, AMW asked some of their producers to take on additional roles as correspondents; on-air personalities that helped John Walsh with various investigations. Up until AMW moved to Lifetime, the correspondents were a regular part of the show and became just as important as John Walsh. Heck, during the 20th season and the first part of the 21st season, the correspondents were all shown during the opening credits.
It seems to me the best time to be a correspondent was during the 20th/21st seasons, which is when they were credited at the start of the show. That was when the show had a record-breaking seven on-air personalities:
Angeline Hartmann (Southeast Correspondent)
Jon Lieberman (East Coast Correspondent)
Ed Miller (West Coast Correspondent)
Tom Morris Jr. (Senior Correspondent)
Michelle Sigona (Beltway Correspondent)
Rick Segall (Midwest Correspondent/"Tip Tracker"); left in April 2007
John Turchin (Florida Correspondent)
Several of the show's former correspondents ended up using AMW as a stepping stone to bigger projects. Pat Lalama, who left in 2002, is now an entertainment reporter for Extra, and Ashleigh Banfield, who left around 2000, has done a bunch of TV work. She even had her own show on truTV for awhile.
My favorite correspondent was Tom Morris. You could tell he absolutely loved working for AMW, and took every single one of his cases very seriously. (According to one of John Walsh's books, Morris' youngest son is named Justice) What I liked about him was that he really made the people he interviewed comfortable; when he did the Tafare Berryman case, he interviewed the victim's brother while the two were shooting hoops at a local park. He also did something that I don't believe any other correspondent did; after a capture, he'd send a camera crew to interview the victim's relatives or friends for a "follow-up," then during the interview he'd call them and reveal the suspect had been captured. He did this with both Peter Cunningham's capture and Jelmo Kirkland's. That was real emotion captured on camera, and it was so amazing seeing their reactions to the killer of their loved ones getting caught.
What did all of you like about the correspondents? Do you wish they would have appeared on the Lifetime show? (Tom Morris, Angeline Hartmann and Michelle Sigona were all credited as producers during the show's run; Hartmann actually was seen on-camera interrogating Jeanifer Segrest after her arrest, and there's a video on YouTube of the entire interview Morris did with the detective on the Matt Novak murder case)
Starting in the early 90s, AMW asked some of their producers to take on additional roles as correspondents; on-air personalities that helped John Walsh with various investigations. Up until AMW moved to Lifetime, the correspondents were a regular part of the show and became just as important as John Walsh. Heck, during the 20th season and the first part of the 21st season, the correspondents were all shown during the opening credits.
It seems to me the best time to be a correspondent was during the 20th/21st seasons, which is when they were credited at the start of the show. That was when the show had a record-breaking seven on-air personalities:
Angeline Hartmann (Southeast Correspondent)
Jon Lieberman (East Coast Correspondent)
Ed Miller (West Coast Correspondent)
Tom Morris Jr. (Senior Correspondent)
Michelle Sigona (Beltway Correspondent)
Rick Segall (Midwest Correspondent/"Tip Tracker"); left in April 2007
John Turchin (Florida Correspondent)
Several of the show's former correspondents ended up using AMW as a stepping stone to bigger projects. Pat Lalama, who left in 2002, is now an entertainment reporter for Extra, and Ashleigh Banfield, who left around 2000, has done a bunch of TV work. She even had her own show on truTV for awhile.
My favorite correspondent was Tom Morris. You could tell he absolutely loved working for AMW, and took every single one of his cases very seriously. (According to one of John Walsh's books, Morris' youngest son is named Justice) What I liked about him was that he really made the people he interviewed comfortable; when he did the Tafare Berryman case, he interviewed the victim's brother while the two were shooting hoops at a local park. He also did something that I don't believe any other correspondent did; after a capture, he'd send a camera crew to interview the victim's relatives or friends for a "follow-up," then during the interview he'd call them and reveal the suspect had been captured. He did this with both Peter Cunningham's capture and Jelmo Kirkland's. That was real emotion captured on camera, and it was so amazing seeing their reactions to the killer of their loved ones getting caught.
What did all of you like about the correspondents? Do you wish they would have appeared on the Lifetime show? (Tom Morris, Angeline Hartmann and Michelle Sigona were all credited as producers during the show's run; Hartmann actually was seen on-camera interrogating Jeanifer Segrest after her arrest, and there's a video on YouTube of the entire interview Morris did with the detective on the Matt Novak murder case)
He actually did freelance work for AMW from around 1996 until 2002, when he was hired full-time for the show. After AMW got canceled, I think he was rehired at his old TV network, and how he's the crime reporter for the channel.
and I'm reminded again of why I loved Rick Segall so much as a correspondent. Much like Tom Morris, he often got involved in what he was reporting on.