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Post by HeadMarshal on Mar 7, 2019 20:01:22 GMT -5
Sadly the profiles on The Hunt and In Pursuit did not apprehend Lamont before he allegedly committed his second murder. If not arrested I fear we would have eventually had a serial killer on our hands.
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Mar 7, 2019 20:18:08 GMT -5
I wonder as to what the look on that Prince George's Co. Officer's face was like when he had just realized who he'd just lit up and pulled over. Here’s the reaction right here and he is a six month rookie too. His luck man. But Lamont actually was relieved to be captured as he was living as a homeless possibly mooching off his victim from last night. youtu.be/HK3hv6RkyoY
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Post by Maddog on Mar 7, 2019 20:20:39 GMT -5
I’m wondering if it’s safe to classify Stephenson as a serial killer. The FBI usually classifies a serial killer as having killed three or more people, but the characteristics between both murders now suspected to have been committed by Stephenson are almost identical with the exception of the murder weapons.
Please believe me, I’m not blaming the FBI at all for putting him on the list, but I think he knew that he was on the list (after Myloh Mason was captured, he did reveal that he knew he was on the list), and part of the reason he committed the killing is because he essentially wanted to flip the bird at the FBI and law enforcement. I’m wondering if the killing was on federal land - if it was, he’s eligible for the death penalty.
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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 7, 2019 20:38:25 GMT -5
I believe Lamont's alleged motive was simple- he's simply a monster. And his being put on the list imo was not that surprising considering he was already on the FBI's website.
I find it a weird thing to discuss- serial killer usual implies more than two victims, but Lamont's M.O. clearly indicates a budding serial killer had he not been caught. Thankfully he was caught before there couldn't be any room for debate.
I am surprised he gave himself up so easily- said his name and may be a wanted criminal when we know there no fingerprints on file for him- perhaps he figured they'd figure it out eventually or as indicated in the news segment toptenhunter posted he basically decided at that point he wanted to be caught because he couldn't take the lifestyle of being homeless and on the run anymore.
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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 7, 2019 20:53:27 GMT -5
Video of Lamont in cuffs doing the walk of shame with Prince George's County officials. He doesn't look much different from his photos before going on the run besides dying the tiny bit of hair he had blond-ish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J-hl30SuRw&feature=youtu.be
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Mar 7, 2019 20:57:07 GMT -5
Video of Lamont in cuffs doing the walk of shame with Prince George's County officials. He doesn't look much different from his photos before going on the run besides dying the tiny bit of hair he had blond-ish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J-hl30SuRw&feature=youtu.beI thought it was gray hairs lol, but Stephenson has lost a bit of weight in 4 years,
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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 7, 2019 21:01:18 GMT -5
Fair enough point, looks blonde to me but could be gray hair from all the stress of being homeless and on the run as that would age someone. I guess the point is he looks pretty much the shame just a little disheveled.
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Post by Maddog on Mar 7, 2019 21:46:12 GMT -5
Video of Lamont in cuffs doing the walk of shame with Prince George's County officials. He doesn't look much different from his photos before going on the run besides dying the tiny bit of hair he had blond-ish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J-hl30SuRw&feature=youtu.beI thought it was gray hairs lol, but Stephenson has lost a bit of weight in 4 years, I was going to say - it looks like he lost around 50-60 pounds. Although he looked fairly similar, the fact that he lost weight may have helped him in his run.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2019 0:30:34 GMT -5
The report said that he was found in or behind the wheel of a suspicious looking rental truck or van, tell me am I the only one here who kind of sees bit of an 'echo' here with Stephenson and former AMW fugitive prison escapee and serial car thief Terrance Washington?
I mean wasn't Washington caught on cctv butt naked living or stealing a white rental truck? As well as was living in it too as well?
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Post by ninja108 on Mar 8, 2019 1:18:54 GMT -5
Sadly the profiles on The Hunt and In Pursuit did not apprehend Lamont before he allegedly committed his second murder. If not arrested I fear we would have eventually had a serial killer on our hands. I'm sure that has to eat at John and Callahan and the folks at the FBI who have been hunting this low life for the past four years but they did everything they could. Sad to say,it's just not enough sometimes.
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Post by danwind on Mar 8, 2019 1:54:17 GMT -5
Real Disappointed that he were been the first FBI's Top Ten Fugitive to be capture as a direct result, instead he is the first fugitive to be capture as a indirect result of the in pursuit in John Walsh
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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 8, 2019 5:02:53 GMT -5
Sadly the profiles on The Hunt and In Pursuit did not apprehend Lamont before he allegedly committed his second murder. If not arrested I fear we would have eventually had a serial killer on our hands. I'm sure that has to eat at John and Callahan and the folks at the FBI who have been hunting this low life for the past four years but they did everything they could. Sad to say,it's just not enough sometimes. Yeah I don't think anyone is saying anyone "failed" to capture Lamont, he just did a good job of hiding thanks to his quiet personality but it was a matter of if and not when he was caught. Unfortunately, that if happened after he allegedly killed at least one other person.
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Post by ninja108 on Mar 8, 2019 13:40:06 GMT -5
I'm sure that has to eat at John and Callahan and the folks at the FBI who have been hunting this low life for the past four years but they did everything they could. Sad to say,it's just not enough sometimes. Yeah I don't think anyone is saying anyone "failed" to capture Lamont, he just did a good job of hiding thanks to his quiet personality but it was a matter of if and not when he was caught. Unfortunately, that if happened after he allegedly killed at least one other person. I can remember a couple of indirect captures from the AMW days where that was the case as well. John Addis and Karen Huster were both fugitives people knew would get caught at some point but the fear was it wouldn't be until they killed more people. And sadly,as with Lamont,that is exactly what happened. Nothing you can do though other then ensure justice is done after that.
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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 9, 2019 0:19:31 GMT -5
An interesting trivia note I realized/noted in the In Pursuit capture directory is Lamont Stephenson is the first FBI top ten fugitive to be captured AFTER airing on The Hunt and/or In Pursuit, albeit an indirect result. Luis Macedo and Robert Vanwisse were captured before their airings. All other FBI top ten fugitives aired still haven't been caught (Yaser Said, Robert Fisher, Bhadreshkumar Patel) and/or were removed from the list (Brad Bishop).
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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 10, 2019 13:02:21 GMT -5
One thing I forgot to bring up about Stephenson's capture- this was all over my local news since I live in the same metropolitan area from where he was wanted out of. (Happened with Andre Neverson but still surreal when a fugitive case from AMW, The Hunt, In Pursuit etc... makes local news). They stated he gave police his real name and had he not "this may be a different story" since there are no fingerprints on him.
Stephenson had an unspecified weapon in his vehicle so perhaps he may he been arrested on that but that probably wouldn't have kept in jail that long.
So this is why even though In Pursuit technically had nothing to do with his capture (I do not mean that in a derogatory way once again, they captured one fugitive and I'm sure will capture another one soon, I simply mean he was not caught as a result of a public tip to the show), I'm thinking along with his lifestyle, he had to have known he was at least on the FBI's Top 10 list if not John Walsh's shows as well and that pressure may have gotten to him in him deciding to just basically give himself up rather than pretend he was someone else. I'm not trying to go out of my way to far-fetch stretch this to give my favorite show credit, but if he was simply a guy wanted in the local news media he may not have felt that mounting pressure to (albeit he was stopped in traffic) what amounted to him basically turning himself in.
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