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Thanks. It's a process I'm still tinkering with but as I said I will work on it. I may also break it up to include the Most Wanted lists in between some the tv wanted decades since I don't want them to get too buried but we'll see!

OK. New layout is done! I still have work to do with monthly site shuffle for some sections but those can be done another day and don't require to put into maintenance mode (as you can see, there was too much above to leave the site open while moving all that around )

Fugitives are now broken up into three sections: Aired on AMW/The Hunt (and on occasion other tv shows), Most Wanted List fugitives, and Forum-Exclusive Fugitives.I feel this way all three categories stand out more.

Because there's more categories now, I've also added a site map at the top which breaks down the categories so visitors don't have to scroll all the way down to find whatever it is they're looking for.

I also moved or deleted some threads I felt were no longer relevant or were better off in the general or off-topic section.

Ironically, 2010-Present doesn't have many fugitives, while the 2000's as I predicted has a bunch. However, at least three of our forum-exclusive cases that we know of are going to be on season 2 of The Hunt (I am waiting for those cases to at least be on CNN's website before moving them to the tv section) and if The Hunt hopefully continues for more seasons (or even better if AMW comes back as well!) that section should get more crowded.

But anyway, I'm really excited at the way this looks and think the sections break down nicely now!

It was a tough decision but I decided to delete the Cathy Morales capture thread. It was getting to the point where half of the story was unfair to Cathy who is still technically innocent and had different versions of her accused crime between AMW (who we still love of course) and news articles, and the other half of the story was unfair to Aisha, who was still a victim even if there were conflicting articles as to what Cathy's motive was that day. I also don't want our thread to affect the upcoming trial (I'm assuming there will be one) in a negative way for both the prosecution and defense. (Jurors are told to just look at the facts but we all know they Google this stuff anyway.) The whole Cathy Morales saga became a complete mess after the fact.

Hey, at least I explain unlike amw.com who'd just mysteriously delete threads without saying why.

I thought it was an important enough story people would notice it's not on our site.

Another example of a story was last year when I deleted was the Boaz Johnson thread because his friends and family were still posting conspiracy theories on the Facebook pages related to that case despite a suicide note being found next to his body. (Hey my family member killed someone also (who was also a family member) and while I blame inadequate mental health treatment I still acknowledge he did it). I was worried it would start to become a conspiracy thread even though it had been relatively sane.

Then there's stuff like gun control which is a touchy subject that got deleted for negativity. So there's various reasons why threads get deleted from time to time.

Thanks to the person who registered with a common first and last name as an e-mail and didn't answer the registration question. Had no choice but to reject. It still amuses me how even with "Please Read Below" in all caps, more than 50% of those who register still don't answer it.

To be honest, I know this sounds contradictory, but because of the lawlessness in many parts of Mexico, and a back and forth but ever-improving relationship, we've gotten a lot of fugitives back but there's still work to do, I'd like to focus on mainly just the U.S. and Canada. If there are fugitives possibly in the U.S. and there are articles with U.S. phone numbers for a location they are believed to have possibly fled to. For instance, "Mexican murder suspect possibly in LA, call the LAPD at... if you've seen him" then it's ok, but if Mexico hasn't asked for help from us, I feel rather uncomfortable. Just being honest.

Also, the other exception I'd make is if it's an Interpol case. It's cool to do any of their cases from anywhere in the world since that's the point of their agency.

Of course the one problem is having enough cases. To be honest not trying to sound ethnocentric but since mostly Americans read this site- American cases are my priority so I'd be posting one Interpol a case at most. And I've looked up some fugitives and can only find articles in Google translate broken English. So even finding cases would be hard. But it's an idea at least...

They've profiled Canadian fugitives on World's Most Wanted special editions before (the Canadian Hells Angels come to mind) so I don't see why Mexico and Canada wouldn't count as "World's Most Wanted" cases