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Wanted to post here that I want to get as many of the remaining Harris County, Texas fugitive homicide cases on the site as possible. These are cases between October 29, 1985 to the present which is what's covered on Newslibrary for the Houston Chronicle archives. I will only post a case if I can find a photo and/or case specific details. Even with cases that don't have photos, I want the details on the crime on the internet if I can confirm the active warrant through the Harris County court records. Thankfully, we have been able to confirm numerous Harris County fugitives through their public court database.

Thank you forum member girma for getting us to 1400 lol!

(And none of the 1400 delete their account yet so we can stay at that number please!).

I know it sounds contradictory considering I've made fun of/been critical of people who post on Facebook sometimes, but one thing I'd like to encourage us to do more often is to find the obvious Facebooks of fugitives on our site- as even though I don't think they're much use tip-wise, they are good for getting into the psyche and knowing the quirks of the fugitive. Also you can see where their friends and family ties are.

What I make fun is when people find a fugitive's public Facebook and act like they're geniuses and the first one to discover it- when all you usually have to do is enter their name. Do you really not think the police did that too? And although there have been some rare exceptions, fugitives usually aren't dumb enough to log in to Facebook while on the run, although there have been a few who logged in to dare the police to catch them, and then they usually get caught the next day.

However, even though it doesn't make you a genius (no offense lol) it does add to the discussion when you find a fugitive's Facebook so it is still encouraged to find fugitive Facebook profiles if you can lol.

UPDATE: I logged onto Reddit and a moderator removed my comment defending our site as not having any viruses (that I'm aware of at least). So apparently people are allowed to make unverified claims about our site which isn't an attack on the user who said it as perhaps we did have a Trojan at one time and ProBoards addressed it and/or they were honestly mistaken, but I'm not allowed to defend us.

Say what you want but I feel I'm relatively fair as a forum admin. The rare times I've banned members you've seen me give them second (and sometimes even third) chances. Sorry to toot my own horn but seeing this unfair moderating makes me appreciate myself lol.

The irony of an admin getting moderated lol.

I messaged their mods and their response was to send the user a pm instead. Bunch of power hungry idiot mods on Reddit lol.

One thing I feel happens to thankfully me and most people as they age is the ability to handle criticism. Usually the older you get, the less sensitive to criticism you become. The one thing that still admittedly bugs me is when good intentions are misunderstood. (Let's say for example you hold the door for an older woman wanting to be kind and helpful, and instead of saying thanks she yells that she's not that old and can get the door herself, that type of stuff).

This site's criticisms for the most part are from people like the fugitive's relatives or stuff like that and you can brush it off like "yeah sure pal, your relative who was caught on camera shooting the victim isn't guilty and how dare we profile them". But there have been a few times where one unique aspect I should have known could happen but wasn't quite prepared for when I started this site is when the criticism comes from a victim's loved one. For the most part, it is an error or mistake on my part, a typo or factual error and the criticism is completely fair and I correct it. But a couple of years ago, a victim's loved one critiqued on social media the way we covered a story (I won't say if it was a fugitive or unsolved case to not give it away to much). This was despite the fact everyone else including much larger media and publications covered the story the same way we did, and I didn't think I said anything factually wrong. Still, I decided to be the bigger man, and edited the story to tell it to the way they wanted it to be told.

Several years later, and much larger media continues to cover the story in the way this person had a problem with the way we did it, yet oddly we're the only media that's ever been called out. Heck, I recall an interview with a journalist covering the case where I heard them say something so much more offensive than anything we've ever said and yet they were never called out. It's a catch-22 as I admittedly did get kind of pissed off, but on the other hand I don't want to be petty, I can't imagine what that person is going through, and not to mention I am sure their loved one's killer will strike again if they haven't already. They're still a victim or victim's loved one at the end of the day. (John Walsh has always said he's not the victim, Adam was, so I want to be careful in the way I say that). So I bit my tongue and continue to bite my tongue, but I will admit this is the one of the rare critiques I still ruminate about lol.


So yeah for the most part I can handle criticism. But the one exception where my feelings are admittedly hurt is when a victim's loved one doesn't realize this site is/was only trying to help.

Not sure where I'm going with this but just I saw the criticism of us done by someone else yet again and wanted to make a not sure if this would count as a rant, but just get this off my chest.

Working on blurbs for my Top 20 of 2021 Most Wanted list to come out next month. Unlike last year, where my main issue was figuring out who would be #1 since I could have made an argument for like at least five if not more of them before Clarence Hebron came out of nowhere as an unfortunate late breaking news case that had to be #1, I do know for sure who my #1 is for sure this year unless he gets captured before I release my list or another unfortunate Hebron-like case happens.

The main issue is 2-20 is filled with a lot of cases that are similar to each other and unfortunately that means some terrible cases will be ranked lower than they should be and/or maybe not even make the list. For instance there's unfortunately a bunch of cases involving a deceased child and/or pregnant woman as the victim. And there's like even more awful DUI or hit-and-run homicide cases than usual this year but to have variety on the list I can't include all of them, so there's going to be at least two if not three or more awful DUI homicide cases that would have made the list any other year that won't make it this year unless some other captures happen.

Then you have fugitives where articles say they may be connected to other homicides or you get the sense they're involved in more murders but I try to rank them based only on the official charges since every thing else is still technically speculation.

And yeah to give an idea how sad and tragic my list is- Martin Munoz currently isn't even on it despite the fact I'm probably going to add him to my personal dirty Dozen if a slot ever opens up (my excuse is that he's a pre-2020 TV fugitive and from now on I want to keep the yearly list as relatively recent and exclusive as possible even though general rule is wanted within the past ten years).

The list isn't something that should be "fun" but going through it felt even more brutal and heartbreaking than usual this year.