Daily Chit-Chat Thread

You know who loved watching "The Shield?" My parents. They watched it religiously its first two seasons, their interest kind of waned in the third and then they stopped watching it after Glenn Close joined the cast. My mom always complained that new episodes were in the spring and not the fall, so then I had to explain to her how the cable TV networks work vs. the "normal" networks. She still wasn't satisfied I'm still explaining to her why cable networks constantly rerun their programming as opposed to having tons of new shows.

I thought you meant it was actually a guy's name LOL. Perhaps it means the guy/girl's done it more than once, or it's a serious crime he or she is wanted for.

Haha I'm guessing it was for an aggravated misdemeanor charge. Sometimes in court here we have people appear on simple misdemeanor assault, and they call it "simple assault." I always giggle when I hear that

Since this is kind of a topic about random discussions, I thought I'd bring this to the table; you know when I started feeling old? When I started seeing AMW profile fugitives that were my age or younger. It actually happened twice in 2004 - I was 15 when Danquon Brown and Kayla LaSala were brought to AMW.

I'm now 26, and I was just watching the episode where Benjamin Pingle was profiled (he was convicted of killing one of his daughters and then jumped bail during his appeal - his grandfather put up his house so Pingle could get out of jail and because he jumped, his grandfather was in danger of losing his house). Pingle was 26 at the time of his profile. Still weirds me out when I see that.

It actually really hit home for me when people my age started being profiled as missing children. When I first started watching AMW, they were profiling Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis, 12- and 13-year-old best friends who disappeared a month apart from the same apartment complex. I was 13 at the time, and I remember I got so attached to the case. When their bodies were found, I remember being very, very upset about it (moreso than any other missing child case I've seen profiled on AMW). From that day forward I tried my very best to not get emotionally attached to cases.

Not meaning to change the discussion at hand, but there's something I wanted to ask you guys. Remember on amw.com every case would have an ID number to go along with it? For example, Bablu Hassan had an ID number of 25002 (https://web.archive.org/web/20110913204248/http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=25002)

Well, awhile back, I decided to go through the long process of writing down the ID number of every case on amw.com and seeing if there was anything consistent about them. And oddly enough, there was!

When placed in order, the ID numbers, for the most part, represented the order in which these cases were profiled. There were a few exceptions, obviously (Phillip Ferguson, for some reason, had the earliest ID number even though he wasn't profiled until 2003). But there's quite a few that give clues as to when these cases were first profiled.

Here are some more I noticed:

24763 - Eric Quesada
24796 - Charley Cai
24802 - Esnel Jean
24804 - Daniel Perez
24807 - Asha Degree
24855 - Desiree Lingo-Perkins
24866 - Fabian Smart (Jason McMann Killer)
24881 - Douglas Hannam
24884 - Asgar Ali
24904 - Harold Richardson
24911 - Molly Bish

Compared to AMW's show archives, you'll notice that these cases were all first profiled in 2000. Now this didn't always stay true (beginning in 2006/2007, they just assigned the case a new ID number instead of placing them when they were first profiled) but it's an interesting way to get an idea of when these cases were first aired.

My theory is that AMW had a production assistant go through all the old episodes and create pages based on when cases were first aired. That's why the cases are (mostly) in order.