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Post by HeadMarshal on Dec 9, 2015 12:56:06 GMT -5
Back from a small vacation I took.  Now back to replying to many new forum threads. Also if anyone saw Crime Watch Daily today, it looks like they helped in presuming Rodney Lincoln's innocence in a 1982 murder case. He doesn't feel any resentment against Melissa DeBoer, who put him away to prison with her testimony when she was seven. After watching the initial CWD report, Melissa determined that Rodney did not kill her mother and try to kill her and her sister. No other evidence links Rodney to the murder and everything seems to point to an executed serial killer named Tommy Lynn Sells. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3352128/Rodney-Lincoln-forgives-Melissa-DeBoer-testifying-against-1982-murder-case.htmlSo Crime Watch Daily's first accomplishment may not be a fugitive capture, arrest in an unsolved crime or a missing person recovery. But helping to free a wrongly convicted inmate sounds like a wonderful first accomplishment to me. |
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Post by Scumhunter on Dec 9, 2015 15:10:48 GMT -5
I have to be honest and say I didn't see the episode about Lincoln. I like Crime Watch Daily- but the problem is I simply don't have the time to watch five one-hour episodes a week- I have other shows I enjoy and have to work- and just try to watch the cases that interest me- which is mainly the unsolved ones. The Lincoln case interested me but was an entire hour. So it's going to be hard to free up time to watch it but if I can I'll go to the the site and do so. It would be cool if the show helped exonerate an innocent man though. Would love for our site to do that as well one day too. |
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Post by HeadMarshal on Dec 20, 2015 14:40:59 GMT -5
I really liked the FBI Most Wanted Twitter page's latest post for Dec 18. Let the force awaken your sleuthing skills.twitter.com/FBIMostWanted |
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Post by King Of Clubs on Dec 28, 2015 19:22:16 GMT -5
Well according to my profile, I have been a proud member of this forum for exactly a year today. Thanks to you all for having me as a part of your community!
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Post by Scumhunter on Dec 28, 2015 19:56:30 GMT -5
Happy sleuthaversary! |
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Post by Scumhunter on Dec 31, 2015 22:39:52 GMT -5
Hoping everyone has a great 2016! I have a feeling it's going to be a great year!
(P.S. I realized the other day our site is now 3-years old! Maybe this will be the year we're credited with our first direct capture!)
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Post by Scumhunter on Jan 1, 2016 19:30:15 GMT -5
Would like to welcome our first new forum member of 2016... Shaft! Did I say Shaft? Ya damn right!  |
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Post by Scumhunter on Jan 2, 2016 11:51:01 GMT -5
So has anyone seen the Netflix documentary series 'Making A Murderer'? It's about Steven Avery, a man who was convicted in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin for a 1985 rape only to be cleared by DNA evidence 18 years later. He sued the county and police force and was soon accused of murder- this time with DNA evidence- and convicted once more. A lot of questions about whether he was framed (the key to the victim- Teresa Halbach's car was found in his trailer but only after Manitowoc County officers searched it months after another department did so). Brendan Dassey, a teenage co-defendant was also convicted based on a confession he gave to Officers and there are questions about whether or not he was coerced or 'tricked' (he had a borderline low IQ and was in some special education classes).
It's an interesting series and seems to have captured the public's attention lately. I'm still not entirely convinced that Avery is innocent (I'm also not convinced he received a fair trial either though), but there are definitely a lot of infuriating things that happen in the series as far how procedures should go and also involving one of the lawyers representing Dassey.
I can't place the case in the Innocence Project section since they only represented Avery in the 1985 rape case and not the murder case he was convicted in but perhaps I'll make an off-topic thread on it eventually.
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Feb 24, 2016 18:16:30 GMT -5
Well for my 100th post I thought I'd share a little something about myself. I have been into unsolved cases and crimes since in was a kid in 2005, the ten most wanted list was where my interest was and the 2000s were actually a great decade for the list, since it wasn't such a crapshoot like it is now. The missing persons cases on AMW had myself gripping in fear at first but that fear quickly became a determination to at least try to puzzle what could have happened as I talked about in one thread about Gina Dejesus and Amanda Berry. I also like to write in my spare time about many of the amw cases, controversial topics and sometimes about real life problems such as bad break ups, depression, and calling out both cyber bullying, bullying and social media often being used for negative reasons. A prime example is that recent case of this one 19 year old student at Virginia tech who murdered a 13 year old girl and dropped the body off in North Carolina, apparently the 2 talked on an Internet app and were also allegedly in a relationship, this is a recent case and it's a case that puts things into perspective big time and the only victim is the poor little 13 year old, she didn't really understand relationships too well because at that age it's not very well understood IMO and this guy took advantage of that. Well those are some thing about what interests me lol.
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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 23, 2016 9:24:50 GMT -5
I occasionally watch the "Unsolved Mysteries" reruns in the morning on Lifetime, and the ads for the shows they have my goodness. Just a bunch of trash "reality" shows with obvious fake created drama. I'm thinking to myself how America's Most Wanted would be such a bizarre fit if it were still on the channel. It was a bizarre fit in the first place. I often wondered what would have happened had they want to a network besides Lifetime originally, be it TruTV or Spike TV or whatever. Fox probably still would have been greedy with the license fees, but perhaps it would have been a better fit on another channel and survived due to better ratings.
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Post by HeadMarshal on Mar 23, 2016 18:15:44 GMT -5
I occasionally watch the "Unsolved Mysteries" reruns in the morning on Lifetime, and the ads for the shows they have my goodness. Just a bunch of trash "reality" shows with obvious fake created drama. I'm thinking to myself how America's Most Wanted would be such a bizarre fit if it were still on the channel. It was a bizarre fit in the first place. I often wondered what would have happened had they want to a network besides Lifetime originally, be it TruTV or Spike TV or whatever. Fox probably still would have been greedy with the license fees, but perhaps it would have been a better fit on another channel and survived due to better ratings. AMW really did seem out of place on Lifetime, and I know from the episodes on the Canada station how much I got tired of Dance Moms commercials over and over again. CNN is a much better fit for a John Walsh hosted show. In unrelated news, an interview done 22 years ago with one of the aides to US President Richard Nixon reveals the reason Nixon started the "War On Drugs". It was to disrupt the "Anti-Left Hippie" communities along with African-Americans in the US. I know we generally don't go too in-depth into politics, but the War On Drugs resulted in so many cases on AMW that I felt I should bring this up. www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html |
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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 23, 2016 18:37:00 GMT -5
Yeah as I said before, while I don't condone drug use (except for feeling marijuana should be legalized) and the law has the right to be protested but not broken, the War on Drugs in my opinion has been a massive failure for so many reasons we've discussed previously. The news you mentioned here is a good example of why it's been such a failure.
We need to stop worrying so much about guys addicted to crack who are no harm to anyone besides themselves and start worrying more about the murderers, rapists, child molesters, etc.
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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 29, 2016 6:53:39 GMT -5
This is very off topic but is the Charley Project not working for anyone else? I guess their server is currently down. I hope this is only temporary as the CP is a very valuable resource.
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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 29, 2016 17:12:28 GMT -5
I figured out a temporarily solution as I'm using archive.org for the time being for missing children/person threads but it would be a real shame if the site is gone from being current. Hopefully just experiencing glitches.
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Post by pakman on Apr 10, 2016 10:24:45 GMT -5
I couldn't think of anywhere else to put this, so I'll just bring up the conversation here Lately I've been going through my AMW VHS tapes and converting them to DVD. But I had problems with one of my VHS tapes that kept skipping and wouldn't let me convert to DVD. The tape in question started with Jose Corona's first profile in October 2010 and ended with the first episode of 2011 (1-1-11). Finally, after three attempts at conversion, I took an extended break and decided not to touch the tape for awhile. Finally, using my old VCR, I was somehow able to fix the tape (I'm guessing my current VHS/DVD combo and converter didn't like rewinding and fast-forwarding the tape) and it only skipped a couple times - twice during the Cambodia episode (which I didn't lost any sleep over) and once during Jesus Salazar's profile in December 2010 (again, not a terribly huge deal). As of last week, the DVD has been finalized and can now be watched without a problem But that's not the worst part. You see, because my DVDs hold more content than VHS tapes, they don't match up with the video format. So this particular DVD begins with the 9/11 anniversary show and ends with John Walsh's Top 10 of 2010. As a result, with the multiple conversion attempts, I had to see some of these episodes multiple times. One of those episodes was the one that profiled Woodlawn Jane Doe. Before I started my conversions, I had only seen this episode once, and until I reached my 2010 episode guide, that was the only time I intended on seeing that episode. But because of the glitches in converting, I saw this episode FOUR TIMES. Each time, I was constantly reminded of how much I hated this segment. The weird camera angles, the dramatic music playing, the bizarre scene where one of the detectives struggles to remove a bandanna from his face - it really does go down as one of the worst segments I've ever seen in the show's history. But you know what the worst part of the segment is? After the detectives tell Jane Doe's story, some random vocal song begins playing. It's a woman singing in a soft voice, and it plays for a good 15-20 seconds. I've blocked the lyrics out, but I think it was about how she was waiting for someone. Tony Zanelotti (who produced this segment) is not a bad member of AMW's team - I think he's a great director and I really loved his production work on the Kenneth Hinson capture (he worked with Angeline Hartmann on that one). But in AMW's later years, he really had some confusing segments - he also produced Jose Miranda (which I didn't notice until recapping my episodes was heavily cut down during its Lifetime profile), Rowdy Offield (not a bad concept, but a couple of the law enforcement officers seemed over-rehearsed in their lines) and Ervis Mecollari (which I actually didn't mind). |
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Now back to replying to many new forum threads.
