Most Annoying True Crime Show Fan Comments On Social Media

Ok, maybe this isn't technically social media but I have a friend who liked AMW but doesn't like The Hunt. (to each their own)

They I-m'ed me on Facebook today to tell me they know I'm busy (I once yelled at them for messaging me on a Sunday- I was like you KNOW that's Hunt night LOL), and I can respond whenever they wanted but while they respect John Walsh they don't like the new format and don't think the show suits him.

And I'm thinking first of all- I'm still annoyed you messaged me- even if you know I'm not going to respond LOL. Second of all, why tell someone who you know enjoys something that what you think they enjoy is crap. I don't go to my friend "hey that show you said you liked, I just watched it and sucked." And third of all- if you have a billion dollars to pay off Fox license fees to bring back America's Most Wanted on another network be my guest. The new format is as a result of AMW's cancellation- it's the way things are now and what we have to work with.

Me, personally, I enjoy the expanded format more and more each week. I watch old AMW episodes on YouTube now with the same cases in fewer detail and it doesn't seem the same now with all they left out. Only thing that sucks about the new format is it means less captures- but I think it's working.

It's just frustrating how people can't get past the format and just support The Hunt. It's fine to reminisce about AMW, but it's not coming back. We still have to catch these guys/girls, and be the eyes and ears to get these people off the streets.

On the National Center For Missing And Exploited Children's Facebook page, they linked an article about Elizabeth Smart recounting her horrific kidnapping and rape story. Most people were very nice, called her brave and said she was an inspiration for other victims.

Someone else said "And boy, has she made money off of it! Elizabeth got old real fast!"

I don't know what is more disrespectful, that comment or the way Nancy Grace infamously treated her.

I'm pretty sure this has been touched on in the past but it's really annoying when the only online coverage of a fugitive case comes from either an anti illegal-immigration website or a white supremacist website. Can you imagine what the victims feel, having their stories ignored in the internet media aside from this forum and websites like the ones mentioned above.

Still seeing people put the Adam Walsh case solved as breaking news on Twitter lol. (This happens when people re-share a news article on social media but those reading don't check the date of the article, the most common occurrence as I mentioned above being when a celebrity dies and they post a story attempting to reflect the anniversary).

But at the same time, I think I'm not really annoyed about this after all. I think it is cool to be reminded that although it took 27 years, it's never a bad thing to be reminded that John Walsh finally and eventually did get justice after all he did for everyone else, even if some people didn't know it actually happened eight years ago.

Thanks to the person that let us know Patrick John Donovan was captured! We had a captured circled around his profile and moved him to the captures section and commented on his capture, but it's always nice to have confirmation just in case we didn't know already.

The only reasons I think anyone would get the illusion that Latinos "have the market cornered" on violent crime are because:

*Though there are more cases of white suspects, they (and black suspects) rarely have a distant or less cooperative nation to fall back on, so they get caught quickly.

*Though Asian suspects often have countries to flee to that are further away than Latin America, there are relatively few of them.

*I admit my year-end leftover fugitives may be saturated with Latino suspects, but it's because they're harder to catch if they've fled south of the border, even though they have fewer fugitive cases than white suspects.