1200 Milestone Best Capture Contest

I vote for Kenneth Cole and Desiree Lingo-Perkins.

Cole for the historical significance of being AMW's first ever capture and recovery. And Lingo-Perkins since not only was it a heinous crime but a pretty high-profile case as well, being also on Unsolved Mysteries and also profiled in the now defunct Investigation Discovery show "Cuff Me If You Can"

My votes are for Cole for being the first capture/recovery and Williams for his deadly drug empire. The fact that he wet himself gives him a bonus.

Alfonso and Graham for the reasons you mentioned. Second one was close though.

Michael Alfonso and William White Graham win 3 - 0.

Round 1, Division 16, Match A

Harold Martin Smith, #1137, Dcb 1, 2010
The Unknown Ronni Chasen Killer. In mid-November 2010, as Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen drove away from an afterparty following a screening of the film Burlesque, an unknown assailant rode up to her on his bicycle, hoping to rob her, but instead shot her, causing her to crash her car and die. Starting on the 11-20-010 broadcast, AMW aired the case twice as a Breaking News Alert. On December's Day 2010, AMW tipsters led Beverly Hills law enforcement to an apartment, but their suspect, Harold Martin Smith, shot himself dead before they could arrest him. 40 days later, the final ballistic test results were in, and Smith was confirmed as the killer. The tipster called AMW again to say that she called to get justice for Ronni.

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Dwight Smith, #1000, Apl 19, 2008
A Manhattan realtor. After loaning a man named Gary Mills 100 Grand, the loan was blown. He tied up and held Gary and his pregnant wife hostage in May 2007, and shot Dougal Mills to death just before he would've interrupted it. The hostages managed to escape out a window and down a ledge. A few months later, Gary Mills' wife gave birth to a healthy boy. A few hours after John Walsh named him his 2008 50/50 Fugitive #NY, AMW tipsters busted him in Richmond, Virginia. A police chief said to the arresting officers, "Congrats on a thousand, boys!"

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William and Rebecca Hewlett, #35/#36, Dcb 19, 1988
William was a bank robber and parole violator. After he fled, he graduated into a serial rapist. Both were persons of interest in the murder of a woman last seen with them in Tennessee. For these crimes, William Hewlett was added to the US Marshal's 15 Most Wanted list. They were busted in Mississippi.

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Bryan Richard Roser, #475, Jly 16, 1997
A serial sex offender. In 1985, he molested his own son and raped a 9 year old girl in Pennsylvania. It's likely he abducted and sexually murdered another 9 year old girl. In July 1997, a few days after his airing on America's Most Wanted, a tipster found his body at a campsite in North Carolina. He had hanged himself.

My votes go to Harold Martin Smith for the quick solution to an unknown murder of a Hollywood publicist, besides, I'm expecting Capture #1000 to get a lot more attention and I don't want this one to be a shut-out. Second, Bryan Richard Roser for incestuous molestation, sexual murder of a child, and getting found dead by an AMW tipster.

I vote for Dwight Smith and Roser for the same reasons as Scumhunter.

The first one was tough and second one was pretty easy.

For the first I give the slight edge to Torres because of how brutal one of the murders he was involved in was, and the fact the other two victims were teenagers. But that was a VERY close vote.

Second one is Kenneth McDuff in a landslide. However, I do want to say, I LOVED the capture of Asgar Ali. It was arguably the most incredible coincidence in AMW history (some may say Kenneth Lovci). It was a fun capture. It was a "one in a million" capture. But Kenneth McDuff was a serial killer. You can't really top that.

Arthur Torres and the Broomstick Serial Killer win by shut-out.

It's been about a year in the making, but now Round 2 can finally begin!

Round 2, Division 1

Arnulfo "Los Angeles Riverbed Rapist" Vargas, #869, Nvb 25, 2005
From 2001 to 2004, he kidnapped between 7 and 16 women, took them to drainage tunnels in Los Angeles, and raped them. In late 2004, around the time America's Most Wanted introduced him on the show, he took his family on a wild goose chase through California. One year after that, an AMW Radio listener busted him in Ensenada, Mexico. He's since been sentenced to over a century and a half in prison.

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Adam Ezerski, #679, Ags 17, 2001
A murderer posing as a gay romantic. In late July 2001, he murdered 2 men in Florida and stole one victim's Ford Mustang. In the wake of Andrew Philip Cunanan's murder spree, cops feared he'd be the next Cunanan. After beating a man in San Francisco with a statue, he was busted in Reno, Nevada. Luckily his last victim survived. Video footage showed him with one more murder victim. Investigators feared Ezerski had a 4th casualty, but he was cleared in that man's disappearance.

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Ronnie Dontell Drane, #786, Mrc 16, 2004
A US Marshal's 15 Most Wanted half serial killer / half family destroyer. In Gary, Indiana, in October 2002, he shot and killed his aunt Dolores Buchanan and another man named Larry Peaches, and wounded his cousin Herman Buchanan. In November 2002, he sexually murdered a woman in the same city in an unrelated case. In March 2003, Drane and his father hired a hitman to finish off the cousin in Louisville, Kentucky. The plan fell through, but Drane shot Herman to death outside his apartment. He was busted in an apartment in Nashville, Tennessee a month and a half after his addition to the Marshal's Most Wanted list.

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Charles Herbert "Chaka" Raysor, #899, Ags 7, 2006
A legendary crack gang czar. His underlings have killed 40 people, including children, landlords, rival drug dealers, and one homeless man. He surrendered in Brooklyn, New York, and he broke down in tears, telling them he was tired of his criminal lifestyle and missed his family, and once he knew he was on AMW, that was the final straw. He secured a plea deal with a judge and promised to eventually open a bakery, and his family pled for leniency, so a judge gave him a slap to the wrist and 17 years in prison.

First, my vote goes to Ezerski. For half a decade after the spring of 1997, law enforcement in America was on edge. Every time a man posed as a gay romantic and then killed them, whether for their own pleasure or to steal from them, cops often feared they had the next Andrew Philip Cunanan on their hands. AMW caught 2 such killers, the other one Percy Wayne Froman (#565), but Ezerski killed 2 victims.

Second, Charles Herbert "Chaka" Raysor. Though a light sentence led to Hector "Tombstone" Fragoso Burgueno losing round 1 against my nominee Jessie Lee Baker, it didn't stop the Jordan Allgood Killers from winning their match-up. But Chaka Raysor's gang was responsible for dozens of deaths, including about 7 children.