1200 Milestone Best Capture Contest

Ezerski and Chaka defeat the Riverbed Rapist and Drane 1 to 2 and advance to Round 3.

Round 2, Division 2

Eric "Doc" Franklin Rosser, #680, Ags 21, 2001
A former keyboardist for John Mellencamp on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. From 1995 to 2000, he served as a high-ranking member of an international child porn ring between Indiana and Thailand. He also raped a minimum of 19 girls in Indiana himself. He was busted in Bangkok, Thailand, trying to apply for a job as an English instructor.

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Joaquin Carlos Amelo-Brito, #189, Jnr 23, 1992
In March 1990, his girlfriend broke up with him. As revenge, he sexually murdered her 20 year old sister and her unborn fetus in Tucson, Arizona. AMW tipsters led the FBI to Detroit, Michigan where he was trying to call his wife. They traced his call and busted him. He has since been sentenced to life in prison.

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Cesar Uriel Mazariego-Molina, #197, Apl 6, 1992
An undocumented worker from El Salvador convicted of raping his female cousin. He murdered 4 people: His own uncle, a fellow worker, a California deputy, and one other man. A tipster led cops to Plattekill, New York. They thought he was reaching for his gun, and so shot him dead.

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Michael Blane Brashar, #763, Spt 30, 2003
John Walsh's #1 most wanted fugitive of 2002. In 1982, he sexually murdered a 20 year old woman named Mary Ann Castille. Less than a month later, he sexually murdered a 14 year old girl named Lisa Dawn Hoag who'd witnessed the previous murder. DNA matches came back throughout the winter of 2001. On October's Eve 2003, he fled from cops after AMW tipsters flushed him out, then he surrendered in Decatur, Alabama. He's since been sentenced to life in prison.

First, my vote goes to Eric "Doc" Franklin Rosser for his higher-up role in a multinational child porn network, personally raping dozens of young girls, his history with the band famous for "Jack and Diane", and one of the few captures to go down in SE Asia. Second, Michael Blane Brashar for multiple sexual murders, including a child, getting busted 2 decades later, and because he was my only #1 Most Wanted Fugitive of the Year to go down as a Direct Capture.

Really good match ups today. I will also vote for Rosser and Brashar.

Eric "Doc" Franklin Rosser and Michael Blane Brashar win by shut-out.

Round 2, Division 3

George Hardebeck, #271, Oct 26, 1993
In August 1993, he shot up his family on a Ripley, Indiana farm after a heated argument. He killed his mother, two of his brothers, his sister, and his sister's husband for a total of 5 dead. 2 to 2 1/2 months later, he was flushed out of a barn in Kentucky in which he hid.

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Dennis James Skillicorn, #321, Oct 6, 1994
His murder spree started in 1979 when he broke into a home in Missouri and shot a man to death. Sentenced to 35 years in prison for 2nd degree murder, he was released after just over a decade. In the early to mid 1990s, he murdered 4 good samaritans in America, and traveled to Mexico where he killed a woman in a diner. On October 6, 1994, he was busted in San Diego, California 1 1/2 months after the murder of Richard Drummond, his 4th victim. Condemned to death in Missouri, he was executed in May of 2009.

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James Vincent Sullivan, #715, Jly 3, 2002
A lifelong high-roller and rich bar hopper. On January 16, 1987, a hitman went to the door of James Vincent Sullivan's ex-wife Lita Sullivan in Atlanta, Georgia, produced flowers, pulled out a gun, and killed her with 3 gunshots. Before his capture, he'd last been seen in Costa Rica in April of 1998. He was busted living an upscale, exotic life in Cha'am, Thailand.

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Larry Burns, #1124, Jly 20, 2010
In May of 1986, his ex-wife had been seeking shelter from him in her mother's house in Gary, Indiana. He burst into the house, guns blazing. The mother got into a gunfight and fled when Burns' gun jammed. Then, he ran up the stairs to the bedroom and killed his ex-wife with 2 shots to the head. He'd last been seen walking out of the house with one shoe on and his boxers exposed. Starting in 1993, AMW aired him about a dozen times. 24 years later, an amw.com tipster busted him on July 20, 2010, his alias' 57th birthday, in Long Beach, California, where he'd made a living by breeding rottweilers and repairing pool tables under the name Daniel Oakes. He was convicted and sentenced to 7 decades in prison.

First, my vote goes to Dennis James Skillicorn, not because he had a higher death toll, but because he wouldn't stop killing until he was busted. Second, Larry Burns. He was busted after a longer time, he had more airings on AMW, and he was busted on his alias' birthday.

I also vote for Skillicorn and Burns. An added note is that Skillicorn was one of the few AMW direct captures to be sentenced to death (and one of the even fewer to be executed).

Ok, since I don't think it's fair for a vote to be decided on my coin toss and we now have a tie (Nothing wrong with Czar voting for Hardebeck and I respect that opinion ), I'm changing my vote to Skillicorn. Very rarely do I ever not vote for a family killer, but I agree Skillicorn likely would not have stopped and he was sentenced to death which is surprisingly rare for an AMW fugitive.

My other vote is still for Sullivan since both were great captures and I just don't think that should be a shut out.

More tough ones today. But I vote for Alvarez and the Mac Minister.

I'll vote for Alvarez and Concepcion/Cross.