1200 Milestone Best Capture Contest

Realized this thread has stalled AGAIN so I'm bumping it up for 912th. (and incidentally I think the fugitive face-off has enough votes for a new round) I swear I'm not in a rush for these contests to end, just trying to help you guys out.

I'm going to experiment here and make an announcement (meaning it's displayed in every subforum) for every time a new round happens and keep it until at least three votes are achieved. That way hopefully we won't miss any

Pedro Luis Estrada and Seymour Pinckney advance to Round 4

Round 3, Division 5

Kong Chung Bounnam, #330, Nvb 18, 1994
A Laotian immigrant. In 1987, he robbed the Jade East restaurant / jewelry store in Raleigh, North Carolina, killing 3 workers and wounding 1. He managed to flee despite a gunshot wound to the leg which he never sought medical attention for. The next year, the survivors sold the restaurant because the memories of how it ended were too painful. Instead, they moved their jewelry store to East Memphis, relying on word of mouth and loyal customers to keep business flowing. Bounnam was busted in Ontario, Canada, living in secret after blending in with other East Asian communities.

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Malaika Tamu Griffin, #845, Jne 6, 2005
A southern Magna Cum Laude college chemistry graduate named to many AMW fans' year-end most wanted lists for 2000. In 1999, he got into a racist argument with a white man and shot him to death. Police found books and a weapons stockpile, proving she was armed for a war against the white race. Introduced on AMW in 2000 and profiled at least 4 times in total, an AMW tipster busted her working as a bio technology lab assistant in El Cajon, California. She's since been sentenced to life without parole.

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Stephen Edward "Two Bears" Tatro, #604/#639, Apl 1, 2000 / Jnr 8, 2001
A Native American art salesman. In December 1997, he blew away his business partner Daniel Duran with a deer rifle following a business dispute in Texas. Seeing that he was going to be profiled on the 4-02-000 broadcast of AMW, a tipster busted him in Apache Junction, AZ on April Fool's Day as Capture #604 as he was trying to sell a mule. In late August 2000, he found out a judge was going to revoke his bond. He faked heart trouble, went to a hospital, refused treatment, and escaped. 9 days after John Walsh named him his #9 most wanted fugitive of 2000, an AMW tipster busted him in rural Arizona unloading ranch supplies from a truck. He faked heart trouble again, but cops knew better that time.

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Angel Maturino Resendiz, #989, Jly 13, 1999
The Texas Railway Serial Killer, and one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted. He's pretty much confirmed to have killed 8 people in San Antonio and other cities in Texas near railroad tracks from the summer of 1997 to July 1999, including at least 1 sexual murder. He made at least 1 additional failed attempt at another sexual murder. Most of the victims were bludgeoned to death. AMW tipsters led cops to El Paso, Texas. As he crossed the bridge from Chihuahua, Mexico to El Paso, he gave up running, shook the officer's hand, and went into custody. He was executed in June 2006. He should've been capture #574, but AMW didn't take credit for his capture until April's Eve 2008, making him Capture #989.

First, my vote goes to Kong Chung Bounnam. Besides the high death toll, it was a deeply traumatic experience for the family that almost ruined their business, and he managed to blend in with his surroundings despite the untreated gunshot wound in his leg before AMW busted him.

Second, Angel Maturino Resendiz, the second most notorious serial killer ever busted by AMW.

Let's make it a clean sweep. Bounnam and Resendiz as well. Although I was a viewer for and loved the other two captures.

Kong Chung Bounnam and Angel Maturino Resendiz shut out Malaika Tamu Griffin and "Two Bears" Tatro!

Round 3, Match 6

Antonio Ramell "Squirt" Barnes and Earl Timothy "E" Jackson, #1167/#1168, Jnr 14, 2012
The first Direct Captures busted following an airing on Lifetime. In October 2009, these two believed some rivals in a Washington DC drug neighborhood stole their weapons and cash. After failing to retrieve it, they opened fire on a crowd just outside a high school. One man and an innocent 15 year old boy were killed, and 5 people were wounded. The best clue given during their All-Points Bulletin airing was each other: These two were always traveling together, and someone in Charlotte, North Carolina sent the tip in on Friday the 13th of January 2012. The next day (January 14), they were busted in a house they'd lived in for a month under a heavily armed search warrant.

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Errol and Tonya Victor, #1180/#1181, Apl 14, 2012
A fugitive couple from St. John the Baptist's Parish, Louisiana. Starting in 2004, their collective 13 sons were imprisoned in a house of horrors, starved, beaten, and forced to work nearly all hours of the day renovating the mansion. They were often punished by being forced to run laps around the property holding cinderblocks. Errol kept them away from school and brainwashed them into worshipping him as God. On April's Eve 2008, an ice cream sandwich went missing. Hoping to spare the other 12 men and boys any pain, 8 year old ML Lloyd III admitted to it. Errol grabbed a belt, tied him down, and whipped him repeatedly while Tonya stood by and did nothing to stop him. They took Lloyd to a hospital where he soon died from his wounds. In August 2011, they appeared on local news proclaiming their innocence before fleeing their trial. After Lifetime's Couples on the Run special, a tipster busted them in Tifton, Georgia. Errol had been doing handiwork and trying to start his own church, while Tonya wore a scarf and could barely speak anymore.

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Patricia Ann Kelley and John D Stoneman, #782/#783, Mrc 4, 2004
On June 24, 2003, in the worst case Guernsey County, Ohio had ever investigated, Stoneman raped and sodomized a 4 year old female spina bifida and hydroenchephalus victim who was under the care of his girlfriend Patricia Ann Kelley (#782), a Licensed Practical Nurse, as Kelley videotaped the disgusting crime. The little girl couldn't see what was happening to her or move. Stoneman was also wanted for storing child pornography on a computer in California, while Kelley had also set up video cameras in front of 2-way mirrors to record children changing their clothing in bathrooms. After 6 airings and 5 months on the show, including John Walsh's Top Ten Fugitives of 2003, this couple of creeps was busted in Toronto, Canada, where Kelley had been working at an airport restaurant. In middle 2005, they admitted to the sexual assault, the girl's family wanted the perps to suffer as miserably as possible, and a judge gave both Stoneman and Kelley two life sentences.

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Cesar Barone, #249, April 20, 1993
From April 1991 to January 1993, he sexually murdered 4 women in Oregon. He may have sexually murdered a 5th victim, an elderly former neighbor, in Florida. He was busted in Oregon, the same state where he committed most of his crimes. He was condemned to death, but in December 2009 he died of natural causes.

First, my vote goes to the Victors. In fact, if child killers qualified for it, I'd have nominated Errol Victor for the "Skeebo" Kirkland Hall of Shame because a missing ice cream sandwich drove Errol over the edge.

Second, Cesar Barone, among the deadliest sex killers in the AMW capture roster behind the Broomstick Serial Killer, and among the most underrated.

I also agree with the Victors and Barone.

I vote for Goins and Roberts. The last few contests seem to be blowouts, but I'm sure things will get tougher when we get to Round 4.

Christopher Cornelius Goins and David James Roberts advance to Round 4

Round 3, Match 8

Kenneth Sorrell "Boobie" Williams, #566, May 23, 1999
A legendary South Florida drug czar and commander of the Boobie Boys drug gang. His revenue was conservatively estimated at 85 Megadollars, and his underlings had murdered at least 35 people. He was busted in Clarkston, Georgia, and as he went down, he wet himself "like a frightened child". Rumors say he got 3 life sentences.

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William White Graham, #247, Apl 14, 1993
In Oct 1972, he joined forces with an old friend of his from high school for a bank heist plot. It went haywire, and from the bank to the airplane he boarded to flee, he killed 3 people and wounded 2. The fugitives spent most of the next 2 decades in and around Cuba. One by one, the conspirators fell, until Graham surrendered in Washington, DC under mounting pressure from AMW. At 20.5 years, it set a record for oldest case AMW had ever solved at the time. To this day, it's the oldest triple homicide AMW has ever solved.

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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.

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Kenneth Allen McDuff, #202, May 4, 1992
His series of 14 murders started in August 1966, in Fort Worth, Texas. He shot 2 people dead and sexually murdered a teenage girl in Fort Worth, Texas. Sent to the electric chair, they commuted his sentence literally seconds before he would've been fried. He was released in 1989, and over less than 3 years, he murdered the other 11+ victims. An AMW tipster busted him in Kansas City, Missouri, making a delivery for a refuse collection company just a few weeks after the last murder. He was executed in November 1998, becoming the first AMW capture to die by such.

The first one was the hardest of this round. A drug gang responsible for dozens of murders, or AMW's oldest solved triple homicide? In the end, I voted for Graham for the impressive way they convinced him to surrender, and how far he'd traveled to stay on the run until he returned to DC.

The second was easily the Broomstick Serial Killer.