1200 Milestone Best Capture Contest

First votes tough, but my votes for Graham, due to his length of time on the run, even though Williams had a technically higher body count.

Second votes for McDuff.

First one actually isn't that hard for me but man oh man is that second vote tough.

First vote is for Brashar. Because aside from the cold case status, he got life in prison, and Raysor received a much lighter sentence.

Second vote is so so so tough. I based it on this, Skillicorn was already in prison for one of the six murders. So if you count the murders while fugitives, both had four in total in the U.S., Alvarez's victims included two children. So my VERY, VERY slight edge goes to Alvarez for that reason.

Sorry it's been so long. I was counting on more votes before I realized it'd been a week. Anyways, the first two Quarterfinalists are set. Michael Blane Brashar and Dennis James Skillicorn!

Round 4, Match 2

Alan Eugene White, #435, Nvb 9, 1996
The lead story on the first broadcast of America Fights Back, and one of John Walsh's earliest Public Enemy #1s. In Salina, Kansas, in July 1996, he bludgeoned a 5 year old boy and his great grandmother to death, and sexually murdered the elderly woman's daughter. He was busted in Boston, Massachusetts 4 months after the massacre, watching a movie in a homeless shelter. He was spared the death penalty, but got a 14 decade sentence with no chance of parole.

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Vergilio Pablo Paz-Romero, #148, Apl 23, 1991
A self-proclaimed Cuban anti-Communist. In September 1976, the Chilean government hired him to assassinate a foreign ambassador with a remote-controlled bomb in Washington, DC. 2 people, including the former ambassador he targeted were killed, and 3 were wounded. 14.6 years later, AMW tips led to Boynton Beach, Florida, where he was running a landscaping business. Before he was busted, he picked a shootout with the police, which was caught on tape.

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Pedro Luis Estrada, #73, Oct 1, 1989
A former professional boxer on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. In 1985, he was involved in drug trafficking and robberies. From May to August 1986, he shot 7 people dead in drug contract hits. He was busted in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, unarmed where his parents were staying.

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Seymour Pinckney, #79, Oct 22, 1989
For years, he'd beaten and molested his common-law wife's 4 young daughters. In 1978, he killed his common-law wife and the eldest stepdaughter in New Jersey. After 11 years, this prolific child molester turned family destroyer was busted in Mathews Court House, Virginia.

These are hard ones. Alan Eugene White was wanted for 3 murders, including the beating death of a child and the sexual murder of a woman about 6 decades old. Vergilio Pablo Paz-Romero killed 2 people with his bomb, including an ambassador, he was apparently doing government work for Chile, and his last shootout was caught on tape.

In the end, I voted for Paz-Romero because government work is such a big deal.

Second, Pedro Luis Estrada killed 7 people in drug contact hits, then cops beat the odds and busted him unarmed, and he was among the deadliest AMW Captures off the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. Seymour Pinckney killed 2, including a woman he'd molested when she was younger.

In the end, I voted for Seymour Pinckney because I hate people who molest children, then later kill their past victims. It's almost as bad as murder during a sexual assault.

About the voting 912th. With this site still relatively new and with not as many posters as AMW.com's old boards just yet (hopefully that can change with it getting mentioned in national media articles recently), I think three votes has been the average for these contests. Since these are the later rounds it makes sense to want to wait for more votes but since three votes hasn't stopped us before, just my advice you may as well go on to the next round if too many days pass with just that amount.

Anyway, I vote for Alan Eugene White because of how important the capture was- the first after AMW returned from their post-cancellation. It proved the show still worked. Even on Lifetime, it took over a month to get their first capture (s). White set off a second run on Fox of many amazing captures.

Second vote is for Estrada for the higher death toll, being on the FBI's top 10 list, and being a somewhat known boxer.

Vergilio Pablo Paz-Romero defeats Alan Eugene White 1 to 3, and Pedro Luis Estrada defeats Seymour Pinckney 3 to 1.

Round 4, Match 3

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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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.

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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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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.

My votes go to serial killers Angel Maturino Resendiz and Cesar Barone.

I think I'll give this contest a go

My first vote goes to Resendiz. Despite the fact AMW took nearly a decade to count him as a direct capture, it changes nothing about his case. I don't know if AMW ever interviewed the woman who was raped but survived (her boyfriend was killed) but I saw her interviewed on that old A&E show "I Survived..." and she still lives with the pain of that attack to this day. His crime spree also carried him across multiple states, which to me speaks volumes about how violent he is.

The second one was really tough for me. The Victors were probably the most emotional case ever profiled on the Lifetime era of the show, but Barone was a serial rapist and murderer. In the end, I'll cast my vote for Barone.

Angel Maturino Resendiz and Cesar Barone shut out Kong Chung Bounnam and the Victors. Last match-up of Round 4 begins... now!

Round 4, Match 4

Christopher Cornelius Goins and Monique Michelle Littlejohn, #325/#326, Nvb 17, 1994
The trouble started with a sexual relationship Goins was having with a 14 year old girl in Richmond, Virginia named Tamika Jones. Before long, he got her pregnant. In October 1994, someone tried to view the ultrasound images. In an attempt to cover it all up, he opened fire on the entire family. The girl's parents, her 7 month old fetus, and 3 of her younger siblings were killed in the bloodbath. The 14 year old girl and her youngest sibling were wounded. Monique Michelle Littlejohn (#326) was Goins' girlfriend at the time. She was a convicted drug dealer and forger charged as an accessory to the massacre for storing Goins' guns and ammo. They were both busted in a Brooklyn, New York apartment. Condemned to death in July 1995, Goins was executed in December of 2000.

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David James Roberts, #1, Fbr 11, 1988
A master criminal out of Indiana and one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. He has been in trouble with the law nearly his entire adulthood. In 1974, he murdered a couple and blew up their home, leaving their baby to die of smoke inhalation. A few months later, he raped a woman and set down her infant son just outside of her car, leaving the little boy to die of cold air exposure. He was caught and condemned to death, then he got commuted to 6 life terms. In October 1986, he escaped from prison. He was busted working as a coordinator for a homeless shelter in Staten Island, New York. He's currently serving 6 life terms as before he escaped.

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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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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.

First, my vote goes to Christopher Cornelius Goins for the deaths of 2 adults, 3 young children, and 1 unborn fetus above David James Roberts' 2 adults and 2 babies.

Second, my vote goes to my favorite capture in the roster, Kenneth Allen McDuff.