Post by rafs007 on Jan 27, 2020 9:23:59 GMT -5
In about 1996/97 my mother told me about a 1 minute segment she saw from America's Most Wanted tv show. The narrator indicated there were two middle aged men traveling west to east (I believe she indicated highway 40) going from California to the East. One white one black traveling in a Ford Pinto. They stopped off the freeway at a convenience store. One of the two men pulled a gun, robbed then shot and killed the convenience store owner/service clerk.
The reason my mother told me about this segment was because a year or two before she was visiting with an older lady friend who mentioned to her how her son and another man had found an employment opportunity back east and would be driving across the states in a Ford Pinto. Her lady friend mentioned her son's friend was black. Thus, it triggered in my mother's mind the possibility of them being the same.
Some time after this, maybe 1998, it came to my mind to call into America's Most Wanted 1-800 number. I spoke to a receptionist and explained the information I had and asked if she could some how go back in the show's history and find the season and episode number wherein it was mentioned about a Ford Pinto and two men, one white and one black that had committed this crime. She said she could not. It was up to me to tell her the season and episode number. We were at an impasse and the call ended.
America's Most Wanted soon ended its air time and most of the episodes never made it to youtube and as far as I know information becomes less and less known. I have attempted to randomly search for crimes across many mid-western states with search queries like Ford Pinto, two men one white and one black, convenience store homicide but have never found the event.
My mother and her lady friend have passed away. I alone retain some circumstantial information about this crime. The crime may have been committed between 1993 to 1995 or there about in some state in which the 40 passes through by two middle aged men, one white, one black driving a Ford Pinto. If anyone can identify the city, state and year where this crime occurred this criminal mystery might be resolved and the family of the victim might have additional closure.
The reason my mother told me about this segment was because a year or two before she was visiting with an older lady friend who mentioned to her how her son and another man had found an employment opportunity back east and would be driving across the states in a Ford Pinto. Her lady friend mentioned her son's friend was black. Thus, it triggered in my mother's mind the possibility of them being the same.
Some time after this, maybe 1998, it came to my mind to call into America's Most Wanted 1-800 number. I spoke to a receptionist and explained the information I had and asked if she could some how go back in the show's history and find the season and episode number wherein it was mentioned about a Ford Pinto and two men, one white and one black that had committed this crime. She said she could not. It was up to me to tell her the season and episode number. We were at an impasse and the call ended.
America's Most Wanted soon ended its air time and most of the episodes never made it to youtube and as far as I know information becomes less and less known. I have attempted to randomly search for crimes across many mid-western states with search queries like Ford Pinto, two men one white and one black, convenience store homicide but have never found the event.
My mother and her lady friend have passed away. I alone retain some circumstantial information about this crime. The crime may have been committed between 1993 to 1995 or there about in some state in which the 40 passes through by two middle aged men, one white, one black driving a Ford Pinto. If anyone can identify the city, state and year where this crime occurred this criminal mystery might be resolved and the family of the victim might have additional closure.
