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Post by pakman on Mar 5, 2015 23:42:54 GMT -5
Not the greatest picture, but here it is! Also, I'm not sure why I didn't mention Gomez on my "Still at large" list. I knew he was still wanted - an Oklahoma Fox affiliate profiled him as part of a state's most wanted feature about a year and a half ago - but neglected to put him on. I probably completely ignored his episode since it was also John Walsh's Top 10 and assumed that no new fugitives were profiled Attachments:
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Post by pakman on Mar 5, 2015 11:03:16 GMT -5
Of course! I'll do it when I get done with work
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Post by pakman on Mar 3, 2015 9:31:52 GMT -5
You know what's freaky? Ruffo kind of looks like a relative of mine, especially in those age-enhanced photos! I guarantee it's not him (my relative has lived in suburban Chicago his entire life) but it's still weird...
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Post by pakman on Mar 3, 2015 7:58:13 GMT -5
This case was never profiled on the show itself, but it may have been profiled on the Radio Show (don't have enough info sadly). It was at least on amw.com (it appears to have been added to the site circa 2008).
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Post by pakman on Mar 2, 2015 9:39:31 GMT -5
Didn't realize they actually had a license plate connected to Salgado. Wonder if they ever found the car? (Doubtful he's still driving it)
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Post by pakman on Feb 28, 2015 18:48:21 GMT -5
Four days late, but here's the age-enhanced composite that AMW aired. Attachments:
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Post by pakman on Feb 27, 2015 12:00:51 GMT -5
Actually, Torres was a BOLO AMW's website was really bad with uploading when fugitives were actually profiled.
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Post by pakman on Feb 26, 2015 10:27:41 GMT -5
In the bizarre news category, I found this article that talks about a former home for Warren Jeffs being opened to the public as a bed and breakfast. Even more bizarre? The owner is a former Jeffs bodyguard who successfully sued the polygamist leader two years ago! Willie Jessop said he wanted to create the hotel so that something positive could come out of such a terrible situation. The best part is that the name of the hotel is the "America's Most Wanted Bed and Breakfast." www.good4utah.com/story/d/story/a-house-built-for-the-flds-leader-is-now-a-bed-and/17597/fRsfHPxB8UK-fjW5JF7Wwg
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Post by pakman on Feb 25, 2015 12:49:11 GMT -5
So glad Greer's going to get a profile! Of all the cases AMW aired over the years, his more than any other completely baffled me - how was this guy able to get away every single time?! I believe (if my memory is correct) he was profiled 15 times from 2007-2011, and yet somehow he always got away.
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Post by pakman on Feb 25, 2015 11:42:35 GMT -5
Tonight, a Georgia woman convicted of a murder plot to kill her husband is scheduled to be executed. Kelly Gissander, 47, had her clemency appeal denied Wednesday. What's interesting is that Georgia has not executed a woman in 70 years. The last woman they executed, Lena Baker, was posthumously exonerated. Something interesting about this article is that CNN includes a slideshow of all the women in the nation who are currently on death row. I'm too lazy/busy to look through the whole list, but there's a couple familiar faces on here. This includes AMW Capture #532, Virginia Caudill (convicted of killing a 75-year-old woman along with Jonathan Goforth, who is AMW Capture #538) and Brenda Andrew, an indirect capture from 2001 (convicted of arranging the murder of her estranged husband; Andrew's boyfriend, Jim Pavatt, was convicted of being the triggerman). www.cnn.com/2015/02/25/us/georgia-execution-kelly-renee-gissendaner/
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Post by pakman on Feb 24, 2015 17:21:53 GMT -5
This was the first case I can remember where AMW commissioned an age-enhanced sketch of a composite sketch. Kind of curious as to how that works, but I know AMW did it in this case and the Las Cruces murders. I'll see if I can find the age-enhanced sketch of the sketch (pretend that made sense) and post it here.
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Post by pakman on Feb 24, 2015 9:45:32 GMT -5
Keep in mind that there could be extenuating factors that we don't know about in these cases that have caused these sentences. I've noticed in my job that any past criminal history, unless directly linked to the case at hand, will never be brought up at trial. I covered a murder trial once where it was never brought up that the defendant had been convicted of drug charges in the past and that, at the time of his arrest, he was about to be released from jail after a drug arrest. And there was another murder trial I covered where the defendant had actually been convicted of embezzlement, but it never came up at trial.
With the alleged sex predators, perhaps the victims decided they didn't want to cooperate anymore or were too afraid to testify. I see a lot of cases in my job that fall apart because of witnesses not cooperating. In one case, two guys had their attempted murder charges dropped because the sole witness suddenly decided he didn't want to talk to prosecutors anymore. Both suspects pleaded to lesser charges and got probation.
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Post by pakman on Feb 23, 2015 11:32:07 GMT -5
Your reasoning makes sense. What I'd also like to know is why they profiled him twice in the same month in 2005. Was there updates? Even if they didn't SAY they got some good leads, airing him so soon afterwards would indicate they did. They didn't - that's a website error He was profiled once in 2004 and once in 2005.
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Post by pakman on Feb 23, 2015 9:40:58 GMT -5
I'm convinced East was profiled before 2004, based on evidence in the profile itself. Firstly, the old AMW theme music is playing in the background during the profile (AMW hadn't used that music in about 10 months at the time of his August 2004 airing). The detective AMW interviewed was credited as being retired at the time of his 2004 airing, and in the interview with the victim's sister, she said, "He needs to be stopped. That's why I called America's Most Wanted to see that justice can prevail." The quality of the interview appears to have been done about the same time of the murders, which leads me to believe AMW aired East sometime around 1995-1996.
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Post by pakman on Feb 20, 2015 17:38:58 GMT -5
Unfortunately, there's nothing else for me to add. One odd thing about the Purpose Over Pain cases was that I had actually never heard of any of them. I have an odd theory that the Purpose Over Pain murders haven't been solved because of a lack of publicity. Supporting this theory is the fact that well-publicized murders (such as Derrion Albert) tend to get solved. The sad truth is that so many Chicago teens are killed, there's probably not enough time to publicize all of them.
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