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45 Episodes 2008 - 2009
Episode 1
Sat, Sep 6, 2008 60 mins
The 22nd season opens with a report on an August 2008 prison break in which eight men escaped from a Clovis, N.M. jail. Other fugitives include a Chicago surgeon wanted on insurance-fraud and malpractice charges who has been missing since 2004; and a Trenton, N.J., man alleged to have started a fire that killed his brother. Also: a report on the capture of a Philadelphia kidnapping suspect in July 2008; a update on the case of a Washington State rock musician who has been missing since 2005.
Episode 2
Sat, Sep 13, 2008 60 mins
A report on the August 2008 escape of an Indiana woman serving a 110-year sentence for her role in a double murder. Featured fugitives include an Orlando-area man wanted for vehicular homicide; a Virginia man accused of molesting two girls over a four-year period; a Pittsburgh-area man charged with murdering a woman during a home invasion; and Honduran immigrant Alexis Flores, who's on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List for allegedly killing a 5-year-old Philadelphia girl in 2000.
Episode 3
Sat, Sep 20, 2008 60 mins
A report on the hunt for prisoners still at large following their August 2008 escape from a county jail in Clovis, N.M. Other featured fugitives include Connecticut and California men accused of murdering their girlfriends; the unknown perpetrators of a Newark, N.J., liquor-store robbery-murder; and a Utah man wanted for assaulting his 16-year-old female roommate with a blowtorch and a screwdriver.
Episode 4
Sat, Sep 27, 2008 60 mins
Featured fugitives include a man wanted for setting a fire that killed his roommate at a Fort Lauderdale assisted-living facility; and an Indiana prison escapee who had been convicted for her role in the killing of her roommates. Also: a Texas murder convict who escaped from prison; and a North Carolina man wanted for assaulting his girlfriend.
Episode 5
Sat, Oct 4, 2008 60 mins
An update on the hunt for the killers of a Sacramento man and his infant son during a 2007 home invasion. Featured fugitives include a bouncer at a Pittsburgh bar wanted in the shooting death of a patron; a California man who allegedly stabbed his girlfriend's cousin to death in 2004; a Missouri woman accused of murdering a woman who had been seeing her estranged husband; and a California man wanted for attempting to kill his ex-girlfriend.
Episode 6
Sat, Oct 11, 2008 60 mins
Featured fugitives include an Indian immigrant living in Montreal who's accused of killing his wife; a Tampa man charged with offering a woman $20 in exchange for sex with her preschool children; an Orange County, Cal., man wanted on a 2003 date-rape charge; and a Bronx, N.Y., man who allegedly drove into a woman (who had jilted him) and her 22-month-old son. The boy was killed. Also: a report on the capture of Oregon transgender murder suspect David Wayne French.
Episode 7
Sat, Nov 1, 2008 60 mins
The featured fugitive: L.A's "Grim Sleeper," who has killed at least 11 people (10 of them women) since 1985. The body of the most recent known victim was found in January 2007. Interviewees include Los Angeles police chief William Bratton. Also: the hunt for the killer of a homeless man who was burned to death in Los Angeles.
Episode 8
Sat, Nov 8, 2008 60 mins
Reenactments are used to recall a cold case: the murder of 19-year-old Melissa "Missy" Witt, who was abducted from the parking lot of a Fort Smith, Ark., bowling alley on Dec. 1, 1994. Witt's body was found in a wooded area in January 1995. The segment includes an interview with Witt's mother. Also: Host John Walsh visits the site of the future U.S. Marshals Museum in Fort Smith.
Episode 9
Sat, Nov 15, 2008 60 mins
Femme-fatale suspects are spotlighted. Included: updates on Jacqueline Tarsa LeBaron, the daughter of a Utah polygamous-sect leader wanted for her involvement in the murders of four people; and escaped Indiana murder convict Sarah Pender. Also: a report on an Idaho woman wanted in connection with the 1995 shooting death of her father and the 1998 death of her mother, who was found in a hot tub.
Episode 10
Sat, Nov 22, 2008 60 mins
Reports on Caribbean drug smuggling and a ring of alleged traffickers in Haitian refugees---including some that police say died at sea. Spotlighted fugitives include Yaser Said, a Dallas-area taxi driver wanted for murdering his teen daughters. Also: an update on the 2007 murder of Randi Gorenberg, who was last seen alive at a Boca Raton, Fla., shopping mall.
Episode 11
Sat, Nov 29, 2008 60 mins
Reports on the arrests of Robert Bowman, who is accused of the 1967 murder of a 14-year-old Ohio girl, and Roger McCray, who's accused of setting a fire that killed his roommate in a Florida assisted-living facility. Featured fugitives include the third suspect in the September 2008 slaying of former Baltimore city councilman Kenneth Harris Sr. (the others were already caught); and Eddie Hicks, a former Chicago cop wanted on racketeering and drug charges.
Episode 12
Sat, Dec 6, 2008 60 mins
Featured fugitives include a man accused of murdering a 10-year-old New Mexico boy in 2005; and a Nigerian accused of stealing the identities---and millions of dollars---from Americans, including a U.S. Court of Appeals judge. Also: an update on the hunt for the killer of a 17-year-old Chicago runaway in 2007; and a report on methamphetamine trafficking in Minnesota and North Dakota.
Episode 13
Sat, Dec 13, 2008 60 mins
A report on the deaths of murder suspects Tina Loesch and Sky Hanson, who committed suicide in Arizona just after being profiled on "America's Most Wanted" on Nov. 15, 2008. The two women were wanted in connection with Loesch's mother's death in Idaho in 1998. Also: an update on the search for Joey Lynn Offutt, a Pennsylvania woman who has been missing since her house burned down in July 2007. Featured fugitives include female murder suspects in Oklahoma and Illinois.
Episode 14
Sat, Dec 20, 2008 60 mins
A countdown of the series' Top 10 fugitives of 2008. Included: Muammer Aldailam of the Bronx, N.Y., and Jeffrey Marshall of Fresno, Cal., who are wanted for the murder of their former girlfriends; and Cinthya Rodriguez of Moreno Valley, Cal., who's wanted in connection with the murder of her former boyfriend. Also: escaped Indiana murder convict Sarah Pender; and the unknown killers of five women in a clothing store in Tinley Park, Ill., in February 2008.
Episode 15
Sat, Dec 27, 2008 60 mins
Featured fugitives include a Mississippi man accused of murdering his mother; a Honduran man wanted for the 2000 rape-murder of a 5-year-old Philadelphia girl; and Phoenix murder-robbery suspect Jason Derek Brown, who is one of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted. Also: a salute to Oakland policeman James Gantt, who saved a carjacking victim; and a Good Samaritan story about Vicki Ragins, who performed CPR on an injured baby in a 2004 accident on the Florida Turnpike.
Episode 16
Sat, Jan 3, 2009 60 mins
Episode 17
Sat, Jan 17, 2009 60 mins
An update on the case of an Egyptian-born Dallas-area cabdriver wanted for the January 2008 murders of his daughters. Police think they could have been honor killings. Other featured fugitives include a Haitian immigrant charged with killing his family in North Miami, Fla., in 1996. Also: a report on the October 2008 capture of a couple wanted for molesting two children in Indiana in 2000; an update on the probe of letters complaining about college cheerleaders that contain a powdery substance.
Episode 18
Sat, Jan 24, 2009 60 mins
A report on the capture in Mexico of a Connecticut man wanted for the August 2008 slaying of his former girlfriend. Featured fugitives include an Albanian man wanted for the 2001 slaying of a young woman in the Albanian capital, Tirana. Four years later, the victim's sister says she spotted him in Washington, D.C. Also featured: a California man accused of molesting his 12-year-old daughter; and an Arizona man accused of killing his wife and two children, then burning down his house.
Episode 19
Sat, Jan 31, 2009 60 mins
Featured fugitives include a Houston man wanted for killing his girlfriend in 2007; a North Carolina man wanted in connection with his girlfriend's murder in 2008; and an Arizona businesswoman who fled following a securities-fraud conviction. Also: an update on the search for ex-police officer Dan Hiers, accused of murdering his wife in 2005 and molesting a 10-year-old in 2004; and a report on the search for Kyle Fleischmann of Charlotte, N.C., who has been missing since November 2007.
Episode 20
Fri, Feb 6, 2009 60 mins
Featured fugitives include a Lancaster, Cal., man wanted for killing his girlfriend with a sword in front of her children in July 2008; the "Arleta rapist," who's accused of a string of assaults on young women in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley in 2004; a Queens, N.Y., man on the run from a fatal shooting at a wedding reception in Hicksville, N.Y., in 1999; and an alleged con man from Jamaica who targeted Florida church congregations. Also: segments on the murders of two homeless men in Los Angeles.
Episode 21
Sat, Feb 14, 2009 60 mins
An interview with convicted Indiana murderer Sarah Pender, who was captured in Chicago following her December 2008 appearance on "America's Most Wanted." Pender had escaped from prison in August 2008 with the help of a guard. Also: a report on a Texas fugitive task force made up of U.S. marshals and Lone Star State law-enforcement officers. Other featured fugitives include a Fresno man wanted for murdering his girlfriend in 1999 and the unknown killer of a Bronx mechanic in 2007.
Episode 22
Sat, Feb 21, 2009 60 mins
Pauley Perrette ("NCIS") spotlights the unsolved murders of her friend Lisa Williamson, who died in a firebombing in her parents' Detroit home in 2007, and 11-year-old Shannon Paulk, whose body was found near her Alabama home in 2001. Also: a report on the capture of Michael Bresnahan, who was wanted for sexually assaulting a Central Massachusetts woman during a 2007 home invasion. Featured fugitives include Glen Holmes, who's accused of killing a man during a 2006 suburban Houston carjacking.
Episode 23
Sat, Feb 28, 2009 60 mins
An interview with the parents of Erika Smith, a Virginia 14-year-old who was murdered in 2002. The killer has not been apprehended. Also: a report on the trafficking of kidnapped young Mexican women for sex slavery in the U.S; alerts on missing children from Florida, California and Oklahoma. Featured fugitives include Frank Briseno, a suspect accused as being the "Arleta rapist," who's wanted for a string of rapes in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley in 2004.
Episode 24
Sat, Mar 7, 2009 60 mins
A segment on the unsolved murder of snowboarder Benjamin Bradley, whose body was discovered in a Wyoming desert in 2006, features fellow snowboarder Jesse Csincsak, the winning contestant on the 2008 edition of "The Bachelorette." Also: The search for a former Army sergeant convicted of sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl in New Jersey; a Milwaukee man wanted for his connection to several 1999 murders involving rival drug gangs.
Episode 25
Sat, Mar 14, 2009 60 mins
Included: a report on the effort to identify the charred remains of a child found just off I-195 in central New Jersey in 2005; and an update on the 1990 art heist at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Featured fugitives include a Los Angeles man wanted for the 1998 execution-style murders of two members of a rival gang and the rape-murder of his girlfriend.
Episode 26
Sat, Mar 21, 2009 60 mins
A report on the unsolved 2006 murder of 16-year-old Wendale Davis from Bakersfield, Cal., includes an interview with Davis' father, Wesley, who started a foundation in Wendale's memory to aid at-risk youth. Included: foundation members and teens visit a women's prison in Chowchilla, Cal. Also: an Amber Alert report on Illinois brothers, 7 and 9, believed to have been taken by their father; an update on the hunt for a Georgia escort-service owner wanted in connection with a 2007 murder.
Episode 27
Sat, Mar 28, 2009 60 mins
Host John Walsh accompanies retired FBI agent Wilfred Baptiste to the U.S. Virgin Islands to report on the 2003 slaying of Baptiste's brother, Richard, a corrections officer who was killed while moonlighting as a movie-theater security guard. Walsh also publicizes a 2006 quadruple murder in a St. Thomas bar. And in Key West, Fla., Walsh and a Coast Guard official discuss how authorities are combating drug smuggling from Colombia by submarine.
Episode 28
Sat, Apr 4, 2009 60 mins
Featured fugitives include a Los Angeles man accused of murdering his girlfriend with a sword in July 2008 in front of their three children and her 9-year-old daughter, who called 911; an Arizona man charged with a 2008 murder in a mobile home; a worker at a Virginia golf resort accused of killing two coworkers in March 2009; and an Oregon sex offender who fled following his parole in December 2008.
Episode 29
Sat, Apr 11, 2009 60 mins
Featured fugitives include a Zambian national accused of stabbing his estranged girlfriend to death in front of her 14-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son in their North Miami Beach, Fla., apartment in December 2008. Also: updates on the 1990 art heist at Boston's Gardner Museum and the search for a Virginia golf-resort worker accused of killing two coworkers in March 2009; and a report on a cold case that might be warming up---the 1988 kidnap-murder of an 8-year-old Fort Wayne, Ind., girl.
Episode 30
Sat, Apr 25, 2009 60 mins
Cases include a mass murder in New Mexico. The bodies of more than 10 women and a fetus have been unearthed in a mass grave outside Albuquerque (two that have been identified were reported missing in 2004), triggering a hunt for a serial killer. Also: a gang members "most wanted" list, compiled by the U.S. Justice Department's Gang Targeting, Enforcement & Coordination Center (GangTECC). Other featured fugitives include a sheriff's deputy from suburban Atlanta wanted for killing his wife.
Episode 31
Sat, May 16, 2009 60 mins
A report on Mexican drug violence and its spillover into the U.S. Host John Walsh reports from Tijuana and the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego. Featured fugitives include drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman-Loera ("El Chapo"), whose net worth has been estimated at $1 billion by Forbes magazine; and Joseph Garcia, a reputed enforcer for the Mexican Gulf cartel, who's wanted for murder in Laredo, Texas. Also: a report on the kidnapping of drug criminals for ransom in the Phoenix area.
Episode 32
Sat, May 23, 2009 60 mins
A salute to the 2009 "AMW All-Star": Peoria, Ariz., police detective William Weigt, who remains on the job even though he has been paralyzed from the waist down since being shot by a suspect in 2005. Featured fugitives include a North Carolina man accused of killing his girlfriend; a British Columbia man wanted for killing four men during an argument in a gym; a Rhode Island gymnastics coach who's a suspected child molester; and a suspected Colorado con artist.
Episode 33
Sat, May 30, 2009 60 mins
Host John Walsh dissects the questionable murder case against Dale Helmig of Linn, Mo., who was convicted of murdering his mother in 1993 and was sentenced to life in prison following a trial in which the prosecution relied heavily on circumstantial evidence. His cause was later taken up by the Innocence Project at Illinois State University.
Episode 34
Sat, Jun 6, 2009 60 mins
A report on drag racer Mustapha Atat, who's wanted for his role in a 2001 Detroit street race in which an innocent bystander died. Atat has been seen in the United Arab Emirates---a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the U.S. Also: an update on the hunt for a serial killer in L.A. called the Grim Sleeper, who's said to be responsible for more than 10 murders since 1985.
Episode 35
Sat, Jun 13, 2009 60 mins
A report on the hunt for child molesters focuses on high-tech police tracking of Internet child pornography, and follows members of Florida's CyberCrime unit as they team up with federal, state and local law-enforcement personnel to go after suspects.
Episode 36
Sat, Jun 20, 2009 60 mins
A report on identity theft focuses on one victim's effort to fight back.
Episode 37
Sat, Jun 27, 2009 60 mins
Episode 38
Sat, Jul 11, 2009 60 mins
A cold case warming up: the 1988 kidnap-murder of 8-year-old April Tinsley of Fort Wayne, Ind. In 2004, notes began turning up that authorities believe were written by her killer.
Episode 39
Sat, Jul 18, 2009 60 mins
Episode 40
Sat, Jul 25, 2009 60 mins
Episode 41
Sat, Aug 1, 2009 60 mins
Cases include the murder of former WBC welterweight champion Vernon Forrest in Atlanta on July 25, 2009, and the 2007 murder of an Atlanta-area businessman (an escort-service owner is wanted in connection with the slaying). Also: an update on the search for Roberto Solis, who's accused of a 1993 heist at a Las Vegas casino that netted more than $3 million. A woman involved in the robbery, Heather Tallchief, surrendered to authorities in 2005.
Episode 42
Sat, Aug 8, 2009 60 mins
Reports on the captures of one of the men wanted for the June 2009 murder of boxer Vernon Forrest in Atlanta; an alleged Texas drunk driver charged with causing two deaths in 2005; and the ringleader of an alleged sexual-assault ring in Florida. Also: updates on escapees, including Glen Stewart Godwin, a murder convict who broke out of Folsom Prison in California in 1987. He was later convicted on drug charges in Mexico, but escaped from prison there after allegedly murdering a fellow inmate.
Episode 43
Sat, Aug 15, 2009 60 mins
Updates on the searches for 14-year-old Amber DuBois of Escondido, Cal., who has been missing since February 2009, and the killers of U.S. Border Patrol agent Robert Rosas, who was shot to death on the Mexican border near Campo, Cal., on July 23, 2009; a report on Florida's digital child-pornography dragnet Operation Orange Tree. Featured fugitives include Dr. Mark Weinberger, an Indiana sinus specialist wanted for health-care fraud, who has been missing since 2004.
Episode 44
Sat, Aug 22, 2009 60 mins
A report on the search for Kristi Leigh Cornwell of Blairsville, Ga., who was kidnapped Aug. 11, 2009. Featured fugitives include a former South Carolina police officer wanted for the murder of his wife and sexually molesting an 11-year-old girl; an Oklahoma man charged with the 2002 murder of a Vietnam veteran in the wake of an argument over the 9/11 attacks; a Florida man wanted for child molestation; and a Mexican national wanted for the murder of a mother of two near New Orleans in 2006
Episode 45
Sat, Aug 29, 2009 60 mins