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America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back

Original title: America's Most Wanted
  • TV Series
  • 1988–20131988–2013
  • TV-PGTV-PG
  • 1h
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7.2/10
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Don LaFontaine and John Walsh in America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back (1988)
DocumentaryCrime
True crimes are dramatized in hopes that viewers can give information leading to the capture of the criminals.True crimes are dramatized in hopes that viewers can give information leading to the capture of the criminals.True crimes are dramatized in hopes that viewers can give information leading to the capture of the criminals.
IMDb RATING
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2.1K
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  • Stars
    • John Walsh
    • Daniel David Sim
    • Don LaFontaine
  • Stars
    • John Walsh
    • Daniel David Sim
    • Don LaFontaine
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    • 23User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    • Won 1 Primetime Emmy

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    John Walsh
    John Walsh
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    Daniel David Sim
    Daniel David Sim
    • FBI Agent
    Don LaFontaine
    Don LaFontaine
    • Announcer
    Jon Leiberman
    Jon Leiberman
    • Self - Correspondent…
    Angeline Hartmann
    • Self…
    Tom Morris
    • Self - Correspondent…
    John Turchin
    • Self - Correspondent
    Michelle Sigona
    • Self - Correspondent…
    Ed Miller
    • Self - Correspondent
    Patrick Michael Strange
    Patrick Michael Strange
    • Hotline Operator…
    David Sontag
    David Sontag
    • Truck driver
    Wes Johnson
    Wes Johnson
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    Ashleigh Banfield
    Ashleigh Banfield
    Lena Nozizwe
    Sanford Strong
    Chuck Shepherd
    David L. Gandy
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    Jacque Temple
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    • Trivia
      The show's most spectacular success was the case of John List, who had murdered his entire family almost 20 years earlier. Thanks to an amazingly accurate forensic sculpture to account for his age since his last known photograph, List was captured on June 1, 1989, less than a week after the broadcast. He had adopted the pseudonym Robert Clark, and lived in Denver, Colorado and Midlothian, Virginia. On April 12, 1990, a New Jersey court convicted him of five counts of first-degree murder, and he was sentenced to five life terms in prison. List died March 21, 2008, in a Trenton, New Jersey prison from complications of pneumonia. He was 82.
    • Quotes

      [Repeated Line]

      John Walsh: And remember, you can make a difference.

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      Featured in Bad to the Bone (1997)
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      Check The Lock
      Written by Carlos Villalobos

      Performed by Carlos Villalobos

      Courtesy of Quantum Tracks/APM Music

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    I have found it more difficult to maintain respect for this show and what it seems to stand for. Since when is it necessary to post credit card information to participate in a meassage board. But after watching John Walsh and his show it seems to be more about him and his ego, than the over all good of the people they are supposed to be serving. As cruel as it sounds it is hard to respect a man who has made millions on his child's pain and suffering. What I once saw as a noble cause with people who seemed to be above reproach is just a bunch of phony baloney dribble. So buy a tee shirt or two and make a shallow schmuck rich. Good Day....
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    • Release date
      • February 7, 1988 (United States)
      • United States
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      • Miami, Florida, USA
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      • 20th Century Fox Television
      • Fox Productions
      • STF Productions
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