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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
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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
    • Announcer…
    Ashleigh Banfield
    Ashleigh Banfield
    Lena Nozizwe
    Sanford Strong
    Chuck Shepherd
    David L. Gandy
    • Hotline Operator
    Jacque Temple
    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

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      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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    Way to fight back John!
    In the summer of 1981 in Hollywood, Florida when Adam Walsh was abducted and murdered it sent off a panic and fear all over the United States. The father of Adam that being John Walsh lobbied Congress to pass the Missing Children's Bill to facilitate the police in such cases all around the country and a national center for missing children was even created. Then in 1988 John Walsh with his special interest had a nationwide show "America's Most Wanted" which was seen as a criminal search. By 1995 350 profiled criminals had been captured with the help of viewer tips. This series is so popular that it still currently shows on FOX and has made host John Walsh so well known that he is considered a celebrity to many people. The most terrible crimes such as murder and rape and serial killings are profiled so this is serious stuff. John Walsh may have lost a son to crime but he fights for not only Adam but many other victims to show the rights of a victim must be noticed and most important of all the goal is to catch a criminal.
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      • February 7, 1988 (United States)
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      • Miami, Florida, USA
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      • 20th Century Fox Television
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      • STF Productions
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