America's Most Wanted - Holy crap, I know that guy!

[Skammer]

In the recent thread about selling or keeping your high school yearbooks, I mentioned that I keep mine in case anyone I went to school with turns out to be a serial killer (and the value of the yearbook skyrockets accordingly).

That was a joke, but today a friend of mine referred me to the website for the TV/radio show America’s Most Wanted - to the case and profile of a specific fugitive. Hey - I know that guy!

I enjoy boardgames, and before my son was born, I used to attend game playing sessions held at a local game store. In addition to boardgames, the store specialized in role-playing and wargames. The owner is a cool guy - if somewhat unusual - and his part-time manager seemed nice enough but was clearly what you might call a game geek. I mean, he was in his mid-30’s, boyish looking and kind of overweight (not that I should talk), and working part-time in a game store was apparently his only occupation outside of playing RPGs and computer games. I think he had a small apartment nearby but he would not be out of place living in his mother’s basement. He was always friendly, but in kind of an awkward way. He never sat in with us boardgamers, but we knew him and would joke around with him. He once gave me a free game in exchange for writing a review for it on the store’s website.

About a year and a half ago we were all shocked to find out that he had been arrested for molesting - well, no, raping - a 12 year old regular customer of the store. :eek: Apparently they had a ‘relationship’ for up to two years. He admitted the sexual relationship and the police found pornographic pictures of the boy in his apartment. He was put in jail, and a few months ago came up with the $90,000 bond which allowed him to be released with an electronic ankle-bracelet restraint pending his trial in March. A few days before his trial, he apparently cut off the bracelet and fled town, and is still considered a fugitive.

Now he’s on America’s Most Wanted. I guess now I have my own “brush with infamy” stories.

Oh, and if any of you see this guy, please call the Nashville police.

[Rubystreak]

I know this guy, the Collegetown Creeper. Used to mentor his sorta stepson (he wasn’t married to the kid’s mother but they called themselves husband and wife). I absolutely loathed him, found him creepy (big surprise) and was relatively unamazed to find out he was a sicko criminal. I hope they catch him and keep him out of innocent women’s bedrooms.

In an odd coincidence, I also know the woman who caught him in her room and ID’ed him. It’s kind of a small town.

[Lola_Granola]

My husband and I were half watching - half doing something else about ten years ago when “Americas Most Wanted” was on. All of a sudden, my Hubbie stops mid-word and says, “Holy Crap! I know that guy!”

Funny thing is, the person we know wasn’t being profiled for some kinda crime, or anything like that. No, he was just dating a girl that liked to kill her boyfriends and steal their money. The girlfriend was “most wanted” and they had tracked her ass down and arrested her. Our acquantince (old friend? guy we know?) was shown at the courthouse yelling her name and saying “I love you! I’ll wait for you!” :eek:

Dude! The woman moves in, and plots your death!!! Run! Run away!!

Well, cooler heads must have prevaled, or at least someone clued him in. Then he went on “Oprah” to talk about how he’d been duped. Gotta get that 15 minutes of fame, ya know!