America's Most Wanted

I have watched this show since it first came on when I was 14. I was hooked. It's not that I had fantasies of finding crimminals and calling them in. Most likely, I would probably look at them trying to figure out where I had seen them before. If I did figure it out, I would run like hell. It was one of the first "true crime" shows on TV- I also liked Unsolved Mysteries, but sometimes I got scared watching that.

I think I liked the show because sometimes the dramatizations were so cheesy it was funny. Sometimes the actors used to portray the crimminal looked NOTHING like the crimminal. I wonder if any of the crimminals got pissed that they used a ugly actor to portray them. One episode was filmed in the city where I live a long time ago. The actor they used for a segment was a guy who used to come into the grocery store where I worked all the time- he looked a little like Bad- era Michael Jackson, and his acting was saaaaaaaaddddd. The crimminal he was portraying looked closer to Rick Ross. I had a real good laugh at that one.

One episode that pissed me off was the story of a local lady killed by her son. I knew the lady and the actress portraying her looked nothing like her, but what killed me was the props and what they secretly said about her... They showed her walking through her yard and it was littered with toys and junk. What was worse was that they portrayed the cop who's head was GRAZED by a bullet while she hid behind a car a hero. That whole segment left a sour taste in my mouth. I definetly see bias in some of the stories, but at the same time they do pull people off the streets who deserve to be in jail.