Has Anyone People Searched names?

[hostedbyrobertstack]

I was watching a segment today and decided to people search in the same state. It came back as a match for that state, and even a relatives name listed was the name of the daughter on the show as well. I am just wondering if anyone has actually people searched or paid to see the full information.. It may sound weird, but I'm sure a lot of you have done it. It would just be interesting to contact someone involved in some segments and see if they would be willing to add any insight.

[McBevis]

I've done it a lot. I've done a lot of posting in "where are they now/is so & so still alive after all these years, etc." threads. It's how I get a lot of the information that I've come up with regarding the subsequent deaths of people who have been on the show.

[brianh333]

I'm not as bad about trying to find names, as I am locations, especially with the advent of Google "Street View".

I spent a few hours this weekend searching out the locations for:

Kathy Hobbs (Las Vegas)
Russell Evans (Spokane, WA)
Jamie Santos (Wheeling, IL)
Kansas City Firefighters
Katherine Korzilius (Austin, TX)

I can't imagine how creepy it would be if someone ever notes the location of the "Angela Hammond phone booth". Obviously it's 2010, so there's probably no phone booth there anymore, but to be able to zoom in on the parking lot / intersection, would be about as creepy as it gets.

[Apostapler]

Originally Posted by brianh333

I'm not as bad about trying to find names, as I am locations, especially with the advent of Google "Street View".

I spent a few hours this weekend searching out the locations for:

Kathy Hobbs (Las Vegas)
Russell Evans (Spokane, WA)
Jamie Santos (Wheeling, IL)
Kansas City Firefighters
Katherine Korzilius (Austin, TX)

I can't imagine how creepy it would be if someone ever notes the location of the "Angela Hammond phone booth". Obviously it's 2010, so there's probably no phone booth there anymore, but to be able to zoom in on the parking lot / intersection, would be about as creepy as it gets.

I believe that phone booth was collected for evidence. At least that's how I understood what Angela's brother Loren was talking about. I could have misunderstood.

I people search names all the time, too. Often after I watch an old episode, if it's one I haven't talked about on here in a while or seen anything about, I google to see if there's any news. And I just looked up another person about 10 minutes ago, lol.

[shek]

On the other side of finding / searching for people - I have probably been googled to the nth degree. I often ask myself - How did they find me? Letters, calls, emails, etc. Even after all these years people still seek us out.

[n8riley]

Well I saw this and thought to myself this could have saved so many many lives or even a web search would have saved dozens! God know cell phone have helped people avoid being victims and has helped make many assailants prisons . I only named a few technologies but there must be hundreds. At the same time its made crime easier...

[brianh333]

LMAO.... what on earth?!

[Apostapler]

Ummmmm what?

[Smokescreen]

he, too, loved pulling pranks to get attention! The Hidenburg Disaster? Just a Bill Wacker prank gone horribly wrong.

What the hell???

[Smokescreen]

Okay so I researched some more for Terasita Basa and Allan Showery and found this

http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?p=1854931

(James Randi is my hero!)

Anyway, here's an excerpt:


the police officer who investigated the case was named Joseph Stachula. The trial was held in Illinois on Jan. 21, 1979, and the name of the Judge was Frank W. Barbero.

The defense argued, naturally, that a ghost's testimony was inadmissible; nevertheless, the jury could not acquit the defendant, Allen Showery, because the victim's jewelry was found in the defendant's girlfriend's house.
The case ended in a mistrial five days after it began.

On Feb 23, 1979, as the authorities were preparing to retry him, Showery confessed and was given a fourteen year sentence. He could conceivably still be alive, as well as the detective, the judge, jurors and even (as far as I know) Remy Chua, the woman who was reportedly possessed.

The murder took place on Feb 21, 1977 in Chicago.


Do I think the ghost of Terasita Basa really possessed another woman at the hospital she worked at and named her killer? No

Do I think this is an interesting ghost story? Hell yeah

Click on the link and read for yourselves - make of this whatcha will

[Apostapler]

Originally Posted by Smokescreen

Okay so I researched some more for Terasita Basa and Allan Showery and found this

http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?p=1854931

(James Randi is my hero!)

Anyway, here's an excerpt:


the police officer who investigated the case was named Joseph Stachula. The trial was held in Illinois on Jan. 21, 1979, and the name of the Judge was Frank W. Barbero.

The defense argued, naturally, that a ghost's testimony was inadmissible; nevertheless, the jury could not acquit the defendant, Allen Showery, because the victim's jewelry was found in the defendant's girlfriend's house.
The case ended in a mistrial five days after it began.

On Feb 23, 1979, as the authorities were preparing to retry him, Showery confessed and was given a fourteen year sentence. He could conceivably still be alive, as well as the detective, the judge, jurors and even (as far as I know) Remy Chua, the woman who was reportedly possessed.

The murder took place on Feb 21, 1977 in Chicago.


Do I think the ghost of Terasita Basa really possessed another woman at the hospital she worked at and named her killer? No

Do I think this is an interesting ghost story? Hell yeah

Click on the link and read for yourselves - make of this whatcha will

Very cool Smokescreen, but I think your princess is in another castle.

(wrong thread! )

[Smokescreen]

I smell what yer cookin'

Muh bad

[peachysquirt21]

Originally Posted by Sadie McKee

I ''people searched'' 2 folks and you'd be shocked to learn what I found………..
Bill & Dot Wacker are tricksters and love to pull pranks. Let me tell you a secret: Dot always wanted to be a glamorous Hollywood film starlet and leave behind her pathetic & dull farm life in rural Ohio. Her dreams were ultimately extinguished when, at age 16, her beloved daddy Hank was killed in a barn fire. Tillie, Dot's older sister, always suspected her sibling as the source of the flames. But after Dot found out that the fire killed her daddy, she kept her mouth firmly shut and claimed she was out ''pickin' apples'' (despite the fact that 12 witnesses - including 10 cows and 1 horse - saw her in a corn field shortly before the fire carrying 2 gallons of gasoline and a book titled "How to Start a Roarin' Barn Fire"). Anyway, Dot was left to care for her grief-stricken mother, Hortense, and had no time for herself. When she met the dashing William ''Bill'' Wacker, she thought she had met her match; he, too, loved pulling pranks to get attention! The Hidenburg Disaster? Just a Bill Wacker prank gone horribly wrong. The couple pulled their ''tour de force'' with what we saw reenacted on Unsolved Mysteries. There was no limit for Dot – including hitting herself over the head with a tire iron – if it meant some exposure. After years of hoping and praying, the couple would finally be getting national coverage when [s]Dorothy[/s] the Wacker children campaigned for their story to be featured on NBC’s Unsolved Mysteries. Dorothy was a huge diva when she met with producers (demanding pricy Lipton Tea and the ''finest clothes at Walmart'') for her interview. She was devastated when she was told that the great aunt of Robert Stack's gardener would be playing herself in the televised reenactment scenes. The old dear was hoping for an Emmy nomination, but it would never be. Always a bridesmaid, never a bride!

Um where did you come up with this info??? Please don't say wikipedia.

Scratching head here on this one...

[Sadie McKee]

Originally Posted by peachysquirt21

Um where did you come up with this info??? Please don't say wikipedia.

Scratching head here on this one...

Oh. Well, I did a lot of digging. There's a huge cover-up and the Wackers are much more important figures than you might think. I feel they should be exposed for what they are. There's much more to the story. They started doing stuff for attention, but many of their "pranks" went too far so they never took credit.

The Bill & Dot Wacker Secret Trail of Insatiable Vengeance burned through American life for decades! The Kennedys, Martin Luther King, even poor old actress Francis Farmer drifted briefly into a panicked moment of sobriety in her drunken dotage as Dot's face and form reared up before her, offing her with her favorite weapon - a tire iron.
Apparently, she had dissed Dot back in nineteen-forty-who-cares, when Dot auditioned for a film role and nursed a poisonous grudge ever since, deciding that she may as well off the poor dear when she got the chance.

[everybodylovesrs]

Originally Posted by Sadie McKee

Oh. Well, I did a lot of digging. There's a huge cover-up and the Wackers are much more important figures than you might think. I feel they should be exposed for what they are. There's much more to the story. They started doing stuff for attention, but many of their "pranks" went too far so they never took credit.

The Bill & Dot Wacker Secret Trail of Insatiable Vengeance burned through American life for decades! The Kennedys, Martin Luther King, even poor old actress Francis Farmer drifted briefly into a panicked moment of sobriety in her drunken dotage as Dot's face and form reared up before her, offing her with her favorite weapon - a tire iron.
Apparently, she had dissed Dot back in nineteen-forty-who-cares, when Dot auditioned for a film role and nursed a poisonous grudge ever since, deciding that she may as well off the poor dear when she got the chance.

Get a life or clearly label your nonsense as snark