Have you ever called in on case?

[benoitbabe]

I did once. A man was looking for his father and it sounded like my grandfather so I called in. I never heard back. My godmother wrote in also as she thought so too. We never heard anything. Darn. Anyone else call in on a case if so what was the response?

[1990 UM fan]

I called in on the Selena Edon case 2 years ago. I found a profile matching what would be her general description right now on a popular profile site (I forget the name of it). A lot of people on here feel that she is still alive and left on her own accord, so I took the liberty of calling the San Francisco police department and telling them about my finding. They said they'd call me or so if they found out anything, but I never heard back from them. I have been wanting to call again and ask but I feel a bit nervous about doing so.

[benoitbabe]

I'm not familiar with that case. If they want to solve these things they really should take their calls more seriously.

[Cori aka ChrisSCrush]

I called in on four that I remember. I am sorry I don't remember all the proper names.

Once I called in about a murder case which was solved, just asking if they were airing an update, which I think they did. This (female) operator was the least nice of them all.

The Jacklyn Dowaliby case--because her stepfather said his mother was missing when Jacklyn was discovered gone and the program never accounted for her whereabouts. Many people (the operator--female, I think--told me) called in suggesting she may have had something to do with it, perhaps without her son's or his wife's knowledge--as sometimes adoptive parents accept a child but grandparents don't.

The one where a carnival family's father worked as a barker for the Singer Midgets. I called to say that the Singer Midgets were featured in The Wizard of Oz and at least one cast member was still alive (and apparently still is! Jerry Maren, born Gerald Marenghi on January 24, 1920--unless his IMDb bio needs updating, he is 94! ) I called up and could picture Jerry Maren, but couldn't remember his name at the moment. I sort of described him and the (male) operator was super nice! Later there was an update saying the people did locate their relatives and found a total of twelve siblings!

I called in on the "Jimmy and Billy" twins (Jim Bumgarner?) because it was just so ridiculous, it actually made me mad. This (female) operator was very engaged and excited, saying, "people have been calling in just furious because when the relative was at the baseball game why didn't he say anything?" Well, obviously because if it happened at all, he thought it was his own relative acting weird, but my point, and probably a lot of other people's, was they could have simply inquired with the baseball team, or published articles in local papers. They didn't need to use up airtime on national television which could have been used for real cases! In the end it was said here on this board that the missing sister was indeed real, but the twin brother, he probably just made up. This would make an interesting story in itself. Did Jim really change clothes, go into places pretending not to know people, and so on, to fool them into telling these stories on TV, or did they all just lie for him as a giant put-on?

[DALLASTEXAN!!]

Always hoped that I could help solve a mystery but never could. I did have my mom call AMW because I swore to her that I saw a suspect walking in our neighborhood. I'm pretty sure I was wrong though.

[WishfulDreamer]

Nope, but I was tempted when I saw a dead ringer for Jesse James Hollywood (around the same time he was captured). It obviously wasn't him because he was found outside of the US. The guy could have been his identical twin!

[Cori aka ChrisSCrush]

The story where the actress portraying a suspect on America's Most Wanted was reported as being the suspect was good.