Fascinating Facts About The Groundbreaking TV Show America’s Most Wanted

One Criminal Turned Himself In To Authorities After He Was Featured In An Episode

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It wasn’t only viewers who helped America’s Most Wanted apprehend criminals. Sometimes the lawbreakers themselves watched the show and turned themselves in. In 1988, the show profiled a man named Stephen Randall Dye. He was suspected of shooting someone in New Jersey in 1986 and was also wanted for murdering a motorcyclist in Ohio several years prior.

Aware that he was in the national spotlight, Dye decided to do the right thing. He was living in California when the episode aired and stopped a police car in San Diego where he subsequently identified himself and turned himself in to authorities.

All good things must come to an end… but there was a twist when Fox finally did cancel AMW…