An Arizona girl's 1984 kidnapping leads the FBI on the trail of a key suspect.An Arizona girl's 1984 kidnapping leads the FBI on the trail of a key suspect.An Arizona girl's 1984 kidnapping leads the FBI on the trail of a key suspect.
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- GoofsIn the re-creation of the arrests at the garage, Frank Atwood is shown getting into the front passenger's seat of the police car, beside the driver. Prisoners and arrestees --- especially ones suspected of violence and/or other more-serious crimes like kidnapping --- are a-l-w-a-y-s put into the BACK seat of a law-enforcement vehicle, for the safety of all involved, since they might try to attack the driver.
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The Predator
On September 17, 1984, convicted child sex predator Frank Atwood kidnapped an eight year old girl from a Tucson street. Atwood's previous victim was an eight year old boy, but he quickly became a suspect here thanks to some smart detective work.
Unfortunately, there is nothing smart about this documentary which focuses unnecessarily on the red herrings that often accompany such cases. Here there was one big red herring, a woman wearing a big hat accompanied by a young child in a store. There was actually a witness to the kidnapping, but this child was too young to give the police the best quality information.
The victim's mother appears in this documentary, which was made 16 years after the abduction and murder. As for Atwood, he wasn't executed until June 2022 by which time he was 66 years old, having been sentenced to death in May 1987. Sadly, this kind of ludicrous delay is far from exceptional; many convicted kilers actually die on death row from old age.
Unfortunately, there is nothing smart about this documentary which focuses unnecessarily on the red herrings that often accompany such cases. Here there was one big red herring, a woman wearing a big hat accompanied by a young child in a store. There was actually a witness to the kidnapping, but this child was too young to give the police the best quality information.
The victim's mother appears in this documentary, which was made 16 years after the abduction and murder. As for Atwood, he wasn't executed until June 2022 by which time he was 66 years old, having been sentenced to death in May 1987. Sadly, this kind of ludicrous delay is far from exceptional; many convicted kilers actually die on death row from old age.
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