E-Ticket Launches America's Most Wanted Website

Posted on February 2, 1998

Online publisher E-Ticket officially launched America's Most Wanted Online in conjunction with the Fox television series. The site fully integrates with the TV program, which airs Saturday nights at 9 p.m. PST/EST. Features on the new site include the current week's cases, unsolved crimes, an APB system, an interactive crime map of the United States (revealing case activities in different parts of the country) and "The Crimewire" (a late-breaking ticker tape providing 24-hour-a-day information on AMW cases and major criminal activity throughout the country).

A preliminary AMW site, launched in December 1996, was one of the first attempts to integrate the program with an accompanying Web presence. The initial effort sparked interest in creating a more aggressive site featuring even greater involvement with the TV show.

Ironically, "America's Most Wanted's" 500th Capture -- suspected murderess Amy Rica DeChant -- was hiding out in a nudist colony in Florida. "Most of our fugitives try to stay pretty well hidden," says Co-Executive Producer Philip Lermam. "It's kind of fitting that for our five hundredth capture, we found the one fugitive who clearly had nothing to hide." Amy's unusual capture story will be revealed on the Internet and on the TV show this month.