Most Wanted Newspaper

By Mairead Carey

One of America’s most wanted men appeared in the High Court in Dublin on Tuesday.
Frederick Russell, who is wanted by police in connection with the deaths of three students killed in a hit and run incident, is attempting to block his extradition to the U.S.

Russell fled Washington ahead of his trial on three counts each of Vehicular Homicide and Vehicular Assault in October 2001.

According to police, on the night of June 4, 2001, Russell and a friend were seen drinking at a local bar in Pullman, Washington. Russell, who was then a junior at Washington State University, got into his car and was heading towards Moscow, Idaho when he came upon a slower moving vehicle in front of him.

Although he was in a no passing zone, Fred illegally passed this vehicle, sideswiped another westbound vehicle, then struck a Cadillac carrying seven college students. Brandon Clements, Ryan Sorensen, Stacy Morrow were killed on impact. Matt Wagner and three other students were critically injured but survived.

Russell was arrested but later failed to show for a mandatory court appearance on October 26, 2001.

It is claimed that he later wrote to his parents saying that he was fleeing to spare his family the pain “of his murders” and that he was “going to a state that could not hurt me.”

Russell was arrested by Gardai earlier this year while working as a security guard at a clothes shop in Dublin city center. It is understood the U.S. Marshals Service had received a tip-off that he was living and working in the Dublin area after his name was put on the 15 Most Wanted list.

He had been living in Celbridge in Co. Kildare with his long-term girlfriend, Hazel McNaboe.

No date has been set for the full extradition hearing but lawyers are confident the matter will proceed in the week before Christmas or early in the New Year.

Russell was remanded in custody to appear in the High Court again in three weeks.

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Escaped convict is high on website hit list

The face of a police killer from Luton, who has been on the run for nearly 12 years, is on an internet list of Britain’s most dangerous criminals.

Murderer and armed robber James Hurley, 44, a former Ashcroft High School pupil, is at number two on an FBI-style Most Wanted website.

The fugitive, who lived at Telscombe Way on the Wigmore estate, has been on the loose since he attacked a warder while being transferred between prisons in February 1994.

Hurley had been jailed for life in 1989 for the murder of 27-year-old off-duty policeman Frank Mason during an armed raid on a security van outside a bank.

On the tenth anniversary of his escape, police offered a reward of up to £10,000 for information leading to his arrest and re-imprisonment.

Now Hurley’s picture and details appear alongside other violent criminals in a modern version of the Wild West’s ‘Wanted’ posters.

The website, launched on Friday by the Crimestoppers charity, allows police to appeal online to the public for information about people they are hunting.

The site – http://mostwanted-uk.org – carries photographs, CCTV footage and descriptions of suspects.

Detectives believe Hurley may be living in the Republic of Ireland, although over the years there have been unconfirmed sightings in South Africa, Spain and Belgium.
28 November 2005

In 1998, Chris McElroy and Chuck Crawford founded and published a newspaper called Most Wanted. The newspaper was successful. Readers called in tips that led to the capture of several wanted fugitives. Advertising sold well.

The newspaper led the two into actually getting involved in the search for missing children and founded the Kidsearch Network, a nonprofit organization. The newspaper, was placed under the new organization and they continued to publish the paper.

Unfortunately, the nonprofit organization had severe financial trouble after 9-11. All donations that had previously helped the charity continue were now going to help victims of the terrorist attack. Kidsearch had to close it’s doors along with the newspaper as well.

In the time that Kidsearch was running, the Most Wanted/Kidsearch Network crew helped recover more than 70 missing and abducted children.

After three years of being closed, Chris McElroy is now re-establishing the Kidsearch Network and operating from Miami, FL. He also plans to bring Most Wanted Newspaper back into production as soon as possible. In the meantime, this blog at http://www.mostwantednewspaper.com will be it’s home.

We look forward to bringing you information about wanted fugitives, missing and abducted children, unsolved crimes, and more from a very experienced staff as well as including contributing articles from other crime blogs and websites.

We look forward to when the newspaper is being published again and our blog readers here will be able to get the first editions!