America's Most Wanted visits So. Ga. - WALB.com, Albany News, Weather, Sports

America's Most Wanted visits So. Ga.

  • More WALB News10 HeadlinesMore News Headlines

  • Thursday, May 23 2013 4:17 PM EDT2013-05-23 20:17:43 GMT
    In 2007, Phoebe Sumter Medical Center was in the same situation Moore Medical in Oklahoma is in now. Phoebe Sumter is taking up funds and signing a banner to send to Moore, Oklahoma Medical next week.
    In 2007, Phoebe Sumter Medical Center was in the same situation Moore Medical in Oklahoma is in now. Phoebe Sumter is taking up funds and signing a banner to send to Moore, Oklahoma Medical next week.

  • Thursday, May 23 2013 3:54 PM EDT2013-05-23 19:54:34 GMT
    A Dougherty County rape crisis center hopes to raise $15,000 at a tasty event Thursday night at the Merry Acres Event Center. The Lily Pad Center provides support services to more than 300 child victims
     The Lily Pad Center provides support services to more than 300 child victims and roughly 150 adults every year. About two hundred people are expected to show up for the fourth annual 'Farm to Fork' Fundraiser.

  • Thursday, May 23 2013 2:33 PM EDT2013-05-23 18:33:20 GMT
    Three Albany men, charged with beating a man in a bar parking lot so viciously they fractured his skull. are found guilty of different levels of involvement in their trial. After three hours of deliberation
    A guilty verdict after three hours of deliberation, as three Albany men are found guilty of different levels of involvement in their aggravated assault trial.
    •   

 

 

December 4, 2002

REBECCA - It's not something people in Turner County are quite accustomed to. A camera crew on assignment for America's Most Wanted looking for answers in an unsolved murder.

"How could it happen here, this place looks like Mayberry," America's Most Wanted Segment Producer Ray Farkas said. 

Then again people have had to get use to a lot of changes ever since the March murders of Tommy Jo, Deborah, and Melissa Wideman, eight months pregnant at the time.

"Wish they'd find out who did it, because I live alone and I'm kind of scared," Sarah Bundrick said. The dramatic impact the unsolved case has had on the small town of Rebecca, why Farkas says the television program which has helped capture more than 700 fugitives, is going on its first ever search for an unknown killer.

"We're talking to as many people as possible to get a portrait of Rebecca, as well as as many facts we can get on the case."

For those they went to the sheriff, who's grateful for the exposure.

"Got to point where we've gone down every avenue, whenever we can keep this fresh, somebody knows something about these murders."

The sheriff, and his county now hoping that person will see the program and call either his office or America's Most Wanted. The story will likely air on America's Most Wanted in early February. There is a $50,000 reward  in the case.

updated at 5:00 p.m. by dave.d'marko@walb.com