May 22, 2025
Retired agent Martin Reardon reviews his Unlawful Flight to
Avoid Prosecution (UFAP) nationwide manhunt for a child predator
wanted for the 1995 kidnapping and rape of a 9-year-old girl.
Released from state prison just weeks earlier, Rickey Allen Bright
had served 15 years of a life sentence for a 1979 offense involving
a 6-year-old girl. Due to the heinous nature of the offense and his
previous conviction, Bright was named to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted
Fugitive List and featured on America’s Most Wanted and Unsolved
Mysteries. He was fugitive #444 and on the top ten list for three
weeks. He was ultimately captured during the January 1996 East
Coast blizzard just hours after America’s Most Wanted aired the
segment about the manhunt for the third time.
After the case review, Marty also talks about his assignment as a
Legal Attaché in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Doha, Qatar, and his
post-FBI career in the Middle East.
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