"America's Most Wanted" stopped in Las Vegas this week to put the spotlight on several local crime cases.
The show, set to air Nov. 26, will feature prison escapee Kenneth "Jody" Thompson, missing woman Lindsay M. Harris and Heather Tallchief, who is accused in the theft of an armored car.
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Thompson, 26, escaped from the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in August by hiding in a delivery truck. Two prison employees accused of aiding his escape were fired.
Thompson was serving a 10- to 50-year sentence for robberies in Las Vegas and Pahrump.
After his escape, Thompson returned to Southern Nevada and committed more robberies, authorities said. Las Vegas police suspect him in at least two armed robberies, and Nye County authorities think he was responsible for robbing a bar.
Police believe Thompson has left Southern Nevada.
"I can say this, quite bluntly, we have not forgotten about Jody Thompson," Las Vegas police Lt. Ted Snodgrass said.
Snodgrass said he hoped the visibility of America's Most Wanted will bring some new leads about Thompson's whereabouts.
Harris, a New York native, was 21 when she disappeared from Henderson in May.
"At this point, we have no evidence to indicate a homicide," Henderson police spokesman Keith Paul said.
Harris has a history of prostitution. Las Vegas police arrested her five times on such charges.
Police say Tallchief helped steal $2.9 million in a 1993 armored car heist at Circus Circus. Tallchief, then 21, had been working for Loomis Armored for about five weeks when she drove away with the armored car and the cash, authorities say. She fled the country with her boyfriend, 48-year-old Roberto Solis, who had served 17 years in prison for killing a Loomis employee during a botched armored car robbery in 1969.
Tallchief's lawyer said Solis ran away with the money while she settled in the Netherlands. Tallchief reappeared in Las Vegas last month, surrendering to federal authorities. She has agreed to plead guilty in the case.
