Marion Van de Wetering is a Canadian author. She has written two regional history books, An Ottawa Album: Glimpses of the Way We Were (1997) and A Kingston Album: Glimpses of the Way We Were (1999).
Van de Wetering was born in Powell River, British Columbia, and lived most of her childhood in Vancouver. She completed a Bachelor of Applied Science degree at the University of Guelph. She is currently a law student. She married to Canadian writer Mark Bourrie.
Van de Wetering is the niece of Ernst van de Wetering, the world's premier Rembrandt scholar.
Van de Wetering was born in Powell River, British Columbia, and lived most of her childhood in Vancouver. She completed a Bachelor of Applied Science degree at the University of Guelph. She is currently a law student. She married to Canadian writer Mark Bourrie.
Van de Wetering is the niece of Ernst van de Wetering, the world's premier Rembrandt scholar.
Sonic X: Curse of Raven Radix is a 2007 animated comedy film based on 2003-present television, Sonic X of sonic game series for 3D IMAX released in
June 13, 2007 for U.S. and June 14 in Japan. It was director by Dana McFarland hired by 20th Century Fox filmed 93 minutes long. The film was grossed $15,000,000.
Plot
After 6000 years, An evil creature was born on the planet of Pluto from far away, Awaken inside the hole as fallen into earth stealing of the Chaos Emeralds of killing people of destiny. The world was calling for Sonic to be the Hedgehog Master as for he kick Sonic and hit the ground hard by the time since Raven tells him that he was too weak to defeated him as he has turned into Dark Super Sonic, however, Raven Radix gets his energy of taken his Dark Powers and was only hopeless to be Dark as Raven has already becoming Dark and adding more strength, but Shadow day dreams about his family, Maria that the Ark was shut down over 50 years ago once that Maria was shot by a gun when dying and Rouge has been Treasure Hunting to steal The Chaos Emerald and the Master Emerald from Knuckles as The Angel Island fell down on the ocean standing near The Mystic Ruins.
Tails has been sleeping in his workshop and heard the news as he jumped on the X Tornado picking up Knuckles as The X tornado has been destroyed by the bomb as Tails and Knuckles flying down the sky since Sonic ran pasted Cream and Amy once That he heard Amy screaming almost got kidnapped that Raven was quick to vanish, Sonic has continued his adventure in the City Park battling with Dr. Eggman but Raven entered his base and has been taken all Emeralds and given some more power and disappeared He’s taken the powers of the Emeralds and comes Invisible since Sonic has been taken a lead as he ordered Amy Rose, Cream the Rabbit, Cheese the Chao, Bokkun, Decoe and Bocoe heading to the G.U.N’s prison office searching for the President.
Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles” Tails” Prower, Knuckles the Echidna, Shadow the Hedgehog, Rouge the Bat and Dr. Eggman traveled in the Feature called “6000 Years Planet” to search for the Chaos Emeralds and Raven Radix as he’s already transform his powers as Powerful as Raven Radix is still escaping after Sonic and the gangs battle Suddenly Raven Radix weaken the gang into an Sour Smoke and Shadow founded a Chaos Emerald that Raven Radix forgot and escape from the Sour Smoke back to Station Square. Shadow once was break out of smoke taking the gang back to the city with other gang were at.
Back at Station Square City, The whole gang heads to the police for the tough battle as Raven Radix has been grown using power of Master Emerald and activated Fireball of Cosmic wave once that the ark has been falling and dark cloud blocking up whole earth of evil for everyone on planet dies. Once The gang were running after Raven, they were trapped in the black whole taking them to space in the space colony ark by Raven using his dark magical powers. Once that the gang were in the ark on their search their way out back to earth using Shadow's chaos control.
Back to earth, Raven once takes over the city and The police has been no good to defeated Raven Radix. Tails wanted himself for his team to give another chance once he just wanted to be saved once that Raven Radix was a main creature born for 6000 years ago, however, it starts to make Amy apologies but Raven didn’t care when he wants to hear as Amy killed as she dies, After he death on Sonic's hands, He and Shadow starts with their transformation by fighting how Sonic feels real angry with Raven Radix however it’s all up to them to fight as stronger and harder. As by killing Raven, Shadow used Sonic to spin-dash moving real fast blasted on Raven’s neck as he dies surprising of bringing Amy to life with scar on her chest as for Sonic and Shadow stopped the ark from falling and save the world.
At the end, Rouge has given Knuckles back all of his emeralds as he charge on his Island floating when Shadow missing his home with Maria and Rouge stills on treasure hunt for The Chaos Emeralds as she never quits when Tails fixing up Sonic’s Tornado plane when Cream and Cheese playing tea party with Amy and also Sonic running from around the world as for everyone thanking him from saving the world.
Voice Cast
Jason Griffith as Sonic the Hedgehog: The series' principal hero. He is a blue hedgehog who can run at or faster than the speed of sound, and has numerous other abilities. He also uses his skills to save the world from Dr. Eggman. He is impatient, laid back, confident and always on the look-out for an adventure. First appearance: Sonic the Hedgehog.
Amy Palant as Miles "Tails" Prower: Sonic's best friend. He is a two-tailed fox who can fly for a limited time by spinning his tails rapidly, and also has an IQ of 300. He is a skilled mechanic and often takes care of Sonic's plane called the Tornado. He also pilots a machine called the Cyclone, which is an upgraded version of the Tornado with battle-mech capabilities. First appearance: Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
Dan Green as Knuckles the Echidna: The last living member of a warrior race of echidnas, and Sonic's hotheaded friend and rival. Knuckles resides on Angel Island, where he guards the Master Emerald, the source of the island's ability to float in the sky. Knuckles is very strong; his spiked fists are capable of smashing through boulders as well as allowing him to climb walls. The nature of his echidna spines (that resemble dreadlocks) allow him to glide in the air for periods of time. First appearance: Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
Lisa Ortiz as Amy Rose: A pink hedgehog who has become Sonic's self-appointed girlfriend, first seen in Sonic the Hedgehog CD. Ever since Sonic and Amy met, she has been in love with Sonic and she now wants him to marry her. She is quite strong and smashes enemy forces down with her trusty Piko Piko Hammer. First appearance: Sonic the Hedgehog CD.
Jason Griffith as Shadow the Hedgehog: The Ultimate Life form created over 50 years ago by Dr. Eggman's grandfather, Gerald Robotnik, and is one of Sonic's many rivals. He is often quiet and very serious, and has the natural ability to use Chaos Control. First appearance: Sonic Adventure 2.
Caren Manuel as Rouge the Bat: A female white bat who is a treasure hunter and a spy for GUN. She is full of feminine charm and can be very manipulative. She has powerful legs that she uses to kick through steel and climb walls. First appearance: Sonic Adventure 2.
Rebecca Handler as Cream the Rabbit: A naive, but polite young rabbit who lives with her mother, Vanilla. Cheese is a Chao (which Cream uses as a missile). Because Cream has been brought up like a princess, she does not like being involved in other peoples' affairs. She can fly using her large ears. First appearance: Sonic Advance 2.
Mike Pollock as Dr. Eggman: His real name is Dr. Ivo (sometimes spelled as "Iva") Robotnik, he is Sonic's arch nemesis and the series' main villain. He is egg-shaped, has a giant brown mustache, and has an IQ of 300. Eggman is an expert in robotics and wishes to conquer the world and build the Eggman Empire. However, Sonic and his friends always stand in his way. In many cases, his own plans ironically outdo himself. First appearance: Sonic the Hedgehog.
Andrew Rannells as Bocoe and Decoe: Dr. Eggman's personal humanoid assistant robots. Decoe is a tall, slim and gold-colored, while Bocoe is short, stubby and silver. They are almost constantly seen with Eggman, helping him pilot his machinery among other things. The two do not have much in the way of personalities, but are somewhat clumsy and stupid, similar to Scratch and Grounder from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog in sense that only provide comic relief. Decoe is 198 cm tall and weighs 200 kg, while Bocoe is 145 cm tall and weighs 220 kg.[
Bokkun: Employed by Doctor Eggman to send messages to Sonic that come in a form of a TV that blows up in the recipient's face. Bokkun gets mistreated and cries very easily, due to Eggman always hurting him. His pleasures include annoying people with bombs or eating various desserts. He is very loyal to Eggman, who he treats like a father or creator. Bokkun can fly using a jetpack (possibly bolted to his back), and has a boiling point temper. He is 50 cm tall and weighs 20 kg
Bella Hudson as Maria Robotnik: A character that appears in flashbacks during Sonic Adventure 2, and Shadow the Hedgehog, along with the anime series Sonic X, where she mirrored her role in Sonic Adventure 2. She is voiced by Yuri Shiratori in Japanese, and Shelly Fox and Bella Hudson in English. She is the granddaughter of Professor Gerald Robotnik, and is the cousin of Doctor Ivo Robotnik, better known by the alias Doctor Eggman. Before Shadow was created, she was friends with the G.U.N. Commander. Maria suffered from the illness known as "NIDS" (Neuro-Immune Deficiency Syndrome), which was considered incurable at the time.
Bella Hudson as Tikal: A designed by Yuji Uekawa to be a light orange, female, anthropomorphic echidna. She first appeared in the game Sonic Adventure, cameoed in later games, and played similar roles in other mediums of the series. She is 14 years old, 95 cm (3 ft 1 in) tall, and her weight is unknown.. Tikal's Japanese voice-overs are done by Kaori Asoh, while Elara Distler did her English voice in Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2, as Bella Hudson did her voice in the English language version of Sonic X.
David Wills as Raven Radix: A Evil alien creature was born after 6000 years ago of history for his death came back to life about to destroy the world and defeat Sonic and his friends
Bella Hudson as Woman
Alexandra Williams as News Announcer
Filming locations
This movie has been unavailable in June 11 2007, but also the voice actors are even different than animated voice actors but not appearance in the film but only appearance characters in the 2007 video game for Wii, PlayStation, Xbox 360, Gameboy Advance, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, Gameboy Advance, Neo Geo Pocket Color and GameCube. For themes, The Director find Music from other Sonic Games in other words same skills and different art since it was a teaser Poster with showing Sonic‘s shoes and Film Poster showing Sonic and his Teammates with Raven Radix behind them who takes over the world when Sonic and gang saves the world defeating the powerful Raven Radix. Bella Hudson has voices as The screaming woman with something was attacked or someone was in trouble how Sonic and Shadow was voiced by Jason Griffith however Dana McFarland has been marked a main film poster with Sonic and his 5 teammates Shadow, Rouge, Knuckles, Tails and Amy behind was a evil creature, Raven Radix. Sonic X: The Movie was distributed by 20th Century Fox and ends with Sonic theme songs from Sonic video games. Dana McFarland has been created a film with music from game creating a art within poster showing from Sonic Heroes.
Music
Numerous composers have worked on the music of games in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Masato Nakamura of J-pop band Dreams Come True was responsible for the music of the first two 16-bit games. Ys/Streets of Rage composer Yuzo Koshiro composed the tunes for the first 8-bit title, barring what was retained from the 16-bit version.
Sega's in-house music company, Wavemaster, did the majority of the music in later titles. One Wave Master employee, Jun Senoue, is part of the band Crush 40, and through his ties to the band they have played the main theme tunes of the two Sonic Adventure games, Sonic Heroes, and Shadow the Hedgehog. Heroes and Shadow the Hedgehog also featured other bands, such as Julien-K. For the 2006 Sonic the Hedgehog game, Senoue and Crush 40 performed a remix of "All Hail Shadow" to play as Shadow the Hedgehog's theme for the game.
Richard Jacques, a frequent composer of music for Sega games, contributed to the soundtracks of Sonic R and the Saturn/PC version of Sonic 3D Blast: Flickies' Island. Runblebee has done songs for Sonic games such as Sonic Riders, the title theme and the Babylon theme, and the Sonic and the Secret Rings main theme, "Seven Rings In Hand".
Music Themes
List of Themes from Sonic Game series.
His World from Sonic The Hedgehog (2006 game)
You Can Do Anything from Sonic CD
Believe in Yourself from Sonic Adventure
You're My Hero from Sonic 3D
We Can from Sonic Heroes
It Doesn’t Matter from Sonic Adventure
Live And Learn from Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
Sonic Speed Riders from Sonic Riders
Fly in the Freedom Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
Sadness from Sonic Adventure
Release
The prime movie aired in Japan in Thursday, June 14, 2007 releases and for USA it was released in Wednesday, June 13, 2007 main ends 93 minutes long starts buying Sonic action figures, clothing and many items. For video game, It was released for USA in June 1, 2007 and in Japan in June 6, 2007 also Sonic X: The Movie soundtrack was released in May 27, 2007 for many states appears within theme songs from games and movie.
DVD
Full disk will be released on DVD for U.S. in December 4, 2007 and January 1, 2008 for Japan with special features of the Making of Sonic X: The Movie, Help Sonic defeated Raven Radix, Biography for Sonic X: The Movie characters and cast, Making of Raven Radix giving with photo galleries.
Continuity
The events of Sonic the Movie are very different from the ones in the Sonic game continuity, and as such the movie's canonocity is sometimes disputed among fans. Newer, often American or European, Sonic fans sometimes jump to the conclusion that the anime is part of the official canon because it was created in Japan and overseen by Sega and Sonic Team. In some cases, the action portrayed in the movie is true to Sonic gameplay, particularly a scene with Sonic jumping on a spring while avoiding Badniks and obstacles in side-scrolling fashion, an intentional reference to Sonic 1-era games.
However, the movie contradicts several points of the game canon, such as Metal Sonic being destroyed, Knuckles having nothing to do with Angel Island, and most notacibly, the movie is not set on Earth. Sonic the Movie was possibly intended to be a vague telling of the happenings of Sonic CD or Mega Drive games, and it didn't widely differ from the game series at the time of its creation, but Sega has steered the continuity of Sonic in a different direction and retconned many elements of the 2D-era games since, making it possible to consider the movie an alternative universe or simply non-canon.
Since in 2003, 4Kids Entertainment licensed Sonic X for American U.S. licensing in a joint effort between 4Kids and VIZ Media (it was formerly with ShoPro Entertainment before ShoPro and VIZ, LLC merged into VIZ Media) and distributed by FUNimation. It is also shown in Europe, Australia, Israel, Brazil and Latin America by Jetix, and in Canada by YTV. Originally planned as a 52 episode series which would be inspired by the storylines of the Sonic Adventure series, Sonic X has now expanded to 78 episodes which were shown in Thailand, and France in February and March 2005. As of 2007, the series has supposedly ended its run, although there are rumors that the show may continue (see below). After almost a full season off the air in the US, Sonic X began a "new" run on May 5, 2007, starting with the series' first episode.
Since in 1999, While it was believed for a while that 65 episodes were made of which only 40 aired, Ben Hurst, a notable writer from the Sonic the Hedgehog television show (dubbed "SatAM" by fans), who was also involved in Sonic Underground's production, stated in a chat at the Sonic Amateur Gaming Expo (http://www.sagexpo.org) that only 40 were produced.
Sonic Underground takes place on Mobius, similar to SatAM, but with notable differences. Elements that are not included in Sonic Underground but were present in SatAM include Snively, power rings, Knothole Village, and the Freedom Fighters. Though the Freedom Fighters were included, many of the characters in the Freedom Fighter group that were in SatAM are completely left out (including Tails). Another difference with the Freedom Fighter group is that Freedom Fighters do not remain in one Knothole-like refuge but instead travel around Mobius to battle Robotnik's forces on a global scale; and that Robotnik has left most of the Mobian people unroboticised, leaving multiple cities, a poor underclass, and an aristocracy for the heroes to interact with. Also, unlike SatAM Sonic and AoStH, many of the minor characters were not easily recognisable as being based on Earth animals, instead appearing far more alien.
Jaleel White provided the voices for all three siblings. The main theme was composed by Robbie London and Mike Piccirillo. The musical underscore was composed by Jean-Michel Guirao and Mike Piccirillo. The series featured 40 songs spread over the series as featured music videos. Each of these songs were composed by Mike Piccirillo.
Casting
The cast for 17 animated characters for Jason Griffith, Amy Palant, Dan Green, Lisa Ortiz, Kathleen Delaney, Mike Pollock, Suzanne Goldish and Andy Randells as the principal characters. Bella Hudson has been voiced 4 characters, Maria Robotnik, Tikal the Echidna, Mr. President’s announcer and the audience woman, For her next character that she voiced Wave the Swallow and Blaze the Cat did not appears in Sonic X: The Movie. Jason Griffith makes 2 voices character for Sonic the Hedgehog and Shadow the Hedgehog, Jet the Hawk has not been appears, Dan Green has been voiced Knuckles the Echidna, Storm the Albatross did not been appears in Sonic X: The Movie. Lisa Ortiz has only voiced as Sonic’s girlfriend, Amy Rose. Amy Palant voiced as Sonic’s pal, Miles Prower. Rouge was voiced by Kathleen Delaney. Mike Pollock has been voiced with his two characters Dr. Eggman and Gerald Robotnik as Eggman’s father. David Willis was announced as the new villain character, Raven Radix. The main for Babylon Rogues voices by Griffith, Hudson and Green would be appears in the 2008 animated film, Sonic X: The Shadow Snow.
Animations
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (or AoStH for short) is an American animated television series that was first broadcast in September 1993, and ran in cartoon syndication for a number of years afterwards. It follows the escapades of Sonic and Tails as they stop the evil Dr. Ivo Robotnik and his array of vicious robots from taking over the planet Mobius. The plots very loosely followed the storyline of the video games series; at the time the Sonic games were still quite new, and lacking much plot or character development, which was in turn filled in by the show's writers.
The animated television series simply called Sonic the Hedgehog originally aired from September 1993 to June 1995. While Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is known for its bright colors and whimsical humor, Sonic the Hedgehog featured darker stories which constituted a departure from the tone of the Sonic games of the time. To distinguish between the two series, fans typically refer to this series as SatAM because it was a Saturday morning cartoon while Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog aired on weekdays qnd recently on the radio in syndication, and using the show's full title would cause confusion in many situations because the series' title is the same as the character's name.
A two-episode OVA series based upon the game Sonic CD and the video game series as a whole, Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie was released in Japan in 1996 and released as an English dub in North America in 2000. Unlike the games, the film takes place on a world named Planet Freedom that, as with many anime series, appears to be a crossbreed of a fairytale land and Earth.
The cartoon Sonic Underground ran for only one season, 1998 to 1999; it bears little relation to other entries featuring Sonic (including previous games, comics and animated series), and shares few established characters. Forty episodes were produced and released. Unlike its predecessor, SatAM, the heroes do not remain in a sanctuary-like refuge but instead travel around Mobius to battle Robotnik's forces on a global scale. The Mobian civilization featured in the series includes multiple cities, a poor underclass and an aristocracy for the heroes to interact with. Sonic Underground is the only animated series based on Sonic where Tails has not made an appearance.
The anime Sonic X is the longest-running and most successful animated series based on Sonic to date. Originally a 52 episode series that would be inspired by the storylines of the Sonic Adventure series, Sonic X has since expanded to 78 episodes with the latest 26 episodes set primarily in outer space. The series borrows more from the games than any other Sonic cartoon before it; with the exception of Blaze the Cat, E-123 Omega, Babylon Rogues, Silver the Hedgehog, and Metal Sonic, every significant and playable video game character has made an appearance in the series. Sonic X is also the only animated series to include Super Sonic.
Marketing
The first teaser trailer was first released in July 2, 2006 attached from The Lake House and 4 Kids on Fox by animation film from TMNT produced by Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie released in USA in 1999 and followed by next film, Sonic X: The Shadow Snow releases in 2008. In November 2006, The first animation was showing from pictures from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) and Sonic Heroes retype a film poster with Sonic within his main friends, behind was Raven Radix preparing for himself to destroy the world as for Sonic was the leader. The film has been based on tv series, Sonic X that was not yet available in 2007. Lewis has been announced the voiced actors, Jason Griffith, Amy Palant, Dan Green, Lisa Ortiz, Kathleen Delaney, Mike Pollock, Rebecca Honig, Bella Hudson, Alexandra Williams and Marc Thompson on November 2006. The music themes has been created from Sonic history games would used for an Sonic X: The Movie video game following from Sonic Rivals 2 released in autumn 2007. Even for the main items from movie appears to be collecting all 11 main action figures characters from store, Burger King.
The story follows a giant mecha (known as Black Eggman in the Japanese version and Evil creature born in 6000 years ago in English dub) who appears in planet ploto (called Raven Radix in English dub as a tie-in with the Sonic cartoon) and banishes the doctor. The mecha takes control of Eggman's robotic army, to lure Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy and the rest of the gang were into the evil dimension, the Land of Darkness. Once there, the blue blur defeats city, who turns out to be Eggman himself who lured Sonic to his base in order to copy his memories and knowledge for his new villain, Raven RADIX an evil Sonic-shaped creature who shares his memories and feelings, and essentially lives the same life as Sonic himself.
In the English dubbed version, the two regions are referred to as being "separate dimensions", most likely due to a translation error.
The Land of the Sky consists of an unknown number of continents that drift high in the stratosphere of the planet, all of them connected to a massive ice formation (referred to in the dubbed version as a glacier, but more likely a mountain) which also serves to anchor them to the planet's surface below, much like the Little Planet from Sonic the Hedgehog CD. According to Knuckles of this continuity, if this ice network was destroyed, Planet Freedom's rotation would hurl the Land of the Sky into outer space, undoubtedly killing everyone on it.
The Land of Darkness is the title used to address the actual surface of Planet Freedom, a post-apocalyptic wilderness where only one known individual lives: Dr. Eggman. Most of its terrain is untamed and mountainous, but Sonic and Tails eventually reach a very modern city, where they see that the ruins of buildings are crumbling into the sea. This is where Robotnik's empire of Eggmanland is located (landmarks strongly suggest that it resides in what was once Manhattan). The Land of Darkness may earn its name because the thick clouds that block out most of the sun's light. Despite its gloom, the Land of Darkness is quite verdant, though all of its regions are littered with deadly booby-traps and killer robots designed by Eggman. The Land of Darkness can only be accessed in one of two ways: by a whirlwind-like "portal" in the Land of the Sky, or by chancing into a warp zone; an extradimensional link between two points on Planet Freedom. The city and look of the land strongly imply that planet freedom is a post apocalyptic Earth that was built upon with floating islands known as the land of the sky.
Book Series & Toy line
In September 2005, Archie Comics, publishers of the North American Sonic the Hedgehog comics started a Sonic X The Movie comic book based on Sonic X. According to writer Joe Edkin, the first nine issues will take place in the TV continuity between episodes 32 and 33, which falls between the Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 story lines. After this, the stories' chronological positions will vary for some time, although in progressively later points in the series. The series is based off the English version, though for the most part fits the continuity established in the original Japanese version.
The 4Kids version of the show was backed up by a toyline. The early figures in this line were in fact re-releases of an earlier Sonic Adventure toyline, criticised by many for awkward poses and poor sculpting. The line has currently moved onto more accurate and updated figures. Taking a concept from the popular Marvel Legends toys, one wave presents each of the 5 characters in it with part of a generic E-Series robot. Fans who buy the whole wave can complete the robot as a 'bonus' figure. Further waves include the re-release of the first wave with the addition of a special keychain, the Space Fighters collection (depicting the characters in science fiction-style armour) and the Chaos Emeralds collection.
June 13, 2007 for U.S. and June 14 in Japan. It was director by Dana McFarland hired by 20th Century Fox filmed 93 minutes long. The film was grossed $15,000,000.
Plot
After 6000 years, An evil creature was born on the planet of Pluto from far away, Awaken inside the hole as fallen into earth stealing of the Chaos Emeralds of killing people of destiny. The world was calling for Sonic to be the Hedgehog Master as for he kick Sonic and hit the ground hard by the time since Raven tells him that he was too weak to defeated him as he has turned into Dark Super Sonic, however, Raven Radix gets his energy of taken his Dark Powers and was only hopeless to be Dark as Raven has already becoming Dark and adding more strength, but Shadow day dreams about his family, Maria that the Ark was shut down over 50 years ago once that Maria was shot by a gun when dying and Rouge has been Treasure Hunting to steal The Chaos Emerald and the Master Emerald from Knuckles as The Angel Island fell down on the ocean standing near The Mystic Ruins.
Tails has been sleeping in his workshop and heard the news as he jumped on the X Tornado picking up Knuckles as The X tornado has been destroyed by the bomb as Tails and Knuckles flying down the sky since Sonic ran pasted Cream and Amy once That he heard Amy screaming almost got kidnapped that Raven was quick to vanish, Sonic has continued his adventure in the City Park battling with Dr. Eggman but Raven entered his base and has been taken all Emeralds and given some more power and disappeared He’s taken the powers of the Emeralds and comes Invisible since Sonic has been taken a lead as he ordered Amy Rose, Cream the Rabbit, Cheese the Chao, Bokkun, Decoe and Bocoe heading to the G.U.N’s prison office searching for the President.
Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles” Tails” Prower, Knuckles the Echidna, Shadow the Hedgehog, Rouge the Bat and Dr. Eggman traveled in the Feature called “6000 Years Planet” to search for the Chaos Emeralds and Raven Radix as he’s already transform his powers as Powerful as Raven Radix is still escaping after Sonic and the gangs battle Suddenly Raven Radix weaken the gang into an Sour Smoke and Shadow founded a Chaos Emerald that Raven Radix forgot and escape from the Sour Smoke back to Station Square. Shadow once was break out of smoke taking the gang back to the city with other gang were at.
Back at Station Square City, The whole gang heads to the police for the tough battle as Raven Radix has been grown using power of Master Emerald and activated Fireball of Cosmic wave once that the ark has been falling and dark cloud blocking up whole earth of evil for everyone on planet dies. Once The gang were running after Raven, they were trapped in the black whole taking them to space in the space colony ark by Raven using his dark magical powers. Once that the gang were in the ark on their search their way out back to earth using Shadow's chaos control.
Back to earth, Raven once takes over the city and The police has been no good to defeated Raven Radix. Tails wanted himself for his team to give another chance once he just wanted to be saved once that Raven Radix was a main creature born for 6000 years ago, however, it starts to make Amy apologies but Raven didn’t care when he wants to hear as Amy killed as she dies, After he death on Sonic's hands, He and Shadow starts with their transformation by fighting how Sonic feels real angry with Raven Radix however it’s all up to them to fight as stronger and harder. As by killing Raven, Shadow used Sonic to spin-dash moving real fast blasted on Raven’s neck as he dies surprising of bringing Amy to life with scar on her chest as for Sonic and Shadow stopped the ark from falling and save the world.
At the end, Rouge has given Knuckles back all of his emeralds as he charge on his Island floating when Shadow missing his home with Maria and Rouge stills on treasure hunt for The Chaos Emeralds as she never quits when Tails fixing up Sonic’s Tornado plane when Cream and Cheese playing tea party with Amy and also Sonic running from around the world as for everyone thanking him from saving the world.
Voice Cast
Jason Griffith as Sonic the Hedgehog: The series' principal hero. He is a blue hedgehog who can run at or faster than the speed of sound, and has numerous other abilities. He also uses his skills to save the world from Dr. Eggman. He is impatient, laid back, confident and always on the look-out for an adventure. First appearance: Sonic the Hedgehog.
Amy Palant as Miles "Tails" Prower: Sonic's best friend. He is a two-tailed fox who can fly for a limited time by spinning his tails rapidly, and also has an IQ of 300. He is a skilled mechanic and often takes care of Sonic's plane called the Tornado. He also pilots a machine called the Cyclone, which is an upgraded version of the Tornado with battle-mech capabilities. First appearance: Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
Dan Green as Knuckles the Echidna: The last living member of a warrior race of echidnas, and Sonic's hotheaded friend and rival. Knuckles resides on Angel Island, where he guards the Master Emerald, the source of the island's ability to float in the sky. Knuckles is very strong; his spiked fists are capable of smashing through boulders as well as allowing him to climb walls. The nature of his echidna spines (that resemble dreadlocks) allow him to glide in the air for periods of time. First appearance: Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
Lisa Ortiz as Amy Rose: A pink hedgehog who has become Sonic's self-appointed girlfriend, first seen in Sonic the Hedgehog CD. Ever since Sonic and Amy met, she has been in love with Sonic and she now wants him to marry her. She is quite strong and smashes enemy forces down with her trusty Piko Piko Hammer. First appearance: Sonic the Hedgehog CD.
Jason Griffith as Shadow the Hedgehog: The Ultimate Life form created over 50 years ago by Dr. Eggman's grandfather, Gerald Robotnik, and is one of Sonic's many rivals. He is often quiet and very serious, and has the natural ability to use Chaos Control. First appearance: Sonic Adventure 2.
Caren Manuel as Rouge the Bat: A female white bat who is a treasure hunter and a spy for GUN. She is full of feminine charm and can be very manipulative. She has powerful legs that she uses to kick through steel and climb walls. First appearance: Sonic Adventure 2.
Rebecca Handler as Cream the Rabbit: A naive, but polite young rabbit who lives with her mother, Vanilla. Cheese is a Chao (which Cream uses as a missile). Because Cream has been brought up like a princess, she does not like being involved in other peoples' affairs. She can fly using her large ears. First appearance: Sonic Advance 2.
Mike Pollock as Dr. Eggman: His real name is Dr. Ivo (sometimes spelled as "Iva") Robotnik, he is Sonic's arch nemesis and the series' main villain. He is egg-shaped, has a giant brown mustache, and has an IQ of 300. Eggman is an expert in robotics and wishes to conquer the world and build the Eggman Empire. However, Sonic and his friends always stand in his way. In many cases, his own plans ironically outdo himself. First appearance: Sonic the Hedgehog.
Andrew Rannells as Bocoe and Decoe: Dr. Eggman's personal humanoid assistant robots. Decoe is a tall, slim and gold-colored, while Bocoe is short, stubby and silver. They are almost constantly seen with Eggman, helping him pilot his machinery among other things. The two do not have much in the way of personalities, but are somewhat clumsy and stupid, similar to Scratch and Grounder from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog in sense that only provide comic relief. Decoe is 198 cm tall and weighs 200 kg, while Bocoe is 145 cm tall and weighs 220 kg.[
Bokkun: Employed by Doctor Eggman to send messages to Sonic that come in a form of a TV that blows up in the recipient's face. Bokkun gets mistreated and cries very easily, due to Eggman always hurting him. His pleasures include annoying people with bombs or eating various desserts. He is very loyal to Eggman, who he treats like a father or creator. Bokkun can fly using a jetpack (possibly bolted to his back), and has a boiling point temper. He is 50 cm tall and weighs 20 kg
Bella Hudson as Maria Robotnik: A character that appears in flashbacks during Sonic Adventure 2, and Shadow the Hedgehog, along with the anime series Sonic X, where she mirrored her role in Sonic Adventure 2. She is voiced by Yuri Shiratori in Japanese, and Shelly Fox and Bella Hudson in English. She is the granddaughter of Professor Gerald Robotnik, and is the cousin of Doctor Ivo Robotnik, better known by the alias Doctor Eggman. Before Shadow was created, she was friends with the G.U.N. Commander. Maria suffered from the illness known as "NIDS" (Neuro-Immune Deficiency Syndrome), which was considered incurable at the time.
Bella Hudson as Tikal: A designed by Yuji Uekawa to be a light orange, female, anthropomorphic echidna. She first appeared in the game Sonic Adventure, cameoed in later games, and played similar roles in other mediums of the series. She is 14 years old, 95 cm (3 ft 1 in) tall, and her weight is unknown.. Tikal's Japanese voice-overs are done by Kaori Asoh, while Elara Distler did her English voice in Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2, as Bella Hudson did her voice in the English language version of Sonic X.
David Wills as Raven Radix: A Evil alien creature was born after 6000 years ago of history for his death came back to life about to destroy the world and defeat Sonic and his friends
Bella Hudson as Woman
Alexandra Williams as News Announcer
Filming locations
This movie has been unavailable in June 11 2007, but also the voice actors are even different than animated voice actors but not appearance in the film but only appearance characters in the 2007 video game for Wii, PlayStation, Xbox 360, Gameboy Advance, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, Gameboy Advance, Neo Geo Pocket Color and GameCube. For themes, The Director find Music from other Sonic Games in other words same skills and different art since it was a teaser Poster with showing Sonic‘s shoes and Film Poster showing Sonic and his Teammates with Raven Radix behind them who takes over the world when Sonic and gang saves the world defeating the powerful Raven Radix. Bella Hudson has voices as The screaming woman with something was attacked or someone was in trouble how Sonic and Shadow was voiced by Jason Griffith however Dana McFarland has been marked a main film poster with Sonic and his 5 teammates Shadow, Rouge, Knuckles, Tails and Amy behind was a evil creature, Raven Radix. Sonic X: The Movie was distributed by 20th Century Fox and ends with Sonic theme songs from Sonic video games. Dana McFarland has been created a film with music from game creating a art within poster showing from Sonic Heroes.
Music
Numerous composers have worked on the music of games in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Masato Nakamura of J-pop band Dreams Come True was responsible for the music of the first two 16-bit games. Ys/Streets of Rage composer Yuzo Koshiro composed the tunes for the first 8-bit title, barring what was retained from the 16-bit version.
Sega's in-house music company, Wavemaster, did the majority of the music in later titles. One Wave Master employee, Jun Senoue, is part of the band Crush 40, and through his ties to the band they have played the main theme tunes of the two Sonic Adventure games, Sonic Heroes, and Shadow the Hedgehog. Heroes and Shadow the Hedgehog also featured other bands, such as Julien-K. For the 2006 Sonic the Hedgehog game, Senoue and Crush 40 performed a remix of "All Hail Shadow" to play as Shadow the Hedgehog's theme for the game.
Richard Jacques, a frequent composer of music for Sega games, contributed to the soundtracks of Sonic R and the Saturn/PC version of Sonic 3D Blast: Flickies' Island. Runblebee has done songs for Sonic games such as Sonic Riders, the title theme and the Babylon theme, and the Sonic and the Secret Rings main theme, "Seven Rings In Hand".
Music Themes
List of Themes from Sonic Game series.
His World from Sonic The Hedgehog (2006 game)
You Can Do Anything from Sonic CD
Believe in Yourself from Sonic Adventure
You're My Hero from Sonic 3D
We Can from Sonic Heroes
It Doesn’t Matter from Sonic Adventure
Live And Learn from Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
Sonic Speed Riders from Sonic Riders
Fly in the Freedom Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
Sadness from Sonic Adventure
Release
The prime movie aired in Japan in Thursday, June 14, 2007 releases and for USA it was released in Wednesday, June 13, 2007 main ends 93 minutes long starts buying Sonic action figures, clothing and many items. For video game, It was released for USA in June 1, 2007 and in Japan in June 6, 2007 also Sonic X: The Movie soundtrack was released in May 27, 2007 for many states appears within theme songs from games and movie.
DVD
Full disk will be released on DVD for U.S. in December 4, 2007 and January 1, 2008 for Japan with special features of the Making of Sonic X: The Movie, Help Sonic defeated Raven Radix, Biography for Sonic X: The Movie characters and cast, Making of Raven Radix giving with photo galleries.
Continuity
The events of Sonic the Movie are very different from the ones in the Sonic game continuity, and as such the movie's canonocity is sometimes disputed among fans. Newer, often American or European, Sonic fans sometimes jump to the conclusion that the anime is part of the official canon because it was created in Japan and overseen by Sega and Sonic Team. In some cases, the action portrayed in the movie is true to Sonic gameplay, particularly a scene with Sonic jumping on a spring while avoiding Badniks and obstacles in side-scrolling fashion, an intentional reference to Sonic 1-era games.
However, the movie contradicts several points of the game canon, such as Metal Sonic being destroyed, Knuckles having nothing to do with Angel Island, and most notacibly, the movie is not set on Earth. Sonic the Movie was possibly intended to be a vague telling of the happenings of Sonic CD or Mega Drive games, and it didn't widely differ from the game series at the time of its creation, but Sega has steered the continuity of Sonic in a different direction and retconned many elements of the 2D-era games since, making it possible to consider the movie an alternative universe or simply non-canon.
Since in 2003, 4Kids Entertainment licensed Sonic X for American U.S. licensing in a joint effort between 4Kids and VIZ Media (it was formerly with ShoPro Entertainment before ShoPro and VIZ, LLC merged into VIZ Media) and distributed by FUNimation. It is also shown in Europe, Australia, Israel, Brazil and Latin America by Jetix, and in Canada by YTV. Originally planned as a 52 episode series which would be inspired by the storylines of the Sonic Adventure series, Sonic X has now expanded to 78 episodes which were shown in Thailand, and France in February and March 2005. As of 2007, the series has supposedly ended its run, although there are rumors that the show may continue (see below). After almost a full season off the air in the US, Sonic X began a "new" run on May 5, 2007, starting with the series' first episode.
Since in 1999, While it was believed for a while that 65 episodes were made of which only 40 aired, Ben Hurst, a notable writer from the Sonic the Hedgehog television show (dubbed "SatAM" by fans), who was also involved in Sonic Underground's production, stated in a chat at the Sonic Amateur Gaming Expo (http://www.sagexpo.org) that only 40 were produced.
Sonic Underground takes place on Mobius, similar to SatAM, but with notable differences. Elements that are not included in Sonic Underground but were present in SatAM include Snively, power rings, Knothole Village, and the Freedom Fighters. Though the Freedom Fighters were included, many of the characters in the Freedom Fighter group that were in SatAM are completely left out (including Tails). Another difference with the Freedom Fighter group is that Freedom Fighters do not remain in one Knothole-like refuge but instead travel around Mobius to battle Robotnik's forces on a global scale; and that Robotnik has left most of the Mobian people unroboticised, leaving multiple cities, a poor underclass, and an aristocracy for the heroes to interact with. Also, unlike SatAM Sonic and AoStH, many of the minor characters were not easily recognisable as being based on Earth animals, instead appearing far more alien.
Jaleel White provided the voices for all three siblings. The main theme was composed by Robbie London and Mike Piccirillo. The musical underscore was composed by Jean-Michel Guirao and Mike Piccirillo. The series featured 40 songs spread over the series as featured music videos. Each of these songs were composed by Mike Piccirillo.
Casting
The cast for 17 animated characters for Jason Griffith, Amy Palant, Dan Green, Lisa Ortiz, Kathleen Delaney, Mike Pollock, Suzanne Goldish and Andy Randells as the principal characters. Bella Hudson has been voiced 4 characters, Maria Robotnik, Tikal the Echidna, Mr. President’s announcer and the audience woman, For her next character that she voiced Wave the Swallow and Blaze the Cat did not appears in Sonic X: The Movie. Jason Griffith makes 2 voices character for Sonic the Hedgehog and Shadow the Hedgehog, Jet the Hawk has not been appears, Dan Green has been voiced Knuckles the Echidna, Storm the Albatross did not been appears in Sonic X: The Movie. Lisa Ortiz has only voiced as Sonic’s girlfriend, Amy Rose. Amy Palant voiced as Sonic’s pal, Miles Prower. Rouge was voiced by Kathleen Delaney. Mike Pollock has been voiced with his two characters Dr. Eggman and Gerald Robotnik as Eggman’s father. David Willis was announced as the new villain character, Raven Radix. The main for Babylon Rogues voices by Griffith, Hudson and Green would be appears in the 2008 animated film, Sonic X: The Shadow Snow.
Animations
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (or AoStH for short) is an American animated television series that was first broadcast in September 1993, and ran in cartoon syndication for a number of years afterwards. It follows the escapades of Sonic and Tails as they stop the evil Dr. Ivo Robotnik and his array of vicious robots from taking over the planet Mobius. The plots very loosely followed the storyline of the video games series; at the time the Sonic games were still quite new, and lacking much plot or character development, which was in turn filled in by the show's writers.
The animated television series simply called Sonic the Hedgehog originally aired from September 1993 to June 1995. While Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is known for its bright colors and whimsical humor, Sonic the Hedgehog featured darker stories which constituted a departure from the tone of the Sonic games of the time. To distinguish between the two series, fans typically refer to this series as SatAM because it was a Saturday morning cartoon while Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog aired on weekdays qnd recently on the radio in syndication, and using the show's full title would cause confusion in many situations because the series' title is the same as the character's name.
A two-episode OVA series based upon the game Sonic CD and the video game series as a whole, Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie was released in Japan in 1996 and released as an English dub in North America in 2000. Unlike the games, the film takes place on a world named Planet Freedom that, as with many anime series, appears to be a crossbreed of a fairytale land and Earth.
The cartoon Sonic Underground ran for only one season, 1998 to 1999; it bears little relation to other entries featuring Sonic (including previous games, comics and animated series), and shares few established characters. Forty episodes were produced and released. Unlike its predecessor, SatAM, the heroes do not remain in a sanctuary-like refuge but instead travel around Mobius to battle Robotnik's forces on a global scale. The Mobian civilization featured in the series includes multiple cities, a poor underclass and an aristocracy for the heroes to interact with. Sonic Underground is the only animated series based on Sonic where Tails has not made an appearance.
The anime Sonic X is the longest-running and most successful animated series based on Sonic to date. Originally a 52 episode series that would be inspired by the storylines of the Sonic Adventure series, Sonic X has since expanded to 78 episodes with the latest 26 episodes set primarily in outer space. The series borrows more from the games than any other Sonic cartoon before it; with the exception of Blaze the Cat, E-123 Omega, Babylon Rogues, Silver the Hedgehog, and Metal Sonic, every significant and playable video game character has made an appearance in the series. Sonic X is also the only animated series to include Super Sonic.
Marketing
The first teaser trailer was first released in July 2, 2006 attached from The Lake House and 4 Kids on Fox by animation film from TMNT produced by Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie released in USA in 1999 and followed by next film, Sonic X: The Shadow Snow releases in 2008. In November 2006, The first animation was showing from pictures from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) and Sonic Heroes retype a film poster with Sonic within his main friends, behind was Raven Radix preparing for himself to destroy the world as for Sonic was the leader. The film has been based on tv series, Sonic X that was not yet available in 2007. Lewis has been announced the voiced actors, Jason Griffith, Amy Palant, Dan Green, Lisa Ortiz, Kathleen Delaney, Mike Pollock, Rebecca Honig, Bella Hudson, Alexandra Williams and Marc Thompson on November 2006. The music themes has been created from Sonic history games would used for an Sonic X: The Movie video game following from Sonic Rivals 2 released in autumn 2007. Even for the main items from movie appears to be collecting all 11 main action figures characters from store, Burger King.
The story follows a giant mecha (known as Black Eggman in the Japanese version and Evil creature born in 6000 years ago in English dub) who appears in planet ploto (called Raven Radix in English dub as a tie-in with the Sonic cartoon) and banishes the doctor. The mecha takes control of Eggman's robotic army, to lure Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy and the rest of the gang were into the evil dimension, the Land of Darkness. Once there, the blue blur defeats city, who turns out to be Eggman himself who lured Sonic to his base in order to copy his memories and knowledge for his new villain, Raven RADIX an evil Sonic-shaped creature who shares his memories and feelings, and essentially lives the same life as Sonic himself.
In the English dubbed version, the two regions are referred to as being "separate dimensions", most likely due to a translation error.
The Land of the Sky consists of an unknown number of continents that drift high in the stratosphere of the planet, all of them connected to a massive ice formation (referred to in the dubbed version as a glacier, but more likely a mountain) which also serves to anchor them to the planet's surface below, much like the Little Planet from Sonic the Hedgehog CD. According to Knuckles of this continuity, if this ice network was destroyed, Planet Freedom's rotation would hurl the Land of the Sky into outer space, undoubtedly killing everyone on it.
The Land of Darkness is the title used to address the actual surface of Planet Freedom, a post-apocalyptic wilderness where only one known individual lives: Dr. Eggman. Most of its terrain is untamed and mountainous, but Sonic and Tails eventually reach a very modern city, where they see that the ruins of buildings are crumbling into the sea. This is where Robotnik's empire of Eggmanland is located (landmarks strongly suggest that it resides in what was once Manhattan). The Land of Darkness may earn its name because the thick clouds that block out most of the sun's light. Despite its gloom, the Land of Darkness is quite verdant, though all of its regions are littered with deadly booby-traps and killer robots designed by Eggman. The Land of Darkness can only be accessed in one of two ways: by a whirlwind-like "portal" in the Land of the Sky, or by chancing into a warp zone; an extradimensional link between two points on Planet Freedom. The city and look of the land strongly imply that planet freedom is a post apocalyptic Earth that was built upon with floating islands known as the land of the sky.
Book Series & Toy line
In September 2005, Archie Comics, publishers of the North American Sonic the Hedgehog comics started a Sonic X The Movie comic book based on Sonic X. According to writer Joe Edkin, the first nine issues will take place in the TV continuity between episodes 32 and 33, which falls between the Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 story lines. After this, the stories' chronological positions will vary for some time, although in progressively later points in the series. The series is based off the English version, though for the most part fits the continuity established in the original Japanese version.
The 4Kids version of the show was backed up by a toyline. The early figures in this line were in fact re-releases of an earlier Sonic Adventure toyline, criticised by many for awkward poses and poor sculpting. The line has currently moved onto more accurate and updated figures. Taking a concept from the popular Marvel Legends toys, one wave presents each of the 5 characters in it with part of a generic E-Series robot. Fans who buy the whole wave can complete the robot as a 'bonus' figure. Further waves include the re-release of the first wave with the addition of a special keychain, the Space Fighters collection (depicting the characters in science fiction-style armour) and the Chaos Emeralds collection.
ARTHUR JAY HARRIS
Journalist and author of three true crime books Arthur Jay Harris spent 11 years researching the unsolved 1981 murder of 6-year-old Adam Walsh, who’s father John Walsh made him the poster child for missing children before John himself became the host of the crime-solving TV show America’s Most Wanted. In 2006 Harris published a stunning theory: Adam was murdered by serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who at the time was living 15 minutes from the South Florida shopping mall where Adam’s mother lost him. Harris also found two police witnesses who had identified Dahmer as the man they’d seen at the mall that day.
Police in Hollywood, Florida, had considered Dahmer a suspect in 1991 immediately after 11 severed heads were found in his Milwaukee apartment, including in his refrigerator. Adam’s severed head was the only part of his body ever found. Dahmer’s father Lionel called America’s Most Wanted to tell John Walsh he thought his son might have killed Walsh’s son. However, for himself, Jeffrey denied killing Adam.
Just after the kidnapping in 1981, a young witness who’d been at the Hollywood Mall at the time of the incident told police he’d seen a man chase a child he thought was Adam. The man entered a blue van, continued the chase, then grabbed the child. Police had considered that their best lead and asked citizens to be on the lookout for any blue vans they saw. For months police ran down hundreds of leads, and searched streets and driveways in the region and throughout the state for blue vans.
One of the two witnesses who’d identified Dahmer in 1991, who’d also spoken to police in 1981, reported viewing a similar event. Bill Bowen said he’d seen the man – Dahmer, he said, immediately when he first saw his newspaper photo – throw the boy he thought was Adam “like a sack of potatoes” into a blue van that burned rubber to get away. Bowen was horrified.
Hollywood police had never checked, but Harris years later found a number of people who remembered Dahmer’s Miami place of employment, a sub shop. They recalled it had a blue van for pizza deliveries that was easily accessible to employees, and which often disappeared for hours or even overnight.
The other of the two mall witnesses, Willis Morgan, said he was browsing in a Radio Shack around noon when Dahmer tried to pick him up. The man was drunk, disheveled, and Morgan thought, ready to pull a knife on him. When Morgan refused to have a conversation with him, the man shot him what he described was an evil stare.
Harris found the sub shop manager who’d hired Dahmer, who said Dahmer would sometimes come to work in the late morning drunk and disheveled, at which time he’d send him away. After reading Morgan’s description, he said he had no doubt that Morgan did see Dahmer at the mall.
Nor did Hollywood Police consider a Wisconsin-based FBI agent who’d interviewed Dahmer months after his Milwaukee murder convictions, who said he believed Dahmer conceded to him that he’d killed Adam.
Neil Purtell, now retired from the FBI, said when he pressed Dahmer to admit the murder, he’d responded that Florida had the death penalty. Although he’d admitted 17 murders in Wisconsin and Ohio, neither state had the death penalty in effect when he’d killed there. Dahmer also told Purtell, whomever killed Adam would not be able to live in any prison.
In 1992 Purtell had urged Hollywood police to interview Dahmer but its lead detective Jack Hoffman was reluctant. Instead, Purtell worked through channels to convince John Walsh, who got Hoffman to go. In a letter to the Broward County State Attorney, Walsh called Morgan and Bowen “two credible witnesses,” and added that Dahmer “certainly fits the profile of someone who might be capable of murdering a beautiful six-year-old boy.”
At the interview, that August, Dahmer denied killing Adam. He said he’d worked seven days a week, 10 hours a day that summer, didn’t know where the Hollywood Mall was, didn’t have a vehicle to get anywhere, and wasn’t interested in children as young as Adam. Reporting back to Willis Morgan, Hoffman said Dahmer had looked him in the eyes, and he’d believed him.
However, Hollywood police never found the sub shop manager. He told Harris that Dahmer worked only part-time that summer, and never on weekends. Although Dahmer didn’t have arrests for offenses against children as young as Adam, he had been arrested for lewd behavior in front of 12-year-old boys. And Billy Capshaw, who had been Dahmer’s roommate in the U.S. Army in Germany just before Dahmer was discharged early for alcoholism and came to Miami, said the military police had on two occasions returned Dahmer to their barracks room and told him that Dahmer had exposed himself to children in a nearby public park.
Capshaw also saw Dahmer return from a weekend leave with a large stain of blood that had soaked through his clothes and encrusted to his chest. Other times he found bloody buck knives in his locker. Dahmer also kept a dorm-sized refrigerator in the room, padlocked, that Capshaw never saw inside. After Dahmer’s 1991 arrest, German police came to America to investigate him as a suspect in a possible series of mutilation murders within a hundred miles of his army base while he was stationed there in 1980-81.
Harris first published his findings in a December 2006 cover story he wrote for the Miami Daily Business Review. In February 2007 he appeared on WSVN-TV Miami and WISN-TV Milwaukee then was interviewed on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 and Nancy Grace, Court TV’s Catherine Crier and Ashleigh Banfield, Fox News’s The Lineup, Inside Edition and elsewhere.
Hollywood Police responded that they had fully checked out Harris’s information previously and found it without merit. In fact, four years earlier, Harris had offered them what he’d collected but they were mostly uninterested, failing to call either the sub shop manager or any of seven other witnesses he’d found who remembered the blue van, or the two Dahmer witnesses at the mall. New Times Broward-Palm Beach columnist Bob Norman responded, “It's a ridiculous stance but one that is predictable from a department that has notoriously lost evidence and bungled the case to the point that it seems more intent on covering its own hide than in finding the killer… At the very least, Arthur Jay Harris' case should be deeply investigated by trained investigators who share at least one very important qualification: That they have never, ever been employed by the Hollywood P.D.”
John Walsh initially asked the Broward State Attorney to investigate the new Dahmer leads and was critical of Hollywood police. He told WISN he couldn’t believe that after 25 years, he was still fighting for a competent investigation into Adam’s killing. “That's a bitter pill for me to swallow. (As) someone who's a big supporter of law enforcement, that the law enforcement agency investigating my son's murder would… not interview people who thought they had important information about the case, it's really a tough thing,” Walsh said. But days later, Walsh reversed himself. A statement from America’s Most Wanted instead relied on Hollywood Police’s assertion. The show added they believed a previous suspect, Ottis Toole, had killed Adam.
In October 1983, Jacksonville, Florida, drifter Ottis Toole had confessed to killing Adam and Hollywood Police announced they’d solved the case. However, Toole also eventually confessed to hundreds of other murders to detectives from all over the country, all of which eventually were discounted except for an arson in his hometown that caused a death. Toole seemed to relish his police and media attention, and later, depending on his mood or whom he was talking to, would either recant his confession that he killed Adam or re-confess. He was never charged in Adam’s case.
In 1994 the media asked a Broward judge to open the still-unsolved Adam police file, citing Florida state public records laws regarding inactively-investigated cases. Police and the Walshes objected but in 1996 the judge ruled for the media. Police interview transcripts then released showed that detectives had continually offered Toole specific facts, showed him photos, and brought him to crime scenes in the seeming hope it would prompt him to reveal something true they hadn’t told him. But that never happened. In fact, in Toole’s initial telling, he said he’d taken Adam in a January, and that the child was wearing mittens. In fact, Adam was taken in July, during a typically-steaming South Florida noontime.
In 1983 Hollywood police spent months of intense investigation to document or disprove that Toole was even in South Florida in the days around the time Adam was taken. In the end, they could do neither. By 1984, embarrassed, Hollywood police abandoned their theory.
In a 1992 South Florida magazine interview, John Walsh ridiculed the idea that Toole had killed Adam. In 1994, to the Palm Beach Post, he said he thought the killer was still at liberty and still killing. Toole, however, had remained in prison since 1983. But in 1996, just before the police file was opened, Walsh changed his mind and accused Toole. In 1997, Harris wrote in New Times Broward-Palm Beach disputing the evidence against Toole. He reported that neither the Hollywood Police nor the chief assistant Broward State Attorney believed Toole was guilty.
Through 2007, Harris continued to buttress his theory with new evidence. On ABC News’s documentary show Primetime, Harris reported he’d since found the first official documentation of Dahmer’s presence in South Florida. On July 7, 1981 – 20 days before Adam was taken from the mall – a Miami-Dade County police report found in that agency’s microfilm had Dahmer reporting the discovery of a dead homeless man in the alley behind the sub shop where he worked. He knew that the man had slept in an electric meter room steps away. Although the man had no obvious trauma and an autopsy determined that his probable manner of death was natural, there was evidence in the police report of a struggle; he was wearing just one tennis shoe, and an officer had found the other in the meter room.
On the theory that Dahmer, admittedly homeless then himself, may have then moved into the meter room on the man’s demise – natural or otherwise, ABC hired Jan Johnson, a crime scene investigator retired from the Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement, to inspect the room. While ABC’s cameras rolled, she found a corner with a spatter pattern of cast-off stains rising from the floor, indicative, she said, of homicidal chopping. A phenylthaline field test she did confirmed that the stains were blood. She took samples so a lab could attempt to create a DNA profile, however the testing failed because the sample was degraded. Nor was she able to determine whether or not the blood was human. Next to the corner stood upright a rusty lumberman’s axe and a sledgehammer. As well, there was an entry in the floor to a 3-foot high gravel crawlspace beneath. In the crawlspace of his home in Bath, Ohio in 1978 Dahmer had used a sledgehammer to crush the bones of the man he said was his first murder victim.
Although the shopping center management had allowed ABC initial access to that room, they denied them further permission to do a fuller examination and take more blood samples in the hope that a DNA profile could still be made that might then be compared to a hair sample of Adam’s, kept all these years by the Broward Medical Examiner’s Office. ABC showed its results to Hollywood Police but they did not seem to show much interest.
Was this the blood of Adam Walsh, killed by Jeffrey Dahmer? The answer at this time remains tantalizingly inconclusive.
Harris’s three published true crime books are Until Proven Innocent, Flowers for Mrs. Luskin, and Speed Kills, all stories which took place in South Florida, where he lives.
FOOTNOTES
1. Who killed Adam Walsh? A case for serial slayer Jeffrey Dahmer, Miami Daily Business Review, December 4, 2006. http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/news.html?news_id=41218
2. Milwaukee mutilation suspect lived briefly in Dade, The Miami Herald, July 27, 1991.
3. Adam Walsh found dead, Discovered in Vero canal, Hollywood Sun-Tattler, August 11, 1981
4. John Walsh, Tears of Rage, Pocket Books, New York, 1997, Paperback p. 267
5. Callers tip police to dozens of blue vans, The Miami Herald, August 17, 1981
6. Did Dahmer Confess To All His Crimes? WISN-TV (Milwaukee), February 2, 2007. http://www.wisn.com/news/10914431/detail.html
7. http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/news.html?news_id=41218
8. Did Dahmer Do It? WSVN-TV (Miami), February 1, 2007. http://www1.wsvn.com/features/articles/investigations/MI38867
9. Did Dahmer Have One More Victim? Witnesses Say They Saw Dahmer in Mall Where Adam Walsh Disappeared, WISN-TV (Milwaukee), February 1, 2007.
http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/video/10903516/index.html
10. Jeffrey Dahmer-Adam Walsh Connection? Anderson Cooper 360, February 5, 2007. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/05/acd.01.html
11. Nancy Grace, February 5, 2007. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/05/ng.01.html
12. Did Jeffrey Dahmer Kill Adam Walsh? Inside Edition, February 6, 2007. http://www.insideedition.com/ourstories/inside_stories/story.aspx?storyid=592
13. Walsh, officials not swayed by author’s Dahmer theory, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, February 14, 2007
14. Dahmer Did It. Why won’t Hollywood police take seriously the best chance at solving Adam Walsh’s murder?, New Times Broward-Palm Beach, February 22, 2007. http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2007-02-22/news/dahmer-did-it/
15. http://www.wisn.com/news/10903529/detail.html
16. http://www.amw.com/features/feature_story_detail.cfm?id=1421
17. Convicted arsonist is held in Adam Walsh’s murder, The Miami Herald, October 22, 1983
18. Adam Walsh police files to be made public today, The Miami Herald, February 16, 1996
19. Broward County’s John Walsh turns tragedy into triumph on “America’s Most Wanted”, South Florida, July 1992
20. “You never forget about it”, Palm Beach Post, November 6, 1994
21. Police chief says investigators let emotions get in the way, The Miami Herald, February 7, 1996
22. America’s Most Frustrating, New Times Broward-Palm Beach, November 13, 1997. http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/1997-11-13/news/america-s-most-frustrating/
23. Decades Later, New Clues in a Cold Case. Could Jeffrey Dahmer Be to Blame for Adam Walsh’s Murder? ABC News Primetime, August 14, 2007. http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id3473665&page1
24. http://www.amazon.com/Until-Proven-Innocent-Arthur-Harris/dp/0380777339/refsr_1_1/105-2069442-6078066?ieUTF8&sbooks&qid1192135380&sr=8-1
25. http://www.amazon.com/Flowers-Mrs-Luskin-Arthur-Harris/dp/B000NQ1X2K/refsr_1_2/105-2069442-6078066?ieUTF8&sbooks&qid1192135380&sr=8-2
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Journalist and author of three true crime books Arthur Jay Harris spent 11 years researching the unsolved 1981 murder of 6-year-old Adam Walsh, who’s father John Walsh made him the poster child for missing children before John himself became the host of the crime-solving TV show America’s Most Wanted. In 2006 Harris published a stunning theory: Adam was murdered by serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who at the time was living 15 minutes from the South Florida shopping mall where Adam’s mother lost him. Harris also found two police witnesses who had identified Dahmer as the man they’d seen at the mall that day.
Police in Hollywood, Florida, had considered Dahmer a suspect in 1991 immediately after 11 severed heads were found in his Milwaukee apartment, including in his refrigerator. Adam’s severed head was the only part of his body ever found. Dahmer’s father Lionel called America’s Most Wanted to tell John Walsh he thought his son might have killed Walsh’s son. However, for himself, Jeffrey denied killing Adam.
Just after the kidnapping in 1981, a young witness who’d been at the Hollywood Mall at the time of the incident told police he’d seen a man chase a child he thought was Adam. The man entered a blue van, continued the chase, then grabbed the child. Police had considered that their best lead and asked citizens to be on the lookout for any blue vans they saw. For months police ran down hundreds of leads, and searched streets and driveways in the region and throughout the state for blue vans.
One of the two witnesses who’d identified Dahmer in 1991, who’d also spoken to police in 1981, reported viewing a similar event. Bill Bowen said he’d seen the man – Dahmer, he said, immediately when he first saw his newspaper photo – throw the boy he thought was Adam “like a sack of potatoes” into a blue van that burned rubber to get away. Bowen was horrified.
Hollywood police had never checked, but Harris years later found a number of people who remembered Dahmer’s Miami place of employment, a sub shop. They recalled it had a blue van for pizza deliveries that was easily accessible to employees, and which often disappeared for hours or even overnight.
The other of the two mall witnesses, Willis Morgan, said he was browsing in a Radio Shack around noon when Dahmer tried to pick him up. The man was drunk, disheveled, and Morgan thought, ready to pull a knife on him. When Morgan refused to have a conversation with him, the man shot him what he described was an evil stare.
Harris found the sub shop manager who’d hired Dahmer, who said Dahmer would sometimes come to work in the late morning drunk and disheveled, at which time he’d send him away. After reading Morgan’s description, he said he had no doubt that Morgan did see Dahmer at the mall.
Nor did Hollywood Police consider a Wisconsin-based FBI agent who’d interviewed Dahmer months after his Milwaukee murder convictions, who said he believed Dahmer conceded to him that he’d killed Adam.
Neil Purtell, now retired from the FBI, said when he pressed Dahmer to admit the murder, he’d responded that Florida had the death penalty. Although he’d admitted 17 murders in Wisconsin and Ohio, neither state had the death penalty in effect when he’d killed there. Dahmer also told Purtell, whomever killed Adam would not be able to live in any prison.
In 1992 Purtell had urged Hollywood police to interview Dahmer but its lead detective Jack Hoffman was reluctant. Instead, Purtell worked through channels to convince John Walsh, who got Hoffman to go. In a letter to the Broward County State Attorney, Walsh called Morgan and Bowen “two credible witnesses,” and added that Dahmer “certainly fits the profile of someone who might be capable of murdering a beautiful six-year-old boy.”
At the interview, that August, Dahmer denied killing Adam. He said he’d worked seven days a week, 10 hours a day that summer, didn’t know where the Hollywood Mall was, didn’t have a vehicle to get anywhere, and wasn’t interested in children as young as Adam. Reporting back to Willis Morgan, Hoffman said Dahmer had looked him in the eyes, and he’d believed him.
However, Hollywood police never found the sub shop manager. He told Harris that Dahmer worked only part-time that summer, and never on weekends. Although Dahmer didn’t have arrests for offenses against children as young as Adam, he had been arrested for lewd behavior in front of 12-year-old boys. And Billy Capshaw, who had been Dahmer’s roommate in the U.S. Army in Germany just before Dahmer was discharged early for alcoholism and came to Miami, said the military police had on two occasions returned Dahmer to their barracks room and told him that Dahmer had exposed himself to children in a nearby public park.
Capshaw also saw Dahmer return from a weekend leave with a large stain of blood that had soaked through his clothes and encrusted to his chest. Other times he found bloody buck knives in his locker. Dahmer also kept a dorm-sized refrigerator in the room, padlocked, that Capshaw never saw inside. After Dahmer’s 1991 arrest, German police came to America to investigate him as a suspect in a possible series of mutilation murders within a hundred miles of his army base while he was stationed there in 1980-81.
Harris first published his findings in a December 2006 cover story he wrote for the Miami Daily Business Review. In February 2007 he appeared on WSVN-TV Miami and WISN-TV Milwaukee then was interviewed on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 and Nancy Grace, Court TV’s Catherine Crier and Ashleigh Banfield, Fox News’s The Lineup, Inside Edition and elsewhere.
Hollywood Police responded that they had fully checked out Harris’s information previously and found it without merit. In fact, four years earlier, Harris had offered them what he’d collected but they were mostly uninterested, failing to call either the sub shop manager or any of seven other witnesses he’d found who remembered the blue van, or the two Dahmer witnesses at the mall. New Times Broward-Palm Beach columnist Bob Norman responded, “It's a ridiculous stance but one that is predictable from a department that has notoriously lost evidence and bungled the case to the point that it seems more intent on covering its own hide than in finding the killer… At the very least, Arthur Jay Harris' case should be deeply investigated by trained investigators who share at least one very important qualification: That they have never, ever been employed by the Hollywood P.D.”
John Walsh initially asked the Broward State Attorney to investigate the new Dahmer leads and was critical of Hollywood police. He told WISN he couldn’t believe that after 25 years, he was still fighting for a competent investigation into Adam’s killing. “That's a bitter pill for me to swallow. (As) someone who's a big supporter of law enforcement, that the law enforcement agency investigating my son's murder would… not interview people who thought they had important information about the case, it's really a tough thing,” Walsh said. But days later, Walsh reversed himself. A statement from America’s Most Wanted instead relied on Hollywood Police’s assertion. The show added they believed a previous suspect, Ottis Toole, had killed Adam.
In October 1983, Jacksonville, Florida, drifter Ottis Toole had confessed to killing Adam and Hollywood Police announced they’d solved the case. However, Toole also eventually confessed to hundreds of other murders to detectives from all over the country, all of which eventually were discounted except for an arson in his hometown that caused a death. Toole seemed to relish his police and media attention, and later, depending on his mood or whom he was talking to, would either recant his confession that he killed Adam or re-confess. He was never charged in Adam’s case.
In 1994 the media asked a Broward judge to open the still-unsolved Adam police file, citing Florida state public records laws regarding inactively-investigated cases. Police and the Walshes objected but in 1996 the judge ruled for the media. Police interview transcripts then released showed that detectives had continually offered Toole specific facts, showed him photos, and brought him to crime scenes in the seeming hope it would prompt him to reveal something true they hadn’t told him. But that never happened. In fact, in Toole’s initial telling, he said he’d taken Adam in a January, and that the child was wearing mittens. In fact, Adam was taken in July, during a typically-steaming South Florida noontime.
In 1983 Hollywood police spent months of intense investigation to document or disprove that Toole was even in South Florida in the days around the time Adam was taken. In the end, they could do neither. By 1984, embarrassed, Hollywood police abandoned their theory.
In a 1992 South Florida magazine interview, John Walsh ridiculed the idea that Toole had killed Adam. In 1994, to the Palm Beach Post, he said he thought the killer was still at liberty and still killing. Toole, however, had remained in prison since 1983. But in 1996, just before the police file was opened, Walsh changed his mind and accused Toole. In 1997, Harris wrote in New Times Broward-Palm Beach disputing the evidence against Toole. He reported that neither the Hollywood Police nor the chief assistant Broward State Attorney believed Toole was guilty.
Through 2007, Harris continued to buttress his theory with new evidence. On ABC News’s documentary show Primetime, Harris reported he’d since found the first official documentation of Dahmer’s presence in South Florida. On July 7, 1981 – 20 days before Adam was taken from the mall – a Miami-Dade County police report found in that agency’s microfilm had Dahmer reporting the discovery of a dead homeless man in the alley behind the sub shop where he worked. He knew that the man had slept in an electric meter room steps away. Although the man had no obvious trauma and an autopsy determined that his probable manner of death was natural, there was evidence in the police report of a struggle; he was wearing just one tennis shoe, and an officer had found the other in the meter room.
On the theory that Dahmer, admittedly homeless then himself, may have then moved into the meter room on the man’s demise – natural or otherwise, ABC hired Jan Johnson, a crime scene investigator retired from the Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement, to inspect the room. While ABC’s cameras rolled, she found a corner with a spatter pattern of cast-off stains rising from the floor, indicative, she said, of homicidal chopping. A phenylthaline field test she did confirmed that the stains were blood. She took samples so a lab could attempt to create a DNA profile, however the testing failed because the sample was degraded. Nor was she able to determine whether or not the blood was human. Next to the corner stood upright a rusty lumberman’s axe and a sledgehammer. As well, there was an entry in the floor to a 3-foot high gravel crawlspace beneath. In the crawlspace of his home in Bath, Ohio in 1978 Dahmer had used a sledgehammer to crush the bones of the man he said was his first murder victim.
Although the shopping center management had allowed ABC initial access to that room, they denied them further permission to do a fuller examination and take more blood samples in the hope that a DNA profile could still be made that might then be compared to a hair sample of Adam’s, kept all these years by the Broward Medical Examiner’s Office. ABC showed its results to Hollywood Police but they did not seem to show much interest.
Was this the blood of Adam Walsh, killed by Jeffrey Dahmer? The answer at this time remains tantalizingly inconclusive.
Harris’s three published true crime books are Until Proven Innocent, Flowers for Mrs. Luskin, and Speed Kills, all stories which took place in South Florida, where he lives.
FOOTNOTES
1. Who killed Adam Walsh? A case for serial slayer Jeffrey Dahmer, Miami Daily Business Review, December 4, 2006. http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/news.html?news_id=41218
2. Milwaukee mutilation suspect lived briefly in Dade, The Miami Herald, July 27, 1991.
3. Adam Walsh found dead, Discovered in Vero canal, Hollywood Sun-Tattler, August 11, 1981
4. John Walsh, Tears of Rage, Pocket Books, New York, 1997, Paperback p. 267
5. Callers tip police to dozens of blue vans, The Miami Herald, August 17, 1981
6. Did Dahmer Confess To All His Crimes? WISN-TV (Milwaukee), February 2, 2007. http://www.wisn.com/news/10914431/detail.html
7. http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/news.html?news_id=41218
8. Did Dahmer Do It? WSVN-TV (Miami), February 1, 2007. http://www1.wsvn.com/features/articles/investigations/MI38867
9. Did Dahmer Have One More Victim? Witnesses Say They Saw Dahmer in Mall Where Adam Walsh Disappeared, WISN-TV (Milwaukee), February 1, 2007.
http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/video/10903516/index.html
10. Jeffrey Dahmer-Adam Walsh Connection? Anderson Cooper 360, February 5, 2007. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/05/acd.01.html
11. Nancy Grace, February 5, 2007. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/05/ng.01.html
12. Did Jeffrey Dahmer Kill Adam Walsh? Inside Edition, February 6, 2007. http://www.insideedition.com/ourstories/inside_stories/story.aspx?storyid=592
13. Walsh, officials not swayed by author’s Dahmer theory, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, February 14, 2007
14. Dahmer Did It. Why won’t Hollywood police take seriously the best chance at solving Adam Walsh’s murder?, New Times Broward-Palm Beach, February 22, 2007. http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2007-02-22/news/dahmer-did-it/
15. http://www.wisn.com/news/10903529/detail.html
16. http://www.amw.com/features/feature_story_detail.cfm?id=1421
17. Convicted arsonist is held in Adam Walsh’s murder, The Miami Herald, October 22, 1983
18. Adam Walsh police files to be made public today, The Miami Herald, February 16, 1996
19. Broward County’s John Walsh turns tragedy into triumph on “America’s Most Wanted”, South Florida, July 1992
20. “You never forget about it”, Palm Beach Post, November 6, 1994
21. Police chief says investigators let emotions get in the way, The Miami Herald, February 7, 1996
22. America’s Most Frustrating, New Times Broward-Palm Beach, November 13, 1997. http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/1997-11-13/news/america-s-most-frustrating/
23. Decades Later, New Clues in a Cold Case. Could Jeffrey Dahmer Be to Blame for Adam Walsh’s Murder? ABC News Primetime, August 14, 2007. http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id3473665&page1
24. http://www.amazon.com/Until-Proven-Innocent-Arthur-Harris/dp/0380777339/refsr_1_1/105-2069442-6078066?ieUTF8&sbooks&qid1192135380&sr=8-1
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Ron Luther is a chess player from Kansas City. He is a USCF Original Life Master and his USCF rating is currently 2200. His most notable chess achievements is winning the Missouri Championship eight times. He has also won or tied for 1st in over 150 USCF rated events.
Mr. Luther is well known for his chess playing prowess and wicked since of humor. Ron is a greatly respected figure in the Missouri chess community and often helps weaker players improve their chess playing.
Ron has been playing chess for over 30 years and is known around the Kansas City area as the KC Reaper.
2007 State Championship
After winning the 2006 Mo Invitational, 2007 KC Open, 2007 StLouis Open, 2007 Mo Class, Mr. Luther was seeded to play in the Missouri State Invitational chess tournament. Mr. Luther played strongly and won all his games against fellow chess players James R. Voelker, Nathanael David Swinger, Frank H. Smith, Bob Holliman, and Francis Crow, thus becoming the 2007 Missouri State Champion.
Cheating accusations
Ron Luther's chess career has been under scrutiny lately.
2007 St. Louis Open
At the 2007 St. Louis Open, Accusations of cheating have been made by the president of the Missouri Chess Association Ken Fee on the popular chess forum . The accusation involves giving a player an easy five-move draw in order to win the tournament. Although this is considered unethical by some chess players, prearranged draws aren't against USCF rules.
Mr. Luther is well known for his chess playing prowess and wicked since of humor. Ron is a greatly respected figure in the Missouri chess community and often helps weaker players improve their chess playing.
Ron has been playing chess for over 30 years and is known around the Kansas City area as the KC Reaper.
2007 State Championship
After winning the 2006 Mo Invitational, 2007 KC Open, 2007 StLouis Open, 2007 Mo Class, Mr. Luther was seeded to play in the Missouri State Invitational chess tournament. Mr. Luther played strongly and won all his games against fellow chess players James R. Voelker, Nathanael David Swinger, Frank H. Smith, Bob Holliman, and Francis Crow, thus becoming the 2007 Missouri State Champion.
Cheating accusations
Ron Luther's chess career has been under scrutiny lately.
2007 St. Louis Open
At the 2007 St. Louis Open, Accusations of cheating have been made by the president of the Missouri Chess Association Ken Fee on the popular chess forum . The accusation involves giving a player an easy five-move draw in order to win the tournament. Although this is considered unethical by some chess players, prearranged draws aren't against USCF rules.