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Hair color in wanted posters

posted 12 years ago by movies789
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Four years of occasionally being detained & identified by various police departments - sometimes with mug shots taken, and always describable by the detaining cops - and Kimble's wanted poster is never updated with a photo or even an artist's rendering of him with longer black hair to accompany the original shot of him with short gray hair.

[–] loughsprng 12 years ago

It didn't seem to matter. People still recognized him when they saw him on the wanted poster. His face was the same and that's what people remembered.

[–] dtmuller 12 years ago

Besides, if they went to all the trouble of changing the posters, Kimble would just change his hair style/color again.

[–] manage-932-700755 10 years ago

I assume that in those years there was much less communication between police departments.

[–] merman1983 10 years ago

Not everybody recognized him. When my neighbor was in my place he laughed at seeing a wanted poster on my wall. I had to explain "The Fugitive" to him :)