It's really short, like only 15 minutes long or so. There's a really good documentary out there, called "The Umbrella Man". The discrepancy between the fact the original intrusion happened on channel 9 (WGN), and not 11 (WTTW/PBS), is also one of those things we could never would follow that if they were truly behind it, they would have been telling people to watch channel 9. That's certainly how it felt at the time. For all I know, my being told to watch Channel 11 was the equivalent of being told to bug off and go watch Sesame Street, or something. It's anybody's guess, really, what it must have been. u/bpoag, and /u/FuzzyMemoriesTV (Rick Klein )Įdit 1: I'll be updating the original AMA(s) as best I can, shortly, and other posts to reflect the news presented here. Rick ( /u/FuzzyMemoriesTV) and I are both here to answer any questions about the case (at least where we're able to) and to talk about where the focus of the investigation is now headed. He seems like a happy, normal, well-rounded adult with a family.a far cry from the off-the-wall character I recall him being 27 years ago, when I was a newly-minted, nervous 13 year old at a party. I'm actually kind of happy about it, in a way, because at least it frees up the focus of the investigation to move where it appears it should.įor what it's worth, we recently obtained a photo of J. For my part, this pretty much marks the end of my direct involvement in the case. Rick is continuing to work the theory he has maintained all along, the angle that "Max" had ties to the local Chicago broadcast community. This, and other information we were never able to corroborate, is what allows us to free J and K as suspects with full confidence. This was the kind of heavy engineering-perspective knowledge that we had only bits and pieces to work with before, and had been trying to obtain for some time, with great difficulty.Īfter the last round of interviews (which is an amusing saga in and of itself, see below), and having looked at the resulting evidence pile in total, Rick and I have concluded that the possibility of this having been an "outside job" is basically zero To make a long story short, all the things which needed to have been possessed by an outside amateur or amateurs, no matter how talented, simply did not exist in the wild in 1987. They yielded a wealth of very detailed information, including specifics about what kind of locations, gear, physical access, and more importantly, what sort of station-specific knowledge would have been necessary in order to pull off the intrusions themselves. Several weeks ago, Rick and I had the luxury of meeting and speaking with several engineers and technicians who were actively working for WBBM, WTTW, WGN, and other companies in the Chicago broadcasting community at the time. My own efforts were met with some limited success, but Rick's efforts have turned out to be vital. But anyway, in the meantime, I occasionally revisited the idea of examining the video/audio end of things in more detail, while Rick continued to interview folks connected with the local radio/television broadcast industry in Chicago at that time. My original theory was incorrect.Īfter the publication of the Motherboard/Vice Magazine article which talked about the incident, Rick Klein (Curator of the Museum of Classic Chicago Television / ) and I agreed to stay in touch each other We've become friends in the process, too, which is kinda cool. J and K have been excluded as suspects in the Max Headroom incident. Well, we've now tied up our loose ends on that front, and can now share what we know. one that we might have the ability to talk about in the days and weeks ahead. Some of you who've been following the case might recall that recently, that we had hinted there had been a new development in the case. I suppose I should just get right to the meat of it.
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