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Posted on 07/17/2026 5:31:24 AM PDT by dennisw
A Rhode Island fugitive who had been on the run for 20 years and was featured on “America’s Most Wanted” was captured by US Marshals on his sailboat off the coast of New York.
Ronald L. Fischer was tracked down by federal agents to his 56-foot-long sailing vessel “The Silver Lining” about an hour offshore on Thursday, ending a decades-long wild goose chase to take down the sex offender, according to the US Marshals Service.
Fischer, 70, had been on the lam since 2005 when he fled Rhode Island during his criminal trial in Newport for allegedly raping a woman on his yacht named the “Lion King,” two years earlier.
Fischer disappeared from the Ocean State days before closing arguments were scheduled in his 2005 case, claiming innocence but telling his attorney he was fleeing to a different country.
“Although I believe my trial has gone very well, and expect to be acquitted and dismissed, the small chance of losing could carry extremely and unacceptably harsh penalties,” Fischer wrote in the email at the time, WPRI reported.
“I have therefore decided not to take the risk and to leave the US and enjoy life in another country where I have long been carefully planning a good, safe, secure and comfortable life.”
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On the lam for 20 years!!! I bet the only way he got caught, someone squealed.
He has plenty of money left. He was nabbed on a 56ft yacht.
A guy rapes a woman on a yacht off Rhode Island.
He is found on a yacht off New York.
He was missing for 20 years.
How hard were they looking???
Hiding out in a 56-foot-long sailboat? No wonder he was hard to find...
It’s a big ocean and there are a lot of small islands, none of which have a post office. I live on one. No one talks about their history and no one really asks.
EC
Richard Kimble should have done that.
Chooses to come back to the US. He chose poorly
I’d probably like places along those lines.
“It’s a big ocean and there are a lot of small islands, none of which have a post office. I live on one. No one talks about their history and no one really asks.”
This is why it was called Rogue’s Island. Might still be.
He would have, but he was looking for the real killer.
Fischer, 70, had been on the lam since 2005 when he fled Rhode Island during his criminal trial in Newport for allegedly raping a woman on his yacht named the “Lion King,” two years earlier.
Hakuna Matata!
New York does seem like another country most of the time.
This isn’t the same “The Silver Lining”, but I like this one.
https://www.superyachttimes.com/yachts/silver-lining/photos
I watched this one yesterday, or rather, watched bits of it while playing it in a background tab:
Forgotten American Territories Where You Can Live Free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M3y4D-tDi8
Off topic. I have a friend that has a hand made wooden boat. It’s name. Morning Wood.
“”He has plenty of money left.””
HOW and WHERE has he been living, I wonder....
And a short series.
Smuggling ?
20 years on the lam, he might have had a trick or two up his sleeve , could have had a bunch of dumb luck that ran out.
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