AMW continues to take down the world’s killers, sexual predators, and pedophiles as it heads into November sweeps with this Saturday's airing of America's Most Wanted: Trouble in Paradise Special Edition, which centers on a serial killer and identity thief in Hawaii plus Walsh's call to the killer of his personal friend, John Elwyn. With the following week (November 17) set to focus on missing toddler Madeleine McCann and high profile gangster Whitey Bulger, we had the priveledge of talking to one of America's most prolific real-life superheroes about fighting crime in the new millenium.

John Walsh on the pedophile problem in his home state of Florida:

"Florida is my home state and we’ve had an extraordinary amount of pedophiles there. Charlie Crist, the Governor, I campaigned for and he is trying to attack that problem. I think it’s an endemic problem. I mean, when the Adam Walsh Law was passed last year and President Bush signed it, the justice department said that of the 600,000 convicted, serious sex offenders in the United States, 100,000 of them were at large, in parole or probation violation. I’m not talking about the guy that urinated at Mardi Gras, or if there’s consensual sex between a 17 and 16 year-old boy and girl, but the people that prey upon children, and it just seems like Florida gets all of the headlines. The point I’m making is when the Interpol guy, Ron Noble flew to London last week when I was there, he said, ‘John, we want to get involved in the McCann case,' because in the Algarve, in the area of Portugal where the McCann’s daughter was kidnapped, there’s about 150 expatriate British convicted pedophiles and they have no sex offender registry in Portugal. The point I’m making about Florida is that it’s not just Florida where adults are preying upon children. Ron Noble said to me that child pornography is a five billion dollar business and the sad thing is that 95% of the people who buy horrible child pornography are American."

Walsh on getting the message out there that sexual predators are a serious issue:

"I relate all of this to education and I think it’s great that we’re talking about it. Twenty five years ago when they showed me a book at the Hollywood Police Department of people that were convicted sex offenders, they asked me if any of these people worked at my pool, at my house, or coached Adam at anything, and then they said that these were pedophiles. I said, ‘What is a pedophile?’ Twenty five years ago I had no idea what a pedophile was, so it’s just not Florida, and Charlie Crist is trying to deal with it. I’ve always been an advocate of background checks of teachers, but the bottom line is that pedophiles are everywhere and we’re just starting to figure that out."

John Walsh on when we can expect a biography or film based on his life:

"Well, I don’t know. I’ve been doing this for twenty years and it’s... we’re now in our twentieth year on America’s Most Wanted. We’re Fox’s longest running show, and most of my time is taken up by doing the show and working on legislation. Right now I’m trying to get the Adam Walsh Bill funded. Everybody was in that rose garden for the signing of the bill last year, but the U.S. Marshals, F.B.I., and Attorney Generals of all the fifty states are waiting for congress to fund that bill. So I’ve never been busier, but I’ve also never seen so much co-operation and so much attention. I never thought I’d be in London seeing the F.B.I., Scotland Yard, people from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, U.S. Marshals, and the head of Interpol all talking about the same thing. They were talking about internet pedophiles, predators, fugitives, and terrorists. That’s what consumes most of my time."

On the segment dedicated to Kauai’s serial killer:

"First of all, I believe a sexual predator came to Kauai specifically, like many of them do, and prey upon women and children in rural communities, because they think people are more naive. I think that guy was probably a convicted sex offender that has probably left Kauai, but preyed upon those three women because it is a pretty rural place with a small amount of law enforcement."

On the other Hawaiian case and the murder of his friend, John Elwyn:

"As the Kauai case relates to John Elwyn’s case, I’ve been doing this for twenty years on America’s Most Wanted, I’ve helped catch serial killers, was heavily involved in the BTK Killer in Kansas City, and I’ve profiled these guys all over the world. But most of them prey upon children or women. And sometimes they take trophies, like Ted Bundy preyed on a certain type of woman and they’ll take little things, like BTK took women’s licenses, or they take a bit of the body. I’ve never profiled a guy... this guy knew John Elwyn for twelve years and groomed John to take him to the Philippines. I’ve never profiled a con-man that was this cunning, ruthless, cold-blooded, that he not only has you killed, but he forges the documents and takes over your property, [and] takes over your life. I’ve never seen a guy like Henry Calucag. I’ve never profiled anyone like this."

On the efforts of John Elwyn’s best friend in catching Henry Calucag:

"Saturday’s episode is about Luis Soltren, it’s about my friend John Elwin, and it’s about an assistant D.A. in Honolulu who never gave up. I’ve never been involved with a victim’s friend or family in the twenty years that I’ve done the show that has done the leg work of Luis Soltren. He spent his own money, flew back and forth, went to the library and the notary, he built the case, and he found John’s body. And now what I tried to do on this trip to Hawaii was convince the U.S. Attorney and the special agent in Hawaii to indict this damn guy for murder. It’s the story of one man making a huge difference and never giving up, because he loves his friend so much."

Walsh on why so many things go wrong in the investigation of a missing child, like Madeleine McCann:

"Ron Noble, the head of Interpol and the McCanns said to me that Portugal was medieval. I mean, I thought and people have said it, America is way ahead of other countries, even sophisticated countries that have been around a lot longer than the United States, they don’t have sex offender registries. They don’t know how to look for missing children, they don’t know what to do, and the cops in the Algarve there in Portugal couldn’t run a 7/11. They really probably never dealt with a case of a missing child. They said some horrible things about the McCanns, they made incredible mistakes, they’re just not sophisticated, and they’re not trained. We saw it in Aruba with Natalie Holloway, those three guys probably got away with murder, they changed their story fifteen times, and it’s a fact that huge mistakes are made in the initial hours. The Justice Department says that most children who are "stranger abducted" are dead within the first four hours, so it’s just a nightmare and America really sets the bar, but we still have huge made in cases and it’s heartbreaking. You’d think it would be a high priority."

Walsh on Britain taking the lead in the fight against pedophiles and sexual predators:

"Britain has a tremendous unit that Parliament just created a year ago modeled after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. It has 135 full time staff, technicians from Microsoft, and they have the ability to issue warrants. They work with Australian police, New Zealand, Canadian... it’s called the CPAC Unit and it’s probably the world’s gold standard, but there’s still a long way to go in the fight against childhood exploitation."

John Walsh on the recent Canadian capture of fugitive Richard Lee McNair:

"Oh, about damn time. I mean, geez. I hate to say that, but that guy is one cunning murderer and he’s escaped from some of the most difficult jails. After Katrina he talked his way out of it. You probably saw that dashboard camera of the sheriff coming up to him and he said he was working on roofs there. I thought he probably killed somebody in Canada. We spotted him in the Rockies up there, he’s a survivalist, but thank god he got caught before he killed any Canadians, because he’s one ruthless, cold-blooded guy. That was a good capture and he did get away from the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) once. Some of these guys I’ve profiled are cunning, but thank god he got caught before he hurt somebody."