Dr. Phil: Crimestopper

I believe in self-help. I'm not sure listening to on-air people like Oprah and Dr. Phil qualifies as "self" help, but that's probably too fine a distinction to make any difference. Given the number of shows like those on daytime TV, there are a LOT of people who feel the need to help themselves by listening to advice from total strangers. Anyway, that's not the point. The point is to salute Dr. Phil for his crimestoppers imitation...see, he recently aided in an inadvertant way to capture a wanted criminal.
Charles "Ed" Hicks was wanted in several places by several people though without a scorecard it's hard to tell exactly how many and where. You see, Ed is a bigamist, and there are several wives and would-be wives out there who would like a word with him. I suspect that now that he's incarcerated, the glass between him and visitors might be for HIS protection!
It all started in California back in 1965; Ed's marriage marauding took him to a wide array of locales including Texas, Utah (why am I not surprised by that one?) and Fairfax, Virginia that investigators were able to discover. At last count, he had married seven women, divorced five and had proposed to his latest paramour when the doo doo hit the fan. The Dr. Phil show on bigamy featured a picture of Ed, and an alert crimestopper saw the guy that was dating her sister appear on the screen. The rest is predictable. Ed got arrested, jumped bail, and got arrested again. I'll tell you what, if I had angry women looking for me, jail would be the first place I'd want to be!
Ed is looking at between two and ten years' worth of jail time. Is there a chance that all these women will forget about him in that time? Not likely. It's probably equally unlikely that Ed will change his ways as a result of getting caught red-faced and red-handed. Of course, if he gets the full ten years' sentence, Ed will be 72 when he gets out.
There's somebody for everyone, and I think Ed was just being a hog about the whole thing. Hurray for Dr. Phil even though I can help meyself, thank you.