Marta Leigh Fonda

res. Evergreen, CO; res. Golden, CO; res. Boise, ID; res. Portland, OR; res. Vancouver, WA; o. U.S. Marshall, Bounty Hunter (Dallas, TX); (Classmates.com: Marta Fonda; Golden High School, Golden, CO, 1973-1977); [Report from the summer HCN board meeting - July 22, 2013 issue, High Country News - Longtime HCN subscriber Jean Swearingen of Estes Park, Colo., and her daughter, Marta Fonda of Evergreen, Colo., came by our office so that Jean could drop off her art auction donation -- a totem sculpture made of deer vertebrae, depicting various owl species. She laughed when we thanked her, saying, "You have to get rid of them so you can make more." She first saw the beauty of bones, she says, while taking X-rays as a lab tech in Jackson, Wyo. Jean left with a sun-bleached fox skull found by HCN director Paul Larmer in his fields west of town.]; [Recent incidents bring scrutiny to bounty hunter profession - (..) “I would never have picked an active auto dealership to make a safe arrest,” Marta Fonda, a seasoned fugitive hunter who spent 32 years with the U.S. Marshal's service. “You don’t corner them. You’re a lot better off again to use patience. You cannot blow it by backing off.” After retirement, Fonda did bounty hunter work for a Dallas area bail bondsman. She was not impressed with the bounty hunters she met. “They reminded me of guys that go and hook cars in the middle of the night,” she says. “You kind of wondered had they tried to be a cop and not made it. had they been a cop and gotten kicked out.” Fonda believes situations like these highlight a need for more oversight, as well as scenario-based training, so they can be better prepared for the situations they’ll encounter. (..) http://www.wfaa.com/features/original/recent-incidents-bring-scrutiny-to-bounty-hunter-profession/486125505] >> www.fonda.org <<