FATHER & SON CRIME FIGHTERS

JOHN WALSH IS 'SADDLING UP' TO CATCH MORE CRIMINALS ON THE NEW AMERICA'S MOST WANTED THIS TIME WITH HIS SON CALLAHAN

- K.C. BAKER

Callahan Walsh remembers idyllic days playing soccer as a young boy, hanging out with friends at his family's home in South Florida and vacationing in upstate New York. But when he wanted more time with his father, John Walsh, host of the groundbreaking true-crime TV show America's Most Wanted, there was only one place to go. "I grew up on-set," says Callahan, 39. From age 10 he had a front-row seat to watch his dad shooting episodes of the popular Fox series, and he gradually picked up the skills needed to work in production. After college at Stetson University in DeLand, Fla., he says, "I did postproduction audio and then was a PA shooting stand-up segments and eventually producing the show's reenactments. My father made sure I knew how to do every position."