Whats your favorite newer episode?

[crystaldawn]

I think its pretty much a given that most of us on the board prefer the old UM's but was curious what some of your favorite new stories were. Three of my favorites are:

Leonard Dirickson: he's the guy that left with some man that neither one of them knew and left his teenage son in the house and he never returned. The man and Leonard were spotted talking at a restaurant soon after and there was even a supposed sighting of Leonard months later drunk at a bar. Very strange case.

Judy Smith: she's the newlywed who went with her husband on a business trip (I believe in Philadelphia). Her husband did his work dealings while Judy was to go sightseeing and she never returned. They found her body later in NC and she had been murdered. How did she get there? Here is a link:

http://www.citypaper.net/articles/100997/cb.buncombe.shtml

Niqui McCown: she's the young woman who disappeared very shortly before she was to be married. She had been harassed earlier that day by some guys at a laundromat. They found her vehicle in an apartment complex where the father of her child lived (police cleared him though) with her laundry folded neatly inside.

What are some of your favorite new ones?

[UMfan0682]

I think one of my favorite of the Lifetime segments was the case of Eric Tamiyasu. Having many different people who might be involved in the murder made it interesting. Kind of odd the police chief would ask the bedding to be burned. The police chief was implicated because of speculation that his wife and the victim were having an affair. I also found the cell phone call made by one of the suspects a little odd. When calling the police he had a statement like "It doesn't look like he has been shot" or something along those lines. Lastly, the strange noise heard by Eric outside his house. I can't remember what was reported it sounded like, but it made for a very memorable case.

Others I liked:

Colleen Wood Case
Carson Prince
Dale Williams Case (Missing Person)

[crystaldawn]

Oh yea I forgot about the Dale Williams case! Definitely one of my favorites. What do you think happened? I gotta say I think his former friend (the one who he and his wife helped his ex move out of state) is involved. Plus he was the one seen removing Dale's missing posters from the post office.

[Kane]

Oh yea I forgot about the Dale Williams case! Definitely one of my favorites. What do you think happened? I gotta say I think his former friend (the one who he and his wife helped his ex move out of state) is involved. Plus he was the one seen removing Dale's missing posters from the post office.

It was very suspicious that this friend would remove Dale's posters. It leads me to think that he was either involved in Dale's dissapearance or knows who was.

[UMfan0682]

The Dale Williams case is very interesting. Like Kane said, the family friend seen taking the poster down is strange. More than likely, this person knows something, again, from when Dale helped the ex-wife move. The roadside help call was out of place, as Dale didn't fix cars.


Crystaldawn, I remember the Niqui McCown case. After telling her mother about men harassing her at the laundromat earlier in the day, the police think she later returned there and disappeared. Her SUV was found a short time later near her ex-boyfriends apartment. Investigators found her laundry in the car, with no signs of abduction. I believe she was about to be married and right after she went missing, her fiance tried to return her ring and get his money back for the wedding. Police think the fiance may have put her car near her ex-boyfriends place to shift the blame.

Strange the fiance would want his money back for the wedding.

[DarkDante]

ah if you forced my hand I'd probably go with the Morgan Nick case because it is a pretty interesting one. The thing with the newer episodes are in most cases they were not produced very well in my opinion when compared to the older ones. Someone has mentioned this had something to do with how the episodes themselves were filmed but it also has to do with presentation.

The newer episodes for the most part try to be very concise while the older ones seem to expound on the cases they are presenting.

The worst episodes I think in the majority come from 1995-1997 and not from the LIFETIME broadcasts of 2001-2002. This is because during this time UM started doing "Unexplained" cases that really made no sense beyond tokenisim from "Men in Black" to "The Hum" to "mysterious goo rain" to "a family that was attracting lightning" - Stupid stuff in my opinion.

Later.

[Brent88]

I think one of my favorite of the Lifetime segments was the case of Eric Tamiyasu. Having many different people who might be involved in the murder made it interesting. Kind of odd the police chief would ask the bedding to be burned. The police chief was implicated because of speculation that his wife and the victim were having an affair. I also found the cell phone call made by one of the suspects a little odd. When calling the police he had a statement like "It doesn't look like he has been shot" or something along those lines. Lastly, the strange noise heard by Eric outside his house. I can't remember what was reported it sounded like, but it made for a very memorable case.


That story was FREAKY. :eek:

[U.M. Fanatic]

My favorite newer episode would have to be the murder of Mike Emert, the real estate agent in Seattle. This segment came close to what made the older episodes so good. They used some of the old NBC music to great effect, especially when Mike shows the house to the man with the cane. :eek:

Just the thought that this guy would go to all this trouble to murder Mr. Emert is very sickening.

[jeeps]

Cindy Song.

I graduated from Penn State and while I was there a student (not Cindy) was murdered in her apartment above the Diner. Brutally murdered. They never found the person(s) who did it and since it was over ten years ago the chances are slim that they will. Not impossible - just slim.

There was another murder in l968 (certainly before my time there) where a student was stabbed in the Pattee Library. It was Wednesday afternoon before Thanksgiving break. A librarian in his office heard books falling off a shelf but just assumed that the books were falling themselves. It wasn't until the library was closing for the break that they saw her on the floor between the stacks. No one recalled anything out of the ordinary except a librarian does recall two "suspicious-looking" males leaving the library rather quickly. That case too has run cold.

I'm interested in the Cindy Song case because while I know it is not impossible to find out what happened to her...if you look at the track record for crime in that area..it's not very encouraging.

I hope all three cases are solved. Hopefully sooner than later.

jeeps

[Awsi Dooger]

The most memorable newer episode for me was the high school girl who tried to elude her pursuers in a cemetary at night after escaping their vehicle. There was evidence she kneeled behind headstones to hide from them, then raced toward a house in the distance but hit her head on a fence or post that she could not see. I think she was raped and murdered in the cemetary.

That episode garners little mention here but it freaked me out as much as anything UM has ever shown. I wish I could remember her name. I think UM showed it in 2000 or 2001 but the case was already old at that point, maybe a decade. I know the boyfriend was a suspect but I think DNA cleared him.

[rerungirl]

Interesting thread, Crystaldawn! There are several newer episodes that I like, but I guess I'd vote for the disappearance of Dr. Sneha Philip as my favorite. She's the New York woman who disappeared the day before the Twin Towers attack. She was last seen shopping with an unidentified woman who has yet to come forward with any information.

[mercy1825]

I agree with UmFan. "There are no exit wounds present." Who in the hell would make a comment like that after discovering the dead body of a friend? Eric's sister responded, "Exit wounds? What are you talking about?" And the so-called friend responded, "You know, 'exit wounds' from a bullet." The police didn't even know immediately that Eric had been shot but this so called friend already thinks he's Cyril Wecht talking about "exit wounds." I cannot imagine why or how he would think to make that remark in that circumstance. What a clown!

[greatgarrett2]

The Eric Tamiyasu case made me think.....there were three suspects and all pointed fingers at the other. What I thought was strange was the police chief ordered the burning of the bed to destroy the evidence.

MEN IN BLACK

Another new one is the 'Men In Black'. Two witnesses were interviewed on the show and both had experiences with the UFO silencers. I liked how the 'Men In Black' showed up at Ray Muniz's shop several days after he showed the tape and told him to meet them at a certain spot. Ray went to the address listed on the summons, only to find his video collection ransacked. The 'Men In Black' wanted him to be at a certain spot with his tax papers in order for them to look for the tape. It wasn't an audit, afterall. The 'men' were all dressed in black suits, ties, glasses and shoes and all walked the same and talked the same.

In the second half of the segment, another UFO witness claimed she saw a 'Man In Black' on a main avenue in New York City. Only, this time the 'man' didn't directly come up and threaten her. She stated his skin did not look normal. His skin was plastic-looking and a sinister, evil feeling/nature generated from him. MIB have been know in other cases to act odd and threaten the terrified witnesses into keeping quiet about what they saw.

I wonder if the MIB really are extraterrestrials telling witnesses to keep quiet or are they just government agents, using some form of electronics to alter their behavior and appearence, telling witnesses to keep quiet. Oddly, no government agency UM asked has claimed them. Creepy segment!

WHO KILLED SUPERMAN?

Another one of my favorites. Just think of all that authentic 1950s music and vibes you get from watching that case. I like to watch this one eating a big, fat steak and thinking of being taken back in time to the 50s, a simpler time.

The other reason this case intrigues me so is that there is evidence to support all three theries about his death. We don't know if he ended his own life due to depression for lack of work and bills piling up; his girlfriend at the time got angry with him for the way he treated his guests and went up then an argument started, her accidently shooting him; OR, that Eddie Mannex wanted him dead after hearing his wife grieve and upset over him ended the affair.

I personally would go for the suicide bit if it was true that he was despondent over his lack of work, as his co-star Jack Larson/Jimmy Olsen suggested.

Any thoughts?

ZODIAC/UNIBOMBER

Some interesting points and comparisons between Zodiac and Unabomber, but I don't believe they are the same. Why would a killer suddenly change his MO from stabbing/shooting to suddenly bomb making? And, when suspect Ted Kaczynski was captured, why wouldn't he just say he was The Zodiac? He has nothing to loose by confessing. The third reason I don't think they are the same is that they would've found Zodiac paraphenelia at his cabin. None was found in the subsequent seach of Kaczynski's Lincoln, MT cabin.

An interesting case and comparison, especially the parts about Zodiac, but I don't think they are the same.

I was hoping for a segment just on Zodiac, but that probably won't happen.

Cheers,

greatgarrett2

[LooksLikeCRicci]

The most memorable newer episode for me was the high school girl who tried to elude her pursuers in a cemetary at night after escaping their vehicle. There was evidence she kneeled behind headstones to hide from them, then raced toward a house in the distance but hit her head on a fence or post that she could not see. I think she was raped and murdered in the cemetary.

That episode garners little mention here but it freaked me out as much as anything UM has ever shown. I wish I could remember her name. I think UM showed it in 2000 or 2001 but the case was already old at that point, maybe a decade. I know the boyfriend was a suspect but I think DNA cleared him.


Jessica Keen. I'm sure you already know this by now, given that this thread has been bumped from June. And I'm with you, definately one of the freakier cases to be shown on UM.

[dynoguy88]

The Jesse James Hollywood segment by far. I finally saw that segment for the first time last Christmas and after seeing it, I couldn't get the case out of my head all day. Eventually, later that evening I went on the internet and looked up all the info on the case I could and I was almost in tears after reading the links - the case was so tragic and it could have been avoided at SO many different times. I also plan on seeing Alpha Dog when it comes out.