Rosaecrucian
06-15-2006, 07:14 AM
I Tivo Unsolved Mysteries with the "season pass" option, so I watch the show almost every day. If you don't have Tivo or a generic DVR, you are truly living in the dark ages (for those of you who still use VCR's).
Someone on these forums said that Lifetime "edits" these shows from the original NBC footage. How exactly do they edit them? It seems that they do mix and match stories and move them around, but are the segments themselves edited or shortened?
Anyway, to my real topic. I have seen an episode a couple of times lately that always intrigued me:
If I recall correctly, this took place in Colorado, I believe in Breckenridge or Aspen, or some other ski resort type of town. To summarize the story: this man claims his wife called him to tell him she was going out for drinks with friends after work. Many people in this area hitchhiked (I assume due to the weather conditions, not everyone had a car). Her husband claims he asked her if she wanted him to pick her up and she said no she would hitchhike back home later that night. Of course, she never made it home and was found murdered. Interestingly her husband and a friend found her backpack on the side of the road (which is suspicious as the backpack was a good ways out in a field, and how would he know where to find it?).
What makes the story strange, and not a run of the mill husband kills wife type of case, is the fact that his wife was wearing a single orange sock with the other sock on the other foot being a regular white sock. Her husband claims the orange sock did not belong to her.
What makes this story unique is that sometime after this murder another young woman was found murdered within a few miles of the first murder. Interestingly, this woman was also known to be a local hitchiker (and quite a strikingly beautiful woman). The real kicker is that the OTHER orange sock was found not on her body but laying near it. This sort of takes the suspicion off the husband since it seems a bit far fetched he would kill another woman along with his wife (unless he himself had turned into a serial killer). Of course, he could have killed the other woman as a ruse to take suspicion off of himself for his wife's murder, but this seems like it would be more risky than it would be worth from his point of view.
The socks are just weird. On the show, the police theorized -- and I think their conclusion is the most logical one -- that obviously the same person killed both women. The assailant must have had a pair of socks in his vehicle. The wife must have put ONE of the socks on by accident in the dark in a scramble to escape out into the snow covered ground, and was eventually chased down and shot. The other woman must have also tried to escape the theorized van, and when getting out of the van must have knocked the other sock out onto the ground near where her body was found. The killer did not see it laying on the ground and left it. This seems more likely than the notion the killer did it on purpose to tantalize police. I must say I was impressed by the deductive reasoning the police used here. This is refreshing from the often seen good ole boy network of scatter-brained or nonchalant police work you see in many of these cases.
The bad news for the husband is that it was later discovered that he had a business card of the SECOND victim in his wallet. He admitted to having picked her up on one occaision when she was hitchhiking (uh oh). However, he seems very believable with his story and did agree to appear on the segment (which I have noticed over the years is rare for those accused of the crime). Based on the business card, he is the best suspect for both murders, but that doesn't explain the orange socks, socks he nor his wife owned by all accounts.
My question is, has this case ever been solved? Does lifetime always update stories that have been solved this many years later?
Sorry for the long post, but this is my first post of, hopefully, many more.
Someone on these forums said that Lifetime "edits" these shows from the original NBC footage. How exactly do they edit them? It seems that they do mix and match stories and move them around, but are the segments themselves edited or shortened?
Anyway, to my real topic. I have seen an episode a couple of times lately that always intrigued me:
If I recall correctly, this took place in Colorado, I believe in Breckenridge or Aspen, or some other ski resort type of town. To summarize the story: this man claims his wife called him to tell him she was going out for drinks with friends after work. Many people in this area hitchhiked (I assume due to the weather conditions, not everyone had a car). Her husband claims he asked her if she wanted him to pick her up and she said no she would hitchhike back home later that night. Of course, she never made it home and was found murdered. Interestingly her husband and a friend found her backpack on the side of the road (which is suspicious as the backpack was a good ways out in a field, and how would he know where to find it?).
What makes the story strange, and not a run of the mill husband kills wife type of case, is the fact that his wife was wearing a single orange sock with the other sock on the other foot being a regular white sock. Her husband claims the orange sock did not belong to her.
What makes this story unique is that sometime after this murder another young woman was found murdered within a few miles of the first murder. Interestingly, this woman was also known to be a local hitchiker (and quite a strikingly beautiful woman). The real kicker is that the OTHER orange sock was found not on her body but laying near it. This sort of takes the suspicion off the husband since it seems a bit far fetched he would kill another woman along with his wife (unless he himself had turned into a serial killer). Of course, he could have killed the other woman as a ruse to take suspicion off of himself for his wife's murder, but this seems like it would be more risky than it would be worth from his point of view.
The socks are just weird. On the show, the police theorized -- and I think their conclusion is the most logical one -- that obviously the same person killed both women. The assailant must have had a pair of socks in his vehicle. The wife must have put ONE of the socks on by accident in the dark in a scramble to escape out into the snow covered ground, and was eventually chased down and shot. The other woman must have also tried to escape the theorized van, and when getting out of the van must have knocked the other sock out onto the ground near where her body was found. The killer did not see it laying on the ground and left it. This seems more likely than the notion the killer did it on purpose to tantalize police. I must say I was impressed by the deductive reasoning the police used here. This is refreshing from the often seen good ole boy network of scatter-brained or nonchalant police work you see in many of these cases.
The bad news for the husband is that it was later discovered that he had a business card of the SECOND victim in his wallet. He admitted to having picked her up on one occaision when she was hitchhiking (uh oh). However, he seems very believable with his story and did agree to appear on the segment (which I have noticed over the years is rare for those accused of the crime). Based on the business card, he is the best suspect for both murders, but that doesn't explain the orange socks, socks he nor his wife owned by all accounts.
My question is, has this case ever been solved? Does lifetime always update stories that have been solved this many years later?
Sorry for the long post, but this is my first post of, hopefully, many more.