teracita bassa

[hovaslash]

So yesterday was a scorching hot day in the Northeast-I cranked
the A/C up and sat down in preparation for the 2 PM Unsolved Mysteries
on Lifetime. It was my day off, the first in a long time. Its been 3, maybe 4 months since I was able to do this. And what do ya know, its the Teracita Bassa case!!! Is this case on an inordinate amount of times? I swear its on
about 1/4 of the times I'm able to watch the show. Or am I just terribly unlucky?

[crystaldawn]

I hear ya....I think its on quite often although not as much as the school bombing one or the lady searching for the two good samaritans who pulled out of her burning car. The Teracita case is definitely one of the "roll eyes" ones for me.

[UMfan77]

You're right, that case has been on many times. And the thing is, this case has been solved! Lifetime should show more cases that are unsolved, where leads are desprately needed.

[PrettyinPink55]

This is definetly one of the most played cases!!!!

Along with the ones Crystaldawn mentioned and we can't forget the poisoned milkshake!!

[LooksLikeCRicci]

I'm quick to bring up another segment that gets repeated too often: the Chair of Death.

Screw that. I'd rather watch a crime-fighting ghost over the Chair of Death anyday...

[hovaslash]

Yikes! the Chair of Death and the school bombing divinely intervened
...I hated those slightly humorous, quasi-spooky segments-they left
the same taste in one's mouth as an episode of Scooby Doo.

[Stack]

Ohhh man, I am so tired of the poisoned milkshake. It feels like it airs every couple of months!

[LooksLikeCRicci]

That's because it does. "He's got Jonathan! That man has Jonathan!"

[whytee]

what exactly is the teracita bassa case???

I to am also sick of seeing that goofy ass guy Gilbert, he is tryin to get buff??? hahahah looks like he used to get beat up on the schoolyard....

[Goofyman]

A (nurse?) was murdered and her body covered by a bed which was lit on fire. This (nurse?) was Teracita Bassa. There were no clues, but a few weeks later, a former co-worker and her husband reported that the ghost of Teracita Bassa had possessed her and named her own killer. They were apprehensive about telling the police until it happened again and her husband was told of some physical evidence by Teracita. The physical evidence was that her killer had stolen some jewelry and given it to his girlfriend.

Apparently, she would be sleeping and then her voice would change and she would talk in this cryptic way. After the second time, they contacted police who followed it up

They checked it up and the guy who had been named and it matched a pad in Teracita's house that had the same initials, so they checked the girlfriend and she had indeed been given some jewelry recently. The relatives of Teracita came in and identified the jewelry, including a ring the girlfriend was wearing at the time.

When they confronted the guy (who happened to be her co-worker), he confessed. He originally went there to fix her TV, but didn't have the right parts. On his way home, he came up with a plan to kill and rob her. When he arrived back with the tools, she went to lock the door and he grabbed and killed her.

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The milkshake of death should not exist. Worst acting of all time. That actress was like a walk-in who came on 5 minutes before. "Just make it up as you go!"

Was that case ever solved?

[crystaldawn]

The milkshake of death should not exist. Worst acting of all time. That actress was like a walk-in who came on 5 minutes before. "Just make it up as you go!"

Was that case ever solved?

First off impressive recall of that segment goofyman....I didn't remember too many of the specifics.

As far as the milkshake one (Gilbert Ortiz) yes it was solved. His wife was found and convicted and sentenced to prison but I don't remember how much time she got. Jonathon was still missing for a while but some clever law enforcement officials had a hunch that a relative of the wife's would bring Jonathan in to visit his mom in prison so they did an age progressed picture of Jonathan and showed it to the people at the prison where she was. It paid off and sure enough a boy fitting the composite was brought in for a visit and it turned out to Jonathan. UM did an update and Gilbert and his son have been reunited.

[PrettyinPink55]

That's because it does. "He's got Jonathan! That man has Jonathan!"

How can anybody forget those lines??

Oh that actress was horrible!!! :rolleyes:

[Mr. Fuji]

How can anybody forget those lines??

Oh that actress was horrible!!! :rolleyes:
I don't understand why people keep bringing up these lines and talking about how "horrible" of an actress the lady was who played Elizabeth Ortiz. If you paid any attention al all to the segment, you'd see that these lines were supposed to sound phony. They were trying to get across the fact that Ortiz made up the whole scenario of her son being kidnapped, and that's why it sounded so fake when she said it. I thought the actress did a great job of portraying that in her depiction of Ortiz.

Besides, bringing up these lines over and over and over again gets a little old. It might have been funny when it was first brought up, but now it's just plain boring. I don't think we need to talk about it every time we mention the Gilbert Ortiz case.

[PrettyinPink55]

Good point Mr. Fuji.

I guess to us (or at least to me) it's one of the things that stood out in the segment.

[skunk ape]

The Terecita Bassa case has been show at least 3 times recently, when was the last time the Gilbert Ortiz case was shown? (I have seen it numerous times, but haven't seen it lately) I felt bad for the guy. His wife was purely narcissistic and evil. I'm suprised she didn't kill Johnathon because he was cramping her style too. That "That man, he took Johnathon" line is delivered in such a fake way that it is hard not to laugh. I am glad to hear that Johnathon is doing OK and psycho b'ch from hell is behind bars where she belongs.

And I hate that damn homicidal chair. They should have a cage match featuring the homicidal chair vs. those fertility statues.

[UMfan77]

That's because it does. "He's got Jonathan! That man has Jonathan!"

She should've gotten an Emmy for that performance. :p

[mphs95]

I first watched the Terecita Bossa case when I was a kid. First time, scared the crap out of me. Second time, it was pretty cool. The third time, interesting. Then I get older and watch UM on Lifetime. I AM SO SICK OF THIS CASE. I feel your frustration, guys. Any interest this case might have had is gone.

Hey Lifetime....concerning Terresita Bossa, STICK A FORK IN IT! IT'S DONE.

[hovaslash]

Yeah its a cool case, but any impact of it is gone since it is on way too much!!!!

[New Brandon]

It's also funny because it's on one of their DVDs too... Yeah, I guess if they're trying to solve mysteries, they should mostly be airing unsolved muders, missing people, wanteds... stuff like that. Although this is "unsolved" as a ghost story...

[Beardsley_Mantooth]

ahahah I noticed this about the lifetime show too! I swear they must have had somebody working there who just loved a few select cases a little too much and felt the rest of us did too. It kind of angers me a little bit, I mean yeah the show is entertaining for obvious reasons, but it also serves a great public service. Everytime they rerun the same episode over and over and over again like they have been it takes away from other unsolved cases that a new viewer might see and be able to send in a tip.

[unsolvedmysteriesfan]

I looked up Allan Showery, who was already released by 1990, and he moves around a lot, in his 60s. I believe it's the same one- the only one popping up in records with a variety of searches. I wonder if Lucy Showery knows she might live with a murderer or if she is the girlfriend who he gave Teracita's jewelry to.

[DP1]

The Bassa case was the one they made a TV movie of, right?

I'll tell you one thing about the chair of death...I'm not superstitious but if everyone who sat in a chair died shortly after sitting in it, I sure as hell wouldn't sit in it!

[unsolvedmysteriesfan]

Basa might have had a TV movie. She did have a book written about her which is how UM heard about it.

[Necco]

"Voice From the Grave" was the movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115975/maindetails
-Necco

[mphs95]

I'll tell you one thing about the chair of death...I'm not superstitious but if everyone who sat in a chair died shortly after sitting in it, I sure as hell wouldn't sit in it![/QUOTE]

Here's my thought regarding the Chair of Death. It had been shown enough while UM was on Lifetime that enough people knew of its history.

I am opposed to the DP. However, we are having a major fiscal crunch in this country. Why not save some electricity, or meds (depending on where the state is), and use the C of D as the execution method. No pain, no fuss. Either the condemned will scare themselves s***less to the point of death, or they will die later.

Make the endless showings of the C of D mean something, Lifetime. Just a thought......