1991 episode with murder of a pizza deliveryman

1988 episode with disappearance of a Washington State
student who picked up a hitchhiker and was never seen again

1991 kidnapping of an Austin, Texas woman at a car wash

Anyone remember these episodes?

1991 kidnapping of an Austin, Texas woman at a car wash

Anyone remember these episodes?

I believe you're talking about Colleen Reed who was murdered by serial killer Kenneth McDuff and an accomplice.

1991 episode with murder of a pizza deliveryman

1988 episode with disappearance of a Washington State
student who picked up a hitchhiker and was never seen again

1991 kidnapping of an Austin, Texas woman at a car wash

Anyone remember these episodes?

The 1988 episode I think that was the philip frazier murder, where he picks up this wierd looking hitchiker outside the 100 mile flat cafe in canada, philip was on his way to colledge in alaska. As far as I know they never caught this piece of garbage.

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1988 episode with disappearance of a Washington State
student who picked up a hitchhiker and was never seen again
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It wasn't a 1988 episode. It aired during the 1991-92 season. The murder of Philip Frazier took place in 1988.

I wonder if that creepy man who killed Philip Frasier was ever caught. Being that he hitch hiked, he could be anywhere in either Canada or the US. Who knows if he's killed other motorists who have picked him up.

I wonder if that creepy man who killed Philip Frasier was ever caught. Being that he hitch hiked, he could be anywhere in either Canada or the US. Who knows if he's killed other motorists who have picked him up.

As of right now, the murder is still unsolved

What was the case about The Black Widow? She was an older woman and basically a bunch of men who were involved with her ended up dead or missing. They showed a picture of her and damn, was it ever creepy.

I to this day have always found the Patricia Meehan "self photograph" to be frightening. I think one of you guys has it as an avatar. Man I would freek if i ever saw a blowup of that thing. :eek:

I am i the only one that found the "last days of Elvis episode" a little creepy?

Especially when Elvis pulls that gun out on one of his Memphis Mafia men?

i tend to find cases that involve letters been written to be the most creepy for some reason.

1. The Rachel Runyon case
2. Zodiac
3. The Circleville Writer
4. The case of that women who was tied up to a tree and the killer worte a 'grocery list" of items he needed. (that one was solved i think)
5. The Jon Benet Ramsey case.

Something about killers writing correspondance freeks me out.

Something about killers writing correspondance freeks me out.

Hallelujah Bloody Jesus! omg:

I cant think of a lot of UM cases that DIDNT creep me out, at least slightly...haha. Zodiac killer was very creepy, the Omar arsonist was also very very creepy. Most of you will probably make fun of me for this, but I thought the segment about Howard Storm, the guy who had a near death experience in Hell, was actually pretty creepy. When those "demons" kept saying "come with us Howard" I found it kinda chilling.

I started watching when I was 9 . My parents, brothers, and I would get home from Wed. evening church and I would immediately turn on UM. My brothers and I would watch every week (my oparents were indifferent about the show). Unfortunately, bed time was at 9:00 during the school week so right after UM was over, it was off to bed (Which is why I always hoped there would be a segment that was alittle less scary at night).

Segments that scared me then (though I could never turn away or change the channel. I was hooked):

1.) The Rick Church segment. The segment itself is not scary. What scared me was the re-enactment. When they show Church (actually the actor who played Church) going into the Ritter house with his knife, there is a bluish-tint to the darkness in the home. That very night, the moon was very bright (and my bedroom wall was blue), so my room had the same hue (and aura) of the Ritter house in the re-enactment (which was a little unsettling).

2.) Kenneth Robert Stanton. the guy in th re-enactment was 100 times scarier looking than the real guy (this was the very last segment to air that night..go figure lol). I remember telling somebody at church "I'm going to go home and watch Unsolved Mysteries. Tonight it's about some child molester" which got a few unusual stares (The church we attended was quite small- maybe 80 people-- so everybody knew everyone else). When they showed the update, my brothers an I were dancing around the living room in our pajamas because the police captured that slime.

3.) In 1990 (I believe) at Halloween, UM aired a ghost-story special on a Friday night which about scared the creepers out of me (again, things seemed so much more real then). The case where the kid sees the radio dial turn on its own (and the the garage goes up in flames) was also one that got to me at that age.

4.) any case with police composite sketches. 'nuff said.

5.) The Son of Sam segment. I saw this the first time it aired (summer '89 I believe) and remember being somewhat creeped out. Now, it is my all-time fave segment.




On another note, I used to tape UM quite frequently (John Wilkes Booth, the spiral staircase, and the Johnny Lee Wilson, Butch Cassidy, the creepy arsonist, Mark Groezinger, James Donald King, Dark Dante, Dennis Walker, and SOS segments were among my favorites--and still are) and we would watch it on Friday nights (on weekends, we had no set bed time so my brothers and I would sleep in the living room and watch UM tapes (unfortunately I was never able to record the SOS segment until I was in college. Thank sto CrystalDawn's volume 1, I now have it on DVD).

Hi, Mastermind. You remember Patricia Meehan? :)

Hi, Mastermind. You remember Patricia Meehan?

Yes. One of the first unsolved mysteries cases i watched back in the 80s.


No offense, but your avatar spooks the hell out of me.:eek:

Any word on whether she was found?

Considering the region where she disappeared, it's possible she died of exposure long ago.

One segment that spooked me a bit was a missing case involving an African American male. My memory is a bit vague on it. The details that I remember was that he was part of some sort of cult involving an elderly caucasian woman. Her piercing eyes can see right through you. I think it took place in San Francisco? All I remember the man went missing and he was involved in a cult where people would vanish.

The Omar arsonist case was creepy when I first saw it. Of course, I was only like 13 during the original airing.

The live exorcist segment also was a bit chilling.

Rember the case when the African american male hitchiker tried to rob some guy for his car and he got away from him but an hr later or so the man came home too find that the african american male killed his mother .. Sooooo bizarre ..

Kennedy: Yeah, that was the Dorothy Donovan murder. They DID catch the guy who did that, though, so that was ONE good thing that came out of that awful story.

Mastermind: Funny. YOUR avatar spooks the hell out of me! ;) To the best of my knowledge, they have not found Patricia Meehan. I'm in the camp that she died from exposure and that if they ever find her remains, they'll be deep in a Montana prairie somewhere. I just recently moved out of "prairie country," and it's VERY easy to see how someone can get lost and never found...

...and when I was little, the Omar arsonist segment gave me nightmares. Even though I know the person that did it was a juvenile, even as an adult, I STILL don't like watching that segment too often. :)