What are some of your favorite stories on Unsolved Mysteries?

What stories make your skin crawl?

What stories make you cry?

What cases do you want to be solved?

What type of stories intrigue you the most?

This may be a repeat thread and I apologize for that, but I'm a newbie, so please don't bite! ;)

What are some of your favorite stories on Unsolved Mysteries?

What stories make your skin crawl?

What stories make you cry?

What cases do you want to be solved?

What type of stories intrigue you the most?

This may be a repeat thread and I apologize for that, but I'm a newbie, so please don't bite! ;)

1 I would say the scary looking guy who shot a husband and wife in Canada and then killed another guy who was pulling into the rest stop. I heard they caught this guy...but that pic made my skin crawl! Also, the guy who attacked the pregnant woman at the rest stop (maybe it was the music) and the hitchiker who that guy picked up then threw out of his car and later found him to be at his house and then they found his mother dead.

2. I just cried the other day in that road rage case where the two year old was killed. How cute was that kid and the mom and dad talking about how he put the teddy bear up to his face because he thought that would protect him. The father made me break down and i saw that case three times and the same thing...however the fact they found the guy made me feel so much better.

3. I want the Molly Bish case to be solved and also the case about the Kouizalis case where she was found in the street with brain damage and died. Her Dad was Bon Jovi's manager. Another one was the girl and boy found in a picture bound and gaged. People thing that it was Tara Calico (i am not so sure) but i would really like to know the story behind that photo.

4. The Wackers case really intrigues me a lot.

Thanks for answering my questions!

I can recall most of the cases you mentioned, except for the ones you mentioned in the first one about the rest stops. I'm trying to remember, and I see some possibilities, but I'm not sure...

Does anyone know that case about the young beauty pagent model? She had a really scary picture. I think she disapeared and was never found...I saw the case a long time ago, so I don't remember the exact details, but I just remember that the photograph still haunts me to this day. Anyone know who I'm talking about? She had blonde hair and blue eyes, I think...

Does anyone know that case about the young beauty pagent model? She had a really scary picture. I think she disapeared and was never found...

Her name is Tammy Leppert. The case has been discussed on this board in the past. Do a search under her name and you'll find the posts.

-J

Her name is Tammy Leppert. The case has been discussed on this board in the past. Do a search under her name and you'll find the posts.

-J


Thank you!!! The name escaped me! I will do a search to find out more info on her! Thanks for answering my question!

How about the funhouse episode where the fake dead body turned out to be a real dead body that had become petrified and added as a permanent fixture to the travelling carnival? That was disturbing, especially the part where they froze the home footage of a family going through there, and BAM! They freeze on the body hanging in the corner. EWWWWWwwwww.

Queen Mary Ghosts. The reenactments are creepy, and the sound recording of the engine room scares the hell out of me.

General Wayne's Inn. Great, classic UM ghost story.

Billy the Kid mystery. Been covered a lot by different shows, but I prefer the cheesy reenactment UM had.

There was this one I barely remember, but I believe it had a man dress up as a woman to get some kind of auto part. The story was pretty intersting.

Sonny Liston's Death. Check that one out.

Finally, there was an episode of twins seperated at birth. Only thing is, they ran into each other thirty years later, and at times brother A felt sympathy pains that brother B was actually experiencing.

How about the funhouse episode where the fake dead body turned out to be a real dead body that had become petrified and added as a permanent fixture to the travelling carnival? That was disturbing, especially the part where they froze the home footage of a family going through there, and BAM! They freeze on the body hanging in the corner. EWWWWWwwwww.

what the hell?

-J

it's true

I'm not honestly sure which episode it was, but I distinctly remember there being a segment on a funhouse ride where one of the props looked a little too real. Upon further inspection, the carnies found it to be an eerily realistic body, which they took down and one way or another had examined. It turned out this was a petrified human body, which had been preserved in some formaldehyde or laquer or what have you. There was a tatoo on the arm, i believe, and many different scenarios were posed. Instead of postin 'what the hell?' why can't you at least say 'I don't remember that one.'? Doesn't take that much effort. I should know, I just typed it.

-son of sam murders
-allagash abductions (took place a few hours away from here)
-both Roswell stories
-zodiac
-Julius Patterson

and ofcourse, the 2pac case


theres plenty of others that I can't remember, but I remember parts of alot of random segments that get neglected by Lifetime nowadays.

I used to stay up at 2am and watch the half hour segments on school nights, I regret not taping any of them :(

I'm not honestly sure which episode it was, but I distinctly remember there being a segment on a funhouse ride where one of the props looked a little too real. Upon further inspection, the carnies found it to be an eerily realistic body, which they took down and one way or another had examined. It turned out this was a petrified human body, which had been preserved in some formaldehyde or laquer or what have you. There was a tatoo on the arm, i believe, and many different scenarios were posed. Instead of postin 'what the hell?' why can't you at least say 'I don't remember that one.'? Doesn't take that much effort. I should know, I just typed it.

Are you sure this was an Unsolved Mysteries episode? I think you may be mistaken. Please provide airdates, names, or any other verifiable information. The only story I can think of that is even remotely close to what you described would be the infamous "Minnesota Iceman" - a frozen carnival exhibit from the late sixties that was billed as a Neanderthal man or the "missing link" by its promoters. The corpse vanished before a positive identification could be made. Whatever it was, most that saw it agree it was not human.

While I appreciate your concerns, I'll say whatever I want on here.

-J

Dankind80 is right. I remember this case being on Unsolved Mysteries. It was a body in a Fun House or Haunted House that they determined to be a real body and they didn't know who the man was.

Hey, I'm curious to hear your theory about 2pac's murder. I myself am a huge 2pac fan, and after watching the documentary called "2pac and Biggie" I have always known that Suge Knight had something to do with his death. To me, that's the only explaination that is at all possible.

In fact, I saw it on Lifetime within the past few weeks. They even know the identity of the man, who died early in the 20th century, and some info on his background. I don't remember the name. I think he lived a shady life, maybe an outlaw or something.

A sitcom (Six Million Dollar Man?) was filming a segment at the funhouse ride, I believe in the '70s, and a worker looked at the prop and thought it might be real. An arm fell off when it was tugged at lightly. They brought the dummy to a medical examiner who verified it was a human.

Eventually they traced the body's path to a sort of oddity museum in Los Angeles. The son of the owner remembered the "dummy" from when his father ran the business, in the '50s and '60s. It made its way to the carnival ride after the father's business closed.

My bad.

Was this a "new" Lifetime story?

-J

Hey, I'm curious to hear your theory about 2pac's murder. I myself am a huge 2pac fan, and after watching the documentary called "2pac and Biggie" I have always known that Suge Knight had something to do with his death. To me, that's the only explaination that is at all possible.

In all probability, Orlando Anderson did it. I dont think Suge wouldve been dumb enough to risk being shot himself incase a bullet had missed Pac and stuck him or something.

plus the 20 page police report about what happened between the bloods and the crips after Pacs murder shows that Orlando had some sort of involvement in it

In fact, I saw it on Lifetime within the past few weeks. They even know the identity of the man, who died early in the 20th century, and some info on his background. I don't remember the name. I think he lived a shady life, maybe an outlaw or something.

A sitcom (Six Million Dollar Man?) was filming a segment at the funhouse ride, I believe in the '70s, and a worker looked at the prop and thought it might be real. An arm fell off when it was tugged at lightly. They brought the dummy to a medical examiner who verified it was a human.

Eventually they traced the body's path to a sort of oddity museum in Los Angeles. The son of the owner remembered the "dummy" from when his father ran the business, in the '50s and '60s. It made its way to the carnival ride after the father's business closed.


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YIKES!!!! I don't remember ever seeing that one, but I agree, if I had seen it, it sure would've intrigued me as well!!! Goodness!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

I did a Google search and found his name, plus much more info on his life than Unsolved Mysteries had time to provide. This is the link: http://www.oklahomanature.org/OK/tallgrass_volunteers/osagehistory.html

"Elmer McCurdy was one of that legion of rootless men who drifted west across America during the restlessness of the frontier era. Leaving Maine in his youth, he worked as a plumber, a miner and a soldier before a brief and subsequently fatal career as an outlaw, one of the more inept of that breed. Under normal circumstances, he would have disappeared into dust without leaving the merest trace upon the sands of history.

But fate decreed differently for McCurdy, or whichever of the several aliases he used. Shot to death by a posse in northern Osage County when he was just 31, he would in death have a career twice as long as his meager lifespan, travel more, earn more money (for others) and achieve far greater fame and notoriety than he ever did in life.

An intriguing story? You bet! It's one of a myriad of true yarns about this land we call The Osage that will fascinate visitors to the Tallgrass and give them reason even beyond the bison and the birds and the beasts to revere this land as we do. (I'll get back to Elmer before we're through.)"

(snip)

"We return now to the aforementioned Elmer McCurdy. He was a mess near the end of his life, an alcoholic suffering from silicosis and tuberculosis. After leaving the Army, he switched to crime, being arrested for possession of burglary tools and involved in at least one train robbery and a bank burglary. He had learned something about explosives while in the Army (his instructor was a first lieutenant named Douglas MacArthur), but he forgot that when the Army blew something up it really wanted it destroyed. McCurdy tended to overuse explosives; in one instance his blast fused $4,000 worth of silver coins to the walls of the safe. His take in crime was always a pittance. In 1911, three bandits held up a Katy train near the old outlaw stronghold of Okesa. They hit the wrong train. The haul they expected was on the next train, which was carrying $400,000 in cash for payment to the Osages; the outlaws got only a few dollars from passengers on the train they robbed. McCurdy had been one of four men in the gang considered responsible; whether he was one of the three robbers who actually took part is uncertain. But a posse tracked him to a ranch near the Kansas border and killed him in a shootout. His body was taken to a Pawhuska undertaker's parlor, where it resided in a front window for months waiting for a friend or relative to claim it. No one did. Eventually the funeral home dressed him in the clothes he was wearing when shot, put a rifle in his hands and stood him in a corner. Some say it charged a nickel apiece to view the body; at any rate thousands reportedly came to see it, as entertainment opportunities were limited in Pawhuska at the time. Elmer was full of arsenic, a common mortuary tool then that served as a fine preservative.

After five years two men showed up and said he was their brother and they wanted to take him back to California for burial. Elmer was released to them. Shortly thereafter he appeared in West Texas as a leading attraction at a traveling carnival. For years he crisscrossed the country as a major draw, appearing in 40 states under names that kept changing so the yokels would shell out again when the show returned to a town. The body was used as a prop in film and TV, waxed and put in a museum and later painted so as to glow in the dark in a Long Beach amusement park, where he dangled from a noose. Now shrunken and mummified, McCurdy was simply called "the dummy." People had forgotten, if they ever knew, that this was a real body.

One day, while filming an episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" at the amusement park, a workman moved McCurdy. An arm fell off, and a bone was exposed. The Los Angeles coroner's office now had what was unmistakably a corpse with - upon closer examination - an old gunshot wound. In newspaper terminology, they didn't know who, what, when, where, why or how. A nationwide hunt for information eventually centered on McCurdy, thanks to contemporary newspaper accounts of the shootout and photos taken of the corpse after death. Meanwhile the news had leaked of the discovered body and all that the body had accomplished - at least for its owners - after McCurdy's death. It became an international story and McCurdy's fame soared. The amusement park, seeing dollars in his new notoriety, wanted him back.

But so did Oklahoma - to give him a proper burial. Led by citizens from Guthrie, Oklahoma provided conclusive evidence that this was indeed the elusive Elmer. A judge allowed his return to Oklahoma, provided no further circus would be made of the body. In April 1977, in a glass-drawn hearse preceded by lawmen, politicians and historians, Elmer was taken to the city cemetery in Guthrie and buried - next to a much more famous owlhoot, Bill Doolin. McCurdy still has allure for tourists, and his graveside often has been used for murder mystery weekends.

McCurdy is but one example of the wonderful stories associated with The Osage. Almost any name of town or individual listed above is worthy of detailed information to intrigue anyone."

a story that freaked me out was the one where this guy went, with his loyal dog, into the woods near his home. He shot his pet then turned the gun on himself. This was eerie enough in itself, but then another chap moved into the deceased fella's home. Pretty soon afterwards he vanished! In the (I think) jinxed house they found a story he was writing. Contained therein was a passage about a man walking into away into a forest.... I think thats how it went. Anyone remember this one?

I don't think they were ever caught, and it's a segment seldom mentioned here.

These guys used the Los Angeles sewer system to dig sophisticated tunnels that ended smack under the vaults of major banks. They used specially made 3-wheelers to cart the huge drill bits and other tools. Supposedly the tunnels took months apiece to construct.

When they were nearly caught, at least one of the 3-wheelers was left behind, and later traced to a purchase in the San Deigo area. Authorities checked the Los Angeles sewer system further and found several tunnels that were already complete and ready for break-in. They probably were planning to hit all the banks in short order, maybe over one long weekend. Potentially it would have netted millions.

I did a Google search and found his name, plus much more info on his life than Unsolved Mysteries had time to provide. This is the link: http://www.oklahomanature.org/OK/tallgrass_volunteers/osagehistory.html

"Elmer McCurdy was one of that legion of rootless men who drifted west across America during the restlessness of the frontier era. Leaving Maine in his youth, he worked as a plumber, a miner and a soldier before a brief and subsequently fatal career as an outlaw, one of the more inept of that breed. Under normal circumstances, he would have disappeared into dust without leaving the merest trace upon the sands of history.

But fate decreed differently for McCurdy, or whichever of the several aliases he used. Shot to death by a posse in northern Osage County when he was just 31, he would in death have a career twice as long as his meager lifespan, travel more, earn more money (for others) and achieve far greater fame and notoriety than he ever did in life.

An intriguing story? You bet! It's one of a myriad of true yarns about this land we call The Osage that will fascinate visitors to the Tallgrass and give them reason even beyond the bison and the birds and the beasts to revere this land as we do. (I'll get back to Elmer before we're through.)"

(snip)

"We return now to the aforementioned Elmer McCurdy. He was a mess near the end of his life, an alcoholic suffering from silicosis and tuberculosis. After leaving the Army, he switched to crime, being arrested for possession of burglary tools and involved in at least one train robbery and a bank burglary. He had learned something about explosives while in the Army (his instructor was a first lieutenant named Douglas MacArthur), but he forgot that when the Army blew something up it really wanted it destroyed. McCurdy tended to overuse explosives; in one instance his blast fused $4,000 worth of silver coins to the walls of the safe. His take in crime was always a pittance. In 1911, three bandits held up a Katy train near the old outlaw stronghold of Okesa. They hit the wrong train. The haul they expected was on the next train, which was carrying $400,000 in cash for payment to the Osages; the outlaws got only a few dollars from passengers on the train they robbed. McCurdy had been one of four men in the gang considered responsible; whether he was one of the three robbers who actually took part is uncertain. But a posse tracked him to a ranch near the Kansas border and killed him in a shootout. His body was taken to a Pawhuska undertaker's parlor, where it resided in a front window for months waiting for a friend or relative to claim it. No one did. Eventually the funeral home dressed him in the clothes he was wearing when shot, put a rifle in his hands and stood him in a corner. Some say it charged a nickel apiece to view the body; at any rate thousands reportedly came to see it, as entertainment opportunities were limited in Pawhuska at the time. Elmer was full of arsenic, a common mortuary tool then that served as a fine preservative.

After five years two men showed up and said he was their brother and they wanted to take him back to California for burial. Elmer was released to them. Shortly thereafter he appeared in West Texas as a leading attraction at a traveling carnival. For years he crisscrossed the country as a major draw, appearing in 40 states under names that kept changing so the yokels would shell out again when the show returned to a town. The body was used as a prop in film and TV, waxed and put in a museum and later painted so as to glow in the dark in a Long Beach amusement park, where he dangled from a noose. Now shrunken and mummified, McCurdy was simply called "the dummy." People had forgotten, if they ever knew, that this was a real body.

One day, while filming an episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" at the amusement park, a workman moved McCurdy. An arm fell off, and a bone was exposed. The Los Angeles coroner's office now had what was unmistakably a corpse with - upon closer examination - an old gunshot wound. In newspaper terminology, they didn't know who, what, when, where, why or how. A nationwide hunt for information eventually centered on McCurdy, thanks to contemporary newspaper accounts of the shootout and photos taken of the corpse after death. Meanwhile the news had leaked of the discovered body and all that the body had accomplished - at least for its owners - after McCurdy's death. It became an international story and McCurdy's fame soared. The amusement park, seeing dollars in his new notoriety, wanted him back.

But so did Oklahoma - to give him a proper burial. Led by citizens from Guthrie, Oklahoma provided conclusive evidence that this was indeed the elusive Elmer. A judge allowed his return to Oklahoma, provided no further circus would be made of the body. In April 1977, in a glass-drawn hearse preceded by lawmen, politicians and historians, Elmer was taken to the city cemetery in Guthrie and buried - next to a much more famous owlhoot, Bill Doolin. McCurdy still has allure for tourists, and his graveside often has been used for murder mystery weekends.

McCurdy is but one example of the wonderful stories associated with The Osage. Almost any name of town or individual listed above is worthy of detailed information to intrigue anyone."

Goodness!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: I'm speechless!!! Thanks for sharing that article with us!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

The story about the father that kills his family (5 kids) then supposedly is spotted in Europe 20 years later. Brad Bishop is his name. Is he still on the loose?

The story about the father that kills his family (5 kids) then supposedly is spotted in Europe 20 years later. Brad Bishop is his name. Is he still on the loose?

Bishop is profiled on AMW every once in awhile. I think he is still out there.

Justin