Any one remember this case? Well it was aired on lifetime today. I have a question, They said she was spotted in SC way back when and they were almost sure it was her

then at the end of the segment, i think they said they found her body near her home in new york.

do you think it was here in SC? Or someone else that looked like her. I don't think her killers would transport her down south and bring her body back home would they?

Yes, I remember that story. I do think it was someone who looked like her that was in SC. The guy that confessed I think said he killed her the night she went missing. I have no idea why that girl would give that as her name unless it was a huge coincidence and it was her name as well or maybe she had been in the area and heard about Kari Lynn Nixon in the news or something. Also I have a copy of an update that aired on NBC years ago and they showed a girl on a "New Kids On The Block" video that looked just like Kari and her parents were excited at the time that it might have been her. Two guys from the band even made an appeal on the segment for her to call her parents. Obviously when it came to be what really happened to Kari they didn't air the segment again.

Wow, I never saw the New Kids on the Block video update, I've only seen the update where the killer had confessed to her murder. I was a New Kids fan way back when and I don't recall seeing her lookalike in their video. That's some coinsidence!

Yes, I was amazed myself at how much the girl did look like Kari as of course they showed a clip of the video in the update. They were even able to tell this girl had multiple ear piercings like Kari did. I wonder if they ever found out who the girl really was. You would think someone probably called the telecenter after it aired and knew the identity of the lookalike. Since you know NKOTB, Jordan and Jon Knight were both on the segment.

That's a rather HUGE coincidence if I do say so myself. The fact that a girl who was around the same age, the same look, the same color and length of hair, and who had the same first, middle and last name as Cary Lynn Nixon would exist. The woman who was introduced to the girl at the camp ground even said she was 100% sure that the girl was Cary. Too weird.

Yes, I remember that story. I do think it was someone who looked like her that was in SC. The guy that confessed I think said he killed her the night she went missing. I have no idea why that girl would give that as her name unless it was a huge coincidence and it was her name as well or maybe she had been in the area and heard about Kari Lynn Nixon in the news or something. Also I have a copy of an update that aired on NBC years ago and they showed a girl on a "New Kids On The Block" video that looked just like Kari and her parents were excited at the time that it might have been her. Two guys from the band even made an appeal on the segment for her to call her parents. Obviously when it came to be what really happened to Kari they didn't air the segment again.

Did u remember which NKOTB video it was? I tried googling for her name but came up with nothing. :confused:

Did u remember which NKOTB video it was? I tried googling for her name but came up with nothing. :confused:

I may be wrong, but I don't think it was a music video. Wasn't it just some concert footage? Help me out here, crystaldawn. :)

-J

No problem justins5256! I rewatched the update and it was their "Hangin' Tough Live" concert that they taped on 6/5/89 in Los Angeles. Now I'll have that stupid song in my head the rest of the day. :lol:

No problem justins5256! I rewatched the update and it was their "Hangin' Tough Live" concert that they taped on 6/5/89 in Los Angeles.

You are so wonderful.

I really wish that unidentified girl in the NKOTB video was Cary. She seemed like a nice girl.

-J

No problem justins5256! I rewatched the update and it was their "Hangin' Tough Live" concert that they taped on 6/5/89 in Los Angeles. Now I'll have that stupid song in my head the rest of the day. :lol:
Thanks cyrstaldawn and justins5256! I wonder which NKOTB and UM fan spotted that "look-alike". It's this little twists and spins on mysteries that make me hooked on UM. I wonder if there is any way I can get a picture of that NKOTB footage. I live in Singapore, so UM stopped airing here since early 90's :( :(

Thanks to crystaldawn's copy of this segment on Echoes Of Fear's Unsolved Mysteries web page, I was able to watch the original update with the girl in the "New Kids on the block," tape and wow....she looks so much like Kari. Even the multiple piercings on her right ear match up. Hard to believe that wasn't her. :(

Thanks to crystaldawn's copy of this segment on Echoes Of Fear's Unsolved Mysteries web page, I was able to watch the original update with the girl in the "New Kids on the block," tape and wow....she looks so much like Kari. Even the multiple piercings on her right ear match up. Hard to believe that wasn't her. :(


Ditto on that, she was a dead ringer for Kari.

I just watched the segment too. I know hindsight is 20/20, but the lady who claimed she was introduced to KLN at the picnic/whatever seems like sort of a kook. Her whole appeal to Keri seemed kind of creepy, and the fact that she claimed to know that she was a runaway at the time (yet never did anything to intervene) just sets off alarm bells for me. It's possible that it's just mistaken identity, but the whole second witness "memory lapse" is rather convenient.

Well just to update this and to offer my opinions on some of the details of this. A man named Robert Jones confessed in 1994 that he had abudcted, raped and murdered Keri Lynn Nixon and he showed the cops where her body was. Jones had been sentenced in 1993 to 15 years for a 1992 robbery. Jones pleaded guilty to 2nd degree murder and was given a sentence of 18 years to life to run concurrent with his robbery sentence meaning he will become eligible for parole 3 years after his robbery sentence will have ended. Jones will become eligible for parole in 2011. According to Jones who in 1987 lived with his father in Jay, New York which I believe is 10 or so miles south of Au Sable Forks. Jones said that he had met Nixon at the grocery store and that he had got into his car and that he approached her from that angle that he abducted her at gun point that he took her to a camp on his fathers property in Jay and that he raped her and killed her within hours of her disapperance. Her body was buried less than 10 miles from her home. Jones was 24 at the time this happened. Now in terms of the Keri sightings in South Carolina it is unclear what was going on there. Since Jones has said he killed her within hours of her disapperance that would mean it wasnt Keri in South Carolina. I dont know if it was some kids that were playing around and that one of them pretended to be Keri Nixon or what. I do find it strange that the girl that the girl claiming to be Keri was seen with would suffer from a "memory lapse" and not be able to remember being with a girl named Keri. It is my belief that the girl didnt want to get in trouble because her friend had pretended to be Keri Nixon and she didnt want to get in trouble for it. As for the old woman I think she did truly believe she had met Keri Nixon. However remember she didnt know that Keri Nixon was missing at the time when she met the girl claiming to be Keri Nixon. She probably didnt think too much about it at the time. It probably wasnt until after she realized Keri was a missing person started thinking about it more and I think she said looking back Keri sounded like a run away.

No problem justins5256! I rewatched the update and it was their "Hangin' Tough Live" concert that they taped on 6/5/89 in Los Angeles. Now I'll have that stupid song in my head the rest of the day. :lol:

I sort of prefer "The Right Stuff" actually, it's a guilty pleasue of mine.:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

What I always found unusual about this case was that the tip that led authorities to South Carolina and this old woman witness came through an anonymous letter that had been mailed from Minnesota. It's not so odd that someone would mail an anonymous letter from wherever about a missing girl (there are a lot of cooks out there), but that one cook would specify such an unusual location, and that would lead to another cook with relatively convincing story... something always seemed very strange to me i this. Obviously, it wasn't the girl in question, but what would be the chances that, if I decided to send a letter to the family of a missing person that the person could be found in Fort Dodge, Iowa, even though I myself live in Philadelphia, PA, that some person would then validate my story with this very specifc claim? It's probably just the providential aligning of two independent nutcases, but, nevertheless, odd...

Can anyone tell me what the exact address of this "Echoes of Fear" web page is, by the way?

Well here is something else you might be interested in, Mozart - On the original broadcast of this case (before Lifetime editted to reveal that Nixon was in fact dead) - Robert Stack mentioned at the conclusion of the segment that the mysterious letter writer (who was in fact from Flint, Michigan NOT Minnesota) had also sent UM some equally cryptic letters. They had a handwriting expert analyze the letters and determined them to be from the same writer.

So somebody did put some thought into these letters and it was not a random thing.

PS: "Echoes of Fear" was an "Unsolved Mysteries" site that was run by a user of this forum awhile back. The site has been down for around a year now (shut down by its owner/creator) and that particular forum member no longer participates in this forum to my knowledge.

Well here is something else you might be interested in, Mozart - On the original broadcast of this case (before Lifetime editted to reveal that Nixon was in fact dead) - Robert Stack mentioned at the conclusion of the segment that the mysterious letter writer (who was in fact from Flint, Michigan NOT Minnesota) had also sent UM some equally cryptic letters. They had a handwriting expert analyze the letters and determined them to be from the same writer.

So somebody did put some thought into these letters and it was not a random thing.

PS: "Echoes of Fear" was an "Unsolved Mysteries" site that was run by a user of this forum awhile back. The site has been down for around a year now (shut down by its owner/creator) and that particular forum member no longer participates in this forum to my knowledge.

Interesting. I didn't realize how often there were significant differences between the Lifetime and NBC versions of the show --- I only really remember the ones from Lifetime, as I was really pretty young when the show first came on (I was 9 when it debuted).

I would say that information strongly suggests that some sort of distrubed person was behind all of the letters, of course.

I'm sure this is a case that's been talked to death, but I just watched it for the first time last weekend, and it was so sad and blew my mind! The S.C. sighting seemed very credible, but am I correct that Kari was later found dead? And I must say that it did look very much like her in the New Kids video. Wow!

Cary's killer later confessed and led police to her body, so that sighting in South Carolina was, in fact, a false one.

I'm sure this is a case that's been talked to death, but I just watched it for the first time last weekend, and it was so sad and blew my mind! The S.C. sighting seemed very credible, but am I correct that Kari was later found dead? And I must say that it did look very much like her in the New Kids video. Wow!

I see you're enjoying volume 1 Kamy...:lol: Yes I also thought that the girl in the NKOTB video looked a lot like Kari. I still am a bit puzzled about that woman who claimed she met a girl who resembled Kari and even gave her name. Obviously it wasn't true but the woman seemed credible I thought so I guess she was just mistaken. The only thing I can think of is maybe the girl she met was a runaway and happened to read or see about Kari being missing and just gave out that name instead of her own. Of course I also found it very strange that the girl who supposedly introduced this Kari lookalike suffered from a "memory lapse" and couldn't even remember the incident.

I see you're enjoying volume 1 Kamy...:lol: Yes I also thought that the girl in the NKOTB video looked a lot like Kari. I still am a bit puzzled about that woman who claimed she met a girl who resembled Kari and even gave her name. Obviously it wasn't true but the woman seemed credible I thought so I guess she was just mistaken. The only thing I can think of is maybe the girl she met was a runaway and happened to read or see about Kari being missing and just gave out that name instead of her own. Of course I also found it very strange that the girl who supposedly introduced this Kari lookalike suffered from a "memory lapse" and couldn't even remember the incident.

Yeah, I suspect the old lady was genuine, and these two kids were playing a little prank on her, not necessarily realizing the cruelness and importance of what they were doing until the police were involved.

Yeah, I suspect the old lady was genuine, and these two kids were playing a little prank on her, not necessarily realizing the cruelness and importance of what they were doing until the police were involved.

Yes thats a good point mozart, about it being a prank. Maybe thats why the girl claimed to have a memory problem, she was afraid she'd get in trouble.

Yes thats a good point mozart, about it being a prank. Maybe thats why the girl claimed to have a memory problem, she was afraid she'd get in trouble.

Yes, indeed, CD, I'm enjoying it. Always heard about this case and now I'm finally seeing it! My hubby and I also found it convienent (I don't think I spelled that right) that the friend had a memory lapse. Memory lapse my butt, that's absurd!!! I agree, I think the friend was afraid to admit that it was perhaps a joke, or an effort to cover up her run-away friend. When all else fails............claim amnesia! :confused:

Yeah, the memory lapse thing I found was a bunch of crap. I mean, who forgets introducing someone to someone else unless they were playing a prank and do not want to get in trouble?

Kary Lynn Nixon's killer, Robert Jones pled guilty and was given a sentence of 18 years to life. He was already serving a 15 year sentence for robbery when he confessed and the murder sentence was given concurrent to the robbery sentence. Jones will be eligible for parole in the year 2011. I read an article about that gave a brief description of what Robert Jones did to Kary on the night in question, how he encountered her and such and what all happened.

This crime took place 20 years ago last month. If she had lived Kari Lynn Nixon today would be thirty-six years old.

Yeah, the memory lapse thing I found was a bunch of crap. I mean, who forgets introducing someone to someone else unless they were playing a prank and do not want to get in trouble?

Kary Lynn Nixon's killer, Robert Jones pled guilty and was given a sentence of 18 years to life. He was already serving a 15 year sentence for robbery when he confessed and the murder sentence was given concurrent to the robbery sentence. Jones will be eligible for parole in the year 2011. I read an article about that gave a brief description of what Robert Jones did to Kary on the night in question, how he encountered her and such and what all happened.



Call it sick curiosity, but did they say what his motive was, cause of death and was she sexually assaulted?

Well, Jones claimed that on the evening Kari disappeared, he had met her at the grocery store that was shown in the UM segment. He said that a short while later, he was driving down the street in his car when he encountered her again and that he pulled out a pistol and abducted her at gun point. He then drove her to a camp site on his father's property about ten miles away from where she was abducted. Once at the camp site he sexually assaulted Ms. Nixon I dont know if he did it once or if he did it repeatedly but he then murdered her within a few hours of abducting her and he buried her body on the property. He didnt shoot her, if I remember right he stabbed her, he either stabbed her or strangled her but I cannot remember which off hand.

He then got away with the crime for 5 years before being arrested for an armed robbery where he was given a 15 year sentence, guess he figured, might as well fess up and I am sure the only reason they gave him the plea deal they did, where it would run concurrent to his robbery sentence was if he gave details and showed where the body was, he met both conditions and pled guilty and was given a sentence of 18 to life to run concurrent with the 15 year sentence, he will be eligible for parole in 2011.

Well this was another one of those unfortunate "wrong place, wrong time" cases, and Cari unforunately was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. I think the killer was looking for a victim that night, and Cari happened to be around.

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Well I found an article that Dante posted long ago about her and apparently its Keri. Here's the article:

The search for Keri Lynn Nixon continued as well.

Nixon disappeared without a trace June 22, 1987, and several leads in the case led invesigators to a dead end.

On April 10, 1992, State Police conducted an aerial search of the AuSable Forks area. If the teen-ager had been killed and buried in the area, recent flooding might have exposed her body.

"This is just another avenue of investigation," said BCI Investigator Richard Sypek.

"A day doesn’t go by that I can’t take an extra half-hour or so to make some more phone calls and check out more leads. I’m fully confident that this case will eventually be closed someday."

In January 1994, police suggested there might be a link between Nixon’s disappearance and Lewis Lent, the child serial killer convicted for the murder of Sara Ann Wood in southern New York.

Then, on Jan. 28, 1994, seven years of frustration ended when convicted bank robber Robert Jones confessed to murdering Nixon.

Jones, serving prison time for robbing the North Country Shopping Center Key Bank in November 1992, led police to Nixon’s body, which was buried less than 10 miles from her home.

A resident of Jay, Jones had bumped into Nixon at Thompson’s Store in AuSable Forks and then forced her into his car by gunpoint while she was walking home.

He brought her to a camp on his father’s property where he sexually assaulted and eventually killed her.

A month before he confessed, Jones had been sentenced to 15 years for bank robbery. In return for Jones leading police to the body, he received a plea-agreement sentence of three additional years to life for the confessed murder.

"We had to weigh in the balance the desire for the Nixons to bring closure to this tragedy and to have their daughter returned," said Essex County District Attorney Ronald Briggs of the plea agreement with Jones, the only person who knew where Nixon was buried.

Keri Lynn Nixon was buried Feb. 1, 1994, with a thousand people crowded into Holy Name Church for the funeral. It was a day of sadness and grief for the Nixons and the community. But it was also a day of closure for one of the most traumatic crimes in North Country history.

I would have sworn on UM they had it spelled Kari. But I could be wrong......

I've lived in NY all my life. My brother actually dated Kari Lynn's sister Lori for a while around the time this horrible thing happened. I know everyone feels bad about what happened...but live through it as a nerby outsider and see how it affected the family and the community. You have no idea. The Nixons (before finding that she had been killed) still purchased birthday and Christmas gifts for her, and held on to them in hopes for her safe return. The community went crazy with accusations. Anyone who seemed a little quite or a litte different was a suspect. Nobody trusted anyone. I still remember being in a bar room (underage) in Plattsburg in 1992 and having investigators come in a question everyone to see if anyone had any different information than what they already had. There was a guy who was about 2 years older than me that was kind of shy and quiet. I didn't really know him, but a few different people would point him out to me and tell me that they thought he was the person who kidnapped Kari. I just wonder know what affect these accusations had on that guy.

By the way, you are right, it's Kari.

I've lived in NY all my life. My brother actually dated Kari Lynn's sister Lori for a while around the time this horrible thing happened. I know everyone feels bad about what happened...but live through it as a nerby outsider and see how it affected the family and the community. You have no idea. The Nixons (before finding that she had been killed) still purchased birthday and Christmas gifts for her, and held on to them in hopes for her safe return. The community went crazy with accusations. Anyone who seemed a little quite or a litte different was a suspect. Nobody trusted anyone. I still remember being in a bar room (underage) in Plattsburg in 1992 and having investigators come in a question everyone to see if anyone had any different information than what they already had. There was a guy who was about 2 years older than me that was kind of shy and quiet. I didn't really know him, but a few different people would point him out to me and tell me that they thought he was the person who kidnapped Kari. I just wonder know what affect these accusations had on that guy.

Wow, thanks for posting smackleberry! Its nice to have someone on here who knew the family as its a much talked about case. A few questions that I'm curious if you know the answer to: Did Kari or any of her family ended up knowing the guy who confessed to her murder? Also did they ever find out who that girl was in the NKOTB video that looked so much like her? Lastly was anything ever figured out about all the supposed sightings of Kari in SC at time when she had already been murdered were all about? I know you may not know the answers but I thought I would give it a shot. Thanks!

The family did not personally know Bob Jones. The girl in the NKOTB was just a coincidence. And nothing really ever came from the woman in SC or the letter from MI. Police were pretty sure, after the fact, that it was someone looking for attention in their own sick way...kinda like that weirdo that said he killed Joan Bennet Ramsey last year. Kari's sister is now married with children...her brother John and his wife named their first daughter Kari Lynn are her. She has another brother Joe, who I haven't heard about it quite some time who was quite ill with Lou Gehrig's Disease.

They're a great family and have been through a tremendous amount of pain and grief. I still remember some of the rumors that surfaced that didn't blame the parents, but said it may have happened because of them...or that she was on drugs and ran away from home. All a bunch of horrible rumors. I can't even imagine how the family felt losing a daughter, not knowing the truth about what happend to her, and catching wind of nasty rumors at the same time.

The family did not personally know Bob Jones. The girl in the NKOTB was just a coincidence. And nothing really ever came from the woman in SC or the letter from MI. Police were pretty sure, after the fact, that it was someone looking for attention in their own sick way...kinda like that weirdo that said he killed Joan Bennet Ramsey last year. Kari's sister is now married with children...her brother John and his wife named their first daughter Kari Lynn are her. She has another brother Joe, who I haven't heard about it quite some time who was quite ill with Lou Gehrig's Disease.

They're a great family and have been through a tremendous amount of pain and grief. I still remember some of the rumors that surfaced that didn't blame the parents, but said it may have happened because of them...or that she was on drugs and ran away from home. All a bunch of horrible rumors. I can't even imagine how the family felt losing a daughter, not knowing the truth about what happend to her, and catching wind of nasty rumors at the same time.

Thanks so much for the info. Yes the family came across as nice people I thought. Very sweet that Kari's niece was named after her. I did find an article from last year about her brother who has ALS in case anyone is interested:

Former 3-sport star at AuSable battling Lou Gehrig's Disease
November 03, 2006

AUSABLE FORKS — Former classmates, friends and the greater AuSable Valley community are rallying around John Nixon, a three-time sports standout now battling

Lou Gehrig's Disease.

Nixon, an AuSable Valley sports star in the early 1990s, was recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or A.L.S., the disease that struck down Gehrig, the New York Yankees great and future Hall of Famer, in the late 1930s.

There is no medical cure for the neurological motor disease that attacks the muscles; however, there are alternative treatments now is use. Nixon is currently on an all-organic diet and taking supplements and vitamins in his fight against A.L.S.

The treatments have been sapping Nixon's health insurance and creating a real hardship for John and his wife Lindsay who recently purchased a home in AuSable Forks. Nixon returned home in June from Miami where he completed his four-year commitment to the United States Coast Guard.

In an effort to ease the financial burden, fellow classmates and friends have organized a dinner and auction for Saturday to kick off the fundraising effort. The dinner, with 250 tickets available, was an instant sellout, but the auction is open to all. It will get under way at 6 p.m. at the American Legion in AuSable Forks.

Many area businesses and individuals have offered items, money or time for the fundraiser and in some cases, all three.

In addition, t-shirts and bracelets are on sale throughout AuSable Forks and will soon be available online. A web page is being constructed with the domain address www.jonnynixon.com.

Donations are also welcome and checks made payable to the John Nixon Fund can be forwarded to: The John Nixon Fund, c/o Jessie Strong, P.O. Box 314, AuSable Forks 12912.

Ed McCallister, the former Lake City Stars coach and an AuSable Valley standout in his own right, remembers Nixon as "a definite player to watch" in the early 90s.

"It didn't matter what sport John was playing," McCallister continued.

Nixon, an all-star wide receiver, was CVAC Offensive Player of the Year in 1994 as

he helped AuSable Valley complete its only undefeated season in football.

"Whether making an unbelievable catch, or a TD saving tackle, John was the one counted on when a big play was needed," McCallister added.

"The defense that year yielded a league-low 15 points, a record that still stands today. Against Seton Catholic, that record appeared about to be broken when a Knight ball carrier broke free down the sideline and was on his way to an apparent TD. Johnny came from clear across the field, made the tackle, and the team held and the record remained intact."

Nixon went on to distinguish himself in basketball and baseball.

Nixon and Tupper Lake's Jim Page waged one of the most remarkable shooting exhibitions ever seen, on Senior Night at AuSable Valley. Page hit seven 3-pointers on his way to a 30-point night while Nixon came through with 10 treys and 40 points to lead AuSable Valley to victory.

Nixon blossomed quickly in baseball, earning a spot on the varsity while in eighth grade and all-star recognition the next season.

"The community is now showing Johnny and his family what he and they mean to them," McCauliffe went on.

"And John, his wife Lindsay, mom Kathy, brother Joe and sisters Lori and his special angel Kari Lynne, along with the rest of his family, want you to know how much they appreciate your support. Johnny has always been the go-to guy when it came to winning the game, and Johnny is ready to step up to the plate and win this challenge as well."

Could it be the woman was simply making up the story?

I think it's possible...

I just watched the segment too. I know hindsight is 20/20, but the lady who claimed she was introduced to KLN at the picnic/whatever seems like sort of a kook. Her whole appeal to Keri seemed kind of creepy, and the fact that she claimed to know that she was a runaway at the time (yet never did anything to intervene) just sets off alarm bells for me. It's possible that it's just mistaken identity, but the whole second witness "memory lapse" is rather convenient.

That's exactly what I thought, the woman was delusional or lying, or the girl was a runaway who somehow obtained the name of a missing girl (wasn't the whole milk carton and/or other such campaigns in effect by then?) and decided to appropriate it--either to throw people off her trail or just mess with them. Whoever that woman met, if anyone, wasn't Keri.

I thought maybe the witness was lying, but who knows?

I thought maybe the witness was lying, but who knows?

To this day that whole thing really strikes me as bizarre. What did that old woman have to gain by lying? As far as I know she got no money and this case wasn't THAT high profile.

She didn't seem like the type who would just cruelly get someone's hopes up, I'm inclined to think it was an honest mistake. Though I could be wrong.

The trucker eye-witness in the Gail Delano case was spot on. This woman was so far from the truth it was ridiculous.

To this day that whole thing really strikes me as bizarre. What did that old woman have to gain by lying? As far as I know she got no money and this case wasn't THAT high profile.


It's similar to Lisa Kimmel -- all the witnesses who claimed to have seen her car and her on a different route were obviously wrong. They're either mistaken, lying to garner attention (you might get to be on tv! :crazy:) or mentally ill.

I think the older woman was possibly lying, but there have been cases of imposters taking on the identities of missing persons (Esther Reed/Brooke Hanson comes to mind). Easy access to new identification, as long as no one investigates S.S. records too much.

True, recently a young man was arrested for stealing the identity of a boy who died in infancy--I think he was actually a kidnap/murder victim.

That's a rather HUGE coincidence if I do say so myself. The fact that a girl who was around the same age, the same look, the same color and length of hair, and who had the same first, middle and last name as Cary Lynn Nixon would exist. The woman who was introduced to the girl at the camp ground even said she was 100% sure that the girl was Cary. Too weird.

Do we have another "Jeff - Outdoor Enthusiast" on our hands? He was the guy in the Kimberly Pandelios case who seemed to be projecting his fantasy of saving a young and beautiful woman. Or even more bizarre, a fantasy of experiencing the possibility of that but not saving her. :confused:

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Kari.

Here is an archived article of the Unsolved Mysteries segment as well as some more information on Shirley Kannapel:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9mFJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WQoNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4048,1435302

Sorry for bumping this old thread, but does anyone have a video link/screenshot of the New kids on the block concert? I want to see the girl who looked like Kari!

Sorry for bumping this old thread, but does anyone have a video link/screenshot of the New kids on the block concert? I want to see the girl who looked like Kari!

Hasho, dynoguy88 posted the photos here:

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=210391&page=2

And to be fair, I deserve the blame for bumping this thread. :lol:

That said, it was my understanding that this forum is one where all of the threads are pretty old and bumping is somewhat expected. Please correct me if I'm wrong about that.

Thanks a lot. Jesus, she really looked like Cary.

After rewatching this one, I get the feeling that the lady interviewed from South Carolina was genuine. For one, there was the letter written from Flint, Michigan that said to look for Kari in Eutawville, SC. I doubt it was the woman interviewed who sent the letter since she resided in Eutawville. There was the chief of police who was also interviewed who said that other members of the community came forward (after Kari's parents posted missing flyers around the town) to say that they too had seen Kari in the vicinity. So I definitely think the lady interviewed saw someone who resembled Kari. I think the two girls were playing a prank on the lady. That's why the red headed girl claims to have had a "memory lapse".

EDIT: I just saw the update with NKOTB for the first time, and it amazes me that law enforcement actually thought it was a credible sighting. I understand the family not wanting to give up hope, but even Kari's mother said something like, "that girl looks a lot like my daughter" and didn't seem totally convinced that it was her. She was returning from a grocery store with groceries and was 700 yards from her house when she went missing with nothing but the clothes on her back, what would make LE think she had the means to run away and make it to California? The other investigator interviewed on the segment was spot on when he said she was abducted. Unfortunately he was right.

After rewatching this one, I get the feeling that the lady interviewed from South Carolina was genuine. For one, there was the letter written from Flint, Michigan that said to look for Kari in Eutawville, SC. I doubt it was the woman interviewed who sent the letter since she resided in Eutawville. There was the chief of police who was also interviewed who said that other members of the community came forward (after Kari's parents posted missing flyers around the town) to say that they too had seen Kari in the vicinity. So I definitely think the lady interviewed saw someone who resembled Kari. I think the two girls were playing a prank on the lady. That's why the red headed girl claims to have had a "memory lapse".

EDIT: I just saw the update with NKOTB for the first time, and it amazes me that law enforcement actually thought it was a credible sighting. I understand the family not wanting to give up hope, but even Kari's mother said something like, "that girl looks a lot like my daughter" and didn't seem totally convinced that it was her. She was returning from a grocery store with groceries and was 700 yards from her house when she went missing with nothing but the clothes on her back, what would make LE think she had the means to run away and make it to California? The other investigator interviewed on the segment was spot on when he said she was abducted. Unfortunately he was right.

You bring up a valid point about the NKOTB segment and it being a bit far fetched that Kari was the girl in the video. However, what we have to remember is in this case we have the benefit of hindsight.

I remember watching this one in 1992 on Lifetime prior to the case being solved and I even thought back then it was a pretty darn mysterious case. Indeed, the police seemed to have some credible leads that Kari's disappearance was of her own volition. I think they mentioned they had an extraordinary number of sightings throughout the United States of girls they believed to be Kari Lynn Nixon so it does seem that they were pursuing the possibly that Nixon was a runaway quite seriously throughout the duration of the case.

I find the mysterious letters being sent to police and later to "Unsolved Mysteries" from Flint, Michigan and the subsequent sightings in Eutawville to be quite interesting. I think somebody was having a well thought out and quite honestly cruel prank at the expense of the Nixons and the authorities. How they initially learned of the case is anyone's guess but I don't think anything about those letters and the subsequent sightings by Shirley Kannapell are coincidences even if Kannapell herself was not involved.

You bring up a valid point about the NKOTB segment and it being a bit far fetched that Kari was the girl in the video. However, what we have to remember is in this case we have the benefit of hindsight.

I remember watching this one in 1992 on Lifetime prior to the case being solved and I even thought back then it was a pretty darn mysterious case. Indeed, the police seemed to have some credible leads that Kari's disappearance was of her own volition. I think they mentioned they had an extraordinary number of sightings throughout the United States of girls they believed to be Kari Lynn Nixon so it does seem that they were pursuing the possibly that Nixon was a runaway quite seriously throughout the duration of the case.

I find the mysterious letters being sent to police and later to "Unsolved Mysteries" from Flint, Michigan and the subsequent sightings in Eutawville to be quite interesting. I think somebody was having a well thought out and quite honestly cruel prank at the expense of the Nixons and the authorities. How they initially learned of the case is anyone's guess but I don't think anything about those letters and the subsequent sightings by Shirley Kannapell are coincidences even if Kannapell herself was not involved.

I understand knowing what we know now it's easy to say it was foolish to believe she ran off. But even back then when she disappeared one of the investigators was convinced she was abducted. She was last seen 700 yards from her house and disappeared in a five minute span on the way back from a trip to the grocery store. I can't believe the authorities really believed she was a runaway.

I understand knowing what we know now it's easy to say it was foolish to believe she ran off. But even back then when she disappeared one of the investigators was convinced she was abducted. She was last seen 700 yards from her house and disappeared in a five minute span on the way back from a trip to the grocery store. I can't believe the authorities really believed she was a runaway.

But they did or at least pursued that lead intensely as they apparently investigated scores of cases involving runaways. While there seems to be a disconnect between both investigators profiled in the original segment as to what happened to Kari Lynn Nixon, the fact that there was even a disconnect to begin with tells me that there was at least some serious thought given to the fact that Nixon disappeared of her own volition.

Now personally watching the segment back in 1992, I felt from the very beginning that Kari Lynn Nixon was abducted as the case to me always had a very sinister vibe to it. The Eutawville sighting to me was always disturbing to say the least and I always felt that if Nixon was sighted in Eutawville, that she was not there of her own volition. My initial feeling on that sighting was that if it was credible that Nixon was still the victim of a kidnapping and was reluctant to reveal much about her identity to Shirley Kannapell because she was living in fear of whomever had abducted her and that person was still very much a presence in her life at the time of the Eutawville sighting.

Once again, I never strongly felt that Nixon was a runaway. While I always felt it was possibility, if my memory is serving me I always leaned more towards abduction right from the very start in this case

I found this video about her (Inside Edition) from the early '90's. It has some home video footage of her. It also goes into the NKOTB "sighting". Her dad's inkling that she was picked-up/abducted that night was correct. I hope Robert Jones never gets out of prison.

My apologies for Bill O'Reilly: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xf14xh_inside-edition-kari-nixon_shortfilms

Thanks for posting that, Steve. I had always wondered who the NKOTB girl was for years, out of curiosity if nothing else.

I'm kind of siding with TheCars about the sighting by the woman named Shirley. I don't think she was trying to get attention, and somehow I am wondering if she actually met a girl who was using the name from a missing person poster.

I found this video about her (Inside Edition) from the early '90's. It has some home video footage of her. It also goes into the NKOTB "sighting". Her dad's inkling that she was picked-up/abducted that night was correct. I hope Robert Jones never gets out of prison.

My apologies for Bill O'Reilly: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xf14xh_inside-edition-kari-nixon_shortfilms

Thanks, Steve. I too have always wondered about the girl in the NKOTB video.

I hope he never gets out either. This case makes me so mad.

I found this video about her (Inside Edition) from the early '90's. It has some home video footage of her. It also goes into the NKOTB "sighting". Her dad's inkling that she was picked-up/abducted that night was correct. I hope Robert Jones never gets out of prison.

My apologies for Bill O'Reilly: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xf14xh_inside-edition-kari-nixon_shortfilms

Wow, thanks for this! I had no idea the girl in the NKOTB video was ever positively identified.

I didn't know she had been identified either. Even with a clear picture of her, and not just seeing her in the blurry music video footage, she does bear a resemblance to Kari.

Kari's little town seemed so small and like everyone knew everyone else. It looks like the safe kind of town where a teenager can walk up to the store only a couple blocks from her house and not expect to become a victim of a terrible crime. It's so hard to believe that she was abducted and murdered while so close to home.

It's so hard to believe that she was abducted and murdered while so close to home.

Yep, she was 700 yards from her home. Wrong place, wrong time. I find it amazing that this sicko was out prowling around and no one saw anything. Wasn't there like a 60 second window where people saw Kari until she disappeared?

Yep, she was 700 yards from her home. Wrong place, wrong time. I find it amazing that this sicko was out prowling around and no one saw anything. Wasn't there like a 60 second window where people saw Kari until she disappeared?


Yep, it's surprising to me that no one in the houses along the street would have noticed Robert Jones pull up to her in his vehicle, point a gun at her, and tell her to get in and be quiet or she'd be shot. Even if this all happened quietly, wouldn't at least one of Kari's neighbors notice and find it odd that she was getting into some stranger's vehicle?