While scrolling through Court TV's website Crime Library, I came across a case that I thought would've been the perfect canidate for Unsolved Mysteries. To my surprise the article mentioned that Unsolved Mysteries had indeed done a segment on this case back in 1995.

To refresh everybodys memory, two people were found murdered on a frontage road near Interstate 95 in South Carolina around 1976. The man and woman were carrying no identification, but authorities speculated that they may have been well off or from another country. I cant seem to recall watching this episode, either during its first run or on Lifetime. Anybody remember this one?


http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/mystery_couple/index.html?sect=13

I have no idea why UM downplayed it. The link also indicates UM delayed for many years before agreeing to show the case at all. It was one of those, "by the way, authorities are also trying to solve this case..." type of things, at the end of a full length segment. UM basically showed the two sketches and gave a little bit of info on the date and location of the crime.

That is a very good link you provided. I discovered it about one year ago and read all six pages. There is much more info there than UM provided, or than is available on many more famous UM cases. The crime scene photo spooks me a little bit. And I have no idea why UM couldn't use the two coroner's photos, along with or instead of the artist sketches. It's not like the heads were blown off, or gruesome at all. IMO, both victims look quite different in the actual photos than the sketches. Her face is much broader than the sketch depicts. Also, both of them look to be of foreign descendancy in the coroner's photos. The sketches are overly Americanized. Reminded me of couples I went to school with in California.

I agree this should've warranted its own segment. I cant believe either that after years of trying to get Unsolved Mysteries to show something on this, all they aired was a brief snippet of information.

They could've done a much better job with the composite sketches; I saw the differences between the autopsy photos and the drawings. If these two are really foreigners, it makes the police's job that much more difficult to track down relatives.

Unsolved Mysteries not showing everything of a particular case seems to be a recurring theme with them. I have read on this board where they seem to do this during some cases. Maybe because of the constraints of time, I dont know.