Someone noted that "The Chameleon" was featured on CoutTV's The System.

So what other cases profiled/featured on Unsolved Mysteries have been on other TV shows?

Someone noted that "The Chameleon" was featured on CoutTV's The System.

So what other cases profiled/featured on Unsolved Mysteries have been on other TV shows?

If you wanted to know of every UM segment that has been featured on other shows, then you would have to be very patient. Making an entire list would be very time-consuming. However, I will list a few (along with the other shows they were featured in):

The murder of Aimee Willard (Forensic Files and Cold Case Files)
James "Whitey" Bulger (America's Most Wanted)
The murder of Missouri bank president Dan Short (Forensic Files and FBI Files)
The disappearance of Amy Billig (America's Most Wanted)
William Fischer (wanted for the 1986 murders of his son Billy and Billy's friend Nancy Hyer) (America's Most Wanted)

Good question. Here are some others that I can think of:

Eva Schoen - Cold Case Files
Jeanne Tovary - I-Detective
Annie Laurie Hearin - FBI Files
Carolyn Killaby - Forensic Files
Jacqueline Dowaliby - American Justice (I think)
Shannon Davis - American Justice

Of course AMW has profiled a lot of UM stories. Also I know the Tennessee ATV Riders was on a documentary but can't place which one. I'm sure the Son of Sam story has been profiled on many different shows also.

Thank you both!

Good question. Here are some others that I can think of:

Eva Schoen - Cold Case Files
Jeanne Tovary - I-Detective
Annie Laurie Hearin - FBI Files
Carolyn Killaby - Forensic Files
Jacqueline Dowaliby - American Justice (I think)
Shannon Davis - American Justice

You think right when you said that the Dowaliby case was featured on American Justice. I've seen that AJ episode myself. I recall that at the end of the show, they briefly mention the case having been profiled on UM.

By the way, the murder of Jeanne Tovrea (the actual spelling of her last name) wasn't the only UM case to be featured on I, Detective. Another one was the murder of Mia Zapata.

That micro-scum Jesse James Hollywood was also featured on America's Most Wanted - although I never saw it.

Also, the triple murder of the 3 ATV-Riders on Signal Moutain in Tennessee was featured in a documentary involving the case and trial of Frank Casteel - (who is the main suspect in the murder) on A&E. I only saw the last 10 minutes of it.

The Cindy James case was featured on "A Current Affair" and "W5." (I think W5 was some Canadian TV-show.) I only saw the UM segment.

Also, the triple murder of the 3 ATV-Riders on Signal Moutain in Tennessee was featured in a documentary involving the case and trial of Frank Casteel - (who is the main suspect in the murder) on A&E. I only saw the last 10 minutes of it.

I recall seeing that segment on City Confidential, as well as on UM. While I'm on the subject, there was another UM case that I recall being shown on City Confidential: The 1977 murder of Georgia bar owner T.K. Hardy.

Well, I just finished watching one. The Discovery Channel recently started replaying their FBI Files programs in mid-afternoon, just after Unsolved Mysteries ends at 2 PM. It's very welcome for someone like me who works at home doing monotonous computer statistical analysis via Excel.

I tuned in today just in time to catch the beginning of "Flight from Justice; The Real Story of D.B. Cooper," a two hour documentary on the theory of Richard McCoy as D.B. Cooper, which as I've posted many times is not a theory but a certainty IMO. This is by far the best TV analysis of the cases, focusing on the 2nd skyjacking but detailing the numerous similarities of the two skyjackings. Not just elusive legend fluff nonsense like most of the D.B. Cooper programs.

The Discovery Channel show includes a picture of the dark blue tie and mother of pearl tie clasp that Cooper left on the plane, and were identified as belonging to McCoy by his relatives even before they knew where the items had been found. Also a mention that the FBI found a folder with many newspaper clippings on the Cooper skyjacking when they searched McCoy's home in Provo. The side by side photos they showed of the D.B. Cooper sketch and an actual picture of McCoy are startling, near identical in every significant detail.

Huh, I just came home from dinner and immediately saw another example. A portion of a Cold Case files episode on A&E details the case of the arson fires in San Mateo, CA in the late '80s. That was the UM segment where the man and his son found a VHS tape and a jacket alongside a dirt road. The tape contained a house on fire with the person filming it obviously in glee, saying things like "Look at it, Omar!"

I knew that case had been solved but I didn't realize the perpetrator was such a sicko otherwise, or that he was suspected of committing many other arson fires in that area. The Cold Case segment showed many homemade movies with the guy dressed up in bizarre costumes and playing out fantasy torture games, etc.

That case was shown like a week or so ago on Unsolved Mysteries! It freaked me out! :eek:

I tuned in today just in time to catch the beginning of "Flight from Justice; The Real Story of D.B. Cooper," a two hour documentary on the theory of Richard McCoy as D.B. Cooper, which as I've posted many times is not a theory but a certainty IMO. This is by far the best TV analysis of the cases, focusing on the 2nd skyjacking but detailing the numerous similarities of the two skyjackings. Not just elusive legend fluff nonsense like most of the D.B. Cooper programs.

I saw that show a couple years ago. It was totally fascinating! Really really interesting stuff, and all the more surprising because I'd never even heard of him before. I'm sorry I missed it this time around. :(

I saw that show a couple years ago. It was totally fascinating! Really really interesting stuff, and all the more surprising because I'd never even heard of him before. I'm sorry I missed it this time around. :(

Yes, nohwheregirl, it is an excellent program. It even follows McCoy's capers following the skyjackings, including his brazen prison escape utilizing a garbage truck. Then he was killed in a shootout with FBI agents in Virginia after returning to the home he and another escapee had rented. One thing the program didn't mention: the FBI was tipped off McCoy was staying at that house by his estranged wife, who had developed a relationship with an FBI official.

I became aware of the McCoy likelihood in the early '90s via a shortlived half hour TV program, "True Stories of the FBI," or a title close to that. One of the episodes dealt with the second skykacking, and ended with an FBI conclusion that the second event had been so well execued it indicated the perpetrator had previous experience, i.e. D.B. Cooper.

I thought Unsolved Mysteries had whiffed the McCoy connection completely and posted that here, but another poster -- probably Kane -- pointed out UM did mention McCoy as a possibility. I finally saw the episode on Lifetime and sure enough, UM mentions Richard McCoy and even shows a picture of him.

Okay i am really bad with names but i am pretty positive the case of the guy and girl who killed off a kid they thought hit his car (he didn't) and then they were found guilty and supposedly killed themselves by jumping off a bridge(only her bones were found). I am positive this was a city confidential case.

Also Amy Bradlee case (girl who disappeared on a cruise ship) and Molly Bish (girl who disappeard near a lake she was a lifeguard at - later found dead) was on AMW.

Also, i remember awhile ago watching something on the I-70 serial killer who has never been caught but killed a bunch of store clerks along I-70.

Okay i am really bad with names but i am pretty positive the case of the guy and girl who killed off a kid they thought hit his car (he didn't) and then they were found guilty and supposedly killed themselves by jumping off a bridge(only her bones were found). I am positive this was a city confidential case.

That's the Adam Emery case. I remember the case being on America's Most Wanted, before it was shown on UM. It was most likely shown on AMW before the wife's remains were found, since UM first aired the segment in the fall of 1994 (a few weeks after the remains were positively identified as the wife's).

The man who played Adam Emery on UM was Eddie Rutkowski. Believe it or not, my sister went to high school with him. They both participated in acting classes.

The Tallman haunting (bunk beds segment) was on 'A Current Affair', way back in '88.

Another one is the East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker case. He was one of the most prolific rapists and murderers in modern history, terrorizing the Sacramento area with more than 40 rapes in the late '70s then progressing to murder in the Santa Barbara area and Orange County. No known attacks since '86.

I'm surprised UM waited so long to feature that case, maybe 2001 or 2002, after DNA testing had linked the northern and southern California events to the same offender. I just watched a very thorough examination on A&E a few nights ago. The actual tape recording of a call he made to one of his rape victims is creepy and evil to the core. MSNBC has also featured that case.

The Tara Calico case was on "A Current Affair" back in the day. That was how I first heard of it.

I remember watching "A Current Affair" when I was younger. When did it go off the air?

I remember watching "A Current Affair" when I was younger. When did it go off the air?

According to the IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090412/combined

it ran from 1986 to 1996. So, the answer to your question is 1996. I do know that Fox has resurrected it, and it is on typically in the afternoons. Check your local listings. I have no idea how this new version compares to the original show.

The Martha Moxely Case was on an episode of Cold Case Files, as well as a made for TV Movie that came on USA.

There were a couple of UM cases that were made into Lifetime movies. I saw one of them where a guy had fallen for a girl, and he bought her a really nice car and gave her everything she wanted, but then the relationship soured and I think she broke up with him and he kept stalking her... Does anyone know what that one is called, and which other UM cases were made into Lifetime movies?

The dissapearance of Angela Hammond was also featured on Oprah and Maury Povich (sp?)

I know the case about Jacqueline Dowaliby was made into a movie that I have seen on Lifetime. I remember that Shannen Doherty played her mother. Also the story on Shannon Davis was a Lifetime movie.

The Rogers family triple murder was on A Current Affair as well.

The first I heard of the Adam Emory case was on Dateline when he and his wife were still missing.

UM Cases seen on AMW:

The following from the 2001/2 seasons (I know I'm omitting a few):
Freeman double murder / Ashely Freeman & Lauria Bible disappearance
Amy Bradley disappearance
Craig Pritchert & Nova Guthrie
Alan Golder
Jerry Lee Bowen
John Patrick Addis (AMW re-aired this case just a week or two ago... it must be close to the 10th time)
Jesse James Hollywood (10 or 11 times before he was finally caught)
Desiree Dawn Lingo-Perkins
Malaika Griffin (Eight is Enough indeed... it was the amount of times AMW aired her case before she was captured)
Morgan Nick abduction
Jill Behrman disappearance/murder
Michael Alfonso ("Those that are profiled on AMW and are caught are stupid" - well, so is he, then)
Heather Tallchief / Robert Solis (They aired this one last night - one of the rare AMW segments that stack up to UM's)
Regina & Margaret DeFrancisco
Eric Rudolph
Mickey & Trudy Thompson murder (aired time and time again over the years)
Mary Morris murders
Robert Fisher
Frederick Russell
Hazel Head
Rufino Castaneda (they showed this case again last week)
Molly Bish disapperance/murder
Ashley Pond & Miranda Gaddis murders (AMW got on the case when it was just Ashley who had vanished, and one of her classmates they interviewed was Miranda)

From earlier UM seasons:
Elaine Parent as mentioned before. (It was a AMW tip which led authorities to Parent's house the night she killed herself. AMW only briefly touched the mutilation of Beverly McGowan while UM went into graphic detail.)
William Bradford Bishop (until a few years ago, AMW would show this case at least a couple times a year)
Lance Marshall Bedgood (I remember watching this waaaay back circa 1990. The reason I remember it was how he killed his victim - running her over with her car)
New Mexico bowling alley massacre

Thanks so much Composite Sketch for that list! And to everyone else, thank you! :) :)

I'm not sure if this thread is the right place for this info but I was watching part of a Lifetime movie today called "A Kidnapping in the Family" and it was the exact same story of the UM segment about the grandma who accused her daughter of being a satan worshipper and then abducted her grandson (Jared Peters). Tracey Gold played the mom and Kate Jackson played the grandmother. They didn't use the real names but it was obvious it was based on that story.

The murder of Corrine "Punky" Gustavson was featured on Cold Case Files this past Thursday (11/17). She was the six-year-old girl who was abducted and murdered in Canada in 1992. Her case went unsolved for over a decade until Clifford Matthew Sleigh was linked to the case. He was convicted of her murder, and sentenced to life in prison.

Albert Leon Fletcher was on AMW

I have on tape the case of Brad Bishop on Manhunter. I have also seen (wish I had taped it) Joanne Rogers n daughters triple murder on The New Detectives.

Lil Miss was on Cold Case Files.

If UM profiled the Original Night Stalker, that was also on Cold Case Files.

not sure if this counts but the one about the church members all being late for the first time for choir practice and the church blows up was on Beyond Belief. God I miss that show :(

Richard Lynn Bare was also profiled on AMW. He is the guy who pushed Sherry Hart of the top of a 1,200 foot cliff in 1984. Bare was just profiled on AMW a year or two ago. Bare was arrested but escaped from the county jail he was being held in, in 1985 while awaiting trial.

The Son of Sam case (along with commentary by Maury Terry) wa son one of the &e shows. Unfortunately, I only caught the very end o fit. I would love to se ethe whole program and I haven't sene it air since.

The Jeanne Tovrea case was also featured on Crimes, Trials, and Punishment.

I just wanted to bump this old post to the top as since for the Unsolved Wikia, I've got a place for listing where cases have been seen on other shows and on other movies. If you guys can think of more, let me know about them or add them to the site yourself.

Off topic, if the whole Rebecca Brotherston case was made into a movie, I see Rebecca played by Crystal Bernard with Steven Weber as the smarmy ex-husband

Richard Church was on AMW too.