This topic fascinates me, as I consider it to be one of the "unsolved mysteries" of Unsolved Mysteries....why Lifetime "Television for Women" does not show certain stories. Here is a chronological list of those episodes that, for one reason or another, have not been shown, or are seldom shown...

-The infamous Pre-Stack specials. Discussed on here numerous times.

-From Special 5: Missy Munday and Jerry Strickland hold up a gas station and abduct and kill a man.

-From Special 7: Church going housewife Diane Brodbeck breaks pen pal John Yount out of prison.

-10/5/88 story about UFOs photographed over Gulf Breeze, Florida. The photos were later debunked as a hoax.

-5/3/89 story about the 1980 murder of Secret Service agent Julie Cross, who was killed during a botched mugging.

-9/13/89 story about the unsolved 1987 Florida murder of a gun collector.

-Season one story about Lancaster, California residents who received threatning extortion letters. An update was shown on 5/31/89, and did make it to Lifetime.

-Season one story about the 1986 disappearance of Rogest Cain. His family belives he suffered a stroke and was stricken with amnesia.

-9/20/89 story about the disappearances of Tara Calico and Michael Henley, and the discovery of a Polaroid which may show them together. This was shown at least once on Lifetime during an overnight half hour block.

-10/25/89 story about con-woman Bonnie Wilder who made off with a department store's weekly bank deposit.

-11/8/89 story about retired San Diego officer Doyle Wheeler, who claims other cops tried to kill him after he gave daming testimony about police brutality.

-1/31/90 story about the disappearance of novelist Keith Reinhart, who vanished while working on a story about the real life disappearance of another man the year prior. This was shown at least once on Lifetime during an overnight half hour block.

-11/7/90 story about Dr. Browning who predicted a major eathquake two weeks from the date of the broadcast.

-11/7/90 story about a sighting of missing teen Keri Lyn Nixon at a New Kids on the Block concert.

-12/5/90 story about a Noth Carolina woman who was brutally raped and shot in the face.

-11/25/92 live broadcast from the telecenter.

-12/2/92 story about the murder of Eva Schoen, the wife of U-Haul heir Sam Schoen.

-2/23/94 story about the bizarre hanging deaths of two soldiers.

-4/27/94 story about Kristopher Korper and Roxanne Jo Jeeves, murdered in Texas during the 1981 Christmas season.

-4/14/95 story about the 1991 murders of Eric and Pam Ellender of Sulphur, Louisiana.

Feel free to add any others, but let's try to keep it narrowed to stories not shown on Lifetime, rather than "I have not seen this one in awhile...."

Well they were probably embarassed they showed that Dr. Browning one in the first place. :p It seemed to fit in better with the Lifetime produced segments.

I have a friend on the board who has many NBC airings and was looking through their list and she has the entire episode that aired yesterday but on NBC the stories were Morris Davis, Treasure in Skeleton Canyon, search for heirs of Dorothea Allen and woman raped and shot in the face in NC. It seems that Lifetime has purposely left this story out. I guess I can see why they would choose not to air this one in the middle of the day. I mean it is one of the most disturbing ones, RS even states something to the effect that it may be hard to watch. It clearly does show a woman being victimized and I guess Lifetime wants to show women at their best. I know all your guys out there are sighing right now but it makes sense. :)

Maybe it has to do with who produced the specials and maybe they haven't given permisson to show them on lifetime. I like the show Bonanza a lot, but Hallmark and PAX only show episodes they were able to pay a licensing fee. some of the seasons of Bonanza the producers don't want to ever air again. Shame too.

Yeah, God forbid they help this woman by airing her story so there may be a chance that someone recognizes her rapist and calls it in. No, their squeeky clean image and the comfort of their sensitive female audience are way more important.

Some of the stories listed above I've seen on Lifetime recently, most of them I have but there are a couple I've never seen before. I'm not exactly sure why Lifetime never airs the Pre-Stack specials my guess is that they didn't want to pay for the rights to broadcast them.

Some of the stories listed above I've seen on Lifetime recently

I doubt it. Which ones?

That makes no sense to show the Morris case who was shot point blank multiple times and DIED, and not show the woman in the woods. They're both disturbing crimes, but at least she lived.

Well I could be mistaken but didn't the Reinhard and Calico segments air within the past couple months?

Well I could be mistaken but didn't the Reinhard and Calico segments air within the past couple months?

No.

is on "Lifetime" to begin with - I mean I'm sure you've all seen the promos for "The Golden Palace" or whatever it's called (which btw proved Bea Benadret was THE GOLDEN GIRLS!) and they have these promos with women in their 30s and 40s (obviously the "core" audiance) saying "you the devoted fans of The Golden Girls wanted this spin off on and demanded it and signed for it" - Now as some of you may or may not know UM techincally had a spin off called "Final Appeal" although it aired while UM was still on the air and tanked.

Can you imagine "Lifetime" ever airing a promo saying "You the devoted fans of UM wanted this spinoff or the Burr/Malden specials or certain segments airs and demanded it etc etc." - ALSO FOR GODSAKE IMAGINE IF THEY WERE TRUTHFUL PERTAINING TO THE MATTER OF THE MAJORITY OF THE FANBASE THAT TUNES INTO THEIR NOON-2 PM SLOT!!! - I'm sure "Lifetime" would be overjoyed to have a bunch of males in their late teens-mid 20s representing their CORE AUDIANCE on their commericials!

Later.

I always thought lifetime was television for women and gay men. :lol:

Lifetime knows Unsolved Mysteries is a popular show which is why it's been on the network all these years. I doubt you'll see it show up on any other network anytime soon and the fact that Lifetime itself produced the last few seasons further leads me to believe that it will always air there. So I guess we will never again see these "lost" segments..

I always thought lifetime was television for women and gay men. :lol:

It is.

:rofl:

Has anybody considered writing a letter to Lifetime with these specific segments mentioned, just to see what they do? (I know, they probably wont do anything, but hey, its a start. ;) ) I know I've been surprised that Lifetime has been showing the older episodes for this long a period of time; what is it, like 5 weeks now? Maybe just maybe, they will show a couple of these segments again sometime soon. One can only hope! :D


I also dont get why they dont show the woman getting shot in the face, who was from NC. I mean, wouldnt Lifetime want to help find her attacker?

Has anybody considered writing a letter to Lifetime with these specific segments mentioned, just to see what they do? ?

Unfortunately, I have a gut feeling Lifetime doesn't even have most of these stories in their posession.

Like Heatherdawn said, they INTENTIONALLY deleted the North Carolina rape/shooting story from that episode that was on the other day and substituted another story in it's place. I'm thinking these edited, basterdized episodes are the only versions they have.

At least the Calico/Reinhardt segments exist in Lifetime's vault somehwere.......oh right, they don't show UM in thirty minute installments anymore!! ::slaps forehead::

I have a friend on the board who has many NBC airings and was looking through their list and she has the entire episode that aired yesterday but on NBC the stories were Morris Davis, Treasure in Skeleton Canyon, search for heirs of Dorothea Allen and woman raped and shot in the face in NC. It seems that Lifetime has purposely left this story out. I guess I can see why they would choose not to air this one in the middle of the day. I mean it is one of the most disturbing ones, RS even states something to the effect that it may be hard to watch. It clearly does show a woman being victimized and I guess Lifetime wants to show women at their best. I know all your guys out there are sighing right now but it makes sense. :)

Even NBC never repeated the case of the woman shot in the face, as the episode that aired June 5, 1991 attests to. I would assume that UM editted the story out themselves before they sold the tapes to Lifetime. Now the mystery is why would that story only air once and never again? I can't imagine it was fraud. Perhaps it was too disturbing, even for NBC prime-time viewers...

As far as Dr. Browning......
WOW!!! That 7.0 earthquake that struck Ohio in December of 1990 was a real catastrophe, wouldn't you all agree! :crazy:

I just thought of a case that I don't recall ever seeing on Lifetime (maybe I'm wrong though, since I don't watch too much Lifetime!)
Remember the story of Lavar Bates? He was interviewed on the show for his reaction after a co-worker of his turned out to be a wanted criminal (I believe it was John Moony, the guy who contracted to kill TK Hardy). Anyway, Lavar's long lost daughter (whom Lavar didn't even know he had) was watching UM that night and was finally able to meet her father after almost 30 years. Now I'm not normally a fan of Lost Love segments, but I love it when an update resolves from another story!


Oh! And the case of Resurrection Mary! I never see that one on Lifetime! :lol: :p

I also like the missing persons episodes. Speaking of which, does anyone know what happened to HYUNJUNG CINDY SONG, a Penn State Univ. student who disappeared after a halloween party? She gave no indications that she wanted to run away or simply vanish. She was looking forward to a concert too. There was no forced entry into her apartment either. Has anyone heard anything about this case? :confused:

I just thought of a case that I don't recall ever seeing on Lifetime (maybe I'm wrong though, since I don't watch too much Lifetime!)
Remember the story of Lavar Bates? He was interviewed on the show for his reaction after a co-worker of his turned out to be a wanted criminal (I believe it was John Moony, the guy who contracted to kill TK Hardy). Anyway, Lavar's long lost daughter (whom Lavar didn't even know he had) was watching UM that night and was finally able to meet her father after almost 30 years. Now I'm not normally a fan of Lost Love segments, but I love it when an update resolves from another story!

Wow, I don't remember that at all! I have the TK Hardy story (off of Lifetime though) and don't remember them interviewing a co-worker. Apparently Lifetime has edited the whole thing out.

Another thing about "Debby" shot in the face. Maybe it was so disturbing that people called in to complain the night it originally aired and thus NBC chose not to re-air it. Another possibility is I don't see why RS made a point to mention interracial crime being rare. In my opinion it just gave more attention to the fact that the attacker was black. The color of his skin shouldn't have had any extra focus than anything else. I'm just throwing a few scenarios out there as to why maybe it wasn't shown more than once.

Yes. Song was apparently abducted and murdered by two men who were serial killers in the area. She left her house in her halloween costume and the two men apparently thought she was a prostitute and abducted her thinking no one would miss her. She had been dressed up as a playboy bunny and I thnk one of then was found with one of her bunny ears. I am not sure if they had enough evidence to convict.

Well I'm not sure if any bunny ears were ever found but here is an old article posted on here concerning Cindy Song and the serial killers:

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/archive/index.php/t-56551.html

I just discovered another case I never saw on Lifetime. While watching UM Favorites volume 6, I saw the original NBC version of the man who fell from a flying plane. After that segment, there was a brief appeal about an unidentified female in Texas. The young woman was hit by a car on 4/28/92 in Houston and rushed to a local hospital. She survived, but suffered a broken jaw, broken leg and brain injuries which left her unable to walk or talk.
The hospital staff dubbed her Estelle. She became a ward of Harris County Social Services in June 1992. In addition to some very depressing footage of Estelle in her hospital bed with her head shaved and what looked like a tube in her throat, a composite drawing of what she may have looked like before her accident was also shown. Estelle was described as being between 18 and 25, 5'6'', 130lbs. She had brown hair, blue eyes and her ears had been pierced.