What are some of the best murder/missing person cases?

I like the aimee willard case and the way it was finally solved.

I think the one that sticks out the most in my head besides the Angela Hammond kidnapping is the Alicia Showalter Reynolds disapperance/murder. I googled this case months ago and never found anything that stated they found this man does anyone know?

Hi, I'm new to this forum. Just found it. :) But my favorite case from Unsolved Mysteries is the one with the 2 boys that were ran over by a train. They were laying side by side and it happened in Arkansas. I don't know if they solved this case, but I would like to know.. I live in Oklahoma, so I was very scared by that story.

Hi, I'm new to this forum. Just found it. :) But my favorite case from Unsolved Mysteries is the one with the 2 boys that were ran over by a train. They were laying side by side and it happened in Arkansas. I don't know if they solved this case, but I would like to know.. I live in Oklahoma, so I was very scared by that story.


Ives/Henry Case, it was linked to the Mena Drug Trafficing. Dan Harmon the prosecutor was linked to it and in jail and is due for release. Some officers were supposed to be involved but never arrested. Many linked or saw what happened that night have died. There is a good book by Mara Leveritt called Boys on the Tracks.

The Matt Flores case was very intriguing but disturbing :(

The Adam Emery case is one of the weirdest. No one really knows if he killed himself or just killed his girlfriend and has made a new life for himself.

Also one of the sadest that i wish they would solve was the ziegler case in NH i think. She was kidnapped from a Hallmark store and the cops think that one customer was acutally in the store while she was in the back room with her assailant (the customer heard weird sounds but left and did not report anything). Awhile later a woman driving home saw a woman and two men in a truck and they were tugging on the woman and drove down a dirt road. Her body was found there a few days later. No one has ever been arrested in that case and it happened in 1992. Made me really sad.

The Matt Flores case was very intriguing but disturbing :(

I couldn't agree more. The segment never mentioned it but since the police believe that Matt's death was a case of mistaken identity, I have to wonder if they ever checked out who else at that company drove a car similiar to Matt's since the explorer was originally following a car that resembled Matt's. Then they could have just did a background check on the person/persons to see if they had an enemies.

I couldn't agree more. The segment never mentioned it but since the police believe that Matt's death was a case of mistaken identity, I have to wonder if they ever checked out who else at that company drove a car similiar to Matt's since the explorer was originally following a car that resembled Matt's. Then they could have just did a background check on the person/persons to see if they had an enemies.

The possibility of other workers owning a car similar to Matt's might be suspicious, but it would not have been enough for the cops to justify publicly naming those people as suspects without any other hard evidence. Merely having a car similar to the murder victim would easily be challenged by someone who might argue that, for example, it was simply an unfortunate coincidence.

The cops might have done some background checking on Matt Flores, but probably didn't want to publicize too much, for fear that it could compromise the case. It's just something to take into consideration.

The disappearances of Kristen Smart and April Gregory intrigued me the most. Another was Adam Recht. The Sandra Orellana case, with the dropping hoses off a balcony to recreate her death, still gives me the creeps.... :(

The Matt Flores case was very intriguing but disturbing :(


This one gets to me too. All the aspects of this case are tragic. :(

This one really sends chills down my spine. Its the one were a man has been work at this company for some time now and wants to get a promotion. One this particular day there are going to anounce a that some one in the department will recieve a promotion and this man wants it. He does not get the promotion and is very upset. He then goes to a local hardware store and purchases a shove, gas, a blunt hammer, and puts these items in his car. He then drives home. While his wife,mother-in-law, a I think it is 2 small children are a sleep, one by one hits them over the head with the blunt hammer, killing them instantly. He takes each of there bodies to his station wagon, loads them up, and drives into the woods. When he finds a spot he thinks is right, he digs a hole in the ground , dumps all the bodies in this holes and sets them on fire. For quite some time no one had seen this man. Until one day when a former co-worker saw him in I believe it was Italy years later. He tried to approach him but took of running. This story is so chilling in how could some one be so cold to kill your whole family and that he is still out there somewere. If anyone has seen this episode and knows if there is an update let me know.

This one really sends chills down my spine. Its the one were a man has been work at this company for some time now and wants to get a promotion. One this particular day there are going to anounce a that some one in the department will recieve a promotion and this man wants it. He does not get the promotion and is very upset. He then goes to a local hardware store and purchases a shove, gas, a blunt hammer, and puts these items in his car. He then drives home. While his wife,mother-in-law, a I think it is 2 small children are a sleep, one by one hits them over the head with the blunt hammer, killing them instantly. He takes each of there bodies to his station wagon, loads them up, and drives into the woods. When he finds a spot he thinks is right, he digs a hole in the ground , dumps all the bodies in this holes and sets them on fire. For quite some time no one had seen this man. Until one day when a former co-worker saw him in I believe it was Italy years later. He tried to approach him but took of running. This story is so chilling in how could some one be so cold to kill your whole family and that he is still out there somewere. If anyone has seen this episode and knows if there is an update let me know.

Oh yes. The William Bradford Bishop case. He killed his wife, mother and all 3 sons after he didn't get a premotion at work. This happened in March of 1976 and the bastard still hasn't been caught I'm sorry to say.

The William Bradford Bishop case. Thanks for the info, you got a hell of a memory!

The William Bradford Bishop case. Thanks for the info, you got a hell of a memory!

Better memory than mine, that's for sure. I was trying to nominate that case in this thread for the past day and a half, but couldn't think of the danged name.

Your description was very good, football. It's very similar to the John List case but now MUCH longer on the run. List was captured in 1989 after 18 years. Brad Bishop is at 29 years and counting. I'm always amazed there isn't more focus on this case in general, on AMW or other programs.

A year or so ago I did a web search and came upon an interesting article from the Yale Daily News. Bishop was a '59 graduate of Yale:http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=12860

"The last confirmed sighting of Bishop was March 2, 1976 in Jacksonville, N.C.

The owner of a sporting goods store said he saw Bishop as he used his credit card to purchase tennis shoes. He had Leo, the family dog, on a leash and was accompanied by a "dark-skinned" woman in the store.

"They were definitely together," former storeowner John Wheatley said. "I don't know why [the police] didn't focus on that woman earlier."

In fact, it was not until 1992 that police discovered a 1976 letter Bishop sent to a convicted bank robber that referred to a mysterious woman in a North Carolina penitentiary.

The letter was the sixth in a series, and may suggest that Bishop had been planning his alleged act for some time. However, police have been frustrated by the fact that the felon to whom Bishop addressed the letters died in 1983.

"It's certainly difficult to explain why he was conversing with a convicted bank robber," Popkin said.

There have also been several reported sightings of Bishop in Europe, including a "highly credible" 1994 sighting in Switzerland by a close acquaintance of Bishop, Popkin said."

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"There is even a song called "The Ballad of Bradford Bishop," which was released on an obscure Adelphi Records album in 1977. The lyrics tell an eerie tale:

Some day they'll find him, down in old Mexico

With Leo his retriever, drinking Jose Cuervo.

Why did he do it? No one can tell.

He traded his family for a ticket to Hell."

Kaitlyn Arquette's murder was horrible and remains unsolved. Her mother Lois Duncan retains a website exposing her case and advertising for anyone with information to come forward. It chronicles the last 15 years of the investigation, albq police dep corruption and the fact that recently they have obtained the personal effects of kait from the police dep. It has taken the police dep 15 years to give kait's family her belongings back, even though they determined the case to be closed years and years ago. Sound pretty suspicious to me..........

Also the case when Larry George murdered his family and neighbours. I remember the case freaking me out and breathing a sigh of relief when he was caught. Justice was served.....

I'm suprised no one has mentioned Kristin Modaferri. She is the college student in San Fransisco who left her work at a coffee shop and disappeared into thin air!! Although there has been a suspect in the case there is not enough evidence to charge. Some theories even said she was viewing the bay and fell over or got taken out by a wave.

BUT THE MOST BIZZARE OF ALL TIME has to be the case of Amy something. I forgot her last name. ALL of you guys have heard of this story. She totally VANISHED INTO THIS AIR on a cruise ship in 98 or 99! She was sleeping on the balcony with the door open and he father was inside the room and could see her feet. Then the father woke up and she was gone! They did an incredibly thorough search of the ship but found nothing.

They checked if she went overboard but they ruled that out because she was scared to even go near the railing plus she was short and couldn't get over that easily. However, there was a theory that she was abdubcted off the ship and sold into white slavery but I don't think that has much credibilty to it.

So, what do all of you think of these 2 stories?

The name of the Amy on the cruise ship is Amy Bradley and she is still missing. The Kristen Modafarri case and the Kristen Smart case are both interesting but i believe they are both dead and the killers are knows...

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Sorry, I can't remember the state where it happened, but I always thought the skeletal remains found in a trunk that a man had purchased from his friend was interesting.

The guy (possibly around his 50's or 60's) had been shot in the skull between 1910-1920 by a certain type of handgun, and had been buried in the ground and then exhumed around the early 1920's (newspapers from around that time were found wrapped around the bones) and then put in the storage trunk.

The two men who had owned the trunk were not considered suspects because neither had been born when the man was killed. The man who initially owned the trunk claimed he bought it at an auction years previous and had never gotten around to breaking the lock and opening it. Several years later he sold it to a friend, who finally opened it and found the bones. I was hoping that it would be profiled on "Bizarre Murders", but it wasn't. Too bad!!:)

I wish they would find the sick person who murderd my teacher lisa ziegert in 1992... I hope when they do find the person they kill him... Miss ziegert was the nicest teacher I ever had... Not only was she our teacher she was our friend.... I pray for her family that they find the sick person who killed her...

Matthew Chase. Dottie Caylor. Joe Owens and George Owens have to be two of my favorites. The other two I like a lot!

I have to nominate Steven Hadley as if not the best, one of the most intriguing. The guy in Waterloo, Iowa who one day just decided to take around $ 1 million from the credit union where he worked. A guy would have to have guts to pull off something like that. Then, to call his wife and intruct her to find letters in their dresser saying he could be in another state?

It would have to take either guts or stupidity to pull that one off. One or the other. I'm sure alot of people fantasize about taking off with lots of money and starting a new life at some time or another. But, to actually do it. I wonder if there was any psychological motive to his crime or was he after just the money?

In his letters it was suggested that maybe he wanted to 'prove' himself to the world. To 'prove' he was intelligent and compatible......so it might have been psychological.

Ultimately, he was caught in Friendswood, a suburb of Houston, TX with a new name, new wife and two cats.....

Yep, Steve Hadley ranks pretty much up there with john List and Brad Bishop dissappearance-wise. The only difference with Hadley, of course, was that there was no murders involved.

Well I have always wondered whether or not Alfred Gaynor was involved in Lisa Zeigert's murder? Gaynor operated as a serial killer in the mid to late 1990's in Springfield which is a stone's throw from Agawam. Gaynor I believe is currently serving 4 life sentences in a Massachusetts prison.

Well there are many cases on murder and missing persons on UM which are interesting and sad and just really make you think and so it is tough to label a specific few. Tommy Burkett, Dottie Caylor, Kristi Nichols and Charlotte Pollis just to name a few. But many interesting cases. As for the guy that killed Matthew Chase, no way that was his only murder. I think a serial killer was at work in that one.