This morning's two episodes were odd. If you were perceptive you recall that after the first hour's cridit's were finished, it said Copyright 1991 at the end, meaing the episode aired first in 1991. But the Bobby Parker and Randolph Dial case was on in this hour and that took place in 1994 and was aired in a 1995 broadcast. This hour contained the story of Tracy Kirkpatrick's murder, and this case was shown four years proir to the Parker/Dial story. It seems that episode from different seasons are now being placed into one hour of UM, but without the Lifetime re-formatting. Same thing with the second, hour.
The theft of Ben Stahl's paintings was not shown originally with the episodes that it was shown with today. Any one else notice this?

I TIVO UM everyday, and over the past couple of weeks I've noticed that each week a couple of segments will repeat from the week before, but they are always spliced together with different segments, creating entirely new episodes. The Dial case is one that played last week, and the Circleville Letter Writer was shown last week after it had previously played the week before.

My thought originally was that Lifetime was trying to keep some of the unsolved cases in the public eye in the hope that someone may contact UM with some new leads. After seeing the Dial case(which has been solved)again I now know that not to be the case. Maybe someone at the Lifetime Network would be better suited to comment more on why they just can't run the episodes chronologically. Thats the way I would want to see UM.

I'm so glad somebody brought this up. I tivo the episodes on Lifetime as well and have been noticing this phenomenon for months. As a lawyer, I'd be interested in how and why Lifetime has the rights to basically reformat the shows to insert stories taken from different episodes. The stories you mentioned were repeated just recently as part of other episodes, so something's crazy going on here...

In keeping with the theme of this thread, today they showed the KC firefighter story. This episode aired last week as well.

They played Roswell today after it aired yesterday. This is the first time I've seen the same story on back to back days.