I know one has and I could've sworn another one has. I live in Hagerstown, MD and there was a segment I think with a psychic who was here to help solve a murder. It was crazy to see where I lived and see them standing by our library in downtown.

Anybody else?

yes. the one abt the deaf, mute woman who was found wandering in the middle of the street and no one could I.D. her or figure out where she came from. She had drawn a pic of a baby, or something like that. Something abt her drawing an airplane or pointing to a pic of an airplane. That happened here in my city.

I can think of 5

1.Dick Hansen is shot by a guy trailing his date, supposedly becuase of numbers on her liscence plate.
2.Matt Flores is shot in the parking lot of his workplace, possibly the victim of mistaken identity.
3.Gus Hoffman is allegedly kidnapped by a biker gang, and mother works tirelessly to find the truth.
4.Frances Buhay robs a bank and, after his accomplices are captured, begins sending threatning e-mails to police.
5.Nova tha black cat is separated from her owner during a cross-country move, only to be re-united late by walking to her owners workplace.

I am only including stuff that took place in the south SF bay area where I live. If I included the whole bay area than there would be even more stories.

Another one that happened about 15 or 20 miles away is the guy that was found dead in his hotel room in Martinsburg, WV. I don't recall the name or any of the specifics. It was a Sheraton, I believe. It's on the Bizarre Murders DVD.

Not that I know of. I live in Williamsburg, VA and not much happens here.

There were a bunch that took place in the Houston area.

Susan Walsh, a woman who vanished that was featured on UM, lived in the same town (Nutley NJ) i do. I have not heard anything about the case in a long time.

No. Well none that I know of anyway.

Too many to count or detail that have a Las Vegas connection. Seems like every kook or crook zeroes in on this place. Just yesterday a police officer was killed and another wounded in a bloody shootout in which the shooter was eventually shot and killed by police.

Jared Peters, abducted by his grandmother Pat Farmer, took place in a small town about 90 miles from me.

Too many to count or detail that have a Las Vegas connection. Seems like every kook or crook zeroes in on this place. Just yesterday a police officer was killed and another wounded in a bloody shootout in which the shooter was eventually shot and killed by police.

Yea Awsi, why is it that all these low lifes commit their crimes and then go to a hotel room in Las Vegas and kill themselves......:lol:

As for me here in Illinois I live close to the town where Brook Baker was murdered. Also not to far from the town where Jill Behrman disappeared from.

I'm from Folsom, California, and there was a segment about a guy that escaped from Folsom prison. The best part about the segment was when he broke out of the truck he stowed away in, he was at a bowling alley that I used to always go to called Lake Bowl. It's about a five minute drive from Folsom Prison. Pretty cool how they actually filmed the segment on location.

I live in the Mobile, AL area... this is where Gayle Delano came and committed suicide...

We had a good post on this subject a few years ago. Unsolved Mysteries stories that took place in your state.

Here's the link the old thread if you're interested.....

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=47102

Too many to count or detail that have a Las Vegas connection. Seems like every kook or crook zeroes in on this place. Just yesterday a police officer was killed and another wounded in a bloody shootout in which the shooter was eventually shot and killed by police.

Probably the scariest UM case that took place in (or close) to Las Vegas was the Joe Weldon Smith case. The man who killed his wife and two step daughters as they slept. He tried to kill the owner of the house they were renting from with a hammer but the owner escaped by running through the glass window because he didn't have time to unlock the door. :eek: Pretty freaky. Glad he was caught.

As for me here in Illinois I live close to the town where Brook Baker was murdered. Also not to far from the town where Jill Behrman disappeared from.

Crystal, how far are you from Midlothian(where exactly is this town anyway?), where Jaqueline Dowaliby was killed. And what about the Illinois town where Larry Williams found his son Danny's body? The name of that town escapes me.

I am assuming you are nowhere near Chicago, or you'd have plenty of cases to mention.

Yea Awsi, why is it that all these low lifes commit their crimes and then go to a hotel room in Las Vegas and kill themselves......:lol:

crystaldawn, this is an all-or-nothing town. You don't want to come to Las Vegas and merely wound yourself. I'd say our batting average is splendid.

Uh, I really don't know. In the old days maybe they were attracted to a cheap buffet for their final meal, a la the Embrys at Burger King. But anyone who's been here lately knows the low priced buffets have gone the way of the sub-$300,000 home around here. That stinks but at least I'm not gaining as much weight anymore. :)

I can't remember the guy's name, but the episode was on last week. It was the black guy who was dressed in an Army uniform, he walked into his wife's house and killed two of her friends(a husband and wife) who were there at the time and seriously injured her. That happened in Talladega County which is two counties to my west. I've been there before.

Jim Burnside, who killed his wife in Florida, was captured in Shelby County working at a flea market after the story aired on the show. I had been by there before, so I don't specifically remember seeing the flea market in question. That is just west of Talladega County and three counties away.

The Marie Hilley case(the mother who killed her husband and nearly killed her daughter with arsenic poisoning), they lived in Anniston(I used to live in the neighboring town a few miles to the south). I am now an hour to the southeast.

Those are just the ones I can think of right now.

Numerous UM cases are from my home state of Massachusetts (although none of them actually occurred in my hometown).

They include (but are not limited to) the following:

1) The 1992 murder of Susan Taraskiewicz. She was the Boston Logan airport employee who was found dead in a car parked in Revere (a 20 to 25-minute drive from my residence).

2) The 1970 Brighton bank robbery that resulted in the death of police officer Walter Schroeder. As you'll recall, the 1989 segment focused on the hunt for Kathy Power, who finally surrendered in 1993. Also, the bank robbery scene was filmed in my hometown of Arlington!

3) The unknown serial rapist who struck in a clinic and several stores in several suburbs near Boston in late 1989.

4) James "Whitey" Bulger. Various crimes that he's accused of occurred in the Boston area.

Brent 88, The murderer's name was Larry George.

Crystal, how far are you from Midlothian(where exactly is this town anyway?), where Jaqueline Dowaliby was killed. And what about the Illinois town where Larry Williams found his son Danny's body? The name of that town escapes me.

I am assuming you are nowhere near Chicago, or you'd have plenty of cases to mention.

No I don't live anywhere near Chicago or Midlothian.....I'm in east central Illinois. Actually another one I've thought is the man who was murdered by the I-70 Killer. I can't remember his name but he was killed in a store in Terre Haute, Indiana which is less than an hour from me.

Yes, the Angela Hammond case. I grew up in Clinton, Missouri, and my family still lives there. I was away at college when Angela was abducted. A friend of mine from high school was a distant cousin of Angela's, but I did not know her--I was a couple years older. In those days, prior to cell phones, I had used that phone booth several times. It was in the corner of the parking lot of a supermarket and literally right at an intersection with a stoplight on what is one of the busiest streets in town, but at that time of night on a weeknight, not much would have been going on. It was just a couple blocks from "the square" where there are usually tons of cars at night, and a block from a 24-hour convenience store, so I can see why Angela would have felt comfortable using the phone there, even at that time--in Clinton, like most little towns, you feel pretty safe anywhere.

The supermarket is a car dealership now, and the phone booth (I think there were actually 2 booths there) is long gone. I look over at where it was and think about her whenever I stop at that light. Very sad.

Yes, the Angela Hammond case. I grew up in Clinton, Missouri, and my family still lives there.

I can't remember if the segment mentioned the time of night she was abducted and Rob chased the abductor's truck down but even during the reenactment, you could see most of the town was pretty dead. Very few buildings even had their lights on. And if the real abduction was anything like that, you could see why there weren't many witnesses to the chase that could give their description of the pick up truck.

This case was always very haunting and the other unsolved murders and dissapearences in southern Missouri at the time were pretty scary.

Yes, the Angela Hammond case. I grew up in Clinton, Missouri, and my family still lives there. I was away at college when Angela was abducted. A friend of mine from high school was a distant cousin of Angela's, but I did not know her--I was a couple years older. In those days, prior to cell phones, I had used that phone booth several times. It was in the corner of the parking lot of a supermarket and literally right at an intersection with a stoplight on what is one of the busiest streets in town, but at that time of night on a weeknight, not much would have been going on. It was just a couple blocks from "the square" where there are usually tons of cars at night, and a block from a 24-hour convenience store, so I can see why Angela would have felt comfortable using the phone there, even at that time--in Clinton, like most little towns, you feel pretty safe anywhere.

The supermarket is a car dealership now, and the phone booth (I think there were actually 2 booths there) is long gone. I look over at where it was and think about her whenever I stop at that light. Very sad.

GoldenDelicious, thanks very much for that detailed description. Very helpful. I always like to envison the scene, and you never know if the UM depiction is accurate.

Your account reminds me of the Kathy Hobbs case here in Las Vegas, not too far from where I lived at the time. It was an all-night grocery store at the time she was abducted, but with a Carl's Jr. fast food restaurant on the corner, blocking the view from the major road called Maryland Parkway. The side entrance Kathy would have taken is not on Maryland Parkway itself since the building sits maybe 100 yards off Maryland Parkway and the side entrance is on a much less traveled and less lighted street down the road from where her apartment complex must have been. The Carl's Jr. is/was a 24 hour restaurant also, but the side facing where she was abducted has no windows other than the drive-thru. So it's easy to see how abductors could have chosen that site and just waited for a victim. It's now an Office Depot and, like you with Angela Hammond, I think about Kathy Hobbs whenever I drive past.

There has been some segments from Mn but not from the town iam from

Hi this is my first post.

Anyway I do remember UM coming to my hometown Effingham IL when I was in high school (late 80's early 90's) because two fugitives were caught while hiding out in the county. They had killed a VA Patrol Officer during a traffic stop and one of the men had family in Illinois.

Small world princessde72, I'm from Robinson!!! Yes I remember that the vehicle that was involved in the shootout of that police officer (resulting in his death) was found in Effingham. They interviewed the Police Chief of Effingham at the time. I was excited to see that being that I live so close by. :)

Hi Crystaldawn

Nice to see a fellow central Illinoisian on the board. I live in Champaign now. I remember there was so much excitement when UM came to town to pick up fugitives in Effingham because nothing much ever happens there. I was about 16 at time with a brother who got into his fair share of trouble and I always thought I might see him on UM one day. Anyway he grew up got married has 4 sons and a full time job so I lost my only chance to be part of the show.

Dorothy Allison was from where I grew up in NJ.

The Emery case incident happened where I live now in RI.

Anybody else?

A few have taken place near my hometown.

1. Senior con-man Arthur Frankford who bilked a lot of rich elderly women in Palm Beach. I live in West Palm Beach.

2. Rebecca Young was murdered in Belle Glade, about 30 miles from me. The case was investigated by PBSO, our local sheriff's office.

3. Glenn Consagra allegedly killed his two best friends in Clearwater, Florida. It's on the side of the state opposite and north from where I live but I have been to Clearwater.

4. The woman who was decapitated (Beverly something?), and the prime suspect was her mysterious con-artist roommate "Alice" (I can't recall the victim's name, the case is fairly well known, and has been discussed on this board before). That occurred in Boca Raton if I remember correctly. I visit Boca twice a week. It's about 30 miles from my home.

The woman who was decapitated (Beverly something?), and the prime suspect was her mysterious con-artist roommate "Alice" (I can't recall the victim's name, the case is fairly well known, and has been discussed on this board before).

Beverly McGowan was the murder victim. The woman calling herself "Alice" was actually Elaine Parent, who offed herself in 2002.

The Court TV program The Investigators did an episode about the case. The name of the episode is "The Chameleon".

Beverly McGowan was the murder victim. The woman calling herself "Alice" was actually Elaine Parent, who offed herself in 2002.

I hate it when cases end with the crook killing themself before being captured... like this case and the Dennis Depue segment.

If "Alice" would have been captured, we might have been able to find out why it was necessary for Beverly to be murdered the way that she was. Why did they have to brutally decapitate her instead of "simply" giving her a less painful death?

Senior con-man Arthur Frankford who bilked a lot of rich elderly women in Palm Beach.

I watched and taped that one a few weeks ago when it was on. I don't remember ever seeing it before. Anyway I thought the scene at the seniors dance where they showed two women dancing together (they were talking about the shortage of men) was hilarious and one of UM's funnier moments! :)

I watched and taped that one a few weeks ago when it was on. I don't remember ever seeing it before. Anyway I thought the scene at the seniors dance where they showed two women dancing together (they were talking about the shortage of men) was hilarious and one of UM's funnier moments! :)

I like the detective at the end who was urging more of Frankford's victims to come forward so the state could build a stronger case. The detective said something along the lines of "we need people to come forward and say "hey, we are sick and tired of Arthur Frankford..."

Just something about the way he said it tickeled my funny bone.

Yes, and my hubby [a detective on the case] appeared in the episode during the re-enactment. Don't blink if you ever catch the episode, but he is wearing a gray coat, LOL.

Near Columbus, OH the body of a woman [never identified] was found murdered beside a Pilot Oil gas station.

She is buried here somewhere in our community with a headstone that reads:

"Somebody's Daughter, Somebody's Sister, Somebody's Mother"

The Mary Morris murders here in Houston....don't know if there are any updates to this case??

The Mary Morris murders here in Houston....don't know if there are any updates to this case??

Not officially.

I grew up in the northwestern part of my province, which is pretty isolated, so I always thought that any cases that were BC-related (such as the Abbotsford killer, Cindy James [which I have never seen], Ogopogo [ditto], "Caddy", Blair Adams, to name a few), all took place in the lower part of the province (where I currently reside).

In crystaldawn's UM Favorites disc #2 there is the Philip Fraser case, which I have never seen until now (as it took place in early 1992 months before my interest in UM was rekindled). I was surprised when it showed that the suspect was taken to the home of a couple in Kitwanga (which was mis-pronounced by Stack), as this is only a couple of towns over from where I grew up. Where the car was found burned out was the same city where I went to school for 3 years.

Those 3 sketches at the end were very weird and creepy. I can only imagine seeing them back when I was 11, and thinking how close the crime was to home. When a scary suspect picture or police composite was shown, my mom had the tendency to say teasingly that he was in our town. Had she said that for the Philip Fraser case I don't think I would have slept for a year! :lol:

I live in the area of the "Circleville Letters" case--though it took place before I moved here.

it took place before I moved here.

So you claim. :lol:

The Blind River Rest Stop Murders, about 2 1/2 hours from where I live.

There have been a couple disappearances take place on each of the big lakes in my town......the Campbell's in 1956 disappeared and just recently two men boating vanished on the lake I live across the street from. Search parties were dispatched and a hovering helecoptor flew over my house. They found the body of the one man but the other younger man has never surfaced yet.

The last two weren't on UM but for what it's worth.

Cheers

Delurking here to post for the first time--

The bowling alley massacre took place in my home town (Las Cruces, NM). That morning, I was getting into my car to go to work when a stream of police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, etc., went by, sirens blaring. I remember thinking, "I wonder what that's about." Then, of course, we all heard the news later in the day. The optometrist I worked for at the time (working my way through college) had grown up working in a bowling alley owned by his parents, so this case really shook him and he talked about it often. Everyone in town knew right off the bat that the perpetrators had probably immediately slipped over the border into Mexico and would never be caught. (Las Cruces isn't far from the border, and there are many places to slip through unofficially. At least, there were pre-NAFTA.)

The funny thing I remember about seeing this case on UM is that one of the survivors (the cook, I think), was interviewed in shadow for her protection, since the killers haven't been caught. On-screen, they simply gave her name as "Ida," in quotes, as if to suggest that the name was a pseudonym, and they may have even said that it was a fake name for her protection (I don't remember). Except I knew from local news that her name really is Ida. (The names are widely available now, but they weren't at the time UM originally aired this, if I'm remembering correctly, since it hadn't been that long since it happened.) Anyway, any time I see a supposedly fake name "in quotes," I think back to this and always wonder if it's actually the real name.

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Would sure like to see the D.B. Cooper case of 1971 solved - for obvious reasons and some not so obvious.

actually yes, literally. My house was used for one episode, one day. I was just a little guy and had to go to school that day so I don't remember too much.

What case was that, SiberianKiss? You left us expecting much more, kind of like a Larry Coker-coached team.

Yes, they said my city (Salina, Kansas) just they said it wrong.

The Ethel Kidd murder occurred in Orange County, VA... just two counties over from where I live.

There was one that took place in Fairfax, VA that involved an apparent 'suicide' of a kid in his parents' house. I wish I could remember the specifics of that one.

Awsi,

When I noticed UM was playing on Lifetime I planned on tivo'ing it every day so I would eventually find out which show it was...but I was gone for the summer so when I got home I was gonna start up again recording each one but the freaking dy---I mean Lifetime people decided that they didn't want it on the air anymore....I'm pissed!:mad:

Dude Larry Cocker is terrible! They must get a new coach, no doubt they'll get Bitch Davis back and bring Miami back to the promised land. After all Cocker inherited the team Bitch Davis built, that 2001 team was loaded. I really wanted Troy to beat Florida St dammit!

PS-Nice avatar!!!!

There are two cases I'm aware of from my area. One happened about five miles down the road from me, and the person involved was actually an acquaintance ofmy mother. That case is the Lee Carter case. He was murdered in Rouses Point, NY, at The Bowl Mart. A member of the Hell's Angels put a car bomb in his car. This one was solved, but the guy escaped in a Canadian hospital after faking an illness. The other one happened about 30 miles or so away. There was a girl, Carrie Lynn Nixon, who went missing while on an errand for her dad. It took a few years, but finally a guy who was in prison for an unrelated offense confessed to raping and killing her that night, then led police to her grave, a short distance from where she was last seen.

The Dottie Caylor case took place in Concord, CA where I am originally from. She was attending the same community college that many of my friends went to.

Well im from nyc theres tons.but one that sticks out is etan patz the kid that went missing in soho back in 1979.i was the same age as him when he went missing.but there lots of kids here back in the 80s and 90s that just seemed to vanish

Yes, the Angela Hammond case. I grew up in Clinton, Missouri, and my family still lives there. I was away at college when Angela was abducted. A friend of mine from high school was a distant cousin of Angela's, but I did not know her--I was a couple years older. In those days, prior to cell phones, I had used that phone booth several times. It was in the corner of the parking lot of a supermarket and literally right at an intersection with a stoplight on what is one of the busiest streets in town, but at that time of night on a weeknight, not much would have been going on. It was just a couple blocks from "the square" where there are usually tons of cars at night, and a block from a 24-hour convenience store, so I can see why Angela would have felt comfortable using the phone there, even at that time--in Clinton, like most little towns, you feel pretty safe anywhere.

The supermarket is a car dealership now, and the phone booth (I think there were actually 2 booths there) is long gone. I look over at where it was and think about her whenever I stop at that light. Very sad.
I totally remember seein this on Unsolved Mysteries when I was in elementary or middle school. Gave me the creeps. I remember at the time someone in Southeast Kansas was driving a pickup like the green one with a fish decal, but was no murderer. I still dont think this mystery has ever been solved. I remember alot of things were happening in Missouri , Southeast Kansas at this time. I dont think the three women from Springfield have ever been found and that had to be back 15 years ago almost. Also, Stefanie Schmitt was murdered in Pittsburg in the early 90s. Ginger Hudson is still missing from Pittsburg during that time. Dan Short a banker from Noel, MO was also killed back in the late eighties and was found drowned tied to a chair in grand lake. There was also a mentally challenged man from Aurora, MO that was sent to prison and was wrongfully accused of a murder back in the 80's. I believe there was a woman from Lamar or Nevada that was missing during the same time as the Hammond girl from Clinton. Also, 2 girls from Welch, Oklahoma were also profiled on unsolved mysteries "Trailer Terror" and still have not been found and that was back in 99-00. I havent heard any updated on any of these stories and would like to know more about them. I loved watching these cases although they are very disturbing and sad.

Only one case I know of has taken place in Omaha.......

.....that's the case of Walter "Curly" Green, a nice, gentle old man who built up a fortune of $200K and apparently left no heirs when he died on April 4, 1978.

However, I know of a few other cases that have taken place in Nebraska/Iowa.......

Christi Jo Nichols: Disappeared from the town of Gothenberg, Lincoln County NE in December of 1988.

Church Explosion: In 1950, a church at Hastings, NE exploded on a cold winter night. Some members of the choir believe that divine intervention kept them from arriving on-time for choir practice, thus, saving their lives.

Greg Webb: The former police chief in the town of Lyons, Burt County NE (60mi N of Omaha) murdered his one-time girlfriend Anna Anton in October 1986. He was captured some years later by the Holly Hill PD, near Jacksonville Florida.

Jodi Huisentruit: Local TV anchor from Mason City, IA who was abducted and rumored to have been murdered. Her body has never been found.

Jarod Allgood: 21 year old College Student & Sleepwalker. Was hit and killed while sleepwalking/'sleep running' on Highway 30, near Iowa City, IA in 1993

Steven Hadley: Manager of a bank in Waterloo, IA who made off w/over $1 million in 1983. He was caught in 1988 and sentenced to 13 years in prison (he should've been released in 2001)

Actually two from Rochester, NY

1. A teenage boy dies in one area of the US and his father is having dreams about another boy with his sons same name who was killed in rochester ny.

2. Another one is a man who was working on his car and then the car fell on him and he had a near death experience.

Another thing a little off topic but definitly creepy. Both of the Hillside Stranglers lived here in Rochester before they started killing folks. One of them wanted to be a police man but he was not mentally prepared. The reason why I know this is because my granfather used to be a police officer and one of those guys used to call my grandfathers house asking questions about trying to get into the police force.

Originally Posted by Tap Dancer
Not that I know of. I live in Williamsburg, VA and not much happens here.
When I replied a year ago, I had forgotten about the Colonial Parkway murders:

Colonial Parkway Murders (http://crimeshadows.com/parkway.htm)

Colonial Parkway Murders Remain Unsolved (http://crimeshadows.com/news/2006/09/colonial-parkway-murders-remain.htm) (I live right beside Camp Peary)

I lived in Orange Va. And we had one there appear on unsolved mysteries. My college professor appeared in the segment.

There was a segment about a bank robber who hit multiple locations in Central PA. One of the signatures of his crimes was that he always tried to shoot out the security cameras during the course of the robberies.

Robert Stack started reading off the towns where he'd robbed banks, and got to "Montgomery." I actually shouted when he did. Not only did I grow up in Montgomery PA, but one of my best friends lived across the street from the bank and actually was a witness to the crime described in the segment. He was working in his backyard when he heard what he described to me as "shots, like someone was shooting at a squirrel", then he saw from behind the house a car speed away from the bank. The authorities came and interviewed him, put out an APB on the car based on his description (of course the guy ditched the car, which turned out to be stolen).

Eventually the bank robber was caught, but I'm not sure if it was because of the UM segment.

They were pretty close to where I live for the Art Jones segment. We didn't know about it until the show aired though.

I think they may have revisited an old case from around here at one point. It was the Yablonsky murders, but I can't remember now if it was UM or another show.

I'm from Dayton, Ohio... I don't think any cases were actually from here, but a couple fugitives have been said to be here.. michael wayne brown I believe, and tk hardy or whoever was on the run, they said he may be in the dayton, ohio area.

along the lines as someone said when people off themselves before theyre caught, so we'll never know where the bodies are/why they killed them that way. Thats along the same lines as people who don't off themselves, and all the DNA points conclusively to them, yet they proclaim they're innocense, so we still don't know where many people/bodies are. I hope pretty soon criminals learn that DNA does not lie and they will just let their info out.

I'm a native of Kingfisher, Oklahoma, where the notorious Paul Stamper case took place. I was living in my hometown at the time that "Unsolved Mysteries" came to our humble rural community to produce that particular segment. As a local newspaper reporter, I was well acquainted with then-Sheriff Danny Graham, who was featured in interviews during the segment. (I was also the manager of his first campaign for sheriff). I later edited a book written by an older local woman upon whose property much of the filming took place, and in the book she discussed watching all of the activities from the front seat of her daughter-in-law's car. It was pretty exciting stuff in a small town of 4,000 people!

One thing that always causes me to laugh whenever I see that segment is the fact that the man who then served as pastor of my church worked full-time as a deputy for the sheriff's office. He is seen in the segment as one of the men who puts "Paul Stamper" into the jail cell. Poor Pastor Ron endured a lot of good-natured kidding from people over that scene!

Dakota Double Death. The car accident where Arnold Archambeau and Ruby Bruguier disappeared after a car overturned in the ditch. Ruby's cousin was found in the car but they searched the area of the wreck thoroughly and couldn't find the other two. Three months later the other two turned up only 75 feet away from the accident scene. Happened about an hour from where I live now.

Also, Clarence Roberts the man who died in two house fires 10 years apart. That one happend about an hour from where I grew up.

I just remembered there was another case that happened close to where I live. It happened in Owosso, Michigan, about 30 min from where I live. I haven't seen the case in years and I have no idea what the case is about, I think it was a guy searching for lost loves. My sister used to live there and I have a college course there currently. It's weird because there are so many cases that come back to me after having completely forgotten about them.

There was the episode from woonsocket RI where that lady was killed i forget the name, and the Sammy Wheeler case in Charlottesville VA:eek: . Ive lived in both cities.

I used to live in Minneapolis, where the infamous John Grundhofer "kidnapping" took place. My husband worked at a nightclub about 4 blocks down the street from the building where the parking ramp is located, so I used to drive past it about 4 times a week when I would drop him off at work. I am from western WI, and I've never figured out where the wayside was that Grundhofer was left at...from Minneapolis he could have driven about 2-3 different routes at the most to get to WI - they would have to cross the St. Croix River, and there aren't many bridges that would fit into the time frame.

I have driven by the Stillwater prison where Larry Race was incarcerated several times. Stillwater is a small city right on the MN/WI border, and it's a good 25-30 miles from Minneapolis. I always roll my eyes when they say in the UM segment that Stillwater State Prison was in Minneapolis.

I'm not too far from North Dakota now - I'm entertaining the thought of going to New Rockford (Kathy Bonderson) or Edmore (Kenneth Engie), just to see the railroad crossing or the bar.

Just to answer the question, the 3MW case in Springfield, Missouri happened where I lived at the time in 1992. It still haunts the city. Segment aired in January of 1993 if I recall correctly. Could have potentially been solved but caller with "vital information" was cut off and never called back. Case remains unsolved and without any resolution in sight.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=192695&highlight=streeter

I totally remember seein this on Unsolved Mysteries when I was in elementary or middle school. Gave me the creeps. I remember at the time someone in Southeast Kansas was driving a pickup like the green one with a fish decal, but was no murderer. I still dont think this mystery has ever been solved. I remember alot of things were happening in Missouri , Southeast Kansas at this time. I dont think the three women from Springfield have ever been found and that had to be back 15 years ago almost. Also, Stefanie Schmitt was murdered in Pittsburg in the early 90s. Ginger Hudson is still missing from Pittsburg during that time. Dan Short a banker from Noel, MO was also killed back in the late eighties and was found drowned tied to a chair in grand lake. There was also a mentally challenged man from Aurora, MO that was sent to prison and was wrongfully accused of a murder back in the 80's. I believe there was a woman from Lamar or Nevada that was missing during the same time as the Hammond girl from Clinton. Also, 2 girls from Welch, Oklahoma were also profiled on unsolved mysteries "Trailer Terror" and still have not been found and that was back in 99-00. I havent heard any updated on any of these stories and would like to know more about them. I loved watching these cases although they are very disturbing and sad.
I was 9 when Ginger May Hudson disappeared from her backyard in Pittsburg, Kansas. She was my mother. It is awful that no one found any leads for this case. I can't believe it's been 17 years since that day in August 1993. The only suspect was her boyfriend and I haven't talked to him since. I can only pray that someday someone talks.

I go to university and currently live in Westchester, CA where Julie Cross was gunned down. It is NOT a violent area, typically, so I was pretty shocked when I saw the segment. Of course, violent crime can happen anywhere.

Raised in Redondo Beach, where the sea lions were killed (I know I've said it before. I'm still in awe that RS was in my hometown!! ;) ))

One time a robber was caught in Torrance, the city I was actually born in.

The police officer whose killer was caught due to Cognitech was gunned down in Manhattan Beach, just two cities over from where I grew up.

Whenever I leave the L.A. area and drive by the Angeles national forest, I think of the Pandelios/ Sobek cases. Sobek was from Hermosa Beach, I believe, the city next to where I grew up.

I have a relative who worked at the Granite, OK prison that knew both Dial and Bobbi Parker. She said that she was a friend of Bobbi's but really has to wonder about the ten years, but also that Dial was an outright liar on many accounts. She's on the fence.

I sometimes cannot believes these UM connections! Too bad I never got to meet Stack!

I am originally from Hinesville, GA..which is a 20 min. drive from Richmond Hill, Ga. Which is where the fisherman of the Casie Nicole went missing. The guy that actually owned the boat used to come in and eat at the truck stop my mother worked at. Such a haunting case:( Especially the family members getting the phone calls after they disappeared.

I live in Maryland, where the Oliver Munson, Keith Warren, Tracy Kirkpatrick and Alicia Showalter-Reynolds cases happened. The closest case would probably be Oliver Munson, I think that was in Baltimore and I live about 30 miles from the city.

My cousin lives in Millsboro DE, which is about 30-40 minutes away from Harrington where Dorothy Donovan was murdered. When I went to visit her and we went to the Harrington casino, I told her about the murder. It was kind of eerie driving through the town while I mentioned it.

I was 9 when Ginger May Hudson disappeared from her backyard in Pittsburg, Kansas. She was my mother. It is awful that no one found any leads for this case. I can't believe it's been 17 years since that day in August 1993. The only suspect was her boyfriend and I haven't talked to him since. I can only pray that someday someone talks.

I knew your mom. I worked with her in Pittsburg while i was going to school there. She was a GREAT lady. Always smiley, always upbeat, and she made work fun. I have tried to follow this story because it happened after I moved back home and I was shocked to hear that she was missing, and even more that there have been no updates. I am so sorry that she has never been found. I feel my life was better for having met her.

I live in Texas so there have been a ton of cases that have happened in my state but the one that happened closest to where I live is Megan Curl. She was killed in Lufkin, Tx which is about 2 hours from me.

Son of Sam got one girl near the block I grew up on, outside the subway station he shot her in the face through her textbook.

Obviously this case isn't Unsolved but there was a segment on UM about it that tried to perpetuate the conspiracy theory. Just like they did with the Zodiac/Unabomber episode.

I mean living in NYC there must be an unsolved murder spot every ten feet but i am sure maybe .001 percent of these cases were covered on UM. Su Ya Kim's building was near one I lived in for about four years and I've been through that area in brooklyn where her body was found.

I never trusted that Joe Jones guy. All he really had to get him off was passing a polygraph and those are allegedly 61% accurate at best and based on false science.

I know one has and I could've sworn another one has. I live in Hagerstown, MD and there was a segment I think with a psychic who was here to help solve a murder. It was crazy to see where I lived and see them standing by our library in downtown.

Anybody else?


The story about Shafaa (the little girl who was kidnapped by her father who was part of the Jordanian army..) her mother was looking for her(she married the guy after knowing him for like a mth). Well anyways that took place in El Paso, TX which is where Im from.
The Las Cruces Bowling Alley incident... well Cruces is about 1hr away from El Paso...

I know one has and I could've sworn another one has. I live in Hagerstown, MD and there was a segment I think with a psychic who was here to help solve a murder. It was crazy to see where I lived and see them standing by our library in downtown.

Anybody else?

None featured on the show but several unsolved murders have occurred in town.

Quite a few - the ones that come to mind are the yogurt shop murders in Austin, Texas. ::shudder::

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/09/48hours/main6076933.shtml

This one is really baffling. Not too far from Austin - and very creepy. She disappeared in broad daylight in 2002, and has never been seen or heard from again.

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/rachel-louise-cooke

None featured on the show but several unsolved murders have occurred in town.

To clarify, the closest cases featured on UM occurred in Pullman, Washington, and Moscow, Idaho. There was also a case in Spokane, Washington.

To clarify, the closest cases featured on UM occurred in Pullman, Washington, and Moscow, Idaho. There was also a case in Spokane, Washington.

What was the town in Washington where it rained poisonous goo? Are you near there?

What was the town in Washington where it rained poisonous goo? Are you near there?

Oakville, Washington, is on the other side of the state. Many of Ted Bundy's and Green River Killer's murders took place on the west side, too.

I was born and raised in southern Ohio. Perman Gilbert was found murdered in Brown County which is just one county over from where I was raised. It was before my time though. I now live in Lansing, Michigan where "Drummond's Dollars" (Henry Drummond-- the old guy that lived frugally in the YMCA and when he died they searched for an heir to his estate)) took place.

There are a few:

-Blair Adams, who was found murdered here in Knoxville, TN in a hotel parking lot. My mother-in-law's house was off the exit where the hotel still is, so we'd have to pass it every time we went. The gas station where the exchange about the car keys occurred is also right off the exit.

-The Inner City Church fire happened only a few miles away from where I currently sit. At the time, it was pastored by Reggie White, the NFL player. In the segment, you can see the congregation holding services in a school cafeteria or gym, and that is nearby Austin East Magnet High School. Several months ago at church, one of the hymns we sang in our service had been written by one of our members years ago in the immediate wake of that fire for a community service to support the Inner City Church.

-Dan Tondevold. White Pine, where Ellen Berry's estate was, is two counties north of Knoxville but within a half hour drive. The robbery of the Cawood family (which might have been a season 7 or 8 segment) also occurred in the same county.

-Mary and Martha Hinkle, a Lost Loves story, started out in Greeneville, TN, which also isn't too far north from here, maybe about a 40-minute drive.

-The Signal Mountain ATV murders and Cheryl Holland both went down around an hour south of me, in the Chattanooga area.

-The Underwood sisters, another Lost Loves story, centered around a farm in Madisonville, which is in Monroe County, one county south of where I grew up outside Knoxville. This is also where the Joe Shepherd case happened in Tellico Plains.

-Finally, in the Marlena Childress segment, there is a reenactment of a sighting of her in a store in Lenoir City, TN (which Stack shockingly correctly pronounces), which was at the time a very small town and the one in which I grew up and lived for over 20 years. That store was the local Wal-Mart, which has expanded and since relocated twice.

The robbery of the Cawood family (which might have been a season 7 or 8 segment) also occurred in the same county.


http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Cawood_Burglary

Finally got a hold of the last 4 seasons. That one is part of Season 9 (Ep. 3 - at least at Tubi TV)

A few have taken place in and around my hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
One of the prostitutes found murdered in the 1980s was found at a truck stop 14 miles east of where I live right now, off I-70 at Ohio 37 in Licking County. My dad used to take that exact exit going to work at the Air Force base in Heath.
My hometown paper, the Columbus Dispatch, was featured prominently in that segment with former reporter Michael Berens.
Westerville, a suburb of Columbus where Tony Lombardo was killed, is about the same distance north of me.
Circleville, home of the famous letters segment, is about 25 miles south of me.
Another one, I can't remember for the life of me but I know it took place in Columbus over a period of years.

Silver Spring Maryland

The only case that I can recall happening in my hometown was the Keith Warren case, which is really a bizarre one.

For those that don't remember, this was the story about the teenager about to start college that was found hanged in the woods and initially ruled a suicide with no proper autopsy or investigation performed. His family suspected that something else happened, which was basically confirmed when an envelop was mailed to his mom containing crime scene photos of Keith hanging and Mark Finlay (someone who was frantically looking for Keith prior to his death) dying, also under mysterious circumstances.

I don't know much about this case beyond what is featured in the UM segment, but it really felt like a rush job investigation by authorities because it didn't look like a clear cut suicide to me.

I was born and raised in southern Ohio. Perman Gilbert was found murdered in Brown County which is just one county over from where I was raised. It was before my time though. I now live in Lansing, Michigan where "Drummond's Dollars" (Henry Drummond-- the old guy that lived frugally in the YMCA and when he died they searched for an heir to his estate)) took place.

So I have moved around my whole life but I spent most of my time in North Texas.

I used to live between Cincinnati and Dayton off of IH 75. I had a friend that lived in the county that Perman lived in. I even spent some time in that area of the supermarket that was shown in the segment, but I don't know if it is still there?....I believe it is Maysville KY on the south side of the ohio river.

I used to drive in a circle from Cincinnati area to Columbus and Dayton and often thought about the Ohio Trucker case.

In my Texas hometown area it is Patsy Wright about a mile or so from where I once lived, but I did not move to Arlington until 1990 after she was killed. I lived in Arlington when Robert Stack haunted me by saying the IH 70 Killer was last seen in Arlington and was connected to a murder there.

The Roxanne Jeeves case also haunts me because I often have driven in that area. I also worked at Carswell Air Base in Fort Worth near where Michael Martin was living at the time of his alleged robbery. I lived in the same area that Tara Breckinridge's car was found in SW Houston in 1989-1990. talk about a scary place to live...(SW Houston)


I lived in Phoenix for four years and while I lived there someone got exposed for attaching glow lamps to air balloons....and not UM related, but the baseline killer haunted phoenix while I lived there. no doubt it would have been an UM segment if it was still on the air.


Now I live in the same county as the Rendlesham Forrest Incident. I plan on visiting that area soon. I also went to the Ardennes Forrest in Belgium because I have a slight obsession with the Battle of the Bulge thanks to having a family member that served there as well as the UM segment.

Texan, I lived fairly close to where Tara Breckenridge's car was found on the 610 West Loop for several months in 2007. I lived closer to the pool hall where Wayne Heckert was playing that night. I don't know exactly where that pool hall is, but judging from the map it's pretty close to my old house, maybe 2-3 miles away. Looked like it was off Antoine Drive or nearby. I lived with my former girlfriend off Little York near the old Inwood Forest course for a time.
If the location in the segment was where the car was found, looked to me like it was between I-10 and 290. Drove that stretch of the West Loop many times.

Texan, I lived fairly close to where Tara Breckenridge's car was found on the 610 West Loop for several months in 2007. I lived closer to the pool hall where Wayne Heckert was playing that night. I don't know exactly where that pool hall is, but judging from the map it's pretty close to my old house, maybe 2-3 miles away. Looked like it was off Antoine Drive or nearby. I lived with my former girlfriend off Little York near the old Inwood Forest course for a time.
If the location in the segment was where the car was found, looked to me like it was between I-10 and 290. Drove that stretch of the West Loop many times.

I wonder if that pool hall is still there? And the gentlemans club? I think Houston is notorious for that type of entertainment. I always cringe in the segment when Tara's supporter says that "she really wasn't that type of person to work at a place like that, she just did it for the money" as if people go to work there for free? Anyway the only place near that area that I used to go to is passing through on the 610 and I went to the Galleria a handful of times.

that sounds right(in regards to where the car was found). My cousin lives in the Fondren neighbourhood (near Fondren and U.S. 90/Sam Houston Tollway). I still go there to visit as much as possible. Her neighbourhood is good.

I always love seeing the Transco tower in the background when they show that segment. I think they changed the name to the "Williams" tower and now maybe to something else. when I was a kid I used to get so pumped to drive by it. I even begged my mom and dad to take me to the top. I used to live in some apartments off of Bissonnette avenue near Bayland Park where Bissonnette and Beachnut cross. maybe it was just the apartment complexes that were bad. all of them in that area have a notorious history of criminal activity. Ironically the year that I lived in Houston(1989) was the year that I first started watching UM.

Texan here. Las cruces is a little less than an hour away so the bowling alley masacre. Duncan Gilmore was stationed here in Ft Bliss, there was another case where I can’t remember their names. A man(I believe he was from Pakistan maybe?) kidnapped his daughter who was in beauty pageants & took off to another country with her. The mom was looking for her & did eventually find her. They lived here (El Paso, TX). Also, Craig Williamson mightve stopped here too since his credit cards were used here lol

Texan here. Las cruces is a little less than an hour away so the bowling alley masacre. Duncan Gilmore was stationed here in Ft Bliss, there was another case where I can’t remember their names. A man(I believe he was from Pakistan maybe?) kidnapped his daughter who was in beauty pageants & took off to another country with her. The mom was looking for her & did eventually find her. They lived here (El Paso, TX). Also, Craig Williamson mightve stopped here too since his credit cards were used here lol

how far away from Marfa are you? that is probably my favourite segment that was shot in Texas. no crime involved and I like the production.

The now 40 year old disappearance of pilot Frederick Valentich took place in my city. Apart from that case, nothing else.

how far away from Marfa are you? that is probably my favourite segment that was shot in Texas. no crime involved and I like the production.


Marfa is about 3 hrs away? I’ve always wanted to go & see if the lights are real

Marfa is about 3 hrs away? I’ve always wanted to go & see if the lights are real

same here and never been....def plan to go some day.

I want to go to Marfa too. Even if there were no lights to see, I'm fascinated by it because it literally seems to be a town in the absolute middle of nowhere.

My best friend in nursing school was from a SMALL town in west Texas, and she said the closest sizeable city was San Angelo, the site of the Shane Stewart and Sally McNelly murders. I feel like I passed a few exits for highways heading out that way when I drove to and from Arizona years ago--and definitely passed through El Paso and Las Cruces on those trips.

That's on my bucket list for sure.
An aunt and uncle who live in Houston went out that way a few years ago and were disappointed. I meant to go when I lived in Texas several years ago but Marfa is 500 or so miles west of Houston. Still, next time I go to Texas I want to road trip out there and see what I can see.

I want to go to Marfa too. Even if there were no lights to see, I'm fascinated by it because it literally seems to be a town in the absolute middle of nowhere.

My best friend in nursing school was from a SMALL town in west Texas, and she said the closest sizeable city was San Angelo, the site of the Shane Stewart and Sally McNelly murders. I feel like I passed a few exits for highways heading out that way when I drove to and from Arizona years ago--and definitely passed through El Paso and Las Cruces on those trips.
I watched a video that showed the lights and a local resident made the comment that the people were lucky because they are usually not visible. I would love to go look. I've also heard that Marfa is a great town to visit...and that's coming from people who do not care about UM or the lights.

My step dad has a hunting cabin and some land in that area near San Angelo about 1 hour SouthWest. I guess UM geography puts it in between the Devil's Backbone and Marfa.

I watched a video that showed the lights and a local resident made the comment that the people were lucky because they are usually not visible. I would love to go look. I've also heard that Marfa is a great town to visit...and that's coming from people who do not care about UM or the lights.

My step dad has a hunting cabin and some land in that area near San Angelo about 1 hour SouthWest. I guess UM geography puts it in between the Devil's Backbone and Marfa.

This term has made my entire day.

This term has made my entire day.

that's awesome. your "first off eddie don't got that much education" made my day when you posted that. I was actually laughing at loud when I read that. hope you are doing well.

We have the UM picture locations thread, but imagine if someone marked on a map every single UM location in the US. It would be covered and I'm sure a lot of us would come up with a travel bucket list :lol:

I grew up and still live in Byron, IL, the same town where Jim Boumgarden lived; his son was in my graduating class. I also attended college in Monmouth, IL, which is about 30 minutes away from Galesburg where Danny Williams lived and died.

Joe Sheppard was hiding in my city.

We have the UM picture locations thread, but imagine if someone marked on a map every single UM location in the US. It would be covered and I'm sure a lot of us would come up with a travel bucket list :lol:

If you live in the state of Florida alone it would be covered. If I had to guess, I'd say Florida was home to the most UM cases. Many horrible things happened there.

Driving through the state a few years ago, every time I saw a sign for a city, I could think of a UM case tied to it.

If you live in the state of Florida alone it would be covered. If I had to guess, I'd say Florida was home to the most UM cases. Many horrible things happened there.

Driving through the state a few years ago, every time I saw a sign for a city, I could think of a UM case tied to it.
I see that there is a UM global map on the official website, but I don't believe it includes every story. One noticeable absence is Charles Shelton, unless I'm missing it. Still, the ones it does include pretty much cover the map of the US! You're right that there are a ton in Florida, but California has quite a few as well (though that's not surprising from the most populous state).

https://unsolved.com/map/

I'm surprised to see there is nothing on the map from the Eastern part of Canada with the exception of Gander, and that's only because it is an American case that resulted in the death of hundreds of American soldiers. I did get the chance to visit the crash site and it was absolutely beautiful: very difficult to imagine anything bad happening there.

Only 1 in NH, couple in Massachusetts though.

Only 1 in NH, couple in Massachusetts though.

That map is missing a ton of cases. The majority of the Connecticut River Valley killer's victims were killed in New Hampshire.

And my home state of Michigan, there are many memorable cases missing.

That map is missing a ton of cases. The majority of the Connecticut River Valley killer's victims were killed in New Hampshire.

And my home state of Michigan, there are many memorable cases missing.

I wonder if there is a map that is more accurate than that.

Joe Sheppard was hiding in my city.

That is so crazy because I just back from vacation in London, Ontario! I had seen this segment before going and knew how he was caught somewhere in Ontario where he had been living for 15-years but I never made the connection until I was rewatching the segment for the first time in a couple years last week, then read the wiki again and saw he was hiding in London, Ontario! I couldn't believe it.

London (in Canada) is such a quaint town. Idlewyld is a great place to stay.

Not a bad place to hide-out considering it's one of the first cities within an hour of the border.

I live in Royersford PA right down the street where Lauren Jackson disappeared. I pass that intersection all the time.

FWIW, Unsolved Mysteries has a map on their website, showing the location of a lot of cases. Here (https://unsolved.com/map/) it is.

I grew up in a tiny Pennsylvania town less than an hour away from where the Rainboy case was. In fact, my schoolbus daily drove past the jail whose exterior was used in the footage in the second half of the episode. Not sure if they shot in the interior, my father would know as he worked for the county later on afterwards. I remember asking him about this case, and I think he vaguely knew of one of the participants, but he didn't know anything about the case itself - in fact, I hadn't heard about it growing up until I saw it on the original broadcast when I was still in junior high or high school.

FWIW, Unsolved Mysteries has a map on their website, showing the location of a lot of cases. Here (https://unsolved.com/map/) it is.

woah that's amazing. I have to make it over to have a look at that RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge UFO.

The church burning down in Ocala,FL,my middle school was right in front of it (behind the cameras).u got to school that day the 7th and 8th graders hung out in the courtyard between buildings,that day everyone was crowded together near the edge of the campus watching it burn down and the fire company trying to put it to it,ashes from hymn books,bibles,and stuff,were in the air landing all over campus,it was surreal.

My mom works in Ridley Park. I live very close by. It was shown in the Padre Pio segment. Paul and Betty Walsh experienced a miracle when "uncle Charley" healed Paul after a car accident

https://pivot.today/2017/10/miracle-recipient-ridley-park-pays-homage-saint-saved/

Angela Hammond bout 40 miles from here
KC firefighters maybe 10 miles away
Don Dixon body found in the cave right in my home town
Kenneth mcduff also lived in my hometown for awhile
Sharon Kinney killed her lovers wife and hid her body were my grade school was later built. My grandfather was lead investigator that brought murder charges on her