I was gonna call this thread "Unintentionally funny cases", but I thought better of it as I realized that the cases themselves are really no laughing matter, but the way those cases are re-enacted can sometimes be a source of humor, either through actions or dialogue. Here are some of my picks.

Sammy Wheeler
Liz Carmichael
Bonnie Wilder
Josephine White
Adam Hecht (his family seemed so high falutin, you can't help but be amused.)
Audrey Moate (the redneck couple made me laugh a little. The woman reminded me of a backwoods version of Roseanne Barr in the 80's :lol: )
Gilbert Ortiz (Sadly, his wife probably thought the story about the masked man and the little boy over very carefully. Imagine if she wasn't even trying!)

Any others?

What about the fat cowboy who claimed his ranch was haunted?

There was one that Awsi Dooger (for those of you who remember him) used to have as his avatar. It was from the Charlotte Polis segment. Apparently, somewhere in the segment, Paul takes his kids out for hamburgers from the drive-thru and the camera pans to one of the kids in the backseat holding his hamburger with this totally blissful look on his face. It's hysterical.

There was one that Awsi Dooger (for those of you who remember him) used to have as his avatar. It was from the Charlotte Polis segment. Apparently, somewhere in the segment, Paul takes his kids out for hamburgers from the drive-thru and the camera pans to one of the kids in the backseat holding his hamburger with this totally blissful look on his face. It's hysterical.

I remember that jerk. :lol:

Nice timing, CRicci. I wandered back here tonight after reading about the Clark Rockefeller situation on another board. Surreal. I knew you guys would have the best info with convenient access.

Gad, and UM is going to resume on Spike? I hadn't heard that. It's been a year since I watched anything about true crime. My mom nearly died of a diabetic coma on Christmas Eve and I spent 6 months in Miami helping her recover.

Congrats on the lawyering. How many cases have you blown?

Audrey Moate (the redneck couple made me laugh a little. The woman reminded me of a backwoods version of Roseanne Barr in the 80's :lol: )

"I don't want 'dem kids around here. I don't want 'em under foot." :lol:

I nominate the haunted house segment from Florida with the young obese kid married to the young girl who got possessed and attacked him.

Some of Missy Munday's mother's lines were amusing. Not to mention the update where Jerry Strickland was captured. He was talking about all they had against them was "circlestantive" evidence...:lol:

Some of Missy Munday's mother's lines were amusing. Not to mention the update where Jerry Strickland was captured. He was talking about all they had against them was "circlestantive" evidence...:lol:

Haha I agree, CD! "Not let nobody put her down, she wasn't no whore..." LOL, classic!! :lol: :crazy:

My vote is for Lathan Williams' interview... ya know what I'm sayin'?

I remember that jerk. :lol:

Nice timing, CRicci. I wandered back here tonight after reading about the Clark Rockefeller situation on another board. Surreal. I knew you guys would have the best info with convenient access.

Gad, and UM is going to resume on Spike? I hadn't heard that. It's been a year since I watched anything about true crime. My mom nearly died of a diabetic coma on Christmas Eve and I spent 6 months in Miami helping her recover.

Congrats on the lawyering. How many cases have you blown?

Welcome back Awsi! Sorry to hear about your mother. How is she doing now?

I have to order volumes 15 & 16 of crystaldawn's ever-expanding series, so I can discuss the most --- heh heh heh --- "recent" cases.

"I don't want 'dem kids around here. I don't want 'em under foot." :lol:

I nominate the haunted house segment from Florida with the young obese kid married to the young girl who got possessed and attacked him.

Darn, I was just about to post that! I agree, that was the funniest segment ever!

It made me laugh when this heavyset guy had sex with this hot female ghost and he said he was disturbed by the experiance.:p In the same episode, another woman was possessed and started acting hysterical, laughing irrationally. It was more humorous than disturbing.

Oh, yeah! Allen and his "possessed" wife. That was unintentionally hysterical.

Yes, Awsi. Welcome back. Hope your mom is on the mend.... and I've blown more cases than I care to admit. :) (Not true. Actually had my first solo jury trial and got the judge to dismiss it because the prosecutors didn't abide by the rules of discovery. Pretty big first win, if I may say so myself. :D )

How many cases have you blown?

Eleven.

Ooooooh! Nevermind... you said "cases." My bad. :lol:

(Not true. Actually had my first solo jury trial and got the judge to dismiss it because the prosecutors didn't abide by the rules of discovery. Pretty big first win, if I may say so myself. :D )

Was that the one where the stupid prosecutors forgot to pick up their roll of film from Walgreens? ;)

Was that the one where the stupid prosecutors forgot to pick up their roll of film from Walgreens? ;)


That would be the one, sir. :)

DEFINITELY the Ghosts of Gettysburg. When that poor Gettysburg College employee saw a basement full of Civil War people gesturing him to join them, and started hitting every button in the elevator, we lost it! :lol:

I remember that jerk. :lol:

Nice timing, CRicci. I wandered back here tonight after reading about the Clark Rockefeller situation on another board. Surreal. I knew you guys would have the best info with convenient access.

I knew you'd be back, Awsi. It's a good thing you didn't post one of those long rambling diatribes about how you're retiring from the message board and how you give and give and give and what thanks do you get?? :) You certainly would have egg on your face now, wouldn't you? Okay, I'm going to shut up before CD slaps me. Anyway, welcome back!

Back on topic: I will always vote for the "gelatinous goo" segment b/c Robert Stack saying "gelatinous goo" is pure comedy gold. Also, the one about the woman who ran away with her boyfriend (I can't ever remember what crime they were suspected of) and her dad said she couldn't have gone voluntarily b/c she didn't take her makeup and hair products with her. Ha!!

Okay, I'm going to shut up before CD slaps me.



I'd be happy to nowheregirl... :schmack:

How about the woman in the Clarence Roberts segment that wiseguy had on his avatar for a while with that great wide eyed expression that talked about turning a light on and turning a light off.

The line in the Judy Olive segment where he told her their psychic centers were about to become one.

"I don't want 'dem kids around here. I don't want 'em under foot." :lol:

"Alright, make sure this is the last time, boy. Come on. And you better watch your manners. And don't talk that trash talk in my house."

Now that actress sounded hard. For real. :lol: :eek:

Oh and last but not least: "My father was a very mean person. He had no respect for nobody. And if you would come up to him and ask him anything, he wouldn't answer you; he would grab the gun, show it to you, and then tell you what the hell you want. And then, if he didn't like what you wanted or what you said, he would tell you 'Hit the road Jack'."

Some of the individuals interviewed throughout UM's run had such a way with words. :lol:

Some of the individuals interviewed throughout UM's run had such a way with words. :lol:

Although I don't remember his exact words, it seemed as if the man describing the shower ghost was particularly eloquent. :D

The guy who kept living in the hospitals, man in a coma.

Phillip the Prodigy cracks me up.

Kathy Page's dad: "They goofed the thang up! They ain't try to do nothin'! It's a buddy deal! You know what a buddy deal is? A buddy deal is when ya help ya friends get by with stuff!"

Although I don't remember his exact words, it seemed as if the man describing the shower ghost was particularly eloquent. :D

Something about the ghost didn't care if you are a man or a woman :happyface

Something about the ghost didn't care if you are a man or a woman :happyface

What I was thinking of was something along the lines of a spirit who missed certain of the good things in life. ;)

Although I don't remember his exact words, it seemed as if the man describing the shower ghost was particularly eloquent. :D

It's like a "no-holds-barred" thing with some of them; They're REALLY outspoken. But sometimes I just have to say, "What?" :confused: :D

The re-enactment of Michael Scott Martin's outburst at the supermarket is pretty funny. I like how the two bag boys followed him out of the store while wielding broomsticks.

In the Dorothy Allison segment with Detective Keith Wattenshetes Dorothy was kind of filmed to resemble a human bloodhound when she was there looking at the crime scene of Laurie Zimmerman with Detective Wattenshetes.

In the case of Rhonda Hinson, where Rhonda is being introduced, showing the last evening of her life at the office Christmas Party. Take a look at the actress portraying Rhonda while dancing with her colleague. The expression on her face looks so utterly DUMB...she looks like she can't count to three. I wonder if the director told her to "look happy, thoroughly enjoyed" and she messed it up?

I feel bad for saying this, but the hairpiece on Jeffrey Digman's father was distracting beyond description.

"Just by coincidence....just by coincidence" How can you forget Mr. Wheeler. I still don't know they could interview him with a straight face :lol:

I feel bad for saying this, but the hairpiece on Jeffrey Digman's father was distracting beyond description.

The best is when he leans over and explains the bullet trajectory. He's got this wild-eyed look, his finger pointed to his head, and his coonskin cap all discombobulated...its hilarious.

I laugh during the segment about the mentally challenged young man who was wrongly convicted of murder when the actor says, "..don't tell anyone, or I'm gonna beat ya up!" It sounds like dialogue from Lil Rascals or something.

The segment about the whack-o family who swears their Vietnam Vet son is alive and is still trying to contact them cracks me up when they duscuss the phone call to the dada bout his son's childhood babysitter. In the recreation they have the guy (who would be playing the son) sitting in a shadow, like that's how he would always be...partly shadowed, and then he gets all energetic when the dad answers correctly "YES!!". lol what the Hell was that phone call supposed to prove to the family anyway?

I chuckle at some of the Southernisms of the corageous and lucky guy who survived 4 days out on the water. "I dun swum till there wuddn't no swummin leff in me.."

Of course everyone remembers "you rissen crose...secon part riddew, easy solve...you unnastan dis?"

OH!! The lady I laught at/hate is the psychic who recreates the moment someone was shot...'you shoooot meeee"

During the Stanley Gryszxzicxkx segment, I crack up when the woman is all alone in the kitchen, checking the window and the masked bandit breaks through the door. If you watch the woman close, she really gets scared ****less by the guy and jumps faster than she's moved in years.

During the Joe Owens segment, the lady who treats it like its her big break and really delivers her line in an overly theatrical way always makes me laugh.

"Haaaail Earth, mother of aaaall...Haaaail Earth, mother of aaaall."

I CAN'T NOT laugh at this sequence. It's from the Kurt McFall segment from the first season. The cult leader chants this, whilst black cats roam about the mindless meditators in the circle around him.

I don't think it was meant to be funny. But it was, boy. Nice 'stash on the guy too.

-The part of the Chad Mauer segment where te funeral home person says "We have his clothes and they were soiled." "Yes , would you like to see it." He says this flatly with no expression.

- the parent in the Joe Owens segment. After Joe explains Gladys is away she waves her hands (when will gladys come to seattle and resume her music lessons). The lady then gives a weird nod as if trying very hard (too hard) to show that she understands what Joe is saying

- The segment where the boys go on the murder spree. When they go to the house of the old man and his father, the boys spin some yarn about needing to use the phone. When the second kid pulls the gun on the man, the guy's expression is priceless. Also in that same segment, the guy explaining the shoe prints is hilarious.

The ENTIRE Ira Einhorn, especially when he chases Holly down the stairs.."You can just, just SPLIT!"

Did anybody else crack up during the C.W. Roddy segment when the gang member threatens to blow up her house and she asks "Are you gonna make sure I'm in it?"

The ENTIRE Ira Einhorn, especially when he chases Holly down the stairs.."You can just, just SPLIT!"

"This is my pad! " :lol:

"You found what you found" (This is what he actually said to police in real life)

BTW, Ira Einhorn was NOT the founder of Earth Day (though he liked to claim he was). The founder of earth day was Gaylord Nelson. On a side note, I think Einhorn should be made to watch videos of bon fires (with burnin tires and such) and made to eat meat every day (with pictures of the type of animal he is eating). People like Einhorn are generally repulsed by such thoughts.

Haha Corky, hilarious as usual. Also Awsi, welcome back. Most of what I thought was unintentionally funny has already been mentioned. Just the Sammy Wheeler segment in general, Bob, Pat and Danny all blaming each other for Sammy's murder when in fact it appears none of them did it. Bob got a big kick out of the whole thing: "I knew what I had and I was happy to pass it on, okay?"

"Anyone want to fight in here!". I always chuckle when I see that part of the Don Smith segment.

When Curtis Heck says they were "wrasslin' and dumb stuff" and that neither one was Mohammed Ali.

That was great, the funniest part is when the suspected murder comes into the bar before that though- it is like oh my God there is a black guy in our bar.


[QUOTE=killgas20]"Anyone want to fight in here!". I always chuckle when I see that part of the Don Smith segment.QUOTE]

Maybe it's just me, but I always thought the head appearing on the table at the General Wayne Inn was hilarious.

Maybe it's just me, but I always thought the head appearing on the table at the General Wayne Inn was hilarious.
Yeah, the eyes in the General Wayne head kill me...

The actor who portrayed Joe Smith cracked me up when he said, "I know who they are and I'm gonna kill them."

That was atrocious. :lol:


Oh and Chad Mauer's grandmother talking about how Wendy Camp was "bitchin' and moanin'".

Of course everyone remembers "you rissen crose...secon part riddew, easy solve...you unnastan dis?"

LMAO!! :lol:

The voiceover reading one of the letters in the Circleville segment was always kind of funny to me. The way the guy attempted to sound dark and ominous. "Ha." (Beat) "Ha."

The voiceover reading one of the letters in the Circleville segment was always kind of funny to me. The way the guy attempted to sound dark and ominous. "Ha." (Beat) "Ha."


REALLY?!? The voiceover in the Circleville Letters segment always creeps me out...especially the "Ha. (beat) Ha" part.

REALLY?!? The voiceover in the Circleville Letters segment always creeps me out...especially the "Ha. (beat) Ha" part.

It wasn't so funny the very first time I saw the segment at age 12 or so, but it got to be something of a giggling point for me later on. :)

"I don't want 'dem kids around here. I don't want 'em under foot." :lol:

I nominate the haunted house segment from Florida with the young obese kid married to the young girl who got possessed and attacked him.
That was histaricall and totally absurd.

It made me laugh when this heavyset guy had sex with this hot female ghost and he said he was disturbed by the experiance.:p In the same episode, another woman was possessed and started acting hysterical, laughing irrationally. It was more humorous than disturbing.

Actually, his young wife became possessed and sexually attacked him IIRC. That story takes the cake!

Totally. I also thought it was funny with the young man who could make it rain wherever he wanted. People were freaking out and I was like "whats the big deal? Hes possessed, yeah, but a little rain never hurt anybody."

"Anyone want to fight in here!". I always chuckle when I see that part of the Don Smith segment.


He then says "I can whip anyone here". That was priceless!

He then says "I can whip anyone here". That was priceless!

RS then says "when her father became biligerant..."

That description of the event made me chuckle as well.

this is really gross but i seem to remember one case where there was a murder and there was vomit on a blanket and the family members were fighting over weather it was the victims vomit or the family dog's vomit and what i laughed at was not the case itself but robert stack when he said in his deep voice. and 3 days later the vomit spots disappered .i never though i would hear robert stack talk about vomit for any reason bt it was good for a laugh even a grossout one

I laugh during the segment about the mentally challenged young man who was wrongly convicted of murder when the actor says, "..don't tell anyone, or I'm gonna beat ya up!" It sounds like dialogue from Lil Rascals or something.

:lol:

Yeah, the Johnny Lee Wilson re-enactment is pretty funny. what's even funnier is when his grandma calls him a homeboy (I think she meant homebody). Everytime she says that, I picture that old lady (in her sweater )wearing the hat from the gretchen burford segment on her head-turned sideways- saying "homeboy". "You tell anubody and I'm gonna beat you up." LOL

I also like when Stack says "Gary Wall took a total of 6 lie detector tests. He failed all but one."



I think the JD Method re-enactment is funny, especially the face he makes when he says "I'll pay you right back."

Also, the faces made by "Roberto" during the Spanish Lotto segment are funny (especially afte rhe makes the alleged phone call to verify the ticket is worth $300,000.

I like the part in the Jesse James Hollywood re-enactment when he's pressing Ben Markowitz for a payment and says rhetorically "What having you been smoking?!?"

I always think, the dope you sold him a week ago...?

I laughed at loud during the Ohio Prostitutes case when one of the victims Anna Marie was opening the door into the passenger seat of the truck. The trucker (his apparent CB name was Dr. No) asks her if she was "Sleeping Beauty" (her CB name).

She then uttered to him, "My god, its freezing out there!!" and the trucker responded, "Don't you worry, I'll WARM YOU UP!!!"

LOLLLLLLLLL

I laughed at loud during the Ohio Prostitutes case when one of the victims Anna Marie was opening the door into the passenger seat of the truck. The trucker (his apparent CB name was Dr. No) asks her if she was "Sleeping Beauty" (her CB name).

She then uttered to him, "My god, its freezing out there!!" and the trucker responded, "Don't you worry, I'll WARM YOU UP!!!"

LOLLLLLLLLL

I forgot about that one! That one I rewind a few times bc it is hysterical. I love the part of the reenactment when "Sleeping Beauty" in on the CB calling out for a "customer". The faces she and her friend give each other, plus her climbing into that 18 wheeler with the little high heels during a Midwest winter is too funny.

How about the Brushy Bill/Billy the Kid reenactment with the voice giving the narration? Sounds like someone is reading a script while taking a # 2.

I forgot about that one! That one I rewind a few times bc it is hysterical. I love the part of the reenactment when "Sleeping Beauty" in on the CB calling out for a "customer". The faces she and her friend give each other, plus her climbing into that 18 wheeler with the little high heels during a Midwest winter is too funny.

Hell yea dude. I can't believe how UM went about reenacting that. The actors must have had a good laugh out of it.

And I wonder if UM came up with that crafty CB name for Anna Marie. Only the truckers or prostitutes would know what Anna Marie's actual CB name was, and I'm sure that they didn't interview any potential part of the prostitute ring for this case. That is hilarious if the writing team for UM actually came up with the CB name "Sleeping Beauty" for the reenactment.

This wasn't in the re-enactment but I love the update on the Kay Beemen story. the owner of the Motor Inn is hilarious when he describes watching UM and seeing the two people who are staying in his motel. The part where he says "oh Oh" is great.

"Susan, you're being bad again."

Something that I found quite funny was actually part of an update. Two people were watching UM with their new neighbor and it turned out that HE was featured on the program. They interviewed the people later and the lady was talking about how she said to the man, "Wow, that guy looks an awful lot like you!" and stuff like that. Then he went into the kitchen or something and was pacing around, and they stayed there with him! I'm sorry, but I would have been running out of the house screaming at that point. I can't remember who it was though ...

That's actually happened more than once. Once, the guy said, "Everyone has a twin." The second time I know of, the guy wanted to change the channel, but the friends wouldn't let him.... LOL.

The second time I know of, the guy wanted to change the channel, but the friends wouldn't let him.... LOL.

Yeah, that's the one! Thank you! I wish I could remember who it was, though. I was thinking it might have been the guy who murdered Ethel Kidd.

But seriously, who just sits there knowing there's a murderer in the room with them? I would have wet my pants!

I'll use the one I put in another thread...

The detective in the Joe Owens case talking about how Owens would go on and on about his compost box...

"He'd talk about how nice his compost box was, how he was in love with his compost box."

The detective had a latin accent and it sounded funny how he said "in love."

Something that I found quite funny was actually part of an update. Two people were watching UM with their new neighbor and it turned out that HE was featured on the program. They interviewed the people later and the lady was talking about how she said to the man, "Wow, that guy looks an awful lot like you!" and stuff like that. Then he went into the kitchen or something and was pacing around, and they stayed there with him! I'm sorry, but I would have been running out of the house screaming at that point. I can't remember who it was though ...

Yeah......me personally, I do not judge. But when the person doesn't laugh off the comment and instead becomes a hermit in the kitchen, many light bulbs would be going on in my head.

I guess what my grandfather says is true. Some people aren't born with the common sense that God gave the common dog.

JD method. Even the guy they get to portray him looks sleazy. I love when he says "I'll pay you right back".

Yeah......me personally, I do not judge. But when the person doesn't laugh off the comment and instead becomes a hermit in the kitchen, many light bulbs would be going on in my head.

I guess what my grandfather says is true. Some people aren't born with the common sense that God gave the common dog.


Dennis Keith Smith

This recurring voice-over from Robert Stack always makes me snicker because technology has evolved so much since back in the days. This was after (I imagine) they discountinued the 1-800 number.

"If you have any information about this case, please WRITE to Unsolved Mysteries at PO BOX NUMBER ..."

Write to?

Hmm, then expect swift and effective action from the authorities to track down the perp when we get your precious tip (expect delivery of letter to take up to 10 to 15 business days). :p

I've probably posted this in a separate thread but it will be interesting to see how they tie-in the new technologies with the format.

This recurring voice-over from Robert Stack always makes me snicker because technology has evolved so much since back in the days. This was after (I imagine) they discountinued the 1-800 number.

"If you have any information about this case, please WRITE to Unsolved Mysteries at PO BOX NUMBER ..."

Write to?

Hmm, then expect swift and effective action from the authorities to track down the perp when we get your precious tip (expect delivery of letter to take up to 10 to 15 business days). :p

I've probably posted this in a separate thread but it will be interesting to see how they tie-in the new technologies with the format.


Another example is the story of the countess of cleveland./ her friend says "...and it's not every day where you see somebody, no matter where they are, carrying a telephone."

Now, almost everybody I know has a cell phone (including some clowns who I wish really didn't have them)

Another example is the story of the countess of cleveland./ her friend says "...and it's not every day where you see somebody, no matter where they are, carrying a telephone."

Now, almost everybody I know has a cell phone (including some clowns who I wish really didn't have them)

That's so true. That part really made me laugh. I can imagine that in the next batch of segments, we might have a few photos of the perps snapped using a cell phone. Wow, that lady would have flipped if she could ever imagine how everyone has access to technology like that ....:D

Speaking of the MegaDeath guy, I always found it bizarre that this guy, who might have just committed a murder, is telling the woman at the counter that she shouldn't smoke.

Brad Bishop in the gents, all he had to say was you are mistaken & walk out.

Instead he runs the risk of being arrested by shouting nonsense & running away.

My vote is for Lathan Williams' interview... ya know what I'm sayin'?

I agree. I cracked up every time I saw that segment. It is sad though that his child was found but Lathan is prison right now and the child is being raised by Daphne's family. I really doubt Lathan will have a relationship with his child. Lathan admitted to having a relationship with the girl who took the baby.

It is sad though that his child was found but Lathan is prison right now and the child is being raised by Daphne's family. I really doubt Lathan will have a relationship with his child. Lathan admitted to having a relationship with the girl who took the baby.

Is Lathan in prison for anything related to Daphne's murder, or some other reason? It certainly seems he withheld information, if he knew the people involved and didn't come forward at the time.

Is Lathan in prison for anything related to Daphne's murder, or some other reason?

No, it was for armed robbery. Here's an article I found concerning him and also Daphne's murder:

HIP-HOP, MURDER & KIDNAP:

In 1996, Lathan Williams a.k.a. ‘Young Lay’ (pictured above) was on the fast track to rap stardom. He was celebrating the success of a hit single and an upcoming album featuring the already legendary Tupac Shakur. Lay and Tupac also had the same manager, Leila Steinberg.

Lay’s career took off when his single ‘All About My Feeti,’ appeared on volume one of the ‘New Jersey Drive’ soundtrack in 1995. The soundtrack linked Lay to more established names on the East Coast rap scene, Biggie, Queen Latifah and Outkast. The record went gold and Lay signed on with Atlantic Records.

Just when his career seemed to be taking off, a gunshot wound to the head left him in a coma. He was shot while traveling in the passenger seat of a car in Vallejo, Ca. Lay would emerge from the coma after two weeks and fully recover. It was the second time Lay had been shot. He had been shot in the back when he was younger.

Lay would also plead no contest and was fined $170 for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. A month later, the D.A. charged him with felony drug possession for which he was convicted on put on probation.

A few months later, police reported finding three rocks of cocaine weighing just over a half of gram in Lay’s mouth. He pleaded not guilty and posted the $7,500 in bail to get out of jail. While out on probation, he was cited for possessing an open container of alcohol in a car. He was sentenced to five years probation and one year in jail and required to complete a drug treatment program.

Later that year, Lay would become a new father, in April of that year, his girlfriend Daphne Boyden gave birth to their son, Le-Zhan.

A month later in May, Daphne Boyden was shot and burned to death by two 15-year old fellow high school students and her baby was kidnapped.

Police theorized, someone set fire to Daphne’s corpse to cover up the crime.

Six years later, acting on an anonymous tip, Vallejo police recovered Le-Zhan Williams, the son of Young Lay. Police arrested 22-year old Latasha Brown (murder and kidnap) and her cousin Ocianetta Williams (murder and kidnap) and Latasha’s mother Delores Ann Brown (for aiding and abetting).

The police say Latasha Brown had a forged birth certificate, claiming she was Le-Zhan’s mother. Police suspect Brown’s aunt, a Texas nurse, may have altered the birth certificate.

According to witness testimony, Daphne Boyden was nursing her infant son when Latasha Brown leaned over the couch, hugged her good-bye and shot her.

Although the police say there is no clear motive in the case, they suspect a connection between Latasha Brown and the baby’s father (Young Lay). There’s some speculation that Brown had a relationship with the father Lathan Williams and that she had been jealous of Daphne Boyden’s relationship and the fact that she had a child with him, especially with ‘Young Lay’ being famous, and her intent was to take the child away.

After DNA confirmed Le-Zhan’s identity, he was reunited with his family.

Latasha Brown was convicted and sentenced to 37 years to life in prison.

Ocianetta Williams was convicted and sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Delores Brown received a year in jail in 2003 for helping to conceal the kidnapped child.

Sadly, ‘Young Lay’s’ career derailed when increasing problems with the law landed him in state prison in Susanville with a 12-year sentence for armed robbery.

Oh god, I'm glad I've returned to the messageboard and I'm glad I'm not the only one who have found re-enactments unintentionally funny. Here's my top 5:

1. Susan, "you're being bad again."

2. The fat kidnapper who had to write down the instructions, and lost them in the parking garage. He also nearly gave away his identify to the CEO by asking if who would cover for him when he wasn't at work and then left him in a field and got no money. Crystal, can you help identify this one? I saw it on your DVD's and totally forgot about it and almost died laughing. Was there ever an update?

3. The guy who claimed Bigfoot chased him through the woods.

4. The guy who needed to a flight so bad he jumped on the back of a plane in flight. The actor playing him was so dead on. Was there ever an update in this case and does anyone know which segment I'm talking about?

5. The non-English speaking guy who saw a murder in the fields in Florida and said the body was buried behind a building that looked like an ice cream cone. What the heck?!?!?!

2. The fat kidnapper who had to write down the instructions, and lost them in the parking garage. He also nearly gave away his identify to the CEO by asking if who would cover for him when he wasn't at work and then left him in a field and got no money. Crystal, can you help identify this one? I saw it on your DVD's and totally forgot about it and almost died laughing. Was there ever an update?

4. The guy who needed to a flight so bad he jumped on the back of a plane in flight. The actor playing him was so dead on. Was there ever an update in this case and does anyone know which segment I'm talking about?



The man who was kidnapped was John Grundhofer. As far as I know the kidnapper was never caught.

Yes the man who jumped off the plane was identified as Brian Stanley Deucker. Apparently he suffered from schizophrenia. Here is an article:

http://www.wfn.org/1999/08/msg00053.html

Oh gosh, reading through these has made me laugh!

The "just bah Co-Wince-EH-Dence" case!

Man I wanted to slap the smirk right off that ex husband's arrogant smug pie hole!

"He was really in love with me"

"Aw NO Way man, because she was gunna marry wit muh brother, and that would make her like mah sister, that would be incest, and we in mah fahm-lee don't go in for that sorta thang!"

Is he really sure about that???

That whole bunch made the Beverly Hillbillies look like English Royalty!

And THEN to have it proven that that poor dude's death really just a random act of violence by a stranger.

I can easily picture the film crew wrapping up, and while driving back to their hotel unanimously deciding NOT to edit any of the footage out!

Then, Franklyn Floyd proclaiming, "If YEW all knew the TROOOOOOTH, ya'll 'ud pin a MEDDDDAL on me!"

yeah, they'd pin something to him all right.

3. The guy who claimed Bigfoot chased him through the woods.

That guy was very much unintentionally funny.

thanks for the info crystal!

Another one was a lady looking for her something like 9 or 10 brothers and sisters after they'd been split up when their father had murdered their mother.

Toward the beginning of the segment, it shows the family, which the girl describes as "typically Leave it to Beaver", all sitting down to dinner.
What made me laugh was, after saying grace, the father starts dishing out spaghetti, but doesn't put any sauce on it, and just gives the kids the plates of plain noodles.

One poor kid only gets about 4 noodles on his plate, and acts euphoric to get that. (ACT, Jimmy, ACT!!!)

Apparently Dad was a real peach when sober, but a monster when drunk.

Another one was a lady looking for her something like 9 or 10 brothers and sisters after they'd been split up when their father had murdered their mother.

Toward the beginning of the segment, it shows the family, which the girl describes as "typically Leave it to Beaver", all sitting down to dinner.
What made me laugh was, after saying grace, the father starts dishing out spaghetti, but doesn't put any sauce on it, and just gives the kids the plates of plain noodles.

One poor kid only gets about 4 noodles on his plate, and acts euphoric to get that. (ACT, Jimmy, ACT!!!)

Apparently Dad was a real peach when sober, but a monster when drunk.

I remember that. That was the James Vest(sp?) family. He was a nasty drunk. His wife Wanda left him after 17 years. When she was working as a barmaid one night, her soon to be former hubby came to her work and shot her.

I always thought the beginning of that segment was funny. Sad story, but that part was a bit amusing.

I can't remember the episode, but it was the one where the man killed his girlfriend while her mom/aunt (I'm not clear on this part, either) went out to buy smokes, then tried to kill mom/aunt when she got back. Of course, we'll all remember this line from when mom/aunt recalled the attack...

"...and I heard that ol' bowlin' ball roll...."

Hliarious quote from the Circleville Writer segment:

"Everyone assumed that with Paul behind bars, the letters would stop. Everyone...was wrong."

I can't remember the episode, but it was the one where the man killed his girlfriend while her mom/aunt (I'm not clear on this part, either) went out to buy smokes, then tried to kill mom/aunt when she got back. Of course, we'll all remember this line from when mom/aunt recalled the attack...

"...and I heard that ol' bowlin' ball roll...."


Oh the bowling ball one!

now I didn't laugh at that part, but what struck me as funny was when the girl's sisters met the boyfriend for the first time.

The scene showed them all right after they met him, and they were all giggly, and they they cut to the real sister saying how happy her sister was........

"because he had a CAR and a JOB!"
(never mind the car was a rusted out rattle trap, and his job was smearing tomato sauce on pizza dough - oh yeah, her future was definitely set!)

Oh yeah, those are the two biggest qualities mom always told us to look for in a man!

one of my favorite unitentionally funny moments is the one with gregory webb. when the other office asks him "have you too ever been intimate" and he says no and then the look on his face when he sips his coffee and then he asks him again and he so easily gives up and says yes. it makes me crack up everytime i see it.

Wasn't there one where a man got along unusually well with his wife's best friend? Then they came to find out that both were adopted and she was actually his sister! He was shown saying, "It's a good thing I met my wife first, or things coulda been interesting."

JD method. Even the guy they get to portray him looks sleazy. I love when he says "I'll pay you right back".

That actor was a class-act. He was PERFECT for that part. I thought it was funny when he said "chili beans".

Another one was a lady looking for her something like 9 or 10 brothers and sisters after they'd been split up when their father had murdered their mother.

Toward the beginning of the segment, it shows the family, which the girl describes as "typically Leave it to Beaver", all sitting down to dinner.
What made me laugh was, after saying grace, the father starts dishing out spaghetti, but doesn't put any sauce on it, and just gives the kids the plates of plain noodles.

One poor kid only gets about 4 noodles on his plate, and acts euphoric to get that. (ACT, Jimmy, ACT!!!)

Apparently Dad was a real peach when sober, but a monster when drunk.

I'm glad they ended up finding the long-lost brother, Heath. I think Heath was a hottie!! :happyface

I nominate the haunted house segment from Florida with the young obese kid married to the young girl who got possessed and attacked him.

This is, hands down the best one ever. Alan Mann and the Lake Wales Haunting if my memory serves me correctly. His wife was an absolute riot. She was just...insanely cute/borderline county-ish. The entire reenactment had me crying from laughter.

Great nominee.

Oh god, I'm glad I've returned to the messageboard and I'm glad I'm not the only one who have found re-enactments unintentionally funny. Here's my top 5:

1. Susan, "you're being bad again."

2. The fat kidnapper who had to write down the instructions, and lost them in the parking garage. He also nearly gave away his identify to the CEO by asking if who would cover for him when he wasn't at work and then left him in a field and got no money. Crystal, can you help identify this one? I saw it on your DVD's and totally forgot about it and almost died laughing. Was there ever an update?

3. The guy who claimed Bigfoot chased him through the woods.

4. The guy who needed to a flight so bad he jumped on the back of a plane in flight. The actor playing him was so dead on. Was there ever an update in this case and does anyone know which segment I'm talking about?

5. The non-English speaking guy who saw a murder in the fields in Florida and said the body was buried behind a building that looked like an ice cream cone. What the heck?!?!?!

2 and 3 are my favorites...seriously. The guy "chased" by bigfoot...come on! That was insane. And that poor John Grundhofer case...the guy was totally not ready to rob someone. How in the heck to do ask the captive what you did with the list of instructions?!

and lol at 5...it was an ice cream store. At least they found the body!

What about the one involving the bank robber who wore cheesy disguises who hit about thirty banks in the U.S. and Canada? I remember them showing him escaping and hitting another car. He ditched the car, causing the guy in the car behind him to yell out "Hey!" and chase after him. That lasted about five seconds as the bank robber pointed a gun at him and jacked his car. I always remembered my brother's comment...

"Nice going, Mr. Lawman!"

What about the one involving the bank robber who wore cheesy disguises who hit about thirty banks in the U.S. and Canada? I remember them showing him escaping and hitting another car. He ditched the car, causing the guy in the car behind him to yell out "Hey!" and chase after him. That lasted about five seconds as the bank robber pointed a gun at him and jacked his car. I always remembered my brother's comment...

"Nice going, Mr. Lawman!"

I remember this one. He had a fetish about lolipops and ended up being busted at a Harvey's, of all places. This segment, as serious as it was, did give me more than one chuckle.

In the case of Wendy Camp and Cynthia Britto (and another woman, Lisa something), the ex-husband was telling how he had nothing to do with their disappearance, and how he didn't murder them or ever admit to it. Then he actually says that he might have admitted it "in one of his drunken stupors," but that he didn't mean it. What a winner!

Another one was, I think, the Lake Champlain monster. This woman was describing what she'd seen in the lake, and she lifted her arm to illustrate the neck of the monster, and it was just so silly. She looked like a puppeteer without a puppet.

I remember this one. He had a fetish about lolipops and ended up being busted at a Harvey's, of all places. This segment, as serious as it was, did give me more than one chuckle.

I remember the lollipops fetish too. Didn't he leave them behind at crime scenes?

I remember this one. He had a fetish about lolipops and ended up being busted at a Harvey's, of all places. This segment, as serious as it was, did give me more than one chuckle.

Yeah, that one was kind of a favorite of mine. Nobody dying or suffering.

Right. He kept leaving behind these big lollipops.

The whole "Wacker" episode. Comedic masterpiece, lol.

The whole "Wacker" episode. Comedic masterpiece, lol.

Whacked by a whacking Wacker wacko! :crazy:

The whole "Wacker" episode. Comedic masterpiece, lol. Yeah, I thought Mr. Wacker was going to shoot a random pedestrian due to paranoia when he ran out his front door with his gun. :lol:

Yeah, I thought Mr. Wacker was going to shoot a random pedestrian due to paranoia when he ran out his front door with his gun. :lol:

Oh, yeah. The look on his face when he was waving that gun back and forth. And remember that stakeout with the walkie-talkies? That was priceless.

And remember that stakeout with the walkie-talkies? That was priceless.


Mr. Wacker sitting in the camper in the driveway, peering stealthily out the window...


The smirk on Megadeth guy's face after he hands the witness the pack of cigarettes always makes me laugh.

Remember the segment with the murder of a pizza delivery girl and the Dallas psychic who said he saw her apparition in his bedroom just weeks before he was contacted by police in Oregon? I love the part when he talks about meeting the supposed killer: "He knew that I knew that he knew..."

And the chubby girl who was one of Missy Munday's classmates who suddenly starts speaking like a Valley Girl mid-sentence. Did anyone else notice that?

The smirk on Megadeth guy's face after he hands the witness the pack of cigarettes always makes me laugh.

"You know, you really shouldn't smoke." :cool:

There were a a few cases that were sort of funny to watch. One was about the lady dog trainer who name was Camilla later she started dressing as a man and later disappeared. The other case was funny was segment on a young deaf woman named Lucy who showed up in some town and she was dance around play hop skotch on sidewalks and she wore red boots.

There were a a few cases that were sort of funny to watch. One was about the lady dog trainer who name was Camilla later she started dressing as a man and later disappeared. The other case was funny was segment on a young deaf woman named Lucy who showed up in some town and she was dance around play hop skotch on sidewalks and she wore red boots.

The first one was about Camilla Lyman, her skull was found in a sewer close to her house. UM actually showed footage of her showing dogs, as a woman AND a man. Interesting.

The deaf woman was named "Lucy" and she was so giggly when she was drawing those pictures with the two social workers. I hope she has learned to speak English and is leading her own life now.

Did anyone think it was cool when Robert Stack said "rockers and bikers" in the segment on, I think his name was Lee Selwyn? For some reason that sticks in my mind.

Did anyone think it was cool when Robert Stack said "rockers and bikers" in the segment on, I think his name was Lee Selwyn? For some reason that sticks in my mind.

HAHAHA I do remember that!!! It cracked me up the first time I saw it.

HAHAHA I do remember that!!! It cracked me up the first time I saw it.

Yeah, the first time I nearly laughed, but then subsequent viewings when I was waiting for it, I dunno, he sorta savored the words.

The segment where the woman is raped in her apartment building by the maintenance man who lives in the basement. The case is not at all funny. The voice of the guy in the re-enactment is hysterical, however. "I was just cooking some soup in a can." "I'd like to borrow a frying pan.". He had that booming voice and articulated every syllable in that exaggerated manner.

Sorry to bump this ... in the John and Linda Sohus segment, when the investigators came to the house after the couple disappeared. John Sohus' mother says, in quite an exasperated tone, "They're not missing! They're on a secret mission!" And then the investigator says, "... okay ..." I swear I nearly lost it.

I crack up at this one, even though I feel a little bad about it:

"I guess you think you're pretty smart, don't you?"

"Well, maybe."

(gunshot)

... in the John and Linda Sohus segment, when the investigators came to the house after the couple disappeared. John Sohus' mother says, in quite and exasperated tone, "They're not missing! They're on a secret mission!" And then the investigator says, "... okay ..." I swear I nearly lost it.

I also thought it was funny when Robert Stack said describing the mother "by all means an alcoholic". It was so matter-of-fact.

I also thought it was funny when Robert Stack said describing the mother "by all means an alcoholic". It was so matter-of-fact.

:lol: Yeah! Only Robert Stack could get away with something like that. The way he would be all tongue-in-cheek about things, and sometimes looked and sounded like he thought the particular segment he was narrating was a load of crap (like the haunted house in Florida, for example)! He was the best.

Just caught the Eric Tamiyasu segment on Spike today and was disappointed to find a lot of Eric Smith's bits edited out. I thought that guy was hilarious. Those snarky faces he made, and the "He was just some guy he bought spray from" line.

Don Dixon -- always good for an unintentional laugh. The scary thing is that someone had actually married him.

I couldn't help but laugh when Anna Anton's friend said how Anna was sprinkling holy water around after hearing Greg Webb upstairs with another woman. Extra lols when the detective said Anna was known as a 'bar floozy'. It was the poker faced way that he said it.

Don Dixon -- always good for an unintentional laugh. The scary thing is that someone had actually married him.

I couldn't help but laugh when Anna Anton's friend said how Anna was sprinkling holy water around after hearing Greg Webb upstairs with another woman. Extra lols when the detective said Anna was known as a 'bar floozy'. It was the poker faced way that he said it.

My favorite part of that segment is the part where the detective asks, "Were you two intimate?" Webb sits there and gives a vehement "No!" then three seconds later hangs his head and gives an affirmative answer in this "ok, ya got me" sort of tone. I think someone already posted about it, but it's hilarious.

My husband cracked up at the truck driver under hypnosis in the Rhonda Hinson segment. "Is he even speaking English?!" he cried. I, however, being an East Tennessee native (our area and Western NC, where Rhonda lived, share a very similar accent and dialect) didn't even need to use the subtitles during the recording. :cool:

My husband cracked up at the truck driver under hypnosis in the Rhonda Hinson segment...:cool:

I laughed when he said describing the car he saw "looks like the front end's been messed up...it's in primer, it's gray". Really descriptive. :rolleyes:

Any and all footage of the Society for Creative Anachronism in the Kurt McFall segment---especially the ones of the "swordfight."

And of course, "Hail earth, mother of all...hail earth, mother of all..."

Just caught the Eric Tamiyasu segment on Spike today and was disappointed to find a lot of Eric Smith's bits edited out. I thought that guy was hilarious. Those snarky faces he made, and the "He was just some guy he bought spray from" line.

I agree! His bits were the best.....and the funniest. What he said made sense. Don Dixon sounded like a pathetic loaf looking for a friend. Sad indeed. Dixon did it. His man crush wasn't reciprocated and he killed Eric.

I agree! His bits were the best.....and the funniest. What he said made sense. Don Dixon sounded like a pathetic loaf looking for a friend. Sad indeed. Dixon did it. His man crush wasn't reciprocated and he killed Eric.

Oh yeah, I think Dixon's definitely the guilty party too. His testimony about happening upon Tamiyasu's body made me uneasy for a number of reasons:

A. His bit about "the smell" he'd "never smelled before" and that he "hoped was coming from the garbage" is suspicious to me. If he'd never smelled that particular odor before, why would he "hope it was coming from the garbage"? I always thought that was a weird thing to say.

B. His statement about "saying a prayer" over Tamiyasu's body. Perhaps this is a sweeping generalization, but I can't imagine too many people discovering the body of their week-long deceased friend and subsequently calming down and lingering around long enough to say a prayer. I can see perhaps a religious leader or cleric doing such, or someone that generally deals with death on a regular basis---but I just can't see an "average joe" like Don Dixon being able to maintain his composure, especially when I heard the recording of the 911 call where he sounds absolutely hysterical.

C. The melodrama. His words are so often infused with this dramaticism and sentimentalism that make him sound forced and difficult to completely believe.


If it didn't seem like half the things he said were total lies, I might feel sorry for the guy.

Oh yeah, I think Dixon's definitely the guilty party too. His testimony about happening upon Tamiyasu's body made me uneasy for a number of reasons:

A. His bit about "the smell" he'd "never smelled before" and that he "hoped was coming from the garbage" is suspicious to me. If he'd never smelled that particular odor before, why would he "hope it was coming from the garbage"? I always thought that was a weird thing to say.

B. His statement about "saying a prayer" over Tamiyasu's body. Perhaps this is a sweeping generalization, but I can't imagine too many people discovering the body of their week-long deceased friend and subsequently calming down and lingering around long enough to say a prayer. I can see perhaps a religious leader or cleric doing such, or someone that generally deals with death on a regular basis---but I just can't see an "average joe" like Don Dixon being able to maintain his composure, especially when I heard the recording of the 911 call where he sounds absolutely hysterical.

C. The melodrama. His words are so often infused with this dramaticism and sentimentalism that make him sound forced and difficult to completely believe.


If it didn't seem like half the things he said were total lies, I might feel sorry for the guy.

I agree. If I found my friend dead for a week, there is no way in hell that I would be composed enough to say a prayer. The funk alone would make me reeling.

I think the part in the sleepwalking segment where the girl runs full speed through the screen door and also into the wall were pretty funny. I LOL'ed when they showed them again in the new eps.

I think the part in the sleepwalking segment where the girl runs full speed through the screen door and also into the wall were pretty funny. I LOL'ed when they showed them again in the new eps.

I remember watching that segment with my brother during one of the Lifetime airings and he cracked up laughing.

I know I constantly bump this thread, but I can't help it. It's too good.

In the introduction to the segment about the two teenagers who went on a tri-state killing spree beginning in Texas in 1988, our late host is on the "police station" set. Instead of just standing there in the room at the beginning, though, the scene opens with an empty room, and then RS opens the door and immediately delves into introducing the case. I don't know why it's so funny, but it is. (Speaking of that segment, I have the same Iron Maiden "Purgatory" tee shirt one of the killers was wearing.)

From another extremely not-funny segment: the "crazy from Detroit" in the Kurt Sova case and his exchange with the record store manager: "Well, you might as well take it down. They're gonna find him dead in two days. Nobody's gonna know how he died." Now, certainly the dialog itself is very much unfunny. But the actor's tone is hilarious. He sounds so amateur. And the way he walks through the door and gives the guy exiting out a look up and down like, What, you wanna start somethin'?

And of course, the actor who played Richard Church and the "Well, good luck on your math test!" bit. As much as people find the way we (southerners) speak hilarious, a lot of us feel the same way about our northern-dwelling friends. The way he pronounces "math" is hysterical to me. ;)

I forget the name of the victim but I remember a case where a girl and her boyfriend went to visit her mother for a weekend. During their stay, he ended up killing her after she caught him going through her mother's purse. By the time the mother came home, she thought her daughter and the boyfriend had already left. Then, over the next few days the house started to stink HORRIBLY and the mother couldn't figure out where the smell was coming from. She eventually found out when she discovered her daughter's body under her bed.

The entire segment was disturbing and sad of course. And thank GOD the bastard eventually got caught. But I remember letting out a little chuckle towards the end of the segment when they reenacted a scene where the boyfriend meets up with a friend of his after the murder.

The friend asks why they broke up and the boyfriend admits that she was getting on his nerves, they fought all the time so he killed her. He actually admits to what he did. The friend, understandably got very angry and said...

"Listen, I don't care if you're my friend. If you really did what you just said you did, you're not getting in my car and you're not welcome in my house."

The boyfriend then pauses for like 3 seconds in shock and finally answers, "I got you. I was just kidding." And the friend easily starts laughing and answers, "You got me."

The timing was just so awkward and stupid I couldn't help but laugh. How gullible can a person be?

I think the part in the sleepwalking segment where the girl runs full speed through the screen door and also into the wall were pretty funny. I LOL'ed when they showed them again in the new eps.

Yeah, I remember that. And the screaming too I found kind of funny.

I forget the name of the victim but I remember a case where a girl and her boyfriend went to visit her mother for a weekend. During their stay, he ended up killing her after she caught him going through her mother's purse. By the time the mother came home, she thought her daughter and the boyfriend had already left. Then, over the next few days the house started to stink HORRIBLY and the mother couldn't figure out where the smell was coming from. She eventually found out when she discovered her daughter's body under her bed.

The entire segment was disturbing and sad of course. And thank GOD the bastard eventually got caught. But I remember letting out a little chuckle towards the end of the segment when they reenacted a scene where the boyfriend meets up with a friend of his after the murder.

The friend asks why they broke up and the boyfriend admits that she was getting on his nerves, they fought all the time so he killed her. He actually admits to what he did. The friend, understandably got very angry and said...

"Listen, I don't care if you're my friend. If you really did what you just said you did, you're not getting in my car and you're not welcome in my house."

The boyfriend then pauses for like 3 seconds in shock and finally answers, "I got you. I was just kidding." And the friend easily starts laughing and answers, "You got me."

The timing was just so awkward and stupid I couldn't help but laugh. How gullible can a person be?

Yeah that was really cheesy when the guy said, "Just kidding"...it was such a redundant pause and it just came out of nowhere. And the friend saying something ridiculous like, "You're not using my car" because someone just admitted they murdered someone is even funnier.

How about the reinactment from the Harris Todd segment (his ex-wife Lee Barnett abducted their daughter Savannah). The actress who played Lee Barnett was right on, but the actor that played Harris Todd was kind of humorous. The part where Lee was serving Harris dinner & she starts complaining how they never go to restaurants anymore and she then goes totally ballistic on him! She starts hitting Harris & he says in a sheepish voice "calm down". And then she's still screaming & hitting him, he says "I can't talk to you". I don't know why, but that part cracks me up. :lol:

"Does anyone want to fight in here?! I can whip anyone in here."

"Does anyone want to fight in here?! I can whip anyone in here."

That was a good one...and then he sits next to his daughter at the bar and starts weeping. His daughter, Brenda, then raises up her hands in embarassment and walks out with her friends. That whole bar scene is priceless! :lol:

"I mean, neither of us are Muhummad Ali. It was a lot of rolling around on the floor, wrasslin' and a bunch a'dumb stuff."

My favorite of all time. I'd love a Curtis Heck avatar.

"He Looked at me like he was going to enjoy a large steak"

Classic Line!

One case was when a guys was charged with poisoning his wife to death and then escaping from the mental hospital he was held in. They found him in Dublin after the Irish cops had asked for the guys fingerprints due to 'standard procedure' (the guy had called the police to report a robbery).

Can't believe it was that simple. Too funny.

I don't remember the episode but it involved two fugitives, one had this silly afro and 70s sunglasses. The guy with the afro threw a spray bottle at the cop car. That always made me laugh haha.:lol: My father included hahaha.

The bandit who had a sweet tooth and sucked on lollipops in the car and another thief who had a side-to-side gait when running....:lol:

One case was when a guys was charged with poisoning his wife to death and then escaping from the mental hospital he was held in. They found him in Dublin after the Irish cops had asked for the guys fingerprints due to 'standard procedure' (the guy had called the police to report a robbery).

Can't believe it was that simple. Too funny.

On the subject of weird solves, the other day a stolen car was recovered with an unusually well-fed mosquito in it. They took blood from the mosquito (no mention of whether this harmed the poor lil mite) and tested the DNA which matched a guy who's been in trouble with the law before! :lol: :lol: :lol:

The UFO case from the 1960s which took place in Pennsylvania in December and had kids riding bikes in their t-shirts! :eek: That may have been filmed in Pennsylvania, but not during any December any part of that state has seen! :lol:

Funny/Strange quotes

(women who got lost in the Seirra mountains)
"All I could then picture was a glass of cold water and a bath tub."
(made me laugh)

and then..
"He looked at me like he was going to enjoy a large steak" interesting quote for someone about to be shot.

Greg Webb Police officer segment:
The woman in the bar comes up to an elderly man and says,"Gee___ you're gettin' better lookin every day!"

I recently purchased the Ghost DVD series, and my brother and Dad were laughing SO hard at the reenactment of the woman being electrocuted on her bed during the "frieghtened Family" segment.

I don't think this has been mentioned but...

When the John Hawkins/Dr. Boggs segment was shown on Lifetime, they included an update about Dr. Boggs being arrested, convicted and sentenced.

The original segment ended with video of Boggs saying something like "I am totally innocent of any wrongdoing, I didn't flee like the others did, I've been here all the time..."

Suddenly, Stack interjects "NONETHELESS...Boggs was convicted and sentenced to life for...."

It was just funny the way they cut it. Really made Boggs and his claims of innocence look ridiculous.

I laughed when Spike aired the segment on the transgendered woman who did the car scam.

In the Gander plane crash segment (where over 200 members of the 101st Airborne Division were killed; allegedly a conspiracy), I always crack up in the re-enactment when that guy walks up to one of the firefighters working the aftermath and asks, "What's goin' ahn, eh?" in this nonchalant, golly-gee way. Most shameless Canadian stereotyping ever. I wonder if the original script had the firefighter turn to him and go, "What's it look like, hoser?!" :p

Meg, I wonder if they scouted that guy later for a role in Fargo, eh?

Can't you just see it now? Someone should've sent the Coen brothers a tape of the uncut re-enactment, where the RCMP take him aside and he cries out, "I'm cooperatin' here, ya know!" :crazy:

The Dr. Boggs "Nonetheless" Update always makes me laugh, too.

I can think of three, being so disgusted with Spike TV's watered down UM, I've returned to my CrystalDawn discs.

1: The bank robber who wore a Ronald Reagan mask. I can't remember his name. First of all, it was hilarious because they kept mentioning over and over that he wore a RONALD REAGAN MASK, as if Ronnie himself was committing the crime or something. But the best part was after one robbery, in the reenactment, he held up a bag and said, "Now, this is a BOMB!! Nobody move, and it won't go off!" before running out the door. I burst out laughing each time I see that, because he himself was moving when he talked about the "bomb". Then RS says, "The bomb was a phony". Wow, ya think?

2: The Brad Bishop segment, guy who murdered his whole family. A few years after the crime, a former co-worker sees him in a restroom in Sorrento, Italy. Bishop takes off running, and there's one moment where there's a shot of him running down a corridor, and taking a quick left turn and disappearing. Right when he takes that turn, he lets out this whimper that cracks me up every time. This disheveled guy with long hair and a bushy beard scurrying down a walkway, and the whimper sealed it.

3: The Dennis DePue update, where he hurriedly packs his things and had his girlfriend make sandwiches for him while watching his own UM case on TV. What makes this otherwise horrific segment hilarious is how the actor (who I think was the same in the update as in the full segment) had this obvious fake mustache on. I don't know if DePue himself had such a mustache, but it was like the producers wanted to "disguise" DePue since he was on the run. It has to be the most obvious fake I ever saw on the show. I'm reminded of the Simpsons episode about the Monorail, where Mr. Burns puts on a equally fake mustache and goes to the town meeting as "Mr. Snrub" to try and get money for the Nuclear Plant. Anyhoo, It just wasn't convincing.

With the Kenneth Engie case, the Stack is setting the scene for the possibility of the accidental death, and adds the disclaimer "unless alcohol had completely impaired his judgment." Just his inflection made me snicker.

In the Cheryl Holland case, the uncle or whoever talks about Eddie Wooten, saying, "First of all, Eddie ain't got that much education." A MUCH nicer way of saying he's a dumbass.

The opening of the Audrey Moate case, where the little boy and his dad are walking by the car, and the boy goes, "What are they DOING Daddy?" To which the dad replies "Never you mind!"

I too love the Wheeler/Bean face-off.

And, of course, I still laugh at the dorky grocery clerks in the Kevin Poulsen update.

From the Mabel Woods case, the caretaker guy was pretty funny. He had like 2 teeth and was obviously from the backwoods. I always laugh when he exclaims, "What tha hale!?" when he sees the dog kennel on fire, although that case was very sad and heartbreaking. Just the way he says it is funny to me though.

Sorry guys, I just had to bump this thread up. It's too funny!

1. The pedophile who was hiding in the woods and some guys calls out "Hey, how you doing?" And then he just shoots at him (only funny because the guy didn't get hit, of course)
2. Same case: He may look like anyone of these composites: and they all look ridiculous! I swear one looked like a disco man and the another one looked like a hillbilly.
3.Does anyone find it amusing when RS says "Do not approach him- he is armed and extremely dangerous"- who would be silly enough to try to apprehend a dangerous convict on their own?
4. I mention this in another thread, but the Bad Chief who lies when being interrogated.
"Were you and she intimately involved?"
"No-oo" (laughs slightly and looks away as the music switches dramatically)
5. I forget the case, but there is a trial hearing and one man in the crowd randomly has his legs split so far apart that he looks like he's trying to do the splits sitting down!
6. The Convict Donna Brown falls in love with when she gives him new shoes "WOW! THESE ARE GREAT!" I can't help but crack up everytime.
7. This one might be immature of me, but when RS mentions that Karen Sepalonis got banned from seeing her husband because they had sex and then it shows their pictures side by side. He looks so undesirable and bizarre that I couldn't help but snicker at that.
8. Not a funny case at all, but the man who marries a rancher's daughter and then she leaves him soon afterwards and comes back yelling and ranting with the worst acting "I love ya Callie!"
9. The fat kidnapper who had to write a checklist for himself.
10. Whenever the topless dance scene is reused, the look on the men's faces in the audience is priceless.

1-I thought the Kurt McFall segment was funny because of the people Kurt hung out with. I mean, come on, what kind of people dress up in medieval costumes, and have fake sword fights in parking lots? One of the members even praised Kurt's sword fighting ability. I just found it hilarious for some reason.

2-Satanic grandma also deserves a mention. The part where she shows her grandson images of satanism cracked me up for some reason. That grandma is unintentionally amusing.

1-I thought the Kurt McFall segment was funny because of the people Kurt hung out with. I mean, come on, what kind of people dress up in medieval costumes, and have fake sword fights in parking lots? One of the members even praised Kurt's sword fighting ability. I just found it hilarious for some reason.

That was definitely one of the funniest interviews in all UM.

I always crack up at those two guys "sword fighting" myself--they look more like they're beating each other over the head with planks of wood while wearing painted garbage cans than anything else! I mean, to each his own...but geez..

I remember laughing at the Kurt McFall segment.

Stack: The officer stopped to de-goo his windshield...

:D

Just to add: some of the 80's segments were funny to watch because of the fashion, and hairstyles. Rick Church's mullet for example, wow...that was the mother of all mullets. :lol:

Just to add: some of the 80's segments were funny to watch because of the fashion, and hairstyles. Rick Church's mullet for example, wow...that was the mother of all mullets. :lol:

I agree even some of the 90's segments had weird hair and clothes.

That was definitely one of the funniest interviews in all UM.

I always crack up at those two guys "sword fighting" myself--they look more like they're beating each other over the head with planks of wood while wearing painted garbage cans than anything else! I mean, to each his own...but geez..

Kurt's father found some strange stuff in his son's room, for instance the knife made out of a deers' hoof. What was up with that?? I found that "artifact" disturbing.

UMfan, was it a knife made from a deer's hoof or was the handle made from an antler? I thought it was an antler.

If it's from a hoof, that's kinda weird, but knives made from antlers are common.

Come to think of it, people make all kinds of things out of deer hooves too. I've seen gun racks and coat hooks made out of them.

UMfan, was it a knife made from a deer's hoof or was the handle made from an antler?

It was made from a small deer hoof.

I was going to post some comments in here about some moments I found funny and saw that I already had posted almost my entire list. I totally forgot I had posted these:


The segment about the whack-o family who swears their Vietnam Vet son is alive and is still trying to contact them cracks me up when they duscuss the phone call to the dada bout his son's childhood babysitter. In the recreation they have the guy (who would be playing the son) sitting in a shadow, like that's how he would always be...partly shadowed, and then he gets all energetic when the dad answers correctly "YES!!". lol what the Hell was that phone call supposed to prove to the family anyway?

I chuckle at some of the Southernisms of the corageous and lucky guy who survived 4 days out on the water. "I dun swum till there wuddn't no swummin leff in me.."

During the Stanley Gryszxzicxkx segment, I crack up when the woman is all alone in the kitchen, checking the window and the masked bandit breaks through the door. If you watch the woman close, she really gets scared ****less by the guy and jumps faster than she's moved in years.

During the Joe Owens segment, the lady who treats it like its her big break and really delivers her line in an overly theatrical way always makes me laugh.

This last one really cracks me up.

Another one I thought was funny, even though the subject matter is horrific, was during the Pam Ellender segment when her dad utters the classic "This is just about as low as human be-inz can crawl...or furrow...where is they-err soul? Where is they-err humanity?" Not a funny sentiment but after watching it a half dozen times it starts to be funny.

I also crack the **** up at the roid rage exhibited by the guy who says "Aw Callie...I loves ya!" How he's all hopping around and freaking out.

I also laugh at the lady wearing the nun handkerchief, or whatever it is, who just absolutely refuses to admit that her bigamist husband conned her and ran away sticking her with some crap farm. She seemed very willing to take her back.

But can there be any more unintentional hilarity than the men who are suffering amnesia who always seem to somehow be under indictment or have charges pressing against them whereever they came from. These guys always seem so sincere about finding out who they are yet they never seem to happy to find out do they?

But can there be any more unintentional hilarity than the men who are suffering amnesia who always seem to somehow be under indictment or have charges pressing against them whereever they came from. These guys always seem so sincere about finding out who they are yet they never seem to happy to find out do they?

And it seems like it's always grand larceny or the like they're wanted for. It's like they've got a club or something.


I think a very underappreciated unintentionally funny moment is the ENTIRE re-enactment in the Sal Guardado segment. Not only is there grossly cliche "Native American" flute music playing through the whole thing, but the acting is horrendous. My personal favorite moments:

1. "Sal...Sally....That's neat!" Academy Award.

2. The fight over the van Sally's sister had borrowed:

In the whiniest, most childish tone an adult woman can muster:"No Sal, it's not yours! You can't take it!"

"...I'm tired of listenin' to all your lyin' excuses!" Indignant look


3. The argument that Lydia stumbles onto:

"I'm home!" (Everyone shuts up.)



The part of RS's narration where he says that Sally was killed with either a telephone cord or cat leash makes me laugh---certainly not over the murder at all, but the prospect of there really being such a thing as a cat leash.

Stack: The officer stopped to de-goo his windshield...

:D

lol love Stack.

I sort of thought the acting in the Ronnie Zamora was sort of funny because I grew up in New Mexico and it reminded me about a lot of the people I know.

Kurt's father found some strange stuff in his son's room, for instance the knife made out of a deers' hoof. What was up with that?? I found that "artifact" disturbing.

Yeah, that was weird. Where the heck would you actually get something like that? :confused:

Remember those drawings Kurt supposedly made? Of knights and "medieval figures" with sword wounds spurting like geysers and all that? I had to admit I cracked up at how seriously they were taking those--lots of "normal" boys and adolescent males draw violent, "heroic" scenes all the time. It's just what our society has taught them to value--much like girls typically tend to sketch flowers and "pretty" things. I never thought that was ever an indicator of any strange behavior Kurt supposedly exhibited at all.

The Kurt McFall segment scared me when I was young, but upon re-watching recently I tend to agree with those of who find it...odd...to put it nicely.

The Tara Breckenridge segment, while very sad, has some really z-movie strip club acting. That's a hard one to watch.

In the Kristi Krebs segment, I have to give the actress playing Kristi a lot of credit for giving all she had on those breakdown scenes. That sobbing is off the hook!

The cheesy music in the UFO Oddysey segment always cracks me up. First the southern radio part and then when the DJ and his friend go out searching for a UFO the music sounds like its trying to be stealthy and it's just hilarious.

I have to add the Dakota Double deaths case. The horrible pseudo-Native American music was hilarious. The producers of UM probably didn't care if they came off as being un-PC.

Also, the acting in the Greg Webb case was quite awful to the point of hilarity.

I have to add the Dakota Double deaths case. The horrible pseudo-Native American music was hilarious.

That's not the part that I remember laughing at. I remember laughing at their cousin, who said "You know" after EVERY SINGLE SENTENCE. :lol:

That's not the part that I remember laughing at. I remember laughing at their cousin, who said "You know" after EVERY SINGLE SENTENCE. :lol:Yeah, that was funny. I forget to mention how funny looking her sunglasses were. They were gigantic sized. That made me giggle a bit.

That's not the part that I remember laughing at. I remember laughing at their cousin, who said "You know" after EVERY SINGLE SENTENCE. :lol:

She also couldn't stop saying "I don't know" when she was describing what happened after the car flipped over. As a side note, I often wonder why Tracy B. left her cousin in the car, slamming the car door shut on her. You would've thought that she'd try to get her cousin out too! Maybe Tracy was too drunk to do that.

She also couldn't stop saying "I don't know" when she was describing what happened after the car flipped over. As a side note, I often wonder why Tracy B. left her cousin in the car, slamming the car door shut on her. You would've thought that she'd try to get her cousin out too! Maybe Tracy was too drunk to do that.

You mean left Tracy in the car? Ruby was the one that got out.

You mean left Tracy in the car? Ruby was the one that got out.

Oh yeah, sorry. It's still morning and I'm not fully awake yet. Duh!

I have to add the Dakota Double deaths case. The horrible pseudo-Native American music was hilarious. The producers of UM probably didn't care if they came off as being un-PC.

That's totally the same reason I think the Sal Guardado sement is hilarious. :lol:

She also couldn't stop saying "I don't know" when she was describing what happened after the car flipped over. As a side note, I often wonder why Tracy B. left her cousin in the car, slamming the car door shut on her. You would've thought that she'd try to get her cousin out too! Maybe Tracy was too drunk to do that.
I remember that segment. the cousin kept saying "you know" after every few words. Kinda funny, but also annoying.

The actress who played the drunk driver who killed the Arizona college student was sort of funny.

Not a funny case at all, but the one with the bodybuilder guy who went out with a woman he later killed while they're at a restaurant and he keeps shouting "HEY, you brought the wrong drink!!!!" as though it's the most important thing in the world.

The fat kidnapper who "was so out of shape he struggled to make the descent" down a hill when dragging along the business executive.

The Tony Castro segment when he keeps checking out the woman who's selling the car to him. The way he keeps making random talk and she just looks disgusted as he makes his way toward the door.

The Shafaa Salem segment with the dopey guy trying to milk money out of Shafaa's mother.

Anyone remember the Erik Kessler segment? The old dude pretending to be a German businessman that bilked a Wisconsin salon owner (I'm pretty sure she was called "Katherine" in the segment) out of thousands of dollars? The segment was great merely because RS annunciated the word salon with perfect, proper French pronunciation :cool:, but I crack up at the re-enactment of "video makeover" software demo (it even had an electronic pen). So dated.

Maybe I imagined this, but someone please verify: has anyone ever noticed that in the Dennis Depue update, particularly the re-enactment of Depue trying to keep his girlfriend from noticing his segment was about to been shown on TV, when they're introducing the case there's a picture of Judy Hyams on the screen? I always thought that was weird.

Maybe I imagined this, but someone please verify: has anyone ever noticed that in the Dennis Depue update, particularly the re-enactment of Depue trying to keep his girlfriend from noticing his segment was about to been shown on TV, when they're introducing the case there's a picture of Judy Hyams on the screen? I always thought that was weird.

That is correct. It used to throw me off too whenever I would see that on Lifetime. I always assumed it was some sort of editing mistake. Then I was fortunate enough to find a copy of the original NBC broadcast and it all fell into place and made sense.

When Depue's story was originally broadcast on NBC, the same episode contained the now infamous update about the anonymous letter claiming that Judy Himes had died during an illegal abortion. When Lifetime aired this episode, they edited out the Himes and other updates - probably to make room for the update on Depue's attempted capture and suicide.

That is correct. It used to throw me off too whenever I would see that on Lifetime. I always assumed it was some sort of editing mistake. Then I was fortunate enough to find a copy of the original NBC broadcast and it all fell into place and made sense.

When Depue's story was originally broadcast on NBC, the same episode contained the now infamous update about the anonymous letter claiming that Judy Himes had died during an illegal abortion. When Lifetime aired this episode, they edited out the Himes and other updates - probably to make room for the update on Depue's attempted capture and suicide.

Ok, that totally makes sense now. I figured (but didn't know for certain until now) that the Hyams update originally aired with the Depue segment and assumed, as you did, that it was an editing mistake. (My husband, actually, who is definitely NOT the UM fan I am, was actually ribbing me and pointing at the screen--"Hey, that's Judy Hyams, not Marilyn!" :) ) So that actually answers two questions, because I had been meaning to ask you the date the Hyams update was originally broadcast.

Ok, that totally makes sense now. I figured (but didn't know for certain until now) that the Hyams update originally aired with the Depue segment and assumed, as you did, that it was an editing mistake. (My husband, actually, who is definitely NOT the UM fan I am, was actually ribbing me and pointing at the screen--"Hey, that's Judy Hyams, not Marilyn!" :) ) So that actually answers two questions, because I had been meaning to ask you the date the Hyams update was originally broadcast.

I have the following dates for Judy Himes:

Judy Himes (without update) - 1/2/91. Incidentally, hers was the only "new" story that night. The rest were repeats.

Judy Himes abortion letter update - 3/20/91. The other updates that night were a Joe Weldon Smith sighting and a rather strange video that was sent in purported to be of John James Irwin. This block of updates aired right before the last segment of the night.....Dennis and Marilyn Depue.

I have the following dates for Judy Himes:

Judy Himes (without update) - 1/2/91. Incidentally, hers was the only "new" story that night. The rest were repeats.

Judy Himes abortion letter update - 3/20/91. The other updates that night were a Joe Weldon Smith sighting and a rather strange video that was sent in purported to be of John James Irwin. This block of updates aired right before the last segment of the night.....Dennis and Marilyn Depue.

Thanks! I distinctly remember seeing just the slightest snippet of Joe Weldon Smith's Las Vegas booking photo directly after the update on my copy.

The Depue segment was the final one? Talk about resting uneasy.

Thanks! I distinctly remember seeing just the slightest snippet of Joe Weldon Smith's Las Vegas booking photo directly after the update on my copy.

The Depue segment was the final one? Talk about resting uneasy.

At the end of the Depue story, they showed a brief preview of the following week's stories which included the case of Pat Fagan who was wanted for abducting her son Brandon from his father/her ex-husband Michael who had been awarded sole custody. She subsequently turned herself in after seeing this preview. The update about her capture aired the following week with the first showing of her story, so it was technically "solved" before the episode even aired.

I always thought it interesting and kind of surreal to think that Dennis Depue watched the broadcast and freaked out, while in another part of the country, Pat Fagan was probably doing the same.

Anyone remember the Erik Kessler segment? The old dude pretending to be a German businessman that bilked a Wisconsin salon owner (I'm pretty sure she was called "Katherine" in the segment) out of thousands of dollars? The segment was great merely because RS annunciated the word salon with perfect, proper French pronunciation :cool:, but I crack up at the re-enactment of "video makeover" software demo (it even had an electronic pen). So dated.

I think that whole segment was brilliantly made, it's sort of like a mini made-for-tv movie. The acting in it was dead on, both the actor that played Kessler and the actress that played "Katherine" did great jobs. I also think "Katherine" herself did well with narrating the whole thing. Stack saying "salon" was kind of funny. And I'm glad that creep got caught.

In the Don Kemp segment, I always get a little chuckle from the way the sheriff says, "He could have been mentally distuuuuurbbbed."

I think that whole segment was brilliantly made, it's sort of like a mini made-for-tv movie. The acting in it was dead on, both the actor that played Kessler and the actress that played "Katherine" did great jobs. I also think "Katherine" herself did well with narrating the whole thing. Stack saying "salon" was kind of funny. And I'm glad that creep got caught.


Yes, the Kessler segment was hilarious in several ways. First how he smooths his way into the bedroom by buying himself and the woman he's tricking a king sized bed and the scene zooms out to the trees. And when "Katherine" goes to talk to him he responds in this really childlike voice, "I'm playing!" Also, the phone call about bouncing a check for $1,000 at the bar the night before made me crack up. What one Earth did he get there, round drinks for everyone all night?

Reading about Erik Kessler got me thinking about similar segments where guys wine and dine women and then steal their money. Sweetheart swindler, Mr. Waylond and others. Anyone else surprised that these guys turn out to be, well, not-so-great looking? I mean, the segment plays them up as these type of guys that the women might swoon over, but they turn out to be, as Borat might say, not so much. No offense intended, but I just thought this was weird.

Reading about Erik Kessler got me thinking about similar segments where guys wine and dine women and then steal their money. Sweetheart swindler, Mr. Waylond and others. Anyone else surprised that these guys turn out to be, well, not-so-great looking? I mean, the segment plays them up as these type of guys that the women might swoon over, but they turn out to be, as Borat might say, not so much. No offense intended, but I just thought this was weird.

It's all about charisma. Gals swoon for not-so-good looking guys all the time if they are confident and know how to sweet talk. Ira Einhorn comes to mind...Holly Maddux was way too hot for him. How else can the Lyle Lovetts of the world get lucky?

It's all about charisma. Gals swoon for not-so-good looking guys all the time if they are confident and know how to sweet talk. Ira Einhorn comes to mind...Holly Maddux was way too hot for him. How else can the Lyle Lovetts of the world get lucky?

True no diffrent then say for instance your a good looking guy but cant hold down much of a conversation,how many women would be interested in you if you couldnt talk to them properly.

Harold Bell getting his ass kicked when he broke into a lady's house- that reenactment was hilarious in that he seemed so smug upon first walking in and then she just roughed him up. It was pretty crazy that she shot at him, too.

Fumbles should get an honorable mention as well.

Fumbles should get an honorable mention as well.

Ah yes! On that note, I laugh every time I watch the sement about the Bicycle Bandit. Old fat man on a bike pedaling away from a bank robbery? Hi-larious.

In the Don Kemp segment, I always get a little chuckle from the way the sheriff says, "He could have been mentally distuuuuurbbbed."

"...he was havin' problems...an' he didn't make it."


I always chuckle a little during the interview with Amy Scott in the Stanley Gryziec segment, where she's talking about being chased by the suspects and trying to locate them with an officer after driving to the police station:

"But we never saw them again." (Beat. Eyebrow raise.)

I know he's a horrible guy and it was a sad case, but for some reason I always thought it was funny in the Sam Wodke segment when they're robbing the grocery store, and Sam fires at the soda cans as a warning and they all tumble.

Reminds me of the movie The Jerk when Steve Martin's character (who works at a gas station) has a crazed sniper trying to shoot him, and the guy hits some cans by mistake; and Steve's character thinks he was aiming at the cans, lol.

I know he's a horrible guy and it was a sad case, but for some reason I always thought it was funny in the Sam Wodke segment when they're robbing the grocery store, and Sam fires at the soda cans as a warning and they all tumble.

Reminds me of the movie The Jerk when Steve Martin's character (who works at a gas station) has a crazed sniper trying to shoot him, and the guy hits some cans by mistake; and Steve's character thinks he was aiming at the cans, lol.

That segment was funny.

How many times the girl says "ya know" in the Ruby Bruyier segment on thr murders disc is quite comical.

I need to sit with you guys and watch these over! I'm dying laughing here (and of course, not at the subject matter). I've watched a few of these recently and I am just so absorbed in them and I take them so seriously that I don't even look at any of the acting or other stuff. I would really love to get together with people and see the stuff that you guys see lol.
ETA, several posters mentioned the pseudo-Native American music in some segments. After thinking about it I realized that they had this cheesy music when talking about the South, the heat, small towns (the Audrey Moate segment is fresh in my mind but I know they've used that same music for other segments that take place in the south and they talk about the heat and stuff).

I need to sit with you guys and watch these over! I'm dying laughing here (and of course, not at the subject matter). I've watched a few of these recently and I am just so absorbed in them and I take them so seriously that I don't even look at any of the acting or other stuff. I would really love to get together with people and see the stuff that you guys see lol.

It would be cool if we could organize some kind of meet. A forum my wife moderates has had meetings before. She has gone to a couple.

It would be cool if we could organize some kind of meet. A forum my wife moderates has had meetings before. She has gone to a couple.
This would be most awesome! I know I would enjoy this very much. I just wish more of you guys lived in my area. No one I know shares my love of this series.

I know the Liz Charmichael segment has been mentioned for its hilarity, but I think there are more funny things in it than the actor playing Liz. First off, when the inspector examines the car and he says in the perfect voice "It had no engine" and "The accelerator was just sitting on the floor". The cream of the crop comes when the cops come into the house to arrest her and one of them is just really hilarious, the way he walk in and says, "Police officers" as an introduction, but in a tone that makes it sound like they're there for a tea party rather than to arrest her. Also, when they find the house empty and see the padded girdle and one of them goes "Mrs. Charmichael?" while laughing, I just crack up.

^The actor in the Liz Carmichael segment reminded of the transexual hostess in the movie Shallow Hal.

:rotflmao: ^The actor in the Liz Carmichael segment reminded of the transexual hostess in the movie Shallow Hal. I haven't seen the segment but I do remember that part in Shallow Hal LOL!

I just watched the live telecenter episode, and even though it's natural, I couldn't help but think it was funny to see Stack reverting from a narrative serious voice, to more casual as he directly talked to people. I've heard him do both before, but not all at the same time, lol.

It would be cool if we could organize some kind of meet. A forum my wife moderates has had meetings before. She has gone to a couple.

Yeah, I've always thought that would be a neat idea. I'd love to meet everyone.

Just watched this one the other day:

Concealed voice with Texas drawl: An' I went upstairs to get me somethin' to eat 'cause I'm hungry...

...An' I was like, ohhhh Lord...

Just watched this one the other day:

Concealed voice with Texas drawl: An' I went upstairs to get me somethin' to eat 'cause I'm hungry...

...An' I was like, ohhhh Lord...

Oh wow, I was going to ask about that on the funny quotes thread but it slipped my mind. What segment is this from? I know I've heard it before.

The Gordon Page Jr always killed me just bc it showed him taking off in a truck in Michigan in November w/ green grass and blue skies in t shirts and shorts. MI winters are usually ucky gray skies w/ brown grass and/or snow with folks buried under layers of clothes.

Oh wow, I was going to ask about that on the funny quotes thread but it slipped my mind. What segment is this from? I know I've heard it before.

That's Megan Curl's unidentified neighbor talking about the strange man Megan met with in the apartment complex parking lot on the night she was murdered.

Can't believe I never caught this until tonight--in the Kevin Poulsen update, there's a snippet of the clerk scanning Poulsen's groceries before the infamous take-down Hughes Market style. The only intelligible item? Ortega taco shells. :lol:

Oh, here's another: The chase music used in certain segments. It's the one that starts with a few drum beats and then goes all out. Hilarious.

Oh, here's another: The chase music used in certain segments. It's the one that starts with a few drum beats and then goes all out. Hilarious.

I know the one you mean (they cycle about 5 or 6 themes in the background of different segments), I personally like that one. It sounds like it could an intense backdrop to an 80s pop song and fits those scenes. The theme music was probably actually recorded in 1987 or 88, so it makes sense it would have that synthy, processed sound.

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but in the teen Texas thrill killers segment, I thought the farmer's thick accent lightened the mood a bit, he had a deep drawl even for Oklahoma.

"One of 'em had a 'leven or a 12..tennesss shoe" ;)

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but in the teen Texas thrill killers segment, I thought the farmer's thick accent lightened the mood a bit, he had a deep drawl even for Oklahoma.

"One of 'em had a 'leven or a 12..tennesss shoe" ;)

That man had good powers of observation. Could I tell you what size shoe (sheeewwww) a print came from? No way!

Can't believe I never caught this until tonight--in the Kevin Poulsen update, there's a snippet of the clerk scanning Poulsen's groceries before the infamous take-down Hughes Market style. The only intelligible item? Ortega taco shells. :lol:

Well, Dark Dante's favorite food WAS tacos.

Security!

:lol:

Can't believe I never caught this until tonight--in the Kevin Poulsen update, there's a snippet of the clerk scanning Poulsen's groceries before the infamous take-down Hughes Market style. The only intelligible item? Ortega taco shells. :lol:
How on earth did I miss this??? I want to shake the man's (or woman's) hand who was responsible for this little nugget of comedy gold. Going to re-watch right now....:lol:

I just saw the vampire online frenzy episode thanks to a trade. I was laughing SO hard at the part where Stack says "This man convinced middle school and high school students he was a POWERFUL vampire" and the guy looks like SUCH a sleaze. His crimes were not funny at all, but in terms of that claim haha, I could not stop laughing.

Hey, there definitely are some more funny moments on UM! :) I feel obligated to bump this priceless thread, if no one has any objections.

How about the picture of the anti-abortionist guy whose picture looks like a drugged out hippy? I always found that pretty comical. Also, I'm not sure if I mentioned it before, but the guy who is always a skeptic on some of the more controversial UM segments. I don't recall his name, but he's always there with a little smile and acts kind of witty. I remember laughing when he was challenging the Bible Code and saying, "Wait a minute! You can't say that because you've just made all possible predictions!" He got pretty into it.

Hey, I'm going to bump this again. Surely there must be more funny moments. Here's another I remember. I believe it's from the Dixon case, with the bank robber who calls the FBI about himself "You ever hear of Thomas Dixon? He's the most BADASS bankrobber around!" Always cracked me up.
The Mueller case was also pretty funny, the one with the conman. I just love the facial expressions when he comes back to the bank and the teller looked at him as if to say, "We got you." and Mueller just has this stupified look on his face.
Any cases where men dressed in drag, whether for escape or other ploys, were priceless.

I've always gotten a chuckle from one scene in the Dwayne McCorkendale segment. a trucker describes an encounter he had with the suspicious individuals in the brown pinto while driving on the interstate, and he mentions how he radioed to them on his CB that they should slow down and stop driving recklessly (which they were). The guy in the pinto radios back something along the lines of "You don't know who you're messing with good buddy, we'll drive anywhere we want!". I always thought it sounded like a combination of someone doing a bad southern accent along with a bad "tough guy" impersonation. It was just...bad, and laughable.

The rest of the segment was very sad though, poor Dwayne. :(

I just saw the vampire online frenzy episode thanks to a trade. I was laughing SO hard at the part where Stack says "This man convinced middle school and high school students he was a POWERFUL vampire" and the guy looks like SUCH a sleaze. His crimes were not funny at all, but in terms of that claim haha, I could not stop laughing.

was that the episode about the modern day vampires? (96/97 season?)

was that the episode about the modern day vampires? (96/97 season?)

Yeah, I think so. The original segment was tied in with a story about a young teenage girl who ran off to meet some guy she met on the internet in a vampire chat room or something. She and the guy were found pretty quickly after it first aired. The guy was in some branch of the military and was also wanted for desertion, IIRC.

I can't recall offhand if the bit about the girl was shown on Lifetime or if they edited it out at some point in later years.

Ah because I remember a segment from the 96/97 season about "modern day" vampires or something like that.

found the air date:

Episode #406
First aired: 2/21/1997

An investigation into people who are involved in modern day games that involve vampirism. Ceara O'Connell has disappeared and some belive she may have become involved in a vampire game.

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1996/12/1240

Yes, that's the one. One of the few missing persons cases that turned out well. It seemed like the runaway scenario really had less to do with vampirism rather than angst, as she claimed later she stayed with him because she felt he was the only one who understood her. The rest of the segment was more about people taking vampirism too seriously and using it as means of extortion.

And I believe I remember seeing it on Lifetime in the later years.

I wonder if those vampire nightclubs are still around :D

Haven't seen that one for years. I remember lifetime re-airing it sometime around 2002 or 2003 had a recording of it but tape got erased somehow. I remember that part you were talking about though with the night clubs lol :lol: it was FREAKY

I know! I can't help but laugh at the nightclubs and people who aren't kidding when they claim to be vampires. Really now, if vampires did exist, do you think they would really publicize it? :lol:

I also noticed that in the Countess Conwoman segment, the table that she and her friend are eating at (from the camera's perspective) is shaped like Mickey Mouse. :D

I thought that the actor who played Huey P. Long was a bit over-the-top and subsequently quite funny - "What do you want, you little pissant?"

I just saw a Sci-Med case on Spike today. It was about this Hispanic/Asian family (last name Santos, I think) who have been suffering from strange heart ailments for years. It had claimed 6 lives in their family, the victims ranging from 15 to 34 years of age. Obviously, this was not funny at all, but at one point Dennis Farina was talking about how one of the brothers had just died and another brother was starting to worry about his own health. In the re-enactment it showed the actor playing the brother looking around all nervous like and touching his chest AT THE FUNERAL. Funnier than I'm making it sound, trust me.

Also, on the Tina Resch case, RS stating that the family had become "blase" to the strange events around the house. The visual of an egg flying across the room and the dad's face all like "here we f'n go again" was hilarious.

The Bonnie Wilder story. The woman who's identity she stole "She's enormous! She weighs 300 lbs, how can she just disappear in public? People like that don't disappear!"

I laughed my ass off at the entire Jim Baumgarden case. It was about a guy who suspected he had a twin. Apparently, people would swear they saw him at a certain time and place when he was somewhere else. Adding to his suspicions was the fact that he was adopted at birth.

There was one scene where his brother in law (complete with moustache and Whitesnake ponytail) was playing a ball game and "Jim" was pitching. Billy Ray hollers out to him, "Jim, JIM!" but the guy just blows him off. Anyway, after the game he goes up to him and is like, "Jim," (you know, because it worked so well before) and just spreads his arms out like "look, it's me." "Jim" just looked disgusted and walked off.

As this story spun on, Jim told tales of how he himself became the victim of mistaken identity and numerous people claiming to have seen "him." Jim found out that he did in fact have a twin brother and he wanted to find him. The funny part was that Jim REALLY gave the impression that he didn't really care to find him based on any type of fraternal love, it seemed more like he just wanted people to stop bothering him. Also, I know that resources nowadays are more plentiful, but this guy couldn't have been THAT hard to find. Couldn't the brother in law have talked to someone on the opposing ball team and found out who this guy was?

Anyway, there was an update on this segment, and I felt really bad to learn that Jim died shortly after it was filmed. He did not find his brother, but he did apparently find a sister, so there's that.

The "Oh, L'Enfant called twice" bit from L'Enfant was funny, but this otherwise creepy segment had an even funnier bit. Right when they say that Bashir moved into the mental institution they are showing him watching TV with some guy. Bashir asks if the guy wants him to turn the TV off, and the guy just keeps doing what he's doing - which appears to be tearing long strips of paper...WTF?

I think the scene where Dexter Stefonick gets kidnapped was funny. "whats your problem man" "Get out of the car". I think the actor could have pulled it off a bit better than that.

The Hansen re-enactment, where Hans smashes the twins' bedroom window out, and then takes a garden hose in one hand and sprays at the raging fire while screaming "get out, get out", while the other hand, the free hand, is waving about wildly. After about five seconds, he turns and runs away with his arms flailing about in both directions.

Also, in that re-enactment, when the firemen and officers were going through the ruins in their investigation, and you could hear the men talking, but not clearly, because RS was speaking, and then, right after he was done, there was not a peep out of any of them for a few seconds, until one fireman turned over some of the wreckage, and the other who was standing over looking exclaimed, "Whoa-hoa-oa-oa". Immediately, the segment cut to the warehouse scene. I just found it hilarious - you'd have to rewatch it to appreciate it.

anybody notice in the Charles Holden case that the actor playing him did like this cross between Caddyshack Bill murray and Charles Holden? Seriously look at his lips when the police tell him that he has to go in for questioning... then he get's into the back of cop car and fastens the seatbelt.. I thought that was kind of funny

I don't know if this is funny or odd, but did anyone else notice the naked baby doll in the back window of Michael Rosenblum's girlfriend's car? I just remember seeing it as the tow truck pulled the car away, and thinking, WHY would a 19 year old woman have a baby doll in her car? And the police department remembers that detail so it could be reenacted later, but doesn't remember to send a letter for 3 months?

The "Oh, L'Enfant called twice" bit from L'Enfant was funny, but this otherwise creepy segment had an even funnier bit. Right when they say that Bashir moved into the mental institution they are showing him watching TV with some guy. Bashir asks if the guy wants him to turn the TV off, and the guy just keeps doing what he's doing - which appears to be tearing long strips of paper...WTF?

I thought that was kind of funny too, haha.

Maybe it's just me, but I also thought the part where Tracy Wofford Bunn's boyfriend breaks the gear shift in her car was pretty funny. "Awww man, Tracy's gonna be maaaad at me!"

"It's FREEZING outside!"

"Don't you worry, I'll warm you up."puke:

what about in the Medjugorie ( I know thats spelled wrong) but when RS is talking about the lady whose the cocaine addict flying to france, he says in that deep voice " she was worried about flying to france without her precious cocaine"... comedic gold

In the Sacramento thrill kill case when Stack is on camera in a store and the clerk is keeping inventory just totally not paying attention to RS.

Ok the other day there was this segment about this guy that was a biker making meth. Well they captured him once. he was living in a crappy trailer and making drugs. When the police busted him there were other biker drug heads there. When they all came marching out of the trailer me and my sister-in-law died laughing.

They were wearing the most crazy wild a** out fits with fringe, boots, hats, lots of leather. We that it was a villiage people concert or people cosplaying. It is funny to see those old re-enactments.

Ok the other day there was this segment about this guy that was a biker making meth. Well they captured him once. he was living in a crappy trailer and making drugs. When the police busted him there were other biker drug heads there. When they all came marching out of the trailer me and my sister-in-law died laughing.

They were wearing the most crazy wild a** out fits with fringe, boots, hats, lots of leather. We that it was a villiage people concert or people cosplaying. It is funny to see those old re-enactments.

I also noticed the fuzzy steering wheel of the undercover car, lol!

I can't remember the one I'm thinking of, but there are undercover agents going to arrest the perp on a boat, and one of the cops has a bleached blond mullet and the most classic 80's ********* clothes on...never fails to make me laugh.

Edit...hmmm apparently the forums edit d-bag. lol

I just re-watched the "Fast Dry Glue Robber" segment and I thought the woman who played the bank manager was pretty hilarious, the way she watches through the glass door, running to a payphone and overacts while calling the police (trying to look dramatic etc). Top notch! Cracked me up, lol :lol:

Any time RS was in a public setting to do the intro to a re-enactment I had to laugh. The people are just interacting in the background or doing their work pretending he isn't there.

My all time would have be the story of the young Florida couple where the wife was possesed by a ghost. I often wondered if that was a BS segment based on the fact it looked intentionally comical.

The other one I thought was funny was the group of men who were on a boat(I think) and they were abducted by aliens. They wake up in this white smokey room with aliens poking at them with these shocked looks on their faces. Something about it made me laugh.

The other one was Fumbles the Bank Robber. UM really went out of their way to make the robber look like a dumbass. And the update where he was being perp walked was funny, 'You like being called Fumbles? Huh? Fumbles?'

While a Wells Fargo truck being held up is nothing to laugh at, the one where the men held the guard of the ground and the driver drove all the way around the parking lot just to slam into the car was funny.

1. I don't know how fast a Wells Fargo truck goes, but I'm assuming it can go pretty fast. I was wondering why the guy didn't floor it and disable the car altogether. If he had the time to drive all the way around the parking lot I would think he would have time to drive full speed into the car.

2. The guys in the car just as the truck hits were hillarious the way they flailed and threw themselves on top of eachother.

Has anyone else seen the ones where someone gets shot and thought some of them were a little overly dramatic?

Ok, I noticed in one segment that was about a lady had show dogs. She looked and dressed like a man. The reenactment actually had a man playing her with facial hair and everything. God I laughed so hard. Anyone remember this??

Ok, I noticed in one segment that was about a lady had show dogs. She looked and dressed like a man. The reenactment actually had a man playing her with facial hair and everything. God I laughed so hard. Anyone remember this??

Yep. Camilla Lyman.

I know some one mentioned this but in the Steve Wilson case where he shows up on the ranch and the girl's dad goes something like yelling "Get out of here Wilson" and the guy playing him just goes "I love you Callie".

And in the Reggie Depalma case where he is trying to get a 13 year old girl to turn promiscuous.

In the Angelo Desideri update James Majors gives the pick and shovel that he used to make a shallow grave to some poor Mexican family who doesn't know why he had it

The ghosts of Gettysburg when the guy was talking about seeing the ghost shivering. He seemed a little reluctant to say he became very emotional and someone had to help him off of the trail.

Also, I thought his beard looked too fake. It was much darker than his real hair. Something about it made me laugh.

John Martin, the Police chief murdered on a routine traffic stop in Virginia - apparently the first traffic stop shooting in 20 odd years.

Another officer rushes to the scene from 7 miles away, and finds him on the ground, the officer says he is in a critical condition so tries to get information out of him because it's likely he won't last much longer. After he's taken away he goes into a coma and 3 days later, he dies.

But how the re-enactment is done, you wouldn't think he's in a critical condition at all, its just as if he's laying there on the ground telling a story.

No problems at all getting the information out of him, just seems like a normal discussion between two people.

Lol.

I forgot the name of the case but I laughed a lot at the case involving a nudist camp. I know it's childish but...:lol:

Also, the Sal Guardado case was funny because of the tacky music. I mean, the victim may have been half Native American, but did the producers have to play the stereotypical flute like the Dakota deaths case.

In the Angelo Desideri update James Majors gives the pick and shovel that he used to make a shallow grave to some poor Mexican family who doesn't know why he had it

That was a funny one too. The family had this, 'Huh?' look on their faces. Good stuff.

Has anyone seen when SPIKE does a Solved segment the telephone center suddenly goes crazy? A blonde woman waves to two people who suddenly run over with a clip board to take notes. I have to laugh when I see it.

Also, the guy who played Lyle Moody in the re-enactment reminded me of a character from Chappelle's Show for some reason.

I was cracking up during the bank robbery segment last night when they showed the lady taking a picture with a disposable camera(It was so 90s) and then during the update they said William Kirkpatrick was behind it but never mentioned his accomplice