We know they will do updates on the old cases, but what cases do you think are good candidates to be on the new show that hasn't been featured before?

I have a few from my area that could be of interest:

1.) Ft. Bragg Female Soldier Deaths: Are they connected?
2.) Buddy Myers http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/myers_tristen.html (http://www.amw.com/missing_children/brief.cfm?id=24982)
3.) Kent Jacobs http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/j/jacobs_kent.html

I'd like to see a story done on the people missing from the Great Smoky Mountains. Dennis Martin 1969, Trenny Gibson in 1976, and Pauline Melton in 1981. No trace of any of them was ever found.

I'd like to see a story done on the people missing from the Great Smoky Mountains. Dennis Martin 1969, Trenny Gibson in 1976, and Pauline Melton in 1981. No trace of any of them was ever found.

Those were very strange cases. Talk about "whatever happened to Dennis Martin?" still goes on around here.

There's the Amanda Johnson case. She's the pregnant Missouri woman who disappeared 3 years ago without a trace. Brian Schaffer, Jennifer Kesse, and Chandra Levy among others could be profiled.

I just read an amazing case of 5 New Jersey teens who disappeared 30 years ago and just VANISHED! NO trace ever found. I wonder why that case wasn't already on UM??

I just read an amazing case of 5 New Jersey teens who disappeared 30 years ago and just VANISHED! NO trace ever found. I wonder why that case wasn't already on UM??


Is that the case where it was 5 (I believe all African American) youths playing basketball that dissappered?

The case of the West Memphis Three.

http://www.wm3.org

Is that the case where it was 5 (I believe all African American) youths playing basketball that dissappered?

I just read about this too. I'm amazed this never got more publicity. It's one thing for one or two people to go missing but FIVE?!

I may have said this before, but a segment on the death of Johnathan Luna would be interesting.

I just read about this too. I'm amazed this never got more publicity. It's one thing for one or two people to go missing but FIVE?!


Yeah, I think sadly this is one of those cases where due to it being 5 African Americans in a rough part of an urban area in the 1970's this just didn't get the coverage. I'm always amazed when I go through doenetwork and charleyproject pages at the disproportionate number of cases involving minorities that have little to no information listed from the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's. Of course this isn't the websites' fault. They only post what is sent to them. It seems to get better by the 90's though.

June Goodman
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/g/goodman_june.html

How about the horrific June 2008 double murder of the two young girls, Skyla Whitaker and Taylor Paschal-Placker, in Weleetka, Oklahoma?? That's a case begging for a resolution!! Check out this link for more info:

http://www.newsok.com/news/weleetkaslayings

Yeah, I think sadly this is one of those cases where due to it being 5 African Americans in a rough part of an urban area in the 1970's this just didn't get the coverage. I'm always amazed when I go through doenetwork and charleyproject pages at the disproportionate number of cases involving minorities that have little to no information listed from the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's. Of course this isn't the websites' fault. They only post what is sent to them. It seems to get better by the 90's though.

Yeah, you could be right. If this were 5 clean cut white guys I really think it would've gotten more publicity. It kind of goes along with the "Missing White Women Syndrome" where it has been documented that some attractive white women/girls get more publicity than non-white women. Many examples like the recent over obsession with baby Caylee plus cases like a Natalee Holloway, Chandra Levy, Laci Petersen, Elizabeth Smart, etc.

Here is a link to the missing 5 teens story:

http://www.officer.com/online/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=42799

How about the horrific June 2008 double murder of the two young girls, Skyla Whitaker and Taylor Paschal-Placker, in Weleetka, Oklahoma?? That's a case begging for a resolution!! Check out this link for more info:

http://www.newsok.com/news/weleetkaslayings

Yeah, that was on Nancy Grace and Greta. Wow, they have no clue at all?

How about the horrific June 2008 double murder of the two young girls, Skyla Whitaker and Taylor Paschal-Placker, in Weleetka, Oklahoma?? That's a case begging for a resolution!! Check out this link for more info:

http://www.newsok.com/news/weleetkaslayings

I posted this one in another thread back in June. I also thought it would be perfect for the show, especially with that scary mug shot of the Native American.

I'd like to see a story done on the people missing from the Great Smoky Mountains. Dennis Martin 1969, Trenny Gibson in 1976, and Pauline Melton in 1981. No trace of any of them was ever found.

There was another missing in the mountains story except this was an older lady I think in California and he children and family frantically looked for her but she just vanished.

It's been on Dateline NBC and other shows. Any of you recall this case?

Missing person Israel Haim Bordaty:

http://charleyproject.org/cases/b/bordaty_israel.html


Unsolved murder Hyram Kitchen:

http://www.knoxsheriff.org/content/view/153/44/

I'm wondering since the show will be on Spike TV- perceived as the 'manly' network- how much of their focus will shift away from the Lost Loves segments/updates. I'm all for a platform for people being re-united and some of those stories are just as incredible as the Missing Persons/Unexplained but I often found myself getting up for milk and cookies when those are on. It's just not why most of us watch..........thats said the cases I would want to see closed are the ones involving the most motiveless of crimes-the strip mall rapist, the interstate attackers, each and every child abduction, I could go on forever..........

I'm wondering since the show will be on Spike TV- perceived as the 'manly' network- how much of their focus will shift away from the Lost Loves segments/updates. I'm all for a platform for people being re-united and some of those stories are just as incredible as the Missing Persons/Unexplained but I often found myself getting up for milk and cookies when those are on. It's just not why most of us watch..........thats said the cases I would want to see closed are the ones involving the most motiveless of crimes-the strip mall rapist, the interstate attackers, each and every child abduction, I could go on forever..........

I'm just hoping they won't try to turn every segment into a mini Jean-Claude Van Damme film, if you know what I mean. The appeal of the show was never about going 100 miles a minute, with lots of blood and guts thrown in for good measure. And I actually fear that they'll even try to over[I]dramatize the segments (think Law & Order: SVU) in an attempt to win viewers. But I keep hoping. Since Dennis Farina is a former cop himself, I can really see him helping to cut a lot of the crap and get down to the story.

I know- has there ever been a remake that was better than the original? Is everyone ready for an updated/remixed techno theme song? Or how about crystal clear HD in place of the trademark smoky lens? Probably most of us will be able to tell within 2 minutes if its worth tuning into regularly.

I know- has there ever been a remake that was better than the original?

If there was, I've never heard of it. But I should note that UM is being revived, not remade. There's a difference between a remake and a revival.

Yeah, you could be right. If this were 5 clean cut white guys I really think it would've gotten more publicity. It kind of goes along with the "Missing White Women Syndrome" where it has been documented that some attractive white women/girls get more publicity than non-white women. Many examples like the recent over obsession with baby Caylee plus cases like a Natalee Holloway, Chandra Levy, Laci Petersen, Elizabeth Smart, etc.

Here is a link to the missing 5 teens story:

http://www.officer.com/online/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=42799

I hope that the new UM focuses on the many cases that most of us have never heard about rather than the cases that have received wall-to-wall coverage.

Okay, here is one. Modern, living dinosaurs: http://www.mokelembembe.com/

Too bad, it seems "brontosaurus" is not the correct term, as that's the one most people still use and it's SUCH a cool word and way easier than mokelembembe. I'd say if a live one couldn't be found, could they at least find the skeleton of the one supposedly killed around 1960? If they could prove it died that recently, it would be worth putting more effort into finding a live one.

Okay, here is one. Modern, living dinosaurs: http://www.mokelembembe.com/

Too bad, it seems "brontosaurus" is not the correct term, as that's the one most people still use and it's SUCH a cool word and way easier than mokelembembe. I'd say if a live one couldn't be found, could they at least find the skeleton of the one supposedly killed around 1960? If they could prove it died that recently, it would be worth putting more effort into finding a live one.

There have been more bigfoot sightings all over the world since UM aired a bigfoot segment 20 years ago or so. People have named it all over the world with names like Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yoren, Yeti, Chinese Wildman, Yowie, Abominable Snowman, etc.

With so many sightings worldwide in the past 200 years there is a chance that either Gigantopithecus or a relative could still exist.

Giganto is a species of "extinct" primate that supposedly died out 100,000 to 300,000 years ago. It was 7 to 8 feet tall and weighed more than 1000 pounds!! Maybe a few survived till just a 1000 years ago or so and that accounts for the sightings. Maybe some survived longer.

Another interesting missing person case from my area:

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/barker_byron.html
http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=54487&provider=top

I thought of a few others while watching the E! channel of all things.

1. The Lindsay Cutshall/Jason Allen murders in Jenner, CA in 2004.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenner,_California_Double-Murder_of_2004

2. The 1982 Tylenol/Cyanide Murders

3. Vanessa Johnson Sosin murder in Maryland

4. The disappearance of Jacqueline Levitz in 1995 Vicksburg, MS

1. Galen Cook's investigation of William Pratt Gossett as a D.B. Cooper suspect
2. Robbie Romero disapperance in Santa Fe, New Mexico
3. Robert Spellman disappearance-Woodland Hills, California

www.canadiangurl77.com

A site devoted to the disappearance of Trenny Lynn Gibson