Hello All,

In response to the heated discussion on the Baskin case, I wanted to give you guys a heads up that Unsolved Mysteries will not be featuring any parental abduction cases in the episodes airing on Spike.

Thanks for all your continued support!

UM Staffer

Hello All,

In response to the heated discussion on the Baskin case, I wanted to give you guys a heads up that Unsolved Mysteries will not be featuring any parental abduction cases in the episodes airing on Spike.

Thanks for all your continued support!

UM Staffer


Thanks for the information. Any reason why? Too dated, most of the kids are grown-up by now (not just Christi & Bobby Baskin)?

Just curious if you know.

Exactly, kids featured in parental abduction cases from the original network show are adults now, and it is their choice if they would like to resume a relationship with the estranged parent(s).

Plus, as you know, Spike is a demographic for males 18-35, so the stories that the producers have chosen to air are more hard-hitting, crime stories.

UM Staffer

Exactly, kids featured in parental abduction cases from the original network show are adults now, and it is their choice if they would like to resume a relationship with the estranged parent(s).

Plus, as you know, Spike is a demographic for males 18-35, so the stories that the producers have chosen to air are more hard-hitting, crime stories.

UM Staffer

I don't agree with that.

These kids have probably been brainwashed into thinking their parents don't love them, stuff like that.

They could still be held against their will, even as adults, so I wouldn't say it's their choice.

What, are child abductions not hard-hitting enough?

I don't agree with that.

These kids have probably been brainwashed into thinking their parents don't love them, stuff like that.

They could still be held against their will, even as adults, so I wouldn't say it's their choice.

What, are child abductions not hard-hitting enough?

I have to agree with you. Plus, it doesn't seem fair to the families of these kids.

And I've seen a handful of Lost Love cases on the Spike version, which always seemed kinda mushy and Lifetime-y to me. If those are considered hard-hitting enough, I don't see why cases like the Baskins wouldn't be.

I have to agree with you. Plus, it doesn't seem fair to the families of these kids.

And I've seen a handful of Lost Love cases on the Spike version, which always seemed kinda mushy and Lifetime-y to me. If those are considered hard-hitting enough, I don't see why cases like the Baskins wouldn't be.

I respect the producers decisions and am not here to argue with them. I'm happy that someone is here to post information about the show for us.

I do agree with other posters though, that many children of parental abduction are brainwashed against the absent parent, some are even told that their other parent has died. I believe that it is a crime on the scale of any other crime and that the children are not safe even though they may be with a blood relative. Some of the children were taken when they were so young that they may not even know they have someone out there looking for them. Others may seem like they were old enough to remember their past someday, but through years of brainwashing, living on the run, changing identities, lies and deceit are still just as clueless to their real past and real identities, and also still victims, even though they are now adults.

I wholeheartedly disagree with that decision.

Abducted children may be adults and wanting to be left alone, it's all well and fine. However the parents who abducted them are nonetheless criminals wanted by the law. Their opinion as victim is irrelevant here. It is not theirs to decide if their parents have committed a felony or not, but the authorities and the DA's office. After the arrest they can present themselves to the trial as defence witnesses to vouch for their parent, if they so choose. The jury will decide if they were the victims of an abduction.

I would go even further, but it may prove unpopular: whether they believe they have not been abducted, if such adults are retraced and refuse to give information that may lead to the arrest of the suspected abductors knowing that they are wanted by the authorities, the option should be available to prosecute them for helping evasion of justice. Might be painful and harsh, but it might be the only way to make them get the fact that their parents have broken the law and, by their belief, act as accomplices to them escaping to justice.

So no, if the abductors are still wanted by the authorities their case should be covered like any other suspect at large. An adult abductee pretending or believing not to be a victim does not invalidate an arrest warrant against his presumed abductor.

And all of this is pure speculation. If Kristi and Bobby Baskin want to be left alone, they only need to go to the police and the media and say: "we are alive and want to be left alone, our grand-parents (or parents) are dead anyway, so pull off the Endangered Missing warrants on us and leave us be". The fact that these are still in place over various serious missing children organizations and websites is a good indication that they have NOT been found yet and have given no sign of life.

I wholeheartedly disagree with that decision.

Abducted children may be adults and wanting to be left alone, it's all well and fine. However the parents who abducted them are nonetheless criminals wanted by the law. Their opinion as victim is irrelevant here. It is not theirs to decide if their parents have committed a felony or not, but the authorities and the DA's office. After the arrest they can present themselves to the trial as defence witnesses to vouch for their parent, if they so choose. The jury will decide if they were the victims of an abduction.

I would go even further, but it may prove unpopular: whether they believe they have not been abducted, if such adults are retraced and refuse to give information that may lead to the arrest of the suspected abductors knowing that they are wanted by the authorities, the option should be available to prosecute them for helping evasion of justice. Might be painful and harsh, but it might be the only way to make them get the fact that their parents have broken the law and, by their belief, act as accomplices to them escaping to justice.

So no, if the abductors are still wanted by the authorities their case should be covered like any other suspect at large. An adult abductee pretending or believing not to be a victim does not invalidate an arrest warrant against his presumed abductor.

And all of this is pure speculation. If Kristi and Bobby Baskin want to be left alone, they only need to go to the police and the media and say: "we are alive and want to be left alone, our grand-parents (or parents) are dead anyway, so pull off the Endangered Missing warrants on us and leave us be". The fact that these are still in place over various serious missing children organizations and websites is a good indication that they have NOT been found yet and have given no sign of life.

I agree, very good post!