I'm about 25 now, and thought it might be neat to share a list of the segments that I can remember watching on TV when the original UM was on, when I was a bit younger. Of course I'm caught up on many others in the past year or two. For whatever reasons:

Rhonda Hinson
Angela Hammond
Stockton arsonist
Deborah Poe
Joyce McLain
Shooting of "Carol"
Rebecca Young
Cynthia Anderson

How about you guys?

(oh, and, Kurt Sova, but only for the creepy "crazy from Detroit")

I remember most of the ones I saw as a child, simply because they scared the BEEJEEZUS out of me back then, and those type of memories are not easily forgotten.

I definitely remember the "boys on the track" one from my youth. I was sitting in a completely dark living room watching it with my parents and you just don't forget something like that, lol. The segment on "Debby" the woman raped and shot in the face is another one. Although I just watched it in the last few years and thought I had never seen it before, when they showed the scene of her seeing her reflection in a helium balloon someone had sent her, I definitely remembered seeing that scene long ago.

My first memory of UM was watching the original broadcast of the Kevin Hughes segment. Dick Hansen, Keith Warren, the Hanson twins, and the DeCloud cult segments are a few I have a definite recollection of from childhood.

To name a few:

"Carol" was one of those segment I only saw once when I was a kid and that scared the living daylights out of me! And I didn't have a chance to watch it again until years later! (Thanks CD! :))

Others that I also remember very well would be The Baskins, Nyleen Kay Marshall and Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum's UFO encounter.

I think the ones I found most disturbing were the cases affecting children, also the motiveless crimes, like Carol, freaked me out.

I think everyone universally on this board remembers "Omar the Arsonist."

That case was kind of unforgettable.

What made that case scarier back then was that when i first saw it, it wasn;t solved.

Now with it being solved. That case seems less scary to me. Or does it?


As much as i remember being frightened by this show, i find it interesting that now i remember fewer episodes form the original run.

Most of my knowledge of cases is from the Lifetime run.

I mean there are some cartoon show episodes i remember from back then but i remember fewer UM episodes.

Maybe it's because i had my eyes closed most of the time while watching UM at night!:eek:

Among the first ones I remember were these:

John Burns
Shannon Davis
Dorothy Allison
Kurt McFall
Jerry Strickland & Missy Munday
Gayle Delano
“Son of Sam” killers
Harold & Thelma Swain
Matthew Chase
the 2 priest murders
Jeremy Bright
Michaela Garecht
the whole Alcatraz episode
super glue bank robber
Joyce McLain
Dan Short
the tunnel bank robbers
Patsy Wright
Perman Gilbert
Tara Calico and Micheal Henley
Mabel Woods
"Omar" arsonist
Ralph Probst
Ralph Sigler
Donald Eugene Webb
Kevin Hughes
Charles Morgan
Orange sock murders
Rick Church
Angela Hammond
Dave Bocks
Dwayne McCorkendale
Judy Himes
Jack Davis Jr.
Debbie Wolfe
ATV murders
Connecticut River Valley serial killer (NH/Vermont)
I-71 Ohio truck stop killer
Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg

Among the first ones I remember were these:


Dorothy Allison
Kurt McFall
“Son of Sam” killers
Jeremy Bright
Michaela Garecht
Patsy Wright
"Omar" arsonist

Those are among the first I remember as well. And with Michaela Garecht, Son of Sam (greatest segment in UM history), Patsy Wright, and "Omar" it's because they scared the crap out of me. In particular the Garecht one, because of the freaking composite.

I also remember the I-70 Killer. That's mainly because I live in Kansas, in a town just off of I-70, and that case was huge news in Kansas, as well as everywhere around I-70.

Yeah, the Son of Sam one is probably my favorite too.

I'm ageless (Hee! Hee!:lol: ), so the Gayle Delano segment and the tragic update is the one I can recall from back in the day....

Some stories I definitely remember from childhood:

2 Priest Killings
Matthew Chase
Lancaster Postal Extortion
Missing Time
The Alcatraz escape
Ralph Probst
Dale Hyde
The Abominable Snowman
Champ

I had a fascination with the paranormal beginning around 1992. So I watched the show a lot to catch the unexplained type segments. Funny as I could care less about the unexplained stuff now and am more interested in the murder and missing persons cases.

I think 92 was when Lifetime began showing reruns so I caught up with a lot of stuff I had missed from the early years. I remember seeing the Son of Sam and Omar segments then for the very first time.

John Moody and Ann Sigmin.

I don't remember specific episodes from childhood, just a general feeling that this show was really creepy! Upon re-watching the eps on Spike TV, I do realize that I have seen some of them before. Like the radio DJ who got chased down and killed on his motorcycle. I also remember being very freaked out as a kid by an episode that invovled someone hiding in someone else's basement, but I don't remember the specifics of the case.

The one that comes to mind right away is Resurrection Mary--a ghost story--man that gave me the creeps!

Some of the segments I remember most were:

Rebecca Young
Dorothy Donovan
Dick Hansen
Julius Patterson

It didn't help that I would watch the show just before going to bed. As a kid, the images from the re-enactments really stuck with me, and made me terrified to use the bathroom at night. In many cases, it was not just the murders themselves, but the way these people were killed, that made them terrifying and memorable.

A few more:

Harold and Thelma Swain
Liza Montgomery
Corinne "Punky" Gustavson
Beverly McGowan
"The Hum"
Flight 19
Anna Anderson/Anastasia
Resurrection Mary :rolleyes:
The Tallman haunting
Queen Mary


I also think I saw the Larry Race segment as a kid too, although I'm not quite certain if that's true or not.

Just had another flashback - the Pike's Peak Bigfoot segment. I remember that it freaked me out. I asked mom if it was for real and she said "no".

Just had one too---I definitely saw the Kathy Bonderson segment as a kid. I remembered that scene with the smoking car by the railroad tracks pretty vividly years later.

The cases i remember back from the original run were

1. Omar the Arsonist
2. Rachel Runnion case (that letter freaked me out with the 666 and upside down cross scared me for weeks :eek: )
3. Adam Hecht (wasn't really scary as much a i remember the bizarre behavior of his friend Tony and his mom's reaction to him. :lol: )
4. Roswell (seemed to always be on)
5. The Mystery Hum
6. Edward Bell (i remember that shooting scene and being horified by it)
7. Who Killed Superman
8. Torso Murderer (did this premier at the same time as UNTOUCHABLES movie came out?)
9. Sonny Liston
10. Brushy Bill Roberts/Billy the Kidd
11. The Doctor who raped women (i forget his name)
12. USS Vincennes retalition (have vivid memories of that one)
13. Patricia Meehan (who could forget that self-photo???!!!!:eek: )

I think I remember most of the stories from my youth. I must say the two that creeped me out the most as a kid were the Judy Himes segment where the person would call and say “Judy Himes is alive and living in Omaha,” and the one about the dude that decided to live the rest of his life in a mental institution to escape the child-like voice that kept calling his home claiming to be a part of L’Enfant. Of course there were a lot that scared me as a kid, but both of those had me NOT wanting to answer the phone any time it rang.

This is a great site by the way…I had no idea that this many people love(d) Unsolved Mysteries as much as I do.

8. Torso Murderer (did this premier at the same time as UNTOUCHABLES movie came out?)
11. The Doctor who raped women (i forget his name)

I'm pretty sure that the torso slayer story was rerun the same night of the premiere of the TV movie "The Return of Elliot Ness". I think Stack either mentioned it on UM or in some commercials I have recorded from that same night.

Dr. Kenneth Frank.

I also remember the Laura Burbank, Chad Langford, Sherry Eyerly (it seems like Lifetime reran that one a lot around 2004-2005), Andre Jones, Sharon Kinne, and Chaim Weiss segments (I definitely recall that final one, because it freaked me out for weeks and stuck with me for years).

Oh! The older lady who went missing from her house, they found a road map in her yard that probably belonged to her killer...then they found her body, raped and murdered, tied to a tree in the woods! Always scared the bejeezus out of me...and broke my heart!

The Cindy Anderson segment was terrifying, too! I was always freaked out by “Judy Himes is alive and living in Omaha,” LOL.

UM aired on Wednesday nights...and my parents would go to church sometimes! We lived in a large house on a hill in Tennessee in the woods...and I would be soooo terrified by the time they came home at 8:00. :lol:

Oh! The older lady who went missing from her house, they found a road map in her yard that probably belonged to her killer...then they found her body, raped and murdered, tied to a tree in the woods! Always scared the bejeezus out of me...and broke my heart!

The Cindy Anderson segment was terrifying, too! I was always freaked out by ``Judy Himes is alive and living in Omaha,`` LOL.

UM aired on Wednesday nights...and my parents would go to church sometimes! We lived in a large house on a hill in Tennessee in the woods...and I would be soooo terrified by the time they came home at 8:00. :lol:
The first one you mentioned is the Ethel Kidd segment, mysterymomma. Big time scary. Imagine how shot the nerves of that hunter who happened upon her probably were. Glad her killer was captured. Nice to have a fellow Tennessean here! I'm a native Knoxvillian myself.

Thanks for the info, MegtheEgg86! I didn't know the ladies name, so I couldn't really check on an update! Yes, I am in Murfreesboro.

I was much more into the legends and supernatural stuff when I was a kid. Doc & Babe Noss/Victorio Peak was one of my favorite mysteries when I was a kid. I remember being sooooo frustrated. If they could only get to the gold!:rolleyes: The Roswell special and the "lost time" segments were huge too.

Oh, and the Tara Calico segment. That Polaroid photo will be burned in my brain until I die.

For me it was the following:

Wanda Jean Mays
"Boys on the Track"
Cindy James
Alex Cooper
Micki Jo West

I do not remember very many episodes, but I know that years later, when I started watching re-runs on Lifetime, I would get that "deja vu" feeling, like "oh yeah, I remember that one!" Tops on that list is the Matthew Chase "face in the ATM" picture, which triggered some anxious feelings and memories of Wednesday nights with the covers pulled up over my head, the lights on, and the bedroom door remaining open.

As for episodes I actually recall, the kidnapping of the little girl by that young, long-haired blonde guy I always remembered (although I don't recall any other segments from that night, I always remembered this was my favourite episode because five segments plus some kind of special "most wanted" feature were included on that episode). I always remembered two segments from the first episode - the man whose vehicle was abandoned with his stuff scattered, and the lost loves segment about the siamese twin (this was the first ever broadcast - I had forgotten the other segments, but always remembered these two).

Also, I remember a lot of the high profile cases, like the Son of Sam, DB Cooper, and others.

Although I always preferred the crime stories, it is the non-crime stories I seem to remember best, for some reason. Billy the Kid / Brushy Bill Roberts, the Shroud of Turin, Roswell, the UFO sightings at Gulf Breeze, General Wayne's Inn, Alien Abductions and Missing Time (with Bud Hopkins), Crop Circles, Lock Ness / Ogopogo, Bigfoot, NDEs, and a number of others I vividly recall, and always have.

The Wanda Jean Mays case stayed in my head for years. I never forgot it. I still get creeped out when I watch the show, especially when I'm alone. I lock the doors and double check all the rooms to make sure nobody is there!

Yeah, the Judith Himes case creeped me out! The voice on the other end of the line was eery! The Micki Jo West case was also memorable, in a bad way....