The title is rather odd, but I was thinking about it, and prior to watching UM, some of these states were more "under the radar" to me, as I never really heard too much about them. However, quite a few cases happened there. The two that come to mind are:

New Mexico:

Tara Calico
Anthonette Cayadito
Fr. Reynaldo Rivera
David Stone
Steve Sandlin
etc...

Montana:

Morris Davis
Dexter Stefonek
etc...

Any others?

The title is rather odd, but I was thinking about it, and prior to watching UM, some of these states were more "under the radar" to me, as I never really heard too much about them. However, quite a few cases happened there. The two that come to mind are:

New Mexico:

Tara Calico
Anthonette Cayadito
Fr. Reynaldo Rivera
David Stone
Steve Sandlin
etc...

Montana:

Morris Davis
Dexter Stefonek
etc...

Any others?

Lisa Kimmel comes to mind. I know she was "seen" in Montana(she was from there as well but was living in Colorado). She was also seen in Wyoming I believe...

The title is rather odd, but I was thinking about it, and prior to watching UM, some of these states were more "under the radar" to me, as I never really heard too much about them. However, quite a few cases happened there. The two that come to mind are:

New Mexico:

Tara Calico
Anthonette Cayadito
Fr. Reynaldo Rivera
David Stone
Steve Sandlin
etc...

Montana:

Morris Davis
Dexter Stefonek
etc...

Any others?

Usually the 'lonely' states are more prone (i.e. creepy) for crimes to happen. Like the lonely ski resort town where the orange socks murders occurred (Colorado).

New Mexico is a very high crime state.

Maybe this sounds biased coming from the L.A. area but I've never thought of any state as under the radar in terms of crime. Crime happens all over the place so I guess I never thought of it that way. Sadly, even out in the boonies among beautiful scenery crime can happen just like in the metropolitan areas (and unfortunately, less witnesses are around to see it). How many cases were on UM alone where the people would say, "Hey, violent crime hasn't happened here in 20 years/ever/ people used to never lock their doors..." Even where you least suspect it : (

I'm not surprised a few noteworthy crimes/mysteries happened in Ohio. I live in Ohio. and some parts of it are downright creepy! but people think we all live on farms and are hicks. ha!

Rhode Island! It's so tiny and I feel like it never gets any press, but you've got Doreen Marfeo and the Woonsocket attacks, and Adam Emery.

My area produced (and thankfully more recently, caught) the Bike Path Rapist, which has always loomed large because the community routinely shows up in the 'safest towns in America' rankings.

New Mexico is a very high crime state.

That's because Walt and Jesse are cooking meth over there. :)

It seems like every single unsolved murder ever committed happened in Spokane, Washington.

Mass. has some good cases for a state not expected but there was Whitey Bulger, the Boston rapist, the Boston strangler, the murder of Susan Taraskiewitz, Molly Bish, and some car crash on the Mass Pike where a stranger pulled a baby out of the backseat to save them and the family just wanted to thank the man(fuzzy on the names)

For me, it seemed like every episode contained a segment from either Florida or Louisiana.

It seems so much goes down in Florida for some reason. Same thing with Washington state. Ann Rule will never go out of business writing books about murders out there.

My home state of Maryland has been featured a few times on UM---Oliver Munson, Keith Warren, Tracy Kirkpatrick and Alicia Showalter-Reynolds. A lot of the crime in Maryland, especially the Baltimore area, deals with drugs, gang violence, robbery-turned-murder and witness intimidation. It's rare that you get serial killings in this state, which is a good thing. Of course, any type of crime isn't good either.

Any one from Maryland how can you not say Brad Bishop as a crime in your state?

Probably because they focused so much on him going overseas and that spotting in Italy. Well, at least for me anyway.

I agree about Washington state. You had the Green River killer there, among others.

Rhode Island! It's so tiny and I feel like it never gets any press, but you've got Doreen Marfeo and the Woonsocket attacks, and Adam Emery.Add
Campus Calamity to the list.

I don't know why, but for a medium sized state, Washington seems to turn up a lot. In addition to the Green River killer, on UM you had Jay Cook and Tonya, Russell Evans, Mia Zapata, Kurt Cobain. WA turns up a lot on City Confidential too. Spokane, Lopez Island, too name a few. Ted Bundy had a connection there as well.

btw, if you've never seen the City Confidential episode Lopez Island: Foul Play on the Friendly Isle, it's worth a look

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/n/neslund_rolf.html

I don't know why, but for a medium sized state, Washington seems to turn up a lot. In addition to the Green River killer, on UM you had Jay Cook and Tonya, Russell Evans, Mia Zapata, Kurt Cobain. WA turns up a lot on City Confidential too. Spokane, Lopez Island, too name a few. Ted Bundy had a connection there as well.

btw, if you've never seen the City Confidential episode Lopez Island: Foul Play on the Friendly Isle, it's worth a look

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/n/neslund_rolf.html

I really enjoyed that episode and had never heard about that case until I saw it. Definitely one of my favorites.

Seems like in the 80s and part of the 90s Florida was the rob/abduct a convenience store clerk capital of the world. Seems like there were quite a few there

The great state of Michigan had a varied content of crimes:

Missy Mundy/Jerry Strickland
Jack Brown
John Burns
Dennis & Marilyn DePue
The guy in Detroit who had the Minor League team and ripped people off.....Rick something I think?

Yay mphs95 is back! :wave:


I currently live in Hawaii, which, by UM standards, seems like a great location to get caught if you're a fugitive :lol:, but I was actually surprised by the number of cases that happened in my home state of Tennessee:

-Dan Tondevold
-Blair Adams
-Marlena Childress
-Joe Shepard
-Cheryl Holland
-ATV murders
-Kevin Hughes
-the Inner City Church arson
-Georgia Tann
-Martha 'Doe' Roberts
-Martha Hinkle
-John Cheek
-Jameika Porch
-Michael St. Clair and Dennis Reese

And probably some others I'm forgetting.


Ohio seemed to have a lot of them, too:

-the Wackers
-Kurt Sova
-Circleville Writer
-Cindy Anderson
-Dave Bocks
-Permon Gilbert
-Barbara Helga King
-Jessica Keen
-Robert Hamrick
-Phyllis Strub