I'm hoping to find some new ones that I haven't seen yet.

I'm afraid most people's favorites are going to be ones that are popular and well known cases that you've frequently seen, such as Angela Hammond, Gordon Page, Wendy Camp and her family, etc.

Here's a list of missing people featured on UM (along with lost loves). It also includes resolved missing cases.

http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Lost_Loved_Ones

Here are some that were in a special alert type thing in 1988 or 1989 and are still unsolved as far as I know.

Julie Weflen - Young married woman. Vanished from her job in WA, suspected to have been murdered by two men. Ann Rule mentioned her in Kiss Me Kill Me.

Stefanie Stroh - College student, hitchhiking through US, missing from NV. Tommy Lynn Sells confessed to her murder, but with him... who knows.

Kyle Clinkscales - He and his car vanished while he was driving home from a bar in GA.

Carlos Alvarez - 3 years old. Abducted in CA by his uncle and the uncle's male friend.

Diana Braungardt - 18 years old. Went missing in MO while walking from work to her car in the parking lot where it was still located.

Lily Mae Huff - 73 year old widow with dementia. Disappeared from her nursing home in VA.

David Thies - 19 years old. Stepped outstide his NYC apartment to have a cigarette and was never seen again.

Susan Cappel - 19 years old. Info from the unsolvedwikia site:

Susan vanished in March of 1982 from a supermarket where she worked in her hometown of Newcomerstown, OH. She was walking to her car when a blue car pulled up and the driver talked to her. She got into the car and was never seen again.

In 1983, a Greyhound bus driver claimed to have seen Susan sometime after her disappearance, although it was never confirmed. Her family believes that her ex-husband, Allen Cappel, may have killed her in order to get full custody of their son, Damin.

Another theory involves two friends of Allen, Patrick and Robert Parrish. Patrick owned a car similar to the one that Susan was last seen getting into. Her family believes that Patrick and Robert threatened Damin's life, and forced Susan to disappear in order for Allen to recieve custody. Two weeks after Susan vanished, Robert and Patrick died in a car accident.

In 2003, Allen Cappel died without ever revealing what he might have known about his ex-wife's disappearance.

Here are some that were in a special alert type thing in 1988 or 1989 and are still unsolved as far as I know.

Julie Weflen - Young married woman. Vanished from her job in WA, suspected to have been murdered by two men. Ann Rule mentioned her in Kiss Me Kill Me.

Stefanie Stroh - College student, hitchhiking through US, missing from NV. Tommy Lynn Sells confessed to her murder, but with him... who knows.

Kyle Clinkscales - He and his car vanished while he was driving home from a bar in GA.

Carlos Alvarez - 3 years old. Abducted in CA by his uncle and the uncle's male friend.

Diana Braungardt - 18 years old. Went missing in MO while walking from work to her car in the parking lot where it was still located.

Lily Mae Huff - 73 year old widow with dementia. Disappeared from her nursing home in VA.

David Thies - 19 years old. Stepped outstide his NYC apartment to have a cigarette and was never seen again.

Susan Cappel - 19 years old. Info from the unsolvedwikia site:

Susan vanished in March of 1982 from a supermarket where she worked in her hometown of Newcomerstown, OH. She was walking to her car when a blue car pulled up and the driver talked to her. She got into the car and was never seen again.

In 1983, a Greyhound bus driver claimed to have seen Susan sometime after her disappearance, although it was never confirmed. Her family believes that her ex-husband, Allen Cappel, may have killed her in order to get full custody of their son, Damin.

Another theory involves two friends of Allen, Patrick and Robert Parrish. Patrick owned a car similar to the one that Susan was last seen getting into. Her family believes that Patrick and Robert threatened Damin's life, and forced Susan to disappear in order for Allen to recieve custody. Two weeks after Susan vanished, Robert and Patrick died in a car accident.

In 2003, Allen Cappel died without ever revealing what he might have known about his ex-wife's disappearance.
This special alert with the above cases and the solved ones is probably the scariest two minutes of UM. The music alone is freaky! I know that only two of the cases were solved, the two hunters and the young boy who vanished after returning home from school. I am not sure if his killer was ever found but I know the hunters' killer was. I think CD mentioned that he used machinery to grind their remains :eek: :eek: :eek:

The ones that are still missing still bother me and do every time. The only one that has hope of being alive (most likely) is the young boy kidnapped by his uncle. Other than that, I think everyone else met foul play (the lady with Alzheimer's may have or someone picked her up or something).

I find it interesting UM said that Susan Cappel was about to be 21 and that there is an age discrepancy. I remember reading about her on Charley Project as well. Very suspicious!

I find it interesting UM said that Susan Cappel was about to be 21 and that there is an age discrepancy. I remember reading about her on Charley Project as well. Very suspicious!

During that special alert, UM posted onscreen what age the person was at the time of broadcast instead of showing what their age at the time of their disappearance, which was spoken.

I had noticed that when I was watching and writing notes on each person so I could look up their cases and see which ones were solved. I had to keep pausing the DVD and scratch out the info I had written down, then start up again and listen for the correct info.

Her Charley page says she was born in 1962 and went missing in 1982, two weeks before her birthday. The UM broadcast was in 1989, IIRC. How far off was the age discrepancy? I wrote those notes and watched that part of the segment a couple weeks ago and I forgot what age they showed on the screen when they put up Susan Cappel's photo. Do you remember what they stated?

Not too much. They said two weeks before her 21st birthday (so should be 20) but other things I read said 19. So not much.

I'm glad someone else really took interest in that special alert as well!

By the way, here's another one I find fascinating. I don't think it ever was on UM though it is on the UM wiki:
http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Leanne_Green

Here are some that were in a special alert type thing in 1988 or 1989 and are still unsolved as far as I know.

Julie Weflen - Young married woman. Vanished from her job in WA, suspected to have been murdered by two men. Ann Rule mentioned her in Kiss Me Kill Me.

Stefanie Stroh - College student, hitchhiking through US, missing from NV. Tommy Lynn Sells confessed to her murder, but with him... who knows.

Kyle Clinkscales - He and his car vanished while he was driving home from a bar in GA.

Carlos Alvarez - 3 years old. Abducted in CA by his uncle and the uncle's male friend.

Diana Braungardt - 18 years old. Went missing in MO while walking from work to her car in the parking lot where it was still located.

Lily Mae Huff - 73 year old widow with dementia. Disappeared from her nursing home in VA.

David Thies - 19 years old. Stepped outstide his NYC apartment to have a cigarette and was never seen again.

Susan Cappel - 19 years old. Info from the unsolvedwikia site:

Susan vanished in March of 1982 from a supermarket where she worked in her hometown of Newcomerstown, OH. She was walking to her car when a blue car pulled up and the driver talked to her. She got into the car and was never seen again.

In 1983, a Greyhound bus driver claimed to have seen Susan sometime after her disappearance, although it was never confirmed. Her family believes that her ex-husband, Allen Cappel, may have killed her in order to get full custody of their son, Damin.

Another theory involves two friends of Allen, Patrick and Robert Parrish. Patrick owned a car similar to the one that Susan was last seen getting into. Her family believes that Patrick and Robert threatened Damin's life, and forced Susan to disappear in order for Allen to recieve custody. Two weeks after Susan vanished, Robert and Patrick died in a car accident.

In 2003, Allen Cappel died without ever revealing what he might have known about his ex-wife's disappearance.

I have this special alert episode in my Unsolved Mysteries playlist. Very sad that none of these people have ever been found.

Dale Kerstetter has always been my favorite.

Not too much. They said two weeks before her 21st birthday (so should be 20) but other things I read said 19. So not much.

I'm glad someone else really took interest in that special alert as well!

By the way, here's another one I find fascinating. I don't think it ever was on UM though it is on the UM wiki:
http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Leanne_Green"Extra Notes: This case has not been featured on Unsolved Mysteries."

Err, okay? Seems strange that it's on the site, then.

It's so strange that none of these has ever been solved. I'd say Carlos Alvarez is still alive, just probably without any idea of his abduction. Everyone else aside from the elderly lady, as WishfulDreamer said, most certainly met with foul play.

Lily Mae Huff probably died of exposure.

Guys, GUYS! can we please take the word "favourite" out of this. It sounds terribly insensitive to use words like favourite when referring to a horrific event that has put families through years of unimaginable pain. Maybe refer to them as most intriguing cases. Anything but favourite. :(

The case that has probably piqued my curiosity the most over the years is A.J. Breaux. Leonard Dirickson is a close second.

Guys, GUYS! can we please take the word "favourite" out of this. It sounds terribly insensitive to use words like favourite when referring to a horrific event that has put families through years of unimaginable pain. Maybe refer to them as most intriguing cases. Anything but favourite. :(

I see nothing wrong with referring to a case or segment as a favorite. No one here is insensitive enough to have a favorite missing person. A number of things could contribute to something being a favorite segment: good acting, good cinematography, creepy music, Stack's narration, the reenactments, etc.

Do you mean favorite missing person cases on Unsolved Mysteries, or in general? Because if you are looking for interesting cases that were not on UM, this thread has a lot of them.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=288974

I have no issue calling my favorite missing person my favorite because against all odds, it turned out well. Patricia Ann Teer/Carlton. What a survivor that woman is. First she survived an aneurysm, then brain surgery in the 1960s. And then, somehow, 33 years after she went missing, she was located ALIVE.

I have no issue calling my favorite missing person my favorite because against all odds, it turned out well. Patricia Ann Teer/Carlton. What a survivor that woman is. First she survived an aneurysm, then brain surgery in the 1960s. And then, somehow, 33 years after she went missing, she was located ALIVE.


I really enjoyed this episode as well. Her husband was such a good person IMO. He had remarried and with this new wife’s support was still looking for her.

I'm hoping to find some new ones that I haven't seen yet.

If you're really interested in cases involving missing people, I really suggest looking up Dave Paulides. He wrote a book on cases of missing people who disappeared from national parks in North America. The research he's done and the number of people who've disappeared in total, is staggering. You can find quite a few podcasts uploaded on that forbidden site or you can get the 2 books. I think what makes his work amazing is that Dave is a former lawman, so he knows the ins and outs of how rescue searches work and whatnot. Just throwing this out there, sorry it's not UM related.

If you're really interested in cases involving missing people, I really suggest looking up Dave Paulides. He wrote a book on cases of missing people who disappeared from national parks in North America. The research he's done and the number of people who've disappeared in total, is staggering. You can find quite a few podcasts uploaded on that forbidden site or you can get the 2 books. I think what makes his work amazing is that Dave is a former lawman, so he knows the ins and outs of how rescue searches work and whatnot. Just throwing this out there, sorry it's not UM related.

Yes, and he also has a great website:

http://www.canammissing.com/page/page/8396197.htm

Debra Poe. It's interesting and creepy to realize that while the focus was on "Megadeath Man," her possible abductor could have been her boyfriend at the time, who became a minister. Suspicion was also cast on the friend that was helping her build a new house. And cases involving convenience stores interest me because I worked at one and they can be creepy late at night. The one I worked at was right across the street from a cemetery. Sometimes I had to walk home after a 3-11 shift and I always thought someone was lurking in the cemetery just waiting to jump out.

I'm hoping to find some new ones that I haven't seen yet.
My favorites from UM are Gordon Page, Leonard Dirickson, and George Owens. The Dale Kerstetter and A.J. Breaux segments are interesting too.

As for one not featured on UM, the Springfield 3 story has always haunted me.

For obvious reasons, the Patricia Meehan case has always resonated with me. Probably because I grew up in Montana and remember seeing missing person alerts for her on the local TV channels... to be quite honest, they are the only missing person bulletins I remember seeing on television outside of UM. Ever.

I sincerely hope her family gets answers someday...

This is more like "wanted" more than "missing" but...

Does anyone remember the name of the case where the newly ex-husband poisoned his estranged wife at a party? He took it from a chemist who was a friend coning the friends sister to let him down there after the chemist said not to let him in? His wife later died. He has been on the run ever since and its been like 50 years? The reason I ask is it happened only an hour from where I grew up. It took place in Rochester NY about an hour from Buffalo. I don't think they caught him.

This is more like "wanted" more than "missing" but...

Does anyone remember the name of the case where the newly ex-husband poisoned his estranged wife at a party? He took it from a chemist who was a friend coning the friends sister to let him down there after the chemist said not to let him in? His wife later died. He has been on the run ever since and its been like 50 years? The reason I ask is it happened only an hour from where I grew up. It took place in Rochester NY about an hour from Buffalo. I don't think they caught him.

Joe Maloney. It has been nearly 50 years. He was captured in Ireland at one point, but they didn't have an extradition treaty with the U.S. at the time, and he was released shortly thereafter.

The one I'd like to see solved is Anthonette Cayedito. She could still be alive out there! Sometimes kids can be brainwashed in about a month and pretty well forget who they are!

This special alert with the above cases and the solved ones is probably the scariest two minutes of UM. The music alone is freaky! I know that only two of the cases were solved, the two hunters and the young boy who vanished after returning home from school. I am not sure if his killer was ever found but I know the hunters' killer was. I think CD mentioned that he used machinery to grind their remains :eek: :eek: :eek:

The ones that are still missing still bother me and do every time. The only one that has hope of being alive (most likely) is the young boy kidnapped by his uncle. Other than that, I think everyone else met foul play (the lady with Alzheimer's may have or someone picked her up or something).

I find it interesting UM said that Susan Cappel was about to be 21 and that there is an age discrepancy. I remember reading about her on Charley Project as well. Very suspicious!
Yeah the special alert cases always scared the crap out of me when i was a kid. I might have seen this one but I can't remember for sure if I have.

The one I'd like to see solved is Anthonette Cayedito. She could still be alive out there! Sometimes kids can be brainwashed in about a month and pretty well forget who they are!
Yeah this one always gets me too. The fact that she called showed hope for her recovery.

For obvious reasons, the Patricia Meehan case has always resonated with me. Probably because I grew up in Montana and remember seeing missing person alerts for her on the local TV channels... to be quite honest, they are the only missing person bulletins I remember seeing on television outside of UM. Ever.

I sincerely hope her family gets answers someday...
Yeah I think location has a lot to do with ones that we remember. Someone said we shouldn't have favorite segments and I think it is just a situation where we aren't happy people are missing but we remember certain cases for different reasons. Certainly we hope that the cases are solved but it seems the missing persons cases rarely have happy ending... I always remember the Sara Jo because I love Hawaii and am intrigued by the vast oceans and bad weather.

I've recently been watching on YouTube doco's about British Columbia's "Highway of Tears". It's just staggering how many woman have gone missing along this isolated stretch of road since 1969. I strongly believe there's more than one killer at work here.

It's not a UM case, but the most interesting to me is Maura Murray. So many theories on what happened to her, and all of them are at least somewhat probable.

I never know what it is about certain missing persons cases that capture my attention, yet they do all the same. I try to make it a habit not to refer to any of the crime cases as “favorite" because I know that family members sometimes visit the board and I worry about sounding insensitive. But who knows? Maybe I'm making something of nothing.
The Kerstetter case has always intrigued me. There's just something about people who go missing from the workplace that I find especially compelling. I've followed the Colleen Wood and Huisentruit cases for many years now. Same with the Bible/Freeman disappearances. The Curtis Pishon case always disturbs me, perhaps because my father suffers from MS. These are just to name a few. Hopefully these cases will be resolved at some point, giving the loved ones some much needed answers.

I accidentally duplicated my post. My apologies.

Leah Roberts. I don't know why exactly but I just related a lot to her. Also, the Disappeared episode on her had interesting information not mentioned on UM. Like apparently, they've determined that her car was tampered with. :O