I find it funny and odd that many killers, kidnappers, and rapists actually look like mean or weird people. Sure, some sketches make a normal person look scary when in fact they do not look scary at all. Also, I have learned from true crime shows and news stories that plenty of rapists and murderers are the clean cut men, the good looking guys, the guy next door type.

But, I am only talking about the bad people of UM who look extra creepy and makes their actions come as no surprise, despite it being very cruel. Here is my example.

1. the lady who watched new babies in the hospital and eventually kidnapped one from a Latino or Hispanic woman. The killer is believe to be part Hispanic. anyways her sketch looks super creepy because of the face and especially her wavy hairstyle. Her hairstyle looks like its on fire. A hair of fire. Creepy...

I immediately thought of this scumbag, even the actor who played him was creepy!

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

I think UM sometimes purposely casted "creepy" people to play the roles of fugitives in order to make them and their crimes seem even scarier.

For example, David Harry Fisher. Now, obviously he was a pure disgusting scumbag regardless of how he looked or not. But it's interesting that he wasn't yet balding in 1970 (though he had a total bozo ring by 1989 when he was captured), but the guy portraying him befriending/talking to Laura Burbank, already had that receding hairline and just looked shady.

"Bozo ring"! lol Never heard that one before so of course I had to do an image search for bozo and fisher. Hmmmm... Yep, same guy:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lgHJ4sCqFM4/TKUs4_ZRRpI/AAAAAAAADZs/LSLWPs1JgeI/s400/smoking-bozo-1.jpghttp://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111001014248/unsolvedmysteries/images/thumb/f/f4/David_fisher_arrest.jpg/250px-David_fisher_arrest.jpg

I am cracking up over "bozo ring". I also had never heard that one before. :lol:

ROFL! I forget where I first heard "bozo ring" to describe guys with total balding up front/on top (though I think its pretty recent), but it made me laugh too.


Another obvious creepy guy, was the actor playing the Blind River Rest Stop killer. He was like a crazed version of Doc from Back to the Future (I can imagine that's how he might've looked in the "Evil 1985" timeline in part II, where Biff gets rich off the almanac and owns a casino in Hill Valley).

The (real life) suspects in the Gus Hoffman case.

No UM actor, IMO, has ever looked as cold as the man who portrayed Jane Boroski's attacker. I own a book on the case that features a photo of Jane with the reenactment actors. I jumped a little the first time I saw the actor, even though he was smiling in the picture.

Alternately, I remember "Debbie's" attacker (in the reenactment) looking rather clean-cut and harmless when you got past the shotgun and that awful chase through the woods.

I immediately thought of this scumbag, even the actor who played him was creepy!

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

I thought the actor playing him was more creepy looking. :lol:

No UM actor, IMO, has ever looked as cold as the man who portrayed Jane Boroski's attacker. I own a book on the case that features a photo of Jane with the reenactment actors. I jumped a little the first time I saw the actor, even though he was smiling in the picture.

Is this the New Hampshire serial killer who stabbed her at the Coke machine in 1988? Yeah, that entire case was so eerie. The actor could be the nicest guy in real life, but just knowing how well he pulled off playing a sociopathic serial killer, would chill me a bit too.

I didn't know Jane's last name or that it was made into a book, what's it called?

Dennis DePue fits this topic pretty well, as messed up and sad as is the DePue family story.

I forget his name, but the guy in the truck that chased Lee Selwyn on his motorcycle and caused his crash and death had a creepy mugshot on the "Update" for Selwyn's case.

Is this the New Hampshire serial killer who stabbed her at the Coke machine in 1988? Yeah, that entire case was so eerie. The actor could be the nicest guy in real life, but just knowing how well he pulled off playing a sociopathic serial killer, would chill me a bit too.

I didn't know Jane's last name or that it was made into a book, what's it called?

Yes, that's the one.

The book is Shadow of Death by Philip E. Ginsburg. It's a great, well-researched and well-written book and covers all of the known victims. You can pick it up used for pennies all over the internet. (My fiance and I had a meeting at his work about a month ago. He's on a military post and I had some time to kill so I visited the base library. I found a copy of this there and thought it was kind of interesting, being that this case is definitely not as well-known as the usual true crime suspects like Zodiac, Son of Sam, and the Manson family.)

Yes, that's the one.

The book is Shadow of Death by Philip E. Ginsburg. It's a great, well-researched and well-written book and covers all of the known victims. You can pick it up used for pennies all over the internet. (My fiance and I had a meeting at his work about a month ago. He's on a military post and I had some time to kill so I visited the base library. I found a copy of this there and thought it was kind of interesting, being that this case is definitely not as well-known as the usual true crime suspects like Zodiac, Son of Sam, and the Manson family.)
Thanks for the recommendation, Meg! :wave: I'll have to check this one out.

As for creepy crawlies in the reenactments, I say the guy in the Kyra Cook segment who sees her coming and quickly walks over to her. They picked the perfect, creepy guy for that segment.

As for real life, I feel kind of bad saying this since he might have been totally innocent of wrongdoing for all we know, but the photo of Florian (Freedon segment) where he's on the ship not looking at the camera gives me the creeps.

Dennis DePue fits this topic pretty well, as messed up and sad as is the DePue family story.

He looked like an evil Fred Flinstone.

Jim Burnside had a skeevy look to him and didn't even have to be a jackass wife-beating murderer.

And the actors in the reenactments of the I-70 murders and Boston rapes---they look like everyday guys but the flat, cold acting they did really made them into men you wouldn't want to be alone with.

Mel Green. Sentenced to life in prison on March 4th, 1992 for hiring a hitman to kill his wife, Anita Green. Shooting took place in North Hollywood, CA on October 25th, 1990. The hitman has never been identified or found.