(hi). is there a certain unsolved mysteries segment that you absolutely hate because its so atrocious or means-spirited? I mean there are murderers and there are super-murderers - u know the ones who over do it. Yes, a murder is a murder, but in some cases its just too gruesome to watch. Can you relate to such segments?

Here are my segments that I can never watch and must fast forward on VHS or DVD:

1. The Bible trailer fire murders. I feel sorry for the 2 dead girls. Not sure if they ever found their bodies? Have not seen this one in a while. Its just too gory because it was ones birthday and so on.

2. Tom Johnson - now this one I still watch when I see a rerun or watch my long list of segments on my made up DVDs (vhs copies). But its gruesome because of the hammer hits to the heads and that the male survivor ends up dying years later in a car accident. I watch it because they never caught the guy, its scary because it takes place in the daylight and where other people are around - motel.

3. The beautiful teenage girl who got hit in the head by a 2 x 4 or some kind of board when she was on the back of her boyfriend's motorcycle in California I believe. I just cant watch the segment and cannot watch her because its so sad that she cant talk or communicate like she used too and you knew she was going to go onto bigger and better things after high school like professional cheerleading or modeling or college. Also the fact that the person who hit her never confessed, nor did his ENTIRE group of friends turn him in! I think there are some other people too that may know like the suspect's parents or classmates but they refuse to turn him in due to it being a small town and some places like that refuse to get involved, which is evil if u think about it!

4. other segments that involved a wife beater who later kills his wife. just hate those kinds of men. another is when men who murdered their wives and get only a 10 year sentence for the murder. this also happens on F-Files episodes. I had a cousin murdered long ago when she was stabbed 30 some times by a legit schizo woman neighbor and the lady got sentenced to life only for her crooked lawyer to find a technicality or mistake and she got out after only 5 years.

....it seems like cases where the new boyfriend is all nice and charming at first and then once the woman marries him she finds out his true self - he lies a lot, is very insecure yet hides it, is a wife beater, very overprotective = very jealous, and is extremely arrogant. there was an UM segment where a former policeman/detective who was very smart abused his first wife, then later killed his second or third wife. I just cant stand these kinds of men and therefore ignore their shows

I normally skip the Tommy Gibson segment. The guy killed his son and then tried to defend him shooting at those poor cats! scumbug

Also Eileen Mangold, because her killer got off, even though his DNA was found on her dead body.

I think the Rachel Runyan case was the most atrocious one that I have seen, followed by the Blind River rest stop murders.

Danny Pinetta's rape of Nanette Brana. He was nineteen, she was thirteen, and that was icky in the first place, but then he became controlling and raped her when she ended the relationship. His family and friends started threatening Nanette and her family when they tried to bring him to justice. He was caught but paroled after only serving seven years. It was uncomfortable watching the segment.

James Donald King - wouldn't have been a segment if the parole board didn't release him. They should share the blame in the murder of his second wife.

Larry George - another fool who wouldn't take no for an answer and shot his ex-wife, her boyfriend and her friend. He was captured and put on death row.

The Baskin abduction - The Maples got what they wanted all along. The Baskin kids want nothing to do with their parents or their younger brother. It was heartbreaking listening to Mark and Debbie Baskin talk about all the things her parents put them through.

Ones I have to "prepared for" include:

-Dale Hyde
-Rachel Runyan
-Pretty much any segment on a pedophile
-Tommy Gibson
-Jasper Wadkins, the 'steamer trunk' victim

Because of the gruesome nature of the segments and how horribly sad they are:

-The murder of Su Ya Kim. She had such a loving family, a happy life, and even a thriving business. I think she was likely abducted from the garage of her apartment building. It's even worse that they never caught the killer. I really think that the Vietnamese student's car may have been used or that the security guard didn't memorize the license plate correctly.

-James White and Gloria Schulze, two drunk drivers who killed innocent people and caused a lot of pain. I just can't watch either of these segments. I will cry. It makes me sick that Schulze has never been caught.

-Gary Grant Jr. I can watch this one, but seeing his cute little picture and smile breaks my heart.

-Bill Day. That update is horrible!

-I second Sageslowdive about the Eileen Mangold segment. So infuriating.

-This one might seem dumb, but the KROQ hoax. These idiots are still on the air in L.A. I really feel for Angela Cummings' mother and hope one day the killer will be caught.

I would have to agree with most of the aforementioned cases, with emphasis added to the Blind River rest stop murders, Tom Johnson, Jasper Wadkins, Su Ya Kim, and anything to do with child victims.

I would also add the "Debbie" case to this list. She was the woman from North Carolina who was kidnapped, raped, assaulted, shot in the face and left for dead. Fortunately, she was rescued by a highway patrol officer and survived her horrific ordeal. Her attacker deserves no mercy.

What was the segment that featured a young Matthew McConaughey? I'm not sure if it's already been mentioned. That was always pretty horrific to sit through.

What was the segment that featured a young Matthew McConaughey? I'm not sure if it's already been mentioned. That was always pretty horrific to sit through.
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The case where a young woman was raped, her rapist caught, and then she was murdered, left in a river, and her infant daughter was missing. Timmerman? I can't remember the name because I just can't watch that one.

I think the Rachel Runyan case was the most atrocious one that I have seen, followed by the Blind River rest stop murders.
Blind river is bad and is scary. Probably one of the scariest ever profiled.

For me I agree with rachel Runyon it's the one I dislike and never want to see

My vote would go to Oba Chandler murdering the Rogers women. I wrote my thesis on that case/Chandler in college. What he did to that woman and her two daughters was not only atrocious and horrifying, it was downright evil. Even though the UM segment doesn't get very in depth on it, the specifics of that case were terrible.

The case where a young woman was raped, her rapist caught, and then she was murdered, left in a river, and her infant daughter was missing. Timmerman? I can't remember the name because I just can't watch that one.

Rachel Timmerman.

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

My vote would go to Oba Chandler murdering the Rogers women. I wrote my thesis on that case/Chandler in college. What he did to that woman and her two daughters was not only atrocious and horrifying, it was downright evil. Even though the UM segment doesn't get very in depth on it, the specifics of that case were terrible.

Yeah, this case is another one that turns my stomach. If you read some of the articles about it, the mother had taken the girls on vacation because the older one was a rape victim and was being harassed in their hometown.

The murder of Roxanne Jeeves and her son Christopher are tough for me. Just like the officer in the segment said I can't imagine how someone would kill a little boy before Christmas.

The Dan Short segment is pretty tough as well. Just the thought that the man was alive when they threw him over the bridge. I hope he never regained consciousness before he died.

Oh yeah, the Roxanne & Christopher Jenkins case is truly disturbing, too.

Another one that really gets me is Dave Bocks. To think he went in that furnace alive is just creepy.

do you think David Bocks went in there as suicide or was he murdered? I doubt its suicide. odd how so many UM cases where they think its murder, but its a suicide. Then you have ones where they think its suicide, but its murder. yet we don't know which one is which!

Roxanne and Christopher Jeeves is a tough one for me too.

Yeah, this case is another one that turns my stomach. If you read some of the articles about it, the mother had taken the girls on vacation because the older one was a rape victim and was being harassed in their hometown.

Yep. Only to have it happen on their vacation. Very sad.

do you think David Bocks went in there as suicide or was he murdered? I doubt its suicide. odd how so many UM cases where they think its murder, but its a suicide. Then you have ones where they think its suicide, but its murder. yet we don't know which one is which!

I know this was discussed in great detail on other threads. I think the general consensus is that he was murdered. I just hope he was deceased before he was put in the furnace.

I know this was discussed in great detail on other threads. I think the general consensus is that he was murdered. I just hope he was deceased before he was put in the furnace.

Definitely. Can't even imagine going into that thing alive.

There are quite a few that come to mind here for me.

1.) The Freeman/Bible murders/abductions. It's bad enough they killed the Freemans in such a brutal fashion (I think the father was missing the upper portion of his head and face), but to take the girls, and leave the rest of their families wondering and hoping that they could still be alive, or, worse case scenario, not being able to lay them to rest, is just cruel...beyond cruel in my book.

2.) Megan Curl. This is a woman that was just longing to be loved and happy, and the brutal fashion of her killing (throat slit to the bone, burned alive) just makes my stomach churn.

3.) I agree with Su Ya Kim. This young lady had so much to live for; so much going for her in life, that her death was beyond tragic. What really got me at the end is that her husband was so distraught over her death (rightfully so) that he gave up everything to go back to their home country (Korea was it?)

4.) The boys on the Tracks. All I can say is that I pray these young men were already deceased (hoping the gunshot was instantaneous and painless for them) before getting ran over by that train. That has to be one of the most morbid images that I could ever imagine.

5.) The dog kennel arsonist. That one just turns my stomach. As a proud dog owner/lover. How anyone could EVER do something like this is just beyond my comprehension. To me this is hands down one of the most cruel cases every portrayed on UM.

There are quite a few that come to mind here for me.

1.) The Freeman/Bible murders/abductions. It's bad enough they killed the Freemans in such a brutal fashion (I think the father was missing the upper portion of his head and face), but to take the girls, and leave the rest of their families wondering and hoping that they could still be alive, or, worse case scenario, not being able to lay them to rest, is just cruel...beyond cruel in my book.

2.) Megan Curl. This is a woman that was just longing to be loved and happy, and the brutal fashion of her killing (throat slit to the bone, burned alive) just makes my stomach churn.

3.) I agree with Su Ya Kim. This young lady had so much to live for; so much going for her in life, that her death was beyond tragic. What really got me at the end is that her husband was so distraught over her death (rightfully so) that he gave up everything to go back to their home country (Korea was it?)

4.) The boys on the Tracks. All I can say is that I pray these young men were already deceased (hoping the gunshot was instantaneous and painless for them) before getting ran over by that train. That has to be one of the most morbid images that I could ever imagine.

5.) The dog kennel arsonist. That one just turns my stomach. As a proud dog owner/lover. How anyone could EVER do something like this is just beyond my comprehension. To me this is hands down one of the most cruel cases every portrayed on UM.

As Ostaro1977 mentioned above - The Dog Kennel arsonist story. Very hard to sit through as a teenager. The re-enactment was horrible, although I'm pretty sure Robert Stack made a point of mentioning no dogs were harmed during filming.

Ones I have to "prepared for" include:


-Rachel Runyan

Meg you are MIA I miss you.

I'd have to agree with this and any pedophile as you said. I just can't stand crimes against children. It makes me sick

I will humbly submit my vote for Julius Patterson and Paulette Hite. Glad they caught both of them but it really steams me that she only got 6 years. :mad:

The segment on Eric & Pam Ellender is a tough watch also.

Meg you are MIA I miss you.

I'm still around, homie! I have been away from the boards for several months, but during that time I did finish my BSN and am now just waiting to take the NCLEX. Probably won't be around as much as I was just because of the test and the new job I'll be starting in January, but I'll pop in from time to time.

While I'm thinking about it, I'd like to submit the Mary Ann Perez segment for this thread. Any story about couples kidnapping people for bizarre sexual motives simultaneously freaks me out and turns my stomach.

I'm still around, homie! I have been away from the boards for several months, but during that time I did finish my BSN and am now just waiting to take the NCLEX. Probably won't be around as much as I was just because of the test and the new job I'll be starting in January, but I'll pop in from time to time.

While I'm thinking about it, I'd like to submit the Mary Ann Perez segment for this thread. Any story about couples kidnapping people for bizarre sexual motives simultaneously freaks me out and turns my stomach.
It's been a while since I've seen that segment.

congrats I know it's a busy school and demanding career thank god for people like you! I have a lot more extra time on my hands this year. Probably should be taking more classes but nah. Happy new year!

Rachel Runyon was a hard one for me as a kid, because the satanic/snuff film angle scared me.

As a mommy of a toddler the same age as Rachel, the segment is unbearable.

The Dog Kennel Arsonist is definitely the worst for me...I've never actually watched it, as soon as the segment starts and I can tell what it is, I skip it.

Rachel Runyon was a hard one for me as a kid, because the satanic/snuff film angle scared me.

As a mommy of a toddler the same age as Rachel, the segment is unbearable.
Yeah I'd have to agree. Seeing that one as a child would be unbearable. Then as a parent it is about the same feeling just worse because you think what if that was my child. My worst segment for sure

I don't think I knew what a Snuff film was as a kid. However, I will admit that the symbol that the killer used in his graffiti definitely stuck with me through the years.

I don't think I knew what a Snuff film was as a kid. However, I will admit that the symbol that the killer used in his graffiti definitely stuck with me through the years.

Didn't Robert Stack talk about what a snuff film was? I feel like what scared me as a kid was not only the bathroom graffiti and the satanic twist, but also that they believed she was killed while someone filmed it.

Oh, and she was wearing the same dress that she was wearing in her identifying picture. :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

There was one where somebody murdered a seal (or some other marine mammal, I can't remember exactly) by planting explosives in fish that he then fed to the seal. Urrggh!

I'm NOT a dog-lover, I'm allergic and a little afraid of big dogs. I don't hate them, I just prefer to keep my distance. That being said, I can't watch the dog kennel fire one. I don't see how anyone could hurt innocent living creatures, especially in such a horrific manner. :( I watched it once and can't anymore, it's just too sad.

There was one where somebody murdered a seal (or some other marine mammal, I can't remember exactly) by planting explosives in fish that he then fed to the seal. Urrggh!
yeah that was just wrong. just no soul to do that to anyone. I'm all for fishing and hunting for survival, but not for senseless and brutal killing of animals.

in many coastal areas it is illegal to feed sea creatures like dolphins and sea lions that are very interactive. they also become too dependent on humans to feed them when we feed them at piers...or so I've been told.

There was one where somebody murdered a seal (or some other marine mammal, I can't remember exactly) by planting explosives in fish that he then fed to the seal. Urrggh!
Yes, this happened in my hometown.

I'm happy to report that the sea lions are thriving in the area and incidents such as this are extremely rare.

Typically any segment that involved a kidnapped child, or violence towards children is hard for me to watch. Never used to bother me per se, just freaked me out. Now, as a parent, it's a different story.

Another is the Mabel Woods case. Mabel ran a dog sanctuary but was harassed by someone who tried to drive her away. They even set fire to her kennels and burned 49 dogs alive! They were never caught but at least they stopped for some reason.

Another was the scam company that targeted people who fell behind on their mortgage payments. A couple who fell victim ended up with foreclosure and ended up living in a garage or something. It was extremely distressing to see the effect on the wife, who was ill with cancer.

Edward Harold Bell

YES! That segment makes me so sad. The actors were amazing in it. It freaked me out as a kid and just made me sad as an adult. The actual mother and Daughter just seemed like such sweet people too. It broke my heart. I'm happy he got caught not happy that he confessed to a few murders. One that someone else spent the rest of their life in jail for :(

YES! That segment makes me so sad. The actors were amazing in it. It freaked me out as a kid and just made me sad as an adult. The actual mother and Daughter just seemed like such sweet people too. It broke my heart. I'm happy he got caught not happy that he confessed to a few murders. One that someone else spent the rest of their life in jail for :(
Yeah that one is hard to watch to this day. I just saw it the other day. Feel so sorry for his mother. The whole family was badass.

Yeah that one is hard to watch to this day. I just saw it the other day. Feel so sorry for his mother. The whole family was badass.

I love the sister (in the cheerleading uniform, no less) screaming at Bell during the ID portion of the arrest....

What a horrible thing for Larry's mother to witness. I'm so glad she got some closure on this one and Bell was captured in her lifetime.

Any segment that depicts animals being abused and/or killed.

Typically any segment that involved a kidnapped child, or violence towards children is hard for me to watch. Never used to bother me per se, just freaked me out. Now, as a parent, it's a different story.
I agree here. violence of the kind that we saw on UM when committed against any person(and some of the animal segments like the sea creatures in California) are hard to watch. for me personally it is another level when it involves children who were exploited. whether it was a sick criminal or poor parenting.... that is why this show is important to solve these cases.

do you think David Bocks went in there as suicide or was he murdered? I doubt its suicide. odd how so many UM cases where they think its murder, but its a suicide. Then you have ones where they think its suicide, but its murder. yet we don't know which one is which!

yep, dave bocks is my scariest segment ever. and it was clearly a murder. i feel like if there was more public outcry for this guy it could have been solved. it's probably too late now

I love the sister (in the cheerleading uniform, no less) screaming at Bell during the ID portion of the arrest....

Indeed. And kudos to the actress for convincingly displaying the insane amount of grief that the real Dawna had to have felt in that moment.

When I first saw that scene as a kid, my immediate reaction was I hope she beats the crap out of him, which she ended up doing before being restrained.

Blind River Rest Stop, hands down. As horrific as some crimes are, they're easier to understand when there's a discernible motive. Like "I killed her because she dumped me," or "I wanted money to support a drug habit, so I committed a robbery, but things went south." The Blind River Rest Stop is so horrifying because there doesn't seem to be a discernible motive; the killer didn't seem to gain anything by killing these people except the satisfaction that comes from killing people.

(hi). is there a certain unsolved mysteries segment that you absolutely hate because its so atrocious or means-spirited? I mean there are murderers and there are super-murderers - u know the ones who over do it. Yes, a murder is a murder, but in some cases its just too gruesome to watch. Can you relate to such segments?

Here are my segments that I can never watch and must fast forward on VHS or DVD:

1. The Bible trailer fire murders. I feel sorry for the 2 dead girls. Not sure if they ever found their bodies? Have not seen this one in a while. Its just too gory because it was ones birthday and so on.

2. Tom Johnson - now this one I still watch when I see a rerun or watch my long list of segments on my made up DVDs (vhs copies). But its gruesome because of the hammer hits to the heads and that the male survivor ends up dying years later in a car accident. I watch it because they never caught the guy, its scary because it takes place in the daylight and where other people are around - motel.

3. The beautiful teenage girl who got hit in the head by a 2 x 4 or some kind of board when she was on the back of her boyfriend's motorcycle in California I believe. I just cant watch the segment and cannot watch her because its so sad that she cant talk or communicate like she used too and you knew she was going to go onto bigger and better things after high school like professional cheerleading or modeling or college. Also the fact that the person who hit her never confessed, nor did his ENTIRE group of friends turn him in! I think there are some other people too that may know like the suspect's parents or classmates but they refuse to turn him in due to it being a small town and some places like that refuse to get involved, which is evil if u think about it!

4. other segments that involved a wife beater who later kills his wife. just hate those kinds of men. another is when men who murdered their wives and get only a 10 year sentence for the murder. this also happens on F-Files episodes. I had a cousin murdered long ago when she was stabbed 30 some times by a legit schizo woman neighbor and the lady got sentenced to life only for her crooked lawyer to find a technicality or mistake and she got out after only 5 years.

....it seems like cases where the new boyfriend is all nice and charming at first and then once the woman marries him she finds out his true self - he lies a lot, is very insecure yet hides it, is a wife beater, very overprotective = very jealous, and is extremely arrogant. there was an UM segment where a former policeman/detective who was very smart abused his first wife, then later killed his second or third wife. I just cant stand these kinds of men and therefore ignore their shows

Ditto on the Tom Johnson segment. That story gave me nightmares when I was younger. It doesn't freak me out as much as it did years ago, but it's still so horrific and random. I felt so bad for Jeremy Rolfs to have to witness his girlfriend die like that; the worst part is he died in a car accident some years later.

I also can't watch the "man in the steamer trunk" episode. I saw that episode for the first time when I was in junior high and I'll never forget it. I was sick and had stayed home by myself. UM came on that afternoon. When they showed the morgue photo of the man, I literally had to pull a blanket over my face. It was horrendous. I'm glad they found out who he was and what happened to him was extremely sad, but that was hands down the most disturbing UM episode I've ever seen just for the mere fact that they actually showed a dead body, in full detail, and especially because of how gruesomely contorted his face was. Gives me shivers just thinking about it.

I can't watch the rape cases. I'm literally seething with rage during them.

Pretty much everything you all said, including Dave Bocks. I haven't seen that segment in ages, but that reenactment keeps me up at night.

Ditto with Dale Kerstetter, which is the case that brought me to this board in the first place, many moons ago. Another reenactment (the surveillance footage) that I just cannot get out of my head. So unsettling.

Also, Tara Calico. Have to skip. Just can't look at that picture. I think being a pre-teen in the middle of the kidnapping/milk carton 80s really seared stranger kidnappings into my head as The Scariest Thing That Could Happen. People my age probably remember that there was so much panic.

I even had an incident when I was about 10, when I was at the library, and my mom came to pick me up at the wrong branch. That wrong branch was in a mall, so she was frantically searching the mall looking for me, and a couple of people actually told her they saw a girl with my description (I was wearing a distinctive hat that day) leave with a man! Police were called, things got crazy at that mall - all the while, I was safely at the other branch, waiting. This was only maybe fours years after Adam Walsh, so kids getting abducted from malls was on everyone's mind. Geez, my poor mom.

Anyway, the picture of those kids, whoever they are.... so bad. I really hope it was a prank. Just awful.

I have to add Jenny Pratt to this. Rewatching the original on amazon gave me a a sick feeling. The whole thing is frustrating. The boyfriend, the punks that did it. And then to have people say they know who did it but then to be completely unwilling to help.

Pretty much everything you all said, including Dave Bocks. I haven't seen that segment in ages, but that reenactment keeps me up at night.

Ditto with Dale Kerstetter, which is the case that brought me to this board in the first place, many moons ago. Another reenactment (the surveillance footage) that I just cannot get out of my head. So unsettling.

Also, Tara Calico. Have to skip. Just can't look at that picture. I think being a pre-teen in the middle of the kidnapping/milk carton 80s really seared stranger kidnappings into my head as The Scariest Thing That Could Happen. People my age probably remember that there was so much panic.

I even had an incident when I was about 10, when I was at the library, and my mom came to pick me up at the wrong branch. That wrong branch was in a mall, so she was frantically searching the mall looking for me, and a couple of people actually told her they saw a girl with my description (I was wearing a distinctive hat that day) leave with a man! Police were called, things got crazy at that mall - all the while, I was safely at the other branch, waiting. This was only maybe fours years after Adam Walsh, so kids getting abducted from malls was on everyone's mind. Geez, my poor mom.

Anyway, the picture of those kids, whoever they are.... so bad. I really hope it was a prank. Just awful.

The Dave Bocks segment bothers me a lot too. Every time I watch it, I imagine him being alive when he's lowered into that furnace. I'm getting chills just typing about it.

Michaela Garecht is the kidnapping case that gives me the willies. I remember very clearly the "stranger danger" panic of that era. I was born in 1980, so I grew up surrounded by it. Adding to the general panic of the era is the fact that I grew up in the shadows of two kidnappings that happened near my childhood neighborhood. I lived near the sites in Des Moines, IA where two paperboys, Johnny Gosch and Eugene Martin, went missing in 1982 and 1984 respectively. The Eugene Martin case affected my childhood most. Johnny Gosch received more publicity (because his parents were more affluent and vocal), but Eugene went missing only 2 blocks from my grandparent's house and 10-12 from mine.

Oh yes, poor Michaela, and her poor mom. She's maintained a sweet blog for Michaela all these years, on the chance she's out there (like Jaycee Dugar) and looking for her family, however much of a long shot that might be. That case is horrible, broad daylight.

We are close to the same age, so you get it. Wow, you are so near those IA paperboy abductions. They, along with Jacob Wetterling, are among some of the scariest as well. Did you find your community changed after those cases happened? I can imagine the chill that would settle in for kids and parents alike.

Oh yes, poor Michaela, and her poor mom. She's maintained a sweet blog for Michaela all these years, on the chance she's out there (like Jaycee Dugar) and looking for her family, however much of a long shot that might be. That case is horrible, broad daylight.

We are close to the same age, so you get it. Wow, you are so near those IA paperboy abductions. They, along with Jacob Wetterling, are among some of the scariest as well. Did you find your community changed after those cases happened? I can imagine the chill that would settle in for kids and parents alike.

I don't remember a lot about the community before the abductions, but Eugene Martin became like a ghost story in my neighborhood when I was a kid. Anytime any of us went "out of bounds" or the parents of the neighborhood couldn't find us, they'd tell the story again as a cautionary tale to keep us in line. My parents didn't personally know any of Eugene's family, but there were parents in the neighborhood who knew them. Johnny's mother Noreen made speaking appearances at my elementary school when I was a kid to talk about stranger danger and how to be safe too.

Once, when I was 10, a friend and I were skateboarding in a driveway in our neighborhood and a car parked along the curb across the street and sat there for about 10 minutes then drove away. Afterwards, a neighbor came over and told us that the occupant of the car had been taking pictures of us skateboarding so we should be careful as he may have been "shopping" for boys to kidnap. I told my parents about it that night. My dad asked where we had been skateboarding. When I told him, he told me that the house whose driveway we'd been using was for sale and the car's occupant was probably taking pictures of that, but he followed that up by repeating that I should be careful around the neighborhood for the next few weeks. Both my dad and the neighbor who warned us brought up Eugene in their warnings.

I can't watch the cases with child or animal victims. Too heartbreaking.

I have no issues with watching segments due to the extremeness of content. It's not that I don't sympathize. I do but the internet has really desensitivized me.

Lots of folks have mentioned the Mabel Woods segment. I just watched that one recently, thanks to Amazon Prime.

Yeah. Awful. It's a hard one to watch, for sure.

Lots of folks have mentioned the Mabel Woods segment. I just watched that one recently, thanks to Amazon Prime.

Yeah. Awful. It's a hard one to watch, for sure.

Yeah, I cringe when they talk about all the dogs who perished in the fire. Of course, I'm a huge softy when it comes to dogs.

Off topic: There was a story in my local news this week about a dog that ran away from a farm 20 miles outside the city I live in. The people tried looking for it locally in their small town first. By the time they contacted the Humane Society in the city (six days after he went missing) their dog had been found and adopted. The Humane Society couldn't disclose the information on the adopters because of their strict privacy policies, which exist to protect adopters and dogs who were forcibly removed from previous owners. Fortunately, within a few days, the new owners saw the news story and returned the dog so he could be with his family again. It's a hard story all around. I feel bad for the family who nearly lost their beloved pet, but I also feel bad for the new family who had to give him up.

(hi). is there a certain unsolved mysteries segment that you absolutely hate because its so atrocious or means-spirited? I mean there are murderers and there are super-murderers - u know the ones who over do it. Yes, a murder is a murder, but in some cases its just too gruesome to watch. Can you relate to such segments?

Here are my segments that I can never watch and must fast forward on VHS or DVD:

1. The Bible trailer fire murders. I feel sorry for the 2 dead girls. Not sure if they ever found their bodies? Have not seen this one in a while. Its just too gory because it was ones birthday and so on.

2. Tom Johnson - now this one I still watch when I see a rerun or watch my long list of segments on my made up DVDs (vhs copies). But its gruesome because of the hammer hits to the heads and that the male survivor ends up dying years later in a car accident. I watch it because they never caught the guy, its scary because it takes place in the daylight and where other people are around - motel.

3. The beautiful teenage girl who got hit in the head by a 2 x 4 or some kind of board when she was on the back of her boyfriend's motorcycle in California I believe. I just cant watch the segment and cannot watch her because its so sad that she cant talk or communicate like she used too and you knew she was going to go onto bigger and better things after high school like professional cheerleading or modeling or college. Also the fact that the person who hit her never confessed, nor did his ENTIRE group of friends turn him in! I think there are some other people too that may know like the suspect's parents or classmates but they refuse to turn him in due to it being a small town and some places like that refuse to get involved, which is evil if u think about it!

4. other segments that involved a wife beater who later kills his wife. just hate those kinds of men. another is when men who murdered their wives and get only a 10 year sentence for the murder. this also happens on F-Files episodes. I had a cousin murdered long ago when she was stabbed 30 some times by a legit schizo woman neighbor and the lady got sentenced to life only for her crooked lawyer to find a technicality or mistake and she got out after only 5 years.

....it seems like cases where the new boyfriend is all nice and charming at first and then once the woman marries him she finds out his true self - he lies a lot, is very insecure yet hides it, is a wife beater, very overprotective = very jealous, and is extremely arrogant. there was an UM segment where a former policeman/detective who was very smart abused his first wife, then later killed his second or third wife. I just cant stand these kinds of men and therefore ignore their shows



A shame the creeps who killed Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible died before facing justice.

For me one segment which makes me tear up is the Lisa Ziegert one, which I have a hard time watching without shedding any tears. Thank goodness though that her killer was finally caught after all that time though! I will also admit that some of the rape/sexual assault cases tend to kind of put me on edge for good reason. While nothing on Unsolved Mysteries ever portrayed this rare scenario happening in general, as a guy, I didn't think that this could both possibly ever happen to me, and that women were capable of doing something like that, especially towards men. That was until I found out the hard way that yes they sure can when it happened to me when I was a teenager almost two decades ago, when two female coworkers of mine at my former summer job put me through that way back in 2001! I'll never forget how sick I felt afterwards, as you could imagine! :'(

First time poster, long time lurker. I avoid watching:

1. The dog kennel fire. I hate any cruelty towards animals.
2. Cases where kids were harmed, or old people.
3, Beverly McGowan. I will read material about the case, but avoid watching anything about her murder. It's just so particularly disturbing. And I studiously avoid the composite sketch of "Sam" whenever I can.

The one with SAL LINDER was the most shocking to me........ Shocking how many he killed that day...... And they didnt kill him ON SITE!

His brother was brave bringing him to police!!!

The one with SAL LINDER was the most shocking to me........ Shocking how many he killed that day...... And they didnt kill him ON SITE!

His brother was brave bringing him to police!!!

What are you going on about?

The episode with Sal Linder.. I cant believe he would shoot a baby in her crib..... I cant believe he shot that cop and everyone else and no one saw him and took care of him!

Very sad........