If a genie popped out of a bottle and told you that you could ask ONE question about a UM case, besides the "main" question of who killed ___ or what happened to ___, what would you ask to help solve a mystery?

I can think of one burning question I have about the Katherine Korzilius case: was young Katherine ever known to have jumped on her mom's car before? (Or: Did her brother/kids down the street/etc. ever jump on parent's cars...i.e., would Katherine have seen someone else doing this and tried to imitate it?)

If the answer is yes, the "fell off her mom's car" theory is actually plausible. If no, it becomes (in my opinion) extremely far-fetched that she would just think of this out of the blue and attempt it.

What is one question you would ask about a UM case?

If a genie popped out of a bottle and told you that you could ask ONE question about a UM case, besides the "main" question of who killed ___ or what happened to ___, what would you ask to help solve a mystery?

I can think of one burning question I have about the Katherine Korzilius case: was young Katherine ever known to have jumped on her mom's car before? (Or: Did her brother/kids down the street/etc. ever jump on parent's cars...i.e., would Katherine have seen someone else doing this and tried to imitate it?)

If the answer is yes, the "fell off her mom's car" theory is actually plausible. If no, it becomes (in my opinion) extremely far-fetched that she would just think of this out of the blue and attempt it.


Agree 100%.

Here are some of my questions:

1) Tammy Lynn Leppert: Hard to pick one, but WHAT EXACTLY where the circumstances of her going out of town unchaperoned? (kind of a cheat since that includes WHO was at this party, WHERE the party was, and IF Tammy was known to be alone at a certain time away from it)

2) Danny Casalaro: What exactly was in that briefcase?

3) Lulu Corshaine: Who was in the shower early in the morning at her apartment (overheard by the daughter). My bet is Roger Healey.

4) Nyleen Kay Marshall: Were the letters/phone calls a hoax?

5) Jeremy Bright: What are the exact origins of the rumors about Jeremy's death?

6) Kurt McFall: Was anyone with him when he was on the cliff?

7) Su Ya Kim: Does the Vietnamese exchange student know more than she's telling? (I really wonder if a boyfriend, etc. could have been driving her car and was spotted by Joe Jones.)

8) The Freedon: Was Florian actually a good guy, or did he have sinister intentions?

9)Elizabeth Campbell: How did her purse end up so far away?

10) Tara Breckenridge: Why did she leave her mace in the car?

11) Amy Billig: Where exactly was Henry Blair/Hank when Amy vanished?

12) Michael Rosenblum: What were the circumstances of him leaving his girlfriend's car?

13) Jay Given: Where exactly was John Cordona when the shot was fired? (This might be cheating :D)

14) Where was Stephen Marfeo during his unusually long lunch break the day of his wife's disappearance?

15) Why the extreme cleaning of Paul Pollis' house? (The answer better not be because he likes it :P)

I had the exact same question about Kurt McFall...good one!

Great choice for the Amy Billig case! That answer would certainly help the investigation tremendously.

My one burning question about the Tammy Leppert case would be: was her male friend telling the truth when he said he dropped Tammy off near the bank?

Seems like knowing the answer to that one would have helped investigators quite a bit...I still think about this case so often and wonder if her guy friend's story was the truth or not.

I strongly believe hard evidence is the biggest factor that would solve any such case on UM.

1) Dale Kerstetter: Where/what happened to Dale's .22 pistol during/after this whole situation?
2) Tara Calico: where did her bicycle end up?
3) Chad Langford: what distance was he shot at? Surely an autopsy would've been able to determine if he had been shot at point-blank range or further.
4) Matthew Chase: did the bandana found in his car belong to his abductor or co-conspirator?
5) Mark Groezinger: was the murder weapon the same gun Judy purchased earlier or was it another gun of similar caliber that was used?
6) Dwayne McCorkendale: was his murder part of a crime spree by a couple of reckless motorists?
7) Bobby Oberholzer/Annette Schnee: were they the victims of a serial killer?
8) Friar Rivera/Kerrigan: what happened to his last rites kit? Where was Kerrigan's body dumped?
9) Phillip Fraser: where and when were Phillip's belongings dumped, i.e. before/after meeting the Olson, a dumpster, out in the wilderness?
10) Patsy Wright: where did the strychnine originate from?

I strongly believe hard evidence is the biggest factor that would solve any such case on UM.

1) Dale Kerstetter: Where/what happened to Dale's .22 pistol during/after this whole situation?
2) Tara Calico: where did her bicycle end up?
3) Chad Langford: what distance was he shot at? Surely an autopsy would've been able to determine if he had been shot at point-blank range or further.
4) Matthew Chase: did the bandana found in his car belong to his abductor or co-conspirator?
5) Mark Groezinger: was the murder weapon the same gun Judy purchased earlier or was it another gun of similar caliber that was used?
6) Dwayne McCorkendale: was his murder part of a crime spree by a couple of reckless motorists?
7) Bobby Oberholzer/Annette Schnee: were they the victims of a serial killer?
8) Friar Rivera/Kerrigan: what happened to his last rites kit? Where was Kerrigan's body dumped?
9) Phillip Fraser: where and when were Phillip's belongings dumped, i.e. before/after meeting the Olson, a dumpster, out in the wilderness?
10) Patsy Wright: where did the strychnine originate from?

I firmly believe Kerrigan's body was weighed down and dumped in Flathead Lake, which is close in proximity to Ronan. If they took a boat out far enough, that is one deep ass lake. They'd never find him.

Who exactly was it who called claiming that Judy Himes who'd disappeared in Florida decades earlier with her bloodstained car turning up in Atlanta was 'alive and living in Omaha' and why did this person target some visiting police officer who'd had no previous knowledge of the case? What did this person hope to accomplish?

Who exactly was it who called claiming that Judy Himes who'd disappeared in Florida decades earlier with her bloodstained car turning up in Atlanta was 'alive and living in Omaha' and why did this person target some visiting police officer who'd had no previous knowledge of the case? What did this person hope to accomplish?

+1.

The identity of the 2 kids in that horrible Polaroid photo.

Who exactly was it who called claiming that Judy Himes who'd disappeared in Florida decades earlier with her bloodstained car turning up in Atlanta was 'alive and living in Omaha' and why did this person target some visiting police officer who'd had no previous knowledge of the case? What did this person hope to accomplish?

Yeah I always wondered about that as well. I thought maybe it was a prank or crank call, but it's gotta be the strangest prank ever, bringing up a case that had long gone cold and that only Judy's friends and family would remember/care about.

I firmly believe Kerrigan's body was weighed down and dumped in Flathead Lake, which is close in proximity to Ronan. If they took a boat out far enough, that is one deep ass lake. They'd never find him.
Excellent theory and wouldn't surprise me at all. I'm also pretty convinced his dicey past contributed to whatever happened to him and why he was carrying a huge amount of cash.

I strongly believe hard evidence is the biggest factor that would solve any such case on UM.

1) Dale Kerstetter: Where/what happened to Dale's .22 pistol during/after this whole situation?
2) Tara Calico: where did her bicycle end up?
3) Chad Langford: what distance was he shot at? Surely an autopsy would've been able to determine if he had been shot at point-blank range or further.
4) Matthew Chase: did the bandana found in his car belong to his abductor or co-conspirator?
5) Mark Groezinger: was the murder weapon the same gun Judy purchased earlier or was it another gun of similar caliber that was used?
6) Dwayne McCorkendale: was his murder part of a crime spree by a couple of reckless motorists?
7) Bobby Oberholzer/Annette Schnee: were they the victims of a serial killer?
8) Friar Rivera/Kerrigan: what happened to his last rites kit? Where was Kerrigan's body dumped?
9) Phillip Fraser: where and when were Phillip's belongings dumped, i.e. before/after meeting the Olson, a dumpster, out in the wilderness?
10) Patsy Wright: where did the strychnine originate from?


1. Wow what a thread. Not a question
2. Patsy wright...did her brother in law/sister know something more?
3. Orange sock murders. Did they know the person? According the husband Bobby wouldn't take a ride with a stranger. Was she drunk? This is a mystery I hope to see solved!

4. Does Dennis rodman know who had that boat on lake lewisville?

5. Not so much an UM original but did Elvis really die of drug overdose? Did Kurt cobain die alone of a broken heart? I guess this really isn't a question that would help solve a case lol.

6. Did the person who shot carol know her?

7. Were the guys in the Devils backbone episode drinking too much Devils backbone?

8. Did the bass player go off the boat with Amy Bradley or did she fall overboard?

9. Did the IH 70 killer work at a dept store and did he actually kill people in Texas?

10. Was the Ohio interstate killer one person?

11. What nfl team did the guy in the 49er hugs episode cheer for. Or was that just a bogus theory?

Tim McClure: Did phone records ever verify whether he called to cancel his mother's credit card before or after she went missing? I don't know how thoroughly phone records were kept in back in 1983, but it seems to me there should have been hard evidence to show when that call took place, other than a date written down on the employee's memo.

Tim McClure: Did phone records ever verify whether he called to cancel his mother's credit card before or after she went missing? I don't know how thoroughly phone records were kept in back in 1983, but it seems to me there should have been hard evidence to show when that call took place, other than a date written down on the employee's memo.
Great one!

The Mary Morris 911 call that has never been released (presuming we can still discuss the case here).

The Circleville Letters...so many unanswered questions, especially regarding Mary Gillespie and her husband's mysterious death. And I had no idea that Paul Freshour passed away.

When Michael Martin and his friends were watching "Battlestar Galactica" at the same time that Martin was supposedly robbing a gas station 70 miles away, it might have helped at that time to determine whether or not they were being truthful about watching Battlestar Galactica by asking what episode was shown that night (or what it was about if they didn't know the episode name off the top of their heads). Unfortunately, far too much time has passed since then for that to be a good question for the case nowadays.

Tim McClure - where is the murder weapon?

Tony Lombardi - was the gun registered to him?

Kyra Cook - what was the nature of the other young lady who was assaulted 3 times in the park?

The Wackers - what motive was there, if it existed at all and if the Wackers story is true?

Matt Chase - Where exactly did he encounter the perp and under what circumstances?

Eugene Kvet - was his death accidental?

ONS/EAR - what was/is his daytime job?

(not that it would help solve the case, but...)

Jule Caylor - What on Earth did he do to get kicked out of a Wendy's, and where is that salad pic? My lifelong mission is to make that my avatar one day.

Jule Caylor - What on Earth did he do to get kicked out of a Wendy's, and where is that salad pic? My lifelong mission is to make that my avatar one day.
Someone good at photoshop should add a salad in his hands in one of his pictures.

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Good question for the Kyra Cook case!

I would also ask: why was she reportedly toting money in a paper bag?

I am a female and do not know one other woman who has ever carried money in a paper bag...unless it was to give money to someone else...In Cook's case, was this truly just an innocent thing like, oops, I can't find my purse, better grab a paper sack(??) or was there another reason for the highly unusual makeshift purse?

Good question for the Kyra Cook case!

I would also ask: why was she reportedly toting money in a paper bag?

I am a female and do not know one other woman who has ever carried money in a paper bag...unless it was to give money to someone else...In Cook's case, was this truly just an innocent thing like, oops, I can't find my purse, better grab a paper sack(??) or was there another reason for the highly unusual makeshift purse?

Right. I could see her taking a paper sack as a way to hide it if she was worried about her purse being snatched, but that might lead us to believe she had a legitimate fear of her purse being snatched and there's a missing puzzle piece. Really makes you wonder what's missing here.

Jule Caylor - What on Earth did he do to get kicked out of a Wendy's, and where is that salad pic? My lifelong mission is to make that my avatar one day.

Several years ago, a reporter who wrote about this case posted on this board. I believe she said that a private investigator hired by Dottie's sister had the only copy of Jule's salad pic, along with his eight-page letter of complaint to Wendy's. Maybe he'll do us a favour and leak the photo onto the Net one day...