Like many people, I'm stuck at home this year. I thought it might be nice to watch Christmas episodes of Unsolved Mysteries. I know there's one about a young woman who leaves a work party and is killed. Then there's another about a women and child/children who are killed December 23ish? I can't remember names though. Are there others?

The Boston area rapist was Xmas eve 1989 I believe!

Watch season 5, episode 14 on YouTube. The entire episode was packaged as Christmas themed. It aired December 23, 1992. Robert Stack even wished the viewers a safe and happy holiday season at the end of the episode. Segments included....

Chuckie McGivern - Little boy who suffered from Reye's syndrome had a miracle recovery at Christmas time.

Russell & Jean Johnson - Tried to locate the person who sent them checks at Christmas time when they were strapped for cash. They called him their angel.

Anthonette Cayedito - They sort of cheated by adding this one. There is no Christmas connection to the actual story except for the fact that Anthonette was born on Christmas Day 1976.

Neil Jennings - I don't think this segment originally aired with this episode. I think it replaced another a segment that never got transferred by film rise. No relation to Christmas.

The end of season 7 features the rescue of the Dover family by some good Samaritans at Christmas time when their van collided with another car in Mexico.

The Hungarian family who lived in a boxcar post-WWII and were helped by an American soldier might be a nice one to watch. There's a scene with a Christmas party, and I particularly like the part immediately afterward where the soldier brings the parents a bottle of wine and they spend time together.

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Philip_Pelletier

Watch season 5, episode 14 on YouTube. The entire episode was packaged as Christmas themed. It aired December 23, 1992. Robert Stack even wished the viewers a safe and happy holiday season at the end of the episode. Segments included....

Chuckie McGivern - Little boy who suffered from Reye's syndrome had a miracle recovery at Christmas time.

Russell & Jean Johnson - Tried to locate the person who sent them checks at Christmas time when they were strapped for cash. They called him their angel.

Anthonette Cayedito - They sort of cheated by adding this one. There is no Christmas connection to the actual story except for the fact that Anthonette was born on Christmas Day 1976.

Neil Jennings - I don't think this segment originally aired with this episode. I think it replaced another a segment that never got transferred by film rise. No relation to Christmas.

The end of season 7 features the rescue of the Dover family by some good Samaritans at Christmas time when their van collided with another car in Mexico.

I think I may watch S5E14 today - thanks.

I have to say that I HATE the Dover family segment. Four people were killed in the other car, and they only mention in in passing, as if it was just a side note.
It’s so callous. They could have at least taken a moment during the reunion to pause and remember the people who lost their lives ( to be fair they may have done that and UM just edited it out.)

I completely forgot that Harry Potter visits Chuckie. And that was before any Harry Potter books were ever published :eek:

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Dub Wagerhaven. How bad have I botched his name?

Watch season 5, episode 14 on YouTube. The entire episode was packaged as Christmas themed. It aired December 23, 1992. Robert Stack even wished the viewers a safe and happy holiday season at the end of the episode. Segments included....

Chuckie McGivern - Little boy who suffered from Reye's syndrome had a miracle recovery at Christmas time.

Russell & Jean Johnson - Tried to locate the person who sent them checks at Christmas time when they were strapped for cash. They called him their angel.

Anthonette Cayedito - They sort of cheated by adding this one. There is no Christmas connection to the actual story except for the fact that Anthonette was born on Christmas Day 1976.

Neil Jennings - I don't think this segment originally aired with this episode. I think it replaced another a segment that never got transferred by film rise. No relation to Christmas.

The end of season 7 features the rescue of the Dover family by some good Samaritans at Christmas time when their van collided with another car in Mexico.

the Neil Jennings and AC segments on the Christmas special. It adds that dark twist as only UM can.

the Neil Jennings and AC segments on the Christmas special. It adds that dark twist as only UM can.

A little too dark in regards to Neil Jennings. I looked up the original episode and it turns out the fourth segment was actually Alexandra Stantzos looking for information on her birth parents. The Christmas connection was her finding out as an adult that her birth parents had placed her on someone's doorstep on Christmas Eve 1932. Alexandra ended up passing away two years after the segment aired, so maybe that was why FilmRise chose not to transfer it. They threw in Neil Jennings as a substitute, which was....odd.

Beating a helpless old man, shooting him in the back of the head, setting his corpse a blaze and then stealing his truck isn't something that's going to put me in the holiday spirit.

They probably should have thrown the hatbox baby in there instead. At least that one is Christmas themed.

Beating a helpless old man, shooting him in the back of the head, setting his corpse a blaze and then stealing his truck isn't something that's going to put me in the holiday spirit.

Unsolved Mysteries version of Silent Night was probably playing somewhere in the episode so they were probably like Hey that's Christmas!

"Silent Night" still gets me down due to that poor mother committing suicide after losing her six kids. Also can't listen to "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" due to JonBenét but luckily I hated that song anyway.