but they probably never will be?

Todd McAfee

I'd like to know with 100% certainty what happened to Tara Breckenridge but it will likely never be solved absent a confession.

Permon Gilbert
Tammy Lynn Leppert

Jeremy Bright
Angela Hammond

Cindy James.
Dale Kerstetter.

Definitively. Without theories.

Cindy James
Angela Hammond
My girl Patricia Meehan
John Kerrigan-- I only want to know for certain. This is an odd one where I'm pretty sure I know what happened, but just want confirmation

Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

There are many that I’d like to see solved but if I could only choose one, this is it.

How many people have become pregnant after touching the Ivory Coast fertility statues since the episode aired in 1996?

Todd McAfee

I got confused and thought this was the Mafuz Huq segment, which made me double check because I was sure Mafuz had been apprehended.

....I don't know if I have ever seen this segment. I'm sure I've said that before, but this one is not ringing any bells for me.

How many people have become pregnant after touching the Ivory Coast fertility statues since the episode aired in 1996?

Rusty Spike out there asking the REAL questions. :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

I got confused and thought this was the Mafuz Huq segment, which made me double check because I was sure Mafuz had been apprehended.

....I don't know if I have ever seen this segment. I'm sure I've said that before, but this one is not ringing any bells for me.

It never aired on the Lifetime reruns, and it sporadically popped up over on YouTube. If you google, "Todd McAfee unsolved", it's the second result you should see. The evidence is there. His former housekeeper was later found to be in possession of his stolen guns. The orange van that was seen by witnesses on the day of his murder was positively traced back to the housekeeper's husband. Most of the stolen items were recovered in the city where the housekeeper and her husband lived. An eyewitness (who later recanted) told the police about the plot involving the housekeeper (who allegedly confessed to this witness) going to his house to steal guns and the farm payroll but he interrupted them so they had to kill him.

How many people have become pregnant after touching the Ivory Coast fertility statues since the episode aired in 1996?

Yes, but the aphrodisiacs played a part as well :)

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I got confused and thought this was the Mafuz Huq segment, which made me double check because I was sure Mafuz had been apprehended.

....I don't know if I have ever seen this segment. I'm sure I've said that before, but this one is not ringing any bells for me.

At the start of the intro montage for this episode --

https://youtu.be/Etg6hPvWA9k?t=88

there is a guy in front of a trailer pointing an assault rifle (?) ... that is from the Todd McAfee segment. Like they said above it wasn't on Lifetime or the Film Rise episodes. I had seen that scene from the intro for YEARS and never knew what segment it was from. When I finally tracked down the segment and that scene popped up, I almost fell out of my chair LOL.

Angela Hammond
Debra Poe
The I-70 Killer
Tracy Kirkpatrick
M.M (abbreviated b/c I think we can't actually mention it anymore)
Rhonda Hinson

I wonder if anybody else found the magic rock and had the same experiences as the Johnsons did?

I wonder if anybody else found the magic rock and had the same experiences as the Johnsons did?

It bugs me that I have never found a picture of it online that wasn't from the UM segment.

Elizabeth Campbell

Uuuhhhh...is "too many to count" an acceptable answer?

Matt Flores, Patsy Wright, Dale Kerstetter, Henry & Ives, Brian Foguth, and Chaim Weiss just to name a few. Again, there really are too many to count for me.

Totally agree with Jon up thread about Jeremy Bright. As a born and bred (and probably until I die) Oregonian, the Bright case feels like a wound that just won't heal.

The Virgin Islands Voodoo murders.

I don’t want to say it will never get solved. But I desperately want the killer of Tracy Kirkpatrick to finally be apprehended. Obviously there’s my own history of emailing back in forth with Don Barnes Jr.’s daughter back in 2005…which feels like forever ago. But this is one of those cases I saw as a little kid and I immediately felt the magnitude of what her murder caused not just for her family and friends but their entire community. It also speaks to the mental anguish and torture of what loved ones have to go through when decades pass and you still have to live every day knowing that the killer is still free.

I’m still anxiously awaiting the release of the documentary on Tracy, ‘Into the Silent Land.’ It’s been in post-production since last spring and the creator said he has so much content, he’s going to break it up into multiple episodes. But there have been no updates about it posted on the film’s Facebook page since June 9th.

I’d give anything for Tracy’s family to finally have the satisfaction of knowing this guy is locked up.

I don’t want to say it will never get solved. But I desperately want the killer of Tracy Kirkpatrick to finally be apprehended. Obviously there’s my own history of emailing back in forth with Don Barnes Jr.’s daughter back in 2005…which feels like forever ago. But this is one of those cases I saw as a little kid and I immediately felt the magnitude of what her murder caused not just for her family and friends but their entire community. It also speaks to the mental anguish and torture of what loved ones have to go through when decades pass and you still have to live every day knowing that the killer is still free.

I’m still anxiously awaiting the release of the documentary on Tracy, ‘Into the Silent Land.’ It’s been in post-production since last spring and the creator said he has so much content, he’s going to break it up into multiple episodes. But there have been no updates about it posted on the film’s Facebook page since June 9th.

I’d give anything for Tracy’s family to finally have the satisfaction of knowing this guy is locked up.

You know DG, I feel the same way. After all, just this month news broke that after a 65 year search, Philadelphia LE has finally discovered the identity of the "Boy in the Box". I pray that it puts them one step closer to finding justice, but in any case it does remind a person to "never say never".

Su-Ya Kim, Judy Smith, Amy Billig, Elizabeth Campbell, Anthonette Cayedito, Lauren Jackson and Tom Roche.

O'Neal Moore even though most people know who was responsible.

Did UM cover the Springfield Three? I'm blanking at the moment. I've always wanted that one solved.

Oh and the Eric Tamiyasu murder.

Su-Ya Kim, Judy Smith, Amy Billig, Elizabeth Campbell, Anthonette Cayedito, Lauren Jackson and Tom Roche.

Ashley Flowers just did a great episode about Cayedito on her Crime Junkie podcast SG, in case you'd like to check it out. She also did an episode on The Deck this week about Dale Williams's disappearance. And I totally agree with sterek about the Tamiyasu murder...another Oregon cold case.

I'd love to know what happened to Charles Horvath and Colleen Wood. It would also be nice to see the murders of Dick Hansen and Blair Adams finally be solved, as well as the Jodi Huisentruit and Kristen Modeffari cases. I briefly had hope about Leah Williams when LE discovered that her car had been tampered with, but sadly it appears to have led nowhere.

I'm also still holding out hope in the Dave Bocks case. (BTW, is it just me or do Danny Williams and Dave Bocks look eerily alike? I swear the photos that UM used on their site look nearly identical to me!)

Being Canadian, I remember Cindy James (who is a dead ringer for my stepmum, incidentally contributing) and Blair Adams from when their cases first aired.

Those are my picks.

I'd also like to know the real deal with the David Merrifield case. A few sources have stated that LE's prime suspect, who's identity has never been disclosed, took his own life back in 2007, and as such the case has been closed. The UM site however mentions nothing about this and states that the case is still open.

Ashley Flowers just did a great episode about Cayedito on her Crime Junkie podcast SG, in case you'd like to check it out.

Thanks for the recommendation!

[QUOTE/]I'm also still holding out hope in the Dave Bocks case.

It's one of those cases that unfortunately seems to have been bungled by the original investigation.

Amy Bechtel, Jodi Huisentruit, Amy Billig, Wil Hendrick, Cindy Song, Jeremy Bright.

It gives me hope to see decades-old cases being solved. The Orange Socks killer, the Boy in the Box, Kristin Smart (still missing, but a conviction is at least in place), etc. I'm really hoping we'll continue to see many other cold cases being solved, including those profiled on UM.

The Virgin Islands Voodoo murders.

Yes, I mentioned this case in another thread back in mid 2020. The Obia-man person that killed the 5 people with Cyanide in St Croix, Virgin Islands between 1984-1988. Authorities are literally trying to find a transient phantom with no real description whatsoever, just a vague clue that he speaks with a heavy French-West Indies accent. There's certainly no photos of him to go on. I just can't see this case progressing any further. :confused:

Other cases I want to see solved, or at least find out what happened is Charles Horvath who went missing in Canada and the little Girl who went missing in the National Park in '83. I've completely forgotten her name. Did she wander off and die from exposure? or did that shady couple seen loitering around the park in fact take her? Terribly sad segment. :(

I've always been very intrigued by the Joan Gay Croft case and would love to see it finally be resolved. I guess I've never been able to decide if she just became a casualty to the chaos and disorganization of the tornado's aftermath or if she was deliberately taken in a sinister crime of opportunity.

Dexter Stefonek
Dewayne McCorkendale
Oliver Munson
Leonard Dirickson
Angela Hammond
Judith Hyams
Tara Calico

the little Girl who went missing in the National Park in '83. I've completely forgotten her name. Did she wander off and die from exposure? or did that shady couple seen loitering around the park in fact take her? Terribly sad segment. :(

Nyleen Kay Marshall. Never solved, with some absolutely brutal footnotes to the story as well.

Tommy Burkett. The suicide ruling will never sit right with me. Something more sinister went down that fateful day and I doubt the truth will ever surface.

the little Girl who went missing in the National Park in '83. I've completely forgotten her name. Did she wander off and die from exposure? or did that shady couple seen loitering around the park in fact take her? Terribly sad segment.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT] :([/QUOTE]

I think back in the mid 2010s, in this forum or somewhere else, someone mentioned that the composite sketches of the shady couple looked like Franklin Delano Floyd and
Suzanne Sevakis (a.k.a. Sharon Marshall). Suzanne would have been 14 years old in 1983, when Nyleen disappeared, and the female in the composite sketch looks older, while the male in the sketch, certainly, has some resemblance with some known photographs of Delano Floyd from the mid to late 70s.

Dale Kerstetter

Wadadda/Sarah Beard

Hugh and Diane Harlin.

the I 70 killer
Christophe Day
Oliver Munson
Jeremy relfs and heather opfelman

Christophe Day

This one was solved. He died of leukemia before his father could find him in the late 90's.

Ashley Flowers just did a great episode about Cayedito on her Crime Junkie podcast SG, in case you'd like to check it out. She also did an episode on The Deck this week about Dale Williams's disappearance.

Not to hijack the thread, but I found the allegations against Ashley for plagiarism to be pretty darn compelling, especially since she committed it against one of our own. Because of that, I will not support any of her content, although I certainly do not hold it against any of you who choose to listen to her podcasts.

patsy wright and Amy Bechtel are two top ones for me. Neither will likely be solved. I always wonder if APD have something else that can be released to the media to help solve the Patsy Wright case.

Sunny Liston is one of the celebrity cases that I thought was mysterious and I think boxing (sport in general) is a lot more corrupt with gambling than people want to believe.

Martin L. King and Huey Long assassinations. Were they as straight forward as it appears or were there actual conspiracies?

Rudolf Hess death? Was it murder or did he commit suicide? Did he have a double? That entire segment is hard to follow.

patsy wright and Amy Bechtel are two top ones for me. Neither will likely be solved. I always wonder if APD have something else that can be released to the media to help solve the Patsy Wright case.

Lisa Marie Kimmell's ('Lil Miss case) mom used to post on here occasionally. Her family was of the belief that Dale Wayne Eaton also kidnapped and murdered Amy.

Recent discussion in other threads about incorrect MP sightings made me think of John Cheek. It wouldn't surprise me if that trucker was mistaken, even with the ragged moccasins as part of the story. I highly doubt we'll ever know for certain if it was indeed John he met that day. What a sad case.

Recent discussion in other threads about incorrect MP sightings made me think of John Cheek. It wouldn't surprise me if that trucker was mistaken, even with the ragged moccasins as part of the story. I highly doubt we'll ever know for certain if it was indeed John he met that day. What a sad case.

Ugh, yes! I would love to see that one solved, although I think it's fairly obvious that he jumped into the river. When I was younger, I didn't understand why he could have possibly committed suicide the night before he was going to be rich. I didn't fully understand the sheer amount of pressure he must have been under...

Rudolf Hess death? Was it murder or did he commit suicide? Did he have a double? That entire segment is hard to follow.

DNA testing confirmed it wasn't a double, but his manner of death is unsolved.

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

Lisa Marie Kimmell's ('Lil Miss case) mom used to post on here occasionally. Her family was of the belief that Dale Wayne Eaton also kidnapped and murdered Amy.

yes and Dale's brother apparently contacted authorities at one point to confirm that Dale camped in that area where Amy was last seen.

DNA testing confirmed it wasn't a double, but his manner of death is unsolved.

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

thanks for the update!

Eric Tamiyasu

Cindy James

Keith Warren

Dave Bocks

Nyleen Kay Marshall

DNA testing confirmed it wasn't a double, but his manner of death is unsolved.

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

I'm not sure I buy the DNA testing for this one. Given the significant national interests involved and other contradictory evidence.

Legend of Mystery Rock

Not to hijack the thread, but I found the allegations against Ashley for plagiarism to be pretty darn compelling, especially since she committed it against one of our own. Because of that, I will not support any of her content, although I certainly do not hold it against any of you who choose to listen to her podcasts.

I have to admit Ricci that I was a fan for some time before I began hearing snippets of those allegations, but your post is the first time I'm hearing about the alleged plagiarism being committed against one of our own. Can you tell me who you are referring to, or is that not allowed? If you'd rather not, I completely understand. In any case, I try to take the same approach...if someone is a fan, that's okay, and if someone isn't a fan, that's okay too IMO. Either way, it's not for me to judge.

I have to admit Ricci that I was a fan for some time before I began hearing snippets of those allegations, but your post is the first time I'm hearing about the alleged plagiarism being committed against one of our own. Can you tell me who you are referring to, or is that not allowed? If you'd rather not, I completely understand. In any case, I try to take the same approach...if someone is a fan, that's okay, and if someone isn't a fan, that's okay too IMO. Either way, it's not for me to judge.

Just shot you a PM. :)

Other cases I want to see solved, or at least find out what happened is Charles Horvath who went missing in Canada and the little Girl who went missing in the National Park in '83. I've completely forgotten her name. Did she wander off and die from exposure? or did that shady couple seen loitering around the park in fact take her? Terribly sad segment. :(

As someone already mentioned, it was Nyleen Kay Marshall. Just a heartbreaking segment. Might be the most "it could happen to you" segments in UM's history. Because this was just a bunch of families hanging around a National Park and this girl disappears into thin air. No witnesses, no trail, nothing. Just a bunch of letters sent afterwards that may or may not be legit. The sad thing is, if she is alive, she wouldn't even remember her old life. Her mother was murdered in the mid 1990s, and I don't know if her stepdad is still around, but if he is, she wouldn't remember him. She was 4.

But oh so I ever want to know what happened there.



Also, a nod to Tommy Gibson. The world owes Larry an apology if he truly was taken. I honestly have no idea how he couldn't have been found by now.

Kurt Sova is another popular case which many would like to be solved one day too.

As someone already mentioned, it was Nyleen Kay Marshall. Just a heartbreaking segment. Might be the most "it could happen to you" segments in UM's history. Because this was just a bunch of families hanging around a National Park and this girl disappears into thin air. No witnesses, no trail, nothing. Just a bunch of letters sent afterwards that may or may not be legit. The sad thing is, if she is alive, she wouldn't even remember her old life. Her mother was murdered in the mid 1990s, and I don't know if her stepdad is still around, but if he is, she wouldn't remember him. She was 4.

But oh so I ever want to know what happened there.

This case….all I can wonder is how much more pain can a family endure? Nancy Marshall’s obvious murder made to look like a suicide and not being investigated on top of Nyleen’s ordeal. It’s too much. I still don’t know what to think about Kim Marshall (Nyleen’s step-father) as everything I heard of him has not been very positive.

Nyleen’s brother Nathan posted once here, years back. He was asking a Montana resident to send him a pm. But he never posted again and didn’t reply to any other pm’s. I completely understand if he wants privacy.

Blair Adams. I fully believe he was in the middle of a mental health breakdown and imagining the threats against his life. And yet...he somehow ends up brutally murdered. How?

The woman who was set afire in her bed in Washington D.C. - her name escapes me - one of the very few UMs where I believed it when people said "I think she saw/discovered something"

The church suicide bolo wearing man. Couldn't familial DNA testing be employed in that one?

D.B. Cooper - yep I still wanna know who and how.

Blair Adams. I fully believe he was in the middle of a mental health breakdown and imagining the threats against his life. And yet...he somehow ends up brutally murdered. How?

The woman who was set afire in her bed in Washington D.C. - her name escapes me - one of the very few UMs where I believed it when people said "I think she saw/discovered something"

The church suicide bolo wearing man. Couldn't familial DNA testing be employed in that one?

D.B. Cooper - yep I still wanna know who and how.

1. He snapped on the wrong person. Perhaps someone else with mental health issues, maybe just a mean SOB who didn't like what Blair was saying. Crime obviously inspired by an angry reaction over any other reason. I am beyond sick and tired of crackpots and attention whores coming forth with suspects. I am beyond fed up with the crackpots and attention whores coming forth with a new suspect every two seconds. Enough.

3. Yep, sure could. They just have to dig him up. Why is this taking so long?

4. I'll never be convinced unless irrefutable DNA evidence is used. And that seems quite unlikely at this point.

The two little girls who used to visit their alleged biological parents at a restaurant. It seems like DNA would be helpful in that case.

...

The church suicide bolo wearing man. Couldn't familial DNA testing be employed in that one?

D.B. Cooper - yep I still wanna know who and how.

Agree on all you mentioned, but especially these two.
The William Toomey case always really intrigued me, maybe because I'm Catholic and this man chose to end his life in a church. Wish this had not been excluded from the FilmRise episodes. I'd love to see it again.

Blair Adams. I fully believe he was in the middle of a mental health breakdown and imagining the threats against his life. And yet...he somehow ends up brutally murdered. How?

The woman who was set afire in her bed in Washington D.C. - her name escapes me - one of the very few UMs where I believed it when people said "I think she saw/discovered something"

The church suicide bolo wearing man. Couldn't familial DNA testing be employed in that one?

D.B. Cooper - yep I still wanna know who and how.

Blair Adams I think.. Someone after the above post says he 'snapped' on the wrong guy.. I think he HIT ON the wrong guy. I think there's a gay sex angle to this. Not that there's anything wrong with that.. But.. He was near a truck stop, right? I think he hit on or picked up the wrong person who then killed him.

The church suicide.. William Toomey, right? I'm sure that with a DNA sample and a few hours of investigation.. This would easily be solved. However.. The problem is.. Since this was an open and shut suicide.. I don't know that DNA would have been collected. This was the early 80's. Which means, an exhumation. Pending on the laws of Idaho.. That could be easier said than done. As I recall, yeah.. This is the one. Someone started looking into it a few years ago and the case file was a VHS copy of Unsolved Mysteries. That's it. They actually got the suicide note back from the producers. Anyway.. For a pretty open and shut suicide case.. I doubt any state/city/county is going to foot the exhumation bill.

DB Cooper.. lol. Find me ONE theory that fits and doesn't have at least one place where you can poke a pretty good sized hole into the theory.

The only one I have.. Which.. Is quite vague.. And, is my own personal idea.. I think he was a member of the Canadian military. I can't give a good motive, which.. Again.. Find me one that doesn't have a gaping hole.. But, Canadian military would fit the Dan Cooper comics.. They were working with titanium at the time.. If he went missing in Canada.. Probably wouldn't be looking for him in the US..


One that I'll add.. I listened to last night.. The black WWII soldier "Alexander" that befriended Sigfried Laier.

We ought to be able to solve that one. No question he's dead now, and most likely, he was dead at the time of broadcast. But.. What Army units were in Morelenbach, Germany in late March 1945?

And.. When I say "we".. I mean us here. We should have the skills if we all put our heads together. We just need to find out what units were there at that time and then find a muster roll of sorts.

Who's with me? Anyone want to join me tilting at this windmill?

Other ones worth mentioning: (might have been already)

Ayleen Conway - I mean, just how, why and who? She had 7 kids, to this day I am sure they are baffled as to what happened to their mom. This is like the final episode of the Sopranos in that you are left hanging

Johnny Gosch - Okay, it wasn't on UM. But this is baffling too. The kid goes missing while delivering his paper route in 1982. There is a moment at a gas station where someone claiming to be him calls out for help, there are pictures supposedly of him tied up, he apparently shows up at his mother's door in 1997 and there is that bizarre White House reporter who is accused of being him during the Bush Jr. years who is interviewed about it and actually makes you suspect him even MORE when you watch the interview. What the heck happened to that poor kid?

Charlotte Pollis - It isn't popular to always say, but I am not entirely sure about Paul Pollis' guilt. Charlotte would be the classic case of someone getting up and leaving (whose mother calls her daughter 14 times a day?)

Ayleen Conway - I mean, just how, why and who? She had 7 kids, to this day I am sure they are baffled as to what happened to their mom. This is like the final episode of the Sopranos in that you are left hanging



Definitely agree. first RS episode and unlike the other segments in that one, this one seems to be the most mysterious. I do sometimes wonder why Mr. Conway is never really mentioned as a suspect.

Definitely agree. first RS episode and unlike the other segments in that one, this one seems to be the most mysterious. I do sometimes wonder why Mr. Conway is never really mentioned as a suspect.

He's the one who was pushing for further investigation because he believed there was foul play involved.

Admittedly a weird case as half of the 'facts' back up that she drove herself into the bridge, while the other half do seem more.. Suspicious.

The church bulletin being found 200 yards from the car.. I'm pretty sure those windows broke when the bridge was hit. And since it was found days later, plenty of time for it to have blown that far.

The interior going up in flames.. You know.. I figure at a 50/60mph crash, it's possible for there to be a ruptured gas tan.

The whole investigation into this seems.. Shoddy. The fire chief shouldn't be sitting there going "I think there might have been an accelerant used".. Hey, idiot.. You're the fire expert.. you should KNOW. There should have been testing done.

But.. End of the day.. I kinda feel there was no one else involved here. She pulled a header into the bridge embankment.. And I think it was intentional. I just.. Don't know why.