I think these: 1) Elaine Parent - her roommate said Parent watched AMW every Weds evening ...probably to see if she will be on there. Regardless I think Parent had the arrogance to watch herself on UN. 2) Tim McClure.

** But what I meant was which ones do u think watched their own segment in your opinion. (Not announced on UM.)

Dennis Depue did.

I can’t think of his name- the Canadian that was a traveling salesman. He abandoned his family over fear of getting caught for a petty crime he committed as a youth. He was approaching retirement age.

That guy who left a note about UM in a hotel wastepaper basket at least knew about his segment.

Didn't a couple of the Lost Loves see their own stories? I think that Vietnam nurse who helped the man injured by a helicopter phoned in after seeing the promo.

Steve Cox?

Wasn't he the one hiding out in a motel in Nevada and then he fled after UM aired the segment?

Steve Cox?

Wasn't he the one hiding out in a motel in Nevada and then he fled after UM aired the segment?

Yes that's his name.

And the Circleville Writer watched UM! If there were multiple writers maybe all of them watched UM too Iol?

Dennis Depue did.

P U Depue ! Why dont u change your dirty (bloody) smelly clothes into something clean, white, and refreshing?! Dennis the Menace....

Dennis Depue did.

I always wonder how much of the segment he actually saw. Because in the update, the live-in girlfriend looked back and theorized that he was keeping her distracted in the kitchen so she wouldn't walk in the living room and see the TV. Meanwhile, he's frantically packing and trying to catch snippets of the segment.

Then in 2020, a program called 'Man with a Van,' on Investigation Discovery aired an entire episode about the Dennis DePue saga and...wow. Setting aside the laughable dialogue they gave the young actors who were playing Ray and Marie Thorton, they showed Dennis sitting on his bed dumbfounded while watching the entire UM segment. (He's not packing). Then he hears his girlfriend walk through the front door and he contemplates killing her. And I'm like...huh? :confused:

I'm thinking the producers of this show tried to add extra drama to this already dramatic story by fudging some of the details in their reenactments. The UM update is much more likely.

I always wonder how much of the segment he actually saw. Because in the update, the live-in girlfriend looked back and theorized that he was keeping her distracted in the kitchen so she wouldn't walk in the living room and see the TV. Meanwhile, he's frantically packing and trying to catch snippets of the segment.

Then in 2020, a program called 'Man with a Van,' on Investigation Discovery aired an entire episode about the Dennis DePue saga and...wow. Setting aside the laughable dialogue they gave the young actors who were playing Ray and Marie Thorton, they showed Dennis sitting on his bed dumbfounded while watching the entire UM segment. (He's not packing). Then he hears his girlfriend walk through the front door and he contemplates killing her. And I'm like...huh? :confused:

I'm thinking the producers of this show tried to add extra drama to this already dramatic story by fudging some of the details in their reenactments. The UM update is much more likely.

Granted it was a re-enactment, but, I've never understood Depue LEAVING UM ON in one room and trying to keep his girlfriend in the other room under the guise of needed to leave immediately, and, presumably so that she wouldn't see the segment.

Why not change the channel, short out the power outlet, or something like that to avoid the segment and/or make sure she couldn't just flip the channel back (maybe she was a UM fanatic like us folks here). Depue's panic after being featured on national TV, and the need to flee ASAP, I get. The role of the broadcast airing at that particular time in their home, doesn't add up to me.

Dennis Depue did.

I always wonder how much of the segment he actually saw. Because in the update, the live-in girlfriend looked back and theorized that he was keeping her distracted in the kitchen so she wouldn't walk in the living room and see the TV. Meanwhile, he's frantically packing and trying to catch snippets of the segment.

Then in 2020, a program called 'Man with a Van,' on Investigation Discovery aired an entire episode about the Dennis DePue saga and...wow. Setting aside the laughable dialogue they gave the young actors who were playing Ray and Marie Thorton, they showed Dennis sitting on his bed dumbfounded while watching the entire UM segment. (He's not packing). Then he hears his girlfriend walk through the front door and he contemplates killing her. And I'm like...huh? :confused:

I'm thinking the producers of this show tried to add extra drama to this already dramatic story by fudging some of the details in their reenactments. The UM update is much more likely.

Well, short of asking his girlfriend directly.. We'll probably never know. I kinda suspect none of the stories are actually fully correct. I figure he might have seen the start of the show and saw he was being profiled and that's when he started running around packing up. Possibly even a preview of the episode before it aired.. You know "Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries..."

Does anyone recall when his segment aired in the original episode?

I can’t think of his name- the Canadian that was a traveling salesman. He abandoned his family over fear of getting caught for a petty crime he committed as a youth. He was approaching retirement age.

Did he? I don't recall this at all. Alex Cooper is the one you're thinking of. Someone in Canada did call and 'report' him but I don't ever recall hearing that he was watching his own episode.

[QUOTE=StackTime;6192735]Granted it was a re-enactment, but, I've never understood Depue LEAVING UM ON in one room and trying to keep his girlfriend in the other room under the guise of needed to leave immediately, and, presumably so that she wouldn't see the segment.


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I agree why not change the channel. Maybe he wanted to watch it to see how much UM and police knew of his whereabouts like what state or city they think Dennis is in... //

Oh no that stupid jardiance commercial is on again!!! Back to the subject at hand: in the last 10 yrs I heard many people here and on YT comments section say how creepy Dennis looked. lol well I remember only 1 person on YT say that Mrs Depue looked scary too. True, at least in that um pic w dennis!

Alex Cooper- thanks Labonte18 !

Does anyone recall when his segment aired in the original episode?

The original episode aired March 20, 1991, which was 11 months after the crime happened. The whole thing was surreal, this being a "local" case for me. Coldwater is two hours away but Marilyn grew up in my city and even went to high school with my uncle. I later found out that her funeral was in my city as well and that her sister still lived here. I was a 5th grader when this segment aired and I was getting ready to leave for school when my mom showed me an article in our local newspaper about Dennis killing himself after being featured on Unsolved Mysteries.

The following Wednesday night when Unsolved Mysteries aired, the episode started with Stack telling the viewers about the development in the Dennis Depue case which had just aired the previous week. He did this before he previewed that night's cases, the only time I can ever remember UM doing this. And since episodes were shot weeks and months ahead of airdates, the UM crew must have asked Robert Stack to come in and film that quick intro. I've never seen it again after that original airing. It was never shown on Lifetime or Filmrise.

Did he? I don't recall this at all. Alex Cooper is the one you're thinking of. Someone in Canada did call and 'report' him but I don't ever recall hearing that he was watching his own episode.

This was such a classic segment. But you're right. It's never mentioned that Alex watched his own segment. A viewer in Hamilton, Canada recognized him and called the authorities. Everything about this story was intriguing and I think would have made a great movie. So many discoveries the family made along the way and then to find out he hasn't been dead the last five years...but why is he running? It has all the makings of a great script, especially if you're in to drama.

The original episode aired March 20, 1991, which was 11 months after the crime happened. The whole thing was surreal, this being a "local" case for me. Coldwater is two hours away but Marilyn grew up in my city and even went to high school with my uncle. I later found out that her funeral was in my city as well and that her sister still lived here. I was a 5th grader when this segment aired and I was getting ready to leave for school when my mom showed me an article in our local newspaper about Dennis killing himself after being featured on Unsolved Mysteries.

The following Wednesday night when Unsolved Mysteries aired, the episode started with Stack telling the viewers about the development in the Dennis Depue case which had just aired the previous week. He did this before he previewed that night's cases, the only time I can ever remember UM doing this. And since episodes were shot weeks and months ahead of airdates, the UM crew must have asked Robert Stack to come in and film that quick intro. I've never seen it again after that original airing. It was never shown on Lifetime or Filmrise.

Well, here's where my mind is going, and the reason I asked where the DePue case aired in the original episode.. Which segment it was.

It's already.. Odd.. To think that his girlfriend (I could likely look up her name, but.. Who cares? She was an innocent bystander in all this.) was getting home between 8pm and 9pm.. That.. Just doesn't sit right. Because, the way UM showed it.. She got home and he was running around and his segment was airing.

The further towards 9pm you get, the odder this would be.

So.. My opinion/guess here.. He wasn't watching the show at all. I think there was a 'bumper' aired that said they would be profiling his case.. And he probably was packing up and running sometime more around the 6pm timeframe.

That.. Would make a whole lot more sense. Someone arriving home from work between 8pm and 9pm.. That's just.. REALLY weird. not impossible, of course, but.. Weird.




This was such a classic segment. But you're right. It's never mentioned that Alex watched his own segment. A viewer in Hamilton, Canada recognized him and called the authorities. Everything about this story was intriguing and I think would have made a great movie. So many discoveries the family made along the way and then to find out he hasn't been dead the last five years...but why is he running? It has all the makings of a great script, especially if you're in to drama.


Sorry.. I view this one totally differently. I just look at him as a horrible person.

Look.. I understand what he did back in the day. I understand him hiding that from his family.. But.. To pack up and disappear on them? That was the WORST option available.

I'd have much more respect for him if he had just sat them all down and said "Ok.. Here's what I've hidden from you for 40 years". What he tried to do.. Running away.. Awful. what he put his family through. Everything up until the point he staged his disappearance.. You know what? All that I could forgive. But.. Not the disappearance.

I've said it before here.. Not sure in relation to Alex.. But.. While he's at the shallow end of worthless.. He still ranks as worthless as a human being for that.


Oh.. And I'd start the celebration here because I remembered a name that others didn't.. But.. I'd be lying. I had to look it up.

Not defending him at all. I think it's terrible what he put his family through. But I do think the story itself is interesting.

Not defending him at all. I think it's terrible what he put his family through. But I do think the story itself is interesting.

Pretty unique, at least. Watching that story back in the day.. I would have thought there'd be zero chance of him being found alive.

From that standpoint.. A very unexpected 'happy' ending.

I think Jim Burnside did according the UM update. I wonder what suspects that that were never caught, or went decades without being caught, watched their own segments. I always wonder about Patsy Wright's killer(s).

Alex Cooper. That was such a crazy case.

I wonder what Stephen Marfeo was thinking when he watched himself drinking a cup of tea pretending to grieve for Doreen. That is one of my most cringeworthy moments from UM.

As pointed out in the update, Jerry Strickland and Missy Munday watched their entire segment (just the second ever episode of UM), knew they would be caught and waited for the police. 7 hours after the episode aired, they were arrested.

There is no way Jules Caylor didn’t watch his segment.
He probably wrote a letter about how handsome he looked.

As pointed out in the update, Jerry Strickland and Missy Munday watched their entire segment (just the second ever episode of UM), knew they would be caught and waited for the police. 7 hours after the episode aired, they were arrested.

That must've been a long 7 hours

Pat Long.. Brandon Fagan's mother wasn't watching the segment, but saw the promo of the episode to air the next day featuring her and Brandon and turned herself in..

I'd consider that as good enough to qualify on this topic, even though she didn't watch her actual segment.

Remember, "Brandon" popped in here a couple of years ago and provided an update.

And, I only put that in quotes because.. Hey.. It is the internet. You never know. But.. No real reason to doubt that it was him.. Well.. Other than the fact that.. It's the internet.

https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showpost.php?p=5478325&postcount=16

That must've been a long 7 hours

I watched this segment the other day and I'm just amazed that young Missy was so swept off her feet by Strickland. He was described as this smooth talker, confident, the kind of "bad boy," you'd expect to have rugged good looks to make up for his attitude. But then they show his mug shot from a few years earlier and he's this short, plump man with a haircut that resembles Moe from the Three Stooges. I just don't get it.

Also, we'll probably never know but I'd love to find out how her life turned out when Missy was released from the juvenile home at 19 and went back to living with her insanely strict mother.

The baby Jerry and Missy had together is now 36. Yeesh.

I've heard most of them did.

Not a suspect in the literal sense, but IIRC, Lt Sharp Caldwell saw her picture in a UM promo and called the telecenter & solved her mystery before her story ever aired.

Didn't Dennis Keith Smith, who killed the woman who went out drinking after she found out her husband had stood her up, watch his own segment?

Didn't Dennis Keith Smith, who killed the woman who went out drinking after she found out her husband had stood her up, watch his own segment?

Yes! He was watching with two people who had no idea he was a killer. He asked them to change the channel and they refused and even commented that he had the same tattoos as the suspect on the show. I think he ended up stealing their car while trying to get away.

Craig Williamson, who was a missing person rather than a suspect.

(Though I highly suspect he simply abandoned his spouse, and to borrow a word from my English friends, his amnesia story was bullocks.)

Still, he knew the jig was up when his face showed up on Unsolved Mysteries and he'd have to bite the bullet and call in.

The update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_amjG-naxU&t=547s

Alex Cooper. That was such a crazy case.

I could be mistaken, but, I don't remember it being stated that he watched his own UM segment. I think he was spooked by the evidence of police search in his boarding room, fled (yet again), and was eventually tracked down thereafter.

It's been theorized that Kevin Poulsen saw his own segment, because the phone lines at UM's telecenter mysteriously crashed the night his story originally aired.

With fugitives that weren't caught, there's a few that come to mind which would have been interesting if they saw their own segments; DB Cooper and the LA tunnel bank robbers come to mind.

It's been theorized that Kevin Poulsen saw his own segment, because the phone lines at UM's telecenter mysteriously crashed the night his story originally aired.

With fugitives that weren't caught, there's a few that come to mind which would have been interesting if they saw their own segments; DB Cooper and the LA tunnel bank robbers come to mind.

Wow that's cool. Didn't realize the UM phone center experienced a telephone crash.

I could be mistaken, but, I don't remember it being stated that he watched his own UM segment. I think he was spooked by the evidence of police search in his boarding room, fled (yet again), and was eventually tracked down thereafter.

He didn't. He had made a friend at the boarding house in Toronto. And when he went away for a few days, that friend reporting him missing. The friend filing that missing person report was the absolute blessing to the family because it was proof that he was still alive when they spent the last five years thinking he was dead. Trouble was, he ran away again when he found out the police had searched his room.

An Unsolved Mysteries viewer in Hamilton (Ontario) recognized Cooper and called the authorities. At that point, he knew he had no choice but to return to his family and reveal the truth.

Jim Burnside apparently knew he was going to have a bad day after watching his own segment lol

Brian Brophil, the drug smuggler.

Brian Brophil, the drug smuggler.

I remember them showing beach pics of him surfing or wind surfing after profiting from his drug money.and traveling the world. Did u like his dad bod?