I know this has been done in the past, but what UM cases took place fairly local to you? The closest one to me was the Clarence Roberts case in Nashville Indiana. It's about 20 minutes from me. In fact, a nephew of his was a client of mine. He even talked about him a little bit. From the segment, Im pretty familiar with all the scenery they filmed. After Clarences first "death", Geneva moved out to a little place actually called "Camp Roberts". I don't know of the name had any connection or not. The house where the first fire happened is north of Nashville and actually had another garage that burned years later. However there are 3 houses at that intersection so not sure which one for sure was theirs.

Colleen Reed was kidnapped a short distance from where I lived at the time, as was the convenience store where Cheryl Holland was working under a fake name.

I grew up in Winter Garden where Tommy Zeiglar murdered his wife, in laws and a customer in 1975. I moved away in 1977.

I live in the county where the boys on the track happened.

I was born in New Castle, PA - the home town of Phillip Macri

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

They show a clip of him making the game winning shot in a New Castle HS basketball game -- a ton of my relatives went there.

I now live in Lancaster, PA and the Danny Pineda case happened here.

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Danny_Pi%C3%B1eda

After Clarences first "death", Geneva moved out to a little place actually called "Camp Roberts". I don't know of the name had any connection or not.

Guessing it did -- Clarence's sister owned the second house that Geneva lived in that eventually burned down and she lived next door. Probably a group of houses the Roberts family owned.

Ghosthouse you're probably right. Out in rural Indiana there are lots of little patches of family land that just stays in the family through the generations. My guess is maybe his family felt bad for what she was going through and let her live in an empty house out there. Makes you wonder if they knew more than they said, especially with the sightings and rumors that Clarence came back and was there.

Did that take place in Arkansas?

I live in Oklahoma, so I guess the Wendy Camp case counts. I’ve lived all over the state, but probably the closest I was to Shamrock, was when I lived in Cleveland in Pawnee County, which is near Creek County where Shamrock is located.

I was a few weeks away from my tenth birthday and was living in OKC when the bombing happened, so anything related to that case really speaks to me.

Mothman is 20 minutes away from me.

I'm from Los Angeles. I know there's a lot of mysteries from there and neighboring cities. Only ones that come to mind right now are Matthew Chase and Rosemary Hom.

I'm from Los Angeles. I know there's a lot of mysteries from there and neighboring cities. Only ones that come to mind right now are Matthew Chase and Rosemary Hom.

Same. We have so many in our county/neighboring counties.

Mickey and Trudy Thompson
Redondo Beach sea lion murders
Angeles National Forest murders (Linda Sobek and Kimberly Pandelios)
Music School Fraud in North Hollywood
Jesse James Hollywood
Queen Mary
Elizabeth Short (aka the Black Dahlia)
Chevy Chase Bandit
Mel and Anita Green
Civil War Barracks

And many more!

The Lee Carter Jr car bombing took place about a mile from me (my mother knew him).
I live next to Lake Champlain, where Champy is.
I'm about 45 minutes from where Kari Lynn Nixon was abducted from.

Joe Shepherd was captured in my city.

In the years that he lived here, there were some high profile murders of young women that remain unsolved, thanks to the shittiest police work known to man. At least one of them fit Shepherd's m.o. to a tee. He lived in the same disgusting welfare complex where she vanished from. Clear view of the apartment and everything. The police claim that Shepherd was cleared through DNA, but I highly doubt it. After how the police mangled and have continued to disrespect this case for 41 years, I don't believe anything they have to say. They recently put up billboards offering a huge reward for information leading to the arrest of the girl's murder. They have the murderer's DNA; they could spend a fraction of the reward money for genetic genealogy, and...I don't know...catch the f.ucking killer?!?! I hate these cops so much.

Many years later, I bumped into a guy online who used to work locally as an exterminator. He remembered spraying for roaches at Shepherd's residence.

Oliver Munson disappeared about 15 minutes away from where I live.

I live in Oklahoma, so I guess the Wendy Camp case counts. I’ve lived all over the state, but probably the closest I was to Shamrock, was when I lived in Cleveland in Pawnee County, which is near Creek County where Shamrock is located.

I've snooped around Shamrock on Google Street View and to say it's a 'blink and you'll miss it' town would be an understatement. According to the 2020 census, the population of Shamrock is 65 people. 65. It's literally a handful of homes, some trailers, a tiny church, tiny museum and a FedEx that is about the size of an outhouse. There's some semblance of an old gas station that looks like it's been closed for decades.

It's just the type of place I'd expect Beverly Noe to live. Desolate, barren, gloomy looking, hidden away from society and people in general.

I’m about an hour north of Panama City Beach. We were at PCB when Pamela June Ray vanished. That case has always stuck with me. The pouring rain and heavy police presence up and down Front Beach Road.

I am not ashamed to admit that I live in the same small Illinois town where Jim Boumgarden lived; his son was one of my classmates in school. The college I attended was 30 minutes away from Galesburg, where Danny Williams allegedly committed suicide.

And while he may not have committed his crimes near where I live, Rick Church is currently imprisoned about 35 minutes southwest of where I live.

Walter Rice is local to me. He died and wasn't discovered for about a year, with his ~$100k in savings going to the state when they couldn't find heirs.. I've posted photos here and uploaded a couple of YouTube videos showing where his house (trailer) was and his grave.

Folks here and on reddit have.. Pretty much identified him as a relative of baseball HoFer Jim Rice.

Sam Wodke.. Robbed a grocery store, killed a constable and then escaped prison.. One of our local news anchors, Carol Goldsmith was an eyewitness to the robbery and appeared on the show.

And, of course, the Lori Reaves web exclusive case that, more or less, I solved.. Finding her buried under the wrong name at the Richland County Cemetery. I stumbled across this case while looking into the Walter Rice case, which.. Is one of those that just stuck with me over the years.


Most of the SC cases have been solved. If you look at the list..

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Category:South_Carolina

They're either solved, or have a very sketchy connection to SC to start with.. The outstanding one is the Blue Ridge Savings murders.. It's believed the person responsible for that is dead, but.. Can't fully prove it.

Others.. Like Carlos Garcia/Fernando Zapico.. His case really had no connection to SC.. He just had other charges in SC.


FWIW.. This is the old bank building that the murders happened in. So far as I recall, that building has been vacant since the bank was taken over by FDIC.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/GrdNdLvyyqjf39He9

This is the former rental car place that Emerson Wright stole the car from. https://maps.app.goo.gl/5GofXaKsividX7pe8

Roughly a half mile up the road.

A few here ...
Michael Swango, Tina Resch, Tony Lombardi and Jessica Keen all have direct ties to my hometown of Columbus. Lombardi lived in the suburb of Westerville.
The first victim mentioned in the Ohio prostitute murders segment was found about 15 miles east of me, off Interstate 70 at the Ohio 37 exit.
Reynoldsburg, where I lived before moving to a neighboring suburb, was mentioned in the Victor Simon segment.
And Circleville, home of the infamous letters, is about 25 miles to my south-southwest. Pickaway County neighbors my county, Fairfield.

There were a few Pittsburgh cases over the years, but the closest one to me was Art Jones in Fallowfield, PA (I was living in Ginger Hill, PA at the time, which is a part of Fallowfield). I know it was one of those short ones, but they did interview Sam Woncheck, who was the chief of police and was friends with my mom. Also, my younger brother once pooped on him while he was holding him. Can't think of anything closer than that.

A few here ...
Michael Swango, Tina Resch, Tony Lombardi and Jessica Keen all have direct ties to my hometown of Columbus. Lombardi lived in the suburb of Westerville.
The first victim mentioned in the Ohio prostitute murders segment was found about 15 miles east of me, off Interstate 70 at the Ohio 37 exit.
Reynoldsburg, where I lived before moving to a neighboring suburb, was mentioned in the Victor Simon segment.
And Circleville, home of the infamous letters, is about 25 miles to my south-southwest. Pickaway County neighbors my county, Fairfield.

I used to live in Butler County between Cincinnati and Dayton. I was very aware of the Truck Driver segment because I drove around a lot on all of the Ohio interstates and beyond to the other neighboring states. I even spent a couple of weeks at the Gettysburg college where the ghost segment took place. those were fun times. I enjoyed my time in that area. IIRC they had civil war battlefield night tours for ghost watching. I never went, but some of my co-workers did.

As a young kid I lived close to the area where Tara Breckenridge lived. I often rode with my mom and dad in the very area that her car was found. I also lived close to where Patsy Wright lived in Arlington.

I've also lived in the UK, North Carolina, Phoenix, and live in Las Vegas now. several segments caught my eye in those areas. The Norwich, UK, Castle (museum) is featured on a psychic segment. I've been there. One near phoenix where I lived, was the Pam Page segment. On the reenactment they have a psychic that talks about a particular location next to train tracks in Peoria, AZ. There are train tracks, but I was unable to find that location. although I searched at one point. I know that Tempe and Scottsdale are featured on several segments. and the phoenix lights. local folklore from my time there in 2005-2009 was that people were attaching lights to helium balloons and releasing them. For Las Vegas local news here still talks about the Tupac case. It seems as if a lot of the Vegas segments were solved. I guess the most recent thing that could be seen is the Buffalo Jim Netflix segment. Las Vegas has changed a lot over the years, perhaps more than any other place I've lived or visited. Buffalo Jim's house is close to the Air Force base. I can see the neighborhood from the Air Force base. his house is at the base of Frenchman Mountain. I've also hiked to the top of the mountain several times. while Buffalo Jim's particular street is probably safe, there is a lot of crime nearby. I always see police lights on the horizon at night on the Eastside. I've felt nervous hiking the mountain because there are a lot of drifters and thieves in the area and bodies have been found there. I've heard gun shots every time I've hiked there. People apparently do target practice nearby, but you never know when it comes to that part of town. Lake Mead is on the other side of the mountain and over the last few years as the lake level drops, authorities keep finding bodies.

In the near feature I plan to visit Marfa to go to the Marfa lights viewing if it is still there and I think it is.

When we would drive to Cincinnati for Reds games, which was frequent during my childhood, occasionally I wondered where along 71 the one victim was dumped in Warren County. I don't know if that portion of the segment was filmed along that stretch of 71, and now I doubt it was, but as a kid if I saw the segment I tried to recognize where it could be.
I also lived in Houston for a time and recognize a lot of places filmed in that segment (not the clubs themselves!), especially that stretch of 610 between I-10 and 290 where Tara's car was found.

Everything associated with the Tara Breckenridge case happened about 15 minutes away from where I grew up.

I'm right in the middle of MI, so I'm about 2-3 hours away from most of the MI UM cases:

John Burns - South Lyon
Marilyn DePue - Coldwater
Dave Davis - Hillsdale
Elmer DeBoer/Missy Munday/Jerry Strickland - Pontiac
Jack Brown - Ypsilanti
Gordon Page - GR
Howard Drummond - Lansing
Pat Mealbach -- Dearborn

I've snooped around Shamrock on Google Street View and to say it's a 'blink and you'll miss it' town would be an understatement. According to the 2020 census, the population of Shamrock is 65 people. 65. It's literally a handful of homes, some trailers, a tiny church, tiny museum and a FedEx that is about the size of an outhouse. There's some semblance of an old gas station that looks like it's been closed for decades.

It's just the type of place I'd expect Beverly Noe to live. Desolate, barren, gloomy looking, hidden away from society and people in general.
I've looked at Shamrock too out of curiosity and man. I thought Cairo, Illinois was abandoned looking. Shamrock is much spookier looking and surprising there's actually a very small museum there. I forget the street, but if you go down the road there's a random abandoned baseball field that's completely overgrown somewhere by the Shamrock/Dunright border. I wondered when was the last time anybody played baseball there? 40-50 years ago? It's anybody's guess where the Noe's property would be. Have you seen the street where the unleashed dogs go chasing after the Google Maps car? Lol

Also, I don't know what would constitute local. Meaning living around less than 50 miles to where the crime took place? The only ones I can think of off the top of my head would be the Richard rampage incident and the cop Ralph Probst getting shot in Cook County when it comes to the area I live in. For some reason, it seems like not a lot of UM cases happened in Illinois as compared to other Midwestern states like Michigan or Ohio.

I used to live down the street from the bar where Hilda Roche met Gregory Barker. The name of the bar was Rafters in Alexandria, VA. The bar has changed names and ownership many times since. It went from Rafters, to Bennigans, to Alley Cat. If you put in the address "1 S Whiting Street, Alexandria, VA" into Google Maps and click "Street View" you can see the outside of the bar. I went in there before when it was known as Alley Cat but left quickly because literally no one was inside, even though the lights were on. This was before they shut down, of course. Now, the bar has been left abandoned.

When we would drive to Cincinnati for Reds games, which was frequent during my childhood, occasionally I wondered where along 71 the one victim was dumped in Warren County. I don't know if that portion of the segment was filmed along that stretch of 71, and now I doubt it was, but as a kid if I saw the segment I tried to recognize where it could be.
I also lived in Houston for a time and recognize a lot of places filmed in that segment (not the clubs themselves!), especially that stretch of 610 between I-10 and 290 where Tara's car was found.
I've looked for that same stretch of 71 and could never spot it either.

My guess, if it was in fact filmed along 71, was somewhere between the bridge over the Little Miami River and the Lebanon exits. While that segment plays fast and loose with Ohio geography, including calling Licking and Medina counties "nearby" each other and saying Austintown is 150 miles north of Columbus when it's closer to 200 miles northeast, that is my best guess when it comes to the Warren County portion.

My guess, if it was in fact filmed along 71, was somewhere between the bridge over the Little Miami River and the Lebanon exits. While that segment plays fast and loose with Ohio geography, including calling Licking and Medina counties "nearby" each other and saying Austintown is 150 miles north of Columbus when it's closer to 200 miles northeast, that is my best guess when it comes to the Warren County portion.

it's been so long since I've been out there. I was last there in 2019 and I drove the stretch of 71 that is in question. I remember seeing similar feed type towers that they show in the segment, but couldn't honestly tell you if I saw those on 71 or 75 or perhaps somewhere else. I think I saw the truckomat before, I think on IH 70 in Licking county.

My guess, if it was in fact filmed along 71, was somewhere between the bridge over the Little Miami River and the Lebanon exits. While that segment plays fast and loose with Ohio geography, including calling Licking and Medina counties "nearby" each other and saying Austintown is 150 miles north of Columbus when it's closer to 200 miles northeast, that is my best guess when it comes to the Warren County portion.

I can't speak to years ago, however.. I can tell you that here in upstate SC we have the Southern Connector that was built around 2000 and technically is an I-185 Toll Road.

It was a rather large CF, the company that built it almost immediately went bankrupt because while their studies which asked people if this road existed would they use it, the response was overwhelmingly yes.. The didn't ask if they would PAY to use it.. Which, the answer was a resounding NO

The state took over the road, and it's still a toll road, and the toll is like $5.00 to drive the 14 miles or so of it.

You watch youtube, it shows up in about every video of "Worthless interstates"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_185_(South_Carolina)

Anyway.. To help bring in funds, every so often they shut the entire highway down for a few days to allow filming on the road. The Cinemax show Banshee is one of them that did it. That show is set in Pennsylvania

So.. While UM did more location filming.. If it were done today.. There's no telling where they might film at. Not too many places will allow a road to be closed for filming.

it's been so long since I've been out there. I was last there in 2019 and I drove the stretch of 71 that is in question. I remember seeing similar feed type towers that they show in the segment, but couldn't honestly tell you if I saw those on 71 or 75 or perhaps somewhere else. I think I saw the truckomat before, I think on IH 70 in Licking county.

I am close to 100 percent certain the Licking County portion was filmed at that actual exit, Ohio 37 off I-70 (Exit 126). The geography just fits too perfectly. Some of the buildings in the background are still there and, outside of some upgrades to the truck stops on either side of 70, the exit still looks a lot like it did then. That's about 15 miles east of where I live, and both my dad and I used to take that exit when we had jobs in the Newark area.
My job, coincidentally, was writing for the Newark newspaper, a clip from which is included in this segment. I currently work for The Columbus Dispatch, where Michael Berens worked. He left the paper many years ago however.

I was living in Fayetteville NC within walking distance of the Pub when Debbie Wolfe died under mysterious circumstances. I was very familiar with her cabin's location from hunting in the area since the late 1970s. In fact I tried to rent or buy the property several times from July or August 1984 until spring 1986. It was a nice, peaceful little place tucked away in the pine forest east of Ft Bragg's Simmons Army Airfield. The last time I was there in the late 1990s it was boarded up and dysmal. Due to some unbelievable disconnects I was not aware Debbie lived there or was found dead in the pond until October 2023.

I am close to 100 percent certain the Licking County portion was filmed at that actual exit, Ohio 37 off I-70 (Exit 126). The geography just fits too perfectly. Some of the buildings in the background are still there and, outside of some upgrades to the truck stops on either side of 70, the exit still looks a lot like it did then. That's about 15 miles east of where I live, and both my dad and I used to take that exit when we had jobs in the Newark area.
My job, coincidentally, was writing for the Newark newspaper, a clip from which is included in this segment. I currently work for The Columbus Dispatch, where Michael Berens worked. He left the paper many years ago however.

oh ok that is close to the area and you know it well. I first drove through there about 16 years ago on IH 70. I think I even saw the bright lit truckomat sign. not sure if it is still there, but it looked very familiar when I saw the segment as if it was a place that I stopped at or saw from the side of the freeway.

That's neat that you work at the Columbus dispatch. You might already be aware that one of the posters on here or maybe a couple of them have made contact with Michael Berens over the years regarding the segment.

I live about a half hour away from Frederick, MD where Tracey Kirkpatrick was murdered and have gone there many times.

I live about a half hour away from Frederick, MD where Tracey Kirkpatrick was murdered and have gone there many times.

Same here, although I've only been to the shopping center where she was murdered once on our way back from a vacation in West Virginia.

I'm still waiting for the Spanish monk to appear at my back door. haven't seen him yet. If I ever move away from here, assuming that I stay in Texas, it would probably be in the Chianti Mountains area. The state is building a state natural area in that location. It would be interesting to sit at the top of those mountains at night and look down into Marfa and the other areas in Big Bend. The dark skies are amazing there, just like the gentleman mentions in the Marfa lights segment.

I don't live in NY now, but i was born and grew up there, I dated a girl for a while who lived in Rector Place, this is where Sneha Philip lived before she went missing. I didn't know about the case at the time, when i found out i got really interested in it.