What say you?

Jasper Watkins, the elderly man found dead in a streamer trunk. I know that ratings were at a low in 2001, but did they have to traumatize us? :eek:

Too many to list.

* Edward Harold Bell
* The one with Angela Hammond
* Blind River Rest Stop
* Cindy James
* Beverly McGowan
* Keith Warren
* Dennis DePue

The arsonist rambling about Omar.

Episode or segment?

Episode is much tougher to assess, since the original's are exceptionally hard to find. And one has to consider the sum of all segments versus other such sums.

I'm going to shortlist a few segments, although being different episodes they don't mean much as far as the episode.

Nyleen Marshall-Unsolved, extremely disturbing letter from her captor

Charles Morgan-So obvious that something very wrong was afoot here, I knew halfway though it that it would never be solved. When all was said and done there were 3 deaths in this segment and the sequels which to this day remain unsolved

Catholic priests serial killer-Again, at least two, possibly more murders by an unknown killer that has never been identified.

Charles Shelton, Mark Dennis, Robert Borton-All POWs left behind in Vietnam and never heard from again

If we're talking segments (and I assume we are), I think my vote would probably have to go to Franklin Delano Floyd.

Runners-up for me:

Connecticut River Valley Killer
The ATV murders
Mary Ann Perez

*Julius Patterson. Horrible crime against two vulnerable individuals, and to make matters worse, both killers received insultingly low sentences.

*Agree with Meg on Floyd. A Beautiful Child is one of the most disturbing books I've ever read.

*Even though he hasn't conclusively been connected to any child disappearances, reading about Tim Bindner's behavior is disturbing (the book Stalemate goes into this really well). The uncut episode of the Amber Swartz segment has a part where her mother Kim recalls him leaving a creepy voicemail (which they play in the unedited version that didn't make it to FilmRise). The book is way creepier than that and talks about some of his letters to her.

*Brad Bishop eliminating his family with a sledgehammer and burning them in the woods. He is probably my most hated UM fugitive that I want to see captured the most (though he is almost certainly dead at this point).

*Ricardo Caputo. Think about how much each of the women he killed trusted him before he did them in. It's really sickening to imagine.

*This one isn't talked about much because it didn't make it to FilmRise, but the movie producer guy who was prowling low income neighborhoods bribing young boys for sex. That one always gives me the creeps.

There are several. the Rachel Runyon brief segment always bothered me. Another one that always sticks with me is the Roxanne and Christopher Jeeves murder. Probably because it was close to where I grew up. I watched it over the years before and after it was solved, and it is more difficult to watch every time. haven't seen it in a long time.

*Julius Patterson. Horrible crime against two vulnerable individuals, and to make matters worse, both killers received insultingly low sentences.

*Agree with Meg on Floyd. A Beautiful Child is one of the most disturbing books I've ever read.

*Even though he hasn't conclusively been connected to any child disappearances, reading about Tim Bindner's behavior is disturbing (the book Stalemate goes into this really well). The uncut episode of the Amber Swartz segment has a part where her mother Kim recalls him leaving a creepy voicemail (which they play in the unedited version that didn't make it to FilmRise). The book is way creepier than that and talks about some of his letters to her.

*Brad Bishop eliminating his family with a sledgehammer and burning them in the woods. He is probably my most hated UM fugitive that I want to see captured the most (though he is almost certainly dead at this point).

*Ricardo Caputo. Think about how much each of the women he killed trusted him before he did them in. It's really sickening to imagine.

*This one isn't talked about much because it didn't make it to FilmRise, but the movie producer guy who was prowling low income neighborhoods bribing young boys for sex. That one always gives me the creeps.

Brad Bishop is one of the most depraved criminals on UM, and that's saying something. I'm surprised the movie producer segment is missing, given that the #MeToo movement really put a spotlight on that kind of behavior. But maybe there are legal reasons....

Brad Bishop is one of the most depraved criminals on UM, and that's saying something. I'm surprised the movie producer segment is missing, given that the #MeToo movement really put a spotlight on that kind of behavior. But maybe there are legal reasons....

Maybe because the guy was found dead they decided not to bother, but I agree it would have been a good segment to keep if they didn't have anything legal stopping them. It really highlights despicable behavior: Harming children and exploiting those in poverty.

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

Maybe because the guy was found dead they decided not to bother, but I agree it would have been a good segment to keep if they didn't have anything legal stopping them. It really highlights despicable behavior: Harming children and exploiting those in poverty.

Honestly I think the "legal reasons" excuse for excluding segments was almost always bunk. No idea why this was excluded, although I could see wanting to avoid criticism of the entertainment industry as a reason.

Edward Bell

Idk if I can say it is absolutely the most disturbing, but Chaim Weiss will live with me forever.

Usually the ghost stories don't bother me, but I must admit I was creeped out by the Black Hope Cemetery ghost stories. Those people really had a terrible time no matter what they did. And lots of tragedy too. It was both sad and disturbing they could not get free of that situation.

Jasper Watkins is the most obvious one. The first time I saw that it was like 3am and I was in the dark, and I was not expecting to see a straight up decomposed face.

Angela Hammond
Blind River Killer
Dick Hansen

All random crimes that still haven't been solved...

Little Miss Panasoffkee

The Oba Chandler segment has so many instances of disturbing that it's hard to wrap your head around.

Him luring a mother and her two teen daughters out in the bay leaving them no means of escape, the eventuality of all three having to witness him sexually assault them...it's endless trauma and most likely pleading for him to spare their lives under darkness until he weighs each one down and throws them into the bay while still alive.

Good riddance to that man being gone from this earth. But the damage he did is still difficult to comprehend.

The Oba Chandler segment has so many instances of disturbing that it's hard to wrap your head around.

Him luring a mother and her two teen daughters out in the bay leaving them no means of escape, the eventuality of all three having to witness him sexually assault them...it's endless trauma and most likely pleading for him to spare their lives under darkness until he weighs each one down and throws them into the bay while still alive.

Good riddance to that man being gone from this earth. But the damage he did is still difficult to comprehend.

Oh God, Oba Chandler. I'm generally not a fan of the death penalty, but if anyone deserved it, it was him.

The Pulitzer-winning Tampa Bay Times articles about the case (which I first encountered in Reader's Digest at a way-too-young age, thanks to my mother's subscription) are absolutely gut-wrenching.

Rachel Runyan bothers me a lot. Just makes my skin crawl in so many ways.

John and Linda Sohus too. He's dead but she was never found. That's just creepy. What the heck happened to her?

Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman's case

The Boys on the Tracks.

John and Linda Sohus too. He's dead but she was never found. That's just creepy. What the heck happened to her?



My guess is that Chichester lured her somewhere remote with the promise that he was taking her to the "secret job" and they'd be meeting John there. This was likely after he had already disposed of John in the back house. Then he murdered her and hid her body before returning to the house and burying John in the backyard. Because Mrs. Sohus had an alcohol problem/believed in Chichester, she may have taken his word about any digging he was doing in the backyard.

I've always wondered why he didn't kill both in the back house and bury them in the backyard, but my guess is that he may have had another motive for Linda (which really makes my skin crawl). I hope whatever happened was quick.

My guess is that Chichester lured her somewhere remote with the promise that he was taking her to the "secret job" and they'd be meeting John there. This was likely after he had already disposed of John in the back house. Then he murdered her and hid her body before returning to the house and burying John in the backyard. Because Mrs. Sohus had an alcohol problem/believed in Chichester, she may have taken his word about any digging he was doing in the backyard.

I've always wondered why he didn't kill both in the back house and bury them in the backyard, but my guess is that he may have had another motive for Linda (which really makes my skin crawl). I hope whatever happened was quick.

Rape or sexual assault immediately comes to mind for me with what he intended on doing. 40 years and no bones found, so who knows.