Some UM stories are OK. Others I watch and wish that I had more information--they just capture your imagination somehow. Here are some of the stories that I want to know more about:

* Disappearance of Cindy Anderson
* Death of Debbie Wolf (was on last night; got my interest again)
* Disappearance of Christi Nichols
* Disappearance of Pam Page

(Looks like I'm intrigued by the disappearance cases.)

What stories have sparked your interest the most?

Let's see, I'm going to have to try to limit this to under a hundred. :D

*Cindy James case (who was harrasing her all of those years, who attacked her, what happened when she dissapeared, how did her body get to the yard of the abandonned house, etc...)

*Judy Himes case (she most likely died during the abortion, but all of the details are too weird. Who were the callers saying she was alive and living in Omaha?)

*Kidnapping in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. (Where those scum-bag grandparents the Maples have been all these years, will they ever get caught? Will Kristi and Bobby ever be reunited with their parents?)

*Orange socks in Breckenridge. (Who murdered Bobbi Obersholtzer and Annette Kay Shnee in 1982 and did the orange socks found near their bodies belong to the killer?)

These are the cases that i wish could see solved one day:

5. The man who left his victim for dead, and when she drived searching for help she found that she was driving behind the killer's truck.

4. The man who disapeared after he was caught by a camera during a robbery of platinum in the factory where he worked.

3. The killer of 6 persons in a pizza restaurant. There wasnt a reason for this masacre.

2. The Maples case of course.

1. The missing kids who are believed to be the ones in a photo found for a woman a thousand miles from where they disapeared.

Definitely Judith Himes, though I'm almost scared to know. Still, the case needs a resolution.

Whatever happened to Clifford, the Canadian boy who disappeared fifty years ago.

And Amy Billig, the pretty teenager from Florida. Again, I'm almost afraid to know because it's likely to be tragic.

I remember the earlier case about two boys found unconscious on the railroad tracks. At least one had been stabbed before the train struck so it wasn't an accident or suicide. I'm getting creeped out just thinking about these crimes. I'll be back during daylight with more.

Regarding the Amy Billig case, here is a post about it that was mentioned on A&E a couple monthes ago. Too bad Unsolved Mysteries never gave us an update about it. Anyway, here is a post by a girl named Michelle that saw it and posted it.....

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Just yesterday I was channel surfing and I happened to find a story on AE about a mother on a search for a missing teenager who had dissapeared over 20 years ago. I had remembered the mother because her daughters case was profiled on UM(possibly around the 89-90 season)and what I remembered about the case was that the mother has suspected Amy was being passed around to motorcylce gangs for prositution. I know it sounds werid,but I know some of you faithfull UM watchers remember the case.

Well after 20 some odd years,she is still looking for her daughter. Joan Lunden(the host of the show)followed her to Europe while she went around pubs&bars,showing picutres of her daughter. I think there was a part of the segement of the UM broadcast where she got a tip from a US custom agent about Amy being in Europe,but this person later began harrassing the mother?I haven't seen the segment for a while,so my details are kind of sketchy. I also remember she had an informant who was apart of a biker gang,but it never lead to any evidence of her still alive or dead. Well at the end of the program the mother went to the informant house because his widow wanted to tell her what her husband had kept secrect all these years"death bed confession". The widow told her that Amy was at the bar that night,but she was drugged up,and she got loud with one of the gang members,which enraged the man so he "knocked her up a couple of times,and then they killed her. they didn't know where to leave the body at first,so they decided to throw her to the alegators in the everglades".

Well at the end of the segment,Joan talked to the host of Investigative Reports,and he had updated saying that the mother was suing the US agent for 5 million dollars for all the emotional abuse she endured during the cat and mouse chase he led her on. And another tip came from an elderly former biker gang memeber stating that he had taken Amy from the bar that night and drove her to Virgina where he had passed her to another biker gang,and he never saw her again.

All and all,Amy is most definetly deceased. But it was sad to see her mother still looking and hoping,and I'm glad the program helped her give her some sort of closure.

I know alot of you update on stories,so I'd figured I'd try it for
once =D
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I read more about the case of Amy Billig, and the guy who "claimed" the 'alligator' story has so many inconsistencies in his claim, so some believe him and some don't. I have no doubt that she is gone, but I've heard so many different versions of what happened to her, it's not even funny! :(

I have also been VERY curious about Judith Himes/Hymes. I know UM did an update on her a few years ago- with regards to the anonymous letter, and the writer's confession that she died from the illegal abortion and was thrown in the bay or something. Has anyone heard anything else?

The cases that have sparked the most interest in me:

1) The case of 'Little Miss Panasoffkee' (I doubt I spelled that right). Her skeletal remains were discovered in a bayou sometime in the late 70s, I think, and a forensic artist actually reconstructed her face at different times in her life. Of course, back then, that was pretty hi-tech. That case scared the living daylights out of me when I first saw it.

2) Judith Himes

3) Cindy James

4) Annie Laurie Hearin

5) I wish I knew what happened to the little boy, Alexander Soul Olive, who was beaten and abducted by his father. He was the sicko with all those girlfriends who bore tons of kids by him.

The case of Gilbert Ortiz, the guy who was poisoned by his wife (who later took their son and ran) intrigued me for a long time, but thankfully it was solved after years. I was glad to hear it.

Another case that intrigued me was the case of the Canadian mom who took her son from his custodial father in the 80s. She spoke fluent french. She kept him in hiding for years, but unfortunately he got leukemia and died before his father could ever find him again. Does anyone remember details of that case?

Allerain and Dynoguy, there's yet another angle to the Amy Billig case. You may not be aware that her mother was being harassed on the telephone for years and years by an anonymous stalker. Finally this guy was caught, a local professional, and after confessing was sentenced to prison time. His first name matches a name in Amy's diary, a grown man she pondered about running away with. This man could've been responsible for her disappearance. This theory I believe is on the Doe Network, a website that posts cases of missing people.

I know it's dark again, but here are more cases...

-D.B. Cooper, hijacker who sky-dived into the North West terrain and was never heard from again. Some years later some of the marked bills were found buried and that's the only trce ever found of him.

-Who killed Elizabeth Short in 1947 LA and why.

-And what ever happened to the couple who disappeared after taking a vacation. The last anyone ever heard from them was a postcard from Europe.

-Who shot the elderly woman in the head as she waited for her newly-married son. He's the only suspect they've ever had, and charged him but later dropped the charges for lack of evidence.

I've heard a lot about the kidnapped boy with cancer, Allerain, from others here, but have surprisngly never seen it. I'm keeping my eyes open for it.

Hi,

The one I am looking for is the disappearance of Matthew Chase in California in June of 1988. I only remembered 'Matthew' and 'California' until "Kane" filled in some details. I would love to catch the episode again. A common question: Anyone know anyone with a large UM tape library? I haven't got any replies, yet.

Matt Chambers

PS -- I tell my UM story here: http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47175

i remember that segment on some canadian kid named Clifford and how his friends mom was looking for him or something

maybe im wrong though.

Also, I remember that caveman in the ice segment that some biologist's examined it and said didnt look fake

but then it dissapeared and i doubt anyone knows what happens to it