Horribly SAD moments on UM

[TheCars1986]

Doug Johnston's murder. The "mistaken hit" that was allegedly made for Don Deveraux. Poor guy had nothing to do with any part of the investigative reporting or the Inslaw scandal and was murdered for it.

[Oldschooler81]

In 2002 at the very end of new (original) UM segments, you could tell Stack's voice was suddenly weakening and he wasn't quite himself doing the narration. In general it's tough for me to watch those very late episodes.

[WishfulDreamer]

Always, Karen. I just watched it again and it makes me bawl every time (I rarely cry while watching television or movies), particularly the scene where her parents visit her in the hospital and her father tells her that she can go on if she's in too much pain and she asks her mother permission to leave, as in pass away, because she can't go on with the pain of the cancer. I don't have a definitive opinion on the supernatural aspect of this one, but I'm happy that her loved ones believe that she is still with them. It's a really touching segment.

[LooksLikeCRicci]

Originally Posted by Oldschooler81

In 2002 at the very end of new (original) UM segments, you could tell Stack's voice was suddenly weakening and he wasn't quite himself doing the narration. In general it's tough for me to watch those very late episodes.

Co-sign. I remember being a college student and watching the show thinking, "Wow. He sounds ROUGH...."

[dynoguy88]

Originally Posted by Oldschooler81

In 2002 at the very end of new (original) UM segments, you could tell Stack's voice was suddenly weakening and he wasn't quite himself doing the narration. In general it's tough for me to watch those very late episodes.

I thought his voice sounded weaker earlier than that, like right when the 2002 episodes started getting produced and we were all like, "OMG! New cases!".

But I don't know if I ever saw the last few episodes Stack did. If it sounded worse than his already weaker voice was, that would definitely be hard to listen to.

[Oldschooler81]

Originally Posted by dynoguy88

I thought his voice sounded weaker earlier than that, like right when the 2002 episodes started getting produced and we were all like, "OMG! New cases!".

But I don't know if I ever saw the last few episodes Stack did. If it sounded worse than his already weaker voice was, that would definitely be hard to listen to.

True, I think perhaps his voice was starting to weaken on the 2000/01 ones as well. He was one of those guys that I thought for sure would live to 100, so his sudden decline in health was pretty tough for me to take.

I was shocked to find out his actual age (b. 1919 and mainly in his 70s all through UM's heyday). If you've ever seen Caddyshack II (I was probably one of the only ones who loved the sequel, as a kid it was hilarious to me), he was in pretty darn good physical shape for his age.

[WishfulDreamer]

The beginning of the Zip Gun Bomber segment. The lady who died believed she was opening a Mother's Day present and was about to go on a vacation with her husband to visit family

Definitely the murder of Morris Davis, when his brother was the paramedic who responded to the scene.

[TheCars1986]

Oneal Moore is another tough one to watch for me. Murdered by members of the KKK while he was driving home from work. The prime suspect in the case died before justice could have been served.

[McBevis]

Not sure if it's been mentioned here, and it actually happened too late to get mentioned on the show, but I imagine that it must have been terribly saddening for Steve Ross (aka Szmulek Rozental), the Holocaust survivor searching for the kindly American soldier, when he found out that the guy had already been dead for a couple of years before the UM segment first aired. It would be saddening enough just to find out that the guy had died, period, but building up all that hope over a period of years only to find out that you were screwed from day one had to be really awful.

[Cori aka ChrisSCrush]

Originally Posted by WishfulDreamer

Gary Grant Sr. being told about his son's death and having to be restrained.

The baby who dies from dehydration after her mother was murdered.

Two of my first choices. Can you imagine people are still calling Grant Sr. obsessed and saying he should just get over it? As if that were even possible (let alone desirable) in the unsolved murder of your own child?

That guy who picked up the hitchhiker who killed his mother.

The people who disappeared leaving a lot of birds, people knew the birds were alone and did nothing for ten days--in fact if I recall they were kept out by the cops locking the place! (That was literally a scream-out-loud moment! )

That poor mother of the murder victim who was fooled by the hoaxed radio confession.

The mother who found her murdered daughter under her own bed (as horrible as sad--I personally would never sleep again!)

The guy who was shot by the thrill killers pretending their car was broken down. (Actually these last two more make my blood run cold, than sad.)

Of course, around Christmas I always think of the mother of six children with the abusive husband who killed herself when the kids were taken away and requested "Silent Night" at the funeral...which the kids attended. One son said he got depressed every Christmas and I never saw the song the same way.

The poor man who cried so when his wife died after the tornado (in Arkansas in 1915?) and he had to give away the baby. His one wish was to find her before he died and he never did!

[WishfulDreamer]

Agree on all of them, Cori. It looks like the last case, which I only vaguely remember, was solved but too late for the sister. Her children were reunited with their long lost aunt.

http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/w...rnicy_Bradford

[Cori aka ChrisSCrush]

Originally Posted by WishfulDreamer

Agree on all of them, Cori. It looks like the last case, which I only vaguely remember, was solved but too late for the sister. Her children were reunited with their long lost aunt.

http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/w...rnicy_Bradford

Yes, I remember that being bittersweet but sad as far as the father was concerned, at least in this lifetime. No doubt he was surprised to find his long-lost daughter already in the afterlife.

[Corkys-Place]

The arsonist who set fire to the Dog Kennels. Always a very hard one to watch.

[Cori aka ChrisSCrush]

The one that really made us cry was the non-delivered World War II mail. They located the widow of a serviceman killed in the war, who had saved all his letters and said this was by far the best one. She was shown standing out in a cemetery crying and saying how receiving the letter tore her all up inside.

[DALLASTEXAN!!]

Originally Posted by Cori aka ChrisSCrush

The one that really made us cry was the non-delivered World War II mail. They located the widow of a serviceman killed in the war, who had saved all his letters and said this was by far the best one. She was shown standing out in a cemetery crying and saying how receiving the letter tore her all up inside.

That's tough. I can't imagine the pain felt by military families that lost their loved one.

For me the rachel Runyon case breaks me. Just to hear that detective saying those foul things. It's sickening.