People that you never tried to like on UM because your hatred for them is so strong - Page 3 - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

jets4life · 11-25-2025, 11:36 AM

Most of the people I have nothing but contempt for on Unsolved Mysteries, came to be due to finding this forum 20 years after the series was at it's peak popularity. The show had the bad habit of glossing over problems of some of the people surrounding the individual (victim, missing, etc), were encountering and never mentioned it during the program.

The most obvious example, would be Penny Cayedito, the mother of the missing 9 year old girl Anthonette Cayedito. On the show, she is portrayed as a average wholesome mother, who was about to attend church with her girls, when Anthonette went missing in 1986.

We now know that through police files, and public news articles, that Penny was a habitual drug addict/dealer, who probably also worked in the sex trade, and would invite all types of shady men into her home late at night. There was also an FBI raid on her home 2 weeks before Anthonette went missing.

Further details emerged two years also that directly point at Penny at not only being complicit in her daughters abduction, but more than likely arraigned to have Anthonette taken by a man in his 30's who fell in love with Anthonette, and acted inappropriately with her, buying her gifts, and making her sit on his lap.

Just by viewing the episodes, the character that I really had a strong dislike for, was Larry Gibson. Even when the show aired in regards to his missing 2 year old son Tommy, he came across as guilty. His body language was erratic, and his eyes kept shifting, possibly indicating deception. I came to beleive he was responsible for Tommy's disappearance.

Of course, just a couple of years later, in 1994, the wife fled with the remaining kids, and entered a Women's shelter, than contacted Police, informing them that not only was Larry a violent man, who would habitually beat and threaten her, but also his children. She also stated that Larry had killed Tommy on the day of his abduction, and left in his Police cruiser for an hour, most likely to dispose of the body.

MagiciansBrick · 12-14-2025, 06:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tvscript124

I'm split on Cindy James. I don't know if she was faking and took it too far, if she had an undiagnosed mental condition, or if somebody really was out to do her harm.

I feel like with Cindy James, it's kinda hard to differentiate between her faking it and her having mental health issues. If she was faking the stalking then the extremes she went to, and the fact it culminated in suicide, suggest she was quite an unwell person.

tvscript124 · 12-15-2025, 02:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MagiciansBrick

I feel like with Cindy James, it's kinda hard to differentiate between her faking it and her having mental health issues. If she was faking the stalking then the extremes she went to, and the fact it culminated in suicide, suggest she was quite an unwell person.

People with severe mental health issues like that can't distinguish reality from fantasy. It's like if someone is on a bender. Their view of reality is distorted. They may think they are fine and the world is against them when their behavior is out of control and making everyone else crazy.

StackTime · 12-25-2025, 07:02 PM

I've always thought that Cindy James didn't intend to die, but rather, it was another self-inflicted "attack" but it simply went too far the final time.

To get away from that and back to the topic, I will say I've always really disliked James B. Lovell, the author in the Anastasia/Anna Anderson case. He was just SO smug. And to my amusement, eventually proven to be completely wrong despite his arrogance.

tvscript124 · 01-07-2026, 02:25 PM

Jule Caylor. Apart from looking creepy, he obviously did it. And he's even dumber than Mark Nichols because he didn't even pretend to miss his wife.

MegtheEgg86 · 01-07-2026, 08:41 PM

Hatred isn't the word I would use but I had a really hard time finding anything redeemable about Delia Fazzani's father if that reenactment was just the way it was. I feel like throwing something at the TV everytime he does or says anything.

MayorofMedford · 01-09-2026, 10:33 PM

There's been a lot of people from UM that I don't like. Plenty of murderers, rapists, con artists, generally arrogant human beings, etc.

But the ones who I place a spot above (below?) the rest in terms of vile human beings are Christophe Day's mother, the officers who interrogated Johnny Lee Wilson and the people responsible for the death of the dogs in the Mabel Wood case, which remains the one and only segment I cannot watch.

DALLASTEXAN!! · 01-10-2026, 01:30 AM

Stephen Marfeo. I just watched this segment. I've mentioned it on many other threads, but he was never likable. even if there was a remote chance of him being innocent. I think the detective makes a great point that Stephen hired a PI to follow Doreen, but yet when she went missing for 2 days he didn't do anything about it. Stephen's demeanor and arrogance in the segment also kills the stereotypes that innocent people should typically be rude and defensive about being a suspect in their spouses murder or disappearance. as opposed to say Steve Bechtel who appeared to be very calm and well spoken.

the icky part for me is always the camera shot for him looking out the window. one of the worst moments from UM.

Clockwork · 01-10-2026, 02:43 PM

Beverly and Chad Noe take the cake here. I could actually sit down and probably at least be entertained by Ida Prewitt and have a drink with her and she seemed like such a firecracker, but Chad was unlikable. I know Beverly never got interviewed, but even in the segment she is unlikable.

WishfulDreamer · 01-11-2026, 12:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DALLASTEXAN!!

Stephen Marfeo. I just watched this segment. I've mentioned it on many other threads, but he was never likable. even if there was a remote chance of him being innocent. I think the detective makes a great point that Stephen hired a PI to follow Doreen, but yet when she went missing for 2 days he didn't do anything about it. Stephen's demeanor and arrogance in the segment also kills the stereotypes that innocent people should typically be rude and defensive about being a suspect in their spouses murder or disappearance. as opposed to say Steve Bechtel who appeared to be very calm and well spoken.

the icky part for me is always the camera shot for him looking out the window. one of the worst moments from UM.

How could you not like this Folger's coffee commercial?

No, I agree, it gives me the ick, too.

DALLASTEXAN!! · 01-11-2026, 12:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WishfulDreamer

How could you not like this Folger's coffee commercial?

No, I agree, it gives me the ick, too.

ha! if he were innocent I would probably see it differently. I just wonder what he was thinking when they were shooting that? Probably acting, but it did him no favors.

Clockwork · 01-13-2026, 09:04 PM

The Jesse James Hollywood segment. The kid that was killed, Nick, his brother was interviewed and he was basically the cause of his little brother being kidnapped and killed all over a measley $1200 drug debt he owed Jesse. I agree Jesse was a thug, but the attitude of that brother in the interview is one that he still sort of shrugged giving Jesse that money. He still had an FU mindset about it. Like, seriously? Your brother got gunshots in his head because of you!

MegtheEgg86 · 01-13-2026, 10:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clockwork

The Jesse James Hollywood segment. The kid that was killed, Nick, his brother was interviewed and he was basically the cause of his little brother being kidnapped and killed all over a measley $1200 drug debt he owed Jesse. I agree Jesse was a thug, but the attitude of that brother in the interview is one that he still sort of shrugged giving Jesse that money. He still had an FU mindset about it. Like, seriously? Your brother got gunshots in his head because of you!

YEP this is the one right here.

Smirking through that whole interview. It was gross to watch.

ChandlerMurielB1 · 05-18-2026, 02:06 AM

Wilda Loseff

jets4life · 05-20-2026, 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zlatko

Michael Swango, Franklin Floyd and Paul "I like a clean house" Pollis. People trusted Swango to help their loved ones since he was a doctor but instead, he murdered them. Adding salt to the wounds, he seemed to think it was amusing that they died. It's sad to think he was born...

Believe it or not, there was another case like this in hospitals in Texas in the 2010s. A surgeon, with a drug problem was arrested in 2015 for intentionally maiming his patients, often paralyzing and killing them. He was given life in prison.

01-07-2026, 08:41 PM	#36
MegtheEgg86 Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Jun 19, 2008 Location: The Volunteer State Posts: 5,156	Hatred isn't the word I would use but I had a really hard time finding anything redeemable about Delia Fazzani's father if that reenactment was just the way it was. I feel like throwing something at the TV everytime he does or says anything.
	__________________ "Why is she lying?, it makes me wonder. What is she hiding?, it makes me wonder." Go Vols!

01-10-2026, 01:30 AM	#38
DALLASTEXAN!! Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 31, 2007 Location: Devil's Backbone Posts: 3,128	Stephen Marfeo. I just watched this segment. I've mentioned it on many other threads, but he was never likable. even if there was a remote chance of him being innocent. I think the detective makes a great point that Stephen hired a PI to follow Doreen, but yet when she went missing for 2 days he didn't do anything about it. Stephen's demeanor and arrogance in the segment also kills the stereotypes that innocent people should typically be rude and defensive about being a suspect in their spouses murder or disappearance. as opposed to say Steve Bechtel who appeared to be very calm and well spoken. the icky part for me is always the camera shot for him looking out the window. one of the worst moments from UM.
	__________________ "Payback is a MF" -RS

11-25-2025, 11:36 AM	#31
jets4life Member Frequent Poster Join Date: May 02, 2009 Location: canada Posts: 364	Most of the people I have nothing but contempt for on Unsolved Mysteries, came to be due to finding this forum 20 years after the series was at it's peak popularity. The show had the bad habit of glossing over problems of some of the people surrounding the individual (victim, missing, etc), were encountering and never mentioned it during the program. The most obvious example, would be Penny Cayedito, the mother of the missing 9 year old girl Anthonette Cayedito. On the show, she is portrayed as a average wholesome mother, who was about to attend church with her girls, when Anthonette went missing in 1986. We now know that through police files, and public news articles, that Penny was a habitual drug addict/dealer, who probably also worked in the sex trade, and would invite all types of shady men into her home late at night. There was also an FBI raid on her home 2 weeks before Anthonette went missing. Further details emerged two years also that directly point at Penny at not only being complicit in her daughters abduction, but more than likely arraigned to have Anthonette taken by a man in his 30's who fell in love with Anthonette, and acted inappropriately with her, buying her gifts, and making her sit on his lap. Just by viewing the episodes, the character that I really had a strong dislike for, was Larry Gibson. Even when the show aired in regards to his missing 2 year old son Tommy, he came across as guilty. His body language was erratic, and his eyes kept shifting, possibly indicating deception. I came to beleive he was responsible for Tommy's disappearance. Of course, just a couple of years later, in 1994, the wife fled with the remaining kids, and entered a Women's shelter, than contacted Police, informing them that not only was Larry a violent man, who would habitually beat and threaten her, but also his children. She also stated that Larry had killed Tommy on the day of his abduction, and left in his Police cruiser for an hour, most likely to dispose of the body.

12-25-2025, 07:02 PM	#34
StackTime Here's the kicker Frank Frequent Poster Join Date: Sep 17, 2008 Location: For heaven's sake don't buy these coins Posts: 244	I've always thought that Cindy James didn't intend to die, but rather, it was another self-inflicted "attack" but it simply went too far the final time. To get away from that and back to the topic, I will say I've always really disliked James B. Lovell, the author in the Anastasia/Anna Anderson case. He was just SO smug. And to my amusement, eventually proven to be completely wrong despite his arrogance.

01-07-2026, 02:25 PM	#35
tvscript124 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Nov 01, 2024 Posts: 494	Jule Caylor. Apart from looking creepy, he obviously did it. And he's even dumber than Mark Nichols because he didn't even pretend to miss his wife.

01-09-2026, 10:33 PM	#37
MayorofMedford Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Jul 06, 2025 Posts: 20	There's been a lot of people from UM that I don't like. Plenty of murderers, rapists, con artists, generally arrogant human beings, etc. But the ones who I place a spot above (below?) the rest in terms of vile human beings are Christophe Day's mother, the officers who interrogated Johnny Lee Wilson and the people responsible for the death of the dogs in the Mabel Wood case, which remains the one and only segment I cannot watch.

01-10-2026, 02:43 PM	#39
Clockwork Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Dec 30, 2022 Location: Canada Posts: 461	Beverly and Chad Noe take the cake here. I could actually sit down and probably at least be entertained by Ida Prewitt and have a drink with her and she seemed like such a firecracker, but Chad was unlikable. I know Beverly never got interviewed, but even in the segment she is unlikable.

01-13-2026, 09:04 PM	#42
Clockwork Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Dec 30, 2022 Location: Canada Posts: 461	The Jesse James Hollywood segment. The kid that was killed, Nick, his brother was interviewed and he was basically the cause of his little brother being kidnapped and killed all over a measley $1200 drug debt he owed Jesse. I agree Jesse was a thug, but the attitude of that brother in the interview is one that he still sort of shrugged giving Jesse that money. He still had an FU mindset about it. Like, seriously? Your brother got gunshots in his head because of you!

05-18-2026, 02:06 AM	#44
ChandlerMurielB1 Chandler Muriel Bing Frequent Poster Join Date: May 16, 2017 Location: England Posts: 185	Wilda Loseff