Unintentionally funny re-enactments/moments

[Allierain]

Originally Posted by Ijustwantchocolate

I just watched this one. Hot take: she certainly had some neurotypical issues. Quite frankly, I don't think she remembered any of them!!! Collected her money and then was like bye.

Good people. Original people. Agree? Disagree?

Haha, she did, poor lady. Been through the wringer. I really felt for her. I’m glad she got an inheritance and I hope it made her final years maybe a little more comfortable.

She apparently had at least two, possibly more siblings? I know some might find my view unreasonable but oh well: I found it insulting on Lorene’s behalf that her family couldn’t or wouldn’t pull it together on behalf of her children. Were her parents not alive? How could any of them not try to take in her children and prevent them from being given up? It didn’t mention in the segment that the family ever got the kids back though it’s inferred that they were there as adults. But I really hope she took her money and ran. I’d be so angry at my siblings.

[Clockwork]

One of my favorite interviews is the woman who was at a pool hall and got surrounded by a few men who dragged her outside to a moving car (can someone give me the name of that woman/episode again?). She doesn't use her real name, yet she is interviewed in full sight which I found strange. She was taken to an apartment and raped and managed to fight back and escape from the house. That woman.................wow, she is someone you go to war with! But I love every minute of her interview and her descriptions of the events. She is so animated in explaining things and just seems to have a good spirit about it all. But some moments of the interview you have to laugh because she just seems so cool of a person and explains it that way.

[Composite Sketch]

Originally Posted by dynoguy88

The segment shows us multiple examples of Lorene’s mental state. If I’m not mistaken, it helped contribute to the end of her marriage and losing custody of her children. And it had to be a contributing factor to her going missing for so many years. I’m pretty sure the family members knew this going into the reunion. But they wanted to be assured that she was still alive.

I always found the beginning of the segment grim, with them showing homeless people out on the streets. I guess it was to display the pessimism in their thinking at the time that if Lorene was alive, she was likely homeless. Thankfully that turned out not to be the case.

[Composite Sketch]

Originally Posted by Clockwork

One of my favorite interviews is the woman who was at a pool hall and got surrounded by a few men who dragged her outside to a moving car (can someone give me the name of that woman/episode again?). She doesn't use her real name, yet she is interviewed in full sight which I found strange. She was taken to an apartment and raped and managed to fight back and escape from the house. That woman.................wow, she is someone you go to war with! But I love every minute of her interview and her descriptions of the events. She is so animated in explaining things and just seems to have a good spirit about it all. But some moments of the interview you have to laugh because she just seems so cool of a person and explains it that way.

The Rufino Castaneda segment. The victim went by "Laurie" in the UM segment, but her real name is Christina Steinbergs.

America's Most Wanted also did a segment on Rufino and they played Christina's 911 call on it. More than two decades later, I still remember it. "I'm naked in a cardboard box.... on the side of the road. I screamed and I screamed.... and nobody came." Harrowing.

[Composite Sketch]

Originally Posted by DazzlerSparkler

Lena Marie Wilson's segment. The actress playing her does a good job. But its the whole "YOU SEE I DO HAV DA POWAH!" "DO YU BELEIV IN JEEZUS" "WE MUS BURN DIS MONEY" Sometimes I literally will randomly say it in that exact inflection and tone because its so hilarious to me.
She genuinely reminds me of Lanie Kazan.
The part with the sheet....the part in the basement with the box of dirt that she pours water on and it turns to blood then the victim gets excited and hugs Lena....and of course burning the money.

TIE THREE KNOTS.
three knots?
YES

and how casually she forces the victim down to pray lmao

I love it when the UM actors and actresses but their whole backs into their performances. The actress who portrayed Lena is reason #1 I rewatch that segment. "YOU SEE? YOU SEE DE BLOOD! THE DEVELLLL!"

[schmave]

Like the kid in the orphan train segment in the early seasons, maybe the first, who yelled "BYYYYYYYYE" to that point that his voice cracked. I get a kick out of that every time I hear it.

[here_thar_be_yetis]

OFFER YOUR SHOOOZ!!!!11

[HendersonLeigh]

1. The Wyoming Bones segment when the entire town has come out to see Newell Sessions open the mysterious trunk.

2. The Bigfoot segment when Mr. Foot (for lack of anything else to call him) rolls down the side of a hill after he's startled by that guy yelling at him.

[Composite Sketch]

Just remembered another one that I don't think has ever been mentioned on here (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong):

In the original airing of the Gertrude Pruett segment, Bob Stack mentioned right before his usual "if you have any information...." line that her last known employment was as a live-in nanny, and her former employers wanted her baked squash recipe if she was caught. Stack couldn't help but do his typical half-smile while saying it.

I wonder if Gertrude ever honoured their request. I also wonder what made it so special.

[Clockwork]

Originally Posted by Composite Sketch

The Rufino Castaneda segment. The victim went by "Laurie" in the UM segment, but her real name is Christina Steinbergs.

America's Most Wanted also did a segment on Rufino and they played Christina's 911 call on it. More than two decades later, I still remember it. "I'm naked in a cardboard box.... on the side of the road. I screamed and I screamed.... and nobody came." Harrowing.

Yeah for sure, the case itself is terrifying. Her interview is one of the best ever. She is animated and honest in it. I loved it. Strong too. Man I'd love to buy that woman a drink and just hear her explain it. Seems like she carved a nice life out for herself as well. Has children. One thing I have wondered about that case is what happened to the guy she was with that night at the bar? Seems like they played pool, she grabbed a drink and then was taken shortly after when she was hanging around an exit. It could be nothing, he could have been gone to the bathroom, he could have had his back turned and didn't see it.

[tvscript124]

Originally Posted by Composite Sketch

Just remembered another one that I don't think has ever been mentioned on here (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong):

In the original airing of the Gertrude Pruett segment, Bob Stack mentioned right before his usual "if you have any information...." line that her last known employment was as a live-in nanny, and her former employers wanted her baked squash recipe if she was caught. Stack couldn't help but do his typical half-smile while saying it.

I wonder if Gertrude ever honoured their request. I also wonder what made it so special.

Cons who cook!

[Gelatinous Goo]

Originally Posted by DazzlerSparkler

In one segment, a suspect had a Game Boy in his possessions when he was arrested. Lol

I watched this yesterday and had to check if somebody beat me to this hilariously dated observation.

Nothing like killing a couple of people, then wading a Delaware river in your green panties while playing some Tetris.

[ChandlerMurielB1]

There was one where I think, the police found an escaped suspect standing at a bus stop with his hands in his pockets, to hide his (broken?) handcuffs.

[StackTime]

I just noticed a small gem the other night. When Arthur Paul Beal is collapsing in the desert in the re-enactment, the stranger kind of helps him down. If you look closely enough, he doesn't run or jog away from the collapsed man. He walks casually!

[MayorofMedford]

Originally Posted by Gelatinous Goo

I watched this yesterday and had to check if somebody beat me to this hilariously dated observation.

Nothing like killing a couple of people, then wading a Delaware river in your green panties while playing some Tetris.

It's the combination of items shown that gets me.

Shotgun... ammo... ninja stars... Game Boy...