More Unsolved Mysteries memories

[LETTERL]

Unsolved Mysteries was a must-see for me throughout its original network run. I still watch reruns on Lifetime. I just came across this board and wanted to know if y'all remember the following.

1) I went to college in Raleigh, North Carolina and stayed in the area for a couple of years after graduation. In 1989, Unsolved Mysteries came to our area to film a segment about a case; I had to work the day they were in the area but a co-worker went out to see them shoot and said Robert Stack was, indeed, there.

Anyway...the case was about 4 students from North Carolina A&T State University who were driving along Interstate 40 toward Raleigh when they were chased and eventually run off the interstate, their car rolled over and over and came to rest some distance off the road. All four suffered injuries.

Eyewitnesses reported the perpetrator was in an old white car, was a middle-aged redneck-type guy and there was a woman in the front seat. In later years, the scene with the car containing the students as it rolled over and over was played in the opening credits under the "SOLVED" label.

Does anyone have further details on that case?

2) One of my favorite segments of all time involved a church. There was a planned choir meeting but for one reason or another, all of the choir members were delayed getting there. If I recall correctly, one person overslept, another had car trouble, there were a few other bizarre occurrences but everyone was delayed getting there and noone was actually in the church when it blew up.

I remember one older lady saying that she had just pulled up to the church when it exploded and that a hymnal landed at her feet. She sheepishly admitted in the interview that she kept the hymnal because she didn't think anyone would mind. I thought she was charming.

In later years, the scene with the church blowing up was also shown under the "SOLVED" montage. Did the show ever do a follow-up on this? Was it a gas leak or something?

3) In 1990, I actually called the Unsolved Mysteries telecenter after seeing a story the nite before on a psychic lady in England; she had the uncanny ability to draw faces of the deceased if she were in contact with some personal possession of theirs. I was going to send an old army ribbon that belonged to my grandfather to the psychic and see if she could come up with an accurate picture of him, who died 11 years before I was born and who, up to that time, I had never seen a picture of. But I never got around to it. Neat story, tho.

[crystaldawn]

Yes, I do remember the story of the 4 black men were hit by another car (thought to be racially motivated) and have it on one of my tapes. I don't think it was ever solved. You will be interested to know that several months ago someone who went by "Ms. X" posted on the board and said she thought she knew who was responsible and this person had even confessed to one of her relatives. I had some contact with her after this and she was interviewed by the Sheriff's Dept. of that town but that was all that came of it to my knowledge.

I also remember the church explosion. I do think it was divine intervention that all the choir members lives were spared. They did say the explosion was caused by a gas leak.

Welcome to the board!

[Composite Sketch]

I remember the car crash and the church explosion being on the SOLVED montage in the video clip from a January 1991 episode that used to be on the website. In fact they were the first and second clips in that particular montage.

[justins5256]

I myself have often wondered why they always put such things under the "Solved" montage since neither case was solved, and at least one of them (the church explosion) isn't solvable in the first place.

JS

[dynoguy88]

I know what you mean. I always wondered why in the opening credits, they would show clips of cases under "SOLVED" that were never solved. Other clips that were shown were the woman in Connecticut who was shot through her drivers side window - her attacker, to my knowledge, was never caught. Also, the Tammi Leapert segment where she broke the front window with a baseball bat - she still hasn't been found till this day.

I don't get it. But whatever.