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unsolvedfan4life · 11-25-2004, 12:24 AM

I was wondering, we are all big Unsolved Fans here? Is anyone here personally involved with the cases or know someone who was involved in any of the cases? Has anyone ever talked to anyone who has been on the show? It would be kind of interesting to have someone here on the board who was personally involved? Just my thoughts.

justins5256 · 11-25-2004, 05:05 AM

Yes. I've spoken on the telephone and corresponded via snail mail with Bob Oechsler, the UFO investigator who was the first to bring the "Guardian" video - a tape of an alleged UFO landing in Canada - to public attention. Interestingly enough, the story was rerun on UM yesterday at noon.

Justin

Kane · 11-25-2004, 02:25 PM

Before UM even debuted, my sister took high school acting classes with one of the UM guest actors. The man's name is Eddie Rutkowski. In 1994, he played convicted murderer Adam Emery (the Rhode Island man who may or may not have jumped off the Newport bridge).

Another schoolmate of my sister's, Kelly Ames, was interviewed on the show during the 1996-97 season. The segment discussed of mystery of using bee stings to reduce the symptons of multiple sclerosis, a disorder that Ames has.

Also, remember the segment on the 1970 bank robbery in Brighton, Massachusetts in which police officer Walter Schroder was killed? The bank robbery scene was filmed in my hometown of Arlington (MA).

Part of another UM segment was filmed in Arlington: the Ira Einhorn case, even though it's a Pennsylvania case. The interior of the movie theater in the segment was Arlington's Regent Theater.

ljonesxoxo · 11-25-2004, 02:27 PM

woah. you have a lot of connections with it.
tres bien.

McFly121 · 11-26-2004, 12:48 AM

Well, only if you count that the Night Stalker shot someone a mile from where I lived. He had been killing people for months, mostly in LA, then one morning we turn on the news to find out he hit our little hamlet in OC, Mission Viejo, only a mile from our house. I was only nine and FREAKED!

dynoguy88 · 11-26-2004, 11:13 AM

A guy I went to Jr. High and High School with was an actor in one of the lost loves segments. This was around 1992. I can still remember my homeroom teacher reading us the annoucement to watch him on Unsolved Mysteries thate evening. I haven't seen the case in a long time, I don't remember much of the details. His name was Eugene and he was looking for his brother and sister, I believe. They were reunited in Taylor, Michigan, a short drive from my home in a shopping mall parking lot that I have been to before.

One of the later segments, I think it was shown in 2001 or 2002 was featured and filmed in Dearborn, MI which is where I live. I only saw bits and pieces of it, I think it had to do with police dogs tracking down the scent of a killer or something. And I remember being shocked when Robert Stack mentioned that a resturant worker was murdered here (and I think his body thrown in a trash bin behind the building). I have lived in Dearborn my entire life and never remembered hearing anything about a murder here. The killer was caught though.

shek · 11-26-2004, 01:05 PM

Yes, I have been both personally involved in a UM segment they did on our daughters case and have also corresponded with a number of UM fans who have been monitoring it over the years. Most recently, Cold Case Files also, did a segment on her story.

unsolvedfan4life · 11-26-2004, 05:54 PM

what case was your daughters in shek?
Thank you for all your replies I find it interesting to see the fans that come here and there involvement with any of the cases.

ljonesxoxo · 11-26-2004, 06:31 PM

how interesting.

shek · 11-26-2004, 09:43 PM

Now, because I am not sue exactly what kind of info you were seeking in asking your question, I will start here with some background.

Um did an Unexplained Death segment on daughter, Lisa Marie Kimmell who was murdered 16 years ago while traveling from Denver to Cody, Wyoming in March of 1988 and her car was never found. (At that time)The car was considered a key clue to find out who killed her so I contacted UM and begged them to help us find the car and Lisa's killer. They took our case. We spent nearly a week with them while they were doing their filming. We were grateful for thier help even though the program did not turn up her car or killer.

Her killer and car have since been found. (Summer of 2001) But it wasn't because of the UM profile.

Now if you are curious about the filming process, all I can say it is nothing like what most would invision. I can share more details about that if you want them but I don't want to rattle on.

Sheila Kimmell

PS. I stumbled across this web site by accident about a year or so ago and found it to be very interesting. The people and the wide range of topics.

Ninjaman · 11-27-2004, 12:57 PM

Sheila,

I would be very interested in hearing about the filming process if you would like to share and have the time. I'm sure others would also be interested to know a little bit about the background of the segments that we see. Thanks.

unsolvedfan4life · 11-28-2004, 12:33 PM

Thank you for sharing. My heart goes out to everyone who had tragedy in their lives. It is very interesting to me that the people involved in the case are also on this board. I always wondered about this and now I know that the show and this board does reach a lot of people.

shek · 11-28-2004, 07:37 PM

To answer the question about the filming process. As, I mentioned, it was nothing like I imagined. A team of 4 people flew in from Califorina. A director, associate producer, a film/lighting man and and audio man. They were were all pretty casual, everyday kind of people wearing T-shirts, blue jeans and tennis shoes.

They use the actual people connected to a story when ever possible for their re-enactments or interviews. In our case they did have to find a young acting student in our area to portray our daughter. I don't know if this is always the case, but no one our case received an money for their participation in the show, as some may think.

They filmed for 7 straight days (they had a lot of area to cover to film our story) and then flew back to California to edit all their film footage down to a 15 minute episode. I think that was the hardest part for them because it would be nearly 5 months before they aired our story.

As a side note, the filming for Cold Case Files was just about the same.

I hope this answers some of your questions and if not, let me know.

Sheila Kimmell

CrushedVelvet · 11-29-2004, 02:08 AM

Mcfly: I too lived approx. 1 mile from where the Night Stalker was caught. I was about 14 or so and was terrified to even go outside at night. ***Thanks, Shek, for sharing your experience with us. Its not at all how I would think the filming would have been done. Interesting...

Dr. Jazz · 11-29-2004, 05:10 PM

I've posted this before on this board, but my great-aunt lives in Virginia & her neighbor, I believe her name was Ms. Kidd, was murdered in her house & found tied to a tree in the woods behind her house. My aunt lived in the next closest house to Ms. Kidd's. This happened around 1990 & UM aired a story on it around '92. After this happened, my aunt was so scared that she moved about an hour away from that area. It still scares me to think that I had visited with my aunt not too long before Ms. Kidd was murdered & Ms. Kidd came by the house & my aunt introduced me to her. She seemed like a very nice lady, I don't know why anyone would have wanted her dead. It's also scary because my aunt had the same kind of wooded area out back behind her house.

11-25-2004, 12:24 AM	#1
unsolvedfan4life Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jan 14, 2004 Location: The Garden State Posts: 214	Does anyone have any personal Involvment in any of the cases? I was wondering, we are all big Unsolved Fans here? Is anyone here personally involved with the cases or know someone who was involved in any of the cases? Has anyone ever talked to anyone who has been on the show? It would be kind of interesting to have someone here on the board who was personally involved? Just my thoughts.
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11-25-2004, 02:27 PM	#4
ljonesxoxo Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Dec 30, 2003 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 286	woah. you have a lot of connections with it. tres bien.
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11-26-2004, 12:48 AM	#5
McFly121 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Feb 18, 2004 Location: calif Posts: 812	Well, only if you count that the Night Stalker shot someone a mile from where I lived. He had been killing people for months, mostly in LA, then one morning we turn on the news to find out he hit our little hamlet in OC, Mission Viejo, only a mile from our house. I was only nine and FREAKED!
	__________________ "That was Bob's donut!"

11-26-2004, 11:13 AM	#6
dynoguy88 Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 01, 2000 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 3,675	reply A guy I went to Jr. High and High School with was an actor in one of the lost loves segments. This was around 1992. I can still remember my homeroom teacher reading us the annoucement to watch him on Unsolved Mysteries thate evening. I haven't seen the case in a long time, I don't remember much of the details. His name was Eugene and he was looking for his brother and sister, I believe. They were reunited in Taylor, Michigan, a short drive from my home in a shopping mall parking lot that I have been to before. One of the later segments, I think it was shown in 2001 or 2002 was featured and filmed in Dearborn, MI which is where I live. I only saw bits and pieces of it, I think it had to do with police dogs tracking down the scent of a killer or something. And I remember being shocked when Robert Stack mentioned that a resturant worker was murdered here (and I think his body thrown in a trash bin behind the building). I have lived in Dearborn my entire life and never remembered hearing anything about a murder here. The killer was caught though.

11-29-2004, 02:08 AM	#14
CrushedVelvet Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Oct 25, 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 331	Mcfly: I too lived approx. 1 mile from where the Night Stalker was caught. I was about 14 or so and was terrified to even go outside at night. ***Thanks, Shek, for sharing your experience with us. Its not at all how I would think the filming would have been done. Interesting...
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11-25-2004, 05:05 AM	#2
justins5256 Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 08, 2002 Posts: 3,866	Yes. I've spoken on the telephone and corresponded via snail mail with Bob Oechsler, the UFO investigator who was the first to bring the "Guardian" video - a tape of an alleged UFO landing in Canada - to public attention. Interestingly enough, the story was rerun on UM yesterday at noon. Justin

11-25-2004, 02:25 PM	#3
Kane Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 07, 2001 Location: MA, United States Posts: 3,367	Before UM even debuted, my sister took high school acting classes with one of the UM guest actors. The man's name is Eddie Rutkowski. In 1994, he played convicted murderer Adam Emery (the Rhode Island man who may or may not have jumped off the Newport bridge). Another schoolmate of my sister's, Kelly Ames, was interviewed on the show during the 1996-97 season. The segment discussed of mystery of using bee stings to reduce the symptons of multiple sclerosis, a disorder that Ames has. Also, remember the segment on the 1970 bank robbery in Brighton, Massachusetts in which police officer Walter Schroder was killed? The bank robbery scene was filmed in my hometown of Arlington (MA). Part of another UM segment was filmed in Arlington: the Ira Einhorn case, even though it's a Pennsylvania case. The interior of the movie theater in the segment was Arlington's Regent Theater.

11-26-2004, 01:05 PM	#7
shek Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Apr 19, 2003 Posts: 103	Yes, I have been both personally involved in a UM segment they did on our daughters case and have also corresponded with a number of UM fans who have been monitoring it over the years. Most recently, Cold Case Files also, did a segment on her story.

11-26-2004, 05:54 PM	#8
unsolvedfan4life Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jan 14, 2004 Location: The Garden State Posts: 214	what case was your daughters in shek? Thank you for all your replies I find it interesting to see the fans that come here and there involvement with any of the cases.

11-26-2004, 06:31 PM	#9
ljonesxoxo Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Dec 30, 2003 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 286	how interesting.

11-26-2004, 09:43 PM	#10
shek Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Apr 19, 2003 Posts: 103	Now, because I am not sue exactly what kind of info you were seeking in asking your question, I will start here with some background. Um did an Unexplained Death segment on daughter, Lisa Marie Kimmell who was murdered 16 years ago while traveling from Denver to Cody, Wyoming in March of 1988 and her car was never found. (At that time)The car was considered a key clue to find out who killed her so I contacted UM and begged them to help us find the car and Lisa's killer. They took our case. We spent nearly a week with them while they were doing their filming. We were grateful for thier help even though the program did not turn up her car or killer. Her killer and car have since been found. (Summer of 2001) But it wasn't because of the UM profile. Now if you are curious about the filming process, all I can say it is nothing like what most would invision. I can share more details about that if you want them but I don't want to rattle on. Sheila Kimmell PS. I stumbled across this web site by accident about a year or so ago and found it to be very interesting. The people and the wide range of topics.

11-27-2004, 12:57 PM	#11
Ninjaman Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Feb 15, 2003 Location: remote island in pacific Posts: 103	Sheila, I would be very interested in hearing about the filming process if you would like to share and have the time. I'm sure others would also be interested to know a little bit about the background of the segments that we see. Thanks.

11-28-2004, 12:33 PM	#12
unsolvedfan4life Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jan 14, 2004 Location: The Garden State Posts: 214	Thank you for sharing. My heart goes out to everyone who had tragedy in their lives. It is very interesting to me that the people involved in the case are also on this board. I always wondered about this and now I know that the show and this board does reach a lot of people.

11-28-2004, 07:37 PM	#13
shek Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Apr 19, 2003 Posts: 103	To answer the question about the filming process. As, I mentioned, it was nothing like I imagined. A team of 4 people flew in from Califorina. A director, associate producer, a film/lighting man and and audio man. They were were all pretty casual, everyday kind of people wearing T-shirts, blue jeans and tennis shoes. They use the actual people connected to a story when ever possible for their re-enactments or interviews. In our case they did have to find a young acting student in our area to portray our daughter. I don't know if this is always the case, but no one our case received an money for their participation in the show, as some may think. They filmed for 7 straight days (they had a lot of area to cover to film our story) and then flew back to California to edit all their film footage down to a 15 minute episode. I think that was the hardest part for them because it would be nearly 5 months before they aired our story. As a side note, the filming for Cold Case Files was just about the same. I hope this answers some of your questions and if not, let me know. Sheila Kimmell

11-29-2004, 05:10 PM	#15
Dr. Jazz The Evil Empire. . . . Forum Star Join Date: Jun 06, 2003 Posts: 11,100	I've posted this before on this board, but my great-aunt lives in Virginia & her neighbor, I believe her name was Ms. Kidd, was murdered in her house & found tied to a tree in the woods behind her house. My aunt lived in the next closest house to Ms. Kidd's. This happened around 1990 & UM aired a story on it around '92. After this happened, my aunt was so scared that she moved about an hour away from that area. It still scares me to think that I had visited with my aunt not too long before Ms. Kidd was murdered & Ms. Kidd came by the house & my aunt introduced me to her. She seemed like a very nice lady, I don't know why anyone would have wanted her dead. It's also scary because my aunt had the same kind of wooded area out back behind her house.