"Jeepers Creepers" style episode question

[Toody]

Hello,

I'm sorry if this was posted before...

Does anyone know the particulars/details and updates about a segment on "Unsolved Mysteries" that was similar to the beginning of "Jeepers Creepers"?

The segment showed a couple driving down a country road and being chased by a crazy driver in a van. After almost being run off the road, the couple are able to pull over.

Later as they are driving, they notice the same man walking outside of an old farmhouse, hauling what looks like a body in a white bloody sheet.

That's all I remember about that episode. A few weeks later after it first aired, Robert Stack announced that there was an update on that segment. Apparently, a man had killed his wife because she either wanted a divorce or was arguing with him. He was arrested and more details were to be released on an upcoming episode of "Unsolved Mysteries," but I never heard about it again.

Any information will be appreciated. Some other people on another message board are interested in this too!

[dynoguy88]

The Unsolved Mysteries segment you are thinking of is the case involving Dennis Depue, who killed his wife Marilyn in Coldwater Michigan on Easter Sunday 1990. They were already divorced when he killed her...a big fight broke out when their son didn't want to visit him for the weekend...he pushed her down the basement stairs, drove her out and shot her in the back of the head. He buried a bloody blanket in hole in the yard of an abandoned school house - that's where he was spotted by the couple in their car when they saw his licence plate.

After his story was featured on Unsolved Mysteries, he got in a high speed chase with police in Texas and eventually took his own life before he could get caught.

I've driven past Coldwater several times (I live in Michigan) and every time I see the sign, I think about this case and wonder about the old school house where everything unfolded.

[Toody]

Wow! Thanks for the information Dynoguy88.

I also live in Michigan, but I never heard that story -- and I watched a lot of TV around 1989/1990 while recuperating from surgery. Regardless, that murder always bothered me, and as soon as I watched "Jeepers Creepers," the "Unsolved Mysteries" segment came flooding back.

Thanks again.

[dynoguy88]

Yes, it was a very disturbing case. It feels stranger when you know it happened in your own state. I live in Dearborn (about 100 miles or so from Coldwater) and I never remembered hearing about this case on the news or in the newspaper...but that's probably because I was only 10 years old in 1990 and I never watched the news.

I do remember after the case was first aired, and Depue killed himself, there was a big article in the Detroit Free Press with a huge title that read "MAN KILLS HIMSELF AFTER BEING PROFILED ON UNSOLVED MYSTERIES." Also, the following Wednesday when UM came on, before Robert Stack introduced the new segements for the evening, he told us about the update of this case. It really hits close to home.