Which Unsolved Mysteries cases have been featured on other TV shows?

[PrettyinPink55]

Someone noted that "The Chameleon" was featured on CoutTV's The System.

So what other cases profiled/featured on Unsolved Mysteries have been on other TV shows?

[Kane]

Originally Posted by PrettyinPink55

Someone noted that "The Chameleon" was featured on CoutTV's The System.

So what other cases profiled/featured on Unsolved Mysteries have been on other TV shows?

If you wanted to know of every UM segment that has been featured on other shows, then you would have to be very patient. Making an entire list would be very time-consuming. However, I will list a few (along with the other shows they were featured in):

The murder of Aimee Willard (Forensic Files and Cold Case Files)
James "Whitey" Bulger (America's Most Wanted)
The murder of Missouri bank president Dan Short (Forensic Files and FBI Files)
The disappearance of Amy Billig (America's Most Wanted)
William Fischer (wanted for the 1986 murders of his son Billy and Billy's friend Nancy Hyer) (America's Most Wanted)

[crystaldawn]

Good question. Here are some others that I can think of:

Eva Schoen - Cold Case Files
Jeanne Tovary - I-Detective
Annie Laurie Hearin - FBI Files
Carolyn Killaby - Forensic Files
Jacqueline Dowaliby - American Justice (I think)
Shannon Davis - American Justice

Of course AMW has profiled a lot of UM stories. Also I know the Tennessee ATV Riders was on a documentary but can't place which one. I'm sure the Son of Sam story has been profiled on many different shows also.

[PrettyinPink55]

Thank you both!

[Kane]

Originally Posted by crystaldawn

Good question. Here are some others that I can think of:

Eva Schoen - Cold Case Files
Jeanne Tovary - I-Detective
Annie Laurie Hearin - FBI Files
Carolyn Killaby - Forensic Files
Jacqueline Dowaliby - American Justice (I think)
Shannon Davis - American Justice

You think right when you said that the Dowaliby case was featured on American Justice. I've seen that AJ episode myself. I recall that at the end of the show, they briefly mention the case having been profiled on UM.

By the way, the murder of Jeanne Tovrea (the actual spelling of her last name) wasn't the only UM case to be featured on I, Detective. Another one was the murder of Mia Zapata.

[dynoguy88]

That micro-scum Jesse James Hollywood was also featured on America's Most Wanted - although I never saw it.

Also, the triple murder of the 3 ATV-Riders on Signal Moutain in Tennessee was featured in a documentary involving the case and trial of Frank Casteel - (who is the main suspect in the murder) on A&E. I only saw the last 10 minutes of it.

The Cindy James case was featured on "A Current Affair" and "W5." (I think W5 was some Canadian TV-show.) I only saw the UM segment.

[Kane]

Originally Posted by dynoguy88

Also, the triple murder of the 3 ATV-Riders on Signal Moutain in Tennessee was featured in a documentary involving the case and trial of Frank Casteel - (who is the main suspect in the murder) on A&E. I only saw the last 10 minutes of it.

I recall seeing that segment on City Confidential, as well as on UM. While I'm on the subject, there was another UM case that I recall being shown on City Confidential: The 1977 murder of Georgia bar owner T.K. Hardy.

[Awsi Dooger]

Well, I just finished watching one. The Discovery Channel recently started replaying their FBI Files programs in mid-afternoon, just after Unsolved Mysteries ends at 2 PM. It's very welcome for someone like me who works at home doing monotonous computer statistical analysis via Excel.

I tuned in today just in time to catch the beginning of "Flight from Justice; The Real Story of D.B. Cooper," a two hour documentary on the theory of Richard McCoy as D.B. Cooper, which as I've posted many times is not a theory but a certainty IMO. This is by far the best TV analysis of the cases, focusing on the 2nd skyjacking but detailing the numerous similarities of the two skyjackings. Not just elusive legend fluff nonsense like most of the D.B. Cooper programs.

The Discovery Channel show includes a picture of the dark blue tie and mother of pearl tie clasp that Cooper left on the plane, and were identified as belonging to McCoy by his relatives even before they knew where the items had been found. Also a mention that the FBI found a folder with many newspaper clippings on the Cooper skyjacking when they searched McCoy's home in Provo. The side by side photos they showed of the D.B. Cooper sketch and an actual picture of McCoy are startling, near identical in every significant detail.

[Awsi Dooger]

Huh, I just came home from dinner and immediately saw another example. A portion of a Cold Case files episode on A&E details the case of the arson fires in San Mateo, CA in the late '80s. That was the UM segment where the man and his son found a VHS tape and a jacket alongside a dirt road. The tape contained a house on fire with the person filming it obviously in glee, saying things like "Look at it, Omar!"

I knew that case had been solved but I didn't realize the perpetrator was such a sicko otherwise, or that he was suspected of committing many other arson fires in that area. The Cold Case segment showed many homemade movies with the guy dressed up in bizarre costumes and playing out fantasy torture games, etc.

[PrettyinPink55]

That case was shown like a week or so ago on Unsolved Mysteries! It freaked me out!

[nohwheregirl]

Originally Posted by Awsi Dooger

I tuned in today just in time to catch the beginning of "Flight from Justice; The Real Story of D.B. Cooper," a two hour documentary on the theory of Richard McCoy as D.B. Cooper, which as I've posted many times is not a theory but a certainty IMO. This is by far the best TV analysis of the cases, focusing on the 2nd skyjacking but detailing the numerous similarities of the two skyjackings. Not just elusive legend fluff nonsense like most of the D.B. Cooper programs.

I saw that show a couple years ago. It was totally fascinating! Really really interesting stuff, and all the more surprising because I'd never even heard of him before. I'm sorry I missed it this time around.

[Awsi Dooger]

Originally Posted by nohwheregirl

I saw that show a couple years ago. It was totally fascinating! Really really interesting stuff, and all the more surprising because I'd never even heard of him before. I'm sorry I missed it this time around.

Yes, nohwheregirl, it is an excellent program. It even follows McCoy's capers following the skyjackings, including his brazen prison escape utilizing a garbage truck. Then he was killed in a shootout with FBI agents in Virginia after returning to the home he and another escapee had rented. One thing the program didn't mention: the FBI was tipped off McCoy was staying at that house by his estranged wife, who had developed a relationship with an FBI official.

I became aware of the McCoy likelihood in the early '90s via a shortlived half hour TV program, "True Stories of the FBI," or a title close to that. One of the episodes dealt with the second skykacking, and ended with an FBI conclusion that the second event had been so well execued it indicated the perpetrator had previous experience, i.e. D.B. Cooper.

I thought Unsolved Mysteries had whiffed the McCoy connection completely and posted that here, but another poster -- probably Kane -- pointed out UM did mention McCoy as a possibility. I finally saw the episode on Lifetime and sure enough, UM mentions Richard McCoy and even shows a picture of him.

[ddelta]

Okay i am really bad with names but i am pretty positive the case of the guy and girl who killed off a kid they thought hit his car (he didn't) and then they were found guilty and supposedly killed themselves by jumping off a bridge(only her bones were found). I am positive this was a city confidential case.

Also Amy Bradlee case (girl who disappeared on a cruise ship) and Molly Bish (girl who disappeard near a lake she was a lifeguard at - later found dead) was on AMW.

Also, i remember awhile ago watching something on the I-70 serial killer who has never been caught but killed a bunch of store clerks along I-70.

[Kane]

Originally Posted by ddelta

Okay i am really bad with names but i am pretty positive the case of the guy and girl who killed off a kid they thought hit his car (he didn't) and then they were found guilty and supposedly killed themselves by jumping off a bridge(only her bones were found). I am positive this was a city confidential case.

That's the Adam Emery case. I remember the case being on America's Most Wanted, before it was shown on UM. It was most likely shown on AMW before the wife's remains were found, since UM first aired the segment in the fall of 1994 (a few weeks after the remains were positively identified as the wife's).

The man who played Adam Emery on UM was Eddie Rutkowski. Believe it or not, my sister went to high school with him. They both participated in acting classes.

[unsolved_on_film]

The Tallman haunting (bunk beds segment) was on 'A Current Affair', way back in '88.