My NBC segment list

[Stormer Phillips]

Hi,

I've had a lot of people here contact me about the NBC recordings I have, so I decided to dust off my tapes and make a chronicle of what I have. I'm working out a deal with someone here to possibly make copies, but we'll see what pans out.

It looks like I might be able to re-watch one tape per day (or so), so here is a list of what I have on my first tape:


INTRO: Robert Stack is in front of the "Lighted Bridge Set" and introduces that night's line-up for NBC, which includes a special guest appearance by himself on "The Fenelli Brothers" (that show didn't last long!)

From November 7, 1990

UPDATES: Keri Lynn Nixon possibly spotted on a New Kids on The Block video.
MYSTERIOUS LEGENDS: Speculation on the true fate of Amelia Earhart.
WANTED: Rick Church is wanted for the murder of Ray & Ruth Ann Ritter, his ex-girlfriend Colleen's parents.
SCI-MED: Dr. Ivan Browning predicts and earthquake will strike mid-west in 3 weeks. We're still waiting for it to happen...

CREDITS: Richard Church...Scott A. Landsman
Colleen Ritter...Sharon E. Dolan
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From October 31, 1990
(looks like I recorded over it, so only end of episode shown, including credits and commercials)

UPDATE: Georgia Rudolph reincarnation case-Man claims to be Tommy Hicks (missing 1st minute)
UPDATE: Late breaking update about capture of Kenneth Robert Stanton with photo montage, more details on future broadcast.

CREDITS: Grey Man...Todd Maxwell
Fiance...Sharyn Greene
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From November 14, 1990 with commercials

MISSING PERSONS: Police officer Jim Fontes search for his missing sons taken by ex-wife Kathy and her new husband Terry Durkin.
UPDATES: "Omar" arson tape, location of crime and teens responsible found.
UNEXPLAINED DEATH: Two African-American Louisiana deputies run-off the road and shot in racially motivated attack. Oneal Moore killed.
SCI-MED: Victoria Doroshenko's dog Harley can predict her seizures.
WANTED: Spokane bank robber who regularly avoided camera finally captured on film and linked to numerous robberies in Pacific South- and North-West.
(Credits recorded over)
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From November 21, 1990

UNEXPLAINED DEATH: Teenager Charles Norman Ladner found shot dead in woods; was it accident, suicide or murder?
UPDATES: Niki Crowder finds childhood hospital roommate Sharita.
UNEXPLAINED DEATH: Truck Dwayne McCorkendale found dead at Oklahoma rest-stop phone booth.
THE UNEXPLAINED: Mystery stairs at Chapel of Our Lady of Light in Santa Fe.
MISSING PERSONS: Nyleen Kay Marshall

CREDITS: Nun No. 1...Tiffany Harris
Nyleen Marshall...Rachele Uhler
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From November 28, 1990

UPDATES: Jimmy Aprile, Jr. finds kids, ex-wife Melvine arrested.
THE UNEXPLAINED: Psychic artist Coral Polge.
FINAL APPEAL: Johnny Lee Wilson, a mildly ******** man, claims he was falsely accused of killing Pauline Marx.
UNEXPLAINED DEATH: North Dakota repairman Kenneth Engee (sp.) found dead in garage of Carbon Monoxide poisoning; was it an accident or murder?

CREDITS: Johnny Lee Wilson...Gary Mitchell
Ken...Patrick B. Demars
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From December 5, 1990

UNEXPLAINED DEATH: Montana pizzaman Morris Davis killed.
TREASURE: Legend of riches in Arizona's Skeleton Canyon.
WANTED: North Dakota woman "Debby" brutally raped and shot in face, search for assailant.
LOST HEIRS: Search for relatives of reclusive millionaire Dorothea Allen.

CREDITS: Billy Grounds...Gary L. McKechnie
Morris Davis...Kevin J. Williams
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From December 12, 1990

MISSING PERSONS: Navy Medic Mark Dennis declared dead in Vietnam, but family believes he is POW shown in Newsweek photo.
UPDATES: Kenneth Robert Stanton found
WANTED: Casanova Killer Ricardo Caputo is sought.
(last segment and credits recorded over)
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From December 19, 1990

UNEXPLAINED DEATH: North Carolina nurse Debbie Wolf found drowned in lake behind her house.
UPDATES: Prison guard Sandra Beeman and her escapee lover Edgar Kerns captured.
(last two segments and credits not recorded)
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From January 2, 1991

MISSING PERSONS: Judith Himes disappears after illegal abortion...is she alive and living in Omaha?
UNEXPLAINED DEATH: Illinois officer Ralph Probst murder is examined.
SCI-MED: Study of 3 sets of identical twins
WANTED: Gretchen Burford murdered at drive-up ATM

CREDITS: Gretchen Burford...Adele Proom
The Assailant...Eric Chambers
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From January 9, 1991

UNEXPLAINED DEATH: Investigation into the death of Spokane teen Russell Evans.
UPDATES: Jim Fontes is reunited with his two sons.
WANTED: William Bradford Bishop murders family.
TREASURE: Lost Adam's Diggings in AZ.
FBI ALERT: Oliver Revell of FBI profiles the following criminals
Thomas Paul Hickey & William Charles McCarthy
Arthur Lee Washington Jr.
Juan Jackson

CREDITS: Chief Nana...Allen Early
Dr. Sturgeon...Stoney Harby
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From January 16, 1991

WANTED: Patrick Michael Mitchell; chameleon bank robber
ALSO LOOKING FOR:
Jockey Bandit of Florida
Mr. Nasty of Dade County, FL
The Mary Poppins Bandit of Colorado
LOST LOVES: Victor Simon (aka Frank) searches for family
WANTED: Joe Smith murders wife and step daughters in Las Vegas
THE UNEXPLAINED: Owner of haunted house in Fish Springs, NV captures ghost image on film

CREDITS: Frank Allen...Bill Vashon
Ghost No. 1...Dave Dillard

FUN STUFF: Closing credits voice-over talks of new show called "Seinfeld" premiering that night
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I'M NOT SURE WHEN THIS AIRED, BUT SOMEHOW I HAVE IT RECORDED BETWEEN JAN. 16 AND JAN. 23 EPISODES

UNEXPLAINED DEATH: Two part Son of Sam segment combined into one 1/2 hour segment
LOST HEIRS: Searching for family of Walter "Curly" Green

(Last segment and credits recorded over)
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From January 23, 1991

UNEXPLAINED DEATH: Tracy Kirkpatrick murder is examined
UPDATES: Possible artifacts from Amelia Earhart found on Nikumaroro Island
WANTED: Steve Wilson, who murdered father in-law, escapes from Folsom prison
LOST LOVES: Did Frankie Bloomer survive submarine sinking during WWII?
WANTED: John Erwin wanted for embezzlement and possible involvement in murder of mother

CREDITS: Amelia Earhart...Heather Bostian
Stephen Wilson...John Steele

FUN STUFF: The "Remember Me..." poem is attributed to having been written by Tracy Kirkpatrick, though in repeat episodes it is correctly identified as being written by Christina Rossetti
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From February 6, 1991

THE UNEXPLAINED: Betty Cash & Vickie and Colby Landrum suffer symptoms of radiation poisoning after claim of seeing UFO
UPDATES: Kidnapped girl Monica Bonilla is reunited with mother after UM tipsters mistake her for Nyleen Kay Marshall
UNEXPLAINED DEATH: Cyanide killings in St. Croix
LOST LOVES: Frank Acs searches for sister who came to America from Hungary during WWII

(credits recorded over)
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From February 13, 1991

UNEXPLAINED DEATH: The mystery of Cindy James
WANTED: Melody Martin leaves interracial marriage and kidnaps daughter Paloma
MYSTERIOUS LEGENDS: Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
LOST LOVES: Aleatha Smith searches for 3 younger siblings who were adopted out of neglectful home

CREDITS: Paloma...Nikollette Noel
Mr. Frank Wiley...Jim Hess
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From February 20, 1991

MYSTERIOUS LEGENDS: Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run
MISSING PERSONS: Carolyn Smith searches for 2 sons kidnapped by their wealthy father Chuck Smith & his family
UNEXPLAINED DEATH: Oregon prison reformer Michael Francke murdered outside office
UPDATES: William McCarthy, Thomas Hickey and Juan Jackson captured (from FBI Alert 1/9/91)
MISSING PERSON: Autistic man Oded Gordon missing

CREDITS: Houston Sheriff...Carl E. Beimfohr
Eliot Ness...Tracy S. Miller
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From February 27, 1991

WANTED: Erich Kessler/Kelly swindles wealthy women
THE UNEXPLAINED: "Orange fireball" that crashed in Kecksberg, PN may be UFO
UPDATES: Man interviewed during "Update" of John Mooney case, Lavar Bates, is reunited with daughter he never knew existed

CREDITS: Erich Kessler...Russell Bruzer
"Katherine"...Kathleen McKeever
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From March 6, 1991

UNEXPLAINED DEATH: Investigation into murder of Rome, NY businessman Stanely Gryziec
WANTED: Computer hacker Kevin Poulsen (aka Dark Dante)
LOST LOVES: Niki Crowder searches for childhood friend Sharita (UPDATE INCLUDED)
WANTED: A murder confession is broadcast live on radio station KROQ in Los Angeles

CREDITS: Kevin Poulsen...Rick Riffle
Bernard...Philip J. Markert
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From March 8, 1991

THE UNEXPLAINED: Hauntings on the Queen Mary
Tallman's Ghost (aka Haunted Bunkbed)
Hauntings at General Wayne Inn
Jim and Kay Tatum
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From March 13, 1991

MISSING PERSONS: Haiti bound ship "Freedon" goes missing with crew, Captain Florian and journalist student Lisa Bishop
MISSING PERSONS: Adam Hecht missing in Beverly Hills after stricking up friendship with homeless man
TREASURE: Legend of Nazi treasure buried on Austian/Swiss border
WANTED: Kay Beeman helps lover/convict Edgar Kerns escape (UPDATE INCLUDED)

CREDITS: Lisa Bishop...Sharon Lane
Bartender...Tony Jones
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From March 20, 1991

THE UNEXPLAINED: Unconventional healing powers of Edgar Cayce are examined
UNEXPLAINED DEATH: Aspiring Hollywood actress Crystal Spencer found dead in apartment
UPDATES: John Erwin caught on home video and spotted in Mid-Atlantic
Joe Smith almost caught in Los Angeles hotel
Letter sent to Coral Gables P.D. says Judy Hines is dead and body in Biscayne bay
WANTED: Dennis Depue murders wife Marilyn

CREDITS: Crystal...Loren Blackwell
Edgar Cayce...Greg Baber
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From March 27, 1991

UPDATE: Dennis Depue kills self after police chase
WANTED: Pat Fagen kidnaps son (UPDATE Pat Fagen turns herself in on night before UM broadcast after seeing preview on TV)
MISSING PERSONS: Dan Wilson drives into remote part of Montana and disappears
THE UNEXPLAINED: Strange "UFO art" photos taken by Dorothy Izzart in Canada
WANTED: Date-Rape Doctor Kenneth Frank

CREDITS: Pat Fagen...Jessica Drake
Dan Wilson...Paul Knechtel

FUN STUFF: This is the only episode I can think of that preempted the normal opening intro to bring us an update on a case (Dennis Depue)
Also one of the few times a segment is updated before it even aired (Pat Fagen)
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NOT SURE WHEN ORIGINALLY RECORDED

MYSTERIOUS LEGENDS: D.B. Cooper (poor quality)
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From April 3, 1991

WANTED: Richard Bocklage kills ex-girlfriend Tonya Kopric
UPDATE: Erich Kessler identified as Edgar Maynard and captured
WANTED: Paul Whipkey goes AWOL and disappears after driving car into Southern California desert
LOST LOVES: Winch family searches for foster child Garry
MISSING PERSONS: Jim Rice disappears, wife Astarte Davis suspected of foul play
UPDATE: Pat Fagen, wanted for kidnap of son, is captured

CREDITS: Captain Lewis...Eric Gerard
Katherine Bickford...Michaela Reilly

FUN STUFF: They bring back the actor who played Erich Kessler to film more footage of his swindling for UPDATE
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From April 10, 1991

WANTED: Is the murder of Danny Paquette related to his mother's murder nearly 30 years before?
UPDATES: Lynn Heinz (who was placed in Georgia Tann's "adoption" agency) is reunited with father and brothers
MISSING PERSONS: Did Robert Corrado, a wanted felon, jump commit suicide or flee?
LOST LOVES: Mary Hinkle and family search for Mary's twin sister Martha
WANTED: William Sessions shows us the latest addition to FBI's 10 most wanted: Kenneth Stanton (with UPDATE)

CREDITS: Robert Corrado...Douglas Panneton
Erik Shaw...Harry James Fesler
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From April 24, 1991

WANTED: Rafael Camarena smuggles drugs through tunnel from Mexico
UPDATES: Full update about Dennis Depue
LOST LOVES: Jeannie Wagner searches for father Duncan
WANTED: Gregory Barker suspected of executing Hilda Rochet
LOST LOVES: Jeri Graves searched for birth family who might be able to provide clues to son's mysterious ailment

CREDITS: Hilda...Jane Beard
Raphael Camarena...Daniel Sotelo
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From May 1, 1991

UPDATES: KROQ "Confess Your Crime" exposed as hoax
WANTED: 6 people killed in Sacramento convenience store/pizza restaurant murders
FRAUD: Barbara Helga King pretends to be German Countess and swindles friends
UNEXPLAINED DEATH: "Orange Sock" double murders in Breckenridge, CO
LOST LOVES: Jackie Dragon searches for sisters birthed to mother while in prison
UPDATES: Gregory Barker captured in AZ

CREDITS: The Countess...Lily Kaufman
Lawyer...Eric Williams
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From May 3, 1991

Assasination of Robert F. Kennedy is investigated
TREASURE: Lost Dutchman's Gold
WANTED: Mark Adams escapes from San Quentin

CREDITS: Robert Kennedy...John C. Moody
Karl Uecker...William O. Deckle
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Date Unknown (transferred from another tape)

SOLVED: Housewife Diane Broadbeck and prison escapee lover John Yount captured
UNEXPLAINED DEATH: Boys on the Tracks
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Date Unknown (transferred from another tape)

MISSING PERSONS: Kari Lynn Nixon (original broadcast w/ no updates)
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From May 8, 1991

FINAL APPEAL: Patricia Stallings accused of killing son Ryan, but claims genetic disorder
(rest of episode not recorded as they were repeats)
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From May 15, 1991

WANTED: Cult leader Tony Alamo wanted for tax evasion and child abuse
UNEXPLAINED DEATH: San Francisco policeman Lester Garnier found murdered in his car
THE UNEXPLAINED: Is "Katie" a real psychic who can sweat gold, or a hoax?
WANTED: Rick Church murders girlfriend Colleen Ritter's parents

CREDITS: Tony Alamo...Terry Dean Preston
Katie...Casey Montgomery
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From May 22, 1991

WANTED: James Donald King, convicted in murder of 1st wife, now wanted for murder of 2nd wife
UNEXPLAINED DEATH: Is Judy Groezinger involved in her husband Mark's death?
(rest of episode not recorded as they were repeats)

CREDITS: Nun No. 1...Tiffany Harris
James King...Stormy Long
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From August 21, 1991 (I'm only guessing as this does not match the episode guide, but Gorbachev was restored to power on this date according to Wikipedia, so the news broadcast interruption would make this the episode that must have aired)

THE UNEXPLAINED: Legend of the Grey Man's ghost
UNEXPLAINED DEATH: Is unmarked grave by train tracks final resting spot of Conradina Olsen?
FRAUD: Reverse Sting Operation - Dectective Bruce Hacker acts as a corrupt cop to arrest Tony Mitchell's crime ring (with UPDATE)
(interrupted in the middle with announcement that Gorbachev is back in power in the USSR)
WANTED: Portly con-woman "Bonnie Wilder"
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From August 28, 1991

LOST LOVES: John Nellis searches for his American father and his son left behind in Vietnam (with UPDATE)
MISSING PERSONS: Michael Rosenblum
WANTED: Coin Scam in New York City
UNEXPLAINED DEATH: Three men murdered while riding ATVs in TN
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From Sept 4, 1991

WANTED: Lesa Lee steals from bank she is employed at
UPDATES: "Sweetheart Swindler" captured, but police still do not know his true identity
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From Sept. 11, 1991

MYSTERIOUS LEGENDS: Searchers recover wreckage in Bermuda Triangle that might be plane from Flight 19
UPDATED: Kevin Poulson (aka Dark Dante) captured
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From Sept. 18, 1991

THE UNEXPLAINED: UFOs spotted over US military base in Southern England
UNEXPLAINED DEATH: Possible cult involvement in murders of Shane Stewart and Sally McNelly
LOST LOVES: Carla Downing searches for her birth mother

CREDITS: Sgt. Robert Ball...Karl Warren
Dorothy...Louise Reynolds

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From Sept. 25, 1991

MYSTERIOUS LEGENDS: John Wilkes Booth
UPDATE: Melody Martin caught, daughter Paloma reunited with family
SPECIAL ALERT: Art Silva wanted for child abuse
MISSING PERSONS: What happened to Alex Cooper?

CREDITS: John Wilkes Booth...John Lescault
Art's Girlfriend...Jennifer MacWilliams
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From Oct. 2, 1991

AMNESIA: Who is "Tyler", the man found wandering in the NV desert?
WANTED: Joseph Maloney poisons wife and flees to Ireland
THE UNEXPLAINED: Shroud of Turin
UPDATE: Art Silva captured

CREDITS: Tyler...Alan Hood
June...Marianne Maguire Cherico
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From Oct. 16, 1991

MISSING PERSONS: What happened to the crew of Barron 52, shot down over Laos?
SPECIAL ALERT: David O'Neil murders police officer Scott Rositer in Canada
UPDATE: Hinkle family reunites with the sons of long-lost twin Martha
WANTED: Paul Stamper stalks and kidnaps ex-wife Teresa
FRAUD: Josephine White scams the elderly

CREDITS: Paul Stamper...Todd Faulkner
Josephine White...Joan Dareth
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[crystaldawn]

Thanks for going to all the effort and post those Stormer. Can't wait to see them!

[ididn'tdoit]

Hey Stormer Phillips! Can you transfer those to dvds?

[Stormer Phillips]

Updated list, still got a lot more to come!

[crystaldawn]

Cool! I am so glad that you have the segment about Sandra Beeman (I only have the update). I have been dying to see that one! I think the update was downright comical with them just being busted and with these big grins on their face and playing kissy face in the back seat of the police car...

Hmm that Paul Whipkey one doesn't sound familiar. Anyone else remember it or is it one of those that never made it to Lifetime?

[justins5256]

Originally Posted by crystaldawn

Hmm that Paul Whipkey one doesn't sound familiar. Anyone else remember it or is it one of those that never made it to Lifetime?

Yes, I remember it from the Lifetime reruns. I think he was alleged to have been around during some atom bomb/radiation tests and to have suffered some symptoms. I remember the UM broadcast mentioning that all of his teeth fell out.

[DarkDante]

I believe Whipkey disappeared during the start of The Cold War. He was stationed in California I believe and his family believes he was recruited by the US Government for some type of intelligence mission having to do with Russia.

There were several odd things about his disappearance. I believe when they found his car in the desert they were able to determine that Whipkey was not the last man to have driven it. In addition there was a pile of cigarette butts all around the car. Whipkey was not a smoker.

In addition in the months before his disappearance, government officials began showing up at Whipkey's base and speaking to Whipkey and another officer in private. When the superior officers at the base questioned these officials they were basically told to mind their own business or else there would be consequences. Not only did Whipkey vanish under mysterious circumstance but the other officer vanished under equally mysterious circumstances. It is thought that he perished in plane crash over the desert but nobody is really sure of his fate.

I believe Robert Stack mentioned at the end of the segment that because of the publicity from UM the US Army did comply to no longer list Whipkey as a deserter and changed his status possibly to MIA but I'm not really sure as I haven't watched the segment in awhile (although its on one of my tapes).

[Stormer Phillips]

I thought it was interesting that the Whipkey case is classified by UM as a "Wanted" case rather than a "Missing Persons" case. Looks like at the time it was first broadcast the army still considered him a deserter.

[justins5256]

Originally Posted by Stormer Phillips

I thought it was interesting that the Whipkey case is classified by UM as a "Wanted" case rather than a "Missing Persons" case. Looks like at the time it was first broadcast the army still considered him a deserter.

Just wanted to say thanks for doing this. A lot of us, myself included, really appreciate it, probably more than you know.

[Composite Sketch]

I love posts like these, summarizing or referencing original NBC broadcasts. It sheds light on a perspective that you can't get from Lifetime re-runs (such as the updates, or the list of fugitives featured after the Patrick Michael Mitchell segment). I am also loving the Pat Fagan factoid - I've often wondered what goes through the minds of those fugitives that decided, wherever they were, to sit down one Wednesday night, tune into NBC, and see themselves and their crimes re-enacted on TV.

I copied, pasted and saved a detailed episode list someone else posted here many moons ago, and on it the Gretchen Burford case was listed as airing on 09/27/89. But an early 1991 airing makes more sense as Stack said that the murder (which was in 1988) happened "two years ago".

[Stormer Phillips]

Originally Posted by Composite Sketch

I am also loving the Pat Fagan factoid - I've often wondered what goes through the minds of those fugitives that decided, wherever they were, to sit down one Wednesday night, tune into NBC, and see themselves and their crimes re-enacted on TV.

It just occurred to me...

Pat saw that her episode was "coming up next week", which means she was watching the previous week's episode. That means at the exact moment she was freaking out about being captured, Dennis Depue was miles away doing the EXACT SAME THING!!!

[Stormer Phillips]

Updated again!

Crystaldawn, take a look at the August 21, 1991 episode...it doesn't match the episode guide but the news break places it as airing on this date!

[crystaldawn]

Originally Posted by Stormer Phillips

Updated again!

Crystaldawn, take a look at the August 21, 1991 episode...it doesn't match the episode guide but the news break places it as airing on this date!

Thats interesting. Yes when I get your episodes I plan on going through the episode guide and making any corrections or revisions I need to.

[justins5256]

I was just going over this list and I think I figured something out. The combined Son of Sam report most likely aired on 1/23/91.

The description Stormer Phillips wrote for that date (Tracey Kirkpatrick et al.) I believe to be the episode that aired on 1/30/91. See the episode guide.

Further, if you look at the 1/23/91 episode in the episode guide, it says the following:

"January 23, 1991

A report on the FBI hunt for a coldhearted con man wanted for bilking women. Also: a repeat segment on sightings of a bright orange fireball that crashed near Kecksburg, Pa., in 1965. "

which is nearly identical to this entry for 2/27/91:

"February 27, 1991

A report on the FBI hunt for a con man wanted for bilking women; a repeat segment on sightings of an orange fireball that crashed near Kecksburg (Pa.) in 1965 and was reportedly removed under military supervision; and an update on a reunion. [Postponed from an earlier date.]"

However, Stormer Phillips has the actual 2/27/91 airing, and it matches this description. I think it is unlikely NBC reran this story that many times. The "orange fireball", as some may recall, was a part of the third season premiere. I think the episode guide entry for 1/23/91 is an error and the Son of Sam/Walter "Curly" Green stories were actually shown then.

[Chris Billings]

Three cheers for Stormer!!

Documenting your UM recordings must have taken alot of time, thanks for doing it!! And the fact your working to make these available for board members to see is even better news!!

Mucho appreciation,
Chris

I just thot of something, do you happen to have any tapes of the "hit" 1979 NBC show Supertrain? LOL