Unsolved Mysteries: do you have any mistakes or personal stories?

[unslvd mr e]

i am watching "skull duggery" on my bizarre murders dvd set of unsolved mysteries. i stopped watching unsolved mysteries around 1999, even though it went on until 2002. but i always remember this episode because the skull was seen outside a restaurant window. i wonder if those two women lost their appetite.

before any of these UM shows went onto dvd sets or youtube, are there any episodes that you havent seen in a long time, but always remember them? why do you remember them? did you ever make a mistake and get one episode mixed up with another one? i did a few times.

that episode where 'carol' gets shot by a man in a black truck, out in the country road always scared the heck out of me when i was a kid. but for some reason i always thought it was a red truck that would come onto the highway and move back and forth, harrassing the other vehicle. do you remember this episode? i never heard of a truck driver moving onto a highway/road to block traffic, only to move back, and repeat himself again. scary. of course this was the same day, before he shot that 'carol' lady in the face. luckily she lived. amazing. but he never got caught. i wonder what he is doing today, wonder if he is watching over these UM threads getting a kick out of our point of views.

also, that beverly mcgowan video. note that i started watching UM on youtube starting last november, so i never was able to find the bev mvgowan video for a long time. i never thought to check youtube. yet of course youtube hasnt been around that long. during the past 8 years i would try to type in words when searching for info on her case or a picture of her killer. but i didnt remember her name or the episode number. i tried searching with "masculine looking women" killer. remember that man named sam who dressed up as beverly and went into a travel agency! well during the past decade i forgot and didnt think sam was in a travel agency, i thought it was at a bank lol.

[justins5256]

Way back in February of '95 I watched the Ellender double homicide case on NBC. This was the story about the young 30-something couple who were found shot to death in their home. A teenager, Christopher Prudhomme, was arrested for the murders but committed suicide before he could be tried. The family of the Ellenders believed Prudhomme didn't act alone; a Satanic cult was involved.

Anyhow, through the years, this segment somehow became perverted in my mind in to a story about a sixties-ish couple, and a murder/suicide scenario that the family was questioning. I had completely forgotten that anyone was arrested, the Satanic angle and all that. So, my mind cobbled that story together. Go figure.

To top it all off, the segment was never shown on Lifetime. Lifetime did show the episode, but the Ellender segment was always edited out and replaced by a different story. I really thought I was losing my marbles and that the whole story didn't even exist.

It wasn't until I found this forum (incidentally one of my first posts was a question about this case) and Kane filled me in. I believe crystaldawn remembered the story too, so I knew I wasn't completely crazy.

A year or two later I received a DVDR of the NBC episode with the Ellender segment in a trade, and that cleared everything up.

So, it was rectified in the end.

I was a "casual" UM viewer back in the '90s; not the rabid and scary fan I am today. I also watched a lot of other true crime shows of the day.

Time plays tricks on the mind. It's easy to see how details can be mis-remembered and confusion ensues. How many other people come on here and ask about cases that are clearly from other programs, yet they ABSOLUTELY SWEAR they saw it on UM.