Most Iconic UM Segments

[sharky888]

Hey everybody,

Just curious what everybody thinks are the most iconic segments of UM for them personally. This doesn't necessarily mean creepiest or highest profile cases, but which segments were the ones that got you hooked on the show?

For me, I can remember loving so many segments, but the ones that always hold a special place in my heart are the following:

Tim McClure--This is my all-time #1. An perlexing man, to say the least
Dorothy Donovan
Cindy James--I have definitely spent more time on this case than any other
Blair Adams
Blind River Rest Area
Dana Satterfield
L.A. Tunnel-drilling bank robbers

I suspect these are on the "usual suspects" list for most. Let me know what you think.

Thanks!

[cdr369]

Here are a few of mine, however they seem to change from time to time:

(a) Don Kemp
(b) Jack Davis Jr.
(c) Gus Hoffman (for some reason I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about his case)
(d) Mark Groezinger

I could honestly keep going. For some reason, I seem to identify more with the unsolved deaths of males in their 20s, 30s. Maybe it is because of my own age range and I can definitely see myself in these scenarios.

[sharky888]

Thanks for the input. Those are great segments. I especially love UM's over-the-top depictions of the "bad boy" bikers

[Hops3098]

Originally Posted by sharky888

Hey everybody,

but which segments were the ones that got you hooked on the show?

Thanks!

I'd say a few of the early episodes that really got me hooked were

a.) Gulf Breeze UFO sightings
b.) Dexter Stefonek
c.) Anna Anton & Greg Webb

[MissFit29]

The early ones that I can recall (I was about 10-11 years old when the show first aired) reeling me in:
Kathy Hobbs
Tara Calico
Charles Morgan
Baskins/Maples
William Bradford Bishop
Kari Lynn Nixon
Liz Carmichael/The Dale

Many others, of course (I watched the show EVERY WEEK until about 1995), but those are the ones I remember very clearly from the early days.

[Corkys-Place]

Probably the very early episodes I first saw as a child in the late 1980's.

1. The Unabomber
2. Son of Sam shootings
3. Matthew Chase
4. Gulf Breeze "UFO's"
5. Scary Polaroid Photo of the two kids tied up.

[Drakken]

I used to watch Unsolved Mysteries translated in French syndication when I was a kid. But here below are the cases which really hooked me back on that other place we cannot name:

1. ATV murders
2. Rachel Runyan
3. Connecticut Valley Serial Killer
4. Sacramento Thrill Killer
5. Beverly McGowan
6. Deborah Poe
7. Kurt Cobain's death segment

[cdr369]

I think it is interesting that a lot of us grew up with UM.

I remember two segments vividly from my childhood. I would watch it at my grandmother's house. I don't remember my parents watching the show.

(a) The Charles Morgan segment - just being thrown into water tied down to a chair. That was a lot to gather.
(b) The priest segment where a priest was exhumed and his body had no signs of decay. I don't think I've seen this segment in twenty plus years. But as a child, it was really scary.

[MegtheEgg86]

Originally Posted by cdr369

(a) The Charles Morgan segment - just being thrown into water tied down to a chair. That was a lot to gather.

That was Dan Short, the bank manager who was thrown into a lake tied to a chair in Noel, MO. Charles Morgan owned an escrow company and was shot in the back of the head in a desert near Tucson, AZ. Both very unnerving cases.

[MegtheEgg86]

I remember seeing UM on television as a kid, but I can't say I really became hooked, per se, until I started catching the Lifetime reruns around 2004-2005.

Some of the segments I vividly remember watching from that time:

-Dick Hansen
-The Hum (I watched this one at a friend's apartment and it was the last time I clearly remember seeing the show on Lifetime proper)
-Chad Langford
-Clay Taylor
-Jill and Julie Hansen
-the 'countess' of Cleveland

[soilentgreen]

Originally Posted by cdr369

I remember two segments vividly from my childhood. I would watch it at my grandmother's house. I don't remember my parents watching the show.

My grandma watched UM with me as well; she was a mystery buff. Some of the segments that really kindled my interest were:

Eleanor Farber/John Burns
Don Kemp
Patricia Meehan
Son of Sam
Michael Rosenblum
Audrey Moate
Lisa Bishop/Freedon
Queen Mary episode (with the Tallman haunting)
Amy Billig

[Hambone2421]

The earliest segments I remember seeing and being hooked on the show were:


1. ATV Murders
2. Matthew Chase
3. Omar the Arsonist
4. Tara Calico
5. Tara Breckenridge

[Gangreen]

Anthonette cayedito dexter stefonek

[UMFaninMD]

I saw the show before it went to Lifetime and here are some that stood out for me:

Missing Time
Doreen Picard/Susan Laferte
Ayleen Conway
Cindy James
Tallman Hauntings
Texas UFO
Mabel Woods
The Wackers
Circleville Letters
Look At It Omar

[Corkys-Place]

Originally Posted by MegtheEgg86

I remember seeing UM on television as a kid, but I can't say I really became hooked, per se, until I started catching the Lifetime reruns around 2004-2005.

Some of the segments I vividly remember watching from that time:

-Dick Hansen
-The Hum (I watched this one at a friend's apartment and it was the last time I clearly remember seeing the show on Lifetime proper)
-Chad Langford
-Clay Taylor
-Jill and Julie Hansen
-the 'countess' of Cleveland

What was the Countess of Cleveland all about? I've never heard of this UM story.