What segments did you get to watch for the first time thanks to Amazon?

[JannTosh]

thanks to the show being on Amazon Video now, I got to watch the Son of Sam segments, Doreen Picard/Susan Laferte, Kari Lynn Nixon. Lisa Marie Kimmel, and Colorado Bigfoot segments for the first time. I never even saw the Farina versions of these


There are plenty of others I haven't seen but these were the ones I was always lost interested in watching

[MissFit29]

I think I maybe saw the Marilu Geri segment once as a kid, but otherwise I saw most of them (more than I remembered).

[TheCars1986]

I've never seen the following segments until recently:

-Jon Yount/Diane Brodbeck
-George Marsh
-Dennis Walker
-Jack Quinn
-Dolores Valadez
-Arthur Frankford
-Michael Mohon
-LA Tunnel Robbers
-The White Bird
-Jim Meade Jr.
-Avery Norris
-The Rogers children (only saw the shortened update version)
-Don Hamilton
-Ed Barbara

[RobinW]

I'd never seen the segment about Beale's Treasure before. It's somewhat sad to look back and see these old lost treasure segments where people would quit their jobs and obsessively devote their lives to finding it, when we know 30 years later that they pretty much wasted their time.

I don't think I'd ever seen the Louis Carlucci segment before either. I must say, seeing the victim describe being trapped in the controlling relationship with Carlucci while he bled her dry and held her prisoner until she nearly committed suicide was pretty unnerving.

[TheCars1986]

Originally Posted by RobinW

I'd never seen the segment about Beale's Treasure before. It's somewhat sad to look back and see these old lost treasure segments where people would quit their jobs and obsessively devote their lives to finding it, when we know 30 years later that they pretty much wasted their time.

I forgot to add this one to my list. This was my personal favorite unseen segment since all of the people featured must feel like fools nowadays.

[JM]

Ed Barbara. I don't recall having seen that originally (although I probably did).

And I definitely don't ever remember seeing it on Lifetime.

[asmitty]

Originally Posted by TheCars1986

I forgot to add this one to my list. This was my personal favorite unseen segment since all of the people featured must feel like fools nowadays.

No they don't. They've only got another 1 or 2 feet left to dig and they'll be rich.

[dynoguy88]

Originally Posted by JannTosh

thanks to the show being on Amazon Video now, I got to watch the Son of Sam segments, Doreen Picard/Susan Laferte, Kari Lynn Nixon. Lisa Marie Kimmel, and Colorado Bigfoot segments for the first time. I never even saw the Farina versions of these

Those are some of the most memorable yet horrifying cases. I never watched the Farina versions of the segments because they destroyed them (if it's not broke, don't fix it) and I can't imagine how awful those stories would have looked once they were "Spiked" so to speak.

[asmitty]

Originally Posted by dynoguy88

Those are some of the most memorable yet horrifying cases. I never watched the Farina versions of the segments because they destroyed them (if it's not broke, don't fix it) and I can't imagine how awful those stories would have looked once they were "Spiked" so to speak.

I get your point. The Spike updates weren't god awful, but they just weren't the same. Made UM feel like an AMW clone instead of its own thing.

[LooksLikeCRicci]

I would have GLADLY taken AMW over the Spiked-UM episodes. SUCH a letdown. I was happy to have them because it was better than nothing, but they were just not the same.

I did enjoy the use of Google Earth in the beginning of the segments, though. I thought that effect was kinda cool.

[asmitty]

Originally Posted by LooksLikeCRicci

I did enjoy the use of Google Earth in the beginning of the segments, though. I thought that effect was kinda cool.

I certainly felt more aware of where the mysteries were happening with that effect.

[Todd Mueller]

Originally Posted by LooksLikeCRicci

I did enjoy the use of Google Earth in the beginning of the segments, though. I thought that effect was kinda cool.

I agree with that -- it was the ONLY positive from the Farina episodes. But the god-awful music and sound effects made it almost unwatchable.

I agree with asmitty that it gives you a better idea of where the cases went down, which was really nice.

[charmedsignora]

I never saw these until recently:

Mabel Woods-- this is so sad. I think it's a neighbor who was fed up with the constant dog barking. Even though her closest neighbor was a mile away, neighbors can still hear noise in desolate areas. There's just nothing else in the area, so the sound really carries. (When I lived in rural Pennsylvania, we heard dogs barking, drills, and construction equipment from several miles away.)

Glen and Bessie Hyde-- I don't know what they were going for by airing this one. At the time this segment first premiered, the case was 60 years old. Now it's 89 years old. Do they honestly think anyone-- besides an archaeologist-- has any information?

[justins5256]

Originally Posted by charmedsignora

I never saw these until recently:

Glen and Bessie Hyde-- I don't know what they were going for by airing this one. At the time this segment first premiered, the case was 60 years old. Now it's 89 years old. Do they honestly think anyone-- besides an archaeologist-- has any information?

With this one I tend to give it a pass because it was from one of the early specials before UM got picked up as a series - it was the first episode hosted by Robert Stack, for example. I would guess the show was still trying to find it's feet or legs or however that saying goes.

[undertakeress]

Originally Posted by Todd Mueller

I agree with that -- it was the ONLY positive from the Farina episodes. But the god-awful music and sound effects made it almost unwatchable.

I agree with asmitty that it gives you a better idea of where the cases went down, which was really nice.

Omg the can banging after the opening credit sequence gives me a headache!

I didn't remember seeing the Ed Barbara segment, or Michael Mohon. Others, like DorothyAllison, the boys on the tracks, and the ATV murders, I have vivid memories of seeing