Unsolved Mysteries Books

[Unsolved_Writer]

Hello everyone!

Long time reader, with a question about the series/genre:

I notice there are relatively few books on unsolved mysteries cases. I suppose this is because the industry is dominated by books on Ted Bundy or The Unabomber or the other more "prolific" cases, whereas stories about the disappearance of Nyleen Kay Marshall in 1980 or the subsequent rape and murder of her mother Nancy in Mexico in 1995 are relegated to a bit of a niche audience, which is unfortunate [but an unfortunate fact of life, I suppose].

I am looking to devote to a writing project right now, and I think that by writing about cases featured on Unsolved Mysteries that I can learn these cases more passionately and potentially help in the online search for resolutions in these cases.

Do you think this is a good idea? I wouldn't be doing it for profit or anything like that, I just think this is an area that has gotten relatively little coverage. It saddens me how few books there are written about some of these cases - or for that matter, no books written at all about many of them!

Any insight on this topic would be appreciated. And any book recommendations for books about cases featured on Unsolved Mysteries would also be appreciated.

Thank you!

[unsolved88]

I think this is a wonderful idea. I always thought a nice full book about the disappearance of Tammy Leppert would make for good reading. It's probably one of Unsolved Mysteries' most well-known cases, but outside of internet message boards or the occasional old article that people can scrounge up every once in a while, there's never been an actual true crime book dedicated entirely to it.

Even with all this internet technology at out fingertips, I'm still one of those old-fashioned people who loves to sit down and just read a regular hard copy book.

[omegadoom]

Originally Posted by Unsolved_Writer

Hello everyone!

Long time reader, with a question about the series/genre:

I notice there are relatively few books on unsolved mysteries cases. I suppose this is because the industry is dominated by books on Ted Bundy or The Unabomber or the other more "prolific" cases, whereas stories about the disappearance of Nyleen Kay Marshall in 1980 or the subsequent rape and murder of her mother Nancy in Mexico in 1995 are relegated to a bit of a niche audience, which is unfortunate [but an unfortunate fact of life, I suppose].

I am looking to devote to a writing project right now, and I think that by writing about cases featured on Unsolved Mysteries that I can learn these cases more passionately and potentially help in the online search for resolutions in these cases.

Do you think this is a good idea? I wouldn't be doing it for profit or anything like that, I just think this is an area that has gotten relatively little coverage. It saddens me how few books there are written about some of these cases - or for that matter, no books written at all about many of them!

Any insight on this topic would be appreciated. And any book recommendations for books about cases featured on Unsolved Mysteries would also be appreciated.

Thank you!

I've thought about doing that as well. A good place to start would be one of the online newspaper archives. There's a lot of old newspaper clippings about Unsolved Mysteries and I'm sure you can find clippings about some of the cases that would give you more info then the show did.

The closest you will probably get to a companion book of Unsolved Mysteries are these two books - Murderers Among Us and Wanted For Murder, both by Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth. They contain chapters on Bobbie Oberholtzer and Annette Schnee, Dwayne McCorkendale, Leo Koury, Donald Eugene Webb, Richard Bocklage, Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg, Roxanne Jeeves and more.

[James T]

I have always been surprised-especially with the renaissance of the show over the last decade or so that there haven't been books released with the cases laid out & updates. One that might be of interest is the Tim Bindner book-it covers the Angela Bugay, Amber Swartz, Ilene Misheloff, Michaela Garecht & Nikki Campbell cases. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...der_B002SXIEWS

[MegtheEgg86]

Not trying crap on your idea at all, but there are actually several books that have been written about cases featured on UM. In fact, a few times interviewees were invited onto the show specifically because they wrote a book about the case (i.e., Michele Samit in the Anita Green segment).

Although there's a handful on the board, here's one of the more recent threads:

https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards...d.php?t=302107

A lot of these books are published in paperback collections like St Martin's True Crime Library and other supermarket-ish forms and a fair number are also out of print, so that complicates being able to find them easily.