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02-13-2025, 02:22 AM
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UM Award Categories
If we were doing UM Awards on this board, there are so many categories...
Least Believable Suspect Spouse Least Believable Person Interviewed on UM Most Sympathetic Person Interviewed on UM Most Polarizing Person Interviewed on UM Worst Police Incompetence Best Police Work Best Paranormal Segment Most Baffling Work/Govt-Related Murder/UD Most Touching Lost Love Case Most Perplexing Missing Person Case Segment You Can't Watch Alone Late at Night Creepiest Music Worst Segment Most Tear-Jerking Moment Scariest Composite Sketch |
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02-15-2025, 07:10 PM
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Worst Police Incompetence: Norman Ladner
Best Police Work: Adam Emery, but this is more about the prosecutor's fortitude during his trial. Best Paranormal Segment: Queen Mary ship Most Perplexing Missing Person Case: Dale Kerstetter, Geoffrey Sullivan Scariest Composite Sketch: Son of Sam sketches |
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02-16-2025, 12:30 AM
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Least believable suspect spouse: Christy Nichols' husband/Paul Pollis Most Sympathetic Person Interviewed: Patricia Stallings Most Polarizing Person: Rob Shaffer Best Police Work: Nelson DeCloud Case Best Paranormal Segment (Tie): Queen Mary and Mothman Most Baffling Govt/Work-Related Murder: Su Taraskiewicz Most Baffling UD (tie): Rae Ann Mossor/Dale Kerstetter/Cindy James Most Touching Lost Love Case: Vietnam Nurse Most Perplexing Missing Person Case (tie): Patricia Meehan, Judy Hymes, Amy Billig, Amy Bradley, George Owens, Tami Lynn Leppert Segment You Can't Watch Alone Late at Night: Beverly McGowan Worst Segment: Fertility Statues/My Paranormal Partner Most Tear-Jerking Moment: Jenny on Speedboat Case Scariest Composite Sketch (tie): "Sam" from the Beverly McGowan case, Son Of Sam, Blind River Rest Stop, 1-70 Killer, Wadada |
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02-18-2025, 08:47 AM
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Great thread idea. Here are mine:
Least Believable Suspect Spouse - Leonard Rizzo Least Believable Person Interviewed on UM - "Katie" the gold sweating woman Most Sympathetic Person Interviewed on UM - Bill Day Most Polarizing Person Interviewed on UM - Tim McClure Worst Police Incompetence - Jay Given Best Police Work - Dimitric Moore Best Paranormal Segment - Tatum's Ghost Most Baffling Work/Govt-Related Murder/UD - Frank Olson Most Touching Lost Love Case - All of them involving missing family members Most Perplexing Missing Person Case - AJ Breaux Segment You Can't Watch Alone Late at Night - Fertility statues Creepiest Music - Hilda Roche Worst Segment - Aphrodisiac Most Tear-Jerking Moment - Patricia Stallings Scariest Composite Sketch - Blind River killer |
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02-19-2025, 11:31 PM
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If we were doing UM Awards on this board, there are so many categories...
It's so hard to pick one! Least Believable Suspect Spouse: Mark Nichols Least Believable Person Interviewed on UM: Sam Patel (I'd pick Ida Pruitt but we know that one is solved at least) Most Sympathetic Person Interviewed on UM: Patti Cordova Most Polarizing Person Interviewed on UM: Dan Killaby Worst Police Incompetence: Doug Johnston Best Police Work: Ethel Kidd Best Paranormal Segment: The Gray Man Most Baffling Work/Govt-Related Murder/UD: Matt Flores/Paul Whipkey Most Touching Lost Love Case: Delia Fazzani Most Perplexing Missing Person Case: Tara Breckenridge Segment You Can't Watch Alone Late at Night: Any home invasion Creepiest Music: I'll put the "duh duh!" update music in second place and go for the moaning music after the creepy piano (as heard in the Doreen Picard/Susan Laferte segment) Worst Segment: Men in Black Most Tear-Jerking Moment: Always, Karen gets to me when they have the reenactment of her father telling her it's okay to go (pass away) while she is comatose due to cancer and that the Three Musketeers will always be the Three Musketeers. I always get teary watching that part. Scariest Composite Sketch: Epes Post Office bandits (also because of the music!) |
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02-20-2025, 02:47 AM
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I remember those post office bandit sketches with the green background they used. Nightmare fuel. |
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02-21-2025, 02:28 AM
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Least Believable Suspect Spouse : Judy Groezinger Least Believable Person Interviewed on UM : Chad Noe Most Polarizing Person Interviewed on UM : Rob Shaeffer Worst Police Incompetence : Eric Tamiyasu Best Police Work : Not sure Best Paranormal Segment : The Queen Mary Most Perplexing Missing Person Case : Audrey Moate Segment You Can't Watch Alone Late at Night : The Unabomber segment when I was a kid and he was still at large Creepiest Music : The original Update music Worst Segment : Schoolgirls dancing around in forest looking up at the Sun streaming through the tree's. Most Tear-Jerking Moment : The interview with Nyleen Kay Marshall's mother Scariest Composite Sketch : Connecticut River Valley Killer |
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02-22-2025, 10:45 PM
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02-23-2025, 02:17 PM
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cool idea for a thread!
Least Believable Suspect Spouse: Tie between Leonard Rizzo and M. Nichols Least Believable Person Interviewed on UM: Ida Pruitt and her entire family really. I would also suggest adding a category for cons/frauds and psychics. Most Sympathetic Person Interviewed on UM: Christoph Day's father. Most Polarizing Person Interviewed on UM: Tim McClure Worst Police Incompetence: Mountainair/Steve Sandlin's murder and Orange Socks Best Police Work: Roxanne and Kristopher Jeeves Best Paranormal Segment: Gray Man Most Baffling Work/Govt-Related Murder/UD: Paul Whipkey Most Touching Lost Love Case: Fritz and the Soldiers Most Perplexing Missing Person Case: Amy Wroe Bechtel Segment You Can't Watch Alone Late at Night: EAR/ONS Creepiest Music: probably the OG theme song or the closing credits with the soprano sax. for segment music it's impossible to pick one. the music in the Queen Mary and Doreen Picard segments stands out. The IH 70 Killer music as well. Worst Segment: aphrodisiacs Most Tear-Jerking Moment: Jim Pearson and Mitchell Shigemoto's reunion. Lisa Kimmel's segment also gets me during her mom's interview. Scariest Composite Sketch: IH 70 Killer |
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Most Sympathetic Interview: Victor Simon - Adopted into a family at age two (not as a son but as working farmhand) thrown out on the street by age 6. Despite never experiencing love and being shown no model of what love is throughout his entire childhood, he went on to be an extremely loving father to his children and family. His last quote of the segment hits hard; “I’d just like to see someone and talk to someone that I belong to.”
Most Amazing Human Being: Ellen Morrill – From the Lost Loves Jimmy and Tammy segment. A single mother of three taking in three more children in her tiny two-bedroom apartment after they had just lost their own mother to cancer. “She just asked me to take her kids and I told her I would because I loved her children. They were easy to love.” Best Police Work: Hilda Roche – Investigators had to look through three years of lease agreements (equaling 30,000 files) for the 1,400 different unit apartment complex just to come up with Gregory Barker’s name. That had to be tedious work but it paid off. Worst Police Work: Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible – The fact that family members, not the police, discovered Dave Freeman’s remains in the house rubble was bad enough. But the blatant evidence left behind that was ignored for nearly two decades is infuriating. Those girls were in captivity for over a week and they would have been rescued and be alive today had the bare minimum police work been done. Most Hated Person Who was Never Interviewed – Beverly Noe. Even though she turned down UM’s request for an interview and never appeared on camera, I despised that woman. And this was before I knew about all the other crimes she had committed, including kidnapping Jonathan for an entire year. |
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Least Believable Suspect Spouse - Jule Caylor
Least Believable Person Interviewed on UM - "That man, he's got Jonathan" (which probably doesn't count) Most Sympathetic Person Interviewed on UM - Gord McAllister Most Polarizing Person Interviewed on UM - maybe Adam Hecht's mom Worst Police Incompetence - Michael Rosenblum investigation Best Police Work - Officer who helps teen being sent to jail by her father Best Paranormal Segment - Does the Loch Ness monster count? I'm a big fan of Nessie. Most Baffling Work/Govt-Related Murder/UD - Dave Bocks Most Touching Lost Love Case - widows who received mail from their Army spouses Most Perplexing Missing Person Case - Judy Smith Segment You Can't Watch Alone Late at Night - semi going down the road at the end of a story about an unknown serial killer in Ohio. For some reason that seemed especially scary. The killer is on his way to find another victim. Creepiest Music - Original music Worst Segment - Lucky rock Most Tear-Jerking Moment - Larry's mom watching Larry Dean Dickens kill her son. That actress was exceptional. Scariest Composite Sketch - Blind River Killer |
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