UM cases profiled on MISSING

[Kane]

Yesterday, I was watching Missing (the syndicated series that profiles missing persons), and there was a short segment on the 1988 disappearance of Tara Calico. They made mention of the photo of a girl and boy tied up, which brought on specualation that the girl in the photo might have been Tara. (However, the photo in question wasn't displayed on the show.)

As mentioned at the end of the show, the upcoming episode will profile Kristen Modafferi, who disappeared from San Francisco in 1997. UM did a segment on that case in 2001.

Although I have just begun to watch the show last week, I learned that the show did a profile on the disappearance of Marilyn "Niqui" McCown. A segment on that case was shown on UM in 2002. McCown was the woman who disappeared in 2001, shortly before she was to be married. Her fiance was (and, I'm sure, still is) a suspect. It seemed particularly suspicious that, after McCown's disappearance, the fiance canceled the upcoming wedding entirely, instead of postponing it.

Like both UM and America's Most Wanted, Missing has its own web site. You can go there by clicking on to the link below.

http://www.usamissing.com

The link also includes a list of TV stations that air the show (just click on to "Find Us on TV"). Be sure to check your local TV listings to find out what time and day the show is on in your area.

[UMfan77]

Sounds very interesting, profiles on missing people is very interesting. I'm going to check TV Guide to see when it's on in my area. I usually watch Unsolved Mysteries about missing people but it would be nice to have another show to watch too.

[Kane]

Originally posted by UMfan77
Sounds very interesting, profiles on missing people is very interesting. I'm going to check TV Guide to see when it's on in my area. I usually watch Unsolved Mysteries about missing people but it would be nice to have another show to watch too.

I agree with you on the second half of your last sentence. To me, it's always nice to see another show similar to UM or AMW. I haven't forgotten that in the late 1980s, the success of both America's Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries paved the way for similar shows such as Missing/Reward and Crimestoppers 800 (both of which were shown in syndication, but didn't last more than a few years). Imitation isn't always the sincerest form of flattery, but I always welcome the idea of new public service shows, and for good reason. Just one show of that type is never enough.

I still remember watching the aforementioned Crimestoppers 800. In retrospect, it seemed like a poor man's version of America's Most Wanted, but I think it was one of the more promising AMW clones. Too bad it only lasted two years (from 1989 to 1991).