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dynoguy88

04-06-2002, 02:38 PM

what would it be? I'm reffering to any case featured on Unsolved Mysteries. Has there ever been a story they showed that really got to you? One that you just wish you could solve?

Well, let's say you have been given the magic power to solve ONE mystery. What would it be?

For me, there are 100's, but there is one that gets me every time. And every time I see it rebroadcast on Lifetime, I hope pray that it has been solved, and then, I am dissapointed to see that it still hasn't.

It was a "Missing Persons" case that was shown, I think the 3rd season of UM. (Remember how a couple posters stated how scary the update music on UM is (The one that starts by ZOOM... Da da!!!) The poster said, this was the background music for the kidnapped grand children case... this is EXACTLY tha case I want solved)

The case I am referring to is the one about the grandparents (Sandra and Marvin Maple) that lied and told a judge that two of their grandchildren, Kristi and Bobby had been sexually abused by their parents (the Maple's daughter and her husband, I forgot their names). The court awarded the Maples temporary custody of the kids while an investigation started, and during that time, the Maples ran off with Kristi and Bobby and have not been seen since. They have all been missing since March of 1989. Within minutes of the first UM broadcast, some information was given on their where abouts with 2 pictures of Kristi and Bobby swimming (you know, the update with the scary background music) but nothing else has developed since.

I don't understand how the Maples could get away all this time and STILL not be found. I want them locked up so bad, I can't stand it. And at the same time, I feel so badly for the parents. Well, anyone who has seen this case can tell how upset they were.

I found this link on a missing person's web-site, it has all their pictures, and what Kristi and Bobby would look like today....

http://www.missingkids.com/cgi-bin/dbmlparser.exe?casenumber=721027&DBMLFILE=poster.dbml&postertype=c1c2a1a2&language=1&orgcode=1

TheWho

04-06-2002, 02:47 PM

The Kecksburg 1965 one.Because my dad live about 1-2 miles from there.

Or So It Seems

05-06-2002, 09:37 PM

I've got a lot of contenders too: Lisa Ziegert (kidnapped/murdered from women's clothing store); the girl thrown off the bridge who drove the black Honda CRX with "Lil Miss" license plates; the son of two Canadian doctors who was killed while driving to the U.S. to start medical school; the young Canadian couple who met their killer on the ferry ride into Washington, but the one I would like to see solved the most is the one of the elderly woman who was shot to death inside her RV while pulled over at a rest area for the night.

Martha Lavaburger

06-25-2002, 04:01 PM

There are two cases which I would like to see solved more than any of them. The 1st is the case about the young man who was addicted to drugs and kicked out by his parents in an attempt of tough love. His car was found abandoned a few hours later and he was never ever seen alive again. There seemed to be an elaborate police coverup. A couple of years later his bone fragments were found in a revine but they couldn't determine the cause of death. That one has always haunted me. There were obviously something sinster people about his death. I believe the most likely scenario was that he was pulled over by a cop for reckless driving and he probably wouldn't cooperate and the police killed him- perhaps accidentally- and they felt they had to cover it up.

The other case is about the horse owner/oil businessman whose skeleton was found in the cave by a bus driver who always got a creepy feeling when around it. The man had been shot in the head almost twenty years before by a guy he had given thousands of dollars to for an alleged horse. That guy drove the oil man's car in the river and was never seen again. He is wanted for questioning and car theft, I think. It's no telling if this one will ever be solved, because the crime happened in like '75.

I want these crimes to be solved more for the victims and their families than for my entertainment, because they were both very sad and devious.

diesteldorf

06-26-2002, 08:59 PM

Here are a few on the top of my list:

#1 Angela Hammond info: She was abducted in 1991 in Mississippi. Her boyfriend actually chased the car until his transmission failed. She has not been seen since.

#2: Dale Kerstedder (sp?) Disappeared along with some platinum from a Pennsylvania plant

#3: Pattie (can't remember last name). Murdered in 1987. Consumed cold medicine laced with strychnine.

#4: Tiffany Leipert (or Leepert): Beauty Queen/Movie Starlet who disappeared
in 1982.

and finally (#5 will never be solved for sure :( )

#5 What ever happened to Amelia Earhart?

UMfan77

11-28-2003, 08:51 PM

1# Rhonda Hinson, who was murdered while driving home from a Christmas party in Dec. of 1981, she was only 18.

2# Dana Satterfield, was murdered while closing up her hair salon. A door-to-door saleslady was face to face with the killer after hearing loud noises coming from the salon.

3# Jeremy Bright, 14 year old who disappeared after attending the Coos County Fair in 1986. There are several scenarios as to what happened.

4# Kurt Sova, disappeared after attending a halloween party. Was later found dead at a vacant lot, cause of death unknown.

5# Chad Mauer, found dead in chicago in his car. Worked in a bike shop.

Composite Sketch

11-28-2003, 09:24 PM

The ones I want solved primarily involve wanted/missing persons, etc. Not counting the ones mentioned above:

-The capture of the murderer of Tina Jefferson, Warren Fulton and Rachael Raver. I watched the '89 Jefferson segment in 1999 and remembered it ever since, and this summer saw the '01 Fulton/Raver continuation. The image of the murderer running from the crime scene in the Jefferson segment will be with me forever.

-The capture of the New York serial rapist that murdered one and raped seven others.

-The capture of the I-70 killer.

-To find out what really happened to Tara Leigh Calico.

-Solve once and for all the D.B. Cooper case.

I'll limit myself to five.

maniaguy6

11-28-2003, 10:33 PM

#1 Definately the Rest Stop killer in Blind River, Ontario Canada
#2 The I-70 killer
#3 The young woman who disappeared on Sept. 10, 2001 near the WTC
#4 The 1989 murder of a 13 year-old boy in Spokane, Washington

rerungirl

11-29-2003, 01:35 PM

So many interesting cases have already been mentioned, but I'd like to add a few more to the list.

A.J. Breaux...the smalltown businessman from Louisiana who was spotted several times after he went missing. A recovering alcoholic, Breaux was actively involved in A.A. and was well respected in his community. The sightings after his disappearance (in a car full of strangers, trying to sell frozen fish out of a van) were very disturbing to me and I have always hoped there would be a resolution to this case.

Also, two cases that were featured on an "Investigators" segment have always fascinated me: The young woman in California who didn't have enough money to pay full cab fare while taking a late night cab ride. The heartless cab driver dropped her off in an isolated area and the next morning her body was found at the bottom of a cliff. Police were never able to determine who she was or if her death was an accident, a suicide or a homicide.

In South Carolina, a young man and woman were found shot to death in a car along an isolated country road. Authorities believe the victims may have been brother and sister but no one ever came forward to claim the bodies or provide any information.

bebe_23

11-29-2003, 07:03 PM

1. Adam Hecht-the one about son of movie producer Harold Hecht and his friendship with homeless people, particularly a man named Tony. I would really like to know what happened to him
2. Tammy Leppert-did Chris Wilder kill her?
3. The one about the college student who was murdered at his home while his parents were away at the theatre and the cops said it was suicide, when it clearly wasn't. There was speculation that he was working for the DEA. There also was ATM video footage of him taking cash out of the ATM and two men behind him.

Zero

12-01-2003, 02:06 AM

Some of the ones mentioned on here have already been solved...

Someone typed of a girl driving in a car with LILMISS plates, that was Lisa Marie Kimmel and her killer has been arrested. There is a thread on that.

Segments that stick out in my mind are...

This girl who was taken/ran away from her home. I can't remember which one it was but she was later seen being escorted around by an older Asian man in a suit. Witnesses gave a composite sketch and it looked pretty darn scary. After some brief sightings she was never seen again.

A man from Bangledesh named Maffus Huck(sp) disappeared after murdering the boyfriend of some girl named Christy. Wonder if he was ever caught.

Who murdered Tracy Kirkpatrick? Anyone remember that one?

Who was the mysterious person behind the murder confession over the phone to a morning radio show hosted by Kevin & Bean in Los Angeles. Or was it Mark and Brian?

An elderly black man was drifting in and out of stores in a small town in Tennessee. He was clearly lost. Had no idea where he was going. He went into a store and bought some things and told the clerk that he was looking for his wife. She said he looked confused and ill. Something like that. She called the hospital to see if his wife was there and when she told him she wasn't he got in his car and left. His car was later found somewhere abandond but he vanished. People close to him said he would have never left his car like that as it was one of his most prised possesions.

A man who wanted to buy a Dautson Z finally took possesion of one. The car was found out to be stolen or used for drugs. Something like that. He reported it to the police and the car was taken away. A few days later he disappeared. His lunch and school belongings were found in his other car but he was never found. At some point his brother found out the man who sold him the car, had some connection with another man who had been murdered.

A girl who worked delivering pizzas. She was stopped in a road and told by her killer that he had given her the wrong address. When she went to get the pizzas he kidnapped her, leaving pizzas scattered in the road. They caught her killer but he would never tell anyone where he put her body.

A young man who loved to fix motorcycles. He fixed up a harley which his parents didn't like so he said he would sell it. After he fixed it he took it out for a ride where witnesses say he was being bullied by 2 other motorcycle riders. He made a turn and disappeared. The mother talked to people who told her her son was dead. Other people came out and said the same thing, but she wanted to find where her son was.

The story of a woman who began to suffer from some mental illness. I believe it was depression or schizophrenia. Her husband whom I believe his name is Jules, said she was going on a trip to by train but she never returned. I don't believe she was going to visit anyone. He went back and left a note on her car but she never returend. No one knows what happened to her. After some time he took a job in Utah I believe and that was that. To me he didn't look too worried. Old case.

Wow that was a lot. Sorry about all this. If anyone can help me with better descriptions, or if anyone has updates to some of these cases please let me know. Thanks!

Zero

12-01-2003, 03:02 AM

Someone please delete this post. This one was an accident and it's not letting me delete it!

Awsi Dooger

12-01-2003, 03:44 AM

Roswell, Kecksburg, Belgium, Falcon Lake and a couple of others that UM featured. If there were any other-worldly truth to those incidents it would easily surpass solving an Earthly crime, no matter how aged or heinous.

Otherwise, most of my nominees have been mentioned. I would add Dr. Jeffrey McDonald, who I will always believe was wrongly convicted. And it would be interesting to know the exact fate of the Alcatraz escapees. I'm sure they indeed became fish food, but to learn how far they got before the raft gave way and whether any came close to swimming to survival would be intriguing.

Also, regarding an earlier post in this thread, Richard McCoy was D.B. Cooper. Case closed.

FanfromES

12-01-2003, 03:48 PM

--- Im not sure but i think some of the cases mentioned above are already solved:

1)LILMISS. Her killer is waiting sentence

2)the Rest Stop killer in Blind River, Ontario Canada. The killer was captured and he was accused of some other crimes too.

3)the murder confession over the phone to a morning radio show. the call was a hoax.

My 5 cases:

1) Tara Calico case

2) That girl (dont remember her name) who dissapeared in late 70s and is believed to be kidnapped and killed by a biker gang.

3) that boy who went missing in 50s with his father. Now his father is dead so no one knows his whereabouts.

4) Amy Bradley case. The girl who dissapeared from a cruiser boat in Curacao.

5) That woman who got beated and threated all her life, but no one could find her aggresor so the cops thought her wounds were self-inflicted. Finally she was found dead and it seemed she was brutally murdered. Theres a book about her case but i cant remember her name arghhh!!!
:mad:

Composite Sketch

12-01-2003, 06:05 PM

That girl (dont remember her name) who dissapeared in late 70s and is believed to be kidnapped and killed by a biker gang.
Amy Billig
that boy who went missing in 50s with his father. Now his father is dead so no one knows his whereabouts.
Clifford Sherwood
Also, regarding an earlier post in this thread, Richard McCoy was D.B. Cooper. Case closed.
I was the one who mentioned Cooper. What makes you think this? The physical similarities and the similar M.O.?

Big3sCompanyFan

12-02-2003, 12:31 AM

I would like to see the Bigfoot/Sasquatsch mystery solved once and for all. It goes by many other names such as the Yeti in Nepal, the Yeren in China, the Yowie in Austrailia, the Skunk ape in Florida, etc.

There are so many sightings that cross so many cultures you have to think in at least one of the cases it is real.

Dilly

12-02-2003, 01:29 AM

Wow, you guys have brought up so many cases I had forgotten about. Great job!

I would also like to add the one of the 2 or 3 boys found laid out over some train tracks in the woods. What happened to them?

Also, more about Rain boy. They say there might be a movie made of this story but have found almost nothing on the internet.

And the mysterious case of the woman whose husband was found dead yet he began speaking to another man who his killer was. His wife believed him yet not enough evidence against the man named.

The case of the young man who wanted to go back out to deposit his paycheck at the ATM yet was found dead later. The pictures captured a strange man peeking over his shoulder but never identified.

Also, the road rage guy who shot a man after a miner traffic accident. The man made it home and gave a brief description to his wife and police before he died.

And the woman who was shot by a man in a truck on a lonely road. He was taunting her as well as other vehicles. She survived but he was never caught.

Whew! These cases are always in my head. I WANT A SOLUTION !:eek:

johnnyphantom

12-03-2003, 12:14 PM

For me, it would definately be the Deborah Poe case. She was the young lady who disappeared from a Circle K in Orlando Florida. This was the same case where supposedly, there was a man in the store wearing a MEGADETH shirt after Deborah was last seen.

This is the case I would solve if I could.

http://www.geocities.com/whereisdeborahpoe/

Johnny Phantom

Bluejay

12-05-2003, 03:55 PM

No question. The Korzilius murder.

The tiny mummy found in a cave in the southwest, with a possible connection to Indian legends about a race of little people.

As others have mentioned, the elderly black man who wandered around seeming not to know what was going on and finally disappeared.

The murder of the yeshivah student.

And the one they never did and should have, Little Miss 1565 from the Hartford circus fire in '44. She was prematurely identified as Eleanor "Honey" Cook and buried in the Cook family plot along with Honey's brother Eddie, but their mom always maintained that the girl in the famous photograph is not Honey, and she died a couple of years ago believing that Honey was yet to be found. Also, 1565's and Honey's dental records don't match.

Awsi Dooger

12-09-2003, 04:39 AM

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67888

I posted it here earlier this year, to some disagreement, after viewing a Discovery Channel program that theorized McCoy as Cooper. It was so convincing that I read the most relevant book on the connection, "D.B. Cooper, the Real McCoy." After finishing that book, I am certain that only one man was responsible for both incidents. Most of the relevant facts linking McCoy to the Cooper jump are listed in my previous thread.

Generally, I dismiss conspiracy theories as creative nonsense. But when a conspiracy is real and undeniable, I believe it is almost always more basic and with fewer people involved than is typically accepted. Two remarkably similar but unrelated skyjackings in such a small window of time is a thousand fold more unlikely than one individual responsible for both, IMO

gaf

12-09-2003, 02:47 PM

dynoguy88, I've read several posts on this board about the case you mentioned. (Maples) Every one of them mentioned how scary the update music was. I've seen it on UM several times, but it's been a long time since I last saw it and I couldn't remember the music that went along with it. Until today. I came across a post that typed out how the music went, and it all came back to me. Now I've got that music in my head.

I'd like to solve any of the child kidnapping cases because those are the most depressing. Another case I want solved is the one of the convenience store employee who was killed. The security camera caught the intruder on video. He had some kind of lumpy back. Anyone remember that? I think it was from the 1994-1995 season. He took the employee into the back room. A customer happened to come by for gas, and the intruder heard the bell that rang. The intruder thought it was a security bell and shot the employee. That one has always made me angry every time I see it.

Either that or the I-70 serial killer since I live in the general area he's struck.

dynoguy88

12-09-2003, 03:49 PM

LOL! Sorry that you have the freaky music stuck in your head, gaf.

It really does add to the effect of the creepyness of the case especially when you combine it with Robert Stack's voice.

I wish there was some way we could get all the different UM background music on a CD. It would be perfect to play around Halloween for the trick-or-treaters.

crookshanks

12-15-2003, 09:32 AM

Amelia Earhart-even though I think she was killed on a small island

yeshiva student

Composite Sketch

12-15-2003, 10:44 AM

Originally posted by gaf
Another case I want solved is the one of the convenience store employee who was killed. The security camera caught the intruder on video. He had some kind of lumpy back. Anyone remember that? I think it was from the 1994-1995 season. He took the employee into the back room. A customer happened to come by for gas, and the intruder heard the bell that rang. The intruder thought it was a security bell and shot the employee. That one has always made me angry every time I see it.

Yup. I believe that was aired in late 1995. I remember thinking that the 'lumpy back' was investigators trying to seek out anything to give them some sort of clue as to the killer. That case is one of the reasons why security camera footage creeps me out.

Hey, speaking of scary music, one sound byte is constantly in my head now. I can't even beging to describe it, but it was used frequently in the 'Diabolical Minds' episode, and it's the music played when the Rogers family's bodies were found and recovered in Tampa Bay.

gaf

12-15-2003, 05:16 PM

After I posted my comment, I checked to see when it aired. (Real smart, huh?) It first aired January 5, 1996. The murder happened in 1994.

The security camera footage in that segment was disturbing, but it had nothing on the Matthew Chase segment. That was eerie.

I don't remember the music that went along with the segment on the Tampa Bay murders. I'm kind of glad I don't!

canadianmysterygrl

12-16-2003, 08:15 PM

I want to know what happened to Adam and Elaina Emery.
This is killing me.

burmaslave

12-27-2003, 09:26 PM

1. I always wanted to know what happened to Amy Billig. There were just so many peculiar things involved with the case. How she was "mute," Paul Branche's death bed confession saying Amy was fed to alligators in the everglades, and the strange phone calls Amy's mother got for 21 years from some stalker saying he knew what really happened to Amy. Finally the guy was caught in 1995. His name was Henry Johnson Blair.

Also, on the UM segment about Amy Billig's case was something about a biker in England trying to sell a girl to a man at a bus station or train depot. Atleast, that's where I think it occured at, I'm not 100% sure. For some reason, it was thought that that girl might have been Amy.

2. Amy Wroe Betchel. Something about her husband seemed a bit off. He also had many notebooks filled with rather incriminating evidence. I believe he also wrote a poem about killing someone and hiding the body so that it would never be found.

Also, someone camping in the woods near the area where Amy was jogging thought they saw a truck resembling Amy's husband's truck with a blonde women (Amy was blonde) in the passenger seat.

burmaslave

12-27-2003, 10:16 PM

I wish I had more information on this one. It was about a bank robber who came in early when the bank first opened. He took one of the tellers and handcuffed her inside the vault. Then another teller came in and he had her help him put a lot of cash into a bag or briefcase, I guess. Possibly, the second women who came in was the one handcuffed, but that's kind of trivial information.

Somehow one of the women contacted the police, and the robber let one of the women go. I forgot what happened to the other women, but I think she was the handcuffed one in the vault.

He also did something to the alarm buttons or door handles, if I recall correctly. He used either tape or glue to cause them not to stick or something.

And the night before, someone threw a rock at the bank window and shattered a lot of glass. Investigators thought that it was the bank robber testing the alarm system.

Then the guy disappeared. The women in the vault said she heard a lot of noises from above, possibly in the air ducts. Well, when all this was explained, a commercial came on and when UM returned, they were doing a new case.

I'm not sure if there was just an accident and the part that revealed what happened to the robber was taken out or if there wasn't anything more to the segment.

I'm just so fascinated that he seemingly vanished into thin air when the bank was surrounded by law enforcement.

kytheria

12-30-2003, 05:26 AM

There are so many I would love to see solved (murder of Cindy James, Kristi and Bobby Baskin's kidnapping, Judith Himes' disappearance, what happened to Mary Agnes Gross, Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman's disappearance), but the one that's never left my mind is the longtime torment of the Wackers. It really bothers me that these poor people have been living in fear for so long. I want to know what apparent motive someone would have for terrorizing an elderly couple, and how it is he/she/they never got caught.

Mijada

12-30-2003, 12:32 PM

The Clifford Sherwood case bothered me. I'd like to see him reunited with his mom before she dies.
The Amy Bradley segment got to me too. Hopefully that one will be solved soon. There is still a lot of publicity about that case.

MsCooper

09-25-2006, 01:10 AM

For personal reasons I would like for the D.B. Cooper jump of 1971 to be investigated for obvious reason.

LooksLikeCRicci

09-25-2006, 02:11 PM

I have several cases I would like to see a resolution to. Most have been mentioned:

1. Adam Emery (technically, we KNOW what happened to Elena...)
2. Katherine Korzilius
3. Wendy Camp
4. Charlotte Polis
5. Patricia Meehan
6. The I-70 Killer
7. Rachel Runyon
8. Amy Bechtel
9. Angela Hammond
10. Amy Bradley
11. Dexter Stelfonik (butchered that one-- the little man who was driving from Wisconsin to Washington and was found dead near Glendive, MT.)
12. The disappearance of the two priests under similar circumstances.
13. Cindy James
14. Tami Lynn Leppert
15. Nyleen Kay Marshall

I could go on forever, but those are on my "Greatest Hits" list.

SP4CE INV4DERZ

09-25-2006, 06:24 PM

I guess any of the ones that leave me thinking "WTF?!?!!?" and the most recent one to do that was Blair Adams. Thing is, the answer is probably something simple but we just can't see it. Maybe he just looked at someone the wrong way and got king hit, or maybe not :eek:

Dislimb

09-25-2006, 06:49 PM

Ashley Freeman and Laura Bible. That case is just too weird.

Bazorro

09-26-2006, 12:37 AM

greatgarrett2

09-26-2006, 12:58 AM

I would like to see what happened to Gordon Page...

His parents left him at that home or half way house, whatever you want to call it and they never saw him again. Im sure they are regretting that everyday of their lives, if they are still alive.

I would like to give his parents some closure on this case.

I'll have to agree on that one....

Also, Elizabeth Campbell, DB Cooper and the Zodiac Killer I would like to see solved.....and, let's not forget the East Area Rapist. I want to know what happened to the EAR. Is he in another juristiction, dead or disabled? Or, is he simply incarcerated for another crime? We may never know.....

Gozerjr

09-28-2006, 10:28 PM

1) James J. "Whitey" Bulger
2) Wendy Camp
3) Cilfford Shorewood
4) Amy Bechtel
5) The goo that rained down on that town in the northwest

And, even though it wasnt featured on UM, I'd love to have the mystery of my third cousins disapearance. His name is Arden Bogart Jr and can be seen on the Doe Network here (http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/1160dmnm.html)

colt45allstar

09-29-2006, 01:36 AM

So many come to mind.

I guess if only choosing one, it would be Angela Hammond since it happened here in Missouri.

boco357

09-29-2006, 04:13 PM

1.Boys on the tracks
2.Jeremy Bright
3.Gordon Page
4.Tommy Burkett

archy

09-29-2006, 06:06 PM

One that'd be a real *Rosetta Stone* would be the Marilyn Monroe death. Unravel everything connected to it, and you'd have related tangents on the JFK assassination, RFK's murder [also in Los Angeles], Hoffa [the bugs and wiretaps on Monroe's phone, placed and taped by Teamster phone technician Bernie Spindel, and very likely even the Black Dahlia murder [see the details of Monroe's rape by an LAPD detective and her subsequent abortions, reputed to have been at least 12, well before they were legalized via Roe vs Wade.]

Copies of the Monroe/Kennedy tapes were also believed to have been among the *family jewels* kept by J Edgar Hoover in his *personal and confidential* files, until his own death on 2 May 1972... Just before his private hunting lodge burned to the ground. Hoover's death was listed as hypertensive cardiovascular diseasethough his personal physician of more than 20 years said that Hoover did not have any heart disease of which he was cognizant. And no autopsy was performed on Hoover's body.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/forensics/james_starrs_profile/9.html

MsCooper

10-05-2006, 12:59 AM

The suicide or murder of Dorthy Kilgallen the writer who interviewed Jack Ruby ( the man who killed Oswald). She had found some interesting information - her suicide was staged (her reading glasses were in the other room and she had already read the book that was with her in the bed - she was fully clothed - this was not her habit). She had information regarding Mafia and government involvement and her references to the Ferret Man to associaties and friends - she was very disturbed regarding her findings...then she dies??????????? If a writer is holding on to the story of a life time, she doesn't kill herself with drugs and it was a know fact that she did not take any of these drugs nor were they prescribed to her by her physician.

Who was the Ferret man? I know who the Ferret man was - he was Mouse. J. Egar Hoover also knew who Mouse was. Along with the D.B. Cooper case and John Kennedy and Martin Luther King - these crimes will never be solved as long as certain individuals are alive - sometime around 2034, the truth may be known - and then forgotten. That is how long the files have been sealed for. Knowing our government these files will be destroyed before they are unsealed.

Patti Garner

10-10-2006, 05:05 PM

That's easy. If I could only solve one mystery, it would be the mystery of Gordon Page, Jr. I still have a difficult time watching this episode; it's heartbreaking. As a parent, I cannot imagine going 15 years without knowing what has happened to my child -- let alone a special needs child.

I really wish we could help this family find out what happened to their baby boy!!! :(

kadrmas15

10-24-2006, 11:06 PM

Well for me a few come up. The Florida gas station abductions and the Missouri abductions of Angela Hammond as well the two women that work at gas stations. I believe all 6 could be related. They certainly do match up for the most part. I do think Kenneth McDuff could have been involved even though it was unlikely he was actually involved. I do think it is possible though the same person or persons could have done all 6 of these abductions they do all fit the same basic pattern. However while Kenneth McDuff did not match the description of Hammond's abductor his accomplice Alva Hank Worley did match that description. However the time line doesnt fit for some of the Florida abductions since Kenneth McDuff was not paroled from Texas until October of 1989. It is certainly possible though that all 6 of these killings could be related as they all took place from August of 1989 to April of 1991.

noah82

10-26-2006, 10:45 PM

Angela Hammond
Doc and Babe Noss, Victorio Peak

compulsive dvd

10-27-2006, 03:27 AM

Chaim Weiss, Bryan Nisenfeld and the Mac Computer Theft/Murder with Tom Johnson. It's amazing how so many of these cases drive us nuts. It's really strange not having 10 UM eps on my tivo each week.

CanadianUMFan

07-05-2007, 02:26 AM

#3 The young woman who disappeared on Sept. 10, 2001 near the WTC

I never saw this case. You are saying that a young woman disappeared a day before 9/11 at the World Trade Center??? Now that is truly bizarre!

wiseguy182

07-05-2007, 03:27 AM

You'll have to speak a little louder there, CanadianUMfan. Maniaguy6 hasn't posted here in 2 years.

However, I can answer that question for you. Yes, a woman did in fact disappear in NYC on 9.10.06. Dr. Sheha Phillps. This appears to be one of the more popular newer segments.

kamy

07-05-2007, 10:27 AM

Yeah, Dr. Sneha Phillips was a strange one. I always thought the hubby was a little strange. Anyway, what's our theories on that one?

This may not seem like a popular one to want to solve if you could only solve one, but I would love to find or know what happened to Gordon Page Jr. but I've made that no secret. In fact I may have already posted it here. Oops :p

Titan826

07-05-2007, 01:36 PM

Sneha Philip
Amy Bradley
Jeremy Bright
The California Serial Rapist/Murderer
If there was a connection between Unabomber/Zodiac

StackAttack

07-05-2007, 11:19 PM

Cindy James.

also...
Anthonette Cayedito
The Zodiac Killer
find Tommy Gibson

lastly...
Hi. I've been lurking for a few months. After catching a late night rerun of UM (the one with Tommy Gibson and Arthur Paul Beal/Tyler), I remembered back to many nights as a kid, watching UM and America's Most Wanted and knowing for sure that the wanted person was right outside my bedroom window. I'm not so creeped out now -- ok, maybe a little -- because I'm sure half those fugitives are hiding out here in NYC... Anyway, catching that show rekindled my love of UM and true crime. So here I am!

supersally1974

07-07-2007, 09:31 AM

If I had the power to solve one case, my pick would be the Tara Calico case.

Errr... but then again, there's the cases of

Keith Warren
The whole octopus conspiracy (Danny Casolaro)
Charles Morgan
Bike Path Rapist
Kathy Hobbs
Joyce McClain
Elizabeth Campbell

This might sound very cheesy, :rolleyes: but I still harvest a weird fantasy that in the "after life", we get to find out what happened to all the people featured on Unsolved Mysteries. Yes, I plan on bringing my obsession about this show beyond the grave. :crazy:

wiseguy182

07-07-2007, 04:30 PM

crystaldawn

07-07-2007, 05:10 PM

Hi. I've been lurking for a few months. After catching a late night rerun of UM (the one with Tommy Gibson and Arthur Paul Beal/Tyler), I remembered back to many nights as a kid, watching UM and America's Most Wanted and knowing for sure that the wanted person was right outside my bedroom window. I'm not so creeped out now -- ok, maybe a little -- because I'm sure half those fugitives are hiding out here in NYC... Anyway, catching that show rekindled my love of UM and true crime. So here I am!

Cool username...welcome to the board! :wave:

LooksLikeCRicci

07-07-2007, 07:17 PM

I was actually a big fan of StackAttack's avatar....

Crack is whack, yo.... :D

ididn'tdoit

07-08-2007, 12:48 PM

I'll stick with Tara Calico and the photo as I mentioned in an earlier post, but I'd like to add Nyleen Kay Marshall to my list, though I'm pretty sure she has already been mentioned... Oh, and Angela Hammond, too many to just pick one, gosh darn it! :lol:

kamy

07-12-2007, 03:21 PM

This might sound very cheesy, :rolleyes: but I still harvest a weird fantasy that in the "after life", we get to find out what happened to all the people featured on Unsolved Mysteries. Yes, I plan on bringing my obsession about this show beyond the grave. :crazy:

That so isn't crazy, I think about that too. I thought about when Holly Krewson's mother, Amy Billigs mother, and Nyleen Kay Marshall's mom died they would finally know what happened to their daughters. I totally will be hunting people down on the otherside saying "What happened to you?"
:crazy: :lol:

CanadianUMFan

07-12-2007, 05:53 PM

That so isn't crazy, I think about that too. I thought about when Holly Krewson's mother, Amy Billigs mother, and Nyleen Kay Marshall's mom died they would finally know what happened to their daughters. I totally will be hunting people down on the otherside saying "What happened to you?"
:crazy: :lol:

If that is the case, Robert Stack now knows the answers to all of these mysteries that he spoke about. ;)

cuba_libre

07-12-2007, 06:56 PM

I'd love to know the truth behind what really happened with Keith Warren's death. Such a sad story....

Another one, ol' skool, would be to find Judith Himes' body. She's the lady who disappeared after an illegal abortion.

KrisBee

06-26-2008, 05:27 PM

I'm probably extremely late on talking about this...

One case I would love to solve is the Tarah Leigh Calico case. This case has always intrigued me. I wasn't born when her abduction happened, but I've read countless stories about what happened. I now live just a few miles from where she was abducted and it gives me the creeps. The picture of her and the little boy bound and gagged seems like it's her. I feel so sad everytime I see or hear about it.

I would love to solve to see this mystery solved. Her mom has since passed away and I hope now in the after life she has figured out what happened to her daughter or maybe she's with her...:(

alfiechat

06-26-2008, 07:22 PM

Where did you hear that the Blind River Rest stop murders was solved? I keep checking and cannot find any evidence to that effect

kirbivore

06-27-2008, 02:32 AM

I want to know if those 2 French pilots really crashed in Maine and beat Lindberg in crossing the Atlantic first.

MegtheEgg86

06-27-2008, 02:02 PM

If I had to choose just one, it would be Kevin Ives and Don Henry. I've never been able to get that case out of my head. All the secrecy and double-speak surrounding it (via the authorities) infuriates me. With all the evidence that's been garnered over the past 20 years, there is absolutely no way in hell the killer of those boys is still unknown.

But Chaim Weiss (yeshiva student), Tammi Lynn Leppert, Kristy and Bobby Baskin, and Tommy Burkett make it into my top five.

Cori aka ChrisSCrush

06-28-2008, 04:51 AM

Probably JonBenét. I know which theory I believe but want to know how close it is to correct.

Corky Kneivel

07-01-2008, 10:55 AM

I would DEFINITELY pick the EAR/ONS case. This case has been bugging me for the past 2 years ever since I learned that the original crimes happened just around the corner from my house. I've gathered and viewed about as much info. as I can on this case, with the exception of the Cold Case Files episode that I keep missing, and I can't help but think that the answers are there...

My picks after that would be the Black Dahlia and Jack the Ripper (he was never on UM, right?)

The Barbs

07-01-2008, 11:39 AM

I can't believe noone has said the case of The Wackers! :D

videohunter

07-01-2008, 03:28 PM

the following segments have always intrigued me the most..and here r 10 segments i would love to solve or see solved and my opinion on them

1) - tony lombardi = always been interested in this segment and feel he was definitely murdered, no question..

2) - tammy lynn leppert = poor girl, although i do believe she was murdered, it was more a victim of random abduction/violence , but do to her mental breakdown/condition people thought it was connected to something, i don't believe it was

3) - jeremy bright = hope the family finds closure they need, i'm sure the poor kid is indeed buried somewhere in MP

4) - oliver munson = obviously he was murdered because of his enevitable testifying in the car theft ring

5) - blind rover rest stop = hope one day they catch this guy

6) - kurt sova = what happened to kurt ?, unfortunatly i don't think we'll eva know

7) - gordon page jr. = this one baffles me as i have read intersting theories on what happened to him...i do feel he too is dead....with todays technology and the word of mouth and the UM segment and websites, i do feel if he was in a mental facility somewhere he would have been identified...

8) - Gus Hoffman = where is his body ?, sadly we will probably never find out, he was obviously murdered by forgotten few motorcycle gang...

9) - Kurt Mcfall = i don't for a second feel he fell off that cliff i think he was pushed...

10) - Chad Mauer = sad truth here sometimes unfortunatly u never know what ur kids r really doing ...ended up in a chicage housing project, victim of violence due to perhaps drugs , money or the transport of them....

and although thankfully solved the Lisa marie kimmel case always stuck with me and is like others just heartbreaking, what an angelic looking girl, soo glad the guy was caught and prosecuted..i feel for the family...

MissFit29

05-22-2009, 06:49 PM

I've got a few more to add to the list:

1. George Owens.

2. Norman Ladner

3. Aileen Conway

I'd still like to know where Audrey Moate came to rest. Chances are, she was most liked killed the same day as Thomas Hotard.

Clockworkhigh

05-25-2009, 05:23 PM

Tara Colico - Just because that supposed picture of her tied up haunts me and her family deserves to know what happened to her

Angela Hammond - Oh to be a fly on the wall to find out the truth behind this one (I do think she was abducted but I'd like to know by who or where)

I can't remember their names off the top of my head but the motehr and two daughters who went on a vacation in Florida and then vanished

Norman Ladner - He saw something IMO that he shouldnt have

Scott Johnson - pretty much the same thing with Norman Ladner, that was no accident

George Owens - How can they not have found an 87 year old man if he had apparently just wandered off?

VikingsGal

05-25-2009, 09:11 PM

Circleville Letters!!!

And the Wackers.

browneyes106

05-25-2009, 10:46 PM

There are a lot I wish I could solved
Keith Warren's death
Amy Bradley
Jodi Bordeaux's murder
Tara Calico
Circleville Letters

TracyLynnS

05-25-2009, 11:33 PM

I can't remember their names off the top of my head but the motehr and two daughters who went on a vacation in Florida and then vanished

Clockwork, Is this case the Rogers family? It happened around 1989. The mom and her two daughters (Christie, 14 and Michelle, 18) were in florida on their first vacation. Dad stayed home in ohio to tend the family farm.

It turned out that they were abducted by Oba Chandler, under the guise of giving tourists a ride in his boat so they could see the bay. He then raped and murdered them all, throwing their bodies overboard (possibly alive) tied to cement blocks to impede their discovery, and likely to insure their deaths by drowning.

He's been sentenced to death in Florida. The murders happened 20 years ago, and he's a repeat offender. I don't know if his execution has been scheduled yet.

In 2006, Relief was denied (I'm guessing a stay of execution was denied or this was another appeal that was shot down) on “claim that his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to move a second time for a change of venue.”

Here's his dept of corrections page. He's got a bit of a rap sheet going. And has a history of re-offending within a few short years after each release from prison:

1/14/1976 - 10 year sentence, out in 5 months, 5/10/1977

6/5/1984 - Out in 2 1/1 years, 12/12/1986 (killed the Rogers family 2 1/2 years after being released)

7/23/1993 - convicted of armed robbery with deadly weapon, sentenced to 15 years

10/13/1994 - convicted of possession of firearm by felon, sentenced to 10 years

11/4/1994 - finally sentenced to death for the murders of the 3 Rogers family members.

http://www.dc.state.fl.us/ActiveInmates/Detail.asp?Bookmark=1&From=list&SessionID=414152426

themaninblack

05-28-2009, 01:17 PM

i would like to see this one solved because of what they put this man and his family through as well as Doug Johnson who was the victim of mistaken identity.

alfiechat

05-28-2009, 02:46 PM

I cannot limit myself to one, but here goes my list...

Oliver Munson's disappearance
Tommy Ziegler
Cindy James
Circleville letters
I 70 killer
Norman Ladner
Nyleen Kay Marshall(and her mother's subsequent Murder. I am sorry, I know it was labeled a suicide by the local authorities, but that is utter bull...)

That is all for right now.

MissFit29

05-28-2009, 08:28 PM

i would like to see this one solved because of what they put this man and his family through as well as Doug Johnson who was the victim of mistaken identity.

Danny Casolaro was also tied into this mystery.

If this one is solved, it could potentially solve 3 murders.

88keys

05-29-2009, 06:33 PM

Kait Arquette. I have been a fan of Lois Duncan since I was 14 and have followed the case for years. The boys on the tracks would be a close second. These cases intruige/infuriate me because, while we have a pretty good idea of what happened, the bureacracy, cover-ups, and lies keep justice from truly being served.

Others would be Circleville Letters, Jon-Benet Ramsey... and the Gelatinous Goo. Just because it's weird and because I love saying "gelatinous goo." :)

Mysteryphile

06-02-2009, 07:07 AM

Hi everyone! This is my first post, so hope I am doing this right! I have been reading the threads for quite awhile now, and finally decided to sign up today.

There are so many cases I would like to see solved--the Dakota Double Deaths, Cindy James, Megan Curl and...I cant think of the ladies name...but her ex-husband's seriously no good family dropped her, her friend, and her daughter off at a Wal-mart and they were never seen again. The case isnt really a mystery, the ex and his family obviously did it...but I would like to see justice done.

But the number one case I would solve if I could would be the case of Jeremy Bright. I have a five year old son and if something were to ever happen to him, I just wouldn't want to go on. I feel so sorry for the family and would like the case solved so that they can finally know for sure what happened.

TracyLynnS

06-02-2009, 10:38 AM

and...I cant think of the ladies name...but her ex-husband's seriously no good family dropped her, her friend, and her daughter off at a Wal-mart and they were never seen again. The case isnt really a mystery, the ex and his family obviously did it...but I would like to see justice done.

That's Wendy Camp, her daughter and sister in law. The no good ex husband is Chad Noe.

And you're right, there's no mystery to who did that one.

If you read through the threads on that case, Wendy's sister posted here about a year ago. Chad's mom and grandma went to prison for an arson but they only did about 6 months. Wendy's sister has pictures of them in their bright orange prison outfits posted. Prison Orange is definitely their color..

Mysteryphile

06-02-2009, 11:17 AM

Ha! Thanks for letting me know Tracey! I will definatly be checking that thread out! I am sort of amazed the grandma is still spry enough to commit arson. lol

TracyLynnS

06-02-2009, 12:09 PM

Ha! Thanks for letting me know Tracey! I will definatly be checking that thread out! I am sort of amazed the grandma is still spry enough to commit arson. lol

Yep, I think the arson was only about 2 years ago. Those are some elderly felons.

uncleslappy38

06-11-2009, 11:34 AM

There are several that I would love to be solved.

Angel Hammond is probably #1.

Followed closely by Cynthia Anderson and Tracy Kirkpatrick.

Ayleen Conway, the Friends 'Til the End kids on the railroad tracks segment, Patricia Meehan, the man killed at the power plant in Ohio, and Dale Kerstetter are all honorable mentions.

TheGraveDigger

10-25-2009, 12:55 AM

The case I want most solved is the ghost blimp

It freaks me out how 2 guys just vanish in thin air even tho eye witness accounts saw 2 guys in the gondala they just jumped out

And the second most case I want solved is Rhonda Hinson

liv1527

10-30-2009, 11:28 PM

I'd like to see a resolution to the Glen and Bessie Hyde case, Angela Hammonds, Kurt Sova, Jeremy Bright, Dottie Caylor, Wendy Camp, Patsy Wright, the boys on the track, and the Zodiac.

Mastermind

10-31-2009, 03:18 PM

and the Zodiac.

You may get your wish. (Fingers crossed)

MissFit29

11-01-2009, 01:53 PM

You may get your wish. (Fingers crossed)

I just saw a promo on the history channel about the Zodiac...is that what you're referring to Mastermind?

Mastermind

11-01-2009, 04:16 PM

I just saw a promo on the history channel about the Zodiac...is that what you're referring to Mastermind?

I don't know about the special. But the top suspect, Richard Gaikowski is being DNA tested.

VikingsGal

11-02-2009, 08:21 PM

Circleville letters!!!

Big3sCompanyFan

11-03-2009, 10:41 AM

It would have to be the ghost/supernatural stuff they've featured so we could settle once and for all if there really is a spirit world and afterlife.

Next would be all the UFO/alien cases so we can know once and for all if alien life has visited earth.

The Zodiac, I-70 murders, and Springfield 3 would also be very interesting in finding out who the perps are.

SageSlowdive

06-10-2010, 06:17 PM

I'd love to be able to solve all the mysteries, but since I'm not psychic, here's which ones would make me incredibly happy to be solved:

1. Angela Hammond - I don't think any UM fan wouldn't name this one.
2. Blind River Killer - Even though it more then likely was Ronald Glenn West.
3. Shena Phillips - Even though it probably was a result of 9/11.
4. Deborah Poe - Just like Angela Hammond....needs to be solved.
5. The Orange Sock Murders - I can't believe this one still hasn't been solved.

Breakaway

06-10-2010, 07:14 PM

Her parents are now in their mid 80's and I would like to see them get justice before they die.

clead23

06-13-2010, 12:29 AM

Did Anyone mention my #1 which is "Was it Fred Or Ced"?

Also the case where the family house burnt down and killed the two sisters but the brother survived and police suspected him... I cant remember his name.. I think is Donnie Hanson or something like that

MegtheEgg86

06-13-2010, 12:49 AM

Also the case where the family house burnt down and killed the two sisters but the brother survived and police suspected him... I cant remember his name.. I think is Donnie Hanson or something like that

Yeah, it was Donnie. His half-sisters' names were Jill and Julie Hanson.

clead23

06-13-2010, 01:05 AM

Thanks Meg! Wasnt sure

mozartpc27

06-13-2010, 11:46 AM

Chaim Weiss. I'm surprised only one other poster mentioned this case (compulsiveDVD), and that over four years ago.

If I could only solve one, this is the clear choice. Brutal slaying of a young boy in the most unlikely of settings. No reason he should be dead. No suspects. Was it someone from inside the school or outside? No one can really say for sure.

This one keeps me up at night.

Smokescreen

06-13-2010, 01:23 PM

The Zodiac

conservativejoe

06-14-2010, 07:26 PM

rachael runyan

Corky Kneivel

06-14-2010, 07:42 PM

Fertility Statues

MegtheEgg86

06-14-2010, 08:05 PM

How one rock can have all the elements of nature in it.

mozartpc27

06-14-2010, 10:12 PM

Fertility Statues

:lol:

Fletch

06-17-2010, 02:26 PM

Tammy Leppart
Nyleen Kay Marshall

yellowVWchase

06-17-2010, 02:49 PM

The Wackers
Escape from Alcatraz
Debra Poe - "you really shouldn't smoke, you know."
The Circleville Letters - "the joke is on you. Ha ha."

MissFit29

06-17-2010, 04:35 PM

Lisa Ziegert. There's someone who was giving every day to students, and then ends up being kidnapped and murdered. Just cruel.

Mastermind

06-17-2010, 09:18 PM

C'mon, deep down..we really only care about solving the below:

1. Zodiac Killer
2. JFK, RFK and MLK's assasinations.
3. Jon Benet Ramsey murder

Though admittedly I would destroy a couple of major literary and documentary industries by solving those cases.:D

You could actually make an argument that for some of the UM cases...we DO have the power to solve them.

Gelatinous Goo

06-17-2010, 11:19 PM

C'mon, deep down..we really only care about solving the below:

We.... is that like a "royal we", also known as a "Bruces we"? (There is somebody on an unrelated message board who always refers to himself as "we". His name is Bruce, but due to this tendency, we call him "The Bruces"!)

To get back on track, from your list, I would replace JonBenet with D.B. Cooper. There are so many cases of murdered people. There is only one unsolved airplane hijacking. And, as I'm sure you'd agree, I would also like to add EAR/ONS, as somebody else has already mentioned.:lol:

plmkr88

06-26-2010, 12:20 AM

I would want someone to find their child if I only had one choice.

I think Amy Billigs parents are now passed, but maybe someone like Adam Hecht. I'd like him to be found an returned to his family. If Hecht's parents have passed, then another one of the children lost or abducted.

As for a fugitive from justice, I think without a doubt it would be Brad Bishop who murdered his entire family.

As far as general popular mystery...I think I'd go with the final truth behind the JFK assassination. Get that issue resolved once and for all.

alfiechat

06-26-2010, 08:09 AM

I would like to see Dub Wackerhagen found so we can figure out what really happened the night of his former live in's murder.

I would also love to find Oliver Munson and Charles Southern.

mozartpc27

06-26-2010, 11:22 AM

C'mon, deep down..we really only care about solving the below:

I assume this is the royal we?

2. JFK, RFK and MLK's assasinations.

Solved, solved, and solved. Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, and James Earl Ray.

mozartpc27

06-26-2010, 01:19 PM

I already nominated Chaim Weiss, and if I could solve only one, that would be it.

But, if I had a second choice, I think I would pick Frederick Valentich. It's the only UFO case that holds any interest for me, because, unlike all the others, which basically come down to whether you believe the witness who says what s/he saw, in this case something concrete did happen: Frederick Valentich and his plane went up, but apparently never came down.

I am sure the explanation is more prosaic than that, but I'd sure love to know what it is.

MegtheEgg86

06-26-2010, 05:53 PM

Solved, solved, and solved. Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, and James Earl Ray.

:clap

Thank you--there really IS someone out there that didn't take that damned Oliver Stone movie as law and subsequently questioned every other assassination of the 1960s.

SageSlowdive

06-26-2010, 08:54 PM

Every famous murder or tragedy will always have it's nay sayers.

Gelatinous Goo

06-26-2010, 11:35 PM

The true Fifth Beatle is the Lindbergh baby. Judge Crater arranged it all. Keep it hush-hush.

mozartpc27

06-27-2010, 04:59 PM

:clap

Thank you--there really IS someone out there that didn't take that damned Oliver Stone movie as law and subsequently questioned every other assassination of the 1960s.

I mean, Sirhan Sirhan shot RFK in front of an entire room full of witnesses, and was subdued and arrested while still in the act... and yet people want to claim he was somehow set up? Holy frijoles, Batman.

Love A Good Mystery

08-22-2010, 09:45 PM

Maybe this has been posted elsewhere, but the Maple children were found in CA within the past few years. I remember that the kids' grandmother had died, but grandpa was facing charges.

I also seem to recall that last I heard, the kidnapped kids did not want to see their parents. You have to respect and honor the kids' wishes and privacy, but after reading that update, I was left wondering wonder why they feel that way.

what would it be? I'm reffering to any case featured on Unsolved Mysteries. Has there ever been a story they showed that really got to you? One that you just wish you could solve?

Well, let's say you have been given the magic power to solve ONE mystery. What would it be?

For me, there are 100's, but there is one that gets me every time. And every time I see it rebroadcast on Lifetime, I hope pray that it has been solved, and then, I am dissapointed to see that it still hasn't.

It was a "Missing Persons" case that was shown, I think the 3rd season of UM. (Remember how a couple posters stated how scary the update music on UM is (The one that starts by ZOOM... Da da!!!) The poster said, this was the background music for the kidnapped grand children case... this is EXACTLY tha case I want solved)

The case I am referring to is the one about the grandparents (Sandra and Marvin Maple) that lied and told a judge that two of their grandchildren, Kristi and Bobby had been sexually abused by their parents (the Maple's daughter and her husband, I forgot their names). The court awarded the Maples temporary custody of the kids while an investigation started, and during that time, the Maples ran off with Kristi and Bobby and have not been seen since. They have all been missing since March of 1989. Within minutes of the first UM broadcast, some information was given on their where abouts with 2 pictures of Kristi and Bobby swimming (you know, the update with the scary background music) but nothing else has developed since.

I don't understand how the Maples could get away all this time and STILL not be found. I want them locked up so bad, I can't stand it. And at the same time, I feel so badly for the parents. Well, anyone who has seen this case can tell how upset they were.

I found this link on a missing person's web-site, it has all their pictures, and what Kristi and Bobby would look like today....

http://www.missingkids.com/cgi-bin/dbmlparser.exe?casenumber=721027&DBMLFILE=poster.dbml&postertype=c1c2a1a2&language=1&orgcode=1

Love A Good Mystery

08-22-2010, 09:54 PM

Perhaps you know this, kirbivore, and I certainly don't mean to insult you (or anyone else's intelligence in only my third post), but, according to a great book my husband got me for Christmas called "The 20th Century" (which was published in 1995 or 1996 -- go figure :), what made Lindberg's accomplishment so significant, is that he did it ALONE. Lots of folks working in teams of two or more, (well, OK, at least some :) had crossed the Atlantic by the time Lindberg finally did it by himself.

I want to know if those 2 French pilots really crashed in Maine and beat Lindberg in crossing the Atlantic first.

soilentgreen

08-22-2010, 11:57 PM

Solved, solved, and solved. Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, and James Earl Ray.

Agreed; some people just don't want to buy into the idea that three inadequate losers could create such havoc. No one attaches conspiracies to Charles Guiteau's or Leon Czoglosz's actions (although there still is absurd debate about Booth and his fate -- that one UM episode).

Definitely would like to see EAR/ONS and I -70 killer solved, in part because there's the likelihood these guys have average lives and families who know nothing about their brutality. Also Aileen Conway, just to know exactly what the hell happened, Judy Smith, Nyleen Marshall and Amy Billig.

SageSlowdive

09-02-2010, 08:40 PM

DALLASTEXAN!!

09-05-2010, 10:07 PM

I'd love to see all crimes solved, but that's wishful thinking...

Obviously many people have named the Blind River Killer (COUGHRonaldGlennWestCOUGH), so I'll say Angela Hammond. Who knows whatever happened to her....
those are good ones. I think any UM murder or missing person case is tough because you know there is a low life at large who might be among us. and you feel for the victim(s). I know the blind river case is very tough because I think everyone can relate to that case. And the gentleman strikes me as a tough person to survive and be able to face his story that well.

A case that really bothers me that I want to see solved is the bordello murders. I feel like the LEA's dropped the ball on that case so it makes it even more frustrating.

VikingsGal

09-05-2010, 11:13 PM

Circleville Letters!

Oldschooler81

09-06-2010, 04:13 AM

Angela Hammond, just because it's one of the most tragic and also probably easily preventable. The fact that Rob was so close to catching the guy, and yet it's still unsolved almost 20 years later only compounds that.

runners up:

Christi Nichols - I'd love to see that cold white trash husband Mark be found guilty, and for her to at least be able to be properly buried for her loved ones' sake.

Gordon Page Jr. - Out of all the missing persons who may still be alive today and slipped through the cracks, I'd say he's one of the strongest possibilities, and if he did pass away later, I just wish his family knew about it.

The Wackers - I'm sure the solution is pretty simple but just could never be quite pieced together. With Bill dying in '99 and Dorothy probably very up in years (if not passed away herself now) tragically I don't think we'll ever see an answer to this.

AJ Breaux - another case I got into pretty early on where so many things just don't quite add up. I do believe he was kidnapped by those three guys in the car that a couple friends saw him in. It's what happened AFTER that I wish I knew.

Kristi Krebs - vaguely possible she's still alive, but I think she was a nice girl who maybe if she just had some more emotional support wouldn't have broken down and run off in the first place.

Roger Dean murder - just for the bizarreness and events that don't add up. Even if he did some underhanded stuff, I'm sure it didn't deserve him being killed, and I feel bad for his wife and daughter.

VikingsGal

09-06-2010, 10:38 AM

Gordon Page Jr. - Out of all the missing persons who may still be alive today and slipped through the cracks, I'd say he's one of the strongest possibilities, and if he did pass away later, I just wish his family knew about it.

The Wackers - I'm sure the solution is pretty simple but just could never be quite pieced together. With Bill dying in '99 and Dorothy probably very up in years (if not passed away herself now) tragically I don't think we'll ever see an answer to this. I agree with these cases as well. The Wackers are still an unsolved one that makes me wonder who was behind it. I just never thought Bill was behind it.

ailaes

09-23-2010, 03:42 AM

Hello there. I've been lurking on these boards for a few days, starting with trying to find my favourite haunting, which thanks to you kind folks I have.

At the moment I only have the Ghosts on dvd, and am plotting getting the rest for my birthday.

Here is my list of cases I would love to see solved:

Jennifer Pratt
Amy Billig
Anthonette Cayedito
Cindy James
Jack Davis Jr.
Matthew Chase
The case of friends who turned out to be sisters. I believe one name was Irene Love.

Apostapler

09-23-2010, 05:23 AM

CanadianGuitaris

09-25-2010, 02:26 AM

I've seen a few people mention the Bike Path Rapist; I may have missed such a response, but he's been caught and brought to justice, I believe in 2007. Funny thing is it happened to come up with a co-worker one day around the time of his arrest - I remembered the case on UM, and the co-worker, who grew up in Buffalo (where the rapist attacked), remembered hearing about it growing up on local news.

Somebody else mentioned Blair Adams. That one in particular always stuck out in my mind; a lot of it had to do with being Canadian (and the case was on when I was about 12, when I was watching U.M. regularly). I just saw it again recently, but there were so many oddities that I didn't remember at all. So I'll say that's my answer.

UM obviously didn't profile it, but the last days of Chris Benoit's life is probably my answer to the "find out in the afterlife" discussion.

Edit: Also, everything Ailaes said :p

CanadianGuitaris

09-25-2010, 02:31 AM

xxxxmattxxxx69

09-25-2010, 03:12 AM

Oh, does anyone remember the trucker who left Missouri, but was seen in a campsite in Arizona a few days later? Drove his bigrig through the campsite and was seen acting erratically? That's high on my list as well.

Devin Williams. Ya that was a strange case. They found his skull after that time but they couldn't explain how he died. I honestly would like to see the Brad Bishop case solved. I read Not Wanted and it had some valid arguments posing him as a victim rather than a suspect but I just want to know if he did it how he got away with it for so long or if he was the victim to figure out if he is dead or alive. UM and AMW definitely air it as him being the one and only suspect when it can not be disproved that he was a victim

Steve W.

09-25-2010, 08:53 AM

Oh, does anyone remember the trucker who left Missouri, but was seen in a campsite in Arizona a few days later? Drove his bigrig through the campsite and was seen acting erratically? That's high on my list as well.

Yes, that's Devin Williams. I can't remember if it was on this message board or another, but someone gave a very good explanation/example that might lead us to believe that Devin suffered from schizophrenia or some other mental disorder and became disoriented after not taking his prescribed medication for a long time.

I think that is probably what happened to him and then I believe he either killed himself by jumping off a cliff near where his remains were found or that he died from exposure after wandering around in his irrational state for days or weeks.