Bizarre Murders and Physics DVD listings

[UMfan0682]

Hey Everyone,

I e-mailed First Look Media a few days ago and asked them for the Segment Listings for Bizarre Murders and Physics. To my suprise they sent me back an e-mail, I thought everyone would want a early peek at the segments, so directly from First Look Media:


COLORADO COP KILLERS - On May 29, 1998, a hail of bullets killed Police Officer Dale Claxton as he sat in his police cruiser in Cortez, Colorado. Officer Claxton had just pulled over a stolen truck but as hewas checking the license plates, three suspects from inside the truck brandished automatic weapons and began firing, killing the officer instantly. UPDATE: On 11/22/99 UM received a call from viewer stating that a body found in the desert was identified as one of suspects.

BOSTON STRANGLER II - Was Albert de Salvo the real Boston Strangler who murdered 10 women in 18 months. Or was it a former cellmate of de Salvo's? De Salvo scheduled a visit with his psychiatrist and a Boston reporter during which he would "tell all," including his claim that his confession was coerced by the threat of the death penalty. But the night before, De Salvo was found stabbed to death in his cell.

TEXAS MOST WANTED - Edward Harold Bell regularly exposed himself to children and shot to death Larry Dickens, the man who tried to stop him. While released on bail, he liquidated and fled. UPDATE: A UM viewer identified him as businessman in Panama. He was convicted and received a seventy-year sentence.

TRAILER TERROR - Some time in the pre-dawn of a cold December morning, someone shot and killed Danny and Kathy Freeman in their rural Oklahoma home, then set that home on fire. Their 16-year-old daughter, Ashley, and her school friend, Lauria Bible, were also in the home at the time. But arriving police never found their bodies. Did the girls flee, or were they abducted? Did they commit the murders? Or did someone in the Sheriff's office do so, in order to keep the Freeman family from pressing a suit against the department?

BAD CHIEF - Greg Webb, police chief of a small town in Nebraska is wanted for the murder of his former girlfriend. UPDATE: Greg Webb was arrested by the FBI and Holly Hill, Florida P.D. in Jacksonville, Florida where he had been living for 6 years.

MARIE HILLEY - Marie Hilley was the quintessential pillar of the
community in Anniston, Alabama. Considered to be a perfect wife and mother, neighbors were shocked to discover she had been secretly poisoning her family with arsenic.

JOURNALIST'S MURDER - 44-year old investigative journalist, Dan
Casolaro, was found dead in the bathtub of his Sheraton hotel room in Martinsburg, West Virginia. His wrists had been slashed 12 times; there was a suicide note and no evidence of a struggle. The authorities concluded it was a suicide. However, many believe he was killed because he was investigating a secret cabal of government officials and members of organized crime he called "The Octopus." They also cite Danny's well-known, intense fear of the sight of blood which makes slashing his
own wrists highly improbable.

Disc 2
SCARED TO DEATH - Cindy James was found dead from a heroin overdose, with her hands and feet bound tightly behind her and a nylon stocking tied around her neck. Police psychiatrist said she suffered from multiple personalities and one of them killed her. Her father and others disagree.

MURDERED HEIRESS - In 1997, Greg Siner, a dog breeder, and his
companion, Gardner Young, bought a rural property on Rhode Island. They were aware of the mysterious disappearance of the former owner, heiress Camilla Lyman. A few months after they moved in, Siner noticed a strange smell in the kennel's septic system. Peering down into the shaft, he saw a skull. Recent forensic experts confirmed that the skull was that
of the missing heiress. Who killed Camilla Lyman and why?

UNICORN'S SECRET - Counter culture hero, Ira Einhorn, was convicted of the murder of ex-girlfriend, Holly Maddux, while released on bail he fled the country, living in Europe, primarily Ireland and Sweden. UPDATE: Ira Einhorn was apprehended on 6/13/97 in Champagne Mouton, France where he had been living under the name Eugene Mallon. SOLVED.

WOMEN'S PRISON KILLING - The 1984 disappearance of prison guard, Jesslyn Rich, and three years later, the controversial death of inmate, Teri Lucas, have led to allegations of corruption inside California's Frontera Prison.

SKULL DUGGERY - In June of 1990, patrons at the Casa Gallardo Mexican restaurant in Bridgeton, Missouri noticed a human skull in the bushes. Police found the skull to be of "recent origin" and bore the marking of an adult female. But with no crime to connect it to, the skull was placed on a shelf in the county morgue and largely forgotten.

BACKYARD BONES - On May 5, 1997, Monika Rizzo took a break from her job at the Dept. of Human Resources. She never returned. Police receive a tip that her bones are buried in the backyard. They search and find
bones, but they're not Monika's. Whose are they and where is Monika? A later search discovered more bones, including some that were Monika's. In all, nearly 300 fragments of human bones were found.

WORLD LEADERS - Case studies of diabolical minds like Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gasey, and Pol Pot.

BURNING BED - On March 26, 2000, Megan Kristen Romero Curl, 26, opened her apartment door to her concerned friend and neighbor, at 2:20 am. The
friend could tell something was wrong. There was a strange man in Megan's apartment behind Megan. Megan said everything was all right, so the friend said goodnight. Two hours later, her apartment was on fire, and Megan was dead.

Disc 3
MISTAKE HIT - Don Devereux, a courageous journalist whose reporting threatened alleged mob figures in Phoenix, lived across street from Doug Johnston, who was mysteriously murdered. It was actually Don who received death threats, but because of their similar cars and houses, the wrong man might have been killed. Or it may have been a lethal warning to Devereux to back off.

FRIENDS TO THE END - Two teenagers were run over by a train on August 23, 1987. At first it was ruled an accident, and then later determined that the boys were murdered and their bodies placed on the tracks. Connections to drug trafficking were later revealed.

WHISTLE BLOWN - Nuclear plant employee Dave Bocks' remains' were found in the plant furnace. Some say that Dave Bocks was depressed and took his own life. But his family maintains that he was murdered to prevent him from blowing the whistle on safety violations and illegal radioactive dumping.

RICHARD'S RAMPAGE - Colleen Ritter has no idea just how disastrous it would be to call off her relationship with Richard Church. Church killed the parents of his former girlfriend Colleen Ritter after breaking into their Illinois home. Colleen and her brother survived the attack although Colleen received over 20 stab wounds. UPDATE: After 3 years, Richard was captured in a Salt Lake City fast food restaurant.

PLANE CRASH SABOTAGE - On December 12, 1985, 248 members of the U.S. Army's elite 101st Airborne Unit were killed instantly when their chartered Arrow Air DC 8 transport plane crashed in Gander, Newfoundland. Almost immediately someone left a message from the Islamic Jihad. Families are left wondering what happened. The U.S. Government has sealed the crash investigation records for 70 years.

BURNED EVIDENCE - Family and friends seek answers in the unexplained murder of an Oregon orchard farmer after local authorities destroyed what could have been crucial physical evidence. After his lifeless and mostly decomposed body was discovered on his bed, law enforcement quickly ordered the bed and bedding burned and destroyed. Then an
autopsy revealed that he was killed by three gunshots to the head.

JESSE JAMES HOLLYWOOD - Jesse James Hollywood, and four accomplices set out to settle a score with someone who owed Jesse over $36,000 in marijuana debt! The drug crew kidnapped the debtor's 15-year-old stepbrother, Nicholas, holding him for ransom. After holding him 5 days, the crew was unsuccessful in collecting the cash. Nicholas was bound, gagged, shot and buried in a shallow grave. While the four accomplices have been arrested, Jesse is still at large and considered armed and dangerous.

TWO MARY MURDERS - Mary Morris of Houston, was found in her burned out car, a murder victim, apparently killed execution-style. In this case, the police have a recording of her desperate 911 call from Mary's cell phone while she was being abducted. Three days later, another woman was found murdered in her car, also brutally beaten, in the same vicinity. And her name was also Mary Morris. Could the first Mary have died mistakenly at the hand of a contract killer, who corrected his error three days later?

Disc 4
BORDELLO MURDERS - On September 20, 1994, two prostitutes were found brutally murdered inside the New Life Massage parlor in Oak Grove, KY. The owner claimed that in exchange for "free services", certain members of the local police allowed the bordello to stay open. When she took her story to the city council, one of the female council members confirmed her story, after revealing that she too had worked there.

CAMPUS MURDER EXPOSE - Vincennes University journalism student, Brook Baker was murdered after she began working on an expose about a date rape alleged to have occurred at a fraternity. She told police a fraternity member had threatened her. UPDATE: Brian Jones, a former Vincennes University student, was arrested for the death of another Vincennes coed, Erika Norman, in July 1999. Jones was sentenced to 60 years in prison for Erika's murder as part of a plea agreement in which
prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty if Jones was convicted for the death of Brook Baker. He was found guilty of killing Brook and was sentenced to life in prison.

DAKOTA'S DOUBLE DEATH - Three young friends found themselves in a terrible accident when their car jumped the highway and came to rest in a ditch. By the time help arrived, two of the victims, 20 year old Arnold Archambeau and his girlfriend, 19 year old Ruby Bruguier, had mysteriously wandered off. For three months there were no signs of the young couple. Then, on March 10, 1993, the body of Ruby Bruguier was found floating in the ditch, just 75 feet from the crash site. The next
day, Arnold's body turned up a few yards away. However, the two bodies were in very different states of decomposition. Police are convinced that the bodies were not there at the time of the accident.

MARGO FRESHWATER - For thirty years Margo Freshwater, a convicted murderer, has been running from the law. She went on a killing spree with her boyfriend's attorney and was sentenced to 99 years. UPDATE: Because of inquiries from Unsolved Mysteries, the FBI began searching
for her through records and found her in Ohio. She is now back in
prison.

ZODIAC / UNABOMBER - A generation ago, the Zodiac killer terrorized Northern California, striking at random, taunting police and taking at least five lives. Now there is speculation that he and the Unabomber might actually be the same person.

THE OTHER INTERN - Chandra Levy disappeared...but two years earlier two women with similar physical characteristics, who had also been interns, also disappeared, leaving some to wonder if there is a serial murderer on the loose.

SOCIAL SECURITY MURDER - Julius Patterson and his girlfriend, Paulette Hite, killed two people, including Patterson's own sister, in order to get their social security benefits. UPDATE: A viewer tip called in to the telecenter provided authorities with Hite's current alias.

CIVIL RIGHTS MURDERS - In 1965 Deputy Sheriff Oneal Moore & partner were gunned down while on duty in Louisiana. They were the only black members of the Washington Parish police dept and the crimes were potentially Klan related.

CAMPUS CALAMITY - After receiving threatening phone calls, 18 year old Bryan Nisenfeld disappeared from his college campus. While searching for Bryan, his mother and father received phone stating that someone knew exactly what happened to Bryan. Later that summer, Bryan's foot (detached from his body) was found on the beach. No other remains were found. Was it murder, suicide or an accident?


They are putting a little note on the cases that have been solved and updated.

[UMfan0682]

Some of the segments from the Physics set:

RAINBOY- The case of Don Decker.

PIX OF THE DEAD- Case of Coral Polge, who can draw pictures of people who have been dead for years.

EPILEPSY POOCHES- Dogs who can predict when their owners will have seizures.

BIBLE CODE- Investigates claims that the Bible has a code to predict future events.

STORM IN HELL- The story of Howard Storm, who has a near death experience that takes him to hell (This story was just discussed on the boards).

LOTTERY MIRACLE- A man's son comes back from the dead to tell him what number to choose for the winning the lottery.

INCREDIBLE JOURNEYS - The story of a cat and dog who travelled long journeys to make it back to their families.

SILENT WITNESS- Psychic Nance Myers uses her ability to track down the killers of Jennifer Odom.


These are just a few of the segments on the Psychics set. I shortened the descriptions.

[tornadoman14]

Would you post the full episode listing of the Psychics set like you did with the Murders set?

[justins5256]

Am I the only one a little disappointed by this lineup? A good chunk of these stories are CBS and Lifetime incarnations, which, in my opinion, was when UM was at it's crapiest! Some stories they should have included:

Norman Ladner
Eric and Pam Littleton Ellender
Matthew Chase
Kurt Sova
Patsy Wright
Gus Hoffman
Kurt Mcfall
The brutal Rhode Island attack (Doreen Picard)
The Canadian rest stop killer
Rachel Runyan
The 3 Signal Mountain ATV riders
The I-70 killer
Jeremy Bright (techically missing, but I'm sure he's dead)
Kathy Bonderson
Aileen Conway
Ralph Probst

and countless others.

Anyone else with me?

JS

[UMfan0682]

Here is what will be on the "Legends" set:

ELVIS'S LAST NIGHT
BRANDON LEE
ELIOT NESS
HOLY GRAIL
AMELIA EARHART
ALCATRAZ
NOAH'S ARK
MARTIN LUTHER KING
BIGFOOT II
SONNY LISTON
WHO KILLED SUPERMAN?
BILLY THE KID
BC SEA MONSTER
ELVIS'S TWIN
YETI
DB COOPER
HUEY LONG
WHO PLUGGED BUGSY?
JOHN WILKES BOOTH
MONA LISA
AGATHA CHRISTIE
SKUNK APE
CHAIR OF DEATH
RFK PIX
ANASTASIA
BERMUDA TRIANGLE
MOTHMAN

justins5256, I was thinking the same thing about the murders set, that these were from the Lifetime and CBS years. I think the NBC years were better. I know that John Cosgrove and Terry Muerer hand picked these for the sets.

[justins5256]

Wow! The legends DVD sounds better than "Bizarre Murders".

JS

[Brent88]

WOW!!!! Those are MUST-BUYS!

I am disappointed in the murders set though.

[DP1]

The Legends set sounds pretty cool! I wish they had put some of the older cases on the Murders DVD. Many of these are from the period after 1994. The best Unsolved Mysteries was 1987-1993.

[SP4CE INV4DERZ]

That highly anticipated Bizarre Murder's DVD sounds very weak =/ Surely the most bizarre murder for me involved Russell Even's who family say he was beaten to death whilst the authorities say it was a hit-and-run. Well that's the one which stands out in my mind. How authentic is this information? We can only hope they release more volumes in the future. And I agree, Legend's sounds pretty good. I'd buy it just for Alcatraz and Bermuda Triangle alone.

[justins5256]

Originally posted by missingtiny
That highly anticipated Bizarre Murder's DVD sounds very weak =/ Surely the most bizarre murder for me involved Russell Even's who family say he was beaten to death whilst the authorities say it was a hit-and-run. Well that's the one which stands out in my mind. How authentic is this information? We can only hope they release more volumes in the future. And I agree, Legend's sounds pretty good. I'd buy it just for Alcatraz and Bermuda Triangle alone.

I couldn't agree more. I'm totally bummed that they are giving us the CBS/Lifetime garbage. Looks like I won't be buying any of the DVDs now except "Legends".

Do you think the Alcatraz story will be the 90 minute live broadcast version? I doubt it, but it would be cool.

It would also be cool if they added the second lesser known report on the RFK assassination conspiracy as well.

JS

[SP4CE INV4DERZ]

Originally posted by justins5256
I couldn't agree more. I'm totally bummed that they are giving us the CBS/Lifetime garbage. Looks like I won't be buying any of the DVDs now except "Legends".

Do you think the Alcatraz story will be the 90 minute live broadcast version? I doubt it, but it would be cool.

It would also be cool if they added the second lesser known report on the RFK assassination conspiracy as well.

JS

Well first off, again how relieable is that listing? Let's assume it's genuine, then the more I look at it the more dissappointed I am. Looks as though they given us a decent DVD title and then sticking us with crap. Even some newer murders like those 2 twin girls killed in a house-fire but later revealed they actually died from shotgun wounds isn't on that list. Neither is that guy who was found dead in his garage from exhaust fumes that his mother is convinced was murdered are both bizarre enough but neglected.

Anyways, they have to fill 6 hours on "Legends" with something. I thought they might throw in some buried treasure stories, looks like maybe they wont so I am hoping we get the full 90mins on Alactraz. At least that was interesting (from memory).

Still hoping that further (early) Unsolved Mysteries is released sometime in the future.... =(

[UMfan0682]

The DVD listings came directly from First Look Media, the studio that produces the sets. I wish there were better segments, but this is what we get in January. If you guys want, I can foward your contact info to them for confirmation.

[UMfan0682]

Here is the full listing for Physics, due out the same day as Murders. I also have the full listing for Legends, as I only posted the titles, so if you want me to post the titles and descriptions for that one, let me know.



Disc 1
LIFE AFTER LIGHTNING - Best Selling author Dannion Brinkley was struck by lightning, was declared dead and had a vivid near-death experience which profoundly changed his life. The experience transformed him from a self-confessed bully into a Good Samaritan who volunteers at hospices. He was also imbued with startling psychic powers that have allowed him to predict 117 future occurrences.

PIX OF THE DEAD - British artist Coral Polge claims to have the
supernatural ability to draw portraits of dead people without having prior knowledge of what they looked like. The likenesses that she seems to create out of thin air exactly resemble dead people she never knew. Is it just an exceptional artist with keen sense of perception or do her drawings actually come from beyond the grave?

RAINBOY - Mysterious streams of water that materialize out of thin air and defy gravity, strange odors, and other phenomena terrorized Don Decker and those around him. Paranormal investigators speculate that a disembodied spirit may have manifested the strange activities.

REINCARNATED SUBMARINER - While under hypnosis, Bruce Kelly was overwhelmed by vivid images of the death of an American sailor, James Edward Johnston, during World War II. An investigation revealed that Kelly's visions were uncanny in their accuracy and eerie evidence of reincarnation.

JAMES VAN PRAAGH - Renowned psychic James Van Praagh is a psychic who can contact the spirits of the dead and convey their detailed messages to those they left behind. Family members are astonished that he can give specific, personal details about departed loved ones without having met them.

EPILEPSY POOCHES - Some dogs have the uncanny ability to sense when their owner is going to have a seizure.

PLATEAU VISION - A soft spoken cowboy named Randy Spears had a vision of Millie McGregor, a missing person who was lost in the Sierra Nevadas. For hours, countless Search-and-Rescue teams had failed to locate her, but Randy found her and brought her to safety.

Disc 2
GEORGE ANDERSON - Psychic George Anderson amazes an audience of people he'd never me before by communicating with their dead relatives and accurately describing events and characteristics of complete strangers. Many of his revelations about their deceased love ones brought witnesses to tears.

TWINS - Study of the amazing personality similarities and possible
psychic abilities shared by twins. Even when they are raised in
separate environments, they still manifest common traits. Medical science can't explain these phenomena.

SUDDENLY PSYCHIC - John Holland and Elizabeth Joyce are profiled as people who were nearly killed in terrifying car accidents and, at that moment, suddenly became psychic.

BIBLE CODE - Is there a code in the Bible that predicts future events? Author Michael Drosnins describes the theory in his best selling book that translates sections of the Old Testament into predictions of the future. Drosnin cites Old Testament passages which predicted the assassination of JFK, the Oklahoma City bombing, among many others.

STORM IN HELL - Atheist, Howard Storm, had a near death experience that brought him straight to hell instead of to the warm light. Howard then left his university teaching job and attended a Methodist Seminary.

POW DREAM - During the 1991 War with Iraq, a man has dream about his buddy who was a POW in a prison near Baghdad. In it, he experiences the confinement down to the tiniest detail, all of which were true, as he found out three months later when they were re-united.

MURDER PREMONITION - Etta Smith experienced a haunting psychic vision describing the scene where nurse, Melanie Uribe, was murdered. She found the body with such accuracy that she became a suspect. She was later absolved.

LOTTERY MIRACLE - Sam Zelikson wins the lottery by purchasing a number told to him by his son in a dream. His son had died several years before the lottery.

Disc 3
ELECTRIC LADY - As a child Jeanine Price had baffling experiences in which objects around her would fly across the room and perfectly normal appliances would suddenly explode. Then, she had the disturbing premonition she would someday meet a sister she didn't know existed and that the sister would die of a brain aneurysm. Sadly, it all came true.

REINCARNATION - Georgia Rudolph believes she is the reincarnation of Sandra Jean Jenkins of Newport, Ohio who died in 1914 when she drowned in a lake after her boyfriend Tommy Hicks died. At an Ohio cemetery, Georgia found the tombstone she saw in a dream. UPDATE: After airing, 36 yr old college professor named Jack came forward saying he was
reincarnation of Tommy Hicks.

DOROTHY ALLISON, POLICE PSYCHIC - A Nutley, New Jersey housewife uses her psychic sense to help police solve murder and missing person's cases. In one, she helped solve the case of a 19-year-old murder victim by identifying her killer and scaring a confession out of him.

MOTHER'S INSTINCT - Do some mothers have a telepathic or psychic link to their children? In the cases profiled, mothers report incredible psychic intuitions of their children in danger that turned out to be true.

TWIN ESP CONNECTION - Science can't explain the mysterious bonds that link identical twins. Why is it that twins separated at birth and raised in very different environments exhibit so many likenesses? How is it possible that one twin feels pain when the other is suffering? How can twins have telepathy that other siblings simply don't have?

AFTER DEATH VISITS - According to a noted medical researcher, 7 out of 10 widows say their spouses have come back to visit them after death. Two astonishing cases are profiled which suggest these visitations are not merely hallucinations.

Disc 4
PAST LIVES - Barbara Sharon consulted hypnotist about her weight and diet, and while under hypnosis Sharon recalled past life as a WWII seaman John Gillespie, stationed at Pearl Harbor who died aboard battleship USS Nevada in the Dec. 7 attack. The numerous details of the deceased sailor's life, that she recounted 50 years after his death, have been verified.

INCREDIBLE JOURNEYS - In 1992, a black cat named "Nova" and a collie named "Lady" each became separated from their families. Remarkably, they both undertook extraordinary journeys, traveling hundreds of miles through unknown terrain to make their way back home to their owners.

PSYCHIC DETECTIVE - Psychic John Catchings helped police with clues to case of Sherry Eyerly, murdered while at her job delivering pizza. John led police to Darryl Wilson who later committed suicide.

LIFE AFTER LIFE - Several chilling cases of near death experiences are explored.

POWERS OF MISS KATIE - Florida housewife Katie has amazed both witnesses and researchers with her predictions of the future and by producing gold and gems out of thin air.

DREAMS COME TRUE - According to dream researchers, 1 in 12 people have had dreams that have apparently foretold the future. One college professor believes a dream about a car accident saved his life when he encountered the exact same situation.

SILENT WITNESS - Nancy Myers, a psychic investigator, employed her abilities to find the killers of Jennifer Odom. Many of Nancy Myers' visions have been substantiated by law enforcement.

[Brent88]

Hopefully we'll get another Murders set out one day with the other cases.

I really want an Unexplained Death/Missing Persons DVD. I don't care for UFO's, Ghosts, Miracles. Psychics, or Legends(although it has some of the best cases so I'll probably end up getting it).

[Brent88]

Originally posted by UMfan0682
Here is the full listing for Physics, due out the same day as Murders. I also have the full listing for Legends, as I only posted the titles, so if you want me to post the titles and descriptions for that one, let me know.

That'd be great.