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UPDATES: Please be sure to check out our message board for the latest news, articles and case updates. Unsolved Mysteries explores unsolved cases in which you, the viewer, can help solve a case. The show includes cases from a variety of categories: Murder, Missing Persons, Wanted Fugitives, UFOs, Ghosts, Fraud, Legends, Science/Medicine, among others. The new Unsolved Mysteries programs will consist of re-creations of the events, along with interviews with the subjects, participants and authorities, documentary footage and news footage. Entirely new graphics, special effects, music and title sequences were created for the Spike broadcasts, along with new narration and host stand-ups by Dennis Farina. The show will air Monday-Friday from 5pm-7pm starting Monday, October 13 on Spike TV! They will broadcast 175 episodes. Unsolved Mysteries launched on Spike TV on Monday, October 13. Google News: Marvin Maple / Christie Baskin / Bobby Baskin 02/05/09: Baskin children discovered alive and well Local 1989 Kidnapping Case Solved Officials Found Man Accused Of Taking Grandchildren Police: San Jose man kidnapped grandchildren 20 years ago in Tenn. Children Found After 20 years, Parents Talk to WSAV Kidnapped Children Found 20 Years Later (Video) Discuss the case on our message board 12/12/08: Unsolved Mysteries To Return on Spike TV in January Many of you have been wondering what has happened to Unsolved Mysteries on Spike TV lately? Spike TV decided to give all-day marathons of CSI and CSI: NY all December long and thus the entire schedule has been preempted this month, with James Bond movies during Christmas week. Even Married...with Children is not airing weekdays. Not to worry everything will be back in January! But first, week of December 29 will feature a marathon of one show per day. The marathon starts with a Married...with Children all-day marathon on December 29 and concludes on January 2 with Unsolved Mysteries. Unsolved Mysteries. will then have a week-long marathon from Monday, Jan. 5 to Friday, Jan. 9 from 9am-6pm each day! Talk about returning in style! But what about airing regularly? That will happen, too! Effective Monday, Jan. 12, Spike TV will have a new weekday line-up. The Shield kicks it off at 9am, followed by four episodes of Married...with Children from 10am-12pm, then Unsolved Mysteries will launch in its new time period with three episodes in a row from 12-3pm. The schedule continues with CSI: NY from 3-7pm and CSI from 7-9pm. Then we have primetime from 9pm-12am, and in the late night we have CSI: NY at midnight, Disorderly Conduct: Video on Patrol at 1am, Spike's Most Amazing Videos at 2am, and Star Trek: Voyager at 3am. Some nights late in week from 1-4am we get episodes of Married...with Children, The Shield, and MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge as well. You Unsolved Mysteries fans can see the series on most Sunday afternoons as well in January. View complete details for Spike TV January 2009. 12/06/08: Unsolved Mysteries to Return to Spike in early January 11/22/08: From the official Unsolved Mysteries mailing list - sign up for alerts here. Unsolved Mysteries on Spike TV Back With a Vengeance! Some viewers have asked us about the Unsolved Mysteries broadcast schedule. The show is airing only a few times during the remaining days of November, but Spike will unleash a mega dose of Unsolved in December. Most weekdays, you can watch FIVE episodes of Unsolved Mysteries. Here's how it looks: Friday, November 28 2 AM, 3 AM Saturday, November 29 1 PM Mon-Fri, Dec 1-5 9 AM, 1 PM, 2 PM, 4 PM, 5 PM 5 PM show repeats 9 AM show Mon-Fri, Dec 8-12 9 AM, 1 PM, 2 PM, 4 PM, 5 PM 5 PM show repeats 9 AM show No 9 AM show on Dec. 12 Mon-Fri, Dec 15-19 9 AM, 1 PM, 2 PM, 4 PM, 5 PM 5 PM show repeats 9 AM show Sunday, December 21 1 PM, 2 PM, 3 PM, 4 PM, 5 PM No repeats Sunday, December 28 1 PM, 2 PM, 3 PM, 4 PM No repeats WARNING: TV Schedules can change without notice. To confirm airdates and times, please check your local directory or the Spike on-line schedule at: http://www.spike.com/schedule/spike Thanks for watching...we appreciate your loyalty. --The Unsolved Mysteries Staff 11/03/08: Spike has moved Unsolved Mysteries to 9AM, 4PM and 5PM EST/PST. 9AM UM 1PM UM 2PM UM 3PM CSI 4PM UM 5PM UM 6PM CSI NY 7PM CSI NY 8PM CSI Starting next week, it will also air at 1PM and 2PM replacing Voyager. 10/13/08: Visit the newly redesigned Official Unsolved Mysteries Site with information on many cases and Official Unsolved Mysteries MySpace Page View a trailer for Unsolved Mysteries on Spike TV: Unsolved Mysteries Google News: Clark Rockefeller / Christopher Chichester / John Sohus / Linda Sohus John and Linda Sohus disappeared in 1985 after proclaiming they had been enlisted by the government for some top secret work. Strangely shortly after their disappearance friends and family began receiving postcards from the couple sent from Paris, France. John’s alcoholic mother, Didi, had claimed that John and Linda’s former tenant Christopher Chichester was providing her with exclusive information that John and Linda were on a top secret “mission”. Then just as mysteriously Chichester broke off contact and he too vanished. In a final bizarre twist in May of 1994 the remains of John Sohus were found buried underground on his former property. (Summary by DarkDante) The "San Marino Bones" segment aired on Unsolved Mysteries (Episode #340) on July 7, 1995. San Marino Murder Mystery Special Coverage 08/16/08: Rockefeller saga: Linda Sohus' fate baffling 08/06/08: Clark Rockefeller link to California mystery eyed Is Clark Rockefeller really Christian? / The case in California Photo Gallery Boston kidnap suspect linked to 23-year-old San Marino case / Crime Scene Blog Special Section: Clark Rockefeller Case / Unsolved Calif. Case Long A Dark 'Net Mystery - Internet Bloggers Have Posted Theories For Years Discuss the case on our message board. Threads of interest: John and Linda Sohus info? / Eerie disappearance.... / Christopher Chichester 06/24/08: Unsolved Mysteries Launches on Spike TV on Monday, October 13 - it will air weekdays from 5-7PM ET/PT 04/07/08: Unsolved Mysteries coming to Spike TV in October 2008 - hosted by acclaimed television and film actor Dennis Farina 11/13/07: Spike TV Acquires Unsolved Mysteries! / Discuss View an Expanded Unsolved Mysteries Episode Guide #2 / Expanded Unsolved Mysteries Episode Guide #3 06/25/07: Unsolved Mysteries To Return Broadcasting & Cable is reporting today that the 1987-97 NBC series Unsolved Mysteries (1998-99 on CBS and 2001-02 on Lifetime) might be revived! HBO Television Distribution--reaching outside its own pay channel's original-programming ranks for the first time--and Cosgrove/Meurer Prods. are bringing back Mysteries, the granddaddy of hybrid reality/scripted crime- reenactment series. They plan to make the classic show attractive to network buyers, through major reconstructive surgery. HBO began knocking on doors last week, offering an all-cash deal for 175 refurbished episodes of the documentary-style series about unsolved crimes and paranormal occurrences. Lifetime has a contract to air reruns of the show, but that is expiring in 2008. HBO is taking out the series without a host, believed to be a first, and will leave it up to the acquiring cable network to choose the late Robert Stack's replacement. Work is under way to expand the number of unsolved evergreen stories from four to five per episode, each cut down to a maximum of seven minutes. Cosgrove/Meurer and HBO are choosing their material from 900 hours of footage shot for the original 255 episodes. They also plan to add newly produced updates--the most popular segments of the original series--that will focus on the solving of crimes and shedding new light on cold cases, which make up 60% of the stories, according to Executive Producer John Cosgrove. Other additions include a new set, logo, music and, most important, the computerized effects needed to bring the stories up to current standards. New weekly original episodes are also a distinct possibility and could come as part of the initial deal or at some point later. Discuss the news. 06/22/07: Sign the "Lifetime, please bring back Unsolved Mysteries!" Petition 04/10/07: Unsolved Mysteries Leaves Lifetime Real Women Schedule Starting June 4th 12/10/06: Unsolved Mysteries Airs on Lifetime Real Women - Starting January 1st Unsolved Mysteries will air on the Lifetime sister network, Lifetime Real Women, weeknights at 11PM ET/PT starting January 1st. It will also air late Friday/Saturday nights from 4-6AM ET/PT. 11/10/06: From a post on the message board... New Unsolved Mysteries There has been some buzz around the Cosgrove-Meurer office that Unsolved Mysteries might come back to TV with new episodes in the future! They are currently looking for new stories, so if you or anyone you know has stories they would like to submit, please do one of the following: e-mail them via http://www.unsolved.com/tips.html or mail them to: Unsolved Mysteries PO Box 11449 Burbank, CA 91510-1449 08/14/06: Lifetime has dropped Unsolved Mysteries from their schedule. No word on if/when it will return. 04/29/06: Lifetime will be airing Unsolved Mysteries at 2PM, 7PM, and 8PM ET/PT starting Monday, May 1st. They will have that schedule for 2 weeks. 02/14/06: First Look Media has provided a list of the segments for the "Best of Unsolved Mysteries" DVD set 01/30/06: Unsolved Mysteries moving to 2PM on Lifetime starting March 6th - only 1 episode a day instead of 2 01/15/06: Art & Details/Extras for New Best of Unsolved Mysteries and Unsolved Mysteries - The Ultimate Collection 12/31/05: TVShowsonDVD.com reports that two new DVD releases for Unsolved Mysteries will be available on March 21st: The Best of Unsolved Mysteries and Unsolved Mysteries: The Ultimate Collection. We will post the information on what segments these sets will include and the artwork when it becomes available. 01/17/05: Unsolved Mysteries - Different looks at the package for Strange Legends 10/17/04: Unsolved Mysteries - 2 more DVDs in Jan (we have art!) and another in Feb 07/20/04: Release dates for Unsolved Mysteries DVDs - Volumes 4, 5, and 6 06/23/04: Details on Unsolved Mysteries - UFOs: segments, specs, nice extras! 06/15/04: You can now pre-order the first Unsolved Mysteries DVD set - UFO's from Amazon.com that will be released on September 7th, 2004. Each release consists of six hours of the best episodes on that subject, spread out over 4 discs. 06/08/04: TVShowsonDVD.com has posted the Cover Art for the first 3 Unsolved Mysteries DVD Releases 09/07/2004...Unsolved Mysteries V1: The UFO Files 10/05/2004...Unsolved Mysteries V2: Scariest Ghost Stories 11/09/2004...Unsolved Mysteries V3: Astonishing Miracles 05/24/04: Lifetime has moved Unsolved Mysteries to the new time of 12PM ET/PT Monday-Friday 04/17/04: 6 Unsolved Mysteries DVD Sets Planned 12/02/03: Recent updates and developments After 10 years, friends still puzzled by disappearance of John Cheek Kristin Sue Westin Sentenced Fugitive pursuit leads to arrest in New Mexico - Frank Lloyd Isley Jr. Forensic artist Lois Gibson in People Magazine Husband charged in death - Man Indicted 12 Years After Wife Vanished, 2 Months After Body Found (Joe Morrow) / Donna Morrow's remains have been found Their Tara didn't make it home - Tara Calico Jerome Alan Bargo Captured In Nashville, TN, a young record charting exec was gunned down late one night outside his Music Row studio in 1989 and this story was featured on 'Unsolved Mysteries'. A suspect has been recently convicted / more information In November of 2001, UM aired the segment of an unidentified elderly man who was found dead and stuffed in a steamer trunk in the spring of 1996 (hence the name "Steamer Trunk Corpse"). The man has been positively identified as Jack F. Watkins. A woman named Nancy Jean Siegel has been arrested for fraud and stealing Social Security benefits from Watkins, but has not been charged with his murder. Click on to the following link for more details. http://www.leesburg2day.com/current...d=6&newsid=7573 09/02/03: Lifetime has brought Unsolved Mysteries back to it's 8PM EST/PST Monday-Friday slot, it will also continue to air at 1PM EST/PST The modern day Bonnie & Clyde team of Craig Pritchert and Nova Guthrie taken into custody on August 19th in Cape Town, South Africa. They had robbed six banks throughout the Southwest and Pacific Northwest dating back to 1997 and were featured on the July 17th, 2001 episode of Unsolved Mysteries. Recent developments in the 1988 murder of Lisa Marie Kimmell 08/06/03: The same company who created Unsolved Mysteries has a new show on Lifetime. It airs all next week at 8 p.m. EST/PST. "Secret Lives" tells the true stories of people who lead double lives or have a secret past. Host Kristin Alfonso ("Days of Our Lives") guides the viewer through exciting tales told through interviews and recreations. Profile topics include the criminal next door, con artists, bigamists, change of identity, double identity, spies and more. 06/09/03: Molly Bish's Remains Identified - originally featured on September 5th, 2002 episode 05/31/03: Suspected Bomber Eric Rudolph Arrested - originally featured on June 12th, 2002 episode 05/15/03: Robert Stack Dies at Age 84 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Stack, whose granite-eyed stare and menacing baritone spelled trouble for fictional criminals in "The Untouchables" and real ones in "Unsolved Mysteries," died at his home. He was 84. Stack's wife Rosemarie found him slumped over in the couple's Los Angeles home about 5 p.m. Wednesday. The actor underwent radiation treatment for prostate cancer in October, but his wife said he died of heart failure. "He was feeling so good," she said Thursday. "He had a bout with a tumor but that was gone. It wasn't that, it was his heart. He was too weak. He wouldn't have lived through a bypass." Although he had a lengthy film career beginning in 1939 with "First Love," Stack's greatest fame came with the 1959-63 TV drama "The Untouchables," in which he played Chicago crimebuster Eliot Ness and won a best actor Emmy. That role, coupled with his job as host of the reality series "Unsolved Mysteries," created an enduring good-guy image. "I think there's a definite carry-over from Eliot Ness," Stack said in a 1998 interview with The Associated Press. "Somebody once said, 'You really think you're Eliot Ness.' No, I don't think I'm Ness, but I sure as hell know I'm not Al Capone.' " If Stack tended to appear stiffly humorless on screen, in conversation he was relaxed and jovial, with deep Hollywood roots that gave him a wealth of star-studded anecdotes. He recalled playing polo with mentor Spencer Tracy and receiving advice from his "surrogate father," Clark Gable. "He brought a bottle of 21-year-old Scotch and put it between us," Stack told the AP. "'There's a rumor going around that you're gonna try to be an actor.' "I thought I'd give it a shot," Stack replied. "Clark said, 'You're gonna be one thing: A pro. Show up on time, know your lines. ... And if you ever become a thing called a celebrity _ a word I hate _ if you ever do, and you use that power to push people around, I'm gonna kick you right in the (expletive).' " A fifth-generation Californian, Stack was born into a performing arts family in Los Angeles. His great-great-grandfather opened one of the city's first theaters and his grandparents, uncle and mother were opera singers. His father, however, "was the only Irishman in County Kerry who couldn't sing, and that's whose singing voice I got," Stack said in 1998. But the young man had a resonant speaking voice and rugged good looks, enough to catch the eye of producer Joe Pasternak when Stack ventured onto the Universal lot at age 20. "He said 'How'd you like to be in pictures? We'll make a test with Helen Parrish, a little love scene.' Helen Parrish was a beautiful girl. 'Gee, that sounds keen,' I told him. I got the part," Stack recalled. He gave popular young actress Deanna Durbin her much-publicized first screen kiss in "First Love," and played a series of youthful romantic leads before leaving Hollywood to serve with the Navy as an aerial gunnery instructor in World War II. His postwar career climbed in the 1950s with meatier roles and better projects, including "The High and the Mighty" starring John Wayne in 1954. In 1957, Stack was nominated for a best supporting Oscar for "Written on the Wind," a domestic melodrama starring Lauren Bacall and Rock Hudson. When he lost the trophy (to Red Buttons, "Sayonara"), Jimmy Stewart reassured him he'd win next time. "But Jimmy, what if I never get another part like this?" Stack said. "Well, that's just too damn bad," Stewart replied. That story was told with a chuckle by Stack, a man who clearly didn't take himself or life in Hollywood too seriously. "It's all malarky; even the wonderful part is malarky," he allowed. Stack made more than 40 films, including "The Iron Glove" (1954); "Good Morning Miss Dove" (1955) and "Is Paris Burning?" (1966). In later years he shifted to comedy, mocking his stalwart image in 1980's "Airplane!" and appearing in "1941" (1979), "Caddyshack II" (1988) and "Baseketball" (1998). His role as Ness in "The Untouchables" brought him a best actor Emmy in 1960. The series, awash in Prohibition Era shoot-'em-ups between gangsters and federal agents, drew harsh criticism about its violence along with good ratings for ABC. Stack found more series success with "The Name of the Game" (1968-71), a drama which rotated stars Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry and Stack. Short-lived shows included "Most Wanted" (1976-77) and "Strike Force" (1981-82). "Unsolved Mysteries," offering true stories of crime and mysterious disappearances, brought Stack back to TV in 1988, and the popular show continued through the late '90s (with a network switch, from NBC to CBS). His autobiography, "Straight Shooting," was published in 1979. Stack and his wife, Rosemarie, enjoyed that Hollywood rarity: an enduring marriage. The couple, who wed in 1956, had two children, Elizabeth and Charles, both of Los Angeles. Mrs. Stack said the children were with her at the Stack home. Stack will be buried at Westwood Village Cemetery during a private service. A private reception will also be held at the Bel-Air Country Club and a memorial service will be planned later, Mrs. Stack said. 05/14/03: Stuart Heaton request for a new trial denied Niqui McCown family pleads for help Could girl in Illinois be Sabrina Aisenberg? Valley Hill Believers Continue Searching For Miracles Astarte Davis-Rice admits prison escape Richard Vallee arrested in Canada on April 11th 03/16/03: Bones Found In Woods Identified As Jill Behrman's 03/14/03: Arrest in the 'Punky' Gustavson Murder 03/09/03: Fugitive child molester Carl McWilliams has been arrested as a direct result of Unsolved Mysteries. The case was originally featured on August 6th, 2001. 01/12/03: Florida man arrested, charged in 1993 slaying of punk singer Mia Zapata (CNN) DNA leads to arrest in '93 death of local singer (The Seattle Times)

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