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Season 1 – Unsolved Mysteries

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This series uses reenactments and interviews to retell the circumstances of mysteries that are unsolved. Covering crimes, tales of lost love, unexplained history and paranormal events, viewers are encouraged to call in with information that might solve the mystery.
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Melissa Camacho Common Sense Media 04/24/2020
3/5
Now noticeably dated, the series lacks the flashiness of contemporary crime-solving reality shows. Go to Full Review
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Episode 1 Aired Oct 5, 1988 Gulf Breeze UFO sightings; the hunt for accused Tennessee killer Joe Shepard; missing person Gail DeLano; an update on Louis Carlucci, wanted for fraud. Details Episode 2 Aired Oct 12, 1988 Folge 2 New data arises about hijacker D.B. Cooper; Babe Ruth's missing uniform; two Arkansas teens die mysteriously. Details Episode 3 Aired Oct 28, 1988 Report investigates hauntings of the Queen Mary, an 18th-century Pennsylvania inn and houses in Atlanta and Wisconsin. Details Episode 4 Aired Nov 2, 1988 A satanic cult may be linked to the "Son of Sam" murders; swindler found dead; unclaimed $200,000 in Nebraska. Details Episode 5 Aired Nov 9, 1988 New evidence in the "Son of Sam" murders; Janet O'Regan searches for her natural father; insurance-fraud murders; Anne Hearin, kidnapped wife of a millionaire. Details Episode 6 Aired Nov 16, 1988 A child left in a box dies; authorities search for San Quentin escapee Mark Adams; Christi Nichols disappears while planning to leave her abusive husband; Gail Delano woman disappears after meeting a date from a personal ad. Details Episode 7 Aired Nov 23, 1988 Teenager Kurt Sova dies after a Halloween party; two L.A. men are the "Shopping Bag Bandits"; puzzling murders of priests Reynaldo Rivera and John Kerrigan; lucky rock found in Washington State. Details Episode 8 Aired Nov 30, 1988 Murder of Charlie Sigman; hypnotized Kristina Florence recalls a 10-year-old UFO encounter; two teenage Arkansas boys are run over by a train; Steve Cox scams women out of large sums of money then disappears. Details Episode 9 Aired Dec 14, 1988 Indiana resident Clarence Roberts is twice identified as a a victim of arson; Florida employee Jack Quinn embezzles from a security company; attack on Jenny Pratt leaves her brain-damaged. Details Episode 10 Aired Dec 21, 1988 A Hungarian emigrant searches for Philip Pelletier, a U.S. serviceman who entertained his family; the search for Matthew Chase; the 1986 murder of Texas resident Merilu Geri; Dolores Valadez searches for her family. Details Episode 11 Aired Jan 11, 1989 Michael Rosenblum disappears on Valentine's Day; death of Los Angeles radio personality Lee Selwyn; Arthur Frankford cons Florida women. Details Episode 12 Aired Jan 18, 1989 British prospector Dan Willans vanishes during the 1930s, leaving $300,000; Jeremy Bright disappears en route to a county fair; Virginia patrolman John Martin is murdered; search for fugitive Leo Koury. Details Episode 13 Aired Jan 25, 1989 Deaths of wild horses in Nevada; kidnapping of babies from a New York hospital; Micki Jo West, a Missouri nurse's aid, disappears; Sylvia Wemhoff searches for her brother; Robert Leads wanted for Los Angeles art theft. Details Episode 14 Aired Feb 1, 1989 A face on Mars; teenager Kathy Hobbs murdered in Nevada; telephone tip reunites two World War II buddies; Bill Purinton searches for his long-lost sister; the disappearance of Phoenix businessman, and former ex-monk, Angelo Desideri. Details Episode 15 Aired Feb 8, 1989 Alcatraz: a 1962 escape; Al Capone's stint in the laundry room; "birdman" Robert Stroud; prison history; French-Canadian criminal Jean Marie Gagnon; police seek Thomas Noss Jr., Carl Alfred Eder, Lena Regina Smith and Joseph Mancini. Details Episode 16 Aired Feb 15, 1989 The search for the killers of race car driver Mickey Thompson and his wife; man uses glue in California bank robbery; murder of Maine teenager Joyce McLain; Sasquatch sightings in Colorado; searching for the heirs of George J. Stein. Details Episode 17 Aired Feb 22, 1989 Bank robbers use tunnels; out-of-body and near-death experiences; Ohio repairman Permon Gilbert is murdered; Michigan embezzler Ronald Denslow. Details Episode 18 Aired Mar 1, 1989 New theory on who shot Billy the Kid; police officer Charles Mule, accused of child molestation, vanishes; Donald Smith is murdered while visiting his daughter in Idaho. Details Episode 19 Aired Mar 15, 1989 A Colorado woman, Lisa Marie Kimmell, disappears in Wyoming; the 1956 murders of Thomas Hotard and Audrey Moate in Louisiana; the haunted Lost Dutchman Mine in Arizona. Details Episode 20 Aired Apr 5, 1989 Georgia restaurateur John Mooney contracts a competitor's murder; Liz Carmichael and an auto fraud case; the murder of Nevada woman Terri McClure; Charles Wickman skips bail, causing his sister to lose her home. Details Episode 21 Aired Apr 12, 1989 Phony California folk healer Jorge Cortez; clumsy Florida bank robber; search for the killers of Montana resident Dexter Stefonek; Arizona police seek escaped convict Michael Mohon. Details Episode 22 Aired Apr 26, 1989 Woman goes under cover to seek the killers of her son, Gus Hoffman; Ron Rushton wanted for fraud; loss of the USS Muskogee; mysterious strychnine death. Details Episode 23 Aired May 3, 1989 The killers of Secret Service agent Julie Cross; murder suspect Kathy Power; aviators Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli may have preceded Lindbergh's solo trans-Atlantic flight; Florida robber who escapes by bicycle. Details Episode 24 Aired May 10, 1989 Theft of the Victorio Peak treasure from a New Mexico gold mine; the disappearance of Keri Lynn Nixon from AuSable Forks, N.Y.; David Rhodes disappears with his two children. Details Episode 26 Aired Aug 16, 1989 Search for a the killer of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn; Liz Carmichael swindles investors in Los Angeles; Sylvia Wemhoff seeks her brother, from whom she was separated on an "orphan train" for homeless children. Details
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Season Info

Executive Producer
Terry Dunn Meurer, John Cosgrove
Network
NBC
Rating
TV-PG
Genre
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date
Oct 5, 1988
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