Unsolved Mysteries

Season 4

TV-PG

Host Robert Stack presides over an investigation into unsolved mysteries ranging from murders to UFO sightings. Through reenactments and interviews, viewers are presented with the known facts of each case. Anyone with additional information is then urged to contact the show's producers via a toll-free telephone number.

54 Episodes

Episode #147
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Episode #147Beginning a fourth season: U.S. military officers discuss a 1980 sighting of an unidentified flying craft near a U.S. air base in England. Also: the murders of two Texas teens reportedly involved with a cult; a Nashville, Tenn., woman's discovery about her parentage.
Episode #148
E2
Episode #148New theories in the death of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth; the disappearance of a 65-year-old man with no past; and the search for a convicted child abuser.
Episode #149
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Episode #149Reports: an amnesiac found unconscious in the Las Vegas desert; the grisly murder of a Virginia woman; the controversy surrounding the Shroud Of Turin.
Episode #150
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Episode #150The hunt for a suspected serial killer who's been stalking women in Connecticut since 1981; the search of Florida siblings for their twin brother and sister, who were adopted as infants; the first-time meeting of a father and his 32-year-old daughter.
Episode #151
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Episode #151U.S. intelligence reports suggesting that there were survivors of a spy plane shot down over Laos in 1973; the search for a fugitive con artist who defrauded the elderly out of millions; a West Virginia woman's reunion with her twin sister's four sons.
Episode #152
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Episode #152Reports on suspicions surrounding the disappearance of an Oregon police officer's son; an Indiana man's search for a friend and father figure of 20 years ago; the hunt for a man who reportedly murdered his estranged wife and her co-worker in front of witnesses; the recovery of a Maryland amnesia victim.
Episode #153
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Episode #153Segments include reports of ghostly goings-on at a New Mexico hotel, and hauntings experienced by a couple who moved to a 109 year old Florida mansion last year. Also: the search for a con man who poses as a doctor to steal jewelry, coins and computers.
Episode #154
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Episode #154This special edition focuses on what producers call ""the diabolical mind."" Included: profiles of Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein; an interview with a convicted murderer.
Episode #155
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Episode #155Reports on a case of past-life regression; the search for a couple reportedly involved in a Christmastime fraud escapade; a 1985 murder-extortion plot in Denver; the disappearances of Florida convenience-store workers.
Episode #156
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Episode #156A repeat report on crime fighter Eliot Ness's efforts to solve the case of a 1930s Cleveland serial killer. Also: new reports on law enforecement's use of psychics to solve cases; an investigation into the death of a North Dakota woman; and a Maryland amnesia victim.
Episode #157
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Episode #157Included: a woman's search for the police officer who risked his job to free her from an unjust sentence; new evidence in the case of a mother jailed for the death of her son; the hunt for a Fort Pierce, Fla., con-artist team who reportedly committed murder.
Episode #158
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Episode #158UFO sightings over Belgium are discussed by reported witnesses, the police and military personnel. Also: the disappearance of a Michigan company president, charged with embezzlement; questions surrounding a police chief's death.
Episode #159
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Episode #159Reports on the FBI arrest of a fugitive in Commerce City, Colo.; a possible military coverup in the 1989 death of a Marine Corps captain; the search for a Florida church arsonist; the discovery by two women that they are sisters and a report on an impostor.
Episode #160
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Episode #160Reports on the murderous aftermath of Durant, Okla., jail escape by two killers; the suspicious death of a man who squandered an elderly widow's money; two brothers' search for the mother they haven't seen in 42 years; the abduction of a 6-year-old boy.
Episode #161
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Episode #161Reports: a con game using state lottery tickets that took in millions of dollars in New York state alone; the search for a homeless person who may stand to inherit $100,000; a former runaway's search for three of her nine estranged siblings.
Episode #162
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Episode #162Segments on an abusive grandmother who reportedly kidnapped her 2-year old grandson; a convicted murderer who claims he's innocent in his wife's 1983 murder; a fugitive's capture outside Birmingham, Ala; and two Ojibwa sisters from Manitoba who are searching for their estraged sister.
Episode #163
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Episode #163U.S. military officers discuss a 1980 UFO sighting near a U.S. air base in England. Other segments include the murders of two Texas teens reportedly involved with a cult. (Repeat)
Episode #164
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Episode #164Repeat segments on new theories in the death of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth; and the disappearance of a 65-year-old man with no past. Also: viewer tips leading to the arrest of a fugitive child molester.
Episode #165
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Episode #165Reports on the 1988 disappearance of a Washington State student who picked up a hitchhiker and was never seen again; a Georgia man's search for his brother, who he suspects is still alive following a 1990 boating accident; the search for a ""love child"" who stands to inherit $24 million.
Episode #166
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Episode #166Repeat reports on the grisly murder of a Virginia woman; an amnesiac found unconscious in the Las Vegas desert; the controversy surrounding the Shroud of Turin; and the search for the husband of a murdered Rochester, N.Y., woman.
Episode #167
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Episode #167Reports on a Tennessee man's search for a family to whom he gave refuge during the Depression; the homicide death of a North Dakota woman previously thought to have died in a car fire; and the search for a fugitive who escaped from a hospital prison ward.
Episode #168
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Episode #168Reports on the disappearance of a Scottsdale, Ariz., bank-fraud investigator who had probed money laundering; a mother-daughter financial scheme; the FBI search for a mother who reportedly kidnapped her son to raise him in a fundamentalist sect.
Episode #169
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Episode #169A report (postponed from last week) on a clever mother-daughter financial scheme; evidence that some claim substantiates the existence of the elusive Big Foot; the hunt for a Florida man wanted in connection with hit-and-run homicides.
Episode #170
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Episode #170Reports in this expanded edition include a Virginia man whose investigation of UFO sightings threatened his credibility; a Columbus, Ohio, reporter who went undercover in a search of a trucker responsible for murdering prostitutes; a repeat segment detailing new evidence in the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Also: an Oregon bank teller who helped identify a career bank robber; a haunted New Jersey mansion; and viewer tips leading to the apprehension of three fugitives.
Episode #171
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Episode #171The hunt for suspects in a slick Henderson, Nev., bank robbery; the search for a woman who murdered her aunt and uncle near Chattanooga, Tenn., and stole their savings; an Abilene, Texas, children's aid center whose adoption records were lost.
Episode #172
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Episode #172New reports on a rash of Northern California pizza-restaurant robberies; the reunion of a millionaire and his daughter; and a fugitive's arrest in Colorado for kidnapping and murder. Repeat segments include U.S. intelligence reports suggesting there were survivors of a spy plane shot down over Laos in 1973; and the search for a fugitive con artist.
Episode #173
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Episode #173Segments include ghostly goings-on at a New Mexico hotel, and hauntings experienced by a couple who moved to a 109-year old Florida mansion. Also: an update on the arrest in Roanoke, Va., of a man who posed as a doctor to steal from patients. (Repeat)
Episode #174
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Episode #174Reports on the search for a Houston millionaire suspected of hiring two men to have his former lover killed; the mystery of a seemingly destitute Oregon woman, who left a $100,000 estate when she died in 1991; the reunion of a British Columbia man with his family.
Episode #175
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Episode #175""The Diabolical Mind"" includes profiles of Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein; an interview with a convicted killer; and an examination of two chilling murder cases. (Repeat)
Episode #176
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Episode #176A new segment reports on a mysterious malady that has claimed the lives of six members of a Northern California family. Updates include the Alabama apprehension of a fugitive who reportedly murdered his estranged wife and her co-worker in 1988.
Episode #177
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Episode #177IRS and FBI efforts to stop a medical-investment scam operated by a team of con artists; the murders of two Swedish women vacationers, discovered in 1983 by deer hunters near Santa Barbara; a 17-year-old disappearance case, stumbled upon by a rock climber.
Episode #178
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Episode #178A report on a wealthy Phoenix woman who was found shot to death in her home in 1988. Also: repeat segments on law enforcement's case of psychics to solve cases, the search for a New Hampshire lawyer who embezzled from his clients and an amnesia victim who lost 16 years of her life because of a stroke.
Episode #179
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Episode #179Reports on a $1 million armored-car robbery in Vallejo, Cal., that left three employees dead; and a tip from an Oregon cop leading to the arrest of a Las Vegas woman wanted for forgery. Repeat segments include an unsolved 1985 murder-extortion plot in Denver.
Episode #180
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Episode #180Reports on the 1989 assault and murder in Louisiana of a 26-year-old Milwaukee woman; the 1991 kidnapping of an Austin, Texas, woman at a car wash; an adventurer's discovery of a formation on Turkey's Mount Ararat believed to be the remains of Noah's Ark.
Episode #181
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Episode #181A report on a case of mistaken identity that claimed a Phoenix man's life includes talks with experts who think the intended target was a reporter probing a murder case. Also: the 1986 murder of a 15-year-old boy at his Long Beach, N.Y., school dormitory; an $11 million armored-car heist; an adopted woman's search for her twin brother.
Episode #182
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Episode #182Reports on a man's seven-year attempt to regain custody of his son; and the Texas arrest of a Tennessee woman who allegedly murdered her aunt and uncle. Also: repeat segments on the search for perpetrators of evangelist mail bombings; the hunt for a Fort Pierce, Fla., con-artist team.
Episode #183
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Episode #183Reports in this expanded edition include the search for the killer of an elderly Washburn, Texas, man. Also: repeat segments on a Virginia man whose investigation into UFO sightings threatened his credibility; an Oregon bank teller who helped identify a career bank robber; new evidence in the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
Episode #184
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Episode #184New segments on claims of a murder coverup in two boys' deaths in a blazing shack; and a woman's reunion with her surrogate family with whom she lived during the Depression. Repeat segments: UFO sightings over Belgium, discussed by reported witnesses, the police and military personnel.
Episode #185
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Episode #185A report on the capture of a fugitive after his escape from a prison ward at a Chicago hospital. Also: repeat segment on the search for a reported homeless woman who may stand to inherit $100,000; the disappearance and subsequent death of a Madison, Wis., man.
Episode #186
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Episode #186An update on a Tennessee man's reunion with members of a family to whom he gave refuge during the Depression. Also: repeat reports on a Georgia man's search for his brother following a 1990 boating accident; the mystery of a caretaker who squandered the riches of an elderly widow.
Episode #187
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Episode #187Segments on an abusive grandmother who reportedly kidnapped her 2-year-old grandson; a man's search for his missing brother, who he suspects is a POW in Vietnam; two women in Manitoba who are searching for their estranged sister. (Repeat)
Episode #188
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Episode #188Reports on the arrest of a woman charged with kidnapping her 9-year-old son; the murderous aftermath of a Durant, Okla., jail escape by two killers; the murder of a Phoenix millionairess. (Repeat)
Episode #189
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Episode #189A new segment reports on a man's reunion with his daughter, ending a 43-year search for his only living relative, to whom he plans to bequeath an estate worth more than $1 million. Repeat segments include the disappearance of a Scottsdale, Ariz., bank-fraud investigator.
Episode #190
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Episode #190A report on the arrest in Vermont of a Florida man wanted for a deadly hit-and-run. Repeat segments include a New York con game using state-lottery tickets; and the efforts of a Minnesota man, convicted of murdering his wife, to prove his innocence.
Episode #191
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Episode #191This expanded edition reports on the FBI arrest of a fugitive in Commerce City, Colo.; the search for 17 tons of gold bullion buried since the 1930s atop a mesa in New Mexico; a suspected military coverup in the 1989 death of a Marine Corps captain; a reporter's undercover search for an Ohio serial killer.
Episode #192
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Episode #192Segments on the search for a Houston millionaire who reportedly hired two men to kill his former lover; a seemingly destitute Oregon woman who died and left a $100,000 estate; a series of late-night disappearances of women at Florida-area convenience stores. (Repeat)
Episode #193
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Episode #193Reports on IRS and FBI efforts to stop a medical-investment scheme; the murders of two vacationing Swedish women, discovered in 1983 by deer hunters near Santa Barbara; a woman's claims that her son's death in a blazing shack was a murder coverup. (Repeat)
Episode #194
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Episode #194Reports on a botched armored-car heist in Vallejo, Cal., that left three guards dead; a woman's search for the baby she was forced to give up for adoption 27 years ago; a rock climber's grisly discovery that reopened a 17-year-old murder case. (Repeat)
Episode #195
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Episode #195Among the segments is an update on two hitchhikers who may have information on a suspect in an unsolved Texas murder. Also: repeat reports, including the case of mistaken identity that claimed the life of a Phoenix computer draftsman in May 1990.
Episode #196
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Episode #196Updates include the reunion of a family of Ojibwa sisters from Manitoba, Canada; the 1991 prison release of a Hillsboro, Mo., woman. Also: repeat reports on the search for a truck driver who kidnapped a woman in Clinton, Mo.; and a mysterious medical condition that claimed the lives of six family members.
Episode #197
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Episode #197A viewer tip leads to the arrest of a Rollingwood, Texas, woman suspected or robbing and murdering her aunt and uncle in Tennessee. Repeat reports: an adventurer's search for the Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas; a woman's search for her twin brother.
Episode #198
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Episode #198A new segment on an Illinois man's finding that he has an identical twin brother and possibly a half sister; and an update on a couple's reunion with the daughter they gave up for adoption at birth.
Episode #199
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Episode #199Reports on the possible wrongful murder conviction of an Aurora, Mo., man; a woman who draws uncanny likenesses of people she's never met who have died; the mysterious poisoning death of a North Dakota man. (Repeat)
Episode #200
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Episode #200A segment on a man wanted by San Francisco authorities for the strangling of his girlfriend and the attempted murder of her aunt; an update on a man's search for his missing sister. Included in repeat reports: the search for the killer of a 26-year-old woman.