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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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