The BEST episodes of Unsolved Mysteries season 1
Every episode of Unsolved Mysteries season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Unsolved Mysteries season 1!
Combines four to five segments of dramatic re-enactments, interviews and updates of real human and paranormal mysteries. An audience interactive call-to-action request allowed viewers to call in with tips to help solve the cases.
#1 - Episode #26
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 8/16/1989
A report on the Pennsylvania search for a child killer; an update on an April report about an Los Angeles man who reportedly swindled investors in a scheme to develop his futuristic Dale car; and a segment on homeless children in the early part of this century.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Episode #27
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 9/6/1989
Reports on the reunion of two abducted New Jersey children with their maternal mother; and the search for the strangler of a Washington mother and daughter.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - Episode #28
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 9/13/1989
A new report on the capture of two suspected fugitives. Also repeat segments on the 1930's New Mexico gold miner and his search for lost treasure; the 1987 murder of a Florida gun collector; one man's search for crewman of a U.S. Merchant Marine vessel believed to have been destroyed by the Germans in World War II.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - Episode #25
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/17/1989
A new segment focuses on a New York family that, according to this report, bilked Medicaid out of millions of dollars. Also: an update on a Tennessee fugitive apprehended in Canada; and repeat segments including UFO sightings.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - Episode #7
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/23/1988
Cases involving the suspected murders of two priests, one in New Mexico and one in Montana; the good fortune experienced by the family of a Washington State youth, who found a peculiarly marked rock in the forest; the disappearance of a Los Angeles man after he used an automatic bank-teller machine; the death of a 17-year-old Ohio youth, who disappeared after attending a Halloween party.
Watch Now:Apple TV#6 - Episode #14
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/1/1989
Legend: Face on Mars Update: "Wanted: Arthur Frankford" Murder: Kathy Hobbs[78] Update: "Lost loves: Philip Pelletier" Lost loves: Jackie Harrington Missing: Angelo Desideri
Watch Now:Apple TV#7 - Episode #19
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/15/1989
Murder: Lisa Marie Kimmell Legend: Lost Dutchman Mine Missing: Audrey Moate/Murder: Thomas Hotard Update: "Wanted: Louis Carlucci"
Watch Now:Apple TV#8 - Episode #13
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/25/1989
Lost: Micki Jo West, Update: Wanted: David Davis/Murder: Shannon Davis, Lost: The Brother of Sylvia Wemhoff/Margaret Murphy, Lost: Marlene Santana/Carlina, White/Christopher Abeyta, Wanted: The Bald Mountain Shooters, Wanted: Robert Leads
Watch Now:Apple TV#9 - Episode #18
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/1/1989
Murder: Donald Smith Mystery: Brushy Bill Roberts Wanted: Charles Mule[94] Update: "Wanted: Jean Marie Gagnon"
Watch Now:Apple TV#10 - Episode #17
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/22/1989
Wanted: The Burrowing Bandits Mystery: Kristle Merzlock and Tom Sawyer Wanted: Walter Wenke Wanted: Ronald Denslow Murder: Permon Gilbert Update: "Wanted: Robert Leads"
Watch Now:Apple TV#11 - Episode #8
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/30/1988
Segments detail a U.S. airman's claim of a frightening encounter with a UFO on Cape Cod in the 1960's, and include a discussion of genetic experimentation said to involve non-Earthlings. Also: the search for suspects in the murder of an Arkansas telephone worker said to be a victim of witchcraft.
Watch Now:Apple TV#12 - Episode #21
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/12/1989
Segments on the hunt for a man who, according to the show, disguised himself as a woman and bilked investors out of millions for an auto prototype; the seach for a Georgia convict; the murder of a Nevada woman; and the story of a former Florida nun who stands to lose her home and money after posting bond for her brother, who then jumped bail.
Watch Now:Apple TV#13 - Episode #22
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/26/1989
Missing: Gus Hoffman Wanted: Ron Rushton Mystery: Patsy Wright Lost loves: The Families of the S.S. Muskogee Crew Update: "Missing: Matthew Chase"
Watch Now:Apple TV#14 - Episode #24
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/10/1989
Legend: Victorio Peak Treasure Missing: Kari Lynn Nixon Wanted: Dr. David Rhodes/Missing: Keelan and David J. Rhodes
Watch Now:Apple TV#15 - Episode #6
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/16/1988
Reports on a 1986 San Quentin prison escapee who's still at large; the murder of a 4-year old Philadelphia child; a Nebraska mother who disappeared at Christmastime 1987; and a Medford, Ore., businessman who vanished with investors' money.
Watch Now:Apple TV#16 - Episode #1
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/1988
The occasional series begins a weekly run, focusing first on UFO sightings over Gulf Breeze, Fla.; a fugitive wanted for two murders, who escaped from a Tennessee prison more than 10 years ago; and a divorced mother from Maine who vanished while dating from the personals columns.
Watch Now:Apple TV#17 - Episode #20
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/5/1989
Wanted: John Mooney Wanted: Liz Carmichael Murder: Terri McClure Wanted: Charles Wickman Update: "Missing: Anne Hearin"
Watch Now:Apple TV#18 - Episode #16
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/15/1989
Murder: Mickey and Trudy Thompson Wanted: Crazy Glue Bandit Legend: Bigfoot in Colorado Lost heirs: Heirs of George J. Stein Murder: Joyce McLain
Watch Now:Apple TV#19 - Episode #11
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/4/1989
Reports on the death of a California deejay in October 1988 and the disappearance of a Pennsylvania man on Valentine's Day 1980. Also: an update on the case of an Oregon man who vanished with investors' money. (See the episode that aired on November 16, 1988)
Watch Now:Apple TV#20 - Episode #10
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/21/1988
Segments on a murdered Texas woman whose life insurance policy is the source of a family dispute; a Los Angeles man who vanished after withdrawing money from an automatic teller machine; a 70-year old Hungarian immigrant who's trying to locate a U.S. soldier who befriended him 40 years ago at a refugee camp in Austria.
Watch Now:Apple TV#21 - Episode #12
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/18/1989
Missing Persons: The 1986 disappearance of 14 year-old Jeremy Bright, who was last seen at an Oregon carnival. Rumors abound that Bright may have been shot by bullies who used him as a human target. Unexplained Death: The unsolved 1988 shooting of Officer John Martin of the Lee County, Virginia Sheriff's Department. Lost Heirs: The lost heirs of prospector Dan Willans could stand to inherit nearly 3 million dollars. Wanted: Businessman Leo Koury is on the FBI's ten most wanted list for murder, attempted murder, extortion, assault, racketeering, fraud, and arson. Wanted: The 1988 abduction of 9 year-old Michaela Garecht from an Oakland, California shopping mall. Missing Persons: A report on a shrimp boat, sailed by Red Dixon and his children, lost off the Oregon coast in 1986.
Watch Now:Apple TV#22 - Episode #15
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/8/1989
The Alcatraz Escape Wanted: Jean Marie Gagnon Wanted: Thomas Nauss Jr. Wanted: Carl Alfred Eder Wanted: Lena Regina Smith Wanted: Joseph Mancini
Watch Now:Apple TV
#23 - Episode #2
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/1988
A recap of D.B. Cooper's 1971 airline hijacking and extortion, and his subsequent disappearance after parachuting out of the plane over Washington State; new forensic evidence suggesting murder in the 1987 deaths of two teenage boys on a Bryant, Ark., railroad track; a story on missing memorabilia acquired by a Medford, Ore., sports collector, who died in Las Vegas in 1987; and an update on a previous report on a prison escapee.
Watch Now:Apple TV#24 - Episode #23
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/3/1989
Reports on a California mother's search for the killers of her 20-year-old son; the fate of 34 merchant marines believed lost at sea during World War II; the unexplained death of a Texas woman; the apprehension of two Los Angeles seamen suspected of killing a sea lion.
Watch Now:Apple TV#25 - Episode #5
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/9/1988
Part 2 of a report on new evidence in the Son of Sam killings suggesting David Berkowitz' involvement with a satanic murder cult; the search by a British woman, now 45, for her American military-officer father; the search for two men suspected of masterminding an insurance-fraud scheme; and the kidnapping of a wealthy Jackson, Miss., woman.
Watch Now:Apple TV