
Unsolved Mysteries
TV-PG1988•1h 0m•7.7/10
MysteryDramaCrime
Ratings
🎬TMDb
7.7/10(145)
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.
Production
Cosgrove/Meurer Productions, Lifetime
Language
EN
Status
Ended
First Aired
October 5, 1988
Last Aired
April 27, 2010
Networks
Spike, NBC, CBS, Lifetime
Created By
John Cosgrove, Terry Dunn Meurer
Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
US
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Seasons & Episodes
Select a season to view episodes. Reddit links may contain spoilers.
Season

E1
Episode #1
Air date: 1988-10-05
• Wanted: Dave Davis
• Updates: "Lost Heirs: George Marsh"
• Unexplained Death: Aileen Conway
• Mysterious Legends: Glen & Bessie Hyde
• Missing Persons: Dottie Caylor

E2
Episode #2
Air date: 1988-10-12
• Wanted: Jerry Strickland & Missy Munday
• Final Appeal: Michael Martin
• Unexplained Death: Kurt McFall
• Lost Loves: Undelivered WWII Letters

E3
Episode #3
Air date: 1988-10-26
• Amnesia: Doreen Picard
• Fraud: Louis Carlucci
• Wanted: Diane Brodbeck & Jon Yount
• Treasure: Beale's Treasure

E4
Episode #4
Air date: 1988-11-02
• The Unexplained: The Queen Mary
• Wanted: Joe Shepherd
• Missing Persons: Gail DeLano

E5
Episode 5
Air date: 1988-11-09
• Mysterious Legends: D.B. Cooper
• Update: "Wanted: Diane Brodbeck & Jon Yount"
• Unexplained Death: Don Henry & Kevin Ives
• Fraud: Dennis Walker

E6
Episode #6
Air date: 1988-11-16
• Unexplained Death: Son of Sam
• Lost Heirs: Walter Green
• Unexplained Death: Harold & Thelma Swain
• Updates: "Wanted: Jerry Strickland & Missy Munday"

E7
Episode #7
Air date: 1988-11-23
• The Unexplained: The General Wayne Inn
• Murder: Gretchen Burford
• Unexplained Death: Son of Sam
• Missing Persons: Annie Hearin

E8
Episode #8
Air date: 1988-11-30
• Missing Persons: Christi Nichols
• Solved: "Missing Persons: Gail Delano"
• Wanted: Mark Adams
• Fraud: Steven Cox
• Unexplained Death: Barbara Jean Horn

E9
Episode #9
Air date: 1988-12-14
• Unexplained Death: Kurt Sova
• Lost Loves: Melvin & Daniel Nellis
• Unexplained Death: Father Reynaldo Rivera & Father John Kerrigan
• The Unexplained: Mystery Rock

E10
Episode #10
Air date: 1988-12-21
• Wanted: Ann Sigmin & Gary Goff
• Updates: "Unexplained Death: Don Henry & Kevin Ives"
• The Unexplained; Robert Matthews & Kristina Florence
• Missing Persons: Rogest Cain

E11
Episode #11
Air date: 1989-01-11
• Amnesia: Jenny Pratt
• Solved: "Wanted: Joe Shepherd"
• Fraud: Jack Quinn
• Unexplained Death: Clarence Roberts
• Wanted: Fumbles

E12
Episode #12
Air date: 1989-01-18
• Lost Loves: Philip Pelletier
• Missing Persons: Matthew Chase
• Unexplained Death: Marilu Geri
• Lost Loves: Dolores Valadez

E13
Episode #13
Air date: 1989-01-25
• Murder: Lee Selwyn
• Solved: "Fraud: Steven Cox"
• Missing Persons: Michael Rosenblum
• Updates: "Missing Persons: Rogest Cain"
• Fraud: Arthur Frankford

E14
Episode #14
Air date: 1989-02-01
• Missing Persons: Jeremy Bright
• Unexplained Death: John Martin
• Lost Heirs: Dan Willans
• Wanted: Leo Koury
• Wanted: Michaela Garecht
• The Unexplained: Tatum House

E15
Episode #15
Air date: 1989-02-08
• Wanted: Micki Jo West
• Solved: "Waned: Dave Davis"
• Lost Loves: Sylvia Wemhoff & Margaret Murphy
• The Unexplained: Dorothy Allison

E16
Episode #16
Air date: 1989-02-15
• Unexplained Death: Lester Garnier
• Updates: "Fraud: Arthur Frankford"
• Unexplained Death: Kathy Hobbs
• Solved: "Lost Loves: Philip Pelletier"
• Lost Loves: Jackie Purintan
• Missing Persons: Angelo Desideri

E17
Episode #17
Air date: 1989-02-22
• Special: Alcatraz Escape

E18
Episode #18
Air date: 1989-03-01
• Unexplained Death: Mickey & Trudy Thompson
• Wanted: Michael Mohon
• Mysterious Legends: Bigfoot in Colorado
• Lost Heirs: George J. Stein
• Unexplained Death: Joyce McLain

E19
Episode #19
Air date: 1989-03-01
• Wanted: The Burrowing Bandits
• The Unexplained: Near Death Experiences (Kristle Merzlock & Thomas "Tom" Sawyer)
• Updates: "Lost Heirs: Dan Willans"
• Unexplained Death: Permon Gilbert

E20
Episode #20
Air date: 1989-04-05
• Wanted: Donald Smith
• Mysterious Legends: Billy the Kid and Brushy Bill Roberts
• Updates: "Missing: Angelo Desideri"
• Wanted: Charles Mule

E21
Episode #21
Air date: 1989-04-12
• Unexplained Death: Lisa Marie Kimmell
• Treasure: Lost Dutchman Mine
• Missing Persons: Audrey Moate

E22
Episode #22
Air date: 1989-04-26
• Wanted: John Mooney
• Fraud: Liz Carmichael
• Updates: "Missing Persons: Annie Hearin"
• Unexplained Death: Terri McClure

E23
Episode #23
Air date: 1989-05-03
• Unexplained Death: Gus Hoffman
• Updates: "Missing Persons: Matthew Chase"
• Mysterious Legends: Charles Nungesser & Francois Coli
• Unexplained Death: Patsy Wright
• Lost Loves: The Families of the S.S. Muskogee Crew

E24
Episode #24
Air date: 1989-05-10
• Treasure: Victoria Peak Treasure
• Missing Persons: Kari Lynn Nixon
• Unexplained Death: Dexter Stefonek
E25
Episode #25
Air date: 1989-05-10
Reports on the 50-year search for a Native American gold mine in New Mexico; the hunt for a missing South Carolina teenager; and the search for a North Carolina doctor embroiled in a custody battle with his wife.
E26
Episode #26
Air date: 1989-05-17
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.
E27
Episode #27
Air date: 1989-05-24
A report on the capture and arrest of an alleged swindler. Also: repeat stories on the search for a missing Nebraska mother; the dragnet for the killers of a Philidelphia child.
E28
Episode #28
Air date: 1989-05-31
Included: updates on a Michigan man recently arrested in connection with the murder of his wife; and the apprehension of a California extortion-letter writer. Also: repeat segments on the search for the killers of an Ohio teenager; and puzzling tragedies involving two priests.
E29
Episode #29
Air date: 1989-06-21
A report on the reunion of an American World War II veteran and a European refugee which resulted from a viewers tip. Also repeat segments on the slaughter of wild horses in Nevada; markings on the surface of Mars; and the search for the killers of a California teenager.
E30
Episode #30
Air date: 1989-06-28
Included: a new report on the capture of an alleged Florida flimflam man. Also, repeat stories that aired on the episode from February 15, 1989.
E31
Episode #31
Air date: 1989-07-05
Segments include a new report on the capture of an Iowa man charged with stealing from a credit union. Also, repeat stories that aired on the episode from February 22, 1989.
E32
Episode #32
Air date: 1989-07-12
(repeat of March 1, 1989)
E33
Episode #33
Air date: 1989-07-19
A segment on a New York man who, according to this report, escaped after being arrested for bigamy. Also, repeat segments on the search for a missing Wyoming woman; a reportedly haunted gold mine, and a Dutch miner who may have left behind an unclaimed fortune when he died.
E34
Episode #34
Air date: 1989-07-26
New reports on the alleged abduction of a Mississippi millionaire and the capture of a Los Angeles man charged with art fraud. Also: repeat segments on a Georgia restaurant owner; the search for the kidnappers of a California girl; works of art stolen from museums.
E35
Episode #35
Air date: 1989-08-16
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.
E36
Episode #36
Air date: 1989-08-23
A segment on a California woman's search for her birth mother. Also, repeat stories that aired on April 12, 1989.
E37
Episode #37
Air date: 1989-09-06
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.
E38
Episode #38
Air date: 1989-09-13
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.























