• Air date: 20 Sep '96 43 episodes
      Unsolved Mysteries is an American television program, hosted by Robert Stack from 1987 until 2002 and later by Dennis Farina starting in 2008. In addition, TV presenter Keely Shaye Smith and actress Virginia Madsen contributed greatly to its success. Keely Shaye played the role of a reporter from the confines of an office interacting with Stack and responding to questions for further information. In this capacity, she was a welcomed addition to the cast and revered tremendously by Stack, who would "cut to" her for more detailed information. Academy-award-winning actress Virginia Madsen's contribution to the show included performing in Stack's role as announcer for several years. It was broadcast first as specials in 1987, then as a regular series on NBC, CBS, Lifetime and Spike. Lifetime once again airs the revived version of the series, but only in reruns. Although the show is not in current production, Cosgrove-Meurer Productions maintains a website for the show, featuring popular accounts...
  • List of Episodes (43)
    • 26. Episode #414

      25 Apr '97
      Authorities search for a suspect in the rapes of two Texas A&M students; a woman credits her medical recovery to a visit from a ""healing UFO""; and a former reporter tries to locate the woman she recently discovered to be her sister. Also: a probe of why serial killers murder. Wanted: Don Richard Davis, Jr. Update: Wanted - Trent Stephen Fouts Unexplained Death: Kristi Lee
    • 27. Episode #415

      02 May '97
      Reports of cyberstalkers using the anonymity of computers when threatening victims; a youngster's hypnosis-induced account of a past life as a soldier in the Civil War; the murder of a star lacrosse and soccer player. Wanted: David Matthew Thompson
    • 28. Episode #416

      09 May '97
      American and Russian archaeologists discover the bones and weapons of ancient women warriors; Residents of Oakville, Washington, report mysterious gooey blobs that rained down from the sky; a comatose man experiences what doctors call a ""miracle survival""; a mother searches for the murderer of her son. Links: Transcript of the Oakville, Washington segment / Chemtrail Central
    • 29. Episode #417

      16 May '97
      Reports on a possible link between the bombing in Atlanta during the Summer Olympics and a series of bombings in Spokane, Wash.; the search for a Baltimore con man; the murder of a South Carolina beauty-shop owner. Wanted: Unidentified Subject
    • 30. Episode #418

      23 May '97
      Segments include a man's experiences in a French hospital that led to his becoming a minister; another man's search for a good Samaritan who saved his life on the day his child was born; and a boating accident that injured a woman. Also: the arrest of a fugitive and his wife in St. Paul (Minn.). (Repeat) Wanted: Unidentified Subject Wanted: Jimmy Wayne Pierce
    • 31. Episode #419

      30 May '97
      A talk with patients of a doctor schooled in the ancient Chinese medical practice qi gong; and reports on theories of a police frame-up in the O.J. Simpson case. Also: the FBI hunt for a Boston man. (Repeat) Wanted: James ""Whitey"" Bulger Wanted: Robert F. Trenholm
    • 32. Episode #420

      20 Jun '97
      Segments on heroic pets; a Phoenix woman's efforts to find her kidnapped daughter; a death on a hotel balcony; the search for a mail bomber who terrorized New York residents. (Repeat)
    • 33. Episode #421

      27 Jun '97
      Reports include one man's crusade to reinvestigate the 1994 death of rock star Kurt Cobain; Also: a controversial medical diagnosis--by a dog; a 1975 shootout at a furniture store; a 1995 missing-persons case involving two sisters. (Repeat) Link: Wheeling Police Department: Santos Murder Unexplained Death: Jamie Santos
    • 34. Episode #422

      04 Jul '97
      Segments include the murder of Ennis Cosby; a fatal fall from a hotel balcony; and theories about an alleged Government ray gun. Also: a report on aphrodisiacs, including one man's claim that chocolates improved his sex life; a family finds new evidence in a son's 1977 death. (Repeat)
    • 35. Episode #423

      11 Jul '97
      Examining an unusual primate's humanlike characteristics; the story of a missing reporter who disappeared in 1996; the murder of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey; and the search for a suspect in the killing of a Vancouver, Wash., woman. (Repeat) Missing: Susan Walsh
    • 36. Episode #424

      18 Jul '97
      A report on the use of bee venom to treat multiple sclerosis; an update on an Austrian woman's search for her adopted brother; an engineering lab's challenge to arguments in a rape trial. (Repeat)
    • 37. Episode #425

      25 Jul '97
      Segments include a case of reported vampirism involving the murders of a Florida couple; the death of a USC film student in Tijuana; a report on an apparition seen along a Northern California roadside. (Repeat) Wanted: Edwin Rodriguez
    • 38. Episode #426

      01 Aug '97
      Examining several theories about who gunned down rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas in September 1996. Other segments involve the search for suspects in the abduction of a 5-year-old girl; and the armed robbery of a woman and her grandson. (Repeat) Links: Video Clips of the Tupac Shakur segment / 2Pac Mansion - Unsolved Mysteries article Unexplained Death: Tupac Shakur Missing: Therese Rose Walsh
    • 39. Episode #427

      08 Aug '97
      Included: a profile of a so-called ""psychic spy"" in the Government's Stargate program; a report on cloning the dead; the search for a nanny wanted for questioning in Los Angeles. (Repeat) Wanted: Maria Rosa Hernandez Wanted: Melvin Luther Wilson
    • 40. Episode #428

      15 Aug '97
      A profile of a family that claims to be tormented by unseen forces, including ghostly visions, electrical phenomena and mysterious medical troubles; and speculations concerning the crash of TWA flight 800. (Repeat) Lost Love: Virginia Burns Wanted: Maria Socorro de Rodriguez LaPine Wanted: Mark Gagliardo
    • 41. Episode #429

      22 Aug '97
      Reports on so-called sightings of MIBs, furtive ""Men in Black"" who travel in threes, speak in unison and re said to be aliens; and a Canadian man's puzzling journey, ending in his death. (Repeat) Update: Dennis Keith Smith
    • 42. Episode #430

      29 Aug '97
      Authorities search for a suspect in the rapes of two Texas A&M students; a woman credits her medical recovery to a visit from a ""healing UFO""; and a former reporter tries to locate the woman she recently discovered to be her sister. Also: a probe on why serial killers murder; an update on a missing youngster, located in Iceland. (Repeat) Wanted: Don Richard Davis, Jr. Unexplained Death: Kristi Lee
    • 43. Episode #431

      05 Sep '97
      Reports on a daring jail escape; a 1986 hostage incident at a Cokeville, Wyo., school; the death of a financial consultant in a fire at a Washington, D.C., townhouse; and an adoptee's search for her biological parents. (Repeat) Unexplained Death - Lynn Amos Special Bulletin - Lost Love - Regina Davis Lost Love: Dave & Christie Carlsen