Episode
Unsolved Mysteries: Episode #185
Overview
A 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.
Details
- Series
- Unsolved Mysteries
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 39
- Air date
- 1992-05-27
Episode context
Episode #185 is Episode 39 in Season 4 of Unsolved Mysteries. It aired on 1992-05-27.
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Episode 38: Episode #184
New 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 40: Episode #186
An 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.
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Episode 37: Episode #183
Reports 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 41: Episode #187
Segments 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 36: Episode #182
Reports 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 42: Episode #188
Reports 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 35: Episode #181
A 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 43: Episode #189
A 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 34: Episode #180
Reports 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 44: Episode #190
A 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 33: Episode #179
Reports 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 45: Episode #191
This 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.