Episode
Unsolved Mysteries: Episode #405
Overview
A report on aphrodisiacs, including one man's claim that chocolates improved his sex life; and theories involving a reported secret government ray gun. Also: a family finds new evidence in a son's 1977 death.
Details
- Series
- Unsolved Mysteries
- Season
- Season 9
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 1997-02-14
Episode context
Episode #405 is Episode 17 in Season 9 of Unsolved Mysteries. It aired on 1997-02-14.
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Episode 16: Episode #404
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; and a 1995 missing-persons case.
Links: E! Online News: Who Killed Kurt Cobain?
Episode 18: Episode #406
Segments include a case of reported vampirism involving the murders of a Florida couple; the death of a USC film student in Tijuana; suspicions of an insurance scam in Mexico.
Missing: Ceara O'Connell
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Episode 15: Episode #403
Examining the human-like characteristics of an unusual primate; the story of a missing reporter who disappeared in 1996; the search for a suspect in Mexico; and news of a so-called aphrodisiac ""wonder drug.""; final appeal of Tommy Ziegler.
Missing: Susan Walsh
Episode 19: Episode #407
A profile of a Salem, Mass., woman who uses her alleged psychic powers to help solve crimes. Other reports include the 1994 murder of a DEA agent; the story behind a New Yorker's 1991 lottery win. (Repeat)
Wanted: Augustin Mendoza Wanted: Yessica Mendez Special Bulletin: Unidentified Subject
Episode 14: Episode #402
Reports on the suicide of actress Margaux Hemingway, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway; the hunt for the killers of two Mercer College students; and the search for a con man. Also: a Geneva, N.Y., man receives a letter (found in a bottle) that he'd written. (Repeat)
Wanted: Jonathan Kern
Episode 20: Episode #408
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 5-6ear-old girl; and the armed robbery of a woman and her grandson. Also: two women's search for a long-lost brother.
Links: Video Clips of the Tupac Shakur segment / 2Pac Mansion - Unsolved Mysteries article
Unexplained Death: Tupac Shakur Missing: Therese Rose Walsh
Episode 13: Episode #401
A report on the use of bee venom to treat the crippling effects of multiple sclerosis; an update on an Austrian woman's search for her adopted brother in America; an engineering lab's challenge to arguments in a Darien, Conn., rape trial.
Link: Wheeling Police Department: Santos Murder
Unexplained Death: Jamie Santos
Episode 21: Episode #409
Probing NASA findings of life on Mars. Other reports include possible foul play in the death of a Colorado man; the hunt for a woman's alleged captor; a viewer tip leading to a suspect's arrest in Jackson (Miss.). (Repeat)
Episode 12: Episode #400
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 City area residents.
Link: Missing: Zenith Elaine Helton / Transcript of segment Wanted: Jimmy Wayne Pierce
Episode 22: Episode #410
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.
Wanted: Maria Rosa Hernandez Wanted: Melvin Luther Wilson
Episode 11: Episode #399
Repeat segments include: amateur researchers find similarities in the cases of the Zodiac killer and the Unabomber. Other reports include a Phoenix teenager who claims that she was miraculously healed following a 1993 accident; an insurance scheme; missing college students.
Wanted: William Jordan
Episode 23: Episode #411
A profile of a family that claims to be tormented by unseen forces, including ghostly visions, electrical phenomena and mysterious medical troubles; and so-called sightings of MIBs, strange and furtive ""Men in Black"" who travel in threes, speak in unison and are said to be aliens. Also: the search for a suspected swindler in Mexico.
Wanted: Maria Socorro de Rodriguez LaPine Wanted: Mark Gagliardo