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.
Cast: Dennis Farina
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38 episodes
1. Episode #1• Wanted: Dave Davis
• Updates: "Lost Heirs: George Marsh"
• Unexplained Death: Aileen Conway
• Mysterious Legends: Glen & Bessie Hyde
• Missing Persons: Dottie CaylorTV-PGCC48minOct 5, 1988
2. Episode #2• Wanted: Jerry Strickland & Missy Munday
• Final Appeal: Michael Martin
• Unexplained Death: Kurt McFall
• Lost Loves: Undelivered WWII LettersTV-PGCC50minOct 12, 1988
3. Episode #3• Amnesia: Doreen Picard
• Fraud: Louis Carlucci
• Wanted: Diane Brodbeck & Jon Yount
• Treasure: Beale's TreasureTV-PGCC46minOct 26, 1988
4. Episode #4• The Unexplained: The Queen Mary
• Wanted: Joe Shepherd
• Missing Persons: Gail DeLanoTV-PGCC45minNov 2, 1988
5. Episode 5• Mysterious Legends: D.B. Cooper
• Update: "Wanted: Diane Brodbeck & Jon Yount"
• Unexplained Death: Don Henry & Kevin Ives
• Fraud: Dennis WalkerTV-PGCC42minNov 9, 1988
6. Episode #6• Unexplained Death: Son of Sam
• Lost Heirs: Walter Green
• Unexplained Death: Harold & Thelma Swain
• Updates: "Wanted: Jerry Strickland & Missy Munday"TV-PGCC45minNov 16, 1988
7. Episode #7• The Unexplained: The General Wayne Inn
• Murder: Gretchen Burford
• Unexplained Death: Son of Sam
• Missing Persons: Annie HearinTV-PGCC42minNov 23, 1988
8. Episode #8• Missing Persons: Christi Nichols
• Solved: "Missing Persons: Gail Delano"
• Wanted: Mark Adams
• Fraud: Steven Cox
• Unexplained Death: Barbara Jean HornTV-PGCC50minNov 30, 1988
9. Episode #9• Unexplained Death: Kurt Sova
• Lost Loves: Melvin & Daniel Nellis
• Unexplained Death: Father Reynaldo Rivera & Father John Kerrigan
• The Unexplained: Mystery RockTV-PGCC47minDec 14, 1988
10. Episode #10• Wanted: Ann Sigmin & Gary Goff
• Updates: "Unexplained Death: Don Henry & Kevin Ives"
• The Unexplained; Robert Matthews & Kristina Florence
• Missing Persons: Rogest CainTV-PGCC48minDec 21, 1988
11. Episode #11• Amnesia: Jenny Pratt
• Solved: "Wanted: Joe Shepherd"
• Fraud: Jack Quinn
• Unexplained Death: Clarence Roberts
• Wanted: FumblesTV-PGCC49minJan 11, 1989
12. Episode #12• Lost Loves: Philip Pelletier
• Missing Persons: Matthew Chase
• Unexplained Death: Marilu Geri
• Lost Loves: Dolores ValadezTV-PGCCJan 18, 1989
13. Episode #13• Murder: Lee Selwyn
• Solved: "Fraud: Steven Cox"
• Missing Persons: Michael Rosenblum
• Updates: "Missing Persons: Rogest Cain"
• Fraud: Arthur FrankfordTV-PGCC49minJan 25, 1989
14. Episode #14• Missing Persons: Jeremy Bright
• Unexplained Death: John Martin
• Lost Heirs: Dan Willans
• Wanted: Leo Koury
• Wanted: Michaela Garecht
• The Unexplained: Tatum HouseTV-PGCC46minFeb 1, 1989
15. Episode #15• Wanted: Micki Jo West
• Solved: "Waned: Dave Davis"
• Lost Loves: Sylvia Wemhoff & Margaret Murphy
• The Unexplained: Dorothy AllisonTV-PGCCFeb 8, 1989
16. Episode #16• Unexplained Death: Lester Garnier
• Updates: "Fraud: Arthur Frankford"
• Unexplained Death: Kathy Hobbs
• Solved: "Lost Loves: Philip Pelletier"
• Lost Loves: Jackie Purintan
• Missing Persons: Angelo DesideriTV-PGCC48minFeb 15, 1989
17. Episode #17• Special: Alcatraz EscapeTV-PGCC57minFeb 22, 1989
18. Episode #18• Unexplained Death: Mickey & Trudy Thompson
• Wanted: Michael Mohon
• Mysterious Legends: Bigfoot in Colorado
• Lost Heirs: George J. Stein
• Unexplained Death: Joyce McLainTV-PGCC44minMar 1, 1989
19. Episode #19• Wanted: The Burrowing Bandits
• The Unexplained: Near Death Experiences (Kristle Merzlock & Thomas "Tom" Sawyer)
• Updates: "Lost Heirs: Dan Willans"
• Unexplained Death: Permon GilbertTV-PGCC45minMar 1, 1989
20. Episode #20• Wanted: Donald Smith
• Mysterious Legends: Billy the Kid and Brushy Bill Roberts
• Updates: "Missing: Angelo Desideri"
• Wanted: Charles MuleTV-PGCC45minApr 5, 1989
21. Episode #21• Unexplained Death: Lisa Marie Kimmell
• Treasure: Lost Dutchman Mine
• Missing Persons: Audrey MoateTV-PGCC44minApr 12, 1989
22. Episode #22• Wanted: John Mooney
• Fraud: Liz Carmichael
• Updates: "Missing Persons: Annie Hearin"
• Unexplained Death: Terri McClureTV-PGCC44minApr 26, 1989
23. Episode #23• 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 CrewTV-PGCC48minMay 3, 1989
24. Episode #24• Treasure: Victoria Peak Treasure
• Missing Persons: Kari Lynn Nixon
• Unexplained Death: Dexter StefonekTV-PGCC49minMay 10, 1989- 25. Episode #25Reports 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.TV-PGCCMay 10, 1989
- 26. Episode #26A 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.TV-PGCCMay 17, 1989
- 27. Episode #27A 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.TV-PGCCMay 24, 1989
- 28. Episode #28Included: 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.TV-PGCCMay 31, 1989
- 29. Episode #29A 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.TV-PGCCJun 21, 1989
- 30. Episode #30Included: a new report on the capture of an alleged Florida flimflam man. Also, repeat stories that aired on the episode from February 15, 1989.TV-PGCCJun 28, 1989
- 31. Episode #31Segments 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.TV-PGCCJul 5, 1989
- 32. Episode #32(repeat of March 1, 1989)TV-PGCCJul 12, 1989
- 33. Episode #33A 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.TV-PGCCJul 19, 1989
- 34. Episode #34New 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.TV-PGCCJul 26, 1989
- 35. Episode #35A 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.TV-PGCCAug 16, 1989
- 36. Episode #36A segment on a California woman's search for her birth mother. Also, repeat stories that aired on April 12, 1989.TV-PGCCAug 23, 1989
- 37. Episode #37Reports 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.TV-PGCCSep 6, 1989
- 38. Episode #38A 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.TV-PGCCSep 13, 1989
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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.
Creators and cast
- Created by
- John Cosgrove, Terry Dunn Meurer
- Cast
- Dennis Farina
- Studio
- Cosgrove/Meurer Productions, Lifetime
