Episode guide
Unsolved Mysteries: Season 1
38 episodes · premiered Oct 5, 1988
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- Episode 1: Episode #1 Oct 5, 1988 · 48m • Wanted: Dave Davis • Updates: "Lost Heirs: George Marsh" • Unexplained Death: Aileen Conway • Mysterious Legends: Glen & Bessie Hyde • Missing Persons: Dottie Caylor
- Episode 2: Episode #2 Oct 12, 1988 · 50m • Wanted: Jerry Strickland & Missy Munday • Final Appeal: Michael Martin • Unexplained Death: Kurt McFall • Lost Loves: Undelivered WWII Letters
- Episode 3: Episode #3 Oct 26, 1988 · 46m • Amnesia: Doreen Picard • Fraud: Louis Carlucci • Wanted: Diane Brodbeck & Jon Yount • Treasure: Beale's Treasure
- Episode 4: Episode #4 Nov 2, 1988 · 45m • The Unexplained: The Queen Mary • Wanted: Joe Shepherd • Missing Persons: Gail DeLano
- Episode 5: Episode 5 Nov 9, 1988 · 42m • Mysterious Legends: D.B. Cooper • Update: "Wanted: Diane Brodbeck & Jon Yount" • Unexplained Death: Don Henry & Kevin Ives • Fraud: Dennis Walker
- Episode 6: Episode #6 Nov 16, 1988 · 45m • Unexplained Death: Son of Sam • Lost Heirs: Walter Green • Unexplained Death: Harold & Thelma Swain • Updates: "Wanted: Jerry Strickland & Missy Munday"
- Episode 7: Episode #7 Nov 23, 1988 · 42m • The Unexplained: The General Wayne Inn • Murder: Gretchen Burford • Unexplained Death: Son of Sam • Missing Persons: Annie Hearin
- Episode 8: Episode #8 Nov 30, 1988 · 50m • Missing Persons: Christi Nichols • Solved: "Missing Persons: Gail Delano" • Wanted: Mark Adams • Fraud: Steven Cox • Unexplained Death: Barbara Jean Horn
- Episode 9: Episode #9 Dec 14, 1988 · 47m • Unexplained Death: Kurt Sova • Lost Loves: Melvin & Daniel Nellis • Unexplained Death: Father Reynaldo Rivera & Father John Kerrigan • The Unexplained: Mystery Rock
- Episode 10: Episode #10 Dec 21, 1988 · 48m • Wanted: Ann Sigmin & Gary Goff • Updates: "Unexplained Death: Don Henry & Kevin Ives" • The Unexplained; Robert Matthews & Kristina Florence • Missing Persons: Rogest Cain
- Episode 11: Episode #11 Jan 11, 1989 · 49m • Amnesia: Jenny Pratt • Solved: "Wanted: Joe Shepherd" • Fraud: Jack Quinn • Unexplained Death: Clarence Roberts • Wanted: Fumbles
- Episode 12: Episode #12 Jan 18, 1989 • Lost Loves: Philip Pelletier • Missing Persons: Matthew Chase • Unexplained Death: Marilu Geri • Lost Loves: Dolores Valadez
- Episode 13: Episode #13 Jan 25, 1989 · 49m • Murder: Lee Selwyn • Solved: "Fraud: Steven Cox" • Missing Persons: Michael Rosenblum • Updates: "Missing Persons: Rogest Cain" • Fraud: Arthur Frankford
- Episode 14: Episode #14 Feb 1, 1989 · 46m • Missing Persons: Jeremy Bright • Unexplained Death: John Martin • Lost Heirs: Dan Willans • Wanted: Leo Koury • Wanted: Michaela Garecht • The Unexplained: Tatum House
- Episode 15: Episode #15 Feb 8, 1989 • Wanted: Micki Jo West • Solved: "Waned: Dave Davis" • Lost Loves: Sylvia Wemhoff & Margaret Murphy • The Unexplained: Dorothy Allison
- Episode 16: Episode #16 Feb 15, 1989 · 48m • Unexplained Death: Lester Garnier • Updates: "Fraud: Arthur Frankford" • Unexplained Death: Kathy Hobbs • Solved: "Lost Loves: Philip Pelletier" • Lost Loves: Jackie Purintan • Missing…
- Episode 17: Episode #17 Feb 22, 1989 · 57m • Special: Alcatraz Escape
- Episode 18: Episode #18 Mar 1, 1989 · 44m • Unexplained Death: Mickey & Trudy Thompson • Wanted: Michael Mohon • Mysterious Legends: Bigfoot in Colorado • Lost Heirs: George J. Stein • Unexplained Death: Joyce McLain
- Episode 19: Episode #19 Mar 1, 1989 · 45m • Wanted: The Burrowing Bandits • The Unexplained: Near Death Experiences (Kristle Merzlock & Thomas "Tom" Sawyer) • Updates: "Lost Heirs: Dan Willans" • Unexplained Death: Permon Gilbert
- Episode 20: Episode #20 Apr 5, 1989 · 45m • Wanted: Donald Smith • Mysterious Legends: Billy the Kid and Brushy Bill Roberts • Updates: "Missing: Angelo Desideri" • Wanted: Charles Mule
- Episode 21: Episode #21 Apr 12, 1989 · 44m • Unexplained Death: Lisa Marie Kimmell • Treasure: Lost Dutchman Mine • Missing Persons: Audrey Moate
- Episode 22: Episode #22 Apr 26, 1989 · 44m • Wanted: John Mooney • Fraud: Liz Carmichael • Updates: "Missing Persons: Annie Hearin" • Unexplained Death: Terri McClure
- Episode 23: Episode #23 May 3, 1989 · 48m • Unexplained Death: Gus Hoffman • Updates: "Missing Persons: Matthew Chase" • Mysterious Legends: Charles Nungesser & Francois Coli • Unexplained Death: Patsy Wright • Lost Loves: The…
- Episode 24: Episode #24 May 10, 1989 · 49m • Treasure: Victoria Peak Treasure • Missing Persons: Kari Lynn Nixon • Unexplained Death: Dexter Stefonek
- Episode 25: Episode #25 May 10, 1989 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…
- Episode 26: Episode #26 May 17, 1989 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…
- Episode 27: Episode #27 May 24, 1989 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.
- Episode 28: Episode #28 May 31, 1989 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…
- Episode 29: Episode #29 Jun 21, 1989 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…
- Episode 30: Episode #30 Jun 28, 1989 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.
- Episode 31: Episode #31 Jul 5, 1989 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.
- Episode 32: Episode #32 Jul 12, 1989 (repeat of March 1, 1989)
- Episode 33: Episode #33 Jul 19, 1989 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…
- Episode 34: Episode #34 Jul 26, 1989 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…
- Episode 35: Episode #35 Aug 16, 1989 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…
- Episode 36: Episode #36 Aug 23, 1989 A segment on a California woman's search for her birth mother. Also, repeat stories that aired on April 12, 1989.
- Episode 37: Episode #37 Sep 6, 1989 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.
- Episode 38: Episode #38 Sep 13, 1989 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…