The essential episodes of Unsolved Mysteries
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Unsolved Mysteries — each pick states its reason.
- 01
After rushing from his home, Rey Rivera disappears. Days later, his car is found — and a strange sight at a historic hotel triggers a baffling mystery.
- 02
Patrice Endres abruptly vanishes from the salon she owned within a 13-minute window of time. Exactly 600 days later, her case takes a shocking turn.
- 03
When an aristocrat and his entire family disappear, the authorities unearth something horrifying.
- 04
Alonzo Brooks vanishes after a party. His body is found a month later. Many believe that his unsolved death is a hate crime.
- 05
Lena Chapin claims on tape that her mother killed her stepfather. Several years later, she's issued a subpoena to testify in court — then disappears.
- 06
After checking in at a luxury hotel with no ID or credit card, a woman dies from a gunshot. Years later, her identity — and her death — remain a mystery.
- 07
Given a furlough to go Christmas shopping in 1973, a convicted killer escapes. Police have come close to apprehending him but believe he's still at large.
- 08
On an icy night, police find JoAnn Romain's abandoned car and assume she drowned in a nearby lake by suicide. But her family suspects foul play.
- 09
In May and August 1989, two toddlers vanished from the same New York City park. A search turned up nothing — but their families haven't given up hope.
- 10
Twenty-year old Josh Guimond leaves a college party without a word and is never seen again. Two decades later, his loved ones just want answers.
- 11
Amanda Antoni's husband finds her body in their basement with blood everywhere. The scene confounds police: Was it foul play — or a tragic accident?
- 12
After a teen finds an embalmed head in the woods, investigators uncover a possible connection to a black-market organ trade as they try to ID the victim.
- 13
Sigrid Stevenson's chilling murder on the stage of a locked campus theater still haunts a New Jersey college as new theories about her killer emerge.
- 14
Two friends were shot dead at a busy park on a June day, but the killer escaped unseen. Grieving families are on a hunt for clues about the brazen crime.
- 15
For decades, a wave of cattle mutilations executed with near-surgical precision has plagued the US. Are extraterrestrials behind these gruesome acts?
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