Season One is the First Season of Unsolved Mysteries that first aired on NBC in 1987. It started out as a series of seven specials and the opening season which consisted of 28 episodes, which aired from October 5, 1988 to September 13, 1989.
This page lists the case files for the First Season by episode in as close to the order as they appeared. Repeated clips, recurring segments and some updates are not included. Consecutive seasons as well as the "Unsolved Mysteries"-related shows, Missing... Have You Seen This Person? and Final Appeal: From the Files of Unsolved Mysteries, have since been moved to separate pages..
Specials[]
Unsolved Mysteries began with a series of TV specials.
Special 1 with Raymond Burr[]
First Aired: January 20, 1987 (repeated August 9, 1987)
- Mystery: Don Kemp
- Murder: Roger Wheeler/Brian Halloran/John Callahan
- Mystery: The Family of Pat Mealbach
- Wanted: Terry Lee Conner and Joseph Dougherty
- FBI Ten Most Wanted Roll Call: Leo Koury/Donald Eugene Webb/Victor Gerena/Claude Dallas/James Dyess/Danny Weeks/Thomas Harrelson/Robert Litchfield
Special 2 with Karl Malden[]
First Aired: May 25, 1987 (repeated December 30, 1987)
- Lost: Wanda Jean Mays
- Wanted: John Burns
- Mystery: Kyra Cook
- Wanted: Rolex Robbers
- Wanted: Robert Weeks/Lost: Patricia Weeks, Cynthia Jabour, and Carol Ann Riley
Special 3 with Karl Malden[]
First Aired: September 24, 1987 (repeated April 25, 1988)
- Wanted: The Unabomber
- Update: Wanted: John Burns
- Update: Wanted: Robert Weeks
- Wanted: Jack Lutter
- Mystery: Glenn Consagra/Murder: Freddie Douberley and Mary Lou Holmes
- Lost: Heirs of George Marsh
Special 4 with Robert Stack[]
First Aired: November 29, 1987 (repeated December 28, 1988)
- Wanted: David Davis/Murder: Shannon Davis
- Update: Lost: Heirs of George Marsh
- Mystery: Aeileen Conway
- Lost: Glen and Bessie Hyde/Mystery: Kolb Skeleton
- Lost: Dottie Caylor
Special 5 with Robert Stack[]
First Aired: February 5, 1988 (repeated July 13, 1988)
- Wanted: Missy Munday and Jerry Strickland/Murder: Elmer DeBoer
- Mystery: Michael Martin
- Mystery: Kurt McFall
- Lost: Heirs of Charlie Scheel
Special 6 with Robert Stack[]
First Aired: May 6, 1988 (repeated September 14, 1988 and December 27, 1989)
- Mystery: Dorothy Allison/Lost: Michael Kurcsics/John DeMars/Susan Jacobson/Murder: Lori Zimmerman
- Update: Wanted: Missy Munday and Jerry Strickland
- Wanted: Steve Hadley
- Mystery: Undelivered WWII Letters
Special 7 with Robert Stack[]
First Aired: May 18, 1988 (repeated January 4, 1989)
- Murder: Doreen Picard
- Wanted: Louis Carlucci
- Update: Wanted: Robert Weeks
- Update: Murder: Roger Wheeler
- Wanted: Diane Brodbeck and Jon Yount
- Legend: Beale's Treasure
Season One (1988-89)[]
Episode 1[]
First Aired: October 5, 1988
- Legend: Gulf Breeze UFO
- Update: Wanted: Louis Carlucci
- Wanted: Joe Shepherd
- Lost: Gail DeLano
Episode 2[]
First Aired: October 12, 1988
- Mystery: D.B. Cooper
- Update: Wanted: Jon Yount and Diane Brodbeck
- Update: Wanted: Steve Hadley
- Mystery: Don Henry and Kevin Ives
- Mystery: Dennis Walker
Episode 3[]
First Aired: October 26, 1988 (repeated April 19, 1989 and March 8, 1991)
- Legend: The Queen Mary
- Legend: Tallman House
- Legend: The General Wayne Inn
- Legend: Tatum House
Episode 4[]
First Aired: November 2, 1988 (repeated March 22, 1989)
- Mystery: Son of Sam (part 1)
- Lost Heirs: Heirs of Walter Green
- Murder: Harold and Thelma Swain
- Bank Robber Roll Call: Wanted: Chevy Chase Bandit/John William Farr/Shotgun Bandit/Shopping Bag Bandit
Episode 5[]
First Aired: November 9, 1988 (repeated March 29, 1989)
- Wanted: Bob Dozier and John Russell/Lost: Kristen Tomlin and Suzanne Russell
- Update: Wanted: Rolex Robbers
- Lost: The Father of Janet O'Regan
- Mystery: Son of Sam (part 2)
- Lost: Annie Hearin
Episode 6[]
First Aired: November 16, 1988 (repeated May 24, 1989)
- Lost: Christi Nichols
- Update: Lost: Gail DeLano
- Wanted: Mark Adams
- Wanted: Steven Cox
- Murder: Barbara Jean Horn
Episode 7[]
First aired: November 23, 1988 (repeated May 31, 1989)
- Mystery: Kurt Sova/Eugene Kvet
- Update: Wanted: Shopping Bag Bandit
- Update: Wanted: Bob Dozier and John Russell
- Wanted: Lancaster Extortion Writer
- Murder: Father Reynaldo Rivera/Lost: Father John Kerrigan
- Mystery: Mystery Rock
Episode 8[]
First Aired: November 30, 1988 (repeated June 7, 1989)
- Wanted: Ann Sigmin and Garey Goff
- Update: Murder: Don Henry and Kevin Ives
- Update: Wanted: Steven Cox
- Mystery: Robert Matthews/Kristina Florence
- Lost: Rogest Cain
Episode 9[]
First Aired: December 14, 1988 (repeated June 14, 1989)
- Wanted: Jenny Pratt attackers
- Update: Wanted: Joe Shepherd
- Wanted: Jack Quinn
- Mystery: Clarence and Geneva Roberts
- Murder: Bruno and Bobo
Episode 10[]
First aired: December 21, 1988
- Lost: Philip Pelletier
- Update: Wanted: Lancaster Extortion Writer
- Update: Wanted: Steven Cox
- Lost: Matthew Chase
- Murder: Marilu Geri
- Lost: The Family of Dolores Valadez
Episode 11[]
First Aired: January 11, 1989 (postponed on January 4, 1989)
- Murder: Lee Selwyn
- Update: Wanted: Steven Cox
- Lost: Michael Rosenblum
- Update: Lost: Rogest Cain
- Wanted: Arthur Frankford
Episode 12[]
First Aired: January 18, 1989
- Lost: Jeremy Bright
- Murder: John Martin
- Lost: Heirs of Dan Willains
- Wanted: Leo Koury
- Lost: Michaela Garecht/Amber Swartz
- Lost: The Crew of the Liebling
Episode 13[]
First Aired: January 25, 1989
- Lost: Micki Jo West
- Update: Wanted: David Davis/Murder: Shannon Davis
- Lost: The Brother of Sylvia Wemhoff/Margaret Murphy
- Lost: Marlene Santana/Carlina White/Christopher Abeyta
- Wanted: The Bald Mountain Shooters
- Wanted: Robert Leads
Episode 14[]
Aired: February 1, 1989 (repeated August 9, 1989)
- Legend: Face on Mars
- Update: Wanted: Arthur Frankford
- Murder: Kathy Hobbs
- Update: Lost: Philip Pelletier
- Lost: Jackie Harrington
- Lost: Angelo Desideri
Episode 15[]
Aired: February 8, 1989 (90 minutes) (repeated August 2, 1989 and August 15, 1990)
- Mystery: The Alcatraz Escape
- Wanted: Jean Marie Gagnon
- Escapee Roll Call: Wanted: Thomas Nauss Jr./Carl Alfred Eder/Lena Regina Smith/Joseph Mancini
Episode 16[]
Aired: February 15, 1989 (repeated June 28, 1989)
- Murder: Mickey and Trudy Thompson
- Update: Wanted: The Bald Mountain Shooters
- Wanted: Crazy Glue Bandit
- Legend: Bigfoot in Colorado
- Lost: Heirs of George J. Stein
- Murder: Joyce McLain
- Update: Wanted: Jean Marie Gagnon
Episode 17[]
Aired: February 22, 1989 (repeated July 5, 1989 and September 16, 1990)
- Wanted: Burrowing Burglars
- Mystery: Kristle Merzlock/Thomas Sawyer
- Update: Wanted: Robert Leads
- Fraud Roll Call: Wanted: Walter Wenke/Ronald Denslow
- Murder: Permon Gilbert
Episode 18[]
Aired: March 1, 1989 (repeated July 12, 1989)
- Murder: Donald Smith/Wanted: Larry Munroe
- Mystery: Brushy Bill Roberts aka Billy the Kid
- Update: Wanted: Jean Marie Gagnon
- Wanted: Charles Mule
Episode 19[]
Aired: March 15, 1989 (postponed on March 8, 1989) (repeated July 19, 1989)
- Murder: Lisa Marie Kimmell
- Update: Wanted: Louis Carlucci
- Legends: Lost Dutchman Mine
- Murder: Thomas Hotard/Lost: Audrey Moate
Episode 20[]
Aired: April 5, 1989 (repeated July 26, 1989)
- Wanted: John Mooney
- Wanted: Liz Carmichael
- Update: Lost: Annie Hearin
- Murder: Terri McClure
- Wanted: Charles Wickman
Episode 21[]
Aired: April 12, 1989 (repeated August 23, 1989)
- Murder: Dexter Stefonek
- Wanted: Jorge Cortez
- Update: Lost: Heirs of Dan Willains
- Wanted: Fumbles
- Wanted: Michael and Sharon Mohon
- Escapee Roll Call: Wanted: Larry Dennis Miller/Curtis Watson/Joseph Hutchinson
Episode 22[]
Aired: April 26, 1989 (repeated August 1, 1990)
- Lost: Gus Hoffman
- Update: Lost: Matthew Chase
- Wanted: Ron Rushton
- Mystery: Patsy Wright
- Lost: The Families of the S.S. Muskogee Crew
Episode 23[]
Aired: May 3, 1989 (repeated August 30, 1989)
- Murder: Julie Cross
- Update: Lost: Angelo Desideri
- Wanted: The Bicycle Bandit
- Wanted: Kathy Power
- Legend: Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli
Episode 24[]
Aired: May 10, 1989
- Legend: Victorio Peak Treasure
- Lost: Kari Lynn Nixon
- Wanted: David Rhodes/Lost: Keelan and David J. Rhodes
Episode 25[]
Aired: May 17, 1989
- Wanted: Sheldon Weinberg
- Legend: Gulf Breeze UFO (repeat from October 5, 1988)
- Wanted: Joe Shepherd (repeat from October 5, 1988)
- Lost: Marlene Santana/Carlina White/Christopher Abeyta (repeat from January 25, 1989)
Episode 26[]
Aired: August 16, 1989
- Murder: Barbara Jean Horn (repeat from November 16, 1988)
- Update: Wanted: Liz Carmichael
- Lost: The Brother of Sylvia Wemhoff (repeat from January 25, 1989)
Episode 27[]
Aired: September 6, 1989
- Wanted: Mike Riemer/Murder: Diane Robertson/Stephen Harkins and Ruth Cooper
- Update: Wanted: David Rhodes/Lost: Keelan and David J. Rhodes
- Wanted: Michael and Sharon Mohon (repeat from April 12, 1989)
- Murder: Patsy Wright (repeat from April 26, 1989)
- Lost: Jackie Harrington (repeat from February 1, 1989)
Episode 28[]
Aired: September 13, 1989
- Murder: Todd McAfee
- Update: Wanted: Ronald Denslow
- Update: Wanted: Joseph Hutchinson
- Legend: Victorio Peak Treasure (repeat from May 10, 1989)
- Lost: The Families of the S.S. Muskogee Crew (repeat from April 26, 1989)