Unsolved Mysteries Wiki

Welcome to the Unsolved Mysteries Wiki Recent changes / Searching / Editing / Help / Admins 1,936 articles and growing Unsolved Mysteries is a 1988-2005 TV series that asked the public for help in unsolved crimes, catching lost fugitives, and finding lost people. Originating on NBC as a series of seven specials, it became an instant hit. It was first hosted by Perry Mason star Raymond Burr, then two more by Streets of San Francisco star Karl Malden, and the final four by The Untouchables star Robert Stack. Stack's voice narration, combined with the scary music, formulated it to a great success when it aired as a regular series on NBC in 1988. During its 15-year run, the cases consisted ghost stories, mysterious legends, and lost treasures. It possibly paved the way for other crime reality shows as America's Most Wanted and Forensic Files, even sharing a few cases in common with those shows. After its cancellation on NBC in 1997, Unsolved Mysteries ran for one season on CBS. It then ran on Lifetime from 2000-2002. In 2008, a new version hosted by Dennis Farina had a limited run on Spike TV before moving back to Lifetime in 2010. The series was then revived on Netflix in 2020 with a new format, but continuing to focus on mysterious world phenomena. Robert Stack, Host of Unsolved Mysteries The Unsolved Mysteries Wiki is a collaborative website about "Unsolved Mysteries," the 1988-2005 TV series that asked the public for help in unsolved crimes, catching lost fugitives, and finding lost people. Originating on NBC as a series of seven specials, Unsolved became an instant hit. The show was first hosted by "Perry Mason" star Raymond Burr, then two more with "Streets of San Francisco" star Karl Malden, and the final four from "The Untouchables" star Robert Stack. Stack's voice narration, combined with the scary music formulated the show to a great success when it aired as a regular series on NBC in 1988. During its 15-year run, the cases consisted ghost stories, mysterious legends, and lost treasures. The show sort of paved the way for other crime reality shows as "America's Most Wanted" and "Forensic Files," even sharing a few cases in common with those shows. During its run, "Unsolved Mysteries" covered four to five segments in each episode, running updates on segments in repeats. "Unsolved Mysteries" solved and found answers in at least twenty to twenty-five percent of their featured cases, that is 300 to 350 cases solved out of about 1,200. After cancellation on NBC in 1997, "Unsolved Mysteries" ran for one season on CBS and then intermittant runs on Lifetime. It is now having a limited run on Spike TV. Since Stack's passing in 2002 and the show's cancellation, fans who followed the show have been clamoring for results and closure on several cases. The case descriptions here are based on available episode descriptions, information from the "Unsolved Mysteries" message board and research efforts from the Internet and other resources. Several of the lesser known cases are limited on data depending on what it available. With your help, we should be able to cover all the most popular as well as obscure and forgotten cases with updated material and final results. The wiki format allows anyone to create or edit any article, so we can all work together to create the site and update and expand on cases to create an ultimate resource site. Check out the FAQ to help you get started! Please no copying and pasting of info from other sites, especially from the official "Unsolved Mysteries" web-site; if you add anything, make sure it is your own work! To just browse the site for cases, you can click on Episodes for a list of cases by episode. This episode list should have the majority cases with corresponding links. You can also click Case Files for cases by category: Most Wanted - This page lists all the fugitives and people wanted for questioning for crimes they were connected to. Unsolved Murders - This page lists all the unsolved deaths and murders lacking identification of the killers. Lost Loves - This page lists missing persons, lost loved ones, and friends lost from the lives of others. Unsolved Mysteries - This page is for all the cases that don't fit in the first three: lost identity cases, harassment cases, criminal mysteries... Legends - This page is for ghosts, mysterious creatures, buried treasure, UFOs and all those other tales. Suggestions - This page is reserved for sharing any cases not seen on Unsolved Mysteries. See the Instructions page for guidelines on how to add those. You can also browse the cases here by: Location Year Case Themes Crime Case Status Cases are cross-linked by location, year, solved/unsolved status and running themes in the series; just click on any of those category links at the bottom of the bios. Some of the cases here have only partial info, depending on Internet resouces to expand and update them, but then that's what joining Wikia is all about. Sharing and reading knowledge. However, if watching people edit and skewer your work bothers you, then maybe sharing is not the thing for you. Please get a grasp of how the cases have been put together so far far by reading the Instructions page. You can also contact me on my Talk Page for comments and suggestions if your're familiar with how Wiki pages work. Things might not look pretty yet, But I'm working on it! Here's a Page of things I'd like help with.