Unsolved Mysteries - Season 1

First aired: 10/5/1988 38 episodes

Episodes

1. Episode #1

Aired: 10/5/1988

• Wanted: Dave Davis • Updates: "Lost Heirs: George Marsh" • Unexplained Death: Aileen Conway • Mysterious Legends: Glen & Bessie Hyde • Missing Persons: Dottie Caylor

2. Episode #2

Aired: 10/12/1988

• Wanted: Jerry Strickland & Missy Munday • Final Appeal: Michael Martin • Unexplained Death: Kurt McFall • Lost Loves: Undelivered WWII Letters

3. Episode #3

Aired: 10/26/1988

• Amnesia: Doreen Picard • Fraud: Louis Carlucci • Wanted: Diane Brodbeck & Jon Yount • Treasure: Beale's Treasure

4. Episode #4

Aired: 11/2/1988

• The Unexplained: The Queen Mary • Wanted: Joe Shepherd • Missing Persons: Gail DeLano

5. Episode 5

Aired: 11/9/1988

• Mysterious Legends: D.B. Cooper • Update: "Wanted: Diane Brodbeck & Jon Yount" • Unexplained Death: Don Henry & Kevin Ives • Fraud: Dennis Walker

6. Episode #6

Aired: 11/16/1988

• Unexplained Death: Son of Sam • Lost Heirs: Walter Green • Unexplained Death: Harold & Thelma Swain • Updates: "Wanted: Jerry Strickland & Missy Munday"

7. Episode #7

Aired: 11/23/1988

• The Unexplained: The General Wayne Inn • Murder: Gretchen Burford • Unexplained Death: Son of Sam • Missing Persons: Annie Hearin

8. Episode #8

Aired: 11/30/1988

• Missing Persons: Christi Nichols • Solved: "Missing Persons: Gail Delano" • Wanted: Mark Adams • Fraud: Steven Cox • Unexplained Death: Barbara Jean Horn

9. Episode #9

Aired: 12/14/1988

• Unexplained Death: Kurt Sova • Lost Loves: Melvin & Daniel Nellis • Unexplained Death: Father Reynaldo Rivera & Father John Kerrigan • The Unexplained: Mystery Rock

10. Episode #10

Aired: 12/21/1988

• Wanted: Ann Sigmin & Gary Goff • Updates: "Unexplained Death: Don Henry & Kevin Ives" • The Unexplained; Robert Matthews & Kristina Florence • Missing Persons: Rogest Cain

11. Episode #11

Aired: 1/11/1989

• Amnesia: Jenny Pratt • Solved: "Wanted: Joe Shepherd" • Fraud: Jack Quinn • Unexplained Death: Clarence Roberts • Wanted: Fumbles

12. Episode #12

Aired: 1/18/1989

• Lost Loves: Philip Pelletier • Missing Persons: Matthew Chase • Unexplained Death: Marilu Geri • Lost Loves: Dolores Valadez

13. Episode #13

Aired: 1/25/1989

• Murder: Lee Selwyn • Solved: "Fraud: Steven Cox" • Missing Persons: Michael Rosenblum • Updates: "Missing Persons: Rogest Cain" • Fraud: Arthur Frankford

14. Episode #14

Aired: 2/1/1989

• Missing Persons: Jeremy Bright • Unexplained Death: John Martin • Lost Heirs: Dan Willans • Wanted: Leo Koury • Wanted: Michaela Garecht • The Unexplained: Tatum House

15. Episode #15

Aired: 2/8/1989

• Wanted: Micki Jo West • Solved: "Waned: Dave Davis" • Lost Loves: Sylvia Wemhoff & Margaret Murphy • The Unexplained: Dorothy Allison

16. Episode #16

Aired: 2/15/1989

• Unexplained Death: Lester Garnier • Updates: "Fraud: Arthur Frankford" • Unexplained Death: Kathy Hobbs • Solved: "Lost Loves: Philip Pelletier" • Lost Loves: Jackie Purintan • Missing Persons: Angelo Desideri

17. Episode #17

Aired: 2/22/1989

• Special: Alcatraz Escape

18. Episode #18

Aired: 3/1/1989

• Unexplained Death: Mickey & Trudy Thompson • Wanted: Michael Mohon • Mysterious Legends: Bigfoot in Colorado • Lost Heirs: George J. Stein • Unexplained Death: Joyce McLain

19. Episode #19

Aired: 3/1/1989

• Wanted: The Burrowing Bandits • The Unexplained: Near Death Experiences (Kristle Merzlock & Thomas "Tom" Sawyer) • Updates: "Lost Heirs: Dan Willans" • Unexplained Death: Permon Gilbert

20. Episode #20

Aired: 4/5/1989

• Wanted: Donald Smith • Mysterious Legends: Billy the Kid and Brushy Bill Roberts • Updates: "Missing: Angelo Desideri" • Wanted: Charles Mule

21. Episode #21

Aired: 4/12/1989

• Unexplained Death: Lisa Marie Kimmell • Treasure: Lost Dutchman Mine • Missing Persons: Audrey Moate

22. Episode #22

Aired: 4/26/1989

• Wanted: John Mooney • Fraud: Liz Carmichael • Updates: "Missing Persons: Annie Hearin" • Unexplained Death: Terri McClure

23. Episode #23

Aired: 5/3/1989

• 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 Crew

24. Episode #24

Aired: 5/10/1989

• Treasure: Victoria Peak Treasure • Missing Persons: Kari Lynn Nixon • Unexplained Death: Dexter Stefonek

25. Episode #25

Aired: 5/10/1989

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 custody battle with his wife.

26. Episode #26

Aired: 5/17/1989

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 repeat segments including UFO sightings.

27. Episode #27

Aired: 5/24/1989

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.

28. Episode #28

Aired: 5/31/1989

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 search for the killers of an Ohio teenager; and puzzling tragedies involving two priests.

29. Episode #29

Aired: 6/21/1989

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; markings on the surface of Mars; and the search for the killers of a California teenager.

30. Episode #30

Aired: 6/28/1989

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.

31. Episode #31

Aired: 7/5/1989

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.

32. Episode #32

Aired: 7/12/1989

(repeat of March 1, 1989)

33. Episode #33

Aired: 7/19/1989

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 gold mine, and a Dutch miner who may have left behind an unclaimed fortune when he died.

34. Episode #34

Aired: 7/26/1989

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 search for the kidnappers of a California girl; works of art stolen from museums.

35. Episode #35

Aired: 8/16/1989

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 car; and a segment on homeless children in the early part of this century.

36. Episode #36

Aired: 8/23/1989

A segment on a California woman's search for her birth mother. Also, repeat stories that aired on April 12, 1989.

37. Episode #37

Aired: 9/6/1989

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.

38. Episode #38

Aired: 9/13/1989

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 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.