Unsolved Mysteries - Season 5

Unsolved Mysteries - Season 5

First aired: 9/16/1992 55 episodes
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Episodes

1. Episode #201

Aired: 9/16/1992

The fifth season begins with a UFO story involving a 1983 incident in the skies over New York and Connecticut. Also: reports on the disappearance of an 18-year-old woman last seen with an acquaintance; the death of an unidentified man at the Paducah, Ky., airport.

2. Episode #202

Aired: 9/23/1992

Reports on the killing of an Indiana man who was involved in a love triangle; an amnesiac who showed up at a San Diego homeless shelter; a two-day-old baby stolen from her mother's Berkeley, Cal., hospital room.

3. Episode #203

Aired: 9/30/1992

Unanswered questions in the 1935 shooting of Louisiana senator Huey Long; the search by Cincinnati and Nashville detectives for a suspected serial killer; and a California woman's search for her brother, who was put up for adoption.

4. Episode #204

Aired: 10/7/1992

Reports on the 1985 escape of a convicted cop killer from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary; the remains of a body discovered in a Jaguar near Houston; the 1954 of a 9-year-old.

5. Episode #205

Aired: 10/14/1992

Included: the 1970 disappearance of a Houston mother; the search for the murderer of a 23-year-old cab driver in Banff, Alta.; the arrest of the suspected ""satchel bandit"" at a Hamilton, Ont., coffee shop; the death of a 21-year-old mystery woman.

6. Episode #206

Aired: 10/21/1992

Included: the 1970 disappearance of a Houston mother; the search for the murderer of a 23-year-old cab driver in Banff, Alta.; the arrest of the suspected ""satchel bandit"" at a Hamilton, Ont., coffee shop; the death of a 21-year-old mystery woman.

7. Episode #207

Aired: 10/28/1992

This Halloween edition features segments on a ghost known as the Blue Lady, said to inhabit the cliffs above Moss Beach, Cal.; and eerie happenings at California's Drum Barracks Civil War Museum. Also: the search for birth mothers following a San Antonio nurse's baby-selling operations in the '50s and '60s. Link: Moss Beach Distillery: Blue Lady

8. Episode #208

Aired: 11/4/1992

Reports on the 1991 disappearance of a Louisiana salesman; a UFO sighting by a prospector at Canada's Falcon Lake; the disappearance of a prison guard in Orange County (Cal.).

9. Episode #209

Aired: 11/11/1992

Segments on reported POW sightings of an American colonel who was shot down over Laos in 1965; the search for a man who witnessed a Belle Glade, Fla., murder in a sugarcane field; the Bismarck, N.D., prison escape of an inmate who remains at large.

10. Episode #210

Aired: 11/18/1992

Reports on the 1988 abduction and murder of a 7-year-old Midlothian, Ill., girl; and a psychic's claims that he can communicate with those who have ""passed on.""

11. Episode #211

Aired: 11/25/1992

This expanded edition includes live reports. also: segments on an Arizona woman's search for a childhood friend; the search for a Redwood City, Cal., woman wanted for attempted murder of her husband.

12. Episode #212

Aired: 12/2/1992

Segments include the 1990 Telluride, Colo., murder of Eva Schoen, wife of U-Haul heir Sam Schoen; the 14-year search for a Texas fugitive; a man's quest to find the half-sister he never met; and the search for witnesses to the disappearance of a young mother.

13. Episode #213

Aired: 12/9/1992

Reports on the 1985 disappearance of a 4-year-old boy from the Lake Tahoe, Nev., area; new evidence linking a 1930s Cleveland killer to the 1940s serial killer responsible for the Black Dahlia murder.

14. Episode #214

Aired: 12/16/1992

Evidence pointing to the possible innocence of a Florida inmate serving a life term for rape; a Falls Church, Va., man's efforts to piece together his identity from sketchy facts surrounding his 1935 abandonment in a car.

15. Episode #215

Aired: 12/23/1992

Reports on a couple's search for a stranger they once befriended, who they suspect is the one annually reciprocating their generosity a hundredfold; a hospitalized 7-year-old boy's miraculous recovery.

16. Episode #216

Aired: 1/6/1993

A report on a Rochester man, originally charged in the murder of a 34-year-old woman, who has been granted a final appeal based on juror misconduct. Also: repeat segments include the killing of a Hamilton, Ind., man who was involved in a love triangle.

17. Episode #217

Aired: 1/13/1993

Unanswered questions in the 1935 shooting of Louisiana senator Huey Long; the search for an arsonist; and a California woman's search for her younger brother. (Repeat)

18. Episode #218

Aired: 1/20/1993

Reports on the disappearance of an Orange County, Cal., executive; and the search for a man suspected in the murder of his employer. Among repeat reports: the 1970 disappearance of a Houston mother.

19. Episode #219

Aired: 1/27/1993

Segments on the shooting death of an 18-year-old Albuquerque, N.M., woman; an Orange County, Cal., woman's search for her foster sister, whom she hasn't seen for 11 years. Also: the hunt for Yamashita's treasure, discovered in 1971 in the Phillippines.

20. Episode #220

Aired: 2/3/1993

A Michigan man's 25-year search for his siblings; a 1991 UFO video, shot in Ottawa, Canada, which includes analysis by a former NASA specialist. Also: the hunt for a fugitive who, in 1988, murdered two women and left a third paralyzed; an investigation into the identity of a young hearing-impaired woman.

21. Episode #221

Aired: 2/9/1993

Reports on the 1983 murder of a 10-year-old Chicago-area girl; the search by Canadian Indians for their biological families; a Byron, Ill., man's search for his twin and half sister.

22. Episode #222

Aired: 2/10/1993

Eerie phenomena surrounding the presence of a Pennsylvania man; the shooting death of a California motorcycle mechanic; a woman's search for her childhood friend, who she discovered was actually her sister; and the death of an unidentified man who used aliases.

23. Episode #223

Aired: 2/17/1993

A man's search for a woman who pulled him from the ocean to safety, then disappeared; a restaurateur's harassment by anonymous phone calls, possibly connected to his 1974 kidnapping in Beirut; and a bomb explosion that nearly killed a Navy captain's wife.

24. Episode #224

Aired: 2/24/1993

A recap of cases solved include the release of a prisoner who was a victim of mistaken identity. Also: the disappearance of a financially troubled Massachusetts man, who's unaware he's an heir to $750,000; the discovery of a human skeleton in an old footlocker.

25. Episode #225

Aired: 3/3/1993

The 1985 escape of a convicted cop killer from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary; the discovery of the remains of a body, found in a car near Houston; the 1954 disappearance of a 9-year-old boy. (Repeat)

26. Episode #226

Aired: 3/7/1993

A former helicopter pilot's reunion with the nurse who helped him recover from a 1967 crash in Vietnam; the disappearance of an Orange County, Cal., prison guard eight years ago; a case of amnesia that erased 16 years from a Maryland woman's memory. (Repeat)

27. Episode #227

Aired: 3/10/1993

The death in Martinsburg, W.Va., of an investigative journalist who was probing Government corruption and conspiracies; the search for a highway rest-stop killer in Ontario, Canada; the prison release of a man who served 10 years for murders he did not commit.

28. Episode #228

Aired: 3/17/1993

A report on the 1991 death in a Mexican prison of a California man who may have been murdered. Also: repeat segments on the 1991 disappearance of a Louisiana man; a UFO sighting by a prospector.

29. Episode #229

Aired: 3/24/1993

Spirits said to inhabit the cliffs above Moss Beach, Cal; eerie happenings at a California Civil War museum; the search for witnesses who may help solve the disappearance of a young mother. (Repeat)

30. Episode #230

Aired: 3/31/1993

A report on new evidence suggesting a Government coverup in the 1968 assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Also: repeat segments on a New Orleans serial killer who targets prostitutes; a con man who preys on vulnerable women.

31. Episode #231

Aired: 4/4/1993

Evidence pointing to the possible innocence of a Florida inmate serving a life term for rape; a Falls Church, Va., man's efforts to piece together his identity from sketchy facts surrounding his 1935 abandonment; and the hunt in Gallup, N.M., for a kidnap victim.

32. Episode #232

Aired: 4/7/1993

The search for paintings by American artist Ben Stahl, which were stolen from a Sarasota, Fla., museum; the Philadelphia investigation of a fugitive couple who reportedly cashed the disability checks of two persons who may have been murdered.

33. Episode #233

Aired: 4/14/1993

Segments on reported sightings of a POW, an American colonel shot down over Laos in 1965; the search for a man who witnessed a Belle Glade, Fla., murder. (Repeat)

34. Episode #234

Aired: 4/21/1993

The arrest in Panama of a fugitive from Texas; and the arrest of a suspect in two Sacramento triple homicides. Repeat segments include the 1990 Telluride, Colo., murder of Eva Schoen, wife of U-Haul heir Sam Schoen; a man's search for the half sister he never met.

35. Episode #235

Aired: 4/28/1993

A report on a New Jersey woman's disappearance. Also: repeat segments include the search for a man wanted for questioning in an Odessa, Texas, murder.

36. Episode #236

Aired: 5/5/1993

Reports on the search for a cult leader; a possible link between a reported terrorist attack on a U.S. Army troop-transport plane and the death of an L.A. bomb-squad detective involved in the investigation.

37. Episode #237

Aired: 5/12/1993

Included: the murder of a Tampa woman reportedly abducted from her night job at a gas station; and the arrest of an Oklahoma State Penitentiary escapee, apprehended in Deadwood, S.D. Also: repeat reports include the search by two sisters for their missing siblings.

38. Episode #238

Aired: 5/19/1993

This expanded season ender includes four bank robbery stories; a New York woman's search for the foster parents who cared for her briefly during her childhood; a Navy blimp that landed reportedly without a crew in the San Francisco Bay area during World War II; and reports of a Columbus, Ohio, girl's unusual brain-wave activity.

39. Episode #239

Aired: 5/26/1993

The hunt for a suspect who shot a cop in an Albuquerque bar in 1984; and an update on a woman who saved a swimmer in Virginia Beach, Va. Repeat segments include a gold treasure (discovered in the Phillippines in 1971), which was reportedly confiscated by Ferdinand Marcos's military forces.

40. Episode #240

Aired: 6/2/1993

Reports: a 1991 UFO video, shot in Ottawa, Canada, which includes analysis by a former NASA specialist; the hunt for a fugitive who, in 1988, murdered two women and left a third paralyzed; an investigation into the identity of a young hearing-impaired woman. (Repeat)

41. Episode #241

Aired: 6/9/1993

Eerie phenomena surrounding the presence of a Pennsylvania man; the shooting death of a California motorcycle mechanic; a woman's search for her childhood friend, who she discovered was her sister. (Repeat)

42. Episode #242

Aired: 6/16/1993

A final appeal resulting in the release of a wrongly convicted Lowell, Mass., man from prison after serving time for murder. Repeat segments include the search for a fugitive couple suspected of killing two people.

43. Episode #243

Aired: 6/23/1993

An update on a man's search for the woman who pulled him from the ocean to safety in 1987; a Washington, D.C., restaurateur's harassment by anonymous phone calls since his 1974 kidnapping in Beirut; a terrorist explosion in San Diego. (Repeat)

44. Episode #244

Aired: 6/30/1993

A recap of cases solved includes the release of a prisoner who was a victim of mistaken identity. Also: the 1992 death of a military policeman at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala.; the discovery of a human skeleton in an old military footlocker. (Repeat)

45. Episode #245

Aired: 7/7/1993

The death in Martinsburg, W. Va., of an investigative journalist who was probing Government corruption and conspiracies; the search for a highway rest-stop killer in Ontario; the release of a man who served a 10-year sentence for murders he didn't commit. (Repeat)

46. Episode #246

Aired: 7/14/1993

The arrest of a wanted man in Osteen, Fla. Repeat segments on the search for paintings by American artist Ben Stahl, stolen from a Sarasota, Fla. musuem.

47. Episode #247

Aired: 7/21/1993

A possible link between a reported terrorist attack on a U.S. Army troop-transport plane and the death of an L.A. bomb-squad detective involved in the investigation; a woman's search for her brother, who she believes may be in Utah. (Repeat)

48. Episode #248

Aired: 7/28/1993

The search for suspects in the 1983 murder of a 10-year-old Chicago-area girl; the reunion of three Ojibwa Indian siblings; and an arrest made following the death of a North Hollywood, Cal., man. (Repeat)

49. Episode #249

Aired: 8/4/1993

Reports include four bank-robbery cases; the unusual brain-wave activity of a 14-year-old Columbus, Ohio, girl; and a New York woman's search for her foster parents. (Repeat)

50. Episode #250

Aired: 8/11/1993

Segments include a World War II Navy blimp that landed--reportedly without a crew--in the San Francisco Bay area; arrests made in the alleged rape and sexual assault of Explorer Scouts in Danbury, Conn.; and a Texas man's appeal of his life sentence for murder. (Repeat)

51. Episode #251

Aired: 8/18/1993

Reports: the reunion of an Arizona woman and her childhood friend; an update on the kidnapping of a 12-year-old boy; the search for a Redwood City, Cal., woman wanted for questioning in the attempted murder of her husband. (Repeat)

52. Episode #252

Aired: 8/25/1993

The search for an alleged narcotics smuggler suspected of transporting heroin from Southeast Asia to the U.S. in 1991; an update on the 1988 murder of a 7-year-old Illinois girl.

53. Episode #253

Aired: 9/1/1993

Included: an update on a man's search for his late wife's family; a report on a 1991 arrest following six homicides in Northern California. Also: repeat segments on the study of dreams that foretell the future; and (postponed from an earlier date) a retired couple's search for a kind stranger they met.

54. Episode #254

Aired: 9/8/1993

Reports on evidence suggesting a Government coverup in the 1968 assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr; the 1991 disappearance of a 32-year-old woman; and the hunt for an armed and dangerous man who shot and wounded a police officer. (Repeat)

55. Episode #254

Aired: 9/15/1993

A report on the search for a man whose boat capsized in Mexico during a 1991 fishing trip. Also: repeat segments include an amnesiac's discovery of his identity; a viewer tip leading to the capture of a fugitive.