Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23974 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-01-25
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 373 minutes

Customer Reviews

Good variety of episodes on a great series run but not complete
Unsolved Mysteries was one of the greatest shows on television and throughout its run from 1987-1993 (rough estimate) the telecenter has led to the capture and conviction of nearly 300 wanted fugitives. For the record I stll believe the number for the telecenter is 1-800-876-5353. The series has stopped as far as I know but they still might be taking calls. Some chilling episodes are on this set of discs. The particular ones that I remember is "Texas Most Wanted" which is the case of Edward Harold Bell who was caught exposing himself to kids in a rural Texas neighborhood. A neighbor went out and tried to stop him from what he was doing and he got shot and killed right in front of his mother and sister.

Another case that is very creepy (Richard's Rampage) was the case of Richard Church and Colleen Ritter of Woodstock, Illinois. Colleen and Rick grew up together and became high school sweethearts. In 1987 Rick went away to college and the romance for Colleen began to cool. Rick became very possessive and called her at nearly every opportunity. The following summer in 1988 rick returned home from college to find that his parents had seperated and his girlfriend had made a decision about seeing other people.

On the night of August 20, 1988 Rick Church telephoned Colleen because he wanted one last night out with his ex. They got into a simple fight on the phone and he hung up on her. Around 5:15am the following morning Rick broke into Colleens parents house and stabbed both of them to death while they were sleeping. He then went upstairs and attacked her brother and began to attack his ex-girlfriend. She ran out of the house after calling for help and Rick ran after. He stabbed her out in the street in front of her house before 2 neighbors came rushing to her aide. The police arrived immediately while Rick ran away on foot, hurriedly packed his things, took his mothers truck and vanished to Salt Lake City where he was eventually captured.

I hope he is enjoying his time in prison because he really deserved the sentence that was handed down to him. Life in prison without the possibility of parole. His real life picture can be seen on the Illinois department of corrections website. Go to inmate search and type in the last name "Church" and it will pull up his profile. I first saw ths case on Unsolved Mysteries when I was in junior high and it scared the crap out of me. I asked my mom, do those things really happen to some people after a breakup? She said you would be surprised as in the case of this guy but most of the time people recover and move on. She then went on to tell me that if a breakup happens it is very important to seek professional help immediately if you become depressed or angry otherwise bad things can happen.

several "not really bizarre" stories included.
I love this box set of Unsolved Mysteries episodes for the simple fact that I really love this show. For the most part this box set is great, however I am pretty dissapointed with stories which were not included and some stories that were included. The title of this box set is BIZARRE Murders. So you would think that with all of the murder stories that U.M has done over all these years that they would have plenty of truly bizarre murder segments to choose from. Can someone tell me why the Margo Freshwater case is included on this box set???? What is so "bizarre" about this story? I don't get it. It seems fairly straight forward to me. I was disappointed to see segments like that included on the box set and other TRULY bizarre murders not included. For example they should have included the story about the teenage girl who predicted (for no apparent reason) that she would die before she turned 16 years old. Then like a month after she turned 16 she was murdered. OK....now THAT would be considered bizarre. At least its more bizarre than that Margo Freshwater story. Anyways I still like that there are many stories included here that I enjoyed when they aired on t.v. I can't really complain all that much because at least they released these box sets on dvd for us die hard fans. I still recomend this box set to everyone who is a fan, however, with this particular set you may be scratching your head after a select few segments as you wonder why they decided to included some of these segments under the title of "bizarre."

missing dvd
i gave this as a gift was disappointed to find out it was missing disc 4 the whole reason i bought it didnt know if you guys could send another one or not if you could would appreciated everything else in order was fine