Unsolved Mysteries Episode Rating Graph

Wanted: Tom Dixon/Murder: Gary Simmons Update: Murder: Kimberly Pandelios and Linda Sobek Wanted: Pizza Parlor Killer Legend: Noah's Ark Lost: Wendi Long Mystery: Loews Cottage

Kristen Modaferri (Missing)

Jerry Lee Bowen (Wanted)

Landon & Logan Walker (Missing) Alan Golder (Wanted)

Craig Pritchert & Nova Guthrie (Wanted)

Past Life Memories (Unexplained)

Trisha Ann Autry (Missing)

Cadaver Dogs (Unexplained)

Amy Bradley (Missing) James Sullivan (Wanted)

Camarena Family Adoption (Lost Loves) Amy Bechtel (Missing)

Bryan Nisenfeld (Unexplained Death)

Danny & Kathy Freeman (Unexplained Deaths)

Linda Sherman (Unexplained Death)

Segments focus on a modern-day exorcism in Connecticut; a mystery surrounding an eccentric Rhode Island heiress; and a Mecca for Miracles in New Orleans, where a cancer patient seeks help; woman searches for her mother; Vietnam vet is sought after.

A grainy gas-station video may hold the key to finding an Illinois girl missing since she set off on a joyride to Florida with her boyfriend, who was later found murdered. Other segments include a Vancouver, Wash., family who claims to share their home with spirits.

Probing the mysteries of the ancient Nanteos Cup, believed by some to be the Holy Grail. The vessel s reputed to hold the power to heal those who drink from it.

Examining several theories about who gunned down rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas in September 1996. Other segments involve the search for suspects in the abduction of a 5-6ear-old girl; and the armed robbery of a woman and her grandson. Also: two women's search for a long-lost brother. Links: Video Clips of the Tupac Shakur segment / 2Pac Mansion - Unsolved Mysteries article Unexplained Death: Tupac Shakur Missing: Therese Rose Walsh

A report on aphrodisiacs, including one man's claim that chocolates improved his sex life; and theories involving a reported secret government ray gun. Also: a family finds new evidence in a son's 1977 death.

Reports on the suicide of actress Margaux Hemingway, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway; the hunt for the killers of two Mercer College students; and the search for a con man. Also: a Geneva, N.Y., man receives a letter (found in a bottle) that he'd written. (Repeat) Wanted: Jonathan Kern

Repeat segments include: amateur researchers find similarities in the cases of the Zodiac killer and the Unabomber. Other reports include a Phoenix teenager who claims that she was miraculously healed following a 1993 accident; an insurance scheme; missing college students. Wanted: William Jordan

Included: the 1966 death of rock star Bobby Fuller, who some believe was murdered; an update on a bizarre West Virginia murder case from 1994. Also: people who have been robbed in their homes from a coalition to catch the intruders. (Repeat)

Probing NASA findings of life on Mars. Other reports include an update on a 1988 construction-site fire in Kansas City, Mo.; possible foul play in the 1995 death of a Colorado man. Lost Heir: Owen Walker Lost Heir: Temperee Hawkins Wanted: Tony DeCompo (Wanted for Questioning) Update: Lost Love - Jeff Linn Update: Lost Love - Candice & Sharina Berry

A Halloween-themed profile of a Salem, Mass., woman who uses her alleged psychic powers to help the police solve crimes. Other reports include the 1994 murder of a DEA agent in Phoenix; the story behind a New Yorker's 1991 lottery win. Missing: Meriah & Sabria Widboom Wanted: Yessica Mendez Wanted: Augustin Mendoza Update: Lost Love - Tim Harrell

Two office workers injured in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing seek to find the men who rescued them from the toppled building; a woman's search for her birth mother offers promising news; author James Ellroy is inspired to probe an unsolved murder in his family. Also: a probe into the 1993 death of Presidential counsel Vincent Foster. Lost Love: Duane Miller

Reports on the search for an alleged con man who preys on girlfriends and grandmothers; the 1987 disappearance of a Chicago college instructor who had been affiliated with a spiritual leader; the phenomena of the Nazca Lines of Peru, gigantic drawings purportedly made by aliens 2000 years ago; a building designer's disappearance.

Reports include a self-proclaimed ""spirit channeler"" in Sao Paulo, Brazil, who spreads the message of life-after-death in his paintings; the 1994 apprehension of a fugitive in Cobb County, Ga.; a boy's experiences during World War II; the 1992 disappearance of a waitress.

An episode about the paranormal includes a story about a woman's electrical psychokinetic powers; a ""psychic vision"" surrounding the 1980 disappearance and murder of a young nurse in Pacoima (Cal.); and a man who claims proof of life after death.

An Italian priest thought to have supernatural powers; the 1988 death of a Cook County sheriff's captain whose family and co-workers believe he was targeted for murder.

Reports include a planned salvaging expedition in the San Francisco Bay area to find a World War II enemy submarine; a woman's search for the family who found her as an infant; a man's search for justice in the 1991 murder of his daughter and son-in-law; the work of forensic scientists and police psychics.

Included: new evidence uncovered by a forensic pathologist in the death of a college student; the search for a suspect accused of bilking senior citizens; a man's search for his younger brother.

Holiday segments include a Christmas Eve miracle for a couple and their gravely ill baby. Also: repeat segments on efforts calling for the beatification of a priest who some say performed miraculous cures; the search by a Hungarian refugee family for the U.S. serviceman who aided them after World War II; and a family's reunion with missing siblings.

Segments include the 1991 murder of a teenage girl in Ramsey, Ill.; a private investigator's tip leading to the reunion of two sisters; a so-called ""walking apparition"" reportedly seen in southwest Arkansas.

Reports include evidence that a U.S. soldier, missing in action in Vietnam, may still be alive and in hiding. Also: a viewer tip that helps a woman search for the family that found her as an infant; a woman's claim that she was visited by her late father.

The disappearance of an American sea captain and his crew from a Europe-bound ship found abandoned in the middle of the Atlantic; a viewer tip leading to the reunion of a woman and her birth mother; a woman's career as a police psychic.

This expanded edition celebrates the reunion of a GI and the comrade who saved his life in Vietnam. Other segments include anonymous letters threatening residents of central Ohio; the brief 1926 disappearance of mystery novelist Agatha Christie; a 1988 prison escape.

Reports include video footage of alleged UFO sightings that occured over Mexico City in 1991 during a solar eclipse; a fugitive's arrest in Cobb County, Ga.; the 1992 murder of a man who was asleep in his vehicle; and the search for a missing Rhode Island couple.

""Mysteries of the Afterlife"" are explored in reports on a man who was struck by lightning and recovered with new-found psychic powers; a woman who, according to loved ones, ""came back"" to them after her death; and members of a family who claim that their neighborhood is haunted.

Reports on a man's search for his son, who disappeared in 1991 from an adult-care facility; the arrest of a fugitive outside of a Boise truck stop; studies of twins separated at birth; and a family's search for a wife and mother who disappeared some 14 years ago.

Reports include efforts calling for the beatification of an ordained priest (born in 1904) who, some say, performed miraculous cures prior to his death in 1957. Also: evidence suggesting that Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth was not shot by Union soldiers, but instead lived under aliases until 1903.

"Mysteries of Alien Beings" reports on four men who say they were abducted while on a fishing trip in Maine's Allagash Wilderness, and includes research by Harvard psychiatrist John Mack. Also: a pilot's alleged UFO sightings in Kazakhstan; efforts to locate a nurse who reportedly helped with autopsies of alien beings that emerged from the wreck of a UFO.

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)

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.

Included: a woman's search for the police officer who risked his job to free her from an unjust sentence; new evidence in the case of a mother jailed for the death of her son; the hunt for a Fort Pierce, Fla., con-artist team who reportedly committed murder.

Segments include a 1930's case involving a baby left in a hatbox along an Arizona road on Christmas Eve; a Chicago physician who may be the wrong man serving a prison term for murdering his wife; a telephone Santa's 40-year search for his own child.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

(repeat of March 1, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reports include one man's crusade to reinvestigate the 1994 death of rock star Kurt Cobain. Also: a controversial medical diagnosis--by a dog; a 1975 shootout at a furniture store; and a 1995 missing-persons case. Links: E! Online News: Who Killed Kurt Cobain?

Reports on the search for a Bakersfield, Cal., physician; the FBI hunt for a robbery gang suspected in armored-car holdups in Minnesota and Baltimore; and the disappearance of a Spokane electrician

The series' third season opens with a report on sightings of a bright orange fireball that crashed in Pennsylvania and was reportedly removed under military supervision; a woman's first meeting with her biological father; an arsonist's home movies.

Reports: an amnesiac found unconscious in the Las Vegas desert; the grisly murder of a Virginia woman; the controversy surrounding the Shroud Of Turin.

Reports: a five-plane Navy patrol's 1945 disappearance over the Bermuda Triangle; a murder attempt on a former Florida mayor; the search for suspects in the shooting of an anti-drug activist. (Repeat)

Unanswered questions involving the death of a 28-year-old nurse found in a North Carolina pond; a woman's search for her father, reportedly involved with the CIA.

The search for a ""casanova killer"" who wooed then murdered women; a Florida man's search for his brother, who reportedly died in Vietnam but who may still be alive.

The possible wrongful conviction of a Missouri man with the murder of a 79-year-old woman, which later resulted in a confession from a Kansas inmate.

Segments: the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts youth; the disappearance of a 4-year-old on a picnic in Montana; the murder of a truck driver at an Oklahoma rest stop; a reunion of two childhood friends.

The FBI probe into the 1965 murder of a black lawman in Louisiana; an update on a series of 1988 arsons; a policeman's nine-year search for his two sons; the hunt for a ""cowboy"" bank robber in Arizona and Washington.

Segments on the 1976 murder of a New Yorker who may have known too much about an organized-crime ring; a case involving the infilitration of Government computers and private phone lines.

A report on the use of bee venom to treat the crippling effects of multiple sclerosis; an update on an Austrian woman's search for her adopted brother in America; an engineering lab's challenge to arguments in a Darien, Conn., rape trial. Link: Wheeling Police Department: Santos Murder Unexplained Death: Jamie Santos

Segments on heroic pets; a Phoenix woman's efforts to find her kidnapped daughter; a death on a hotel balcony; the search for a mail bomber who terrorized New York City area residents. Link: Missing: Zenith Elaine Helton / Transcript of segment Wanted: Jimmy Wayne Pierce

A report on incidents of sleepwalking; updates on the disappearance of two young sisters, and a man's search for his siblings. Also: a woman believes that her twin sister, who supposedly died at birth, may still be alive. Missing: Lance Guevarra Missing: Jesus De La Cruz Wanted: Karen Pelletiere Missing: Susan Hurley Harrison Lost Love: Lois Cappoziello Update: Arson - Kansas City Explosion

Included: the 1966 death of rock star Bobby Fuller, who some believe was murdered; and an update on a bizarre West Virginia murder case from 1994. Also: people who have been robbed in their homes form a coalition. Wanted: David Coleman Update: Wanted - William Cooper

- Lost loves: Saviors of Duane Miller - Wanted: Sam Wodke - Mystery: Vince Foster - Murder: Jean Ellroy - Update: "Lost loves: The Mother of Michelle Neal-Arkin"

A report on new evidence in the 1959 death of actor George Reeves (TV's first Superman) includes interviews with costar Jack Larson (who played Jimmy Olsen), researcher Michael Hayde and editor Jim Nolt. Also: the arrests of two fugitives in Salt Lake City. Link: George Reeves Wanted: David Gause

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.

Included: the reported suicide of a 24-year old Virginia woman, who some believe was the victim of foul play; adult adoptees' searches for their natural parents; the FBI hunt for a Massachusetts man wanted, according to this report, in connection with the murder of a Pennsylvania police chief; the search for a New Mexico man, who bilked investors in a phony gold mine.

Segments include a Glendale, Cal., case involving the suspected murder of a homeless man in a 1 million insurance fraud scheme; the search in Washington State for an escaped convict who was imprisoned for the murder of a 13-year old girl; a Los Angeles woman's search for her siblings, from whom she was separated when she was a child.

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.

Reports on the search for a man whose wife and two stepdaughters were murdered in Las Vegas in October; the FBI search for a bank robber who twice escaped from prison.

Reports on the 1989 death of a Spokane teen; the FBI probe into the murders of a Bethesda, Md., Government worker's wife, three sons and mother; the apprehension in Albuquerque of two Federal fugitives.

A new segment probes the reopening of a murder case following anonymous phone calls to Florida police insisting the victim is still alive. Also: repeat reports on the experiences of three sets of identical twins; a policeman's hunt for his partner's killer.

A viewer tip leading to the identification of a comatose man, injured in 1992; a man's reunion with a childhood friend he meat at an orphanage in 1956; a woman on an international search for her only daughter; and the hunt for killers of a woman and her 5-year-old son near Dallas. (Repeat)

Wanted: William Jordan Wanted: John Burns Murder: Charlie Anderson Lost: Lorene Roberts Update: Lost: Bill and Cynthia Zelinski Mystery: Audrey Santo

Reports include the search for suspects in a 1988 Kansas City, Mo., construction-site fire that killed six firefighters; the manhunt for a fugitive who may be hiding out in Florida or the Caribbean; an Army lieutenant's search for his double, whom he first encountered in 1994.

The hunt for suspects in a slick Henderson, Nev., bank robbery; the search for a woman who murdered her aunt and uncle near Chattanooga, Tenn., and stole their savings; an Abilene, Texas, children's aid center whose adoption records were lost.

Kilgore Isn't Here and update; Myrtles Plantation; Gang Mom.

From 1988: Segments examine the claim that the Queen Mary luxury liner is haunted by a sailor's ghost; rumors of a haunted 18th-century Merion (Pa.) inn; and apparitions that torment a Georgia couple. (Repeat)

Segments examine a 19th-century stagecoach heist that reportedly led to the slaughter of Native Americans; a Houston woman's probe into her mother's slaying; a 1994 accident in Madison, Wis., that resulted in amnesia for a minor-league baseball player; and the manhunt for a kidnapping suspect linked to the armed robbery of a Nevada casino and hotel.

A new report on a 1994 prison escape and the same-day disappearance of a warden's wife; and repeat segments on three inmates who escaped from Alcatraz 33 years ago and may still be alive.

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

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

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

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

• 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

Wanted: Stephen Anderson Update: Wanted: Don Davis Jr. Legend: Jean Hilliard Wanted: Minnesota Brinks Heist Wanted: Robert Arcieri Murder: Jodi Bordeaux

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

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

Reports: a con game using state lottery tickets that took in millions of dollars in New York state alone; the search for a homeless person who may stand to inherit $100,000; a former runaway's search for three of her nine estranged siblings.

Reports include a woman's search for information about the 15 American flyers she aided in Czechoslovakia during World War II; the search for a missing Ft. Bragg, Cal., woman; the police manhunt surrounding a nurse's 1993 murder; an Arizona woman's reunion with her birth mother.

Included: mysterious patient deaths; efforts to revive a newborn at a hospital; a viewer's tip leading to an arrest in a case of mail fraud; theories about the 1995 disappearance of a rock musician.

Reports include claims of spiritual activity in an area northeast of San Antonio known as Devil's Backbone; a man's 42-year odyssey to find his son, abducted in 1953; a woman's efforts to prove that her brother's 1968 death was really a case of murder. Missing: Bonnie Haim Lost Love: Donna Kempton

Included: a profile of a so-called ""psychic spy"" in the Government's Stargate program; a report on cloning the dead; the search for a nanny wanted for questioning in Los Angeles. Wanted: Maria Rosa Hernandez Wanted: Melvin Luther Wilson

A profile of a family that claims to be tormented by unseen forces, including ghostly visions, electrical phenomena and mysterious medical troubles; and so-called sightings of MIBs, strange and furtive ""Men in Black"" who travel in threes, speak in unison and are said to be aliens. Also: the search for a suspected swindler in Mexico. Wanted: Maria Socorro de Rodriguez LaPine Wanted: Mark Gagliardo

Monica's Search - Thirty-seven year old Monica Libao made a promise to herself: As soon as her parents died, she would find out, once and for all, if she had really been kidnapped as an infant. Since the death of her parents, Monica spends most of her free time looking for clues. She hopes that you may have the key that will unlock her secret past. Monica Libao (Lost Love)

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

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

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

• 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

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

Murder: Sam Wheeler Wanted: Richard Bare/Murder: Sherry Hart Wanted: Ira Einhorn Update: Wanted: Chief Greg Webb Legend: Gettysburg National Military Park Wanted: Randall Utterback

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reports on the origins of the bizarre Ice Man exhibit at the 1968 Chicago Stock Fair; the investigation into a biochemist's mysterious death in 1953. (Repeat)

Reports include the investigation into the death of Seattle rock musician Mia Zapata. Also: the puzzling circumstances in the drowning of a female student at a Maryland seamanship school. No arrests, few clues 5 years after Mia Zapata slaying

An interview with a late suspect's brother sheds light on the still-unsolved case of the Green River serial murders in the Pacific Northwest. Also included: a 20-year-old Greenwich, Conn., murder case involving a teenager slain in her yard; communication with the dead; a woman trying to locate her mother and siblings; and an update on a family's reunion.

Reports concern a ghost that is said to inhabit a Sunset Strip comedy club in L.A.; an Iowa woman's success in locating two of her three siblings; the disappearance of a Kansas truck driver in Arizona. Wanted: John Arbogast

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

A report on the alleged cover-up of a reported UFO crash landing opens the second season. Also: the story of a Vietnam veteran's 20-year search for a nurse who helped him rebuild his body and mind; and the hunt for the kidnappers of a boy and girl in New Mexico.

• Special: Alcatraz Escape

Reports on the murderous aftermath of Durant, Okla., jail escape by two killers; the suspicious death of a man who squandered an elderly widow's money; two brothers' search for the mother they haven't seen in 42 years; the abduction of a 6-year-old boy.

The series' sixth season opens with a report on a Glendora, Cal., man's recollections of a ""past life"", a viewer tip leading authorities to an alleged cult leader and his followers in the San Angelo, Texas, area; the search for a suspect in a hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of an 11-year-old boy.

The FBI probe into the identity of a convicted bank robber who won't reveal his name; viewer tips leading to a man's reunion with his family; a pilot's strange disappearance after reporting a UFO hovering near his plane as he flew between Australia and Tasmania.

A russian archaeological study and DNA tests are used to determine whether Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia really died when the royal family was executed in 1917.

The eighth season opens with reports on new theories concerning the mysterious deaths of actors Bruce Lee and his son Brandon. Other segments focus on the abduction of an infant girl; the arrests of two fugitives in Oregon and the California manhunt for another. Parental Abduction - Wanted: Dorothy Lee Barnett Wanted: Antonio Magana Castro

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

A segment on Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess focuses on reports that a double may have served his prison sentence. Also: a missing Montana woman thought to be suffering from amnesia after a car crash; and a Virginia search for the killers of a 24-year-old woman.

Segments on the murder of a Michigan real estate agent; the Florida search for a man believed to have swindled occupants of a nudist camp; and a statue of Jesus in Pennsylvania that is said to have moved.

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

Mystery: Kurt Cobain Murder: Candy Belt and Gloria Ross Update: Wanted: Andy Cook Wanted: Jesse James Hollywood Mystery: HOPE Lost: Devon Williams

Segments include reports of ghostly lights in the sky above a small Texas town; the search for a Georgia woman sought in connection with discount-store robberies; and the murder of two teenagers in Washington State.

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

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

Segments on the suspicious death of a Virginia woman; the search for five Hawaiian fisherman who reportedly vanished in the South Pacific; and the death threats received by a Missouri woman who cares for stray dogs.

Reports on the 1976 murder of a New Yorker who may have known too much about an organized-crime ring; the search for a fugitive computer hacker; the reunion of two childhood friends. (Repeat)

Reports on the search for a Houston millionaire suspected of hiring two men to have his former lover killed; the mystery of a seemingly destitute Oregon woman, who left a $100,000 estate when she died in 1991; the reunion of a British Columbia man with his family.

Reports on a $1 million armored-car robbery in Vallejo, Cal., that left three employees dead; and a tip from an Oregon cop leading to the arrest of a Las Vegas woman wanted for forgery. Repeat segments include an unsolved 1985 murder-extortion plot in Denver.

Reports on the 1989 assault and murder in Louisiana of a 26-year-old Milwaukee woman; the 1991 kidnapping of an Austin, Texas, woman at a car wash; an adventurer's discovery of a formation on Turkey's Mount Ararat believed to be the remains of Noah's Ark.

A report on a case of mistaken identity that claimed a Phoenix man's life includes talks with experts who think the intended target was a reporter probing a murder case. Also: the 1986 murder of a 15-year-old boy at his Long Beach, N.Y., school dormitory; an $11 million armored-car heist; an adopted woman's search for her twin brother.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reports: a computer artist's claims that the Mona Lisa is actually a self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci; the 1990 disappearance of a Rhode Island woman thought to have been subsequently murdered; a fugitive's arrest in Tennessee.

Reports include the hunt for a fugitive who allegedly tampered with medication at a healthcare facility; a woman's search for the good Samaritan who once pulled her from a burning car wreck; and a Denver man's search for a childhood friend he first met in 1956.

The 1989 disappearance of a Peoria, Ariz., woman whose cousin vanished from her Arkansas home three years earlier. Repeat segments include a Glendora, Cal., man's recollections of a past life; and a family's search for an Oklahoma relative.

Included: a pilot's disappearance after he reported sighting a UFO as he flew between Australia and Tasmania. Also: the search for a car thief who shot and paralyzed an Orange, Cal., man in 1991. (Repeat)

Reports include a mysterious letter writer who seems to be guiding a woman's search throughout Canada for her missing son; a viewer tip leading to the arrest of a wanted fugitive in Diamond Bar (Cal.).

Reports include a Florida mother's search for her daughter, who was a high-school senior when she disappeared in 1974; the search for heirs to a wealthy recluses's estate. Also: a woman's search for her biological mother ends in the Syracuse, N.Y., area.

Reports on pets being reunited with their owners; a man who tries to track top-secret military aircraft; the arrest of a suspect for questioning in schemes against elderly homeowners; and a suspected murder, allegedly prompted by the victim's plans to blow the whistle on operations conducted at a nuclear-weapon facility.

The search for a suspected murderer who reportedly harassed the victim's family and friends; a Los Angeles collector's search for owners of an heirloom Bible; the manhunt for the murderer of a computer salesman's fiancee in Marietta, Ga.

Segments include reports on a 1917 solar phenomenon known as the ""Fatima Miracle,"" supposedly witnessed by crowds in Portugal; a Nebraska choir miraculously spared in a church explosion; the 1992 disappearance of three persons from a store. (Repeat)

Segments include instances of cures reportedly achieved by the laying on of hands; and a Vietnam veteran's search for the Army comrade who saved his life on the battlefield.

Segments include a $7 million hidden treasure, reportedly buried in New York in 1933 by gangster Dutch Schultz; a couple who in 1993 became victims of a gunman in a Marietta, GA., hotel room; a 1988 child abduction; the Texas murder of a woman and her 5-year-old.

An examination of the mysterious Nazca Lines of Peru, gigantic geometric drawings believed to have been carved into the landscape some 2000 years ago. Also: a probe of eerie goings-on that have been spooking Texas cowboys. Wanted: Gloria Schulze Missing: Charlotte Pollis

An attorney injured in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing seeks to find the men who rescued him from the toppled building; a woman's search for her birth mother offers promising news; and an unsolved family murder influences one of author James Ellroy's crime novels. Also: a probe into the 1993 death of President counsel Vincent Foster. (Repeat)

Townspeople of a British village offer a theory that a 300-year-old chair in a local pub can cause the deaths of those who sit in it. Also: an e-mail message taunts the police with grisly images of law officers; authorities seek clues to the death of a 6-year-old Texas girl.

Segments include the disappearance of a runner whose husband is said to be fascinated with death; a claim that Tijuana police murdered a college student; two drivers alleged to have ESP after individual brushes with death; haunted cottage in England. Unexplained Death: Jayson Artis Missing: Amy Wroe Bechtel The Unexplained: Psychics The Unexplained: Haunted Cottage Wanted: Unidentified Subject

Segments include an investigation into the brutal murder of a popular high-school student in Ohio; and two animal rescues,a blind dog rescues a drowning girl and a pig saves its owner. Also: families seek long-lost loved ones.

Update: Wanted: Albert Leon Fletcher Wanted: Nova Guthrie and Craig Pritchet Legend: Howard Storm Wanted: Heather Tallchief and Roberto Solis Murder: Patrick Kelly Mystery: Yogi the Bloodhound/Murder: Alie Berrelez