The story about Colleen saved my life back in 2011. I was walking from university when two masked guys came with me with a knife. I suddenly froze and I suddenly remember this episode. I started screaming and ran into a public area for help. The attackers got scared and ran off. Unsolved Mysteries saved my life that night.
One thing I loved about this series was the level they went to for their reenactments. Sure, it's not 100% given time and budget, but they put a lot more effort into them than many movies I've seen.
40 now i used to watch these when i was like 10yrs old the re enactments were the best especially the FRAUD cases and the ROBBERY cases were my favourites, i especially likes the one of the guy who lived alone and everyone though he was just a poor old pensioner but when he died they found out he had $500,000 in the bank etc... my hero a guy like that, acts poor but is actually well off but dosent look it
@@Muirmaiden, I agree. That was one of the cases that was made into one of the *From The Files of Unsolved Mysteries* series of tv movies.. which I hope they also put up here on RUclips eventually.
YES. The acting is on point and the choice to do it all in silence up until she screams is brilliant. People knock UM for being cheesy, but they could get it so right sometimes.
The creepy part for ME is that I know the place where it happened: Woodstock, Illinois. I used to have a job there one summer, working in the local theater. (It's also where "Groundhog Day" would be filmed, a little while after this.)
After three years on the run, Richard Church was arrested in a fast food restaurant in Salt Lake City in November of 1991. A detective had recognized him from an FBI wanted poster. He was living under the assumed name "Danny Lee Carson". In July of 1992, he pleaded guilty to the murders to avoid the death penalty. As a result, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole
@vegeta solo What is wrong with you ? ! ? ! 🤔🤔🤔 Why do you feel the need to type the update of previous Unsolved Mysteries cases, when the episodes had / have ALREADY updated the cases in the video ? ! ? !
@@ms.willalwayslovemylife4832 Whoa!! 😳 You need to calm down....what is wrong with you?! I like his updates...he gives even more details than are in the video, as he did in his comment here.
I like how every time he says "New Kids On The Block" he gives them a different title... "recording artists New Kids On The Block" "teenage singing group New Kids On The Block" "musical group New Kids On The Block"
Amelia's story has fascinated me ever since I saw this. This was where I first heard the Saipan capture theory. The reenactments are amazing and realistic, as always. I haven't seen this in years. Thank you!
On June 5, 1989, the New Kids on the Block filmed a music video at one of their concerts in Los Angeles, California. In March 1991, Kari's parents viewed it and noticed a girl in the audience that looked just like her. Investigators also believed that the audience member was Kari. A detailed analysis of the video showed that the girl had almost identical hair length, hair color, face shape, and number of earrings in her right ear as Kari did before she vanished. NKOTB members Jordan and Jonathan Knight were interviewed on Unsolved Mysteries and made personal appeals for Kari to come forward. However, the young girl in the video would later come forward and identify herself; she was a teenager from Washington, D.C. On January 28, 1994, almost seven years after Kari vanished, her body was unearthed in a shallow grave only miles from her home. Robert Anthony Jones confessed to her kidnapping, rape, and murder. He had been arrested for four bank robberies which he committed in New York and Maine between 1987 and 1993. His wife Theresa told police that he had confessed to her that he had killed Kari. He then confessed to police in an effort to get Theresa a lighter sentence for driving the getaway car from a local bank heist with their two children inside. Robert A Jones Robert Anthony Jones At the time of Kari's disappearance, Robert was twenty-three-years-old and living in Bar Harbor, Maine with his family. On the week that she vanished, he returned to his hometown for a week-long visit. On the night of June 22, he spotted her while he was buying beer at the neighborhood market. He followed her and forced her into his car at gunpoint. He then drove her to his parents' cabin where he raped, strangled, and shot her. He buried her on their remote Jay property the following morning. He later returned to the Au Sable Forks area where he settled with his family, only 200 yards from where he had buried her. Under the negotiated plea, he secured a sentence of eighteen-years to life for the robberies and her murder. Robert is now an inmate in Sing Sing Prison and his first parole board hearing was in 2011; he was denied parole that September and, as of 2019, remains in prison. He will next be eligible for parole in August of 2019. He has stated that he abducted her because of marital difficulties; claiming Theresa had cheated on him as well as claiming he had committed robbery in order to intentionally get caught. Sadly, on December 3, 2007, Kari’s brother, Jonathan Edward Nixon, died after a yearlong battle with ALS. He was survived by a daughter also named Kari Lynn Nixon in her aunt's honor. Also, their father, Gary, passed away in 2011.
Yeah it stayed with me and I also looked it up. That poor girl. I love that the town comes together to fight his parole. She was the same age as my older sister, who turned 50 last year.
@@SmartStart24 Several of my cousins still do even though they haven't lived in the area for several years. One of my aunts has a very noticeable Chicago accent. I was told I did when I lived in the South, but I'm from Ohio, and mine is more a Midwestern accent.
When I saw the Amelia Earhart segment when it first aired I got fascinated with Earhart's life and the mystery of her disappearance. I think she missed Howland Island and panicked.The plane crashed either because the gas tank was empty or she had to ditch the plane in the ocean.
There are still cases occasionally solved today, many in recent years. But many of them are still unsolved and even a few are still relevant today. Not as outdated as you think.
I love Unsolved Mysteries I grew up on the show like you said even though they're outdated I can sit and watch these over and over and over again I never get sick of them
I used to wake up in the middle of the night hearing the theme music in my head! Thought I saw some of the faces from the show in the house! Scared me to death, yet i kept watching the show! 🤣, For some strange reason, the Bradford Bishop case always haunted me! They still haven't found him yet!
The Ritter family’s story, HOLY SH*T 😨😱💔 that reenactment is insanely well done and terrifying. Colleen seems like such an incredibly strong young woman; I truly can’t fathom that kind of horror and finding the strength to go on after something like that. I really pray that she and her siblings are doing well today.
i miss Robert stack,he could read a story and make it wholly entertaining.love him to read me a ghost story around a camp fire.earhart story is the best.
It's weird seeing Robert Stack during the day. When I watched it years ago, I remember him always being someplace at night. I also notice that, even in a busy room, people don't acknowledge him; they go about as if he is not there.
As a parent myself now, a story like Kari's extra sucks. I can't imagine being in that position, not knowing, getting a glimmer of hope than having it come down. Sad.
I cannot believe Rick Church did that. I cannot imagine losing my parents, let alone to a troubled psychotic lunatic that I dated. He is so deeply disturbed. Does not matter what he has to say, but I wonder if he even cares now
Richard Church’s parents were getting a divorce & he had to move out of the house that he grew up in. This was happening at the same time that Colleen broke up with him. Richard’s problems did NOT mitigate in any way what he did to the Ritter family. But those problems could at least partially explain his state of mind before, during, & after the attack on the Ritter family.
Nearly every one of us has to leave the home we grew up in. He went on to college while she was still in High school. Many of us have parents that have divorced. Not many of use all that as reason or justification to kill several people like Richard. He does not need to appeal and be walking the streets as he will become obsessive with any female he would choose to date and should she want to break up with him he will probably kill that girl as well.. Danger to society.
Perhaps any reasons or explanations as to why Church committed those violent acts factored into him getting LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE instead of the DEATH PENALTY.
Perhaps Church could have gotten a second degree murder conviction or plea, but still got life without parole. Some people get a life without parole sentence for manslaughter.
I’m sure he intended for Coleen and her brother to die that night as well so 2 counts of 1st degree murder and 2 counts of attempted murder punishment fits the crime
That Colleen seems very nonchalant for someone who was stabbed a bunch of times and lost her parents In a terrifying attack? Most people wouldn't even be able to come to terms with a live interview about the situation that close after the incident. Very strange indeed...
They didn't update it, but Amelia Earhart almost certainly crashed on an uncharted island, as many scientists believe that human remains found in 1940 belong to either her or the navigator, and were eaten by giant hermit crabs called coconut crabs.
Do you ever just wake up in the middle of the night sweating and scream out into the darkness, "Where the heck is Amelia Earheart?!" Where is she? I need to know!
I doubt she could possibly know that she would become one of the world's great mysteries in the decades that followed. She was probably too busy trying to stay alive.
Those undercover FBI agents who helped bring down all those drug traffickers in that last segment deserve medals of valor. Their lives were in serious danger the entire time. Cartel members during that era in Miami would have killed them just for suspecting they could be involved with authorities in any way. That was life down here in the cocaine era of the 1980s
They would have been going against the trade winds so they wouldn’t have gone east. Too much fuel spent for such long distances. Would have taken forever
20:58 Amelia Earhart , Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart what about the other human being with her? navigator Fred Noonan, he is not valuable enough to know what had happened to him!?
He probably met the same fate she did...so if they were ever able to piece together what happened to Amelia...they probably could have also figured out what happened to Fred as well
Rick Church was such a messed-up case. And what's with the update? He was going to be executed, but they gave him life imprisonment instead because he pleaded guilty. They knew he was the guilty party certainly. They reduced the sentence he would have received as a reward for not trying to deny that. Whether you support the death penalty or not, it seems kind of unethical procedure of justice to me.
He wasn't going to be executed for sure but it was a definite possibility. To reduce the hassle for courts and law enforcement plea deals are struck up in order to expedite the process. In this case they didn't reduce his possible punishment, only guaranteed that they wouldn't pursue the maximum sentence (death). Rest assured that life without parole is basically what murderers get sentenced to in most cases and justice has been served regardless.
@@Vassilinia Colleen Ritter, her family, and Rick Church's parents agreed to the plea agreement. At least it's unlikely that he will ever be released. She was in favor of the death penalty for him initially but I suspect she felt bad for his parents, she had known them all her life and he was their only child. At the time of his capture and sentencing, Colleen was engaged and that's the last bit of info I've been able to find on her. I hope she is happy and healthy.
@@nunliski The one article I read said she agreed with the plea bargain, not that she had any influence over it. Originally, she wanted the death penalty for him.
Yeah unfortunately, his "motive" was: "I was mad at my wife". So he took her to his cabin and raped and tortured for six hours. Then he tried to strangle her and when he couldn't, shot her... sad and so sick... literally, she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
At 6:51 as you see this beautiful smiling child then know that she was raped and murdered, it makes you sick that the bastard that did this only got 18 years to life makes you sick. I don't even know if the creep is out yet.
@Marlon J Peters 18 years to life. I wonder how the genius judge decided on 18 years to life. The court system is almost as heartless as the beast that killed this child.
Marlon J Peters it's so sad that a murderer gets so little time in jail u know the second the murderer gets out he is just going to kill again life in prison is better
There is an on line petition to keep Kari Nixon's murder behind bars.,I just found it by either googling her name,or the piece of sh##s name... I pray it's not to late ,his last parol hearing was Aug 2019.
Can't stand when people try to make something out of nothing, so annoying. Robert Stack doesn't say "New Kids On The Block" any differently than he says any other words. 🙄
Alas, the show seems to have gotten taken for a ride by the Saipan researcher and his alleged witness. Not only did excavating the alleged murder site fail to turn up any bodies (as mentioned here), but subsequent investigators could not even locate or trace the woman who was interviewed here. it breaks my heart to say it, but it's true.
doubtful. Just because they show something it does not mean it's believed. As a matter of fact Robert said he never believed one ghost story They aired many things because it intrigued people, also doesn't mean we believe it. Makes for a good story
All those people are shady - born liars, feeding off the attention or selling their souls for money - especially that class of "authors" that fill their books full of trash and pass it off as "The Truth Finally Exposed!!!" - those people should be in prison for spreading such lies.
I am hoping that they put up the *From the Files Of Unsolved Mysteries* series of tv movies. The Rick Church story was one of them. *There is no reason for any "explaining" for a homicidal sociopath like Rick Church.. you just incarcerate them or put them down.*
man I had no idea Colleen went thru that trauma, during the interview she seems to be a happy go lucky girl that was a shock. Ans what a great reenactment, they dont do it like that anymore!
@J H Oh yeah. Emotional people are always known for killing people. You should've seen what Alfalfa did to Waldo at the end of Little Rascals. The dude is a psycho!
@@criminallyautistic8372 Yeah, there's being an emotional person with feelings, and then there's going overboard by attempting to kill an entire family and half-succeeding.
I remember the Amelia Earhart story, it was one of my favorite episodes when it first aired. I really think she was captured by the Japanese and executed.
I agree, it makes sense! As I mentioned in an earlier reply, with all the technology that's out and they have not found her plane? That's the only conclusion I can draw unless you're a science buff and believe she may have gotten sucked into a Vortex! Again, researchers are still finding artifacts and items from Titanic and that was 1912? So, there is no reason not to find remains of Earhart's plane if it "supposedly " went down in the ocean. I believe she was captured and murdered by the Japanese as well!
WTF? How is Amelia a hero? Refused training on the radio which couldve saved their lives, instead she got an innocent man, her navigator killed. Not only that, she failed her mission. If that is a hero, hate to think what a villian would be described as.
The eyewitness of the Earhart plane is a little inconsistent. The witness says the hanger was closed when they overheard the men saying they had her plane, but he didnt see it. He only saw it twice. But says he saw it three times. Or did I miss something?
Yeah, and another thought crosses my mind now: ufo encounters freq. show same discreps. Tho so do crime witness eye witness stuff under y'know cross exams by DA or Defense. lol
@@teelowteelow356 : idk, long time ago now since I've seen several of the documentaries about this. And it's often the case with eyewitnesses, where their memories kind of float all over the place. But the data that I received indicates to me, only to me, an armchair kind of conclusion, that all the reports taken together, or just a little too suspect for real for reliability say. So I don't know.
People get rejected & live through break ups all the time. I wonder what it is that makes some people do this kind of thing when the rest of us might cry, or be angry, but then move on?
What was Rick's problem? He seemed sullen and withdrawn, I wonder if he had other issues the segment didn't mention. That reenactment was so scary, and why would he go after Colleen's parents and little brother
It had a good deal to do with his own parents. Homicidal sociopaths believe that they haven't done anything wrong. In reality, Rick obviously was seeing and hearing things he didn't want to from Colleen originally and wanted to blame someone else for all the "changes to his perfect life" that happened after he went to college. Narcissistic sociopaths turn violent when people don't let them control them. To this day, Rick Church most likely believes that none of it was his fault.
I can buy that Amelia Earhart veered away from Howland Island and went straight to Saipan. However, why would the government want to cover that up? It doesn't make sense that American air force would fly her plane than burn it later on that night.
The story from the vets and Saipan woman is very believable and if she was a spy and her plane recovered the last thing the government would have wanted was to reveal she had perished spying for the US military so burning it and destroying her briefcase is exactly what they would have done. I believe the Saipan woman saw what she said she saw. Wether the prisoner was Amelia or someone else is the true mystery. If that was her fate then the government should set it straight. She still would have died as a hero.
Maverick74, I agree with YOU 100%. I believe what the Saipan lady said she saw was TRUE. I have NO doubt the Saipan lady either saw Amelia Earhart maybe on a secret mission for the Government or .....some other lady spy executed that day. The investigators did find the persons blindfold when they digged where lady said Amelia Earhart was executed! And the gov't like usual is keeping it all HUSH HUSH! The Unsolved Mysteries show with Robert stack was great and the segment on Amelia Earhart was superb in my opinion with the old scenes and reenactments of the actors.
The girl does not look like Kari. The girl's cheeks are thinner and her chin is more pointed. Kari's cheeks are fuller and her chin is more round. As far as the hair and earrings. I was a teenager in the 80's. 90% of us had that length hair with the spiral perm, puffy bangs and either multiple earrings or those ear clips in one ear. All the similarities that the investigator pointed out was half of the American teenage girl population back then.
Because if she was screaming and crying and in hysterics they wouldn’t be able to interview her. Not everybody has to don black and mourn like it’s the Victorian Era to prove that they’re sad. Her psycho ex stabbed her 21 times in the back of the head and nearly killed her because he couldn’t take no for an answer.
This is unreal! Can’t believe I went to the same high school as Richard and Coleen and didnt find out about this double murder until 10 years after I graduated and moved away!!! speaks to how well the town of Woodstock and the High School buried this story! No kids after the 90s ever talked about this! Our high school facilities looked a lot crappier tho and it’s in a swamp lol
The crash and sink theory is more widely believed by people, but the Gardner Island theory has a much more confirmed explanation. Work is ongoing but reliant on donations. Evidence to support the information about the Japanese Survey ship, Koshu, having gone to Gardner Island to rescue Amelia Earhart includes the following: A direct Quote from the 'New York Times' July 7, 1937 says: "The Japanese Navy's 2,080-ton survey ship Koshu, Captain Hanjiro Takagi commanding, which is cruising in the area around Howland Island. Was ordered yesterday to search for Amelia Earhart. The orders to the Koshu were radioed after Hirosi Saito, Ambassador to Washington, had reported that the United States Government had accepted an offer of Japanese assistance. Admiral Mistumasa Yonai, the Navy minister, immediately transmitted instructions to the Japanese commanders in Formosa and the Mandated Islands." The Koshu's log, according to Susan Butler's book "East to the Dawn" says, "The Koshu headed south, out of Japanese and into United States waters, fully aware of where they were." In October 2014, the piece of aluminum mentioned above, was shown, by precision photographic processes, with accuracy comparable to a finger print, to be that object mentioned. If this is correct, it changes the list of possible sources of Amelia's disappearance and would totally eliminate the crash and sink theory. It would also disprove the "crashed in the Marshall Islands" theory. It would prove that the Koshu was on Nikumaroro for a while, but was then taken to Jaluit Island with Amelia and Fred on board, and with the Electra attached to Its stern. That is why the search planes never saw them or the plane. They did see "some kind of markers", probably supports, used to load the Electra. At Jaluit Fred was treated by Bilamon Amaron. They were then, starting on July19, taken to Saipan and locked in, Garapan jail as spies. They did not crash in the Marshalls but were taken there, arriving at Jaluit Island Navy base on July 13, ten days after they went missing. They were never in "two places at the same time!" a statement which had been used to claim that all of the numerous incidents about Amelia in the Marshall Islands and Saipan were false. This information was referenced in "Earhart and Noonan: the Missing Link" by Duane Hamblin. On July 9, 2017, the History Channel documentary, "Amelia Earhart: Lost Evidence," proposed that it was not Nikumaroro that Amelia landed on but an atoll in the Marshall Islands northeast of Howland Island. Their research was based on figures resembling Earhart and Noonan on a pier on Jaluit island. The theory is that after a storm affected Earhart's route, she turned west back to retrace her route and she crashed in the Marshall Islands, where she was picked up by the Japanese Navy and take to Saipan, where she was imprisoned and executed. It is further theorized that American intelligence knew she was there, and covered it up in order to prevent the Japanese from realizing that their secret code had been broken. When the US army seized the island, they then removed Earhart and Noonan's remains from the island. As yet, none of this has been confirmed, and this scenario is still theoretical.
Actually, the Nikumaroro/Gardiner theory has a major flaw: there was a known shipwreck on the island less than a decade before Amelia's flight, the wreckage of which was still visible into the early 21st century. Two dozen men from the ship, the *SS Norwich City*, camped out on the island for several days until being rescued, and the items and debris found by researchers could just as easily have been left by them. Also, multiple air patrols over Nikumaroro during WWII failed to uncover any trace of Earhart or her plane. Another island? Maybe. But I'm afraid that Nikumaroro is out.
Who lets their child go by themselves to the store that late at night? I’m like really? Why take that chance? At least the family received the closure they needed. 😇
She was 16 years old, living in a tiny town, walking to the corner store. I think even most parents today would be fine with that. It's easy to look at things when you have hindsight, but literally no one thought she would be abducted steps from her front door.
No one wanted to admit that Amelia Earheart wasn't a great pilot. She might have been a pioneer for feminism or whatever, but that doesn't mean she was good at her job. And she wasn't. By all accounts, she was average at best. An average pilot with mediocre skills and limited experience trying to do what she tried to do wouldn't have good odds of succeeding. Her ambition far outstretched her actual skill level. In short, hubris done did her in. The actual mystery is why so many people supported her when she clearly lacked the basic necessary skills, experience, and education to succeed. But then again, Greta Thunberg is "person of the year" so nothing new under the sun, I guess. 🤷♀️ www.thevintagenews.com/2019/01/18/earhart/ tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Forum/FAQs/pilot.htm news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-joke-211003291.html
I don’t disagree that she wasn’t the greatest pilot but to have the confidence to try and (mostly) succeed in a world dominated by men was still groundbreaking at the time and she deserves some credit for breaking that glass ceiling. I would argue that she is more inspirational because she was average. In my opinion, requiring women to be the absolute top of their field to receive any recognition for their work sets equality back. The world is full of average men who are commended and promoted every year for being average. I hope you’re enjoying catching up on Unsolved Mysteries as much as I am!
I'm not saying that Amelia didn't have any responsibility, but how exactly are they putting ALL the blame about the use of the radio on just her? She had "the best navigator in the world" with her ... navigators are also radio trained, are they not? If she didn't know to leave the radio on, why the hell didn't he pipe up? It sounds like just a convenient excuse to put on her.
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The story about Colleen saved my life back in 2011. I was walking from university when two masked guys came with me with a knife. I suddenly froze and I suddenly remember this episode. I started screaming and ran into a public area for help. The attackers got scared and ran off. Unsolved Mysteries saved my life that night.
Wow!!!! I am so glad you are okay!!!
Great job. You saved your life by being so smart
We're the perps ever caught?
if ya cant run, always save ya energy & when the rapist removes his pants is when you kick, claw his dick & you can get away
You needed tv to tell you to scream and run? Ridiculous
One thing I loved about this series was the level they went to for their reenactments. Sure, it's not 100% given time and budget, but they put a lot more effort into them than many movies I've seen.
40 now i used to watch these when i was like 10yrs old the re enactments were the best especially the FRAUD cases and the ROBBERY cases were my favourites, i especially likes the one of the guy who lived alone and everyone though he was just a poor old pensioner but when he died they found out he had $500,000 in the bank etc... my hero a guy like that, acts poor but is actually well off but dosent look it
AND they would sometimes use the actual participants
The reenactment of the Rick Church murders is one of the best UM has ever done. Seriously probably one of their top 10 most chilling ones.
It's terrifying; almost too real. Very well-acted.
@@Muirmaiden, I agree. That was one of the cases that was made into one of the *From The Files of Unsolved Mysteries* series of tv movies.. which I hope they also put up here on RUclips eventually.
YES. The acting is on point and the choice to do it all in silence up until she screams is brilliant. People knock UM for being cheesy, but they could get it so right sometimes.
Yes it was. scary as shit
The creepy part for ME is that I know the place where it happened: Woodstock, Illinois. I used to have a job there one summer, working in the local theater. (It's also where "Groundhog Day" would be filmed, a little while after this.)
After three years on the run, Richard Church was arrested in a fast food restaurant in Salt Lake City in November of 1991. A detective had recognized him from an FBI wanted poster. He was living under the assumed name "Danny Lee Carson". In July of 1992, he pleaded guilty to the murders to avoid the death penalty. As a result, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole
@vegeta solo What is wrong with you ? ! ? ! 🤔🤔🤔 Why do you feel the need to type the update of previous Unsolved Mysteries cases, when the episodes had / have ALREADY updated the cases in the video ? ! ? !
@@ms.willalwayslovemylife4832😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭☠️☠️☠️☠️
Thanks again
I read this in Robert Stack’s voice
@@ms.willalwayslovemylife4832 Whoa!! 😳 You need to calm down....what is wrong with you?! I like his updates...he gives even more details than are in the video, as he did in his comment here.
Robert's narration during the Richard Church case adds an extra layer of nightmare fuel to the story. Unreal.
I liked these episodes back in the late 80's and 90'S They don't make shows like this anymore
The sound effects, the way people talk and the blurry/bluish camera quality really add up to the atmosphere.
sure, boy
2:10 Where's Keri 7:01 Amelia Earheart 26:33 Richard's Rampage 36:55 Miami Vice
Love this, thanks!
I like how every time he says "New Kids On The Block" he gives them a different title...
"recording artists New Kids On The Block"
"teenage singing group New Kids On The Block"
"musical group New Kids On The Block"
I remember that song
He spits it out
That Kari case was heartbreaking
6:35 😔
Amelia's story has fascinated me ever since I saw this. This was where I first heard the Saipan capture theory. The reenactments are amazing and realistic, as always. I haven't seen this in years. Thank you!
It's fascinating, but unlikely.
I have o doubt theres more to her story and the government is covering it up like usual
@@brotheldan2009 No
@@EssexAggiegrad2011 believe everything the government tells you like all the other idiots do too son
@@brotheldan2009 You're a conspiracy nut
On June 5, 1989, the New Kids on the Block filmed a music video at one of their concerts in Los Angeles, California. In March 1991, Kari's parents viewed it and noticed a girl in the audience that looked just like her. Investigators also believed that the audience member was Kari. A detailed analysis of the video showed that the girl had almost identical hair length, hair color, face shape, and number of earrings in her right ear as Kari did before she vanished. NKOTB members Jordan and Jonathan Knight were interviewed on Unsolved Mysteries and made personal appeals for Kari to come forward. However, the young girl in the video would later come forward and identify herself; she was a teenager from Washington, D.C.
On January 28, 1994, almost seven years after Kari vanished, her body was unearthed in a shallow grave only miles from her home. Robert Anthony Jones confessed to her kidnapping, rape, and murder. He had been arrested for four bank robberies which he committed in New York and Maine between 1987 and 1993. His wife Theresa told police that he had confessed to her that he had killed Kari. He then confessed to police in an effort to get Theresa a lighter sentence for driving the getaway car from a local bank heist with their two children inside.
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At the time of Kari's disappearance, Robert was twenty-three-years-old and living in Bar Harbor, Maine with his family. On the week that she vanished, he returned to his hometown for a week-long visit. On the night of June 22, he spotted her while he was buying beer at the neighborhood market. He followed her and forced her into his car at gunpoint. He then drove her to his parents' cabin where he raped, strangled, and shot her. He buried her on their remote Jay property the following morning. He later returned to the Au Sable Forks area where he settled with his family, only 200 yards from where he had buried her. Under the negotiated plea, he secured a sentence of eighteen-years to life for the robberies and her murder.
Robert is now an inmate in Sing Sing Prison and his first parole board hearing was in 2011; he was denied parole that September and, as of 2019, remains in prison. He will next be eligible for parole in August of 2019. He has stated that he abducted her because of marital difficulties; claiming Theresa had cheated on him as well as claiming he had committed robbery in order to intentionally get caught.
Sadly, on December 3, 2007, Kari’s brother, Jonathan Edward Nixon, died after a yearlong battle with ALS. He was survived by a daughter also named Kari Lynn Nixon in her aunt's honor. Also, their father, Gary, passed away in 2011.
Wow! This makes me so angry! Thank you so much for posting this. This was truly one of many unfortunate sad stories....
Yeah it stayed with me and I also looked it up. That poor girl. I love that the town comes together to fight his parole.
She was the same age as my older sister, who turned 50 last year.
The way the actor portraying Rick Church says "math test" adds that extra authenticity. Exactly the way a lot of Chicagoland residents would say that.
I just said “Math Test” to myself and realized you are 100% right lol. And I always tell people we don’t have accents as Chicagoans!
@@SmartStart24 Several of my cousins still do even though they haven't lived in the area for several years. One of my aunts has a very noticeable Chicago accent. I was told I did when I lived in the South, but I'm from Ohio, and mine is more a Midwestern accent.
That rich story was one of the most well shot segments they've ever done, so chilling.
When I saw the Amelia Earhart segment when it first aired I got fascinated with Earhart's life and the mystery of her disappearance. I think she missed Howland Island and panicked.The plane crashed either because the gas tank was empty or she had to ditch the plane in the ocean.
dudew everyone knows her plane went down and why...its did they survive the crash and where did they eventually die.
I know. Her segment and the similar one on the French plane the White Bird from the previous seasons have always stuck with me.
The most likely explanation.
@Ben72 troll harder
The Rick Church segment is genuinely one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever watched.
Unsolved Mysterious is like a guilty pleasure even though they are so outdated now...still like watching them and I loved to watch them back then...
There are still cases occasionally solved today, many in recent years. But many of them are still unsolved and even a few are still relevant today. Not as outdated as you think.
They are still solving many of these cases
I love Unsolved Mysteries I grew up on the show like you said even though they're outdated I can sit and watch these over and over and over again I never get sick of them
Dennis foran and Robert stacker both did a good job Unsolved Mysteries but I like Robert stacker better
This music still gives me the chills.
I used to wake up in the middle of the night hearing the theme music in my head! Thought I saw some of the faces from the show in the house! Scared me to death, yet i kept watching the show! 🤣, For some strange reason, the Bradford Bishop case always haunted me! They still haven't found him yet!
First seasons the best...when the music changed....
The Ritter family’s story, HOLY SH*T 😨😱💔 that reenactment is insanely well done and terrifying. Colleen seems like such an incredibly strong young woman; I truly can’t fathom that kind of horror and finding the strength to go on after something like that. I really pray that she and her siblings are doing well today.
i miss Robert stack,he could read a story and make it wholly entertaining.love him to read me a ghost story around a camp fire.earhart story is the best.
Earthart and Hepburn.
@@maramarxx2431 that plane stuff makes me nervous
Keri and her parents so heartbreaking that EVIL lurks around every corner of the universe 💯 percent
It's weird seeing Robert Stack during the day.
When I watched it years ago, I remember him always being someplace at night.
I also notice that, even in a busy room, people don't acknowledge him; they go about as if he is not there.
Lol
They’re afraid of him 👀👀
@@Swan-xs1qu 'Night time is the right time'-Rodney Alcala
that's what they are suppose to do
As a parent myself now, a story like Kari's extra sucks. I can't imagine being in that position, not knowing, getting a glimmer of hope than having it come down.
Sad.
I have a teenager and this one struck a chord. That poor girl. Also, she was born the same year as my sister, who just turned fifty.
Yeah there were liars who claimed to have met her in the original segment, just to get their 15 mins on TV.
I cannot believe Rick Church did that. I cannot imagine losing my parents, let alone to a troubled psychotic lunatic that I dated. He is so deeply disturbed. Does not matter what he has to say, but I wonder if he even cares now
Richard Church’s parents were getting a divorce & he had to move out of the house that he grew up in. This was happening at the same time that Colleen broke up with him. Richard’s problems did NOT mitigate in any way what he did to the Ritter family. But those problems could at least partially explain his state of mind before, during, & after the attack on the Ritter family.
Nearly every one of us has to leave the home we grew up in. He went on to college while she was still in High school. Many of us have parents that have divorced. Not many of use all that as reason or justification to kill several people like Richard. He does not need to appeal and be walking the streets as he will become obsessive with any female he would choose to date and should she want to break up with him he will probably kill that girl as well.. Danger to society.
Perhaps any reasons or explanations as to why Church committed those violent acts factored into him getting LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE instead of the DEATH PENALTY.
Perhaps Church could have gotten a second degree murder conviction or plea, but still got life without parole. Some people get a life without parole sentence for manslaughter.
I’m sure he intended for Coleen and her brother to die that night as well so 2 counts of 1st degree murder and 2 counts of attempted murder punishment fits the crime
That Colleen seems very nonchalant for someone who was stabbed a bunch of times and lost her parents In a terrifying attack? Most people wouldn't even be able to come to terms with a live interview about the situation that close after the incident. Very strange indeed...
bet she had something to do with it
@@averageconsumer0 That seems a little extreme, but she definitely is a very strange woman.
Make sure y’all are watching these in order. Mr. Stack would prefer it that way.
lol no fast forwarding lol
This stupid meme is posted on every video 😂🤣
They didn't update it, but Amelia Earhart almost certainly crashed on an uncharted island, as many scientists believe that human remains found in 1940 belong to either her or the navigator, and were eaten by giant hermit crabs called coconut crabs.
Did they find a body them mis identified it as male?
Are those an actual species of crabs or are you trolling
@@criminallyautistic8372 They are real, they're a land-dwelling crab about the size of a dog
@@jhoch5 Oh yeah? Huh. Well that's interesting.
@@jhoch5 are those crabs edible?
New kids on the block!!! Yasss haha
Do you ever just wake up in the middle of the night sweating and scream out into the darkness, "Where the heck is Amelia Earheart?!" Where is she? I need to know!
Glinda Bustamante, Wherever she is, she's been dead for a very long time.
I doubt she could possibly know that she would become one of the world's great mysteries in the decades that followed. She was probably too busy trying to stay alive.
I want to help you, George Washington!
@@daboys1215 hchchchc
Her (Amelia Earhart)remains were found in the pacific! I read an article today 12/16/2020
Those undercover FBI agents who helped bring down all those drug traffickers in that last segment deserve medals of valor. Their lives were in serious danger the entire time. Cartel members during that era in Miami would have killed them just for suspecting they could be involved with authorities in any way. That was life down here in the cocaine era of the 1980s
It's too bad Amelia didn't start with the most difficult stretch when she and Fred weren't so fatigued instead of leaving it to the end.
They would have been going against the trade winds so they wouldn’t have gone east. Too much fuel spent for such long distances. Would have taken forever
Her Achilles heel was her radio.... she seems to have had trouble using it effectively
Why ? So She Can Feed the KOI ?
That's an interesting point. They probably should have done it that way.
She lost control of the plane while giving Fred air head!
20:58 Amelia Earhart , Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart what about the other human being with her? navigator Fred Noonan, he is not valuable enough to know what had happened to him!?
He probably met the same fate she did...so if they were ever able to piece together what happened to Amelia...they probably could have also figured out what happened to Fred as well
Tried to see if Amelia Earhart has any siblings who are alive. She had one sister and she passed away in 1998
Rick Church was such a messed-up case. And what's with the update? He was going to be executed, but they gave him life imprisonment instead because he pleaded guilty. They knew he was the guilty party certainly. They reduced the sentence he would have received as a reward for not trying to deny that. Whether you support the death penalty or not, it seems kind of unethical procedure of justice to me.
He wasn't going to be executed for sure but it was a definite possibility. To reduce the hassle for courts and law enforcement plea deals are struck up in order to expedite the process. In this case they didn't reduce his possible punishment, only guaranteed that they wouldn't pursue the maximum sentence (death). Rest assured that life without parole is basically what murderers get sentenced to in most cases and justice has been served regardless.
@@Vassilinia Colleen Ritter, her family, and Rick Church's parents agreed to the plea agreement. At least it's unlikely that he will ever be released. She was in favor of the death penalty for him initially but I suspect she felt bad for his parents, she had known them all her life and he was their only child. At the time of his capture and sentencing, Colleen was engaged and that's the last bit of info I've been able to find on her. I hope she is happy and healthy.
@@Muirmaiden Victims don't get to decide anything about plea bargains.
@@nunliski The one article I read said she agreed with the plea bargain, not that she had any influence over it. Originally, she wanted the death penalty for him.
This one was a good one. I was always intrigued by the Where’s Kari
Yeah unfortunately, his "motive" was: "I was mad at my wife". So he took her to his cabin and raped and tortured for six hours. Then he tried to strangle her and when he couldn't, shot her... sad and so sick... literally, she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
@@krsc1506 I couldn't believe he buried her in shallow grave on the property.. wonder if the family was oblivious or not
Terrible that boy killed her parents and stabbed her and the brother all because she broke up with him.
31:21 I always loved this dramatic echoey drum-beats and suspenseful music :D
18 to life? What a slap in the face!!! Raped and murdered.... should've gotten DP or life without parole! RIP beautiful girl
He keeps getting denied parole. His next hearing is in 2023. He’s at the Wyoming facility in NY.
Earhart should have rested about a week and learned how to effectively use her radio
well they wrong to pass her as a pilot knowing that she don't know how to use her radio that don't make no sense
EXACTLY - a woman refusing to follow industry standards and gets a man killed. Shock. yeah, what a hero.
Don't know how to use the radio? That's okay, go fly around the world now. 🤔
@Ben72 Misogynistic troll!
@@RiaLake cry
At 6:51 as you see this beautiful smiling child then know that she was raped and murdered, it makes you sick that the bastard that did this only got 18 years to life makes you sick. I don't even know if the creep is out yet.
@Marlon J Peters 18 years to life. I wonder how the genius judge decided on 18 years to life. The court system is almost as heartless as the beast that killed this child.
Marlon J Peters it's so sad that a murderer gets so little time in jail u know the second the murderer gets out he is just going to kill again life in prison is better
Google ,Robert Anthony Jones. Scroll down to there's a couple so don't stop at just one ...keep Robert Jones in prison petitions...
There is an on line petition to keep Kari Nixon's murder behind bars.,I just found it by either googling her name,or the piece of sh##s name...
I pray it's not to late ,his last parol hearing was Aug 2019.
Sad, terribly sad
Her father probably lives with terrible guilt for sending his daughter to the store at night such a terrible tragic mistake
2:22 Just by The way Mr. Stack said "New Kids On The Block" I couldn't stop laughing. I don't think he likes them.
Probably had no idea who there where before this
And “popular singing group” 😂
Laughing so hard at that now, hilarious!
Can't stand when people try to make something out of nothing, so annoying. Robert Stack doesn't say "New Kids On The Block" any differently than he says any other words. 🙄
Mr. Stack would have approved of the group supporting Unsolved Mysteries and wished them continued success.
i want one of the cell phones from those days!!!
Rob could talk about rainbows and butterflies and I’d still be scared as hell. Lol.
He probably thought this was a silly job but still took it seriously and gave it his all. 27:47
I wonder why Amelia did not have her navigator operate the radio?
I wondered the same thing! This story doesn't add up!
I wondered the same thing myself while listening to the story.
Probably a stubborn feminist
Definitely a stubborn feminist.
Best show ever
Fuck that update about Kari was so fucking depressing. The music and everything
Right?
Alas, the show seems to have gotten taken for a ride by the Saipan researcher and his alleged witness. Not only did excavating the alleged murder site fail to turn up any bodies (as mentioned here), but subsequent investigators could not even locate or trace the woman who was interviewed here.
it breaks my heart to say it, but it's true.
You think the intelligence agencies would leave evidence. Are you that naive?
ruclips.net/video/YrHuFiFewzA/видео.html
Her body could have been moved
she died on saipan.
doubtful. Just because they show something it does not mean it's believed. As a matter of fact Robert said he never believed one ghost story
They aired many things because it intrigued people, also doesn't mean we believe it. Makes for a good story
All those people are shady - born liars, feeding off the attention or selling their souls for money - especially that class of "authors" that fill their books full of trash and pass it off as "The Truth Finally Exposed!!!" - those people should be in prison for spreading such lies.
I am hoping that they put up the *From the Files Of Unsolved Mysteries* series of tv movies. The Rick Church story was one of them.
*There is no reason for any "explaining" for a homicidal sociopath like Rick Church.. you just incarcerate them or put them down.*
Im hoping the same thing! That is a great show too!
Colleen is soooo.....cheerful . I mean relating a traumatic story like that would've done me in.
My wife hates it when I watch these episodes at night. We were born in the 80s. Nuff said.
"We can't afford to throw our heroes away." Very well put
Anyone that rapes and murders should be not only kept for life but automatically put to death. Poor Kari!! 😔
Rick Church was a coward
man I had no idea Colleen went thru that trauma, during the interview she seems to be a happy go lucky girl that was a shock. Ans what a great reenactment, they dont do it like that anymore!
Newfound respect for New Kids on the Block on making that appearance.
WHOA! A great kid, that when the GF said it's over,he eliminates a whole family. what else would he do on the job when told he's dismissed?
IKR!! I truly don’t get it. Move on. Have some pride!!
@J H Oh yeah. Emotional people are always known for killing people. You should've seen what Alfalfa did to Waldo at the end of Little Rascals. The dude is a psycho!
@@criminallyautistic8372 Yeah, there's being an emotional person with feelings, and then there's going overboard by attempting to kill an entire family and half-succeeding.
@@gluserty Yeah you're no longer an emotional person. You're a freaking nutter
beings he was caught at a fast food joint, he would eliminate the customers
I always wondered what happened to Amelia Earhardt. I guess we will never know.
I thought I read they ID'ed some bones last year that belonged to her. Apparently they had originally misidentified the remains as a male.
@@SecularFelinist i'll google
Probably capture by Imperial Japanese troops and our government is keeping it a secret.
You might say it’s an Unsolved Mystery.
Died on a plane crash.
I found the Unsolved theme on Amazon but I wish I could find a collection of other music composed for the score. Some of it is downright brilliant.
An LP of a the score has been released. Someone has uploaded it to RUclips.
@@jalenjohnson1662
Thanks for the tip. I wonder if It has been made available on digital download.
I have the intro theme as the ringtone on my cell phone.
I remember the Amelia Earhart story, it was one of my favorite episodes when it first aired. I really think she was captured by the Japanese and executed.
I agree, it makes sense! As I mentioned in an earlier reply, with all the technology that's out and they have not found her plane? That's the only conclusion I can draw unless you're a science buff and believe she may have gotten sucked into a Vortex! Again, researchers are still finding artifacts and items from Titanic and that was 1912? So, there is no reason not to find remains of Earhart's plane if it "supposedly " went down in the ocean. I believe she was captured and murdered by the Japanese as well!
I'd love to see a coloured Earhardt's photo
Damn, that Rick Church segment has some straight up Silent Hill music going on.
I ALWAYS KNEW THAT WASNT KERRY! LOOKS NOTHING LIKE HER! R.I.P🙏🏾
WTF? How is Amelia a hero? Refused training on the radio which couldve saved their lives, instead she got an innocent man, her navigator killed. Not only that, she failed her mission. If that is a hero, hate to think what a villian would be described as.
Well said.
Segment 4: EXCELLENT reenactment.....as good as any movie
I like the reunification episodes.
The eyewitness of the Earhart plane is a little inconsistent. The witness says the hanger was closed when they overheard the men saying they had her plane, but he didnt see it. He only saw it twice. But says he saw it three times. Or did I miss something?
right? He also said he wrote the numbers of the plane down... If that's true there should be no question who's plane it was
I was thinking the same thing.
Yeah, and another thought crosses my mind now: ufo encounters freq. show
same discreps. Tho so do crime witness eye witness stuff under y'know cross exams by DA or Defense. lol
@@rogerscottcathey huh?
@@teelowteelow356 : idk, long time ago now since I've seen several of the documentaries about this. And it's often the case with eyewitnesses, where their memories kind of float all over the place. But the data that I received indicates to me, only to me, an armchair kind of conclusion, that all the reports taken together, or just a little too suspect for real for reliability say. So I don't know.
Rick church was clearly crazy she broke up with him so he killed her parents instead of moving on and finding someone else
I think he killed her parents because they wanted Colleen to break up with him.
Amelia would be proud, we are so super equal now that men get to compete in female sports.
People get rejected & live through break ups all the time. I wonder what it is that makes some people do this kind of thing when the rest of us might cry, or be angry, but then move on?
The Nixon girl was found dead she was never at the concert
So now the mystery we're left with who was the girl at the concert and where is she today?
DeathByBlunderbuss 😂
@@NOMADcourier85 It was a girl from the west coast. She came forward and identified herself.
@@NOMADcourier85 She was identified. I don't think her name was released but I do recall she was from Washington D.C
What was Rick's problem? He seemed sullen and withdrawn, I wonder if he had other issues the segment didn't mention. That reenactment was so scary, and why would he go after Colleen's parents and little brother
he blamed the parents for the breakup. He also wrote obscene things about the father on the walls.
Because he was a pussy.
@@smokeyarcade 😂😂😂😂😂☠️☠️☠️☠️
It had a good deal to do with his own parents. Homicidal sociopaths believe that they haven't done anything wrong. In reality, Rick obviously was seeing and hearing things he didn't want to from Colleen originally and wanted to blame someone else for all the "changes to his perfect life" that happened after he went to college. Narcissistic sociopaths turn violent when people don't let them control them. To this day, Rick Church most likely believes that none of it was his fault.
He was also drinking and doing drugs at the time - and he was known for having a bad temper.
I can buy that Amelia Earhart veered away from Howland Island and went straight to Saipan. However, why would the government want to cover that up? It doesn't make sense that American air force would fly her plane than burn it later on that night.
One of these episodes is in the best of DVD MINIATURE TRUNK of the best episodes i have this set.
The story from the vets and Saipan woman is very believable and if she was a spy and her plane recovered the last thing the government would have wanted was to reveal she had perished spying for the US military so burning it and destroying her briefcase is exactly what they would have done. I believe the Saipan woman saw what she said she saw. Wether the prisoner was Amelia or someone else is the true mystery. If that was her fate then the government should set it straight. She still would have died as a hero.
Maverick74, I agree with YOU 100%. I believe what the Saipan lady said she saw was TRUE. I have NO doubt the Saipan lady either saw Amelia Earhart maybe on a secret mission for the Government or .....some other lady spy executed that day. The investigators did find the persons blindfold when they digged where lady said Amelia Earhart was executed! And the gov't like usual is keeping it all HUSH HUSH!
The Unsolved Mysteries show with Robert stack was great and the segment on Amelia Earhart was superb in my opinion with the old scenes and reenactments of the actors.
The girl does not look like Kari. The girl's cheeks are thinner and her chin is more pointed. Kari's cheeks are fuller and her chin is more round. As far as the hair and earrings. I was a teenager in the 80's. 90% of us had that length hair with the spiral perm, puffy bangs and either multiple earrings or those ear clips in one ear. All the similarities that the investigator pointed out was half of the American teenage girl population back then.
the girl in the video must be kari nixon's look alike twin
5:13 _'This detail-enhanced photograph'_
*Photograph:* _LITERALLY_ a potato
I feel bad for the Ritter family my prayers are with them
Oh my God! I had forgotten how adorable Jordan and Jonathan Knight were!
That was the time of Jordans and Jonathans named after them
@@maramarxx2431 they were gay
@@JoeSmith-dh1rz i strongly believe so, but after reading Gore Vidal i happen to see a majority of gay actors/musicians/artists
Thanks for posting these up.
Forty-foot telephone poles?! Where? No one has telephone poles that tall! What's he thinking?
How is this girl so calm talking about the guy who killed both of her parents and attacked her?
I was thinking the same thing something she not saying
I thought the story was going to have a happy ending! so when he said the parents would be dead, I was like "huh??? why she so happy?"
Yeah, she showed no sadness at all. Very odd.
Because if she was screaming and crying and in hysterics they wouldn’t be able to interview her. Not everybody has to don black and mourn like it’s the Victorian Era to prove that they’re sad. Her psycho ex stabbed her 21 times in the back of the head and nearly killed her because he couldn’t take no for an answer.
Alice Morrissey Way to victim blame.
This is unreal! Can’t believe I went to the same high school as Richard and Coleen and didnt find out about this double murder until 10 years after I graduated and moved away!!! speaks to how well the town of Woodstock and the High School buried this story! No kids after the 90s ever talked about this! Our high school facilities looked a lot crappier tho and it’s in a swamp lol
Why didn’t Fred take over the radio once he knew they were in trouble?
The crash and sink theory is more widely believed by people, but the Gardner Island theory has a much more confirmed explanation. Work is ongoing but reliant on donations.
Evidence to support the information about the Japanese Survey ship, Koshu, having gone to Gardner Island to rescue Amelia Earhart includes the following:
A direct Quote from the 'New York Times' July 7, 1937 says: "The Japanese Navy's 2,080-ton survey ship Koshu, Captain Hanjiro Takagi commanding, which is cruising in the area around Howland Island. Was ordered yesterday to search for Amelia Earhart. The orders to the Koshu were radioed after Hirosi Saito, Ambassador to Washington, had reported that the United States Government had accepted an offer of Japanese assistance. Admiral Mistumasa Yonai, the Navy minister, immediately transmitted instructions to the Japanese commanders in Formosa and the Mandated Islands."
The Koshu's log, according to Susan Butler's book "East to the Dawn" says, "The Koshu headed south, out of Japanese and into United States waters, fully aware of where they were."
In October 2014, the piece of aluminum mentioned above, was shown, by precision photographic processes, with accuracy comparable to a finger print, to be that object mentioned. If this is correct, it changes the list of possible sources of Amelia's disappearance and would totally eliminate the crash and sink theory. It would also disprove the "crashed in the Marshall Islands" theory. It would prove that the Koshu was on Nikumaroro for a while, but was then taken to Jaluit Island with Amelia and Fred on board, and with the Electra attached to Its stern. That is why the search planes never saw them or the plane. They did see "some kind of markers", probably supports, used to load the Electra. At Jaluit Fred was treated by Bilamon Amaron. They were then, starting on July19, taken to Saipan and locked in, Garapan jail as spies. They did not crash in the Marshalls but were taken there, arriving at Jaluit Island Navy base on July 13, ten days after they went missing. They were never in "two places at the same time!" a statement which had been used to claim that all of the numerous incidents about Amelia in the Marshall Islands and Saipan were false. This information was referenced in "Earhart and Noonan: the Missing Link" by Duane Hamblin.
On July 9, 2017, the History Channel documentary, "Amelia Earhart: Lost Evidence," proposed that it was not Nikumaroro that Amelia landed on but an atoll in the Marshall Islands northeast of Howland Island. Their research was based on figures resembling Earhart and Noonan on a pier on Jaluit island. The theory is that after a storm affected Earhart's route, she turned west back to retrace her route and she crashed in the Marshall Islands, where she was picked up by the Japanese Navy and take to Saipan, where she was imprisoned and executed. It is further theorized that American intelligence knew she was there, and covered it up in order to prevent the Japanese from realizing that their secret code had been broken. When the US army seized the island, they then removed Earhart and Noonan's remains from the island. As yet, none of this has been confirmed, and this scenario is still theoretical.
Actually, the Nikumaroro/Gardiner theory has a major flaw: there was a known shipwreck on the island less than a decade before Amelia's flight, the wreckage of which was still visible into the early 21st century. Two dozen men from the ship, the *SS Norwich City*, camped out on the island for several days until being rescued, and the items and debris found by researchers could just as easily have been left by them.
Also, multiple air patrols over Nikumaroro during WWII failed to uncover any trace of Earhart or her plane.
Another island? Maybe. But I'm afraid that Nikumaroro is out.
Interesting.
Who lets their child go by themselves to the store that late at night? I’m like really? Why take that chance? At least the family received the closure they needed. 😇
She was 16 years old, living in a tiny town, walking to the corner store. I think even most parents today would be fine with that. It's easy to look at things when you have hindsight, but literally no one thought she would be abducted steps from her front door.
I wouldn't, even let my 16 year old do it.
7:20 Helicopter Plane with bent wings? Id like to see a segment just on that!
I need that money that the drugs dealers were getting. I just don’t want to sell drugs to get it. I want to make money the right way
Good luck w/ that...unless you're a really good lawyer, a doctor, or you hit the lottery or something like that...that certainly isn't realistic
U saw that girl in those 2 seconds... come on...
I saw new kids on the block in concert with the Backstreet Boys a few years ago in San Jose California
Cool u are lucky.
tan j maz you are thinking of nsync.
You're so lucky! I'm jealous
Amelia Earhart story is fascinating.!!!
Wow nkotb.
wpod
Sad to see that..
Anyone wanting to solve the mystery of Amelia earhart. Watch unsolved mysteries season 3 episode 8
No one wanted to admit that Amelia Earheart wasn't a great pilot. She might have been a pioneer for feminism or whatever, but that doesn't mean she was good at her job. And she wasn't. By all accounts, she was average at best. An average pilot with mediocre skills and limited experience trying to do what she tried to do wouldn't have good odds of succeeding. Her ambition far outstretched her actual skill level. In short, hubris done did her in. The actual mystery is why so many people supported her when she clearly lacked the basic necessary skills, experience, and education to succeed. But then again, Greta Thunberg is "person of the year" so nothing new under the sun, I guess. 🤷♀️
www.thevintagenews.com/2019/01/18/earhart/
tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Forum/FAQs/pilot.htm
news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-joke-211003291.html
I must agree.
I don’t disagree that she wasn’t the greatest pilot but to have the confidence to try and (mostly) succeed in a world dominated by men was still groundbreaking at the time and she deserves some credit for breaking that glass ceiling. I would argue that she is more inspirational because she was average. In my opinion, requiring women to be the absolute top of their field to receive any recognition for their work sets equality back. The world is full of average men who are commended and promoted every year for being average. I hope you’re enjoying catching up on Unsolved Mysteries as much as I am!
*"Oh oh oh oh oh, the WRONG GIRL"*
-New Kids on the Block
31:21 Some John Carpenter's "Haloween" vibes. 👍
Yes! Reminds me of the music in Christine too!
I was just thinking that to
@@cedricwillis493 Great acting by the girl, too. Very convincing screams of terror.
The boyfriend sure showed that broad. How dare she break up with such a tool. What a creep.
Did Robert Stack just call that New Kids on The Block video a "Rock" Video?
Excuse me, that isn't Rock, that is bubblegum Pop bullshit.
Lol yeah I caught that too. No, Robert Stack. Love you but they are NOT rock.
The Emilia's story is the most interesting.
I'm not saying that Amelia didn't have any responsibility, but how exactly are they putting ALL the blame about the use of the radio on just her? She had "the best navigator in the world" with her ... navigators are also radio trained, are they not? If she didn't know to leave the radio on, why the hell didn't he pipe up? It sounds like just a convenient excuse to put on her.
Hope she sees this bro 🤣🤣🤣