- 8.3/1038 votes
#1 - Episode #91
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1027 votes
#2 - Episode #92
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1990
Segments: a murder attempt on a former Florida mayor; an Arkansas family's search for a long-lost brother; a five-plane Navy patrol's 1945 disappearance over the Bermuda Triangle; an antidrug activist's shooting.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1024 votes
#3 - Episode #93
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1990
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
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1024 votes
#4 - Episode #94
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1024 votes
#5 - Episode #95
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1990
Reports on the search for Nazi treasures buried near the Austrian-Swiss border; the disappearance of a movie producer's adult son in Beverly Hills; the search for an escaped convict; the disappearance of a boat and crew headed for Haiti.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1025 votes
#6 - Episode #96
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1990
Reports on a series of child-molestation cases; a Tennessee family's search for a missing sibling; a series of bizarre murders in a small town in New Hampshire.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1025 votes
#7 - Episode #97
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1990
Segments include the story of a South Carolina couple whose home withstood the destruction of 1989's Hurricane Hugo after their reported encounter with a ghost; the disappearance of a La Jolla, Cal., financial analyst in the El Paso desert.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1024 votes
#8 - Episode #98
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1990
New evidence in the 1937 disappearance of Amelia Earhart; the search for the murderer of a Woodstock, Ill., family; a climatologist who accurately predicted seven earthquakes in the past decade.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1025 votes
#9 - Episode #99
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1990
Repeat segments from the past three seasons include reports on Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess; the murder of race-car driver Mickey Thompson and his wife Trudy; and supposed findings of intelligent life on Mars. Unexplained Death: Mickey Thompson (UPDATE)
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1024 votes
#10 - Episode #100
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1022 votes
#11 - Episode #101
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1021 votes
#12 - Episode #102
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1021 votes
#13 - Episode #103
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/5/1990
Reports on the search for an assailant in the shooting of a North Carolina secretary; the murder of a pizza deliveryman and the subsequent finding three years later of the gun in a pawnshop; the unclaimed fortune of a deceased British socialite.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1022 votes
#14 - Episode #104
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/12/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1021 votes
#15 - Episode #105
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 12/19/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1022 votes
#16 - Episode #106
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 12/26/1990
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)
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1022 votes
#17 - Episode #107
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/2/1991
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1023 votes
#18 - Episode #108
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/9/1991
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1027 votes
#19 - Episode #109
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 1/16/1991
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1023 votes
#20 - Episode #110
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 1/23/1991
A report on the FBI hunt for a coldhearted con man wanted for bilking women. Also: a repeat segment on sightings of a bright orange fireball that crashed near Kecksburg, Pa., in 1965.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1022 votes
#21 - Episode #111
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 1/30/1991
Reports on the FBI search for a four-time prison escapee charged with bank fraud; the murder of a Maryland teenager; and the discovery on a South Pacific atoll of a possible artifact from Amelia Earhart's missing plane.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1018 votes
#22 - Episode #112
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 2/6/1991
Reports on the connection between voodoo rituals and five deaths on St. Croix; a Hungarian man's four-year search for his sister in America; and a Texas UFO sighting. Also: viewer tips (postponed from last week) leading to the arrest of a man on kidnapping charges.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1018 votes
#23 - Episode #113
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 2/13/1991
Segments: evidence said to refute historical theories on the deaths of Old West outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; the death of a pediatric nurse who had been harassed and terrorized for seven years; a woman's search for her siblings.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1014 votes
#24 - Episode #114
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 2/20/1991
A segment on crime fighter Eliot Ness's effort to solve the case of a 1930s Cleveland killer known as the Butcher of Kingsbury Run. Also: the 1989 murder of an Oregon prison director; a woman's 7-years search for her two sons; and viewer tips.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1015 votes
#25 - Episode #115
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 2/27/1991
A report on the FBI hunt for a con man wanted for bilking women; a repeat segment on sightings of an orange fireball that crashed near Kecksburg (Pa.) in 1965 and was reportedly removed under military supervision; and an update on a reunion.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Unsolved Mysteries Season 3
Every episode of Unsolved Mysteries Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Unsolved Mysteries Season 3!
Combines four to five segments of dramatic re-enactments, interviews and updates of real human and paranormal mysteries. An audience interactive call-to-action request allowed viewers to...
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Episode #91" is the best rated episode of "Unsolved Mysteries" season 3. It scored 8.3/10 based on 38 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/19/1990. This episode is rated 1.3 points higher than the second-best, "Episode #92".