7.5/1028 votes#1 - Episode #201
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1992
The fifth season begins with a UFO story involving a 1983 incident in the skies over New York and Connecticut. Also: reports on the disappearance of an 18-year-old woman last seen with an acquaintance; the death of an unidentified man at the Paducah, Ky., airport.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1023 votes
#2 - Episode #202
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1992
Reports on the killing of an Indiana man who was involved in a love triangle; an amnesiac who showed up at a San Diego homeless shelter; a two-day-old baby stolen from her mother's Berkeley, Cal., hospital room.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1023 votes
#3 - Episode #203
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1992
Unanswered questions in the 1935 shooting of Louisiana senator Huey Long; the search by Cincinnati and Nashville detectives for a suspected serial killer; and a California woman's search for her brother, who was put up for adoption.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1024 votes
#4 - Episode #204
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1992
Reports on the 1985 escape of a convicted cop killer from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary; the remains of a body discovered in a Jaguar near Houston; the 1954 of a 9-year-old.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1023 votes
#5 - Episode #205
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1992
Included: the 1970 disappearance of a Houston mother; the search for the murderer of a 23-year-old cab driver in Banff, Alta.; the arrest of the suspected ""satchel bandit"" at a Hamilton, Ont., coffee shop; the death of a 21-year-old mystery woman.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1022 votes
#6 - Episode #206
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1992
Included: the 1970 disappearance of a Houston mother; the search for the murderer of a 23-year-old cab driver in Banff, Alta.; the arrest of the suspected ""satchel bandit"" at a Hamilton, Ont., coffee shop; the death of a 21-year-old mystery woman.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1022 votes
#7 - Episode #207
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1992
This Halloween edition features segments on a ghost known as the Blue Lady, said to inhabit the cliffs above Moss Beach, Cal.; and eerie happenings at California's Drum Barracks Civil War Museum. Also: the search for birth mothers following a San Antonio nurse's baby-selling operations in the '50s and '60s. Link: Moss Beach Distillery: Blue Lady
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1024 votes
#8 - Episode #208
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1992
Reports on the 1991 disappearance of a Louisiana salesman; a UFO sighting by a prospector at Canada's Falcon Lake; the disappearance of a prison guard in Orange County (Cal.).
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1023 votes
#9 - Episode #209
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1992
Segments on reported POW sightings of an American colonel who was shot down over Laos in 1965; the search for a man who witnessed a Belle Glade, Fla., murder in a sugarcane field; the Bismarck, N.D., prison escape of an inmate who remains at large.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1021 votes
#10 - Episode #210
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1992
Reports on the 1988 abduction and murder of a 7-year-old Midlothian, Ill., girl; and a psychic's claims that he can communicate with those who have ""passed on.""
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1021 votes
#11 - Episode #211
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1992
This expanded edition includes live reports. also: segments on an Arizona woman's search for a childhood friend; the search for a Redwood City, Cal., woman wanted for attempted murder of her husband.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1070 votes
#12 - Episode #212
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1992
Segments include the 1990 Telluride, Colo., murder of Eva Schoen, wife of U-Haul heir Sam Schoen; the 14-year search for a Texas fugitive; a man's quest to find the half-sister he never met; and the search for witnesses to the disappearance of a young mother.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1024 votes
#13 - Episode #213
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/9/1992
Reports on the 1985 disappearance of a 4-year-old boy from the Lake Tahoe, Nev., area; new evidence linking a 1930s Cleveland killer to the 1940s serial killer responsible for the Black Dahlia murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1020 votes
#14 - Episode #214
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 12/16/1992
Evidence pointing to the possible innocence of a Florida inmate serving a life term for rape; a Falls Church, Va., man's efforts to piece together his identity from sketchy facts surrounding his 1935 abandonment in a car.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1021 votes
#15 - Episode #215
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 12/23/1992
Reports on a couple's search for a stranger they once befriended, who they suspect is the one annually reciprocating their generosity a hundredfold; a hospitalized 7-year-old boy's miraculous recovery.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1020 votes
#16 - Episode #216
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/6/1993
A report on a Rochester man, originally charged in the murder of a 34-year-old woman, who has been granted a final appeal based on juror misconduct. Also: repeat segments include the killing of a Hamilton, Ind., man who was involved in a love triangle.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1021 votes
#17 - Episode #217
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/13/1993
Unanswered questions in the 1935 shooting of Louisiana senator Huey Long; the search for an arsonist; and a California woman's search for her younger brother. (Repeat)
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1022 votes
#18 - Episode #218
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 1/20/1993
Reports on the disappearance of an Orange County, Cal., executive; and the search for a man suspected in the murder of his employer. Among repeat reports: the 1970 disappearance of a Houston mother.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1026 votes
#19 - Episode #219
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 1/27/1993
Segments on the shooting death of an 18-year-old Albuquerque, N.M., woman; an Orange County, Cal., woman's search for her foster sister, whom she hasn't seen for 11 years. Also: the hunt for Yamashita's treasure, discovered in 1971 in the Phillippines.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1021 votes
#20 - Episode #220
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/3/1993
A Michigan man's 25-year search for his siblings; a 1991 UFO video, shot in Ottawa, Canada, which includes analysis by a former NASA specialist. Also: the hunt for a fugitive who, in 1988, murdered two women and left a third paralyzed; an investigation into the identity of a young hearing-impaired woman.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1022 votes
#21 - Episode #221
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1993
Reports on the 1983 murder of a 10-year-old Chicago-area girl; the search by Canadian Indians for their biological families; a Byron, Ill., man's search for his twin and half sister.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1021 votes
#22 - Episode #222
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 2/10/1993
Eerie phenomena surrounding the presence of a Pennsylvania man; the shooting death of a California motorcycle mechanic; a woman's search for her childhood friend, who she discovered was actually her sister; and the death of an unidentified man who used aliases.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1021 votes
#23 - Episode #223
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 2/17/1993
A man's search for a woman who pulled him from the ocean to safety, then disappeared; a restaurateur's harassment by anonymous phone calls, possibly connected to his 1974 kidnapping in Beirut; and a bomb explosion that nearly killed a Navy captain's wife.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1022 votes
#24 - Episode #224
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 2/24/1993
A recap of cases solved include the release of a prisoner who was a victim of mistaken identity. Also: the disappearance of a financially troubled Massachusetts man, who's unaware he's an heir to $750,000; the discovery of a human skeleton in an old footlocker.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1014 votes
#25 - Episode #225
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 3/3/1993
The 1985 escape of a convicted cop killer from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary; the discovery of the remains of a body, found in a car near Houston; the 1954 disappearance of a 9-year-old boy. (Repeat)
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Episode #201" is the best rated episode of "Unsolved Mysteries" season 5. It scored 7.5/10 based on 28 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/16/1992. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Episode #202".