7.4/1025 votes#1 - Episode #348
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 10/20/1995
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
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1019 votes
#2 - Episode #349
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 10/27/1995
Reports include the search for a suspect in the July 1995 murder of a bailiff who worked in Judge Lance Ito's courtroom. Also: a family who was terrorized on a Memorial Day outing in Glenrose, Texas; reports of religious visions in Kentucky. Wanted: Ronald Earl Cains Wanted: Unidentified Subjects Wanted: Richard Relf
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1024 votes
#3 - Episode #350
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 11/3/1995
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1023 votes
#4 - Episode #351
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 11/10/1995
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1021 votes
#5 - Episode #352
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 11/17/1995
A report on the search for a missing rock star; the powers of voodoo, focusing on a woman in 1800&'s New Orleans who purportedly healed the sick; a Santa Fe, N.M., therapist's methods of healing animals; a sibling's search for a sister with whom she lost touch after their mother's death in 1965.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1021 votes
#6 - Episode #353
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 12/1/1995
Included: a suspected coverup following claims of a 1964 UFO sighting in New Mexico; an update on a search for two unknown ""guardian angels"" who saved family members' lives after a 1983 auto accident in Mexico; the murder of a Dallas lawyer.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1026 votes
#7 - Episode #354
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 12/8/1995
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
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1019 votes
#8 - Episode #355
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 12/15/1995
An adoptee searches for her biological mother who abandoned her on a New York subway as an infant; and two scientists seek to verify the existence of a sea creature in the waters off western Canada. Also: the 1994 abduction of a 6-year-old boy from his school. Wanted: Rickey Allen Bright
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1020 votes
#9 - Episode #356
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 12/29/1995
Segments include a family terrorized on a Memorial Day outing in Glenrose, Texas; reports of religious visions in Kentucky; the 1994 murder of a computer manufacturer in California's Silicon Valley. (Repeat) Wanted: Ronald Earl Cains Wanted: Unidentified Subjects Wanted: Richard Relf
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1021 votes
#10 - Episode #357
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 1/5/1996
Included: reported sightings in the Adirondack Mountains of the ghost of a woman murdered at the turn of the century; the arrests of two fugitives in Salt Lake City; a 1994 convenience store robbery that was taped by a surveillance camera; the death of a forklift driver, whose former co-worker had disappeared.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1017 votes
#11 - Episode #358
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 1/12/1996
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
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1018 votes
#12 - Episode #359
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 1/19/1996
Included: the disappearance of an architect who was married to a brewing-company heir; a viewer tip leading to an arrest in a case of mail fraud; and efforts to revive a newborn at a Louisville hospital. Also: mysterious patient deaths; the 1994 disappearance of a New Jersey woman. Wanted: Michael Eschweiler Wanted: Michael Swango Wanted: Ronald Bax Missing: James Kimball
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1018 votes
#13 - Episode #360
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 1/31/1996
A new report focuses on the search for clues to the fate of a Florida bird-ranch owner and his aunt. Repeat segments include an update on a man who had been missing since 1993; the search for a rock star who seemingly vanished in 1995; a sibling's search for a sister with whom she lost touch after their mother's death; the reported healing powers of a New Orleans ""voodoo queen"" of the 1800s; the 1984 disappearance of a youth. Missing: Phillip Taylor Kramer Lost Love: Sherryl Borkowski
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1020 votes
#14 - Episode #361
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/1996
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
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1017 votes
#15 - Episode #362
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/1996
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1015 votes
#16 - Episode #363
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/1996
A profile of an 8-year-old prodigy from Denver; and a report on the 1995 disappearance of a Mason City, Iowa, TV anchorwoman. Also: repeat segments include a suspected coverup of an alleged UFO sighting in 1964 New Mexico; an insurance-scam investigation; the murder of a Dallas lawyer. Missing: Jodi Huisentruit
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1017 votes
#17 - Episode #364
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 2/23/1996
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
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1018 votes
#18 - Episode #365
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 3/1/1996
Repeat segments include: 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 use of bloodhounds to trace missing persons. Missing: Charles Southern
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1017 votes
#19 - Episode #366
Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 3/8/1996
An adoptee searches for her biological mother--who abandoned her on a New York subway as an infant; and two scientists seek to verify the existence of a sea creature in the waters off western Canada. Also: the 1994 abduction of a 6-year-old boy from his school. (Repeat) Wanted: Postal Crimes Wanted: Richard Bare Wanted: Michael McGuffey Missing: Michael Anthony Hughes Lost Love: Jeanne Martin
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1018 votes
#20 - Episode #247
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 3/22/1996
- Lost loves: Saviors of Duane Miller - Wanted: Sam Wodke - Mystery: Vince Foster - Murder: Jean Ellroy - Update: "Lost loves: The Mother of Michelle Neal-Arkin"
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1016 votes
#21 - Episode #368
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 3/22/1996
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
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1011 votes
#22 - Episode #369
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 3/29/1996
An Oklahoma woman claims that a lightning bolt brought about a miraculous cure; the surviving family of a murdered Maine veteran offers theories about his death; Nashville FBI agents arrest a fugitive in Clarksville, Tenn. Wanted: Antonio Chaves Moses
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1011 votes
#23 - Episode #370
Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 4/5/1996
Repeat segments on the 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 biographer Jim Beaver. Also: an update on the murder of Los Angeles model Linda Sobeck; a woman's search for two brothers with whom she lost touch in the 1960's. Wanted: Ernest Small Wanted: Roberto & Eladia Ramirez Missing: Bhagwaniala ""Moses"" Lall
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1014 votes
#24 - Episode #371
Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 4/12/1996
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1013 votes
#25 - Episode #372
Season 8 Episode 25 - Aired 4/19/1996
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
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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Season 8 Ratings Summary
"Episode #348" is the best rated episode of "Unsolved Mysteries" season 8. It scored 7.4/10 based on 25 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/20/1995. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Episode #349".