Unsolved Mysteries: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Unsolved Mysteries Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Episode #39
Sep 20, 1989
A report on the alleged cover-up of a reported UFO crash landing opens the second season. Also: the story of a Vietnam veteran's 20-year search for a nurse who helped him rebuild h
Episode #40
Sep 27, 1989
Segments on the murder of a Michigan real estate agent; the Florida search for a man believed to have swindled occupants of a nudist camp; and a statue of Jesus in Pennsylvania tha
Episode #41
Oct 11, 1989
Segments on the suspicious death of a Virginia woman; the search for five Hawaiian fisherman who reportedly vanished in the South Pacific; and the death threats received by a Misso
Episode #42
Oct 18, 1989
Segments on the search for a Nebraska police chief sought in connection with a murder; the capture of a Georgia convict; an Arizona couple who posed as doctors reportedly to defrau
Episode #43
Oct 25, 1989
Segments include reports of ghostly lights in the sky above a small Texas town; the search for a Georgia woman sought in connection with discount-store robberies; and the murder of
Episode #44
Nov 1, 1989
A segment on Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess focuses on reports that a double may have served his prison sentence. Also: a missing Montana woman thought to be suffering from amnesia
Episode #45
Nov 8, 1989
A former San Diego policeman who, according to this report, claims that fellow officers may have tried to kill him; the hunt for a Massachusetts fugitive; the sentencing of a Flori
Episode #46
Nov 15, 1989
Segments include the search for missing heirs of a Michigan hermit who left a $250,000 estate.
Episode #47
Nov 22, 1989
The 1970 death of boxing champ Sonny Liston is probed in a report that also examines theories that he may have been murdered. Other segments include the Texas search for kidnappers
Episode #48
Nov 29, 1989
A segment on a Nazi death-camp survivor's 44-year search for the American soldier who gave him a miniature American flag; a report on the Maryland murder of a U.S. Army intelligenc
Episode #49
Dec 6, 1989
Segments include a Glendale, Cal., case involving the suspected murder of a homeless man in a 1 million insurance fraud scheme; the search in Washington State for an escaped convic
Episode #50
Dec 13, 1989
Included: the reported suicide of a 24-year old Virginia woman, who some believe was the victim of foul play; adult adoptees' searches for their natural parents; the FBI hunt for a
Episode #51
Dec 20, 1989
Segments include a 1930's case involving a baby left in a hatbox along an Arizona road on Christmas Eve; a Chicago physician who may be the wrong man serving a prison term for murd
Episode #52
Dec 27, 1989
Repeat segments on a New Jersey woman whose psychic powers are tested; and 19th century miner credited with hiding 21 million in gold and silver. Also: an update on the capture of
Episode #53
Jan 3, 1990
Reports on the disappearance of a young Ohio woman more than eight years ago; the search for a Florida woman wanted for questioning in a 2 million theft from her ailing husband; th
Episode #54
Jan 10, 1990
Repeat segments on the murder of a Michigan real-estate agent by two masked gunmen, and a story of religious faith in Pittsburgh involving a blinking statue of Christ. Also: an upd
Episode #55
Jan 17, 1990
Segments on an Oklahoma boy's search for his grandfather, who has been missing for more than 40 years; a near-fatal attack on a Connecticut woman; a hearing-impaired Ohio woman's q
Episode #56
Jan 24, 1990
Segments examine the shooting death of a Colorado woman's husband; and the search for missing youths across the country. Also: a September story on UFOs in the Southwest.
Episode #57
Jan 31, 1990
A report from Great Britain on the unexplained creation of odd-shaped wheat and corn crops. Also: the disappearance of a Chicago writer who went to Colorado to write a mystery nove
Episode #58
Feb 7, 1990
Included: reported sightings of an aquatic monster known as Ogopogo in British Columbia's Lake Okanagan; the 1977 murder of an Arizona businessman who claimed to work for the Gover
Episode #59
Feb 14, 1990
Reports: an Ohio woman who claims she's the reincarnated spirit of someone from a century earlier; the murder of a New Mexico law officer; the search for a suspected drug dealer.
Episode #60
Feb 21, 1990
Reports on a Seattle man suspected in the killing of his wife; the Texas search for two teens charged with killing four persons; a Georgia woman's quest to locate the person who pr
Episode #61
Feb 28, 1990
Reports on the murders of two Washington teens; nocturnal sightings in the skies above Texas; the vanishing of a Pennsylvania security guard and a fortune in platinum. (Repeat)
Episode #62
Mar 7, 1990
A report on Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess suggests that a double may have served his prison sentence. Also: the search for a missing Montana woman. (Repeat)
Episode #63
Mar 14, 1990
Segments on the reunion of lost members of an Oklahoma family; the search for an Arizona couple who posed as doctors reportedly to defraud unsuspecting patients. (Repeat)
Episode #64
Mar 21, 1990
Segments on a ""Southern belle"" who, according to this report, bilked investors out of millions in a pyramid scheme; a Colorado Vietnam veteran's search for a fellow soldier.
Episode #65
Mar 28, 1990
A 45-year-old kidnapping case examines a Chicago man's search for his brother, who was abducted from their parents' home. Also: a profile of a Missouri man who preyed on women's he
Episode #66
Apr 4, 1990
A report on a mysterious illness that struck an Oakland family; an update on the puzzling death of a Virginia woman; and repeat segments on a New York City coin scam, and the searc
Episode #67
Apr 11, 1990
From November: Reports on the shooting of a former San Diego cop, who resigned from the force after testifying against fellow cops; the capture of a scam artist who preyed upon a F
Episode #68
Apr 18, 1990
Segments: the murder of a North Carolina woman who was shot in her car while returning home from a holiday party; fortunetelling scam artists working in the Midwest. (Repeat)
Episode #69
Apr 25, 1990
Reports on a Chicago case in which a murdered woman's friend claims to have communicated with the victim from the grave; a Virginia sting operation involving charges of fraud and b
Episode #70
May 2, 1990
Reports on three sets of identical twins; the Boston search for a shopping-mall robber; the FBI hunt for drug dealers in the Miami area.
Episode #71
May 9, 1990
The search for an Arizona woman in connection with the death of her boyfriend; the Florida capture of a most-wanted-list fugitive; a Nazi death-camp survivor's search for an Americ
Episode #72
May 16, 1989
A report examining a new angle in the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy; repeat segments on the Texas manhunt for a young woman's abductors, and a family's search for a sibli
Episode #73
May 23, 1990
Updates on December stories include a report on a California woman's reunion with her lost siblings, located with viewer help; the capture of a Washington fugitive.
Episode #74
May 30, 1990
Reports on a Chicago doctor who claims he's the wrong man jailed for his wife's murder; the hunt in the Northwest for the killer of a mother and daughter. (Repeat)
Episode #75
Jun 6, 1990
Reports on the disappearance of an Ohio woman nearly 10 years ago; Nebraska churchgoers who feel their lives were miraculously spared. (Repeat)
Episode #76
Jun 13, 1990
Segments on the reported link between a Nashville murder and the weekly music charts; an Oklahoma boy's search for his grandfather, missing for more than 40 years; a near-fatal att
Episode #77
Jun 20, 1990
Segments on the disappearance of a Chicago mystery writer who went to Colorado to write; a North Carolina teenager's death, reported to be racially motivated. (Repeat)
Episode #78
Jun 27, 1990
Segments: the 1977 murder of an Arizona businessman; reported sightings of a lake monster in British Columbia; a New Mexico bowling-alley massacre. (Repeat)
Episode #79
Jul 4, 1990
A third-anniversary show recalls fugitives apprehended with viewers' help. Also: an update on a $2 billion treasure at Victorio Peak, N.M.; cases of loved ones found. (Repeat)
Episode #80
Jul 11, 1990
Reports: an Ohio woman who claims she's the reincarnated spirit of a 19th-century woman; the possible murder of a law officer in New Mexico. (Repeat)
Episode #81
Jul 18, 1990
Segments on a Vietnam vet's reunion with the nurse who took care of him; a five-man fishing trip in which one man never returned; a bank president's unexplained death; the search f
Episode #82
Jul 25, 1990
Segments: a boy's disappearance from his Chicago home; an elaborate drug-money laundering scheme; the capture of a bail-jumper; a man who preyed on women's hearts and pocketbooks.
Episode #83
Aug 1, 1990
From 1989: A mother's search for her son's suspected killers; new evidence in a Texas woman's death; the fate of 34 merchant marines believed lost at sea during World War II.
Episode #84
Aug 8, 1990
Included: an update on a 1988 story about the murder of an Arkansas man; and repeat segments, also from 1988, on a UFO encounter and a missing teenager.
Episode #85
Aug 15, 1990
This expanded edition from 1989 features segments on Alcatraz, the former penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, and the 1962 escape of three inmates. (Repeat)
Episode #86
Aug 22, 1990
A new segment involves a policeman's search for his partner's killer. Repeat segments include the recovery of a 7-year-old girl who was in a coma for five months.
Episode #87
Aug 29, 1990
Segments examine the paranormal aspects of a Chicago murder case; the capture of 12 criminals in a reverse sting operation by Virginia authorities. (Repeat)
Episode #88
Sep 5, 1990
A new segment on a missing 4-year-old Tennessee girl, who has reportedly been seen since her alleged 198 death; an update on the arrest of a woman in a mother-son pyramid scheme. R
Episode #89
Sep 12, 1990
A new segment examines the search for a man who killed a woman at an automatic-teller machine. Also: updates include the story of the puzzling crop formations found in England.
Episode #90
Sep 16, 1990
Reports on out-of-body experiences; the modus operandi in a series of L.A. bank robberies; the possible link between organized crime and a repairman's murder. (Repeat)