Unsolved Mysteries has featured more than 1,000 unsolved crimes, missing persons and
mysterious events.
But more than half of the mysteries detailed on the show have since been closed, many of
them thanks to tips from viewers.
These are the puzzling cases that have been officially solved.
Georgia Tann thought it was perfectly fine to take babies from poor and unwed mothers,
as long as she placed them with wealthy couples, handing them over with a $750 adoption fee.
According to the LA Times, Tann's black market baby business was in operation from the 1920s
to the '40s, and it's estimated she took more than 5,000 babies from their parents.
Tann used her position as the county director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society to
gain trust and avoid prosecution, and parents who fought back found themselves up against
judges on Tann's payroll.
Tann died in 1950, just three days before investigators finally closed in.
"I get very angry when I think of Georgia Tann and Camille Kelly because what they've
done to me and thousands of other people."
Unsolved Mysteries featured the story in 1989, and the show prompted more than 600 calls
from people who thought they might be victims.
At least 50 of those cases were solved, including Lynn Heinz, who was sold to a doctor at the
age of 5, and Sandra Kimbrell, whose mother was told she'd succumb to pneumonia after
Tann took her to a hospital, allegedly for a checkup.
Sixteen-year-old Kari Lynn Nixon disappeared in 1987 in her own neighborhood.
Her case was featured on Unsolved Mysteries in '89, but failed to produce any good leads.
"She wasn't in her bed at 6 in the morning, and my immediate reaction was terror.
And it's been a nightmare ever since."
A few years later, Nixon's mother was watching a New Kids on the Block music video when she
spotted a girl in the audience who looked just like her daughter, who was a fan of the
group.
The story made it into a second episode of Unsolved Mysteries, but when the girl came
forward, it wasn't Nixon.
The tragic truth was finally revealed in 1994, when Nixon's attacker confessed to the crime.
According to the Press-Republican, bank robber Robert Jones had attacked, offed, and buried
Nixon in a shallow grave, just a few miles from her home.
In this horrifying story, a mother and her teenage daughters were found in Tampa Bay,
bound, gagged, and weighed down with concrete blocks.
According to the LA Times, the three were on a road trip to Florida, all the way from
their family farm in Ohio.
They had previously stopped at The Jacksonville Zoo, SeaWorld, Epcot Center, and Disney's
MGM Studios, before accidentally encountering a man who offered to take them on a boat ride
around the bay.
He then assaulted all of them, and threw them into the bay alive, where they drowned.
The only evidence police had to go from was a note found in the family's car, with directions
to a boat ramp, which was not in the handwriting of the victims.
"And I knew something had happened then 'cause she's not the type that don't call."
The story was featured on Unsolved Mysteries in 1991.
But after several years with no leads, police decided to try something else: they put the
handwritten note up on a billboard.
Within one day, police obtained handwriting samples of the culprit.
"Police put up billboards showing the killer's handwriting.
Chandler's neighbor recognized that handwriting, and that ultimately helped lead to his arrest."
Oba Chandler was executed for the heinous crimes in 2011 and has since been linked to
other similar crimes.
When a man with the alias "Gabby" moved from Wyoming, he left some stuff with his friend
Newell Sessions, including a trunk with a lock on it.
But when Sessions finally opened the trunk six years later and discovered a human skeleton
inside it, he called Gabby.
For his part, Gabby claimed he'd purchased the trunk at a yard sale and had no idea what
was in it.
"And he act probably as surprised as I did when I opened the trunk, that he couldn't
believe it.
He thought I was kidding him."
Sessions then called the police, and x-rays later revealed a bullet inside the skeleton's
skull.
Gabby later took his own life.
"I don't believe that Gabby… caused the passing to this person… but my thoughts
have always been that he has knowledge of who the person in the trunk is."
The case appeared on Unsolved Mysteries in 1993.
According to the Global Dispatch, the victim's own daughter told detectives her uncle offed
her father in 1960 and buried him in a trunk.
DNA samples later confirmed the skeleton was the woman's father, Joseph Mulvaney.
Daphne Boyden was 17 years old when she was offed in her California home in 1996.
The killers set her body on fire and escaped with her 25-day-old son.
Witnesses reported seeing two girls leave the scene of the crime, but that information
went nowhere.
The case was featured on Unsolved Mysteries later that year, but it wasn't until 2002
that police were finally able to solve the crime.
According to SF Gate, an anonymous tip came in not long after the segment was rebroadcast.
The culprit was Latasha Brown, who had then fled to Texas, obtained a fake birth certificate,
and then returned to California and raised the child just 2 miles from the scene of the
crime.
"Apparently somebody wanted a baby.
And they wanted to do away with her, and why I don't know."
Prosecutors said Brown had a previous relationship with the baby's father.
She was sentenced to 37 years in prison.
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