What a good man Barney is. Leaving the clothes bought for him rather than to take them. And to be so dear searching for his sister. Maximum joy in his eyes when they finally saw each other.
Anybody else out there in YT land watching their 3rd or 8th episode today of this awesome show? I know I have...it's been an all day thing, and it is like it's 1991 again.
The foster and split up stories break my heart. It's amazing how frequent families were broken apart during that generation. Within my own family, my grandfather on one side and grandmother on the other had experiences similar in the 1930s.
@derekbaker777 The unspoken truth is that she probably sold her children to the reverend out of desperation. He knew their names and where to find them and that she won't be looking for them.
@@derekbaker777I’m sure she might have something to the cops but if you don’t know where your kids are there’s not much you could do. If they are outside the county
Barney worked at a gas station which means that he had a boss. It could have been his boss or one of his customers who was aware of their situation. Those people would have known their names and they could have been the ones who sold that information to the unscrupulous unholy reverend. It didn’t necessarily have to be the mom who was at fault. Maybe she did report her kids missing but lets face it in 1941 how much help is a dirt dirt DIRT poor woman getting from the authorities??!!?? We may NEVER find out who was really at fault, but regardless it’s an EXTREMELY sad situation that grown ass people put those poor children in all for a dollar!!!
I will NEVER understand how this extremely interesting, entertaining and helpful show ever ended!? Makes no sense!!! And so well mastered in EVERY way including the perfect host!!!
It breaks my heart 😢 when i see how the US foster system was manipulated by unscrupulous criminals and tore siblings apart. Its still happening in the US, UK and undoubtedly worldwide. I pray for you, x
I was a kid in the '80s and '90s. Between old stories like this and overhearing bits of news about over-eager CPS workers tearing families apart for the littlest thing, I was *terrified* of men in black coming to take my siblings and me away.
@@brigidtheirish I'm not supposed to say but my mother in law was the head of child social services here in the UK. She has undoubtedly helped hundreds of children escape physical and emotional dangers. But oh trust me they dont always get it right.
I watched these segments when they were on the first time, and then on reruns and now yet again on here and I never get tired of the reunion stories. Barney is adorable 💙💙💙
Barney is a far better person than the priest or his adopted parents. That couple just wanted free child labour rather than a child to raise and cherish, and he still respected them even though he rarely saw them.
@jbcatz5 EXACTLY…how the hell would you have your child adopted or not living 8 freaking miles from the main house??!!?? That was MOST DEFINITELY child labor under the false pretense of adoption!!
Unfortunately that was the reality of the foster system during the depression. Nobody needed an extra mouth to feed and there were plenty of babies freely available if you were barren. So for a preteen there was very little in the way of options. At least he was treated well plenty were not. I think quite a few of the kids knew what the arrangement was and let's be honest it wasn't far removed from when 12 year old boys were sent to sea or to war or to factories and the mines so getting 3 meals, clothes and decent housing wasnt too bad comparatively.
Plus it was also the mistake of Billy Kirkpatrick (the man behind the wheel) taking off his mask before leaving the bank (which enabled witnesses to help create that sketch)
@@waffleseigle3138 The bigger snitches were Billy Kirkpatrick (the man behind the wheel) and his girlfriend Myra Penny (who helped keep the books on her boyfriend and his accomplice Ray Bowman)
Mattie was my grandfather’s sister. I never met her but she seemed like a sweet lady. It really devastated my family I know that. I really feel horrible that such a thing happened so close to home.
Plsss I cried so many times during the first reunion story omg 😭 I’m so glad they got to be reunited!!! Literally made my day 💕 🙏🏾 Omg just finished the second reunion one, so sweet 😭 this episode is “the feels” episode!
I just love to see When families reunite! After sometimes so much time that has passed by? There is nothing better than a family that has so much love for one another! Hopefully they can all create their own Sunshine!
@@mudduck754 That's a particularly ignorant thing to say. You couldnt be more wrong. If you think the system is the same as it was early 70's to late 80's as it is today, you simply do not have a single clue on how things work... Ignorance can only carry you so far though...Your not ignorant, I take that back..You simply have your head shoved up your ass! Which would explain why your talking out of it!! The child welfare system has and will continue to make leaps and bounds to better the future of the unfortunate situation of these little ones. The screening process alone is an excellent new and improved feat. Please keep your isolated, semi retarded comments to yourself. Just like anything else, if your not being part of the solution. Your part of the problem!
@@darcy3245 I have a friend who is a Washington state resident as is her son. Let's call them Rhonda and Aiden. Rhonda is married to a fellow named Dave. Dave and Rhonda were separated. David was working fishing boats in Florida and Rhonda was living in Washington State. They decided to reconcile, she went down to Florida with her son Aiden and they tried to be a happy little family again. But because of Dave's alcohol and drug use there was a dispute and Dave kicked Aiden which got child protective services involved. David had moved up to driving truck at that point more money. Rhonda was not a Florida resident yet she wasn't up to her 90 days. David was charged with assault on a child by the courts and child protective services. David took the company truck and disappeared the truck was found in Georgia. With David gone Rhonda had no income, with David gone she wasn't going to go to child protective services bullshit program because she was a Washington state resident and packed her car took her child and was heading home to Washington to start the new school year were her son was enrolled in school in Tacoma. CPS in Florida put out an amber alert on her. She has full custody of her son. In Barstow California California highway patrol pulls her over confiscated her son gave him to the CPS Florida people and Rhonda was sent on her way home to Washington no charges of kidnap no charges of custodial interference no charges at all and she still has full parental rights to her son. That is somewhere in the Florida system where she can't get phone calls to him. She is in Washington state fighting this. And nobody seems to know where Aiden Nichols is. She got a phone call from him last year telling her he's finding a way home no matter what. He's 11 years old he is a computer genius. And nobody in the Florida system will admit to having him. They've even changed his birthday by a month when you search the records. So you go ahead and say whatever you have to say. I know better. I have seen this first hand I have read the court paperwork. And the State of Florida kidnapped Rhonda's son. He was never a Florida resident. Nor was she. But you go ahead and call me ignorant which shows how ignorant you really are. Hell you might even be one of the ones in on it
@@mudduck754 Ok....I'll play your silly little game!! Let's start with your story! I heard from a heard from a heard from a crap doesnt fly. There are huge holes in that story that make 0 sense. Sounds like a bunch of facts are being left out which is guaranteed the case..Secondly why so secretive? I mean if this was my friend's kid I'd want widespread word out there to help track the child down!! 3rd you were told a story, so when you state that you know tor a fact the system is botched, is strictly on hear say which counts for nothing!! And last but not least you accuse me of being "one of them"...Grab a brain...Anybody that thinks the system isn't 100% better than it was in the 70's is delusional. I'm always up for a logical discussion and to talk facts bit when you start this whole " my freind said this and this guy said that then they told me this" crap your credibility goes straight out the window..Plague someone else with your BS big guy...Dont bring that shit around here..
@@darcy3245 so all you want to do is call me names because I mentioned a story about a child being kidnapped by CPS. First of all you're not an expert in the field. Second of all you don't talk to me in that tone youngster. I've been on this planet a lot longer than you have. There are a lot more details to it that I left out to make the story short. Try to find Aiden Nichols in the Florida system. You can't. They kidnapped Rhonda's son. You can call me a liar over that all you want. Makes me think you might be part of it. There is child trafficking going on. I left out the whole Dawn center part of it because that just makes the story that much longer.
This was my mom's favorite show growing up. I was forced to watch because she called the shots lol. I ended up loving the show and still watch it to this day!! 💯💯
I remember when the store owners were killed. It's probably an hour from me. That infuriates me when such people are killed. How many generations have they helped? How many times did someone go in there, and ask fo $20 worth of gas to get to work? Or a loaf of bread, pack of Bologna, eggs, and get it, and pay them on Friday? That type of store, store owner, doesn't exist today. I miss those ol stores. The ol men sitting around, shootin the Bull. It was a community center point. People today are really missing out on the personal service, a friend I'm the community. I'm glad I grew up before all this convenience set in. All stores were individually owned. Walmart didn't exist, but we had Kmart's, Woolworths (is it all if just the one), Five n Dime. America was awesome, sad she died.
How was the Barney and Angelina situation not considered kidnapping? Apparently their mother didn't sign any documents, so that had to have been considered kidnapping. Did she report her missing children to the police? There's gotta be more to this story. But it's kind of beautiful that all that mattered to Barney was finding his sister. I wonder how many other children were abducted from their families by this reverend.
i dunno about this creep but look up Georgia Tan that evil bitch would let babies die if they got sick and let them die in the hot sun apparently. Joan Crawford's kids were Georgia Tan kids she was one evil woman she would take kids off the front lawn and when parents wanted their kids back she had a judge in her back pocket too, and Lawyers,doctors etc.. and she got away with it too i think they did an episode about it but it goes into more Detail on the show Deadly women. i'm glad that barney found his sister he was one of the lucky ones.
No real man of god would do such evil heartless things what a piece of hot putrid garbage him and his son and the fosterparents who exploited a young man for free labor because they're cheap ass mizers I was the niddle child in a family of 6 and I bout raised my my younger sisters and brother I was protective and suspicious of anyone who came around them qnd I still am they would have literally had to drug or kill me for me to leave without my sisters and lil brother never happen.
I think there was alot more to it than some random dude just desperately needed to abduct a preteen and an older child during the depression when record numbers of kids were abandoned and orphaned and nobody was adopting. A common one I heard was offers by the church for respite care for struggling families, usually came with promises of otherwise unattainable schooling, care, fresh air in the county for city kids and a chance for mom to get on her feet. What they didnt tell people was they put the kids up for adoption, those that had interest went and those that didn't got returned if they were still there when mom came sniffing back around. They sound like they were in just such a predicament that sort of story preys on.. 2 kids, a sick spouse and the other not much more than a menial laborer. Offer them a break till hes out of the hospital, frees up mom to rest and work more, dad gets out and gets a job and its all hunky dory. Shame it was usually a lie
Happy 58th Birthday Cheryl (today is June 15, her bday was yesterday). Hope the last 30 years have been worth your while with at least another 3.5 sitting there rotting your life away.
Really happy for Barney. I looked for someone for over 30yrs that I only spent part of 1 day with when I was 12yrs old. Finally found the person along with a few family members. It was like winning the lotto. Reached out to all of them just to say hello. No one even dignified me with a response. Certainly envy Barney's joyful reunion. Not everyone is that fortunate. You would think people would feel special to have someone remember them during a chance encounter from so long ago. Just.....not the case for me. Not sure what I ever did "wrong" to anyone. Lead a very isolated life. Try to remember everything...about everyone...always. Even attempt to look up kids I went to preschool with from time to time. People with friends and family are certainly blessed.
You have to wonder in the past with few regulations on orphanages and with people making money from adoptions, how many kids were taken against the wishes of family members.
I know of someone who spent his whole life without his father's side of the family in his life and when he met them they weren't as warm as these reunions are on this show. Some of his siblings kept him at arms length and don't reach out to him much or talk to him. Its nice to see wholesome reunions like this!
Although the photo she took of Billy Kirkpatrick (the man driving the car) wasn’t clear enough for an identification but it did help witnesses enough for a sketch ✍️
Why would a teller hit the alarm? It's so much more dangerous that way. Most bank robbers want to get in and out with the money, not turn a robbery into a stand off/hostage situation.
I always say that children pay a high price for the sins of a parent like in this story when James Vess murdered his wife Wanda leaving 9 children without a mother; it is despicable cruel, and so evil. These children didn’t lose just their mother, they lost the father too. So sad and tragic.
@@lauren9004 it really pisses me off because all 4 of my Aunt's have passed and 3 of my uncle's it only my mom and one uncle I have left what I would give to see them again she just murdered two people that were kind to her she is a piece of 💩 along with her husband
Cheryl, I never felt unwanted but I can tell you this: I never felt like I had a home or was at home. Since I was a kid until now (68 yrs old), I have always felt like a "guest". Still haven‘t found home. ❤
Am I the only one wondering HOW the bank robbers abducted the bank employees AND drove off with multiple police cars waiting outside? And later LOST the police?
Wtf that’s kidnapping 😂😂. Like the pastor straight took the kids. Why is no one like pissed at the pastor. Am I missing something? Like someone please tell me like they seem totally cool with the fact that some old pastor came to up to them and straight up took them
It was the great depression. The pastor probably made money trafficking the kids. Sorry I mean "adoption" Horrible person. Just an opportunist in the depression
I was thinking the same thing! When Barney found Nick, they just left it at “Oh, Reverend Fairy King Bowie died a couple years ago. Thems the breaks. 🤷🏻♂️”…and NO one batted an eye?! Not even a footnote in the narration?! Nope. Let’s just point the camera at the feel-good reunion and forget about Ol’ Rev Child-Dealer…Sus af.
@@robinjandhi6661 It’s not even that it’s at the time during the 1930s like why weren’t the cops involved you know if your kids disappear you tend to notice that
@@bangpow6160 Maybe the pastor gave the parents some money to “take them off their hands for a little while” and the parents accepted the deal since it was the depression era. Then maybe they felt ashamed and denied it? Seems like we’re missing some crucial parts of the story. I know the parents mentioned never signing “official papers” but under the table deals would’ve skipped all that documentation. The pastor probably labeled the kids as “abandoned” and acted as if he was a hero for “saving them.” That pastor probably made some good money providing cheap labor to the upper classes.
@@jbcatz5I don’t think he was really part of the community. I don’t know if he just drove around looking for kids to kidnap that he thought were hard up and needed kidnapping for a better family so he could make a quick buck
One year had passed and your mother didn't even know you? That's insane. Why wasn't she going crazy when her children were first gone!!??!! Hello? That the DFS, etc, could get away with snatching and selling, or farming out, children, just sickens me. It still happens today, it's just more clever.
Imagine killing loving family members for some cash only to still end up as a gas station clerk. I have no shade for someone working a service job, but if you are gonna murder for a paycheque, you best make that money last.
@@jellowmisses4532 maybe he didn’t recognize that at his young age. Probably thought she was just really sensitive and needed to be cared for because she was his little sister.
Because even those the show was aired with Robert Stack until he got cancer in 2002 other networks still aired it and added updates. Stack died in 2003.
It was from a rerun shortly after it was aired in '92. (The early 90s style graphics.) The very first airing probably ended with Stack talking about the case ("if you have any information")
This foster system is despicable. It’s a wonder these people could sleep at night. They were truly delusional in thinking they were doing the right thing. So many of these families from what I’ve seen on this show were just looking for free labour
Puede bajar la aplicación de Pluto TV, es gratis, también la tienen para un aparato de TV, ahí tienen un canal con los episodios traducidos al español, espero le funcione.
@Hyperskreem 82 I'm watching all them on amazon. I'm trying to figure out why it's altered because the robber was caught in 2011. So if these mysterys get solved in 2022 they will be updated on this show?
Barney and Anegline's reunion was the most heartwarming and wholesome thing to see!
Omg 100. 💟💟💟🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💟💟💟💟💟
I agree 💗
What a good man Barney is. Leaving the clothes bought for him rather than to take them. And to be so dear searching for his sister. Maximum joy in his eyes when they finally saw each other.
Anybody else out there in YT land watching their 3rd or 8th episode today of this awesome show? I know I have...it's been an all day thing, and it is like it's 1991 again.
I watch two episodes every night....sometimes three lol. It does bring back the good ol days☺
It sure does 🙂
I'm from England and this show was massive here too in the early 90s. I too reminisce watching this. I feel like I'm 11 again 😅
😂😂💯😂😂
Episodes? I have to pace myself to just 1 season at a time. 😂😂😂
The reenactments are so professionally done; I think that was part of the magic with this series (and Robert Stack).
Yes! I agree 😊
the reunions are honestly the best parts of what is a considered a scary show. really happy that man found his lil sister 🥲
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💟💟💟
I agree! It was so heartwarming seeing them hug after 50 years of separation!
Anytime I see a reunion , I anticipate a lot of emotion, but when the actual reunion occurs, they are emotional duds.
The absolute OG of reality crime shows. The theme song still gives me goose bumps!!
I would look out the window after this went off as a child
The foster and split up stories break my heart. It's amazing how frequent families were broken apart during that generation. Within my own family, my grandfather on one side and grandmother on the other had experiences similar in the 1930s.
I’m so glad Barney was able to reunite with his sister. He seems like such a sweet man.
Something about the whole story doesn't seem right however. Kids go missing by unknown person and mother doesn't report incident?....
This made me Cry. Just got kidnapped. Happy he is so Positive & The ending was Beautiful 🙏🏽🙏🏽💟
@derekbaker777 The unspoken truth is that she probably sold her children to the reverend out of desperation. He knew their names and where to find them and that she won't be looking for them.
@@derekbaker777I’m sure she might have something to the cops but if you don’t know where your kids are there’s not much you could do. If they are outside the county
Barney worked at a gas station which means that he had a boss. It could have been his boss or one of his customers who was aware of their situation. Those people would have known their names and they could have been the ones who sold that information to the unscrupulous unholy reverend. It didn’t necessarily have to be the mom who was at fault. Maybe she did report her kids missing but lets face it in 1941 how much help is a dirt dirt DIRT poor woman getting from the authorities??!!?? We may NEVER find out who was really at fault, but regardless it’s an EXTREMELY sad situation that grown ass people put those poor children in all for a dollar!!!
I will NEVER understand how this extremely interesting, entertaining and helpful show ever ended!? Makes no sense!!! And so well mastered in EVERY way including the perfect host!!!
Robert Stack had cancer, and passed away in 2003, a year after UM ended in 2002.
@@cherylcampbell9369Yes, very sad.
I know, right?! This show found so many criminals and reunited just as many
@LoveCats9220 today's technology played a major part!
on netflix there is a new series of UM.
as a kid i used to hate the reunion specials, but as an adult they have come one of my favorites you really don't understand the human sprit
Same. I would get up and go do something during those segments. I enjoy them now.
This world has become so sensitive. There aren’t men anymore just women, always in your feelings. Be a MAN.
Clown 🤡
They’re my favorite parts actually. Funny how that works out.
Exactly
Same ... funny how we all eventually mature as the years tick by😂
It breaks my heart 😢 when i see how the US foster system was manipulated by unscrupulous criminals and tore siblings apart. Its still happening in the US, UK and undoubtedly worldwide. I pray for you, x
I was a kid in the '80s and '90s. Between old stories like this and overhearing bits of news about over-eager CPS workers tearing families apart for the littlest thing, I was *terrified* of men in black coming to take my siblings and me away.
@@brigidtheirish I'm not supposed to say but my mother in law was the head of child social services here in the UK. She has undoubtedly helped hundreds of children escape physical and emotional dangers. But oh trust me they dont always get it right.
@@suzannedelgado4542 Yeah. Any system is going to have problems as soon as people get involved.
I watched these segments when they were on the first time, and then on reruns and now yet again on here and I never get tired of the reunion stories. Barney is adorable 💙💙💙
Barney and Angie's story really broke my heart. But I'm so glad he finally found her.
Barney is a far better person than the priest or his adopted parents. That couple just wanted free child labour rather than a child to raise and cherish, and he still respected them even though he rarely saw them.
@jbcatz5 EXACTLY…how the hell would you have your child adopted or not living 8 freaking miles from the main house??!!?? That was MOST DEFINITELY child labor under the false pretense of adoption!!
Unfortunately that was the reality of the foster system during the depression. Nobody needed an extra mouth to feed and there were plenty of babies freely available if you were barren. So for a preteen there was very little in the way of options. At least he was treated well plenty were not. I think quite a few of the kids knew what the arrangement was and let's be honest it wasn't far removed from when 12 year old boys were sent to sea or to war or to factories and the mines so getting 3 meals, clothes and decent housing wasnt too bad comparatively.
Kathryn was so brave to take the picture!!! Good for her
Snitch!
Plus it was also the mistake of Billy Kirkpatrick (the man behind the wheel) taking off his mask before leaving the bank (which enabled witnesses to help create that sketch)
@@waffleseigle3138 The bigger snitches were Billy Kirkpatrick (the man behind the wheel) and his girlfriend Myra Penny (who helped keep the books on her boyfriend and his accomplice Ray Bowman)
@@waffleseigle3138 Yes and good for her!
That woman with the camera was ahead of her time!
Yeah, I wonder what she would’ve been able to do with a smartphone! 🙂
Mattie was my grandfather’s sister. I never met her but she seemed like a sweet lady. It really devastated my family I know that. I really feel horrible that such a thing happened so close to home.
Plsss I cried so many times during the first reunion story omg 😭 I’m so glad they got to be reunited!!! Literally made my day 💕 🙏🏾
Omg just finished the second reunion one, so sweet 😭 this episode is “the feels” episode!
I just love to see When families reunite! After sometimes so much time that has passed by? There is nothing better than a family that has so much love for one another!
Hopefully they can all create their own Sunshine!
One of my favorite shows growing up...thanks for the uploads. 😊😊
There used to be a lot of comments on this video,but,somehow we’re deleted,I wonder why?
@@Yahweh-dn9cv Perhaps YOU may be able to help solve a mystery.
@@39Hundred lol😂
it is marvelous that the nine brothers and sisters were reunited once more, there is always hope
This show has made me speculate that the foster care system must be a lucrative business... and that most social workers have no heart.
It still is today.
@@mudduck754 That's a particularly ignorant thing to say. You couldnt be more wrong. If you think the system is the same as it was early 70's to late 80's as it is today, you simply do not have a single clue on how things work... Ignorance can only carry you so far though...Your not ignorant, I take that back..You simply have your head shoved up your ass! Which would explain why your talking out of it!! The child welfare system has and will continue to make leaps and bounds to better the future of the unfortunate situation of these little ones. The screening process alone is an excellent new and improved feat. Please keep your isolated, semi retarded comments to yourself. Just like anything else, if your not being part of the solution. Your part of the problem!
@@darcy3245 I have a friend who is a Washington state resident as is her son. Let's call them Rhonda and Aiden. Rhonda is married to a fellow named Dave. Dave and Rhonda were separated. David was working fishing boats in Florida and Rhonda was living in Washington State. They decided to reconcile, she went down to Florida with her son Aiden and they tried to be a happy little family again. But because of Dave's alcohol and drug use there was a dispute and Dave kicked Aiden which got child protective services involved. David had moved up to driving truck at that point more money. Rhonda was not a Florida resident yet she wasn't up to her 90 days. David was charged with assault on a child by the courts and child protective services. David took the company truck and disappeared the truck was found in Georgia. With David gone Rhonda had no income, with David gone she wasn't going to go to child protective services bullshit program because she was a Washington state resident and packed her car took her child and was heading home to Washington to start the new school year were her son was enrolled in school in Tacoma. CPS in Florida put out an amber alert on her. She has full custody of her son. In Barstow California California highway patrol pulls her over confiscated her son gave him to the CPS Florida people and Rhonda was sent on her way home to Washington no charges of kidnap no charges of custodial interference no charges at all and she still has full parental rights to her son. That is somewhere in the Florida system where she can't get phone calls to him. She is in Washington state fighting this. And nobody seems to know where Aiden Nichols is. She got a phone call from him last year telling her he's finding a way home no matter what. He's 11 years old he is a computer genius. And nobody in the Florida system will admit to having him. They've even changed his birthday by a month when you search the records. So you go ahead and say whatever you have to say. I know better. I have seen this first hand I have read the court paperwork. And the State of Florida kidnapped Rhonda's son. He was never a Florida resident. Nor was she. But you go ahead and call me ignorant which shows how ignorant you really are. Hell you might even be one of the ones in on it
@@mudduck754 Ok....I'll play your silly little game!! Let's start with your story! I heard from a heard from a heard from a crap doesnt fly. There are huge holes in that story that make 0 sense. Sounds like a bunch of facts are being left out which is guaranteed the case..Secondly why so secretive? I mean if this was my friend's kid I'd want widespread word out there to help track the child down!! 3rd you were told a story, so when you state that you know tor a fact the system is botched, is strictly on hear say which counts for nothing!! And last but not least you accuse me of being "one of them"...Grab a brain...Anybody that thinks the system isn't 100% better than it was in the 70's is delusional. I'm always up for a logical discussion and to talk facts bit when you start this whole " my freind said this and this guy said that then they told me this" crap your credibility goes straight out the window..Plague someone else with your BS big guy...Dont bring that shit around here..
@@darcy3245 so all you want to do is call me names because I mentioned a story about a child being kidnapped by CPS. First of all you're not an expert in the field. Second of all you don't talk to me in that tone youngster. I've been on this planet a lot longer than you have. There are a lot more details to it that I left out to make the story short. Try to find Aiden Nichols in the Florida system. You can't. They kidnapped Rhonda's son. You can call me a liar over that all you want. Makes me think you might be part of it. There is child trafficking going on. I left out the whole Dawn center part of it because that just makes the story that much longer.
Oh I am very happy to see Barney and Anegline together again!
This was my mom's favorite show growing up. I was forced to watch because she called the shots lol. I ended up loving the show and still watch it to this day!! 💯💯
I love the show because each of these episodes make me recall where I was in the 90's. I'm 52 now. I always learn something from them.
What a sweet brother Martha has.
A touching story about a man who never forgot about his long lost sister and finally they were united as a family again. Touching
You know for all the sad endings those reunions were great
Thanks for continuing to update these with new information!
The sister thinking Cheryl was innocent is priceless. Her bloody fingerprint is on the gas can, lady.
By nature, family and friends are biased and not impartial. Even when the evidence is rock solid can the loyalty and/or denial run deep.
About the Harveys, why is it that this lady Cheryl needed the money so much for? I don't think it was for cancer treatment though.
@@landang7906 drugs
Womyn are Wonderful, so sweet and pure... Uh.. oh, wait.
@@refinedsugarIf my middle brother was accused of something I think I’d believe it especially since he tried to kill me multiple times as kids 😂
I remember when the store owners were killed. It's probably an hour from me. That infuriates me when such people are killed. How many generations have they helped? How many times did someone go in there, and ask fo $20 worth of gas to get to work? Or a loaf of bread, pack of Bologna, eggs, and get it, and pay them on Friday? That type of store, store owner, doesn't exist today. I miss those ol stores. The ol men sitting around, shootin the Bull. It was a community center point. People today are really missing out on the personal service, a friend I'm the community. I'm glad I grew up before all this convenience set in. All stores were individually owned. Walmart didn't exist, but we had Kmart's, Woolworths (is it all if just the one), Five n Dime. America was awesome, sad she died.
@Jeff Campbell most cars wouldn't take $20 worth of gas back them, but i get what you're saying.
@@jaywires717 Of course they would, it was only the 90s - my V8 in the seventies took more than 20 bucks to fill
@@ObsoleteOddity i doubt your car took more than $20 to fill in the 1970's.
@@jaywires717 Well you may doubt it sonny, but I was actually driving the car and believe me it took more than 20 bucks.
@@jaywires717 I didn’t say it was the 1970s, it was the 1980s - and that program that you have just watched is about cases from the 1990s.
31 years later this is still so sad what happened to Joe and Maddie and both families. I feel bad for Cheryl's kids. May Joe and Maddie Rest In Peace.
How was the Barney and Angelina situation not considered kidnapping? Apparently their mother didn't sign any documents, so that had to have been considered kidnapping. Did she report her missing children to the police? There's gotta be more to this story. But it's kind of beautiful that all that mattered to Barney was finding his sister. I wonder how many other children were abducted from their families by this reverend.
The guy was a reverend too 😅
i dunno about this creep but look up Georgia Tan that evil bitch would let babies die if they got sick and let them die in the hot sun apparently. Joan Crawford's kids were Georgia Tan kids she was one evil woman she would take kids off the front lawn and when parents wanted their kids back she had a judge in her back pocket
too, and Lawyers,doctors etc.. and she got away with it too i think they did an episode about it but it goes into more Detail on the show Deadly women. i'm glad that barney found his sister he was one of the lucky ones.
50 or more years ago stealing kids and selling them was a bussiness
No real man of god would do such evil heartless things what a piece of hot putrid garbage him and his son and the fosterparents who exploited a young man for free labor because they're cheap ass mizers I was the niddle child in a family of 6 and I bout raised my my younger sisters and brother I was protective and suspicious of anyone who came around them qnd I still am they would have literally had to drug or kill me for me to leave without my sisters and lil brother never happen.
I think there was alot more to it than some random dude just desperately needed to abduct a preteen and an older child during the depression when record numbers of kids were abandoned and orphaned and nobody was adopting.
A common one I heard was offers by the church for respite care for struggling families, usually came with promises of otherwise unattainable schooling, care, fresh air in the county for city kids and a chance for mom to get on her feet. What they didnt tell people was they put the kids up for adoption, those that had interest went and those that didn't got returned if they were still there when mom came sniffing back around. They sound like they were in just such a predicament that sort of story preys on.. 2 kids, a sick spouse and the other not much more than a menial laborer. Offer them a break till hes out of the hospital, frees up mom to rest and work more, dad gets out and gets a job and its all hunky dory. Shame it was usually a lie
Barney is not a play thang! He found EVERYONE 💯
Lol everyone staring at Cheryl being taken off the plane in handcuffs.
Happy 58th Birthday Cheryl (today is June 15, her bday was yesterday). Hope the last 30 years have been worth your while with at least another 3.5 sitting there rotting your life away.
22:18, this is what makes Unsolved Mysteries a great program!
Really happy for Barney. I looked for someone for over 30yrs that I only spent part of 1 day with when I was 12yrs old. Finally found the person along with a few family members. It was like winning the lotto. Reached out to all of them just to say hello. No one even dignified me with a response. Certainly envy Barney's joyful reunion. Not everyone is that fortunate. You would think people would feel special to have someone remember them during a chance encounter from so long ago. Just.....not the case for me. Not sure what I ever did "wrong" to anyone. Lead a very isolated life. Try to remember everything...about everyone...always. Even attempt to look up kids I went to preschool with from time to time. People with friends and family are certainly blessed.
You have to wonder in the past with few regulations on orphanages and with people making money from adoptions, how many kids were taken against the wishes of family members.
I wanna pin this comment so bad.
Barney is so awesome!!!!
We so need this program to come back.
51yrs and he finally found his sister 😭❤️
pffttt not me crying... there is just something in my eye
Tears down my cheeks😭. Haven’t seen my mom in 23yrs. Since I was 7yrs old. Hope I reunite with her.
@@eddilovee ❤️🌻
@@SummerMurphy12 wtf that pastor just straight took them
Yes, the sweetest thing!
So brave of that woman to take a photo of the robbers. I wouldn't have been identified on camera if I had did what she did. Wow!
she did it at her own risk lol
That is NOT a woman!!
Yeah, yeah, yeah so stunning and brave.
$imp.
@@puppiesarepower3682-- Yep, much braver than anything you have ever done in your life! 😄
But it was only that of Billy Kirkpatrick
The composite sketch of the robber looks like the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld
No soup for you!
😂🤣
Good one
Lets keep watching and helping these people
I know of someone who spent his whole life without his father's side of the family in his life and when he met them they weren't as warm as these reunions are on this show. Some of his siblings kept him at arms length and don't reach out to him much or talk to him. Its nice to see wholesome reunions like this!
Stay prayed up
0:58 wow weird back seat! I thought the kid was getting in the trunk at first lol
Those were called rumble seats. Somewhat popular in the 1930’s but the rider was exposed to the elements.
Great updates guys!
I think that Barney's sister was traumatized by the entire situation, thats why her mental state changed.
Binge watching these
10:14 That background radio chatter is the same that was used at the end of the song "No Tears."
That reporter lady is a total badass!
Although the photo she took of Billy Kirkpatrick (the man driving the car) wasn’t clear enough for an identification but it did help witnesses enough for a sketch ✍️
Memories
Good old Polaroid camera, nothing like the old days.
Except if she took the picture today it wouldn't be blurry because phone cameras are better.
It looks like those point and shoot film cameras
Why would a teller hit the alarm? It's so much more dangerous that way. Most bank robbers want to get in and out with the money, not turn a robbery into a stand off/hostage situation.
Ppl always want to protect a company's assets. It's not worth my life, and nobody gets a raise or bonus afterwards🤣🤣
Cause the bank had the alarms installed, so the employee was expected to use it.
Did anyone else cry when Barney reunited with his sister? What a wonderful man.
It's only EZ when we all work together to do the right thing😊🤗
I always say that children pay a high price for the sins of a parent like in this story when James Vess murdered his wife Wanda leaving 9 children without a mother; it is despicable cruel, and so evil. These children didn’t lose just their mother, they lost the father too. So sad and tragic.
The reunions were beautiful but that last one really got to me. What is wrong with them??? Especially Cheryl. How evil
They probably would have given her the money if she asked
@@sherrita80548 Right??????? Maybe not $150k but seriously?
@@lauren9004 it really pisses me off because all 4 of my Aunt's have passed and 3 of my uncle's it only my mom and one uncle I have left what I would give to see them again she just murdered two people that were kind to her she is a piece of 💩 along with her husband
OK that bank robbery escape scene went hard. Awesome stunts and production.
Killing family for money. How do people just willfully kill anyone? It’s so disgusting
I watched this show every week b4 the internet the music always. Scared me love it now
Can't believe that lady killed them folks, just for money! That's crazy. People don't know, how work and earn it them self. People are weird.
Doesn't everyone have that unwanted feeling? I always did. I still do! :/
We’re all in this together Cheryl! 😊
Cheryl, I never felt unwanted but I can tell you this: I never felt like I had a home or was at home. Since I was a kid until now (68 yrs old), I have always felt like a "guest". Still haven‘t found home. ❤
Me too.
@@Mark-Smeaton ❤
Oh yeah
Love this show
Maybe somebody watching can solve a mystery...perhaps its you
"perhaps it's you" was the shows way of mind fu*king the perps in case they're watching.
The poor elderly couple. It's always about greed even by a family member.
Am I the only one wondering HOW the bank robbers abducted the bank employees AND drove off with multiple police cars waiting outside? And later LOST the police?
Yes and how did the robbers get a key to a locked door. Inside job. Makes no sense.
Billy Kirkpatrick and Ray Bowman were experienced career criminals. They’ve committed countless robberies dating back to the early 80’s.
@@jessestewart169 The men used locksmithing tools to break into the banks.
Nbc needs to bring this show back.
That’s not adopting, that’s hiring. For room & board 8 miles from the family. For no compensation.
The second robber picture looks like Michael Jackson
The other man is Ray Bowman
If Unsoved Mysteries returned, who would be the best host?
A. Morgan Freeman
B. Christopher Walkn
C. Liam Neeson
D. None of the above (other)
A-Morgan Freeman
Lorenzo Llamas
Wtf that’s kidnapping 😂😂. Like the pastor straight took the kids. Why is no one like pissed at the pastor. Am I missing something? Like someone please tell me like they seem totally cool with the fact that some old pastor came to up to them and straight up took them
It was the great depression. The pastor probably made money trafficking the kids. Sorry I mean "adoption"
Horrible person. Just an opportunist in the depression
@@Crushbra yeah I get that but the one thing I don’t understand was why weren’t the cops involved. Like no one seemed to care
I was thinking the same thing! When Barney found Nick, they just left it at “Oh, Reverend Fairy King Bowie died a couple years ago. Thems the breaks. 🤷🏻♂️”…and NO one batted an eye?! Not even a footnote in the narration?! Nope.
Let’s just point the camera at the feel-good reunion and forget about Ol’ Rev Child-Dealer…Sus af.
@@robinjandhi6661 It’s not even that it’s at the time during the 1930s like why weren’t the cops involved you know if your kids disappear you tend to notice that
@@bangpow6160 Maybe the pastor gave the parents some money to “take them off their hands for a little while” and the parents accepted the deal since it was the depression era. Then maybe they felt ashamed and denied it? Seems like we’re missing some crucial parts of the story. I know the parents mentioned never signing “official papers” but under the table deals would’ve skipped all that documentation. The pastor probably labeled the kids as “abandoned” and acted as if he was a hero for “saving them.” That pastor probably made some good money providing cheap labor to the upper classes.
Cheryl Holland and Eddie Wooten will be eligible for parole in 2025. Let's hope they are both denied.
They've been denied pare at least twice now
@@islandblader Lets hope it stays that way.
He died at some point within this past year
Wooten died in prison
You're overreacting
Oh the mullets they're glorious. Business in the front, party in the back.
This music still creeps me out I my 40s.
So very sad. They couldn’t tie up the old people. And flee !! Breaks my heart.
Imagine being a hard working woman during the Great Depression then some jerk steals your kids
Someone supposed to be a trusted member of the community who was never called to account for what they did.
@@jbcatz5I don’t think he was really part of the community. I don’t know if he just drove around looking for kids to kidnap that he thought were hard up and needed kidnapping for a better family so he could make a quick buck
Ahh Katherine Scott if only we had mobile phones back in 1991!!
Perhaps it would’ve provided a more clear shot of Billy Kirkpatrick (the man driving the car).
The fact that this show had so much staying power is seen in how quick cases were popped open by that show
One year had passed and your mother didn't even know you? That's insane. Why wasn't she going crazy when her children were first gone!!??!! Hello?
That the DFS, etc, could get away with snatching and selling, or farming out, children, just sickens me. It still happens today, it's just more clever.
Right
Can’t believe Sheryl did that to her own family.
Imagine killing loving family members for some cash only to still end up as a gas station clerk. I have no shade for someone working a service job, but if you are gonna murder for a paycheque, you best make that money last.
I was gonna say how even back then can someone live on that kind of money, unless she saved some of it
The Chrysler Dynasty what a car.
I wanna know if she was handicapped before being adopted
Mild handicapped by the looks of her
@@justinekenny2151 yes but I wonder if she was mildly handicapped before she was adopted. He never mentioned his sister was handicapped previously.
I was wondering the same thing.
@@bobbyincidemetal he said something bout her crying a lot so maybe she was
@@jellowmisses4532 maybe he didn’t recognize that at his young age. Probably thought she was just really sensitive and needed to be cared for because she was his little sister.
12:32 (2011) how is this show updated? Originally aired in 1992 and you can update it with the early 90s music. How?
Because even those the show was aired with Robert Stack until he got cancer in 2002 other networks still aired it and added updates. Stack died in 2003.
It was from a rerun shortly after it was aired in '92. (The early 90s style graphics.) The very first airing probably ended with Stack talking about the case ("if you have any information")
This foster system is despicable. It’s a wonder these people could sleep at night. They were truly delusional in thinking they were doing the right thing. So many of these families from what I’ve seen on this show were just looking for free labour
Please remake this so many people missing x
Theres no UM without Robert Stack... His replacement hosts were a joke...cant recapture the spirit of this shows era!
So happy for the 9 siblings that were reunited but Holy 90’s Mullet Batman!
The sad thing is they would have given her anything she wanted prob
Adoptions were so botched and shady back in the day.
It was corrupted back then and it’s corrupted now
Cheryl's bloody fingerprint on the gas can kinda removes the benefit of the doubt, sister.
Those poor old people. 😢
¿pudieran hacer doblaje en español en este canal? es el único que tiene los episodios completos y soy muy seguidora de misterios sin resolver
Son muy buenos pero creo que no los tienen en Espanol
Puede bajar la aplicación de Pluto TV, es gratis, también la tienen para un aparato de TV, ahí tienen un canal con los episodios traducidos al español, espero le funcione.
Bobby Stack was always a good
I love Barney. I'm so glad he found his sister. RIP Sweet man.
Our foster system is so messed up.
So are the courts
May I say, age has not been kind to Cheryl Holland. She's 57 now, and looks 77. Then again, she looked really old at 27 here.
Being a hateful and evil person will do that. 😂 I thought the same thing. At 27 she looks like she’s in her early to mid 40s to me.
Boomers and prior generations just seemed to age faster, but even for that she looked 45 when she was 27
45:52 makes your heart jump.
😂😂🤣
Why was this episode barely uploaded?
@Hyperskreem 82 I'm watching all them on amazon. I'm trying to figure out why it's altered because the robber was caught in 2011. So if these mysterys get solved in 2022 they will be updated on this show?
@@Crushbra Filmrise has deleted and re-uploaded some of these, probably if new info comes in on one of the old cases