A new documentary celebrates the series’ 35th anniversary with a look behind the elaborate reenactments that regularly solved cold cases.
This is an excerpt from our true crime newsletter, Suspicious Circumstances, which sends the biggest unsolved mysteries, white collar scandals, and captivating cases straight to your inbox every week.Before Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey became a Hollywood name, he earned his first acting credit for a reenactment scene in a 1992 episode of “Unsolved Mysteries,” playing a Texas man who was shot and killed after mowing the lawn.
How did you have the money to pay for all of that production? Some of these stories legitimately feel like Hollywood films. That was one of the things, looking at all the clips, reminding myself of the production value, going, “Wow.” And then the teams were just amazing. The directors loved it because they could play. I think that you look at Season 1 compared to Season 8, and it just seemed to get a little bit bigger and bigger. But we stayed on budget. We never went over.Cosgrove/Meurer Productions, Inc.
We did sit-down interviews with law enforcement and the family members and friends of the victim. That was the core. We really wanted the recreations to match the interviews … but sometimes . For example, if someone said a getaway car was yellow, but law enforcement later confirmed it was blue. And you’ve already planned on a yellow getaway car and now the producer’s out there scrambling.One story was kind of poignant.
Some cases got solved even before we aired. would go, “I think I can make a few phone calls on this one,” and they would solve it. These were usually “lost love” cases rather than wanted fugitives.
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