Final appeal from the files of unsolved mysteries

Detective as Detective. Alicia Regan Neighbor as Neighbor. More like this. Storyline Edit. Documentary Crime Drama Mystery. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Connections Referenced in The Late Shift User reviews 3 Review. Top review. A good spin-off of a popular Unsolved Mysteries segment. There was a segment on Unsolved Mysteries called "Final Appeal" in which cases of inmates in prison or on death row who might be innocent were profiled.

In the fall of , the concept was expanded into a weekly half hour series. The show utilized reenactments of the crimes or other key events as well as interviews with witnesses, prosecutors, defense attorneys and the appealant. Robert Stack hosted and narrated each episode. Friday, February 27, Ever since I can remember, I've been a fan of the television show Unsolved Mysteries hosted by the late, great Robert Stack. My earliest recollections of the program are of seeing promos on NBC during the late 80s.

I guess I would have been about 7 or 8 years old at the time how time flies! Of course, the show was on past my bed time and my parents wouldn't let me stay up to watch, at least then, so I only had the promos and my imagination to go by. As I got older and my bed time got later I was able to behold UM and it's awesomeness.

He continues to maintain that he is innocent. Results: Unresolved. In , Ferrell was released from prison while the Supreme Court reviewed his case. After two years of home confinement, the court re-affirmed the convictions and Ferrell was returned to prison. In February of , the West Virginia governor commuted Ferrell's sentence, which made him eligible for parole.

His parole was granted in May of Although Cathy Ford has never been found, it is assumed that she is deceased. Many are still certain that Ferrell is guilty. It is important to note that eyewitness sightings of missing persons have often been proven to be false. Evidence not mentioned in the segment appears to point to Ferrell's guilt. Witnesses placed him at a phone booth outside of the magistrates' office at the Mt.

Storm Fire Hall on the day Cathy vanished. A caller pretending to be a magistrate the same as the person that called Cathy asked a woman to meet him at the fire hall at that time.

A postal employee was asked by a caller to pick up a stranded mail carrier on Bismarck Road, near Ferrell's trailer. However, the carrier's route did not take him to that area, so the employee hung up. Ferrell's family store was in close proximity to both the post office and the Old Mill Restaurant. On the day after Cathy vanished, Ferrell ripped out and burned the carpeting from the master bedroom of his trailer.

He claimed that the carpet had stains and a foul odor. However, his girlfriend Cathy Bernard and his landlady both claimed that they had not seen stains or noticed a foul odor coming from the carpet.

Following her disappearance, Ferrell claimed that he feared being considered a suspect in her case. Bernard also found a note in his pants pocket about a couple "setting up someone" by using a false identification card.

When she asked Ferrell about it, he mentioned that someone from the liquor board was going around and trying to get places to sell liquor to minors; this is what the caller mentioned when talking to Cathy.

About a week after Cathy vanished, Ferrell told a volunteer searcher that she call off the search for 48 hours because police found "solid evidence". He later told the searcher that she should search everywhere except Bismark and Cherry Ridge Roads.

A few days later, he called Bernard from Uniontown, Pennsylvania and asked her to call the Ford family and tell them that Cathy was alright. A few days after that, he sent the anonymous letter to the restaurant. When police searched Ford's trailer, along with the blood, a cigarette butt of the type smoked by Cathy was found. The cigarette was smoked by someone with a blood type not inconsistent with her parents.

A watch that was believed to belong to her was found in a burn area near Ferrell's trailer. Along with the "crank sex" phone calls, Ferrell apparently made several other calls to women in the weeks preceding Cathy's disappearance. He directed the women to go to locations near where he lived.

Some of the locations were just a few hundred yards from his trailer. In these calls, he posed as either a doctor, police officer, or a magistrate. The calls continued until the time Cathy vanished. According to investigators, the women had one thing in common: they all knew Ferrell. Ferrell continues to maintain his innocence. Unsolved Mysteries Wiki Explore.

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