Episode air date: Feb. 24, 1993
When a man, nicknamed Gabby, moved away, he gave his friend Newell Sessions some of his possessions, including a trunk with a lock. Six years down the line, Sessions opened the trunk and found a skeleton inside. Gabby claimed he bought the trunk from a garage sale and had never opened it. As if the skeleton wasn't creepy enough, it also had a bullet lodged in the skull.
The skeleton was eventually identified as Joseph Mulvaney. After watching a reairing of the episode, Mulvaney's granddaughter, Shelley Statler, got through to investigators in 2017 when she noticed that the sketches on the show resembled her grandfather, whose disappearance had been a part of her family history. As she got older, she became more interested in the case. Statler believed that in 1960, her grandfather had been shot and put in the trunk. The DNA checked out with Statler's mother, and Mulvaney's remains have now been laid to rest by his family. It turned out that Gabby, John David Morris, was her uncle and Mulvaney's stepson. Morris later died by suicide, and it remains unclear how involved he was in Mulvaney's death.