With the arrival of volumes four and five of Netflix's hugely popular Unsolved Mysteries after a two-year hiatus, true-crime-hungry fans are looking forward to a new set of unexplained deaths or perplexing disappearances to get their teeth into. The original Unsolved Mysteries show, which ran from 1988 to 2010, famously had a hand in solving hundreds of the cases it featured, naturally raising the question of whether, since its reboot under Netflix's banner in 2020, the new show has had a similar impact.

Solving cases takes time, effort, and often the public's cooperation. Five volumes and four years after the reboot, Unsolved Mysteries has yet to solve as many cases as the original, but there remains plenty of time to do so. The new Netflix show's time will come, but to date, there's just one case the series can justifiably claim to have brought to a close, while a couple more have been significantly impacted.