Rich plantation owners in the 1880s were so desperate to combat the rats eating their sugarcane that they brought the mongoose to Hawaii — and the government still can't get rid of them to this day.

From murderers being captured to missing children being reunited with their parents, explore some of the most baffling cases that were solved after Unsolved Mysteries aired episodes about them.

Cleo Rose Elliott's mother Katharine Ross says she was verbally abusive even as a child — then developed violent tendencies by the time she reached her teens.

After Lauren Dumolo vanished from her neighborhood in Cape Coral, Florida, her purse and shoes were found in a nearby park where she claimed she was being followed just a few days before.

Patricia Kennealy-Morrison famously said that she and Jim Morrison were wed in June 1970 during a Celtic handfasting ceremony — where they drank each other’s blood.

Half a decade before Nirvana released their first album, Tina Bell and her band Bam Bam pioneered the combination of punk and heavy rock that would come to define grunge music.

Brianna Alexandra Maitland suddenly disappeared without a trace in March 2004 — and though everyone from a drug gang to a serial killer has been suspected, authorities are still no closer to figuring out what happened.

David Dahmer changed his name and chose to live in anonymity after the gruesome murders of his older brother, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, came to light in 1991.

Brittany Murphy was married to Simon Monjack for just two years before she met an untimely death in December 2009. Eerily, he would also die five months later.

Built in just 60 days, Charles Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis" was a custom-made aircraft designed for the sole purpose of getting the pilot from New York to Paris without stopping.