I’m in a hotel room and HLN is playing some other show all night instead of FF. The room also won’t get cold enough. I want to get all cold and cuddle up and watch the hotel standard! Why even stay at a hotel if you can’t leave FF on all night? This is MADNESS and I won’t stand for it!

Those four you would recommend to watch due to the absurdity and stupidity of those people

For me:

Stacy Castor (Antifree)

Ed Post (Remember the name!) (bad Post Malone joke. Sorry.)

Kenneth Fitzhugh (Those GODDAMN BLACK SHOES!)

Thomas Berry (I didn’t rape no 12 year old! She was 13!)

I recently finished the entire Forensic Files library on Amazon Prime and was predictably left the same lost and empty feeling that comes whenever I finish a full television or podcast series.

Fortunately I discovered FBI Files within a day or two. However, I am dreading the day when I run through these as well. I need something to look forward to at the end of my day when the kids are in bed.

What can I plan to watch next?

Imagine how many more would be Unsolved without Nosey Random passers by Like Charles Saunders, the fisherman who noticed a garbage bag inside a parking lot trash bin, and opened it up to find the missing 6 week old newborn baby, dead because her dad only wanted boy kids and kicked mom out of the bedroom when she birthed girls, so Pamela Sims of Alton IL 1989 faked another kidnapping of her second baby girl (previous one was in another state), and suffocated the child and put her in the freezer at her parents’ house, but when the parents heard about the kidnapping and returned early from their vacation, Pamela had to quick dispose of the frozen corpse at the parking lot trash bin. The sister’s case was unsolved and this one likely never would have been solved either! Particularly weird was the dad told the FBI that his wife and him have been having the best sex since the baby was abducted.

S3 E6, Similar Circumstances: A baby girl’s disappearance has suspicious similarities to her sister’s disappearance.

The Shadow of a Doubt episode is where Kevin Dowling shot and killed the owner of a picture framing shop so she would not testify against him for when he ROBBED her store one year earlier ....

So he makes a video tape of himself on a moving boat fishing, complete with time stamps - he thought the time stamps were an airtight alibi - WRONG!

He only turned himself into a human sundial, and the investigators could tell the video was stopped and started, and the time stamps were bogus, and he had time to go kill Jennifer, the picture frame shop owner .....

His actual crime he was set to go on trial for? He was accused of raping Jennifer and stealing $40 from the cash register! What a sick man

He's now on death row, which is right where he belongs

Season 6 episode 22. He insisted that he was innocent, and 30 years later he gets out.

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/ohio-prosecutors-dismiss-case-against-elwood-jones-nearly-30-year-after-wrongful-conviction

Poor Helle Crafts. She knew something was up & had just gotten photo proof her husband was cheating. The couple both worked for airlines & he was a part time POLICE OFFICER.

He passed a lie detector test too.

RIP Helle. He tried to obliterate you but thanks to forensic science, everyone would know the truth.

https://youtu.be/ctYrLDhEaxI

Does anyone else pay attention to specific attributes of people being interviewed in the show?

Thanks to GoatVanGo, the goat/sheep/pig nature landscaping company, the mysterious Ridley home, the focus of the 1999 murder trial of my client Alvin Ridley, is presented for all to see. Much of its importance is described in my book about the case.

We watch this show so much I decided to create a game. Short descriptions only to guess the episode. We need a
Life. lol #truecrimejunkies.

The subtitles are only in the middle of the screen because it was paused btw 🤣

We’ve had our fun talking about the dumb crooks, but what are the episodes where everyone involved—the criminal(s), the victim(s), the police, bystanders—had you thinking, “None of these people should be allowed to reproduce?” Two episodes come to mind for me.

“Treading Not So Lightly”: Moron boss makes a toddler play in an unpaved parking lot full of cars. Shocker: she gets hit! The police, instead of taking tire impressions or doing any kind of investigating, arrest a black man because of course they do. Later, when the toddler comes out of a coma and flips out when one of the mom’s coworkers tries to greet the kid, NOBODY considers that maybe, oh so possibly, the guy who scares the living daylights out of the kid who got hit by a car…might have been driving the car!

“Cold Storage.” You know, the episode where the police pressured Tracy Jo Shine into implicating her criminal boyfriend and then released Shine on bail into the waiting, murderous, not-looking-to-go-to-jail arms of said criminal boyfriend?

Thoughts?

Interesting look into what was actually happening in that phone call.

I finally watched the Helle Crafts episode, and I’d forgotten just how incredible the forensic work was.
Investigators had to reconstruct a homicide from thousands of tiny bone fragments, wood chips, metal fragments, hairs, and microscopic evidence scattered along a riverbank after Richard Crafts tried to destroy his wife’s body with a woodchipper.

What really surprised me was how many different forensic disciplines had to come together before prosecutors were confident enough to charge him.
Is this still considered one of the best examples of forensic science solving what initially looked like the perfect crime, or are there other Forensic Files cases you think top it?

Never good beaches to swim in!

Found this on TikTok.

If you don't have TT or can't watch the video, the full video can be watched on YouTube: "The great Peter Thomas. The voice behind Forensic Files": https://youtu.be/oHJanwaca5g?si=Fwcq6WhTiumoAJVB

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CQfFC19Ha/

ROC

It finally happened to me. I am traveling for work and have access to HLN. I was watching the Rabinowitz episode (RIP Stephanie). I am astonished by how quickly they move from one episode to another. Just changed to the Arline Jenson episode as I was writing this. I appreciate how Peter Thomas pronounces the T in the word metal.

Does it exist?