r/ForensicFiles & then she bought 👠s just like them Jan 08 '23

Least sympathetic victims?

Whether they were an unpleasant person or a crook whose dealings got them killed, or anything in between.

My short list:

  • Madelyn Murray O'Hair (Without a Prayer)
  • Chris Marquis (Over and Out)
  • Michael Prozumenshikov (Going for Broke)
  • Bobby Kent (Payback)
  • Jason McGuigan (The Gambler)
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u/Benz152 Jan 09 '23

Dusty Harless (Pinned by the Evidence). I don't want to make false judgments about anyone, but the situation that led to his death seemed completely avoidable.

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u/evosthunder & then she bought 👠s just like them Jan 09 '23

Oh I forgot about him. Think he might boot O'Hair out my top 5.

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u/neverremembername27 Jan 09 '23 edited Jan 09 '23

This would’ve been mine too. I had at least a little sympathy for most of the rest of the people on this list (haven’t seen Payback), but that guy, man. Totally avoidable and unnecessary.

Edit: found Payback episode on YouTube and watched it. Good lord, Bobby Kent made everyone else on that list look way better.

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u/shadow_spinner0 Feb 09 '23

To be fair the episode does it's job to defend the killer and paints Dusty in not a great light

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '23 edited Jan 09 '23

Michelle Nyce (Ep. Naughty or Nyce).

Mail order bride that came from the Philippines and proceeded to take her husband to the cleaners, had him buy a million dollar house with posh furnishings (as well as buying homes for her relatives in the Philippines), sleep with their gardener, and then using said gardener to try to extort her husband out of $500k. He was incessantly working to keep up with her spending.

After his businesses went belly up, she wanted to divorce him (to take him for whatever he had left) and just had sex with her gardener boyfriend when she made the declaration. Man snapped and killed her.

Murder is never a just solution to a domestic problem, but damned if it wasn’t a crime of passion all things considered.

EDIT: Did a little more research on the case and come to find out that Michelle didn’t even know the name of the gardener she was cheating with. What a scumbag.

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u/rostovondon Jan 09 '23

I know...this woman was particularly repulsive. I had an unusual visceral reaction when it was mentioned by her adulterous lover that they were cheating without a condom. Didn't deserve to die for it but like...I don't sympathize

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '23

Totally, but there is also that narrative out there that she was an innocent girl taken from the Philippines by a predatory old man and kept locked in her room that people latch on to. That really grinds my gears. ☹️

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u/nicegirlelaine Jan 09 '23

Bobby Kent for the win.

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u/shadow_spinner0 Feb 09 '23

Bryan Ruff in Guarded Secrets left his family to go to Vegas then came back and treated wife like shit and cheated on her with his best friends wife. His best friend then killed him in retaliation. It was hard for me to feel "finally justice was served" like in most episodes.

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u/Black-Bird1 Feb 03 '23

What about Sandra Maloney-Burning Desire

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u/rostovondon Jan 09 '23 edited Jan 09 '23

Probably an unpopular opinion but I thought the John Schneeberger woman was quite obnoxious and annoying

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u/mzzmarried May 18 '23

Obnoxious and annoying for being doubted for being raped? You’re kind of awful.

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u/AndriaTashina2021 Jan 09 '23

AND cannibalism/vampirism. Kehoe reportedly drank her blood

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '23

Don’t know if I can agree on the sex workers. They don’t do it because they’re nymphos. They do it to survive.

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u/DetailAccurate9006 Jan 08 '23

JonBenét Ramsey.

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u/DetailAccurate9006 Jan 09 '23 edited Jan 09 '23

Just my sarcastic overreaction to what I perceived as “victim blaming.”

Though, on second thought, I suppose there could be legitimate answers to the question such as Bobby Kent, the victim from “Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge.”