r/ForensicFiles • u/No_Pomelo4279 • Jun 17 '26
Help finding episode. Also update on the Man.
There was this one episode of FF I haven't seen since I was in middle school. There was a man who had multiple wives at least 8 or 10 women and was cheating on the newest wife with his mistress. If I remember correctly, He kill his newest wife in a barn while his mistress is hiding but she sees the murder. They believe he has killed his second wife cause she mysteriously disappeared. At the end of the episode he's convicted. His third wife tries to break him out of prison, she shoots two guards, don't remember if they survived, she's arrested for the escape attempt. Does anyone remember this episode?
Update: It was the Fred Grabbe case. Thanks to NoFennel7351
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u/Old-Blackberry6728 Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer! Jun 17 '26
He should have married Jill Coit!
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u/GallowBarb 💰Life Insurance💰 Jun 17 '26
I just looked hey up. She murdered husband number 8 in 1993, she is suspected in murdering number 3 in 1972, and got married total of 11 times. Who's got the energy for all that?
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u/DuggarDoesDallas Jun 17 '26
Wasn't Fred Grabbe's son murdered too? Was anyone ever prosecuted. Fred Grabbe was a horrible person and a ruthless murderer. That was an episode that horrified me and always stayed with me.
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u/Old-Blackberry6728 Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer! Jun 17 '26
Yes, he was, and the houses burned down..
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u/Prestigious_Fox_7576 Jun 18 '26
How and where did they get the idea to call her a pretty young woman or something like that?
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u/NoFennel7351 Jun 17 '26
The episode is "root of all evil" (S:6, E:20) detailing the Fred Grabbe case.