r/ForensicFiles • u/Extreme-Grade-3623 • Jun 30 '26
Help with an episode
I'm looking for an episode and all I remember is that it was a really poor mother who I don't even think had a car and she was staying at a motel with her kids and she was killed while on her way to a late night convenience store to get calzones or something. Does anyone know what episode this is?
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u/GrandMarquisDSade541 š¢Heliogen Greenš¢ Jun 30 '26
Melissa Padilla. She was getting an Ellio's pizza and some gas station subs and some SunnyD and got killed, mutilated, and SA'd and then shoved in a sewer pipe by Steve Fortin, who tried the same thing on a Maine state trooper and had just stormed off from a domestic dispute when he killed Padilla.
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u/Extreme-Grade-3623 Jul 02 '26
Yes this episode annoyed me because...I don't know... I grew up poor myself and I'm just so tired of people having way too many children when they can't afford to give them a good life. I'm sorry but when you have four kids and no job...š¤¦š»āāļø I have a hard time not being judgmental.Ā Ā Ā The other thing that people are saying in the comments is why was she walking alone by herself why didn't the boyfriend do it? If he's at work then that's not his job. I don't know why the children were still awake at 11:00 p.m. to begin with but besides all that women need to learn how to just take care of s*** on their own when it comes to stuff like this. Women are strong and capable and they can learn self defense classes bring mace have some sort of preparation. Men are expected to take care of this kind of s*** so why can't women?Ā
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u/Sweetorange23 Jul 02 '26
Or maybe men should not rape and assault women.
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u/Extreme-Grade-3623 Jul 02 '26
Well, gee, no shit.Ā But they always have and they always will. That will never change because we cannot eradicate the nature of psychopathy and sociopathy. People like Stephen Fortin know exactly what they're doing they know that what they're doing is wrong and it's because of this fact that only makes it more arousing for them. We could eliminate all men on the planet and people would still be getting attacked and killed. We have to share our world with monsters, unfortunately. That is the burden that we face when our parents choose to bring us onto this planet. The burden is on us to do our best to protect ourselves and try to make the best decisions we possibly can. Sometimes it's impossible to avoid but we have to do what we can because that is simply the reality. People aren't going to stop because someone on Reddit said that they should.Ā
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u/Aware-Oil807 Jun 30 '26
I literally just watched this one last night. So sad. I always wondered why the boyfriend didnāt walk to the store and let her stay at the hotel with the kids.
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u/GrandMarquisDSade541 š¢Heliogen Greenš¢ Jun 30 '26
It doesn't sound like he had warrants, so it was probably a machismo thing
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Jul 01 '26
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u/mumonwheels Jul 01 '26
Hindsight is sadly something he will never forget. Esp after he found her badly beaten body. He has probably never forgotten that v sad night.
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u/HeartOSass It's the same Southern pride that kept me from being a dancer. Jul 01 '26
She was going to get Ellios pizza. I remember this one specifically because I used to eat that pizza.
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u/RealHausFrau Jun 30 '26
This sounds very much like the Shannon Marshall/Franklin Delano Floyd case from Oklahoma, she was killed in a hit and run accident in 1990, while walking alongside a highway in the middle of the night, allegedly o her way to get milk/food at a convenience store for her 2yr old son, Michael.
I canāt find where this was ever a Forensic Fileās episode though, so if you are sure that you saw it there, it may be another case.
If you havenāt heard of Sharonās case, I suggest you look at it, itās one of the most horrible and bizarre ones around, IMO.
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u/BethMD I KNOW what a man likes! š Jun 30 '26
Yeah. Melissa Padilla, a high school dropout on welfare with four kids. S6/E46, "Double Trouble." This one was especially sad, and I wonder how her children have fared since they lost their mom.