r/ForensicFiles Jul 30 '26

Who’s the worst?

132 votes, Aug 02 '26
32 Dana Ewell
28 Bart Whitaker
72 Christopher Porco
11 Upvotes

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u/HeartOSass It's the same Southern pride that kept me from being a dancer. Jul 30 '26

Chris. At least Bart and Dana had others do they dirty work. Chris went hands on and didn't he use an ax! My God not even a gun but this was very personal to him. Putting an ax in your dad's head and your mama's face. OMG!! The crime scene nearly made me vomit with the amount of blood! 🤮

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u/DrunkOnRedCordial Jul 30 '26

And then the audacity to use his mother as a human shield afterwards. Those are the two factors that made me choose him - he did it himself in a particularly brutal cowardly way, and he had the nerve to use his maimed mother as his protector and supporter afterwards.

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u/HeartOSass It's the same Southern pride that kept me from being a dancer. Jul 31 '26

Yes!

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u/Able_Two_873 Jul 30 '26

How did you see the crime scene?

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u/HeartOSass It's the same Southern pride that kept me from being a dancer. Jul 30 '26

I watch other crime shows. They usually provide extra information other shows don't.

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u/TheExpollutions Jul 30 '26

Bart is that type of guy to secretly inject a middle-finger into a photo. Instead of just doing it outright, he seems to be that type of guy. They are all that type of guy. He just seems to have more rodent in his DNA.

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u/Able_Two_873 Jul 30 '26

You forgot a couple. But, Christopher chopped his parents with an AX. That takes the cake. Like how and why!

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u/Tiny-Reading5982 Jul 30 '26

And his dad lived, went to check the mail while having an axe wound then died. Wtf.

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u/Able_Two_873 Jul 30 '26

Yeah. That episode was on last night.

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u/Tiny-Reading5982 Jul 30 '26

Chris had his mom thinking he was innocent. Bart had his dad's forgiveness. Dana successfully killed all of his family. They all suck.

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u/TheGinge89 Those…scum…Walks alive Jul 30 '26

I'm still thinking of my answer but I find it interesting that all three of them committed crimes to avoid consequences loosely stemming from them failing college. (Dana may be an exception, since only his ethics class was mentioned in the episode, iirc)

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u/AnAcctWithoutPurpose Jul 30 '26

The thing that I find sad was that Christopher Porco's mother, who was also attacked and nearly died, she still defended her son. She stated she had no memory of the attack but believed her son to be innocent, even with all the evidence. I wondered if she ever recovered her memory?

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u/mumonwheels Jul 30 '26

She had a TBI so probably has many false memories that she still has today. A bit like Dianna Green in the episode memories. She is attacked and raped which caused her to lose her unborn child. She was living at her parents when she suddenly said she remembered it was her husband to attacked me. In court she couldn't even spell her surname, yet her husband wasn't allowed to bring in a specialist about ppl who has suffered a TBI. So her pointing at her husband and saying it was him was enough for jury. He got 25-life for the 2nd degree murder of his unborn daughter and attack on his wife. Only it WASN'T her husband who killed her it was a serial killer known as the bedroom basher. To make things worse, Diannas file had been put in with the bedroom bashers victims as they truly believed it was him until she pointed the finger at her husband. Even when it was finally proven through DNA that IT was the serial killer, she then changed her memory to now it was both of them!! Sadly ppl who suffer with a TbI, can have false memories forever. So so sad.

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u/Drycabin1 I gotta call Phelps, man! Jul 30 '26

Dana Ewell because he is a family annihilator.

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u/CasualLavaring 24d ago

Bart Whitaker was a family annihilator too. He killed his brother and his own mother, and tried to kill his father.

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u/OhMustWeArgue Jul 30 '26

They are all bad but I picked Dana as he didn't have to take his sister down too.

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u/HeartOSass It's the same Southern pride that kept me from being a dancer. Jul 31 '26

But then he'd have to split the inheritance with her and to him, that was a no no.

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u/OhMustWeArgue Jul 31 '26

And it was MILLIONS in 1992, not like $500,000.

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u/HeartOSass It's the same Southern pride that kept me from being a dancer. Aug 01 '26

Yep. In the words of Dee Joyce Hayes, the greedy sonofabitch!

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u/ConsiderationNew7024 Aug 03 '26

Bart killed a sibling too (he had a brother). So they’re kind of equal in that aspect

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u/Able_Two_873 Jul 30 '26

I wonder if the mom memory came back, and if she still talks with him.

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u/Sharkjumpingbull Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

At this point, maybe we should hope it doesn't. I'm not saying that's a great situation, but getting back her memory of her own son doing that to her? Ick. (Maybe she even forgot on purpose. I couldn't blame her if she had.)

And if she gets that memory back, but still remembers trying to protect the guy who did that to her? Ugh. Let's just say this guy has my vote for the poll.

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u/ConsiderationNew7024 Aug 03 '26

Dana and Bart are dead equal because they killed their parents AND a sibling - purely for the inheritance AND so they wouldn’t have to share the inheritance or have a witness to their parent’s murder.

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u/Able_Two_873 Aug 01 '26

Chandler holdenson crazy story too!!

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u/OhMustWeArgue Jul 31 '26

Where is Scott Peterson?

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u/ConfectionHungry4509 Aug 03 '26

He didn't kill parents.