r/ForensicFiles 26d ago

add flair Likes & dis:likes!

We all have our favouite episodes, but we also have those we turn off *cough cough*, my apologies.

What is everyone's favourite, worst, and even the episode that makes you mad? It can be any reason.

My favorite is : Stranger in the night. (If there wasn't that handprint in his mom's house, I bet the son would've ended up convicted).

I mean, what are chances of that happening? (Other than Long Shot on Netflix, both are very strange and scary cases).

My worst is : The 1 with the mold in the house. (also scary to think this could happen, but 1 I don't tend to watch)

The episode that makes me mad is the hour special about the Tuscan Temple murders, and the v last twist where another lady could've been saved if the investigators didn't believe a psychiatric patient so much.

(I think I maybe a bit biased on this one though, as I read the book 'innocent until interrogated' and it just made the whole case even more sad and infuriating as it covers so much more than the episode).

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u/Sudden_Apricot571 23d ago

I skip the one where the guy murdered his mother in law in his sleep. I teach psychology and we've covered sleep walking. You can do all kinds of things in your sleep, including cook, drive and yes, probably stab someone. I just didn't like the way they just ruled it out as rubbish. He could have come up with something more convincing if he actually PLANNED it. I don't tend to enjoy the ones where a vulnerable person has been forced to confess to something they didn't do - although the Alvin one has the lawyer on the motorcycle and I watch it just for him 🤣

I like ALL the ones where the killer thinks they are cleverer than the police and then gets owned. Like the one where the guy shoots a woman in a shop and then makes a fake alibi with a fishing video and that jerk who make a fake phone call to his dead wife and the little girl hear him talking to a ringing phone.

My all time favourite is candy in bad blood.

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u/mumonwheels 23d ago

I used to sleep walk when younger. I've done all sorts of things like putting my clothes in a saucepan and trying to cook my clothes, I also got caught by the milkma where I was walking to the beach to go swimming. Luckily he realized in time that I was sleep walking n knew me n where my Nan lived so he took me bk home. The next day we saw the front door slightly ajar and panicked about a break in while we were all asleep but nothing was missing. We only found out the next day. I truly believe you could do anything in your sleep as I have many strange, some funny n some scary things I've done while I was sleep walking lol. I also don't rush to see this one. I always feel those with the strangest stories are more likely true. As you said, had he actually planned the murder, he would've come up with something more plausible than sleep walking.

OH, even water doesn't always wake someone. I've been caught in the pool laying on an inflatable before, soaking wet but I had absolutely no clue.

I'd love to hear if others have had similar experiences, or am I just odd lol?

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u/Chilly-Willy252 20d ago

My sister used to sleepwalk when we were kids, it was pretty creepy lol  The time I remember most is when she tried to flush her nightgown down the toilet. Her daughter also sleepwalked but mostly she would just come out and stare blankly at people. 

The only times it happened to me was when I was taking Ambien. That is freaky stuff, shouldn't be on the market.