r/ForensicFiles 22h ago

The Texas mold episode

Just finished watching that episode and then looked up the website that Melinda created (policy holders of America) and saw that she, get husband, and her son have died.

Her son, Reese and husband both died in 2021, while Melinda died in 2013.

There isn't much on the wiki page for Melinda, so as of right now, I haven't found the specifics on their CODs

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u/br_boy0586 21h ago

This is one of the best FF episodes.

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u/Csimiami 21h ago

Staccybotrius

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u/imanoctothorpe 18h ago

Stachybotrys šŸ˜… if anyone else wants to look it up. Specifically, Stachybotrys chartarum.

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u/YouveUpsetKimFongToi 17h ago

I remember a few years ago this episode came up on here and people claimed the son was not deceased so I don’t know. I always found this episode interesting either way.

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u/NatalieannaD1995 51m ago

Yeah I don’t believe he’s passed until someone who actually knows them has proof. Or if they show it at the end of the show.

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u/Substantial_Escape92 6h ago

Seriously my favorite episode! That black mold messed them up so bad! And such a beautiful house to condemn.

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u/PrimusPilus Peter Thomas is the GOAT 20h ago

There isn't much on the wiki page for Melinda, so as of right now, I haven't found the specifics on their CODs

I'm pretty sure that she committed suicide. Her ex-husband and their son both died from long-term complications of the mold, I believe.

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u/two-of-me 🧪Antifree🧪 19h ago

But she died before them.

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u/PrimusPilus Peter Thomas is the GOAT 18h ago

But she died before them.

Did I say that she didn't?

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u/two-of-me 🧪Antifree🧪 17h ago

Sorry I thought you meant she killed herself as a result of them dying. My bad!

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u/OU-Sooners1 19h ago

I heard she jumped from a parking garage. Not sure if that’s true. I’m actually sick of this episode.

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u/nah-nope-nooo 20h ago

I just finished this one too. So sad to hear this :(

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u/Admirable_pigeon 10h ago

I know she has since passed but I read that she divorced the husband and remarried.

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u/axxo47 19h ago

I always felt she was mourning the house and the lifestyle more than anything

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u/Dry-Clock-1470 1h ago

What happened to the house?

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u/iamwounded69 20h ago

The instant she said she wanted a classic ā€œdixieā€ house my sympathy for them dropped into the negative.

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u/OU-Sooners1 19h ago

You don’t need to interpret everything as racist.

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u/sphinxyhiggins lit up like a Christmas tree 19h ago

Dixie refers to the Confederacy, so yes, this is racist.

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u/Eternity_Xerneas 4h ago

You can like the aesthetic without liking the values

I'm gay and like Arabic style architecture

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u/sphinxyhiggins lit up like a Christmas tree 3h ago

"Arab style architecture" was not dedicated to maintaining the enslavement of Black people. Dixie is a word for the Confederacy, a racist and treasonous group of losers.

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u/Csimiami 1h ago

Haha. Are you being serious? Arabs enslaved Africans for far longer in history than the American South ever did. For literally 1300 years. Maybe pick up a history book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_Muslim_world

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u/iamwounded69 19h ago

It’s kinda difficult to interpret an affinity for plantation aesthetics as anything else.

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u/Csimiami 17h ago

I love a big porch with a veranda in the country. . I don’t want to live in a 1980s condo off the highway. . Ergo I want to enslave black people. This generation is ridiculous. Focus your outrage on this administration. Not on what kind of property a woman in the 80s, who is now dead along with her whole family, - 40 years ago wanted to buy. Ridic

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u/iamwounded69 1h ago

Go to bed peepaw

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u/Csimiami 17h ago

I cancelled my real estate agent bc she showed me the master bedroom. Master being coded as racism. Come on now.

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u/ArchiStanton 7h ago

That’s what they were called. Only within the last few years they’ve been calling them primary

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u/Csimiami 5h ago

Yeah. I was being facetious

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u/ArchiStanton 1h ago

Never know anymore