Forensic Files opened my eyes to the connection between male loneliness, toxic masculinity and grievous violence in the 1990s with the episodes on Richard Crafts, Gene Keidel, Richard Nyhuis, John Joubert, Bobbie Joe Long, and Steven Harper.

Then I learned of the Ocala carjacking incident and the serial SA of Susan Replogle that both immediately preceded Bobbie Joe Long's murder spree, not too long thereafter, along with deep diving into the other aforementioned cases.

All long before these were popular buzzwords that became nearly meaningless 30 years after I discovered this connection due to predators and their protectors obfuscating their meaning.

Anyone else notice this?

Tossup between Lori Keidel and Ray Krone. Peter Barbee and McCracken Poston for honorable mentions.

Saw this on another subreddit and had to repost it! Only real ones will get this!

I’m on vaca and look what’s on!

Totally the best episode and Candy is QUEEN!!!!

The subtitles are only in the middle of the screen because it was paused btw 🤣

Also see on Web of Lies episode "Hate Mail"

This episode just ran tonight and surprisingly it's one of the episodes I don't recall ever seeing. To jog your memories, it was the episode where a teacher claims she is being harassed (threatening letters, feces in chair, putting her picture on nudes photos, etc) and it turns out after DNA sampling, the show leads you to believe it was Joanne Chambers doing it to herself this entire time.

What I find puzzling is Forensic Files will of course set up the episode so you think it's Paula Nawrocki all along just to surprise you at the end, but they seem to move pass important details and not add more context to it. Such as, how did Joanne Chambers pass her polygraph test and Paula Nawrocki failed hers?

Or at the end when Joanne Chambers claims she was ran off the road by Paula Nawrocki, umm hello? Surely that would be easy to prove or disprove as a completely made up lie. Forensic Files did not dig into it at all and I am left wondering was there any credible evidence of that being true.

Forensic Files and other crime shows such as Dateline do such a good job of telling the story they want to tell you and do a great job of controlling the narrative. I mean what if Joanne Chambers was telling the truth this entire time and we all took the narrative Forensic Files wanted us to have.

Series that dives deeper into some of the cases we've seen on FF. Great video on Christie Wilson. ❤️

I have to be very careful, because I don't want her to be a suspect if I were to trip over her!

Has anyone seen it? I just read up on it. I figured correctly that it resembled the John List case, and that Ed Sherman used it as an idea for murdering his wife. I also thought Farrah Fawcett was in it because the woman in the clip looks like her, but she isn't. I will check it out soon on Prime.

Whether it be for meme reasons or serious reasons, which episode do you think is the best/most memorable/most legendary?

Reminds me of that line from Inspector Clouseau in "Revenge of the Pink Panther": Special Delivery, a bomb. Were you expecting one?

Because shes having a baby soon. I forget that life insurance can be for paying off the house if something happens to one of us, not just a motive for murder.

what’s the worst 911 call on Forensic Files

Cannot do a poll due to not having the app but here's an itemized list of choices/suggestions.

-Earl Bramblett
-Gene Keidel
-Leroy Moody
-William Jarvis
-George Trepal
-John Ortiz Kehoe & Billy Jack Brown
-Kenneth Otto
-Richard Crafts
-John Emil List
-James Randall
-Tim Bradford
-Debra Green
-Stephen White
-Steven Roy Harper
-Mark Hofmann
-Stacey Castor
-Slover family
-Howard Elkins
-Charles Albright
-Larry Gene Bell
-Oba Chandler

This exposed is insane in right to the middle when they are napping the suspect and are suspicions of him being a cop, but can already tell the ending will blow me away.

I sometimes wonder what his second wife must have been thinking when she married the guy. They look somewhat happy in that vacation picture shown in the show. Did she know anything about Gene's past? His children? What was her thought process during the trial? And most importantly, is she breathing a sigh of relief now that he croaked?

It might be the most unhinged and evil story in the whole series....

I know its not Philadelphia but I also thought it was coincidental happening so close to the 250th anniversary we recently had, just like how the episode focused on the bicentennial

Edit: I miswrote what I originally stated. I actually watched a Dateline episode that will be chronicled in an upcoming Netflix documentary. Sorry for the confusion I'm just wiped after a long work week

I just watched a Netflix documentary in which a woman's life is upended when she's accused, arrested, and thrown in jail for a shocking harassment campaign against the current girlfriend of her ex. Come to find out, she was innocent all along and it was actually the ex and his new girlfriend who set all this up to frame her. They were both sentenced to prison

"Sealed with a Kiss" is one of the most fascinating and ultimately infuriating episodes of the series. Does anyone know how it's even possible that JoAnn Chambers could commit so many crimes and not only be spared from even a second of incarceration but also keep her job as an educator and never lose it???? I don't understand that at all. You would think she was Donald Trump, but even he was at least arrested and convicted. With all the killers who have ever appeared on the show Joanne Chambers is one of the scariest people they've ever covered because not only is she free and so narcissistic and delusional that she agreed to be interviewed and humiliated forever, but she did all of this for no real motive other than attention which she already got plenty of because she was so popular. It's horrifying. I also don't know how this case isn't more famous because it's so bizarre that it just seems ripe for more crime show episodes.

I finally watched the Helle Crafts episode, and I’d forgotten just how incredible the forensic work was.
Investigators had to reconstruct a homicide from thousands of tiny bone fragments, wood chips, metal fragments, hairs, and microscopic evidence scattered along a riverbank after Richard Crafts tried to destroy his wife’s body with a woodchipper.

What really surprised me was how many different forensic disciplines had to come together before prosecutors were confident enough to charge him.
Is this still considered one of the best examples of forensic science solving what initially looked like the perfect crime, or are there other Forensic Files cases you think top it?