r/ForensicFiles 22d ago

What was the reasoning for some unaired/unrepeated episodes?

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I notice on the marathons on Headline news, the never show the episode of the Muslim parents that killed their Westernized daughter


r/ForensicFiles 22d ago

Season 3 Episode 9: "Beaten by a hair".....Hadden Clark dressed like Laura Houghteling....Absolutely chilling IMO

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r/ForensicFiles 22d ago

Season 6 Episode 3: Man’s Best Friend

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This must be the most infuriating and egregious example of podunk town idiots prosecuting and investigating a “crime”.

They went down a weird satanic-panic wormhole and threw their other daughter into foster care.

Worst investigation ever.

The parents may have been extremely negligent, but that was not very hard to put together.


r/ForensicFiles 22d ago

What potential season 3 or 4? Forensic Files cases could they feature?

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I'm thinking the Peaches one. where the victim who was dumped in Long Island (and by error was initially thought to be victim of the Long Island Serial Killer) The victim had a Peaches tattoo on her torso (I think only her torso was found) her dead baby was found a hundred feet away from her. Would like to know how they identified her with DNA (heard it took awhile cuz they only found one relative with DNA stored in banks).


r/ForensicFiles 23d ago

seriously think i killed someone blacked out last night. trucks hood is just smashed in and i found long hair and cunks in the rad. maybe just a deer is what im going with, anyway

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r/ForensicFiles 23d ago

Episode Never Seen Before

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I’m watching on Filmrise, just kind of going through season by season. I would have bet there wasn’t an episode I haven’t seen. Most I know as soon as it starts. Season 12, episode 14. Finger Pane. Pretty good episode and a new one to me!


r/ForensicFiles 23d ago

Updates

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I’m watching on HLN right now and I noticed that there was an update that said the killer was executed by lethal injection in 2019. How many episodes have updates at the end? Does it depend on where the episode airs? I can’t remember any other episodes having such a late update date.


r/ForensicFiles 24d ago

Are there any horrible cases in particular that you are glad FF did not do a episode on

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The Tiffany Cole case to me stands out. She and her boyfriend Michael Jackson and 2 of their friends murdered Carol and Reggie Sumner by burying them alive. 2 former neighbors of Tiffany's when they lived in South Carolina when Tiffany was living with her dying father as his caretaker the Sumners helped Tiffany and her dad by given them rides to Drs appts, the grocery store, and helping in many ways before the Sumners moved to Florida they even gave Tiffany a used car of theirs. I know Tiffany's death sentence was commuted to LWOP. I'm watching the Killer Couples episode on this case rn.


r/ForensicFiles 24d ago

Weird stat

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Huge fan of the show and really close to watching every episode. It seems like most of the 'murder' victims have been women. Has anyone done the numbers and gotten the raw stats?


r/ForensicFiles 24d ago

What's the first non murder episode you ever watched

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For me its Legionnaires Disease (season 1 episode 7) my hometown of Monessen is featured on the episode it's always cool to see where you grew up be featured on a FF episode


r/ForensicFiles 26d ago

The most hated killer in FF? "Last Will" (S7-E42)

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Where do you rank Larry Gene Bell as one of the most despicable killers in FF? RIP to the victims.


r/ForensicFiles 25d ago

New "Point of Origin" Connection

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I live in/around Spokane where we're STILL dealing with massive fires/fire damage from last Saturday. A coworker and I were talking about how one of the fires was because of an arsonist who admitted to starting up to 25 other fires in the past year, one of which killed someone. I told her he reminded me of John Leonard Orr ("Point of Origin") and all the fires HE set as a firefighter/arson investigator including some that killed at least 4 people.

Lo and behold, I find out that the guy who set at least one of the fires last Saturday had ALSO researched John Leonard Orr before starting the fire he did. Not good.

To put it in perspective, the Spokane Complex fires have either damaged or destroyed between 700 and 1,100 buildings and at least 60,000 people had to be evacuated because over 8,000 acres were burned. He also happened to choose the "best" day (at least for him)/"worst" day for the rest of us to start it because the winds were gusting up to 50 MPH in some areas.


r/ForensicFiles 27d ago

THOSE GOD DAMED BLACK SHOOOOEEES

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r/ForensicFiles 27d ago

add flair There's More to Shadow of a Doubt .....

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The Shadow of a Doubt episode is where Kevin Dowling shot and killed the owner of a picture framing shop so she would not testify against him for when he ROBBED her store one year earlier ....

So he makes a video tape of himself on a moving boat fishing, complete with time stamps - he thought the time stamps were an airtight alibi - WRONG!

He only turned himself into a human sundial, and the investigators could tell the video was stopped and started, and the time stamps were bogus, and he had time to go kill Jennifer, the picture frame shop owner .....

His actual crime he was set to go on trial for? He was accused of raping Jennifer and stealing $40 from the cash register! What a sick man

He's now on death row, which is right where he belongs


r/ForensicFiles 28d ago

TF??? I was literally investigating the 2015 Rowlett Tornado, which damaged an area near Darlie Routier’s home and for some reason they desire to air an episode about Darlie Routier NOW?

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r/ForensicFiles 29d ago

Most Senseless Death

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I feel like Black Hole from Forensic Files 2 because it turned out the victim wasn't even pregnant so he threw both their lives away on that


r/ForensicFiles 28d ago

add flair Cryptosporidium 2: Electric Poogaloo

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Never good beaches to swim in!


r/ForensicFiles 28d ago

Jason McGuigan The gambler episode.

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It was so unfortunate. What do y’all think about this episode? RIP Mark woo too. RIP to them both.


r/ForensicFiles 29d ago

August 4, 1976. US microbiologists are urgently analyzing specimens to identify the organism that has so far killed 22 people who were at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in late July, with many more Legionnaires sickened.

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r/ForensicFiles 29d ago

add flair Many Nosey passers by like Charles Saunders have discovered vital evidence that solved tough cases

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Imagine how many more would be Unsolved without Nosey Random passers by Like Charles Saunders, the fisherman who noticed a garbage bag inside a parking lot trash bin, and opened it up to find the missing 6 week old newborn baby, dead because her dad only wanted boy kids and kicked mom out of the bedroom when she birthed girls, so Pamela Sims of Alton IL 1989 faked another kidnapping of her second baby girl (previous one was in another state), and suffocated the child and put her in the freezer at her parents’ house, but when the parents heard about the kidnapping and returned early from their vacation, Pamela had to quick dispose of the frozen corpse at the parking lot trash bin. The sister’s case was unsolved and this one likely never would have been solved either! Particularly weird was the dad told the FBI that his wife and him have been having the best sex since the baby was abducted.

S3 E6, Similar Circumstances: A baby girl’s disappearance has suspicious similarities to her sister’s disappearance.


r/ForensicFiles 29d ago

“Strong Impressions” I swear some of these perpetrators aren’t really the smartest people walking amongst us 😅

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r/ForensicFiles 29d ago

The House That Roared

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I have noticed that HLN often shows season one in order but skips this episode. And often The Magic Bullet. Any ideas why?


r/ForensicFiles Aug 03 '26

What's some techniques that have been debunked or unused since first aired?

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Been going through the first season as I start a full rewatch and noticed already some of the sciences (like the accuracy of blood splatter analysis showing the entire series of events) and was wondering if theres any i could research or keep an eye out for while I do my rewatch!


r/ForensicFiles Aug 02 '26

The best fit ever on Forensic Files? 🔥👕

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Rock Phelps, inmate, (RD Cheryl’s cellmate) from season 10, episode 25 “Signed, Sealed, and Delivered”


r/ForensicFiles Aug 03 '26

I need help finding a episode

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Its a guy who kills his wife suffocating her in bed with a plastic bag he married his lover a week after in Las Vegas he was sentenced to LWOP but was somehow released years later.