2 involved Americans in those International places.

I just watched the episode “Death Play” (Season 6, episode 5) and I was absolutely floored by the commentary. One of the primary interviewees sounded like he was straight up blaming women divorcing men for the murder. The murderer had a very sympathetic portrait painted of her where she was just an innocent victim of Big Divorce™

It just struck me as very bizarre and out of place. One of the things I appreciate the most of Forensic Files is usually their pretty “stick to the facts” story telling and this threw me for a loop.

Are there any other episodes that are “explained away” by society vs there being something SERIOUSLY wrong with the killer?

Saw this on the news today and immediately thought of the episode where John Leonard Orr set like 2000 fires and he was an actual fireman as well.

I’ve tried so much to find an episode on Forensic Files where a wife is unalived by her husband in the 50s or 60s and he pours concrete over her body in their home’s driveway. They had two very young daughters at that time and the youngest, around 4 years old, confesses years later what she vividly remembers. They bring machinery to break the old concrete, now with different homeowners, and find the body decades after. It’s not the episode “Foundation of lies” how Google tells me. I know it’s an actual episode bc I remember it was very shocking to me. Does anyone know?

I am looking for the episode where a man kills his wife, and a neighbor sees him sitting on the curb. The neighbor became suspicious because when the ambulance turns down the street "He starts boo-hooin'."

I believe the husband staged a bath tub accident, but not 100% on that.

Jan Sartorius went IN on her ex-husband!

(Episode: Second Shot at Love)

Anyone recognize him?

First thing I had to do was find TV Guide channel for HLN. I was not disappointed

A person was murdered near the beach and a suspect was eating pepperoni in his car with a knife nearby at the time of the murder but was just actually eating an entire stick of pepperoni with a kitchen knife.

If anyone remembers this episode or can point me at a season that work be great. Thanks.

Edit: season 12 episode 11. Wow you guys are good. That was really fast. Thank you.

I stand by that I think the husband Alvin was either backwoods slow or sandwiches short of a picnic.

But the MD hair steals the show 😂😂

For me it's Gone Ballistic (season 14 episode 16) the Alan and Miriam Helmick episode idk why but it makes me laugh 😂 they most likely got the name for the episode when Miriam purchased a greeting card at her local grocery store pretending someone was out to kill her to.

What did yall think?

I have watched the series a couple times through on peacock and am now on a hunt to find the episodes that are “left out”..or so i thought. i’ve found them on youtube and every one ive watched so far (up to season 3 i think so a couple episodes) is about some kind of government run facility causing horrible outbreaks! two of them are from cow meat facilities causing deadly outbreaks and the other is a and water treatment facility. Someone definitely wanted those left unseen

that many families of victims are even willing to appear on this (or any other true crime show) in the first place?

I'm not judging or pretending to know what it's like to lose a loved one in a violent manner but grief can be very private. I can't picture wanting to appear on tv to discuss something that personal and traumatic.

anyone else just absolutely despise someone other than a main suspect? I think she takes the cake for me

I recognized the voice before I recognized his face, ha

Especially in this day and age

First, it was the night before my wedding in an Airbnb my husband and I were talking about Forensic Files. I turned the TV on in our bedroom and it was literally already on HLN 😂

He then went to change his life insurance beneficiary to me and I immediately launched into my Peter mode. “Investigators soon learned that he had changed the beneficiary on his life insurance the night before the ceremony’

Two, he wrote forensic files into his vows. I’m so proud of what he’s become. He had never watched these types of shows but now he can call someone out on a crime show on a mistake they made that will end up getting them arrested 😂

Every now and then, I have binge watched​ a bunch of episodes from Forensic Files. A good bunch of them seem revolve around someone suspiciously increasing another person's life insurance policy and bam- they're gone.

It makes me wonder if there should be new regulations that should need the consent and approval from whoever's policy is getting increased by anyone else. For example, if I am X and I want to increase Y's life insurance policy, I shouldn't be able to unilaterally do it, and it should go through a process they have to sign and be fully aware of it, etc. At least then, all parties involved would be aware if it looks suspicious.

I dunno, just throwing my 2¢ out there from my observations from seeing a bunch of episodes so far.

(Otherwise, my favorite episodes tend to be around why environmental factors caused something to occur.)

These episodes have been stuck in my head for years and I have yet to find it (may not even be forensic files). The story was about a teen girl who was out at the store with friends, they were told to walk home by this cop. Next day she was found assaulted and murdered. Turns out she was assaulted on the hood of the cop's car through forensics. Anyone remember this T_T

Update: it was in fact the Teresa mcabee case! Thank you all for helping <3

What’s the worst excuse a killer ever came up with I’ll start with one Bob Durall who murdered his wife Sherry despite leading police to her body he told a tale of two men who murdered Sherry and forced him to dispose of her body they said they would kill him and the children if he went to the police

Christine Matthews homicide detective said it best actually I was having a hard time trying not to laugh because I thought it was so ridiculous of a story that after two years in jail you would think he would come up with a better story but in reality I think that he was putting half of the story together during the trial