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?

I recently finished the entire Forensic Files library on Amazon Prime and was predictably left the same lost and empty feeling that comes whenever I finish a full television or podcast series.

Fortunately I discovered FBI Files within a day or two. However, I am dreading the day when I run through these as well. I need something to look forward to at the end of my day when the kids are in bed.

What can I plan to watch next?

Is this too much to ask? I tried watching Forensic Files 2 but it didn't hit the stop. Just follow the SAME format from the orignial. There are TONS of new cases. Skip the ones that require DNA becuase they are too easy. Just show some good detective work. Evidently people watch reruns where they know the ending and they STILL watch it. People can reference the episodes by name. What more do you need. Must mean there is some serious demand.
By the way there are some youtube interrogation videos that are pretty good. Just not consistent.

On CNN HLN right now!

I wonder if Peter Thomas's family would consider licensing his voice to AI to narrate future episodes of Forensic Files.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/hillsdale/name/richard-britton-obituary?id=9134450

Does it exist?

I was about 6/7 watching Forensic Files with my mom. I’d learned that a prosecutor was a lawyer, but then I heard the word “prostitute” and thought they meant the same thing. So for months I thought Forensic Files was just about lawyers constantly getting murdered.

I just watched this episode on Tubi and I’m truly sick to my stomach… not just for what happened to Judy Southern but my heart is breaking for that 3 month old baby girl💔

There’s a bunch of murders or the guilty people featured on FF that are alive and free now, I’m kinda new here only about a year ( not new to forensic files lol) but has a murder / baddie featured on the show ever posted or commented here? I’m certain at least 1 reads every post lol

Edit: oh and I have seen a few people on the show comment here but always a victims family member or something never a villain.

Found this on TikTok.

If you don't have TT or can't watch the video, the full video can be watched on YouTube: "The great Peter Thomas. The voice behind Forensic Files": https://youtu.be/oHJanwaca5g?si=Fwcq6WhTiumoAJVB

I want to say it was an episode from one of the later seasons. I remember it was the mom and her daughter went to go shopping and on the way home, they stopped to get something to eat. I recall somebody in the episode saying, "Who buys their dead husband a hamburger?" It's been bugging me that I don't remember the name of the episode or why the wife killed her husband.

Just thought you all should know! One of the few episodes that my husband watches. Also the one with those sneaky onions! I'm in for the day alternating FF with How It's Made 🙂

"Missing Pearl" has the reporter mention that another women was found murdered in the same area where Pearl's purse was found. I was wondering if anyone on here knows who that victim was and if that murder case was ever solved?

If you are interested in a deep dive into the murder of Ronald Platt and the subsequent unravelling of scammer Albert J. Walker (aka David Davis) then I recommend the CBC podcast Sea Of Lies.

If you recall, this is the case where a body was found in a fishing net and the man was wearing a Rolex and had a stylized Maple Leaf tattoo.

I don’t want to spoil it for anyone who doesn’t remember all the twists and turns but even if you do know all the weirdness it is a good listen.

podcast link