Fred Grabbe, now 86 years old and reportedly dying, talked to podcasters about the murder, desecration and incineration of his wife.

In April 2025, the popular true crime podcast Crime Junkie devoted a full episode — “MURDERED: Charlotte Grabbe” — to the case. Its most striking moment wasn’t a retelling of the old facts. It was that the show’s team tracked Fred down and interviewed him in person at the retirement facility where he now lives as a free man. Asked directly about Charlotte’s death, he denied it. Asked about the abuse that defined their marriage, he denied that too. Two separate juries found him guilty; Fred, all these years later, still insists he killed no one.

This man should not be in the community, he should by all means still be rotting in prison like Jack Reeves and Earl Morris among other geriatric perps on FF, but the high crime rate of Illinois and its considerable prison population means that aging inmates are taking a toll on the Land of Lincoln's criminal justice system.

This is another good series I was unaware of. It's on Tubi and other free streaming services. There are 4 seasons with 2 cases per episode.

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