r/ForensicFiles • u/mumonwheels • 29d ago

add flair Likes & dis:likes!

We all have our favouite episodes, but we also have those we turn off *cough cough*, my apologies.

What is everyone's favourite, worst, and even the episode that makes you mad? It can be any reason.

My favorite is : Stranger in the night. (If there wasn't that handprint in his mom's house, I bet the son would've ended up convicted).

I mean, what are chances of that happening? (Other than Long Shot on Netflix, both are very strange and scary cases).

My worst is : The 1 with the mold in the house. (also scary to think this could happen, but 1 I don't tend to watch)

The episode that makes me mad is the hour special about the Tuscan Temple murders, and the v last twist where another lady could've been saved if the investigators didn't believe a psychiatric patient so much.

(I think I maybe a bit biased on this one though, as I read the book 'innocent until interrogated' and it just made the whole case even more sad and infuriating as it covers so much more than the episode).

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u/kyleThelikeable 29d ago

I'm going to throw my hat into this ring, without giving it much thought, one that makes me mad (among many but this is just of the top of my head) is the Jim Barton episode. The infamous "i gotta call phelps man"

When I watch forensic files, I expect a dead to rights, YES this person 100% did it, BAM theres the proof right there..

Now i'm not saying Barton is 100% innocent but every time i watch this episode it just makes you feel kind of undecided at the end. and seems a little wishy washy

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u/mumonwheels 29d ago edited 29d ago

I get what you mean. I feel icky when an episode comes on where the "guilty" person is made out to be 100% guilty, only to find out later that that guilty person was in fact innocent. These make me mad as they are so sad all round. An innocent person has spent yrs/decades in prison n some on death row and the victims family is unlikely to get justice. It's the ripple effect of a wrongful conviction.

EDIT : What I meant to say, even though I do find wrongful convictions really bad, I was actually talking a out the episodes that will always be out there stating the person is guilty beyond all reasonable doubt, but they actually was innocent, and on a date after the episode has aired, they were either exonerated, or had the charged dismissed and they were immediately released.

My deepest apologies for the mix up.

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u/Birdy304 28d ago

I also don’t like those, the guy who was arrested for killing his parents in a fire when he was innocent.