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a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

:burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug:

fyodor posted:

lock and load here we go let's collect semen dna evidence and garrote some motherfuckers!

i wouldn't word it exactly like that but it sounds like a good saturday night

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Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzUPQT27Ws4

Pre-Fargo.

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

I watched an episode last night. The narrator is not great but in a way that's amusing. There's a lot of very tense piano as well.

JiveHonky
May 12, 2001

by zen death robot
Grimey Drawer
If there is one thing I have learned from watching Forensic Files it's that she's dead. She is definitely dead and he did it.

g0lbez
Dec 25, 2004

and then you'll beg
I've learned that life insurance policies are almost exclusively tied to murder

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
the scariest thing about forensic files is they only seem to catch murderers who were incredibly loving stupid

Nigmaetcetera
Nov 17, 2004

borkborkborkmorkmorkmork-gabbalooins

Pick posted:

the scariest thing about forensic files is they only seem to catch murderers who were incredibly loving stupid

That makes me feel better actually.

whoflungpoop
Sep 9, 2004

With you and the constellations
In the basement, investigators noticed what appeared to be a recently laid slab of concrete

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

whoflungpoop posted:

In the basement, investigators noticed what appeared to be a recently laid slab of concrete

this describes literally multiple episodes

Nessa
Dec 15, 2008

Three-Phase posted:

The most horrifying one I remember:

Mom has baby. Baby dies.
Forensics find ethylene glycol in baby. Mom charged and convicted of murder. Claims she did nothing.
Baby is exhumed later and they redo the analysis. Like a chromatograph.
It's NOT ethylene glycol but a similar poison. Baby had a birth defect where his body metabolized stuff wrong which created the poison. The chemicals were subtly different peaks on the graph.
Mom exhonerated and released from prison.

There's another horrifying baby one from a different murder show. I think it was a British one.

Mom has baby.
Baby dies. Autopsy said it was a congenital heart problem.
Mom has second baby.
Second baby also dies.
People think something is suspicious here.

Turns out the dad had Munchausen's by proxy and was suffocating the babies and then calling an ambulance for them. He killed both of his kids before they were even 6 months old. I think the mom even had a third kid with him by the time he was imprisoned for murder, but he didn't get the opportunity to start suffocating the third child to death.

There's a lot of super sad stories about parents murdering their own children by stabbing them, poisoning them or setting the house on fire and telling them to stay in their rooms. :(

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
One of my (least) favorite was the man who murdered his daughter in the hopes that his ex-girlfriend (who was not the girl's mother) would take him back.

Carotid
Dec 18, 2008

We're all doing it

...and the pitch! posted:

I watched an episode last night. The narrator is not great but in a way that's amusing. There's a lot of very tense piano as well.

What, the narrator is the best part of the show. There's an episode where hash browns are a pivotal part of the story (they find hash browns in a victim's stomach) and I can't help but crack up every time the narrator repeats "hash brown potatoes" in that grave voice of his

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

Carotid posted:

What, the narrator is the best part of the show. There's an episode where hash browns are a pivotal part of the story (they find hash browns in a victim's stomach) and I can't help but crack up every time the narrator repeats "hash brown potatoes" in that grave voice of his

I totally agree. It's a little stilted is all I meant by not great. It works for sure.

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

420 murder your children every day

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

:burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug:

Nefarious 2.0 posted:

420 murder your children every day

Dang It Bhabhi!
May 27, 2004



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At this point how is life insurance even legal?

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsmGE8i3jRs

This one has no rape or murder, or even death directly. Pretty classic case.

general anime
Jan 8, 2013

by Lowtax

whoflungpoop posted:

Investigation Discovery themes their shows about affair related spousal muder so its basically softcore murder porn meets bodiceripper

Those are poo poo and it's disgusting how they focus on sexualizing the victims. They also do really inappropriate puns surrounding the details of the crimes, but not in a somewhat tasteful way like Forensic Files. Investigation Discovery used to have great crime shows that focused on forensics, but now it's all fluffed up sexualized story with bad jokes and pays no respect to the victims or investigators.

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
It's always in the South too, everyone always has a southern accent.

Dang It Bhabhi!
May 27, 2004



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it's not staircase murder. *ahem*

He did it.

No wait he didn't.

Oh poo poo he totally did.

Holy wow ok I guess not.

Oh he's gay.

He did it.

The end.

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

Pick posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsmGE8i3jRs

This one has no rape or murder, or even death directly. Pretty classic case.

astonishing!!!!


is probably what I would say if I clicked that video

which i did not

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Novo
May 13, 2003

Stercorem pro cerebro habes
Soiled Meat
This show had some of the funniest info graphics too, I forget which episode this is from but the narrator was talking about a suspect with a series of prior rape convictions and this is how they represented that visually for the audience:

Dang It Bhabhi!
May 27, 2004



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whoa it's like im looking into a mirror.

Olewithmilk
Jun 30, 2006

What?

Olewithmilk posted:

An episode of Forensic Files I watched recently described the most hosed up thing I've ever heard. Watch the first 4 minutes and tell me I'm over-reacting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrOwycIcqWc

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
A truly shocking number of the crimes are "loving weirdo does the thing everyone was expecting he would". Like, there's this notion that "oh it's the last person you'd suspect!!" but it's usually the loving creep.

e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPFeylHLk4E

A loner who violently kills animals and is super into bondage and tells the women he fucks that he wants to rape their daughters? Maybe it's this guy??

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lol uh that is pretty tame brah.

David Parker Ray used to play an audio tape to terrify his victim and there's a hilarious reading of the transcript:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV8EPMeu1X8

lol but :(

im_sorry
Jan 15, 2006

(9999)
Ultra Carp
I've been binge watching this show on Netflix while screwing around with Sonar to make lovely music. Last night, a couple episodes came up that didn't involve murder at all - one was about an industrial plant that was causing really bad fog (although it caused some nasty car accidents), and one was about a town where everyone was coming down with some weird disease. Except for the people who didn't eat meat.

im_sorry fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Mar 4, 2017

Olewithmilk
Jun 30, 2006

What?

fyodor posted:

lol uh that is pretty tame brah.

David Parker Ray used to play an audio tape to terrify his victim and there's a hilarious reading of the transcript:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV8EPMeu1X8

lol but :(

Those tapes are hosed up for sure, but I knew that people are loving monsters and could do that to someone. I didn't know you could axe your brain in such a way to make yourself into a zombie who's only capable of making breakfast and collecting the paper while you gradually bleed out and your wife dies upstairs.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Olewithmilk posted:

Those tapes are hosed up for sure, but I knew that people are loving monsters and could do that to someone. I didn't know you could axe your brain in such a way to make yourself into a zombie who's only capable of making breakfast and collecting the paper while you gradually bleed out and your wife dies upstairs.

She survived, actually!

Olewithmilk
Jun 30, 2006

What?

Pick posted:

She survived, actually!

I wanted to put "dying" but it hosed up all the tenses and I couldn't be bothered.

Tyson Tomko
May 8, 2005

The Problem Solver.
Tuesdays in high school owned because you'd get forensic files, the new detectives and fbi files all in one night.

Daikatana Ritsu
Aug 1, 2008

I've been binge watching these for a few weeks now, it's so good. I miss the days when crime shows surfaced real crime scene photos instead of exclusively having lovely reenactments and slide zooms of legal documents. Authentic photos bring an appropriate level of severity to the crimes that often goes overlooked these days, which is frightening.

Lolie
Jun 4, 2010

AUSGBS Thread Mum

...and the pitch! posted:

The narrator is not great but in a way that's amusing. There's a lot of very tense piano as well.

It's pretty off-putting, even if the cases themselves are interesting. That said, the same cases tend to be covered by multiple true crime shows so if a particular crime interests you it's usually possible to find a better produced programme about it.

Club Sandwich
May 25, 2012
My favorite episode is where they spice up a cut and dry case (drunk driver plowed into some kids) by making it all about "forensic animation" which just ends up being lovely 90s 3d animations of the crime. Hilarious seeing them jump through hoops to try to paint this as some thrilling breakthrough in forensic science.

whoflungpoop
Sep 9, 2004

With you and the constellations
i saw this one earlier today on HLN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wvMLFgdGKw

they really didnt spend enough time on how hosed up and terrifying Virginia McGinnis was as a serial killer, arsonist, and insurance scammer

-- met her first husband, a fireman, while he was fighting the fire she set to destroy her dad's barn for insurance money

-- he divorced her after she set a bunch of other fires around their house (for insurance money)

-- she moved back in with her father and then burned his house to the ground for insurance money

-- bought another well insured house, burned it halfway, rejected the insurance payout of 85k, then a week later burned it completely to the ground for a $147k payout instead

-- hung her 3 year old daughter with bailing wire, got it classified as accidental death (and insurance payout)

-- killed her second husband while he was in the hospital with cancer by convincing hospital people she was a nurse, injected him with lots of painkillers, collected another insurance settlement


apparently the only reason she got away with all of these, other than people being stupid, is that she intentionally set the insurance policies low enough so that they wouldnt draw attention

Club Sandwich
May 25, 2012

whoflungpoop posted:




apparently the only reason she got away with all of these, other than people being stupid, is that she intentionally set the insurance policies low enough so that they wouldnt draw attention

protip right there. don't blow it all on one settlement

MiracleFlare
Mar 27, 2012
There was one woman who murdered her two husbands with antifreeze. Once the investigation was underway for both deaths she poisoned her daughter with a bunch of painkillers -- and then forged a suicide note in which her daughter supposedly confesses to murdering her father and stepfather.

Luckily, the daughter survived, and the forged note was linked back to the mother in part because the text kept spelling it "antifree", the same way she spoke it during police interviews. Last I heard the mother died in jail just last year, still claiming her daughter was the guilty one.

I remember another interesting case where they could only place the murderer at the scene by DNA matching tree seeds, of all things.

MiracleFlare fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Mar 5, 2017

Tyson Tomko
May 8, 2005

The Problem Solver.
How many episodes did the dumbass trying to stage a break in broke a window from the inside out instead of from the outside in?

whoflungpoop
Sep 9, 2004

With you and the constellations

Club Sandwich posted:

protip right there. don't blow it all on one settlement

and the one on the episode was only for $35k, she'd have gotten away with it except she made the mistake of finally killing someone who wasnt her family, and the victim's family hired a private investigator whose work finally got the authorities moving

she literally had no family left to kill for insurance except for the ones in on the plot - her son (in prison for other poo poo) pretended to be the girl's fiancee and had the settlement paid out to him, and her third husband who threw the girl off the cliff

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whoflungpoop posted:

and her third husband who threw the girl off the cliff

Ha ha you mean metaphorically right ha ha :(

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