UPDATE: TV SPECIAL WAS CANCELED! IT WAS FUN HEARING FROM YOU — THANKS MUCH TO THOSE WHO ANSWERED!
Another Forensic Files special — yes, we are blessed! — is in the works. As you probably remember, in 2021, a great TV show took a serious look at the docuseries over the years.
This time, the producers are out for fun.
Gary Lico, one of Forensic Files producers, is interested in hearing what you think is the craziest, most shocking, or off-the-charts weird alibi or clue or evidence — or person.
Please leave a reader comment at the end of this post and I’ll relay the message to the folks at Forensic Files. Or shoot Gary an email directly at gary@garylico.tv
P.S. The men in the photo brought you the original Forensic Files, from 1996 to 2011. Left to right: Michael Jordan, Vince Sherry, Gary Lico, Matt Hensel, series creator Paul Dowling.
There was one episode where a man killed his wife and he was trying to play it off like she fell down the stairs. He was being interviewed by the police and he was blaming her “fall” down the stairs on her shoes. He was overacting so bad and he yelled, “Those damn shoes!!!!” My husband and I laughed so hard and we still quote that to this day.
I think the episode was “Hell’s Kitchen.” That really was some bad acting.
That’s a very famous case that’s been made into a Netflix documentary and a tv series adaption for HBO called the staircase.
No, The Staircase was not based on the Fitzhugh family in Hell’s Kitchen episode that they are referencing above (with the shoes and the overacting — one of the most famous scenes in FF). The Staircase was about the Petersons.
There is a whole documentary about this guy’s innocence. After watching it, I’m almost convinced he didn’t do it. Almost.
Yes, I think you’re right. And how could I forget about “antifree” lady? The audacity of some people to think that they can get away with murder. It’s really mind-boggling.
The episode that really stays in my memory is the episode regarding the List Murders. The sculpture that was made to depict what Robert List looked like many years after the murders was eerily accurate, down to the choice of glasses.
Another episode that got me interested in the forensics field was the episode where some disc/floppy drive was cut up with scissors by the suspect in an attempt to destroy evidence. They then managed to recover the data by just taping the disc together.
Many episodes stick out to me, but I was truly unnerved by the “Death Play” episode about Marie Robards.
If not for her own conscience she may very well have gotten away with the truly senseless murder of her father.
She made a well considered plan and moved on him like a viper. Penitent though she may have been, she should have served every day of her original sentence.
That was an especially sad episode.
The most horrible evidence on forensic files I’ve ever witnessed was the chest freezer used to store Denise Huber’s body for 3 years after her murder. I’ve grown up watching forensic files since I was 10 years old as it was broadcasted by Court TV. A lot of episodes have disturbed me, yet when I watched this episode I had a very bad sinking pit feeling in my stomach as they revealed the details of the body in the truck. A book was written called Cold Storage and I purchased this to learn more than forensic files can offer in a 20 minute segment. Her story is incredibly tragic and I could never fathom what her parents went through – and still do. You’ve never written anything about her murderer, John Famalaro, but I’d be very interested if you would. This episode truly breaks my heart.
I remember that case well, such a depraved killer. I haven’t written about it because John Famalaro creeps me out too much.
I think something is like to find out is about the mysterious 3 episodes that are hard to find on the internet and why that is the case. The 3 episode are: honour thy father, a snipers trail, and auto-motive. Particularly the last one as the poor victims body has never been found
The one where the guy killed his neighbor and stepped in a hamburger bun which left a partial footprint at the scene.
As well as the one where the guy had the seed pod of a tree in his truck bed and they did plant dna to prove it was the tree where they found the body.
I am also a fan of the outbreak/medical ones like: legionnaire’s disease, the odwalla juice and where the religious cult poisoned the town’s salad bar.
There was one where the murdered girl was attending the University of Nebraska and the killer, her “boyfriend” who had another girl he was sleeping with as well, painted over her bloodstains in his basement bedroom with shoe polish and white-out. The investigators cut out huge sections of the drywall to prove he was guilty of the coverup. He would never reveal where this poor girl’s body was and the family still doesn’t know.
Refusing to disclose the location of the remains is really as pitiful as it gets. He’s probably gonna die in prison, I mean literally wouldn’t be any better or worse off for giving it up.
It is a great show, however, it is difficult to hear the narrator or those speaking because the background music is too loud. I know music adds to the story, but you should consider those with hearing disorders when recording and tone the music down.
There have been times when I have to just quit watching because of the background music.
Is this on the original Forensic Files or FF II?
The new forensic files sucks. The writing, new awful narrator but especially the writing. Old one used to flow like water and the new one is choppy and disconnected. Whoever used to do the old ones needs to do them again
There’s no one like Peter Thomas. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2016.