I just finished watching this doc and I don't even know what to say. Knowing the context behind this vintage family photo makes it look so incredibly sinister. Sharon Marshall deserved so much better. For those who have seen it, how long did it take you to process the sheer scale of what Franklin Floyd did?
Put together a full documentary on this case. 13 minutes, no filler - just the scene, the failed autopsy, and the three theories that still don't hold.
Currently watching this and all I can say is WHAT in the actual F!!!!!!???? This family is beyond cooked… has anyone else seen it?
Between 1972 and 1991 a Chicago Police commander and the detectives under his command tortured at least 118 people in custody into signing false confessions. Almost all of them were Black men.
The methods were documented. Electric shock applied to genitals and ears. Cattle prods. A hand cranked generator with wires attached to the body. Plastic bags pulled over heads until men passed out. Mock executions with loaded guns. Men handcuffed to radiators for hours.
At least a dozen men ended up on death row on the basis of those confessions. In 2003 the Governor of Illinois pardoned four of them and commuted the sentences of every other death row inmate in the state. Illinois abolished the death penalty entirely in 2011. This case was a significant part of why.
The Cook County State's Attorney was informed about the torture as early as 1982. No criminal investigation was opened. His name was Richard M. Daley. He later became Mayor of Chicago.
The commander was never charged with torture. The statute of limitations had expired. He was convicted in 2010 of perjury for lying about it under oath in a civil case. He served four and a half years. He was released and continued collecting his city pension.
The city of Chicago has paid over 120 million dollars in settlements connected to his unit.
He died in Florida in 2018. He never answered for the torture itself.
I put together a full breakdown of every miss in this case if you want to go deeper:
Update: it finally hit me. Jacquidon, Jackie and Don and pronounced as such. Sister of Kasi Peek, Dateline episode Deadly Omission. Murdered in 2005 ( seems so long ago now)
I remember seeing a true crime show (20/20 or 48 hours) and the episode had the sister of the victim on and she had a really strange name. It was like 2 names spliced together and not a name anyone else in the world would possibly have. I don't remember much of the case except that it was older maybe late 70s early 80s.
It was July 31, 1978, and a self-proclaimed Mormon prophet was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside a car. A few days later, on the eleventh floor of a luxury hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, the man's wife gathered her seven children on the balcony. Some jumped, obeying the widow's commands; others wept, clinging desperately to the railing and trying to resist, while several people on the street screamed in terror, attempting to stop the tragedy.
In a matter of minutes, an entire family was destroyed. But the most disturbing aspect of this story is not only its brutal ending, but also the fact that a virtually unknown man managed to convince several people outside his family that he was a prophet sent by God, and even the deity himself incarnate.
Video about the deadly Mormon cult of Immanuel David: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz8pBjTi89k
When you look at the real-life villains we discuss here, Brian David Mitchell is easily one of the most manipulative. The fact that he could keep Elizabeth in plain sight, hidden under a veil in public, is deeply disturbing.
But what always stands out to me in her documentaries isn't the predator, it's her. She was just 14 years old, facing absolute terror every day, yet she managed to survive nine months of psychological torment. It really shows how resilient a person can be even in the darkest circumstances.
I truly can’t take ANYONE in this documentary seriously except Davion’s father.
You really mean to tell me Dom’s dad had the ghetto audacity to not only sit in the grass at the exact site his son died, with his son’s killer… but ALSO records them both trying to contact his son using a SINGLE piece of scratch paper and a necklace? Please make it stop. 🤔 the smallest gust of wind would’ve sent that paper flying..
The scene was just one of many that came off disrespectful, tone deaf and weird. like what in the low budget ouija arts & crafts project is going on right now?!
That wasnt the only time he seemed off to me either…
Something tells me the dad was munching on those mushrooms too the more I think about it…. 👀
The Perfect Neighbor and the story of the kids in Deadly American Marriage really got to me. If you havent i highly suggest these documentaries.. The Perfect Neighbor was produced extremely well and you feel so bad fod the kids in Deadly American Marriage. I was very pleased to see that the kids overcame everything and are doing well. Neither case had the best outcome. I am a true crime junkie so its hard to get me kn my feelings during one but these both manage to do so.
Any doc that brought you to tears ?
I hope this isnt breaking any rules but I saw something inside the epoxy of a swimming pool that bore a striking resemblance to jacobo grinberg. It was installed in 1994 and there were also 2 other bodies in the step. They appear to only be torsos. No one seems to care and no one will bring GPS and forensics to investigate it but it is very obviously not my imagination because I can feel the erosion of what's underneath with my hand. What should I do? I have already ruled out mental illness and ramsay theory, it is definitely not my imagination. I have tried reporting it and I get put on hold or in an email loop with the coroners office. Henderson police would not let me back there to show them and literally closed the case without any further investigation. It is either the worst psyop or a cover up or something. Its very difficult to find the right reporting strategy when I am stuck behind a wall of glass and I am not trained to deal with this type of thing.
Watched the Diane Sawyer 20/20 special (Escape from a House of Horror), and honestly, the Turpin family case is one of those that completely details the absolute darkest side of humanity.
It’s just wild to me how two people can casually torture, starve, and shackle 13 children right under everyone’s noses while posting matching Disney trip outfits on social media. The contrast between that fake "perfect family" image and the actual reality inside that house is terrifying.
Jordan Turpin’s 911 call and her courage to escape always give me chills. Have you guys watched any other deep dives or documentaries on this case that cover how the system failed them even after the rescue? I’d love some recommendations.
Put together a full documentary on this case. 13 minutes, no filler.
In 1955, a man turned up at a Czechoslovak border crossing without papers. He claimed to be deaf and mute. He was neither. He spoke six languages fluently - Czech, Slovak, German, English, Polish, Russian - and had knowledge of military tactics, Marxist theory, and European history that matched no identity he was willing to give.
Secret police investigated him for 26 years. He joined the Communist Party. He served in the military and became the best marksman in his unit. He photographed military buildings. He claimed, at one point, to be the son of Otto von Habsburg.
He was eventually released. He died in 1981. His apartment showed signs of a prior search. An unexplained radio transmitter was found among his belongings.
He never said who he was. Nobody figured it out.
I I am watching the documentary Death in Apartment 603: what happened to Ellen Greenberg? I am a huge crime junkie. I am obsessed with Podcasts like Morbid, Crime Junkie, Park Predators, and so on. I am amazed with this documentary. How are they ruling this a suicide. In the first episode, I heard the 911 call and I knew right then that’s not the correct way to react. This crime happened in 2011, it was ruled a suicide at first glance and then the ME said homicide. I am baffled as to why this was ruled a suicide again.
No one in 3rd grade wanted to be a drug mule when they grew up, right? It’s just one of those jobs someone naively falls into, then gets trapped. But how? And what was it like being a drug mule in the Emerald Triangle during the height of the War on Drugs?
This week, a long-retired 1980's drug mule survivor from the Emerald Triangle breaks her silence. Not all lived to tell their story.
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I just watched episode 1 of season 2 of the Netflix docuseries- Worst Ex Ever. Seeing the treatment of the victim of SA (Kelly Williams) by detective Louis Potter has made me feel absolutely disgusted and infuriated, and upon finding out that he is still working for the police department I did some research - there is a petition online that has the aim to have the detective fired from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's office. There should be consequences for his lack of empathy and incompetence. If you wish to find out more and contribute to the cause, please click on the link below.
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I was re-watching the Diane Downs case recently and I’m still blown away by the story she tried to tell investigators.
She claimed a bushy-haired stranger stopped her on a deserted road and shot her and her three kids, but the documentary shows the reenactment she did for the police where she’s smiling and seems almost excited to be the center of attention. It’s such a haunting look at someone with zero remorse.
Has anyone else seen the Small Sacrifices doc or the World's Most Evil Killers episode on this? Her daughter Christie finally being able to speak and tell the real story in court is one of the most powerful moments in true crime history.
On July 22nd in 2021 around 4pm a couple males decided to arrive to an abandoned church on 9614 Aetna Rd to record a music video but was spotted by rival gang members, According to police it was 3-5 gunmen who snuck in the abandoned church who started firing in the direction of the video shoot while the cameraman was still recording. 2 teens would be hit including 19 year old Jamir “Mir” Pollard who would be the person to pass away from his injury/injuries.
I am a prolific podcast listener and I think I’ve finally run out. Below is a list of what I’ve already listened to (asterisks by my favorites) followed by a list of podcasts that I’ve tried but dnf. I’m not super into the cults, scams or murders without a meaty story behind them, and I can’t handle anything where kids are harmed. Anyone have a recommendation?
Apology Line*
Bear Brook*
Bone Valley*
The Clearing*
Adults in the Room
Ambushed
Beyond all repair
Blink
Body on the Moor
Catch me if you Ken
Catching the Codfather
Coast Files
Come by Chance
Coldest Case in Larimee
Crimes of Margo Freshwater
Dear John
Death in Ice Valley
Defining Diego
Devil in the Ditch
Dirtbag Climber
Foundling
Gas Man
Heavyweight
In the Dark 1
In the Dark 2
In the Dark 3
Into the red clay
Just Enough Family
Lighthouse
My mothers lies
Noble
Paradise
Proof
Retrievals 1 and 2
Scamanda
Sea of Lies*
Serial 1*
Serial 2
Serial 3
S-town
Sweet Bobby
Teachers pet
The Girlfriends
The hoax
The idiot
The Staircase
The walkers, salt path
Three
Unicorn Girl
West cork
Who the hell is hamish
Wild Boys
Your Own Backyard*
DNF:
Birth keepers
Case file
Casefile True Crime
Chameleon 1: Hollywood Con Queen
Chameleon 2: High Rollers
Cold
The Consult
Crime junkie
Crime Story
Criminal
Dark Down East
Dark Valley
Murderish
Scandal
Someone Knows Something
Stolen 1: The Search for Jermain
Stolen 2: Surviving St. Michaels
Stolen 3: Trouble in Sweetwater
Suspect
Swindled
Police had Lonnie Franklin's DNA from the crime scenes the entire time. They could not match it to anyone because the system that was supposed to have his name in it had a gap in it. A documented, inexcusable gap.
He kept killing because of it.
Lonnie Franklin Jr. killed at least ten women in South Los Angeles between 1985 and 2007. He was a city sanitation worker. He had worked inside the LAPD's 77th Street Division station servicing their vehicles. He lived in the same neighborhood where he dumped the bodies.
In 2003 Franklin was convicted of a felony. California passed a law in 2004 requiring DNA collection from every convicted felon in the state. His probation officer never collected the sample. The department said it did not have enough staff between November 2004 and August 2005 to collect samples from people on unsupervised probation.
Franklin was one of the people who slipped through.
The case finally broke when his son was arrested on a weapons charge in 2009 and his DNA entered the database. Analysts ran a familial search and found the crime scene profile was too close to Christopher Franklin's to be a coincidence. An undercover detective followed Franklin to a birthday party at a pizzeria and posed as a busboy. He collected a half eaten slice of pizza from Franklin's table. The DNA matched.
When police searched the house they found over 1,000 photographs of women. Hundreds of hours of video. Most of those women have never been identified.
Franklin was convicted of ten counts of first degree murder in 2016 and sentenced to death. He died in his cell at San Quentin in March 2020.
The probation department's failure to collect his DNA as required by law is fully documented. No one was fired. No one was charged. No one answered for it.
I put together a full breakdown of every miss in this case if you want to go deeper: