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Husband Kills Wife documentary suggestions?

Laci Peterson was an unbeatable documentary… I want to watch more. I’ve seen a lot so I’m looking for different ones with the husband killing wife plot.

Ones I’ve seen already: Laci Peterson, American nightmare, Chris watts American murder family next door, the jinx, Sheri papini, Mr and ms murder, the widower, green river killer, maternal instinct, death of a pastors wife…

I’m forgetting the rest but I’ve watched so many. Show me something new-to-me please? (:

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u/Moist-Scarcity7142 — 3 days ago
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Indian girl that Sam Pepper shot fireworks at is permanently blind in one eye and he refuses to provide any financial compensation or communicate with her father

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u/4doorsmorewhoreswith — 12 days ago

WDYMM Ken Urker passed away?? And where was Gypsy when this happened?

I’m genuinely shocked by this news. Like, what do you mean Ken passed away?! 😳
I’m also confused about the circumstances and timing. Does anyone know where Gypsy was when this happened?
Maybe I’m missing some information, but the whole situation feels really strange to me, especially with how suddenly everything happened and the fact that the cause of death doesn’t seem to be fully established yet.
From what I’ve seen, Gypsy said she believes Ken overdosed, but she apparently doesn’t know what substance was involved or whether it was accidental or intentional. The official cause of death hasn’t been confirmed yet.
Does anyone have more information about the timeline or what Gypsy has actually said about what happened?

u/VBJennifer — 13 days ago
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Trial Recommendations *Forensic Psychology*

Hello!

I’m a psychologist and have been following the Clancy trial, particularly the testimony from the forensic psychologists and psychiatrists.

I’m looking for recommendations for specific trials in which forensic psychologists and/or forensic psychiatrists played a significant role. I’m especially interested in cases where their testimony is readily available through video footage or transcripts and/or where the psychological or psychiatric evaluations conducted during the case are publicly available.

I’m open to cases from any time period, although I realize more recent or ongoing trials may be more likely to have easily accessible trial footage.

What specific trials would you recommend following or going back and watching? I’m particularly interested in cases where mental illness, competency, criminal responsibility, or the defendant’s mental state played a significant role.

I appreciate any recommendations!

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u/Aggie_spartacus — 11 days ago

Are hit men really THAT easy to hire for someone like Dana Chandler?

When you look at the comments about why someone with no direct evidence is probably still “guilty” it almost always includes that the person “used a hitman.”

No gun found? Hitman. No DNA at the scene? Hitman. Nothing can put you near the area at the time? Hitman!

Very real question: are hitmen really THAT easy to come by?! Because based on how often they are credited, you’d think this was an Uber or Door Dash level of gig work jobs.

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u/moreofajordan — 11 days ago
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4 Serial Killers On Long Island At The Same Time | 1994 (Inc Rex early years)

Long Island in 1994: Shulman, Bittrolff, Heuermann and the aftermath of Rifkin’s arrest
Liane and I just released the second part of our documentary collaboration with Joe Giacalone from True Crime with the Sarge, featuring retired FBI profiler Mark Safarik.
For those here who follow the cases beyond Gilgo, this looks at what was happening on Long Island in 1994. Rifkin was already in custody, but other killers were still out there.
We spend a substantial part of the film on Robert Shulman, Lisa Ann Warner and her mother’s fight to bring her home from Hart Island. We also cover Colleen McNamee, John Bittrolff, the Medford Jane Doe and Heuermann’s life during this period.
One thing we wanted to explore is how these cases look when you put their timelines alongside each other. We visit locations connected to the cases and discuss the investigations with Joe and Mark, while keeping the women and their families central to the story.
Full disclosure: this is our film. I’d be interested in hearing what this community thinks, particularly about the lesser-covered cases and anything you believe deserves a closer look.
Watch the documentary on YouTube

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u/LostMyAccountToo — 10 days ago
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Is watching true crime so often affecting me more than I know I genuinely care for it and have intrest

I’ve watched true crime my whole life and it’s the r ONLY thing I can watch for hours and give my full attention to I have adhd so that’s very out of the norm for me now that I’m older I genuinely do love it and think of possibly want get into death investigation in the future it comforts me and makes me feel like I’m learning alot and can handle something so strong but helpful for others its something i seem to really care for even tho sometimes I feel like it weighs on me SOMETIMES only when I’m doing kind of bad mentally I feel like It stays in my head a lot more than usual it makes me a bit more paranoid and have intrusive thoughts that are obviously horrific I keeping wondering as of late if this is making an impact on me in a really negative way without me realizing it I have bpd and have been having issues lately with a lot of things in life I just can’t help but wonder is it possible this is more harm than good even tho it makes me feel comfort and I feel actual care which idc for much in the world I do want to clarify when I watch these body cams and cases I feel so sad I feel like I want justice I want them to be heard I feel so much care I don’t enjoy it see it in a weird manner I see it in a real manner but I still wonder is it messing with me as well when I’m having a harder time mentally which can be often

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u/Medium-Detective-693 — 11 days ago
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The Dahmer Cash-Out: Corporate filings show Lionel Dahmer set up media shells the day after Jeffrey's final sentencing

If you thought the rehearsed body language on Rolonda was an isolated glitch, wait until you rewatch Lionel and Shari Dahmer’s March 1994 appearance on Good Morning America.

In my last post—The Jeffrey Dahmer Script: How Hollywood Handlers and Glitched Archival Tapes Unmasked a $30B Lie—we exposed the connective tissue linking entertainment industry brokers, corporate shell entities, and the massive political cover needed to pass the 1994 Violent Crime Control Act.

Now, let’s look at the actual monetization, media circuit, and narrative-stabilization phase of the psyop: the 1994 press circuit.

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The Illusion of the Mainstream Script & The Press Circuit

To understand why the Dahmer corporate filings and talk-show circuit matter, one must first dismantle the emotional armor surrounding the official narrative.

For decades, the public has been fed a highly specialized diet of true-crime sensationalism, psychological profiling, and horrific imagery. We are told to focus on the individual pathology of a "lone monster"—a narrative structure designed to induce a state of hyper-emotional paralysis.

When the human mind is flooded with horror, the rational faculties shut down. This is the foundational mechanic of shock-doctrine social engineering: overwhelm the collective psyche with a terrifying anomaly, and while the population is reeling in revulsion, introduce the pre-planned legislative cure—in this case, the 1994 $30 Billion Crime Bill, the most sweeping expansion of the American police state in U.S. history.

However, an operation of this magnitude requires script compliance from its central actors. Behind the emotional wall of the "Milwaukee Cannibal" myth lies a cold, clinical universe of legal filings, asset allocation, and state-sanctioned corporate choreography.

1. The Timing Isn't Coincidental—It’s a Product Launch

Lionel Dahmer didn’t just wander onto Good Morning America in March 1994 to air his grief. He was on a high-visibility, heavily managed media roll-out to sell his book, A Father’s Story—a memoir explicitly packaged by Hollywood literary agent Joel Gotler and TV docudrama producer Ed Gernon (both explicitly thanked in the book's acknowledgments for "starting and shaping" the project).

Watch the embedded video carefully. The morning-show interview wasn't a somber family reflection; it was a standardized book tour hit designed to keep the national panic primed while normalizing the Dahmer family as "tragic, everyday Americans."

2. Corporate Paper Trails & The Parallel Conduits

Behind the solemn talk-show sofas lay a network of structured business entities and court-sanctioned financial moves. Uncovered public registry documents from the Ohio Secretary of State reveal that in May 1992, right as the legal theater was wrapping up, Lionel and Shari Dahmer quietly stepped into the corporate shadows:

Two Parallel Corporate Entities: Right as the legal theater was wrapping up, corporate filings appeared in Ohio for two distinct entities: Baramin Group, Inc. (Charter #819340), incorporated by Lionel Dahmer, and The Jordan Group, Inc. (Charter #819345), incorporated by Shari Dahmer.

Hand-signed on May 2, 1992—just one day after Jeffrey Dahmer’s final Ohio sentencing for the 1978 murder of Steven Hicks—and hand-delivered on May 4, 1992, by defense attorney Lawrence W. Vuillemin's law firm (Mentzer, Vuillemin & Robinson), these mirrored corporate frameworks operated directly out of the Dahmer family residence at 171 Granger Road, Medina, Ohio.

The Reality of the Financial Channels: Contrary to what we may be made to believe, they weren’t shielding parental assets from hostile victim estates; they were secure, state-sanctioned corporate vessels designed to safely channel massive mainstream media payouts, book advances (including a $150,000 advance from William Morrow & Co. and international copyright licensing under Baramin Group Inc.), and institutional money.

Splitting the enterprise into two separate corporate tracks allowed both Lionel and Shari to independently manage media retainers, television rights, and interview fees across their respective press circuits.

The Absence Across the Biological Family Line: If these corporate shells were merely organic, protective reactions of a traumatized family, we would expect to see similar defensive architecture across the entire biological family line. They don’t exist. A rigorous search of public business registries yields a telling revelation: Jeffrey’s biological mother, Joyce Dahmer (née Flint), and his brother, David Dahmer, have absolutely no such corporate entities tied to their names.

Corporate shielding wasn’t distributed by blood; it was awarded strictly by script participation. The state narrative required active management and compliance—things only Lionel and Shari were tapped to provide.

  • Joyce’s minimal involvement: Relocated and maintaining a minimal, detached role, Joyce was never positioned as a primary curator of the public narrative.
  • David’s total atmospheric erasure: David changed his name, vanished from the public eye, and refused to participate in the monetization or media choreography.

The Script Breaks Live on Air: Notice how morning anchors asked carefully bounded questions that strictly preserved the "lone-wolf monster" narrative. On live TV, Shari routinely referenced Jeffrey’s "formative years" and childhood tendencies as if she raised him—completely ignoring the documented fact that she didn't enter his life until he was an adult.

(Note: Keep an eye out for a separate archival news clip dropping soon on this sub, where Shari Dahmer directly contradicts her own timeline on air.)

3. Cashing Out Before Closing the Curtain: The Shared Expiration Date

The 1991–1994 press blitz was the commercial monetization phase of a multi-tiered operation:

  • Phase 1 (1991–1993): The Horror Campaign. Keep the public in a state of perpetual fear to lay the groundwork for federal control.
  • Phase 2 (Early–Mid 1994): The Monetization Blitz. Push the memoirs, sign the TV rights, tour the talk shows, and route secondary revenue through corporate entities.
  • Phase 3 (September 1994): The $30 Billion Payoff. Use the engineered public panic to pass the 1994 Crime Bill, gutting civil liberties and expanding the militarized police state.
  • Phase 4 (November 1994): Retiring the Lead Actor. Two months after the $30B bill is signed into law, Jeffrey Dahmer is conveniently ''bludgeoned to death'' in a prison gymnasium.
  • Phase 5 (December 29, 1997): Dual Corporate Dissolution. Official records from OpenCorporates confirm that both Baramin Group, Inc. and The Jordan Group, Inc. were cancelled simultaneously by the tax department on the exact same afternoon.

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Once the Crime Bill was locked in, the media rounds were exhausted, and the primary book print runs concluded, the handlers turned off the lights and dissolved both corporate books on the exact same day.

When you analyze these network interviews not as breaking news, but as packaged promotional appearances for a legislative and financial objective, the mainstream illusion shatters completely.

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Primary Sources & Evidence Archive

  • Ohio Secretary of State: Articles of Incorporation of Baramin Group, Inc., Charter No. 819340 (Filed May 6, 1992; Dissolved Dec 29, 1997), accessed via OpenCorporates.
  • Ohio Secretary of State: Articles of Incorporation of The Jordan Group, Inc., Charter No. 819345 (Filed May 6, 1992; Dissolved Dec 29, 1997), accessed via OpenCorporates.
  • Dahmer, Lionel: A Father’s Story (New York: William Morrow & Co., 1994; UK Edition: Little, Brown and Company, 1994, copyright registered to Baramin Group Inc.).
  • People Magazine Archive: Paula Chin, "Sins of the Son," Vol. 41, No. 11 (March 28, 1994) [Documenting Lionel Dahmer’s $150,000 book advance].
  • ABC News Archive: Good Morning America (March 1994 broadcast featuring Lionel and Shari Dahmer).
  • Milwaukee County Circuit Court: State of Wisconsin v. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, Case No. 91-CF-912352 (1992).
  • U.S. Congress: Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, H.R. 3355, 103rd Cong. (1994).
  • Sykes, RJ: "The Morning After: The Secret Corporations of Lionel and Shari Dahmer," True Crime: Case Reopened (Jul 07, 2026).

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(Check the comment below for direct links to RJ Sykes' full article "The Morning After: The Secret Corporations of Lionel and Shari Dahmer", downloadable PDFs of the Ohio corporate filings, court dockets, and complete archival breakdowns.)

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Let's Break Down the Records Together

Look closely at the May 2, 1992 execution date on those Ohio corporate filings—signed the exact day after Jeffrey's final court sentencing—and ask yourself:

Why did defense counsel Lawrence Vuillemin help set up media monetization conduits for Lionel and Shari at the exact moment he was wrapping up Jeffrey's Ohio trial?

Why do you think Joyce and David Dahmer completely abstained from this corporate architecture while Lionel and Shari were handed dedicated corporate vessels?

If this was an organic family tragedy, why were both corporate shells dissolved on the exact same afternoon in 1997—long after the Crime Bill was signed and the book runs dried up?

Drop your thoughts, primary source finds, or timeline breakdowns in the comments below. Let’s get the discussion moving.

u/Emotional-Brief-1775 — 11 days ago
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Ken Urker death

His death is a horrendous tragedy. May he rest in peace.

I’m seeing a lot of comments, posts etc about how it’s probably Gypsy Rose who did it. I’m not so sure though.. the murder of her mum was fuelled with anger of what she had done.

There hasn’t been any indication that Ken Urker did anything on that same or similar level of fuckery. However we don’t know what happens behind closed doors.

I’m not sure I want to immediately assume she’s guilty or not. I’m in a standstill, need to research more possibly and leave it up to the police (which can infamously botch investigations).

I’m interested in other people’s opinions on what happened. And what eventually is ruled in the final investigation…

No matter what the reason behind Ken’s passing we must all respect this. I hope he can rest in peace and was truly a good man and father.

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u/socialsuicide_21 — 12 days ago
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True Crime doc recommendation: The Widower -'Til death do us part

Just finished watching this on Netflix, and thought it was absolutely excellent. Tense, heartbreaking and truly fascinating. Well worth watch 🫣

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u/Bettylurker — 11 days ago
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True crime

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I've recently been reading about different true crime cases, and one quote from the Chikatilo case really stuck with me.

I came across this quote attributed to Andrei Chikatilo:

“And now my brain should be taken apart piece by piece and examined, so there wouldn't be any others like me.”

I don't know how reliably this quote is sourced, but if he really said it, I find it incredibly strange.

The idea of someone like Chikatilo suggesting that his own brain should be studied so that someone like him would never be born again is such a disturbing thought.

What I find especially strange is that, if he still had any chance of asking for mercy or trying to save himself, why would he say something like this instead? What do you think was going through his mind at that moment?

u/miss_mhaz — 11 days ago