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...to LOVE the Crime Channels??

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SplitHeadGirl · 22/11/2013 21:59

The Crime and Investigation Network and Crime ID are just the best channels....there is always something to watch on there when there is nothing on the main channels.

Anyone else think so??

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SPsWouldCatFishNev · 22/11/2013 23:04

I saw a Lifetime documentary/film TallHotBlonde which was based on RL story. I love them

Kyrptonite · 22/11/2013 23:09

That's on my planner Grin
Next week is the Jodi Arias one that looks good.

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SplitHeadGirl · 22/11/2013 23:10

Krypt...I've been wondering about the Bamber case and you have reminded me of a few things....the ch 5 documentary showed him in a bad/guilty light!! That is why I prefer the Crime channel documentaries....they are a whole lot more balanced!!!

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RafflesWay · 22/11/2013 23:11

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SplitHeadGirl · 22/11/2013 23:17

Raffles....you are like a Crime Channel expert!!!!

I do though think Bamber is guilty...I wasn't sure until the CH 5 docu when they had the police investigating officer on....that made me think he did it, for sure!!

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Kyrptonite · 22/11/2013 23:21

I can't decide about Bamber. It's bugging me now. I'm going to look online and find the documentaries.

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SplitHeadGirl · 22/11/2013 23:30

Raffles, I am with you on that!! I also can remember the case (I'm 40) but I was always doubtful....the ch 5 documentary actually did a LOT to make me think the case was closed!! But in retrospect......

I just don't know. To me, it is the ONE case that is pure bafflement.

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Kyrptonite · 22/11/2013 23:31

The bamber case was before I was born!

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SplitHeadGirl · 22/11/2013 23:51

I do think Bamber is guilty and also TPTB know something about him....(he is jailed for a rare full life term like Huntley) and it seems there is NO going back on that.

I have a feeling they know something about Bamber that we don't!!

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SplitHeadGirl · 22/11/2013 23:58

Krypt...def read up on this case...it is very confusing!!!!

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SplitHeadGirl · 23/11/2013 00:02

Krypt...just going back to your lie detection point....my FIL was in the police and he said you might as well toss a coin!

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ilovesooty · 23/11/2013 00:24

I love them. I have a massive library of true crime too: both books and on Kindle.

NatashaGurdin · 23/11/2013 00:51

I too love the crime channels and my partner thinks it is weird (he likes trains though so I don't think he's got any room to talk! Confused). I like the Ann Rule comment as I feel that I watch them as I want to know why and how people can carry out such terrible crimes and is there any way of stopping them before it gets to that stage. I'm also interested in The Holocaust and in history generally for the same reason. I also read a lot about these subjects.

With the Bamber case, I feel that there are several inconsistancies in the case to do with for example the sister thinking her children were something to do with the devil because of her mental illness and because (it seemed to me) that there seem to be people who had a vested interest in him not being the heir plus the fact that the jilted girlfriend seemed to be the star witness in the case. As I say these are my thoughts and I might be completely wrong though with him just being a very good liar!

As an aside when I got one of my current cats from the rehoming place they had given him the name Jeffrey which made me think of Jeffrey Dahmer and Jeffrey R. MacDonald so I changed his name to Magpie which is much more suitable since he is a magpie patterned black and white cat. I am aware though that this is a little strange even for someone who likes the crime channels! Blush

Blueandwhitelover · 23/11/2013 09:13

I go back and forth on the Bamber case- I couldn't find him guilty based on the evidence as it stands at the moment. Too many inconsistencies have been revealed over the last few years.

annieorangutan · 23/11/2013 09:21

Have you ever seen i killed my bff on ci channel? Really weird situations

AliceinWinterWonderland · 23/11/2013 09:46

If you're looking for some interesting reads, the book Fatal Vision is good. It's about this murder...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_R._MacDonald

Also the book written by Diane Downs (the murderer in the Small Sacrifices book by Ann Rule) is one of those "arrrrrgggghhH" reads where she thinks she can explain everything away. It's called Best Kept Secrets. If you read the Small Sacrifices book, then the Best Kept Secrets book, it's so obvious what a pathological liar she is.

mrsjay · 23/11/2013 09:51

oh yes i do like a bit of women who snap Grin

there was a really interesting and sad programme the other day about child prostitution in America

NatashaGurdin · 23/11/2013 11:10

Yep got 'Fatal Vision' Alice (actually I've got two copies as I wore out my first one!) Blush also got 'Small Sacrifices', haven't read 'Best Kept Secrets' though ... There is a mini series of 'Fatal Vision' which is quite faithful to the book as I recall but I'm not sure if it is available on DVD. Also got 'The Journalist and the Murderer' about the court case connected to the Macdonald trial. 'The Blooding' by Joseph Wambaugh about the first time DNA evidence was used to convict in a UK murder case is very interesting. Also 'Helter Skelter' about Charles Manson written by the prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi has some interesting facts. Wambaugh's 'Echos in the Darkness' is very sad because it involves a woman changing her will to apparently benefit a con man which led to the disappearance and presumed murder of her two children who do not seem to have been found yet (the case was in the late 1970s) and her own murder.

Some if not all of these cases appear on the 'Most Evil' programme. Sometimes I like to try and guess where on the 22 point scale of evil they will be placed. Blush

Kyrptonite · 23/11/2013 11:31

I want to download some books but I share my kindle account with DM. I may actually have to buy them in real books and stash them away so no one finds them!

Does anyone else worry that something might happen and you'd end up a suspect because you enjoy all the crime stuff? I think this is just me though

LuciusMalfoyisSmokingHot · 23/11/2013 11:33

I have CBS reality, and i love "Medical Detective", "Cold Blood", "Killer Instinct" and various other crime ones, i loves it, i'd love to have CI, it'd be on all day.

NatashaGurdin · 23/11/2013 11:35

Not just you Kyrptonite I like to think my extensive collection of books on almost any other subject as well as these would convince them I am normal though! Smile

AliceinWinterWonderland · 23/11/2013 11:35

oh Yes, Helter Skelter was very good book. Any by Ann Rule are good. I liked "If You Really Loved Me" that was a good one too.

whereisthewitch · 23/11/2013 11:40

I watched one of the Aphrodite Jones ones about the Laci Peterson case, poor woman 8 months pregnant murdered by her husband then her body and the fetus were washed ip a few months later. All the evidence points to him yet he still denies it.

The Jonbenet case is also really intriguing and so unbelievably sad.

Ted Bundy was such a handsome and intelligent man, such a pathological liar too, watch his final interview on YouTube he'd almost have you convinced!

Kyrptonite · 23/11/2013 11:45

The JonBenet one was such a colossal cock up though. People were allowed all over the place before any forensics were done. The no footprints in the snow thing makes it seem that the family had to have been involved. They were nearly done for child abuse weren't they?