Sparkle

I have to say I agree. I watch it more on ID or even TLC and OWN than I do on NBC anymore. Longer ones I'll watch when they go up on Youtube and skip to the end if it gets too repetitive or dull. That being said, some of my favorites were 2 hour episodes (Russell Williams, Lydia/Kenia, and Mistaken Identity). But most of them really don't need to be that long.

That's the one, all right! My favorite part is when you hear the wife's grandmother whispering to her in the interrogation room "Quit saying you pushed him out the window!"

YES! For some reason, I happen to catch that one a lot. It makes me angrier and angrier every time I see it. Kandi was horrific and tried to act like a victim. I felt so awful or the younger guy's wife. Two other epsides I seem to catch a lot are Shattered, about a young wife who was suspected of pushing her husband out of a window during a fight, and the Detective's Daughter, about Denise Lee. Eyewitnesses and Denise herself called 911 numerous times within a couple hours after her kidnapping but due to some incompetencies and rerouting issues among 911 dispatches over different counties, the necessary authorities weren't notified and she ended up being murdered despite all the attempted calls to save her. I think 4 or 5 calls to 911 were made in total. I MUST agree about the Russell Williams episode (THOSE PICTURES! eek!) and the Something Wicked episode. Those girls were arrogant peices of work, weren't they? Blatantly tweeting about it and their fake-a** tears in court. Also, the Mistaken Identity episode always stands out in my mind.Two girls were involved in a car accident -- one died and one survived, but their identities were somehow reversed at the scene. The family of the girl that actually died was told she was in a coma in the hospital, and the family of the girl that survived was told she died. Due to the extent of the survivor's injuries, no one seemed to realize the error until after she woke up from the coma and the family started realizing the girl they'd been taking care of in the hospital for weeks and weeks wasn't their daughter/sister. That was a crazy story.