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Ditto on Nowhere to Hide, which was a most pleasant surprise.  I've scheduled the Cyber show to record on Saturday, so if I get bored enough I might watch a few minutes for the yuck factor.  :-)

 

The  countdown to Kenda continues ...

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As interesting as all this sounds, I have no idea what you guys' beef with Cyberstalkers actually is and I'd like to know before I watch it. Would you care to elaborate a bit?  Because aside from  disgust I have no idea what you are talking about.  :)

 

As AKraven said, it was 100% reenactments.  BAD reenactments.  No police officials giving details on the case, no mockable moderator to expound on things, not even a real-life investigator to give us background, just really bad actors for the entire show*.  And look, I am not above this sort of thing, but the entire presentation was just terrible, and bad enough that I couldn't even get any laughs from it.  

 

*It could have gotten better, I bailed right after making my post.

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Ditto on Nowhere to Hide, which was a most pleasant surprise. I've scheduled the Cyber show to record on Saturday, so if I get bored enough I might watch a few minutes for the yuck factor. :-)

The countdown to Kenda continues ...

Co-sign on the ditto on the thumbs-up for NtH. Very good reenactments (relatively speaking) and Steve Rambam doesn't seem to have the cheese/ creep factor going on.

And yes, Cyberstalkers is garbage.

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I watched Nowhere to Hide for the first time today. Liked it, the show was about the serial con-woman and all I could think during it was that she is so, so bipolar. Batshit crazy bipolar. Have a couple of family members that crazy bipolar. And I could almost see one of them being this way, but they are not sophisticated enough to con doctors or lawyers or anyone with money.

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I'm heartbroken about Heart Breakers. The tag line was something like, " All your teen heart throbs are back!" But every last one of those fuckers looks old as hell. Which means, of course, that *I* am also old as hell. What happened to Tracy Gold? I was looking to see if that was, like, Old Lady makeup on her, but I don't think so. And Judd Nelson? ::shudder::

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Please don't hate me, but I didn't mind Cry Wolfe, in fact I watched 2 of them, the electrician and the cancer patient.

I am running low on things to watch, I'll admit.

 

 

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ID Channel just saved me a bundle in late fees - I kid you not.  I got a call from my vet's office asking about an unpaid balance (yes, I have become a scatterbrain in my dotage) and was talking to my favorite receptionist to straighten out the accumulating late fees when we got sidetracked into a discussion about true crime, ID, Kenda and I Survived.  I have known and loved this girl for years, and never knew she was an avid fan!!!  Once we were done swapping squees of delighted camaraderie, she insisted the draconian monthly penalties should not apply to an addled old crone like me who never changes purses (another discussion we shared) and finds an old bill among the purse boogers when she's digging for loose change.  Also, my tips for a purse ulu, car console hatchet and recliner machete impressed her.   :-)

 

 

ETA - I forgot to mention how we got to the ID Channel subject in the first place: she asked about my one remaining cat, who was a delightful little purse kitten back in the day, and I said he's getting so fucking big he wouldn't fit folded into a suitcase like a dead body ...  ;-)

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@walnutqueen, I hate to break it down to ya, but the vet lady didn't defer your late fees because she's a sweet, magnanimous angel; she did it because she now knows you are well-versed in methods of cyberstalking, murder and their subsequent cover-ups. She doesn't wanna end up on Deadly Women or Disappeared. And I don't blame her.

Plus, being savvy enough to give tips on how to hide sharp objects in your purse and shit? She'll probably waive the rest of your balances from here on out--I certainly would. Smart woman, that receptionist.

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RubyWoo72 - I hate to break it to ya, but I've had all the vet staff hooked on French pastries for decades, so sharp weapons aren't the only things to fear from nice little old ladies like me. ;-)

Oh dammit. That's very scary. It's a new series waiting to happen: Cakes and Stakes. Or Angel Wings and Sharp Things. (Too damn hard to rhyme French words with English ones. Drat.)

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So why haven't any of us been hired by ID's creative title programming department? 
And I remember reading a murder mystery where a wife did kill her husband by feeding him lots of high calorie and high cholesterol food.

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So why haven't any of us been hired by ID's creative title programming department?

And I remember reading a murder mystery where a wife did kill her husband by feeding him lots of high calorie and high cholesterol food.

I don't know if you caught the string of posts on TWoP where folks were just rattling off wonderfully tacky show title ideas, but it was great. It started with the Wives with Knives, and then people just ran with it. I'm certain some of those same posters are active on here--hopefully they'll chime in. It was hilarious.
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RubyWoo72 - I just happen to have the combined list from TWoP and PTV ...  :-)

 

Betties With Machetes
Coupon Clippers With Woodchippers
Coxswains with Toxins
Crones With Drones
Dorks with Forks
Felons With Melons
Geezers In Freezers
Geezers With Tweezers
Grandmas With Hand Saws
Harpies With Sharpies
Hillbillies Who Kill Millies
Hordes With Swords
Jerks with Dirks
Jesters Who Molest Her
Killers with Tillers
Limp Dicks With Ice Picks
Loners With Boners
Marines With Guillotines
Men With Tasers and Straight Razors
Misdemeanors With Coffee Creamers
Night Callers With Melon Ballers
Old Dears With Garden Shears
Shoguns With Blowguns

Skank Hos With Crossbows
Teachers under the Bleachers
Twisted Sisters with Dee Snyder
Thugs With Jugs
Zulus With Ulus

Behind Bars for Throwing Stars
Brutal Types With Lead Pipes
Cooters on Scooters
Dicks With Picks
Dolts With Colts
Dilberts With Filberts
Floozies With Uzis
Fugitives With Toothbrush Shivs
Geppettos With Stilettos
Jocks With Glocks
Old Farts in Golf Carts
Maids With Blades
Mamasans With Frying Pans
MeeMaws With Chain Saws
Old Dames With Hurrycanes
Parsons Who Commit Arson
Pricks With Picks
Strutting Cocks With Chinese Woks
Snipers Who Wear Diapers
Stammerers Who Are Hammerers
Top Bananas With Katanas
Wrinkled Knees and Antifreeze

 

 

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RubyWoo72 - I just happen to have the combined list from TWoP and PTV ... :-)

Betties With Machetes

Coupon Clippers With Woodchippers

Coxswains with Toxins

Crones With Drones

Dorks with Forks

Felons With Melons

Geezers In Freezers

Geezers With Tweezers

Grandmas With Hand Saws

Harpies With Sharpies

Hillbillies Who Kill Millies

Hordes With Swords

Jerks with Dirks

Jesters Who Molest Her

Killers with Tillers

Limp Dicks With Ice Picks

Loners With Boners

Marines With Guillotines

Men With Tasers and Straight Razors

Misdemeanors With Coffee Creamers

Night Callers With Melon Ballers

Old Dears With Garden Shears

Shoguns With Blowguns

Skank Hos With Crossbows

Teachers under the Bleachers

Twisted Sisters with Dee Snyder

Thugs With Jugs

Zulus With Ulus

Behind Bars for Throwing Stars

Brutal Types With Lead Pipes

Cooters on Scooters

Dicks With Picks

Dolts With Colts

Dilberts With Filberts

Floozies With Uzis

Fugitives With Toothbrush Shivs

Geppettos With Stilettos

Jocks With Glocks

Old Farts in Golf Carts

Maids With Blades

Mamasans With Frying Pans

MeeMaws With Chain Saws

Old Dames With Hurrycanes

Parsons Who Commit Arson

Pricks With Picks

Strutting Cocks With Chinese Woks

Snipers Who Wear Diapers

Stammerers Who Are Hammerers

Top Bananas With Katanas

Wrinkled Knees and Antifreeze

Ahhhh, there it is. Cyberhugs to you and @auntjess. Pure genius. Lol!!

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I may have been responsible for one or more of those titles (hey, they practically write themselves!).  It was one of my favorite diversions.  ;-)

 

It's better than ID themed limericks:

 

There once was a hermit named Dave

who kept a dead whore in his cave

He said "I'll admit I'm a bit of a shit

But think of the money I save."

 

sometimes I just can't stop myself.  :-)

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I may have been responsible for one or more of those titles (hey, they practically write themselves!). It was one of my favorite diversions. ;-)

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Don't stop.

•Dames with Flames

•Skeezers in Freezers ("loose" women in cold storage)

•Geezers in Freezers (geriatric victims in cold storage)

•Young'uns with Stun Guns

•Dyin' Brides--It's Cyanide!

•Grooms of Doom

•Strippers in Wood Chippers

•From Pimp to Gimp (not the S&M type; rather, revenge tales from former Working Girls)

•Players under Layers (of cement)

@walnutqueen, I muddled your quote. Sorry!

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Have we done Linebackers with Weedwhackers?
I want to do Coloraturs with Ligatures, but in English, it seems to have be coloraturas.
And have you every noticed how probably half the murders would have gone unsolved, if the killer hadn't TOLD someone?

Either Abby or Ann Landers used to say "confession is good for the soul, but bad for the reputation."

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Did anyone watch Worst Thing I Ever Did? .

The woman who tirned in her drug dealing boyfriend pissed me off!

She kept worrying abt how guilty she felt for turning him in and him losing 20 yrs of his life.

Uh, u stupid broad! He was a freaking big time crack-cocaine drug dealer ! Why are YOU taking responsibility for his illegal actions!

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I've been on a Deadly Women kick. What is up with that former FBI lady and that awful wig? I mean, they're not fooling anyone with that terrible thing. It's not disguising anything. Also, I can deal with the horrible reenactments, but I do like when some of the shows will at least provide a photo of the real perp or victim. I can get past the lame acting for some of the crime stories. Some of em are pretty brutal, but I do wonder how many of them are totally true.

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That Khalood woman was indeed insufferable. Did she actually ever take any responsibility for spending that money, or ever express any real remorse - other than for what might happen to her once her husband found out? No, she went to the casino because she was depressed, she was upset, she didn't like her son-in-law, all her friends' daughters were having babieeeeees, boo freaking hoo. So, apparently it wasn't her fault. Did she ever tell her husband that she was sorry that he wasn't going to be able to retire as soon as he wanted to? I don't think I could have been as even-keeled as he seemed to be about it; unless he's making other plans and we're going to be seeing him on a future episode  as a perp . . .

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I didn't see it, applecrsp, but I've known abt the story for years.

They truly were evil. And in everything I've ever read, it appears Kate was the mastermind with maybe some influence from the father. The brother seemed like the dull-witted muscle. The mother always seems to be an afterthought in the articles/stories.

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Yeah, I saw the Bender family episode. They were a real hoot.  Yeeech. 

 

On Bloodlands they covered a twenty-something old murder of three men on ATVs in Tennessee and it was the weirdest feeling to know that I saw that same murder profiled on Unsolved Mysteries back in 1990 (referenced in this episode too!) and always wondered what happened. Now I know. It took a gazillion years and a whole different TV show, but now I know. Life is like that sometimes. 

 

I watched both shows.  The Bloodlands one was chilling; very cool that you remember the original case on Unsolved Mysteries, Andyourlittledog2.  Those signs saying "Trespassers Will Be Shot" really do go to some nutjobs' heads, don't they?

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Heartbreakers is my new crack. I can't get over seeing some of these actors in their roles. I know I'm supposed to be horrified by the crime, and I usually am, but there's something so 80s cheesetastic that just gets to me. 

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I couldn't help but keep thinking of Silverchair during the whole Lobster Boy episode. He's on the cover of their 1997 album, Freak Show....which I listened to obsessively. I never knew there was such a dark side behind it.

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Jack Wagner gave me life in tonight's Heartbreakers episode.  Rob Estes and Jamie Lunar were great as well.  I enjoyed the show last week, but in this one the actors just really seemed to hit the right note of over-the-top ridiculousness. This was actually a familiar story for me, but hey, Jack Wagner made it well worth watching again.

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Fliptopbox,  I have seen the Lobster boy story many times and this is the first I have heard about him murdering the boy friend.  Usually they talk about the video found of him wrestling with his family-- he was a bully and a TV station got the sound to it and changed the story.  Grady became sympathetic.  He was handicapped but also very strong.  Sad.

 

The Benders were really scary and were never caught.  They vanished.  Never had to pay for their crimes.  So far I am liking Evil Kin.

 

Walnut Queen,(Did you like the countdown to Kenda?) i too will be watching Heartbreakers.  What can I say, I like Lifetime.  

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Does anyone remember the show that featured murder cases but it was fairly well-acted (which should narrow the possibilities down dramatically) and at closing credits, the actors would hold up a portrait of the real-life person they played? It used to run on ABC for a little while before coming to ID. One of the episodes featured a man who'd killed and dismembered his girlfriend in post - Katrina New Orleans...

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Does anyone remember the show that featured murder cases but it was fairly well-acted (which should narrow the possibilities down dramatically) and at closing credits, the actors would hold up a portrait of the real-life person they played? It used to run on ABC for a little while before coming to ID. One of the episodes featured a man who'd killed and dismembered his girlfriend in post - Katrina New Orleans...

It was Final Witness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Witness

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On Bloodlands they covered a twenty-something old murder of three men on ATVs in Tennessee and it was the weirdest feeling to know that I saw that same murder profiled on Unsolved Mysteries back in 1990 (referenced in this episode too!) and always wondered what happened. Now I know. It took a gazillion years and a whole different TV show, but now I know. Life is like that sometimes.


The 4 wheeler murders happened adjacent to property my parents owned. My wife and I actually live about 5 minutes away from where they dumped the bodies and I pass it every day on the way to work. It's still a pretty rural area, though money is starting to creep in (outside of the Signal Mtn city limits). Frank Casteel's son is still claiming his dad was framed, to little fanfare. Edited by WendyCR72
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I saw the Lobster Boy story on City Confidential.  At some point in the narrative the phrase "an iron fist in a velvet glove" was apropos, but it was personalized to "an iron claw in a velvet mitten."  That is one of my favorite turns of phrase ever.

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Okay, you all convinced me.

When Homicide Hunter first came on, I hated Kenda's mumbling.

But I went back recently to watch a few, and he's got more quips than Howard on TBBT .

I guess his mumbling isn't as bad as I thought.

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Deadly Affairs is ridiculous. 

 

I just can't watch these shows. I just can't. For every six programs they put out maybe two of them are okay. Murder in Paradise is pretty good and that's sandwiched amongst the other stuff. I see some of the commercials and I just want to barf. There's something coming on next week; I believe it's called Young, Hot and Crooked or Sinful or Whatever. Are they aiming for seventeen-year olds? Kind of have the feeling that they're not watching this channel on a Friday night.

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I freakin' LOVED A Crime to Remember, Suz!  And yes, More, please.

 

I tried watching that Heartbreakers show, I really did - but it was just too awful, even with my tongue firmly ensconced in my cheek.  I think I may just be too old to wax nostalgic about the 80s, 90s, or whatever decade ...   :-)

 

On the bright side, I managed to incorporate some true crime silliness into a dream I had ...  I met up with some guys I knew (but didn't; how it goes in a crazy dream), and one of them introduced me to his mother - who mentioned it was the anniversary of her daughter's murder.  I made the appropriate noises of caring & concern, but even in my dream, I was shitting myself in anticipation of coming on to this forum and sharing that delectable tidbit with y'all.  I am thoroughly corrupted.  :-)

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