The Adam Emery case had me screaming at the tv, and later on reading the articles of stupidity of the his and his wife's family.

"If he had killed the right person he wouldn't have been found guilty"
:rolleyes:

Other ones:
That man who had 5 witness saying he was somewhere else at the time of a robbery he was accused of.

The Baskins - I couldn't believe that 2 people would steal their daughter's children and the court system basically enabled them.

My brother-in-law quite literally screamed at the TV at what I call the Boxcar Children case. Several sad cases featured families split up by social workers due to an absent or abusive father and a mother who couldn't take care of the children herself, but this one, which took place around 1941, was particularly sad because the mother really tried. (In some cases, most or all of the children were reunited on the program, but I don't remember the outcome of this one.) The mother and a son, possibly the oldest, would sweep out boxcars which had held grain and then sift the results to feed the family. Some social worker came over and told her she had like six kids and no food (like she didn't know that!) :mad: There was nothing to eat in the house except perhaps some puffed rice. So the authorities took all the children away and some hadn't seen each other in like 45 years. One brother and one sister, at least, spoke on the UM segment.

I mix up the details of some of these in my mind and forget which came of which. In one, the kids had pictures of each other taken in what looked like a photo booth. In another, particularly cruel one, the authorities told the kids they were going to a movie, then permanently removed them and DIDN'T EVEN TAKE THEM TO THE FRICKIN' MOVIE! In another, a mother of six kids killed herself after losing them and requested "Silent Night" at her funeral. I think those six were all reunited.

At this one, my brother-in-law was screaming, "THEN THEY SHOULD GIVE HER FOOD, NOT TAKE HER KIDS!" :soapbox:

My brother-in-law quite literally screamed at the TV at what I call the Boxcar Children case. Several sad cases featured families split up by social workers due to an absent or abusive father and a mother who couldn't take care of the children herself, but this one, which took place around 1941, was particularly sad because the mother really tried. (In some cases, most or all of the children were reunited on the program, but I don't remember the outcome of this one.) The mother and a son, possibly the oldest, would sweep out boxcars which had held grain and then sift the results to feed the family. Some social worker came over and told her she had like six kids and no food (like she didn't know that!) :mad: There was nothing to eat in the house except perhaps some puffed rice. So the authorities took all the children away and some hadn't seen each other in like 45 years. One brother and one sister, at least, spoke on the UM segment.

I mix up the details of some of these in my mind and forget which came of which. In one, the kids had pictures of each other taken in what looked like a photo booth. In another, particularly cruel one, the authorities told the kids they were going to a movie, then permanently removed them and DIDN'T EVEN TAKE THEM TO THE FRICKIN' MOVIE! In another, a mother of six kids killed herself after losing them and requested "Silent Night" at her funeral. I think those six were all reunited.

At this one, my brother-in-law was screaming, "THEN THEY SHOULD GIVE HER FOOD, NOT TAKE HER KIDS!" :soapbox:

Holy crap, "Silent Night" at your funeral? That's depressing I don't remember that case. All those abandoned childen-cases were depressing and had me screaming at the tv "if you don't want kids then don't have any"

Like that mother who left her four kids alone and they were reunited asked UM to not document their reunion.

The segment about the houses built on top of the Black Hope Cemetary really freaked me out. Just the thought of having graves in your backyard is very unsettling. And then to have all those supernatural occurances happening, and having cancer and death plague the family members that live in those houses. That is downright scary! The segment didn't have me screaming at the tv but it REALLY freaked me out.

The case in which the nurse adopted her niece's son and then he lied to the son about the mom being trashy and that he was abandoned in a trash can really made me mad.

I think the Crystal Spencer "We didn't want to get involved" couple is probably applicable for a lot of members here.

I think the Crystal Spencer "We didn't want to get involved" couple is probably applicable for a lot of members here.

Oh yes, that's one that had me yelling at the TV...

Crystal Spencer? Okay the name rings a bell but elaborate a bit on the case again

Eric Tamiyasu's case really gets me mad. How can a police sheriff be so stupid? Not only that but how can he still have a job? If he wasnt in on those killings - and that has always been a big if in my mind - he should have been fired at least for being negligent and literally allowing a piece of evidence to be burned.

In that case Don Dixon and Sheriff Wampler are both so extremely guilty of this crime in some way shape or form. Don tries to put the blame on Eric's best buddy who had Eric as his best man? That's low. It gets me mad.

Also the case where a man gets shot right out on his own front lawn the guys name was Larry (the actor who played him was a young Matthew McCoughaney). How do you let that guy get away when you have him in custody? That should have never happened, even if he did get caught years later still..............

I think the Crystal Spencer "We didn't want to get involved" couple is probably applicable for a lot of members here.

These 2 should have been smacked for not calling the police. If they had called the police there was a chance Crystal could have been saved.

Crystal Spencer? Okay the name rings a bell but elaborate a bit on the case again

Two neighbors in the apartment complex, a husband and wife, hear screams that sound like someone being tortured, but they don't call the cops because they don't want to get involved.

The wife said that she could just picture someone burning the victim's skin with a cigarette when she heard the screams.

A week later, the dead body was found, and she had likely died the night they heard her screaming, yet they offered no help.

Holy crap, "Silent Night" at your funeral? That's depressing I don't remember that case. All those abandoned childen-cases were depressing and had me screaming at the tv "if you don't want kids then don't have any"

Like that mother who left her four kids alone and they were reunited asked UM to not document their reunion.

Yes, one of the sons said he got depressed around Christmas for years because of that. I believe this may have been the case where one of the younger boys was blond and very good-looking, they found all six but one did not appear on camera in the reunion. It was certainly the case where one of the older boys recounted his father's abuse and said when he was grown up he thought of finding him and "inviting him to try to do it to me again," then when he learned the father was dead all such feelings left him.

The case you mention, I don't remember at all.

I think the Crystal Spencer "We didn't want to get involved" couple is probably applicable for a lot of members here.

In the recent case where a young boy was found buried on a playground...several friends and relatives KNEW the mother didn't treat the boy right--it was part of the reason they kicked her out--WITH the boy, and WITHOUT reporting him as in danger! It's now being looked into whether anyone can be charged with not reporting this. Is there a reason people are obligated to report a child in danger and not do the same with an adult? Can witnesses who don't want to be involved be charged with a crime?

These 2 should have been smacked for not calling the police. If they had called the police there was a chance Crystal could have been saved.

Yeah. I never understood the whole, "we didn't want to get involved," argument. If you heard your neighbors in a screaming match and fighting with each other, that might be one thing. But to hear screams of torture and not call the police...it makes no sense.

This also makes me wonder why none of the other neighbors called the police either. From the way it appeared in the reenactment, that was a nice sized apartment complex. Surely other neighbors must have heard those screams too. I wonder if they took the same attitude.

...This also makes me wonder why none of the other neighbors called the police either. From the way it appeared in the reenactment, that was a nice sized apartment complex. Surely other neighbors must have heard those screams too. I wonder if they took the same attitude.

I've also wondered about that too. I also wonder if the police went door to door asking everyone at the complex about the screams.