identifying case?

[Skywalkr1200]

hey guys...some help please?

This is a case of where an attractive girl marries a much older wealthy man in south carolina. He eventually becomes abusive...verbally and their house burns down...they are both charged with insurance fraud or whatever and leave. Any names please:P? Oh the family of the wife think she was not in on the fraud?

[crystaldawn]

The wife's name was Lisa Albert. The husband's name escapes me. I do know that the husband committed suicide in prison. I have always wondered if Lisa had to do any jail time but can't find a thing about this case online.

[rez]

I'm not so sure but has there been any case or segment in UM that talk about snuff films ? Found it posted in other forums, I think it's more like a legend than mystery.
Thanks guys

[Apostapler]

The Rachel Runyan murder case talked about a possibility of a snuff movie being made of the little girl, but no one has ever obtained a copy of it, to my knowledge.

[rez]

God that just sick. This and the Oba chandler case are the only one that literally makes my stomach turn.
Any update?From what I search the police already found the kinapper but they don't have enough evident to charge agains him.
This case need to be solved quick, who knows if there might be other victims.

[justins5256]

Originally Posted by rez

I'm not so sure but has there been any case or segment in UM that talk about snuff films ? Found it posted in other forums, I think it's more like a legend than mystery.
Thanks guys

Never a specific segment. But it was mentioned a couple times. The Rachel Runyon case was one example. In that segment, the police had received information from a prison informant that Runyon was abducted, molested and murdered for the purposes of making a snuff film. The police must have considered the lead credible enough, at the time, to contact UM; The segment was sort of an appeal to anyone who had seen the film to come forward with information.

I have to think that the police must know/acknowledge that these kinds of films exist. Why else go forward with a lead like that?

On the other hand, I once took a criminal justice class in which we had a guest lecturer who worked for customs and did something with postal inspection (his exact position escapes me). He spoke of all sorts of vile pornography they regularly found in the mail and confiscated. Someone in the class asked about "snuff films". I think he said he had only found 5 in his 30 plus year career, but they were all later proven to be fake, so who knows?

There were also allegations of a snuff film in the Ellender case. UM had an interview with a very dubious fellow who claimed he had seen it. He was not very credible though.