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Burn Pile Murder Trial
S1, EP71 "The First Police Interview"What exactly did Melody Farris tell police in the beginning of their homicide investigation? Jurors was learning just that in the audio recording of her initial police interview. This was months before she was the prime suspect in the death of her husband, Gary. Prosecutors wanted to use the defendant's words against her. They played back the entire interview she intiially gave to police. During their months-long investigation, detectives were asking tough questions to the entire Farris family.
Burn Pile Murder Trial
S1, EP72 "Extending Her Interview"The candid yet unedited police interview Melody Farris initially gave was played nack in full. According to Lead Detective Daniel Hayes, the defendant kept talking. This was after he wrapped up his initial police interview with her. The jury would decide later in their deliberations whether Melody was divulging more truth on what happened to her husband or whether she was coming up with her side of the story to shift any potential blame away from her and to her adult children.
Burn Pile Murder Trial
S1, EP73 "Blaming The Sons"In her police Interview, Melody Farris was heard raising suspicion to her two sons, Chris and Scott, in their alleged role in her husband's death. Jurors listened to her account in the days and hours leading up to her Gary's murder. Melody recalled that several family members were on the property when Gary went missng and the search was on to look for him. The State wanted to use Melody's recorded interview with police as their elaborate attempt to get her to testify in her murder trial.
Burn Pile Murder Trial
S1, EP74 "Melody Farris, The Victim"Melody Farris was heard divulging more details in her extended police-recorded Interview. She sat down with detectives just after Gary's remains were discovered in a burn pile on his family's estate. Melody sounded like she was the victim in this story. As police was interviewing the teal victim, Gary, and his death, Melody was heard telling the lead detective how her husband wouldn't let her work outside the home and how she was cut off from the family finances over time.
Burn Pile Murder Trial
S1, EP75 "The Second Police Interveiew"Just days after Gary Farris' remains were found in a burn pile, investigators interviewed all his family members. It was all recorded and played back for all to hear in the courtroom. The second Interview police conducted of the defendant came the very next day after the first interview. She insisted, telling the lead detective that she had more to say about her thoughts on her husband's shooting death.
Burn Pile Murder Trial
S1, EP76 "Defendant Gives Police Clues"The second police interview law enforcement conducted of Melody Farris was played back. Jurors heard her playing detective giving investigators clues as to what happened and who may have been responsible for Gary Farris' demise. These jurors had to be asking themselves a key question. Was Melody helping their case or helping her case? The defendant was heard giving the two detectives clues pointing the guilt of her two sons, Chris and Scott, for the murder of her husband, Gary.
Burn Pile Murder Trial
S1, EP77 "Detectives Push Back On Melody"In Melody Farris' second police Interview, she finally came clean about her extramarital affair with her longtime lover, Rusty Barton. The jury was hearing her side of the story in a recorded conversation the day after her husband, Gary's, remains were found. Both detectives sounded more stern and more accusatory in this second interview. What began as a fact-finding mission early on in their murder investigation, gradually turned into police zeroing in on their prime suspect.
Trial & Error: Why Did O.J. Win?
S1, EP7 "Inside the Jury Room"The world watches as the verdict in the "Trial of the Century" comes down; hear reactions from those closest to the case, including the family of victim Ron Goldman; Juror #6, Lon Cryer, tells what happened behind closed doors.
Judgment With Ashleigh Banfield
S1, EP32 "Michigan v. Pyne"Jeffery Pyne was every parent's dream in so many ways, so many wonder what drove him to commit the brutal murder of his own mother.
Judgment With Ashleigh Banfield
S1, EP37 "Michigan v. Seaman"Nancy Seaman doesn't denied killing her husband Robert with a hatchet; either she planned it or the murder was a desperate attempt to save her own life after, what she claims, was three decades of physical and emotional abuse.
WI v. Dahmer
S1, EP94 "State Delivers Their Closing Arguments"Jeffrey Dahmer's own defense condemns him during closing arguments and equates him with the devil; the state dismisses any notion that Dahmer couldn't stop or help himself when he killed 15 people.
WI v. Dahmer
S1, EP95 "Prosecutor Slams Confessed Serial Killer"The lead prosecutor focuses on the intense sexual urge that motivated Jeffrey Dahmer to kill 15 young men and teens; E. Michael McCann gives the prosecution's closing argument to the jury.
WI v. Dahmer
S1, EP96 "State Points Finger at Dahmer"The prosecution paints Jeffrey Dahmer as a criminal lurking about and choosing not to control his sexual urges, highlighting the many weeks and months in between his killings of 15 people in an attempt to show he had self-control.
WI v. Dahmer
S1, EP97 "Defense Gives Rebuttal to Jurors"The state makes very clear during its closing argument to jurors that the burden is on the defense to prove that Jeffrey Dahmer was legally insane when he took the lives of 15 people; the defense gets one last shot at trying to sway jurors.
WI v. Dahmer
S1, EP98 "Complicated Serial Killer"The defense in Wisconsin v. Dahmer focuses on the defendant's mental issues over the years in its rebuttal during closing arguments; the judge gives the jury its instructions to begin deliberations.
Trial & Error: Why Did O.J. Win?
S1, EP4 "Racial Tension"The defense used the racial tension in Los Angeles as part of their strategy; see how their plan to convince jurors that the Los Angeles Police Department could not be trusted played out in court.