| Scout's Honor | |
| Season 07, Episode 12 | |
| Air Date | March 19, 2003 |
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Scout's Honor refers to episode 12 of the Season 7 of the television series Forensic Files which was broadcast for the first time on March 19, 2003.
Plot summary[]
In Pennsylvania 1984, a passer-by finds the torso of a woman in a cardboard box. Investigators rely on insect activity analysis by a forensic entomologist to determine when the murder victim was killed. She remained unknown until a year later, when her sister called to report her missing.
Eventually she was identified as Edna Posey. Investigators then looked into Donald Ruby, whom Edna had asked to watch her 11-year-old son Randy. Investigators theorized that Donald Ruby had grown fond of Randy and killed Edna to keep her from taking her son back. Donald Ruby was convicted of her murder, but would further forensic entomology change the outcome?