| The Wilson Murder | |
| Season 1, Episode 8 | |
| Air Date | November 14, 1996 |
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The Wilson Murder refers to episode 8 of the first season of the television series Forensic files which was broadcast for the first time on November 14, 1996.
Plot summary[]
In 1992, Alabama eye doctor Jack Wilson is found dead by his wife Betty Wilson, having been beaten, stabbed and lying in a pool of blood with a baseball bat nearby. Police arrest an itinerant painter/handyman, James Dennison White, who is found with the doctor's credit cards.
He accuses the doctor's unfaithful wife and her twin sister, Peggy Lowe, of hiring him to commit the murder. The wife is sent to prison, but at her sister's trial, defense attorneys bring in a forensic expert who testifies that the crime could not have been committed the way the painter said. The sister is acquitted. But the wife remains in prison, and the mystery goes unsolved.