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Forensic Files

Death Play

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired August 22, 2019. While in high school, Marie Robards suffered the devastating loss of her father to cardiac arrest but Marie had a secret.

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0:00.0

During an evening church service,

0:07.2

38-year-old Steve Robards fell ill.

0:11.7

He died later that night of a heart attack.

0:16.0

One year later, while reading Hamlet,

0:18.4

Steve Robard's daughter studied the lines of Claudius the king

0:22.7

when he says the following about death, jealousy, guilt, and revenge.

0:28.1

My words fly up. My thoughts remain below.

0:32.7

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

0:36.6

In these words, a clue to her father's death.

0:49.9

The cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.

0:55.0

Locals call it the Metroplex.

0:59.0

It's the largest consolidated metropolitan area in the state,

1:03.0

known for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dealey Plaza in 1963.

1:10.0

38-year-old Steve Robards was a Texas native recently divorced

1:14.7

and worked as a mail carrier for the United States Postal Service.

1:19.0

Very proud of his job, which was just a rural route postman,

1:23.4

but he liked his job.

1:25.0

He liked being outdoors and felt some pride in it.

1:30.3

His 16-year-old daughter Marie had recently moved in with him

1:34.1

after a disagreement she had with her mother's new husband.

1:37.8

So they were living in a one-bedroom apartment at this time,

1:41.2

and he was on the list to get the next available larger apartment,

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