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Forensic Files

Drowning Sorrows

Forensic Files

HLN

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired April 25, 2019. A family vacation turns into a nightmare when the wife is found face-down in the lake. There are no witnesses and little conclusive evidence to help police determine if they're dealing with a suicide, an accident, or something more sinister... until a forensic pathologist uses a groundbreaking technique to discover the truth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.9

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0:36.6

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1:04.6

Up next, a family vacation turns into a nightmare.

1:08.6

That's when I've seen the body of a female lying face down in the water.

1:12.6

And possible clues provide more questions than answers.

1:17.5

Either it was an accident, someone caused her death, or she killed herself.

1:21.1

Experts can't seem to agree on exactly what happened. There is not one single eyewitness to anything.

1:24.6

There are no confessions. There are no fingerprints.

1:27.5

Until groundbreaking science discovers the truth.

1:31.8

Method, opportunity, motive, and last person to see them alive.

1:36.0

Classic reasons for murder.

1:54.8

Every year, the younger family spent their vacation on the western shore of Lake Michigan in a place called Watervale.

2:01.6

It's almost a sanctuary for them to go somewhere else in the state where they can just forget about the rest of the world and reconnect with themselves and their families and their loved ones.

2:06.9

Florence worked as a bank loan officer. Her husband, Mark, a mortgage broker, was also a well-known

2:13.2

radio personality. Mark Unger had a sports radio show and made him somewhat of a celebrity with a circle of

2:20.9

friends.

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