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The Unforgotten
Free Range Productions
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
In 1998, a key witness in a murder case underwent police hypnosis to identify who she saw. A year later, her description had completely changed. The guy she identified? He’s been on death row for nearly three decades. Did the witness get it wrong?
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine a quiet morning in your neighborhood. |
| 0:02.0 | You're getting your kids ready for school when you look out the window, |
| 0:06.0 | and you see two guys outside of your neighbor's house. |
| 0:09.0 | Guys you've never seen before, but in a car you'll never forget, |
| 0:13.0 | an old Volkswagen Beetle with a crazy paint job, purple and pink. |
| 0:18.0 | Then you find out that the two guys you saw getting out of that pink and purple bug, |
| 0:22.7 | they just murdered your neighbor. |
| 0:25.6 | Her name was Betty Black. |
| 0:27.6 | She was 64 and her family says she was kind and loving. |
| 0:32.0 | It turns out the guys in the bug were looking for drug money hidden inside the house |
| 0:36.3 | where Mrs. Black lived in a North Texas |
| 0:38.3 | suburb, and they shot her dead. |
| 0:41.2 | All of a sudden, you're a key witness to a murder case. |
| 0:45.2 | You want to help any way you can. |
| 0:48.0 | But there's just one problem. |
| 0:50.4 | You remember a white guy getting out of the passenger seat of the bug. |
| 0:58.2 | A white guy with a medium build and long hair down to his shoulders. |
| 1:05.0 | But police think you should have seen a tall, overweight Hispanic guy, a Hispanic guy with a shaved head. |
| 1:10.0 | So a white guy or Hispanic guy? Long hair or bald. |
| 1:13.9 | Would you undergo forensic hypnosis to help you remember? |
| 1:21.8 | We're going to count down from 100 to zero. We're going to do a breathing for anything to help you get moralized to help you should be for a deep, for instance, and it dumps. |
| 1:28.2 | Because that's exactly what happened. And that large Hispanic guy, his name is Charles Flores, and he's been sitting on death row for Mrs. Black's murder for the last quarter century. |
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