Drinking Game / Forensic Files

• Take a sip when it looks like it might have been the spouse.
  • Take a drink if it was the spouse.
  • Finish your drink if it wasn't the spouse.
• Take a shot when the investigators break out the Luminol.
• Take a shot when the investigators analyze mitochondrial DNA.
• Take a shot if the murder weapon is never found.
• Take a shot if the body is never found. ^note  You might actually stay reasonably sober, as this has only happened in a handful of episodes, and even those tend to have an update that involves the Finally Found the Body trope.
• Take a shot if the episode ends with an update (HLN airings only).
• Take a shot if Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometry is used.
• Take a shot if the episode ends with someone hoping the murderer suffers in prison/Hell/etc.
• Take a shot if someone is wrongly accused of murder.
  • Take two if someone is wrongly convicted, then freed.
• Take a shot if a woman dies and her husband has her body cremated.
  • Take two if the person being cremated is the main subject of the episode.
• Take a shot if none of the talking heads being interviewed is the killer.
  • Take two if one of the talking heads being interviewed is the killer.
• Take a shot if the narrator wonders if the murder could be the work of a Serial Killer.
  • Take two if it actually is the work of a Serial Killer.
• Take a shot if the killer is a scorned lover or would-be lover.
  • Take two if the killer's motive is financial.
  • Finish your drink if the killer's motive is actually understandable/sympathetic.
• Take a shot if superglue fuming is used.
• Take a shot if succinylcholine is the murder weapon.
• Take a shot if the criminal does something unbelievably stupid.
  • Finish your drink if the criminals are actually intelligent.
• Take a shot if Skip Palenik, Tom Bevel, or Dr. Henry Lee are interviewed.
• Take a shot if a woman is murdered by her husband and her gravestone only has her maiden name.
• Take a shot if the future victim tells a relative or close friend “If something should happen to me, make sure they look at my spouse.”