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Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil

Dr. Phil McGraw
Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil
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    Pamela Smart: Should She Get A New Trial?

    08/11/2026 | 44 mins.
    Pamela Smart became infamous after prosecutors said she manipulated her 15-year-old lover, Billy Flynn, into murdering her husband, Gregg Smart. The case became the first murder trial in U.S. history televised gavel-to-gavel and turned Smart into one of America’s most notorious convicted killers. In Part 1 of Pamela Smart: Should She Get A New Trial?, Mystery & Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil, Dr. Phil examines how Pamela’s relationship with Billy allegedly evolved from trust and emotional dependency into sex, secrecy and talk of murder. He breaks down the psychology of grooming, attachment vulnerability, blurred boundaries and the power an adult can hold over a teenager whose judgment is still developing. Now, with Pamela Smart seeking a new trial based on claims of newly uncovered evidence and undisclosed information, Dr. Phil asks the question at the heart of the case: Was justice served or is there more to this story than the jury ever heard?
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    Fatal Attraction: The Story of Jodi Arias

    08/05/2026 | 45 mins.
    The Jodi Arias trial had become a national spectacle, but the case still came down to one question: was she finally telling the truth—or delivering her most convincing performance yet? In Episode 3 of Fatal Attraction: The Story of Jodi Arias, Dr. Phil examines the extraordinary decision to put Jodi on the stand for 18 days, giving prosecutors repeated opportunities to challenge her shifting stories, self-defense claim and credibility. Behind bars, Jodi recruited loyal defenders, including former cellmate Donavan Bering, who helped shape her public image. Years later, Donavan reversed course, calling Jodi a cold-blooded killer and saying she believed she had been manipulated. Dr. Phil breaks down how charm, emotional bonding and “recruiting allies” can distort judgment—before the jury rejects Jodi’s defense, convicts her of first-degree murder and sends the case into a dramatic death-penalty battle. Now serving life without parole, Jodi is again fighting to overturn her conviction.
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    Fatal Attraction: The Story of Jodi Arias

    07/28/2026 | 49 mins.
    Jodi Arias no longer denied killing Travis Alexander. Her defense now rested on a far more complicated claim: she acted in self-defense, then entered a trauma-induced “fog” that erased her memory of stabbing him dozens of times, slashing his throat and attempting to conceal the crime. In Episode 2 of Fatal Attraction: The Story of Jodi Arias, Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil, Dr. Phil examines whether extreme stress can genuinely fracture memory or whether Jodi’s amnesia conveniently begins and ends around the most incriminating evidence.
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    Fatal Attraction: The Story of Jodi Arias

    07/21/2026 | 45 mins.
    The murder of Travis Alexander became a true-crime phenomenon, a brutal killing, a televised trial and a defendant whose story changed every time the evidence closed in. In episode one of Fatal Attraction: The Story of Jodi Arias, Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil, Dr. Phil examines the fatal relationship between Travis Alexander, a charismatic motivational speaker devoted to his Mormon faith, and Jodi Arias, the former girlfriend convicted of murdering him inside his Mesa, Arizona, home. As Travis attempted to end their volatile relationship and move forward with another woman, prosecutors said Jodi’s fixation intensified. Dr. Phil analyzes the psychological warning signs behind the case, including obsessive attachment, identity loss, pathological jealousy, abandonment rage, narcissistic injury and coercive control. Discover how investigators transformed a grieving ex-girlfriend into the prime suspect in one of America’s most infamous murder cases.

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    Inside The Gilgo Beach Murders

    06/30/2026 | 42 mins.
    Rex Heuermann has been sentenced to life in prison without parole after admitting to the murders of eight women in the case known as the Gilgo Beach serial killings. In the quiet dunes along Long Island’s Ocean Parkway, four missing women are discovered buried just feet from a road thousands drive every day. Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil revisits the Gilgo Beach case through the victims’ stories, the chilling clues, and the forensic trail that ultimately points toward a man no one suspected. This is a portrait of predation, power, and the devastating consequences of victims being overlooked until a hidden graveyard forces the truth into the open.
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Dr. Phil McGraw takes an in-depth look at true crime cases, mysteries and provides his in-depth analysis.
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