Forensic Files II

===Event reenactments===
Unlike in the original ''Forensic Files'' program, actors were not hired to participate in reenactments of the cases dramatized in ''Forensic Files II''. Instead, various employees of [[CNN]] and HLN were utilized to portray victims, suspects, and other individuals for dramatic recreations of [[real life]] events. Series producer Nancy Duffy explained that the reenactments are filmed in a more "impressionistic" way than in the original series, so that the individuals used in the recreations "don't have to look identical" to the people they are portraying. As a result, faces are not shown in the recreations in the first season, only bodies from the neck down. The second season occasionally shows faces similar to the people involved in the depicted events with the camera out of focus. Duffy elaborated that employees would approach her and ask to participate in the reenactments, saying that many were "excited" at the prospect of portraying individuals involved in killing, hiding, kidnapping, or the use of [[physical restraint]].<ref name="PG" /><ref name="Vulture">{{cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2020/02/can-forensic-files-ii-recapture-the-magic-of-the-original.html|title=Can Forensic Files II Recapture the Magic of a True-Crime Trailblazer? |last=Wilkinson|first=Amy|work=Vulture|accessdate=May 12, 2020|date=February 23, 2020}}</ref>