Big news. I spent all of today digging fervently for the remaining lost JCS videos and I've found almost all of them, including the legendarily elusive Venables and Thompson video. My second volume of lost episodes is linked in the post, and I won't accidentally nuke it this time.
Fans of the channel might notice that the video "Guilty Until Proven Innocent" is not on YouTube anymore and wasn't moved to Patreon. A moderator of the Jim Can't Swim subreddit who is allegedly in contact with the JCS team says that it'll be back up (link below) but as of this moment I declare it yet another lost episode and have included it in the archive.
Reveddit reveals content removed from your reddit account.
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Patreon members may also have noticed that Chris Watts Part 4 is back in the "Old Content" section. That video fucking sucks but good to know regardless.
Lastly, in my process of ripping videos from wistia I noticed that JDownloader was making note of comments on video files. Every video had a comment, but only either "a video" or the vastly more interesting "a Karsen's first project video". Karsen is the name of one of the people on the JCS team, and has a dead reddit account (Karsen_JCS) with an interesting post linked below. the "a Karsen's first project video" tag is on the Venables video and merely a month before it was posted made this post on the JCS subreddit:
https://www.reveddit.com/v/jimcantswim/comments/eghtvw/delays/
My initial hypothesis was that Karsen was the primary contributor to the Venables video and got shitcanned a while after that reddit post, leading to its eventual removal. That turned out to be bogus though because the dates don't quite line up and many other videos have that tag and all of them are still available on Patreon. Since it was originally titled "The Most Compelling Police Interrogations Pt. 17", and was wrapped alongside a bit of topical Weinstein commentary and another case, it's more likely to be getting the same treatment as Dixon, Rafferty, Lazarus, Dippolito, McDaniel, and oh so many others; that being a rework into a larger standalone episode - probably for YouTube.
Anyway here's the archive. Enjoy.
https://mega.nz/file/uu5jQIhZ#Qd_dqSrTAdPZqdtj3hlgemq5OFtsXgN5bNxYcf7RPnE