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Dec 2021
36m 56s

Episode 118 - Last Christmas

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About this episode
December 24th, 2007 would mark the fifth year, three generations of the Anderson family living in Carnation, Washington would spend Christmas together. They had no idea a murderous pair sharing paranoid delusions made plans for it to be their last, becoming one of the worst mass killings in Washington State’s history.

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Music Credits:
The Minds Of Madness Theme Music – Duncan Foster
The Funkoars – Feel The Madness
Used with Permission - http://goldenerarecords.com.au/ge/funkoars/

Research & Writing:
Ryan Deininger

Special Thanks:
Dr. Christina Forzani Psy.D

Sources:
Sanders, Paul. (2017). Banquet of Consequences: A Juror’s Plight, The Carnation Murders Trial of Michele Anderson.
https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/crime/2016/02/09/michele-anderson-confession-murder-trial/80074930/
https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Neighbors-remember-couple-as-paranoid-and-1260130.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teta52pAquE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a680U0_ZNk0
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/prosecutor-seeks-death-penalty-in-carnation-slayings
http://mydeathspace.com/vb/showthread.php?6976-6-found-dead-at-rural-Washington-home/page2
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/im-a-monster-jurors-hear-michele-andersons-taped-confession-in-murder-trial
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/seattletimes/obituary.aspx?n=wayne-scott-anderson&pid=101214667
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/seattletimes/obituary.aspx?n=scott-russell-anderson&pid=101332982
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/seattletimes/obituary.aspx?n=erica-jean-anderson&pid=101332976
https://murderpedia.org/female.A/a/anderson-michele.htm
https://amp.courierpostonline.com/amp/25384279
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/witness-mcenroe-couldnt-defy-girlfriend-over-carnation-slayings
https://torontosun.com/news/world/crime-hunter-yuletide-massacre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIscIPIb0J4&t=223s
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/mcenroe-guilty-of-murdering-family-of-6-on-christmas-eve
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