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Jun 2023
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S1 E49: Tried to Murder Family But Kille...

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On November. 17th, 2021, Police show up to the Hicks family home in Verbena Virginia to the lifeless bodies of 31 year old Justin and Amber Hicks while their 2 year-old son Jacob, is unharmed and wandering the scene. The Hicks family was known to be warm and loving and both of them helped people for a living. So police struggled to find a suspect until one day a neighbor sends in a tip saying the Lanz family who lived across from the Hicks might be responsible. When police go to talk to the Lanz brothers, Matthew and Austin, the police would uncover a long and disturbing history between the Lanz family and the family that perviously lived in the Hicks family home. 

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