Familicide Episodes

🎙️ In this episode, we uncover the chilling truth behind The Amityville Horror — separating fact from fiction in one of America’s most infamous stories. Long before the bestselling book and Hollywood movies, there was a real tragedy inside 112 Ocean Avenue: the DeFeo family murders. Join us as w…

On Thanksgiving Night, in 2009, Paul Merhige joined his family for their annual get-together. He had not been invited but decided to attend anyway. He called his father to get directions to his cousin's home and his father co...

Lowell Lee Andrews was a bright university student, and beloved son of a Kansas farmer. On Thanksgiving day in 1958, he would shock his community by murdering his family in order to get his inheritance. Sources: In Cold Blo...

In 1929 Charlie Lawson, a North Carolina tobacco farmer, promised his family a special Christmas surprise. No one could ever have imagined the horror he had planned. Send us a text Support the show hardtimesandtruecrimes.c...