Can you inherit evil from your family tree? On Killer Kin, from ID, follow true-crime cases that prove blood is always thicker than water. Each episode chronicles a bone-chilling crime, investigating the motive, interviewing family members, and exploring what leads family members to turn against each other—and others. From a set of twins who work together to kill their father to brothers whose criminal lifestyle leads them to turn on each other, these stories are real, raw and disturbing. Killer Kin features direct audio from five hit ID shows: Evil Twins, Evil Kin, Evil Stepmothers, Evil-In-Law, and Blood Relatives.
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Introducing - Scorned: Love Kills
If you enjoyed Killer Kin, you may also like Scorned: Love Kills from ID. Killer Kin will return with new episodes in June.Here's an episode of Scorned: Love Kills, Shadow Stalker. Follow Scorned: Love Kills wherever you get your podcasts. Well-heeled beauty, Linda, is being stalked by her former husband, local celebrity dog trainer, Mark. She seeks advice from security expert, Michiel. But a budding romance with her new guardian leads them all down a very dangerous and terrifying path. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1/24/2024 • 41 minutes
Highway to Hell
When Sherman McCrary met Carl Taylor, they quickly formed a wicked partnership. The father and son-in-law started writing bad checks together to support their families. But then checks gave way to guns and these small time criminals developed a sweet tooth for donuts and death. With their wives and children by their sides, they travel all over the country robbing grocery stores and engaging in a series of horrific rapes and murders. Nothing seems too sadistic for this clan of killers. It takes nearly two years before police are able to finally catch them and unveil one of the deadliest families in U.S. history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1/16/2024 • 39 minutes, 33 seconds
Monsters on the Block
Residents in a small working-class suburb of Indianapolis knew to stay away from the Reese home. Growing up, four of the Reese children terrorized the neighborhood, but their father Paul Reese was the real evil. He was a drug user and had served time in prison for attempted murder. When a 13-year-old girl named Dawn Stuard disappears and is found strangled to death not far from the Reese home, all eyes focus on this family of criminals. Detectives believe one of them took the young girl's life, but after several months the case goes cold. It will take more than twenty years and a string of murders before the dark and deadly secret is finally revealed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1/9/2024 • 39 minutes, 4 seconds
Brothers in Blood
Carl and Billy Isaacs, and half-brother Wayne Coleman, were born into a home of poverty and neglect. Without parental restrictions, the brother's ran wild and spent their formative years in and out juvenile detention. By adulthood, Carl and Wayne were convicted felons, serving time in the same prison, but the bars couldn't hold them. After escaping, the fugitives are reunited with younger brother Billy. Unrestrained and without conscience, this band of brothers cuts a bloody and violent path down the east coast in a 12-day crime spree that ends with the most brutal murders the state of Georgia has ever seen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1/2/2024 • 39 minutes, 54 seconds
No Remorse
Brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr were the product of a childhood filled with toxic influences. Alcohol, violence and sexual activity were routine in their daily lives even as children. These little boys taking on big man responsibilities led to a reckless lifestyle governed by their own twisted rules. After Reginald serves time in jail, the brothers partner up and head west to Wichita in search of easy sex and money. Their crimes continue to escalate, finally culminating in a heinous night of robbery, sexual torture, and gut wrenching violence that claims several innocent lives, and is now forever known as the "Wichita Massacre." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
12/26/2023 • 37 minutes, 13 seconds
Deuces Run Wild
Brookey Lee West and her mother Christine Smith have always been at odds. At a young age, Brookey saw her mother go to jail for attempted murder leaving her alone with her Satanist father. As an adult, Brookey became a successful businesswoman, but she could never quite quit Christine. The two followed each other in and out of strange relationships and even stranger schemes. Soon, the pair moves to Vegas, and it isn't long before Christine goes missing. Brookey tells everyone she's put her mother in a nursing home, but this mother/daughter couple are more alike than anyone knows and there's only room for one. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
12/19/2023 • 40 minutes
Sideshow Murders
For the Stiles family, destiny was determined at birth. A rare birth defect called ectrodactyly has been passed down from generation to generation. However, the family has learned how to turn misfortune into profit in the strange world of the traveling carnival sideshow. Taking the spotlight on stage as the "Lobster Family", the family's trademark show draws in the crowds, but the most unsettling thing about them isn't their appearance, but what goes on after the curtain has fallen. Backstage, a dark existence of domestic violence, alcohol abuse, and shocking crimes binds this family together, before ripping them apart for good. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
12/12/2023 • 39 minutes, 19 seconds
Hell's Fury
Matthew and Tyler Williams were raised in their parents' own version of the Garden of Eden where they were raised according to the Book, and grew their own food as a family. But their life was far from perfect. Their eccentric father was extreme in his religious beliefs and his children were expected to follow in his footsteps. As Matthew and Tyler grow older their views become more outrageous. They soon make it their mission to rid the world of sinners and "the unclean." And with blood on their hands, the brothers say it was the Bible that made them do it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
12/5/2023 • 41 minutes, 9 seconds
The Bloody Benders
When the Bender Family moves west to open a tavern and inn along the Osage Trail in southeastern Kansas, the people of nearby Cherryvale are at first unaware of the diabolical plans this mysterious family is cooking up behind closed doors. The intoxicatingly beautiful daughter Kate uses her sex appeal, charm, and rumored supernatural powers to lure westward bound homesteaders back to her family's little house on the prairie, where the family commit a series of ghastly crimes together. And they get away with it. It seems that way out in the Old West, no one can hear you scream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
11/28/2023 • 40 minutes, 3 seconds
Brothers in Hate
Growing up as Jehovah's Witnesses in the small town of Salisbury, PA, Bryan and David Freeman were forbidden from celebrating holidays and making friends outside of their religion. When Brian and David become teenagers, they forsake their parent's rules and religion and find a new family Neo-Nazi skinheads who preach violence and hate. They shave their heads and instill fear in everyone around them, including their own family. It isn't long before the Freeman brothers are out for blood, and for those closest to them their days are numbered. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
11/21/2023 • 41 minutes, 3 seconds
Deadly Darlings
Terry King always wanted to be a good father to his two sons, Derek and Alex, but the family is destroyed when Terry dies in a mysterious fire and the boys go missing. Before it's over, a world of lies, deceit and a shocking murderer will be revealed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
11/14/2023 • 38 minutes, 58 seconds
Brothers in Arms
Two brothers born three years apart seem to share the same brain ... and knack for getting into trouble. Their childhood misdeeds started out small-harassing kids in their neighborhood, stealing from their neighbors-but as they grew, their behavior became increasingly strange, almost cinematic. The brothers worshipped the Nazis and violent gangster movies. But when the brothers go postal, and their lives turn into the movies they'd grown up watching, thus begging the question of whether or not life imitates art, or if art makes some people evil to the core. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
11/7/2023 • 39 minutes, 35 seconds
Old Men Die Hard
In any family, it takes years to build up fear and resentment, and the Komyatti family had finally reached their breaking point with patriarch Paul Sr. After taking early retirement, the old man spent all day drinking, and his family soon decided they'd had enough. With their mother on board, the children concocted a scheme to put their father six feet under but nothing goes to plan. After weeks of a shocking comedy of errors, the family decides it's time to put an end to the madness once and for all. What follows is a brutal murder that doesn't go according to script, and in the aftermath, the remaining members of the Komyatti family will turn on each other. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
10/31/2023 • 38 minutes, 32 seconds
Home is Where the Hate Is
Pauline Devor lived a happy life in Arkansas. But after years of butting heads with her teenage daughter Delores, Pauline sent her away to live with her father in Texas. When Delores returns decades later, little has changed between Pauline and her daughter. Delores is still head strong, but now has developed a drug addiction. Pauline has a new husband Bob and Delores and Bob become friends, and then some. United by a mutual enemy, Pauline, Delores and Bob conspire to kill Pauline in an evil chess game of money, drugs, sex, and betrayal. For years they explain it away to local police as a mysterious abduction, until a back-stabbing betrayal opens the case wide open. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
10/24/2023 • 38 minutes, 50 seconds
The Evil Inside
Even after Phyllis Phares' husband passed away, she insisted on staying in her friendly neighborhood on the west side of Charleston, West Virginia. But life takes a turn for the worse when the Mallo family moves in across the street. From the start, the family is an aggressive bunch, but Phyllis befriends their youngest child, Thomas. One night, Phyllis is horribly murder, and detectives soon suspect that Thomas and the rest of his family are hiding something. As the investigation heats up, detectives unearth a dark world of unspeakable abuse and neglect and soon an entire family will be placed behind bars. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
10/17/2023 • 40 minutes, 42 seconds
Thicker Than Blood
Kenneth and Kari Allen appeared to be loving siblings from an all-American family in Indianapolis. But a contentious divorce tore the siblings apart and sent them down two different paths. Hardened by crime and isolation, and crippled with a gambling addiction, Kenneth returns home in the late part of 2004 with a plan to make a better life for his family. His plan, however, is a rampage of murder, mutilation, and incest and with his sister Kari's help. The two siblings then make a break for it, but they're stopped by a a routine traffic stop on the roadside of highway 70, one sheriff's deputy discovers just how far this brother and sister would go in their attempt to start a new life together. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
10/10/2023 • 40 minutes
What to Listen to Next - Scorned: Love Kills
If you enjoyed Killer Kin, you might enjoy another podcast from ID, Scorned: Love Kills. Listen to episode 1 now and follow Scorned: Love Kills wherever you get your podcasts.Shocking, true stories about the dark side of love. In every episode, listen to reporters, law enforcement and psychologists investigate crimes of betrayal and murder, with direct audio from ID’s hit TV show, Scorned: Love Kills. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
4/17/2023 • 41 minutes, 44 seconds
Mile High Monsters
When a young mother disappears outside Denver, an investigation leads police to the home of identical twins Daniel and David DeWild. The brothers claim to know nothing of the crime, but their pact of silence will end when one twin betrays the other.For even more ID content, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/killer kin to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
4/10/2023 • 44 minutes
Honor Roll Killers
Twin sisters Jas and Tas Whitehead are the apple of their mother's eye. These beauties seem to have it all, until they turn from fun girls to belligerent teens. When their mother tries to set them on track, the twins push back with deadly consequences.For even more ID content, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/killer kin to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
4/3/2023 • 44 minutes, 5 seconds
Green Eyed Monsters
As children, Darlene and Charlene Shuler lived modest lives in South Carolina. But as adults, they lived very lavishly. Insatiable greed and deceit between the sisters ran rampant. Eventually, their bond would be shattered by a single gunshot.For even more ID content, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/killer kin to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
3/27/2023 • 43 minutes, 59 seconds
Big Boy Killers
Twin brothers, Pat and Pete Bondurant were farm boys raised in Tennessee. Bullied for being obese, they had to fight just to survive. Growing to three hundred pounds, the twins terrorized their hometown and covered their horrific crimes, together.For even more ID content, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/killer kin to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
3/20/2023 • 44 minutes, 3 seconds
Sacrificial Lamb
Gretchen and Gloria survived a terrible childhood. Gloria goes on to lead a happy life, while Gretchen turns to drugs and prostitution. Tragically, both twins participate in a house fire that causes a horrific death and leads to twin-on-twin betrayal.For even more ID content, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/killer kin to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
3/13/2023 • 44 minutes, 4 seconds
Sisters in Silence
Identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons were black girls living in the white world of Wales, UK. Subjected to prejudice and abuse they started living in safe silence. Eventually the silent pair were pushed too far, and they set their world ablaze.For even more ID content, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/killer kin to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
3/6/2023 • 43 minutes, 50 seconds
Twin Kings of London
Identical twins Reg and Ron Kray came from the mean streets of East London. They became the most notorious twin gangsters in England and lived the highlife for two decades. But the twins had a twisted connection that ultimately destroyed them both.For even more ID content, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/killer kin to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2/27/2023 • 44 minutes, 9 seconds
Blood Brothers
A young woman is raped and murdered, and the case drags on for seven years. Twins, Brian and Alfred Calzacorto, become suspects when DNA puts them at the scene. But, identical twins with identical DNA mean authorities can't say prove who is guilty.For even more ID content, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/killer kin to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2/20/2023 • 44 minutes, 5 seconds
Roofie Romeos
Identical twins, George and Stefan Spitzer, were reared in the shadow of Communist Romania. They moved to Hollywood to pursue their silver screen dreams. When dreams turned to dust the twins took revenge - using sex, drugs, violence, and videotape.For even more ID content, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/killer kin to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2/13/2023 • 43 minutes, 58 seconds
Twisted Sisters
Twins Betty and Peggy Woods survived an abusive home in rural Alabama. Years later, Peggy and Betty, stark opposites, are both tragically caught up in a sorted murder-for-hire plot. And only the hit man knows which twin was guilty.For even more ID content, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/killer kin to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2/6/2023 • 44 minutes, 1 second
Dante and Donte's Inferno
Identical twins Donte and Dante Hall were born into hell. With a delinquent father and a drug addict mother, they had to get tough early. One night in 2006, the Hall twins plot a bold armed robbery using strippers as bait, it would all go horribly wrong.For even more ID content, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/killer kin to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1/30/2023 • 44 minutes, 12 seconds
Trust Fund Terror
Identical twins Tim and Todd Nicholson were born with Hollywood good looks and matching trust funds. With a mother who never bothered to tell them apart, they lived fast and furiously, and one would die young, at the hands of his own brother.For even more ID content, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/killer kin to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1/23/2023 • 44 minutes, 1 second
Tribe of Two
When a mail bomb explodes in the hands of an African American government official in Scottsdale, Arizona, all signs point to twins and avowed racists, Dennis and Daniel Mahon. A sexy ex-stripper spends five years undercover to help put them behind bars.For even more ID content, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/killer kin to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1/16/2023 • 43 minutes, 50 seconds
Double Barrel
An officer is murdered i by identical twins Joel and Michael Stovall. The heavily armed duo soon hijack a pickup and lead law enforcement on high-speed shootout through the Colorado mountains. The 60-mile chase finally ends with a dramatic shootout.For even more ID content, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/killer kin to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1/9/2023 • 44 minutes
A Tale of Two Sisters
Identical twins, Sunny and Jeena Han were born just five minutes apart, but it might as well been five years. The younger twin lived in the shadow of her elder sister for decades, jealously ultimately driving her to order a hit on her older sister.For even more ID content, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/killer kin to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1/2/2023 • 44 minutes, 6 seconds
My Brother’s Keeper
Greg and Jeff Henry were identical twins that lived nearly identical lives, and were inseparable. But, one terrible night a Henry brother shot his twin in a drunken rage. Can the close bond between twins become too close and ultimately lead to murder?For even more ID content, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/killer kin to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
12/26/2022 • 44 minutes, 24 seconds
Bad Seeds
Robert and Stephen Spahalski are identical twins who terrorized upstate New York from the time they were teenagers. One twin is put behind bars for murder as a teen, while the other becomes a serial killer, asking the viewer: is violence born or made?For even more ID content, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/killer kin to start your 7-day free trial today. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
12/19/2022 • 42 minutes, 56 seconds
Introducing: Killer Kin
Can you inherit evil from your family tree? On Killer Kin, from ID, follow true-crime cases that prove blood is always thicker than water. Each episode chronicles a bone-chilling crime, investigating the motive, interviewing family members, and exploring what leads family members to turn against each other—and others. From a set of twins who work together to kill their father to brothers whose criminal lifestyle leads them to turn on each other, these stories are real, raw and disturbing. Killer Kin features direct audio from five hit ID shows: Evil Twins, Evil Kin, Evil Stepmothers, Evil-In-Law, and Blood Relatives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.