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Forensic Files

Family Interrupted

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A family interrupts a burglary in their suburban home.  The gunman kills two and wounds two more. Police suspect the crime is related to a string of thefts in the area, but a closer look at the crime scene reveals the real motive and killer.

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0:00.0

Up next, a masked gunman attacks the bourbon family.

0:04.2

That one's wine.

0:05.0

Someone just started to know the two shotguns.

0:07.4

We don't know if someone in the map.

0:08.8

This is the most horrible crime I've ever investigated.

0:11.2

The killer leaves several clues.

0:13.1

My first thought with the black glove was not another OJ.

0:16.2

Whoever the crooks were made a mistake, leaving behind evidence.

0:19.0

But the forensic evidence reveals something far worse than police ever imagined.

0:24.6

That is a pinnacle moment for me in my forensic career

0:28.0

because it doesn't happen that often.

0:39.8

In Sugarland, Texas, just outside of Houston,

0:43.2

everyone knew the Whittaker family.

0:46.0

55-year-old Kent Whittaker managed a construction business

0:50.0

that had been in the family for a generation.

0:53.0

The business did well.

0:54.0

I mean, in construction, booms, they did real well

0:57.0

and when construction wasn't booming, they still held their own.

1:00.2

So it was a great business.

1:02.2

Kent and his wife, Trisha and their two sons, Bart and Kevin,

1:06.8

were in a festive mood on the night of December 10, 2003.

1:12.0

24-year-old Bart was about to graduate from college

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