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Morning Cup of Murder

The Twilight Murders - April 13 20244

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:02.8

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:06.0

We have a weird homicide.

0:08.8

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:12.0

A cup of murder.

0:14.9

Young love can be a powerful thing, and in some cases, a dangerous thing too. On April 13, 2016, two people paid the

0:25.7

cost of young love with their lives. So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled,

0:32.6

sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. Elizabeth Edwards was worried about her daughter.

0:40.3

At 14 years old, Kim had a budding romance with her very first boyfriend, Lucas Markham.

0:46.4

But like most parents fear, it wasn't a relationship that Elizabeth grew too fond of,

0:52.1

especially after she noticed her daughter withdrawing from both

0:54.9

her family and her friends. Constantly on the phone with her older daughter, Kim's half-sister, Mary

1:02.0

Cottingham, who was 26 and both a wife and mother, Elizabeth would often talk about her concerns,

1:08.6

and everyone was getting worried about the intensity of

1:11.5

their relationship. Both Kim and Lucas attended a school for, quote, difficult children,

1:17.7

and met when, one day, she walked into a classroom and saw him throwing a chair in a fit of

1:23.5

rage. Becoming inseparable from that moment on, the two young teens bonded over their troubled

1:29.7

home lives and comforted one another through their issues.

1:34.4

With sources not really going into too much detail on why, Elizabeth felt as though Lucas

1:40.1

was trouble and vowed to do what she could to try and separate the pair, a move that

1:46.3

would prove incredibly deadly. In what would later be called the Twilight murders, on April

1:53.3

11, 2016, Kim and Lucas made their first attempt on Elizabeth's life, but were foiled when

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