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Unsolved Mysteries

Update: The Scott Family Massacre

Unsolved Mysteries

Cosgrove Meurer Productions, Inc. + Audacy

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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There has been a new development in Season 2: Episode 75 regarding the arrests of Amy and Ross Vilardi. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Update Amy Valardi and her husband Ross Valardi have been arrested and

0:07.8

charged with murdering the Scott family in Pendleton, South Carolina.

0:11.6

Kathy Scott, Mike Scott, and their mothers Barbara Scott and Violet Taylor

0:16.4

were violently killed in their home on Halloween night 2015.

0:20.4

The case was covered in episode 75, the Scott Family Massacre.

0:24.0

I was told there were four bodies inside the double-wide mobile home.

0:31.0

Once we found out the extent of their injuries and the fact that their throats were cut,

0:37.0

and then they were shot post-mortem.

0:40.0

It seemed very, very aggressive and personal and somebody full of rage and hate.

0:49.1

I've never seen anything like it before or since.

0:52.4

Amy Valardi, Kathy and Mike's daughter,

0:55.0

lived with her husband Ross in another trailer on the property.

0:58.0

So in the single wide lived Amy Valardi, who was Kathy's daughter, her husband Ross Valardi, and then their children.

1:07.0

Amy Valardi is the one who called in the actual crime to the sheriff's office. She called 911 and basically said she went to her

1:16.8

mothers and found her family deceased inside. Amy often spoke to the media and presented herself as a grieving daughter.

1:25.0

Even though this was a step family situation, we were family too thick and thin and this is a lot of people that have been affected by this.

1:35.0

I keep feeling like I should be waking up from a dream right now and it's just not happening.

1:42.0

So yeah, it's like a movie or something. It's not supposed to be real life.

1:47.4

Kathy's daughter Amy and her husband Ross were initially very cooperative with the case. Once the focus of

1:56.1

the investigation turned toward them being potential suspects, they stopped

2:00.9

cooperating altogether.

2:03.0

Investigators initially believed robbery was the motive,

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