Hearth, Home and Homicide
Hearth, Home and Homicide is a family production about family murders. Son Andy is producer. Mom Bridget and daughter Caroline narrate each familicide story with sensitivity. Whatever could have led to such loss and tragedy? Sometimes the answers will surface in the telling of the story of the family itself. These stories do include violence and trauma – listener discretion is advised.
Episodes
Mark Hacking LIar and Killer
A kid gets attention from lies, keeps lying, gets addicted to lying and lives to tell lies. He marries and fakes college, gradution, and acceptance to medical school. His wife calls him out on it and loves him anyway. What is his reactio…
family Annihilator Jean Claude Romand
n France a boy learns to lie rather than hurt someone emotionally. And so he becomes the worlds greatest liar and after eighteen years of deceit he becomes a family annihilator. Will he ever get out of prison... French prison>
Believe Your Spiney Senses: Jerry Jones
The son of an Alabama Southern Baptist preacher kills his wife and blames a teenage boy. The man is found guilty not once, not twice but three times and the accused teenage boy grows up with a cloud of suspicion hampering his life into adu…
Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done she gave her father forty-one...Or did she?
Tucker Cipriano and Mitchell Young
What can a parent do with a child who is into crime and drugs? This family had two parents who did everything in their power to help their son, but in the end he tried to kill the entire family. He wound up killing just some of them and d…
Murder of Carla and Allen Rutherford
This episode, which takes place in Ontario, Canada, answers once and for all the question of if murderers can be born bad. And this story is one of what one thoroughly loved but very bad person can take away from a whole lot of very nice, …
Greed and Lust - The Murder of Fabio Sementilli
A beloved internationall star in the beauty and hair is murdered. Who would do such a thing. His family is devastated. Well, almost... One of them is leading a double life.
Donald Hartung - Family Annihilator
A child feels no sense of belonging to his family. He feels abandoned. He grows into a mild man who never complains or acts out. But underneath that stillness a deep rage is fomenting until he erases his entire family of origin. Was it …
Jade Janks
A bright woman is traumatized by her step-father's violation of her privacy and she makes her shock and trauma last long enough to murder him...and claim he drugged himself. Will it work?
Malcolm Webster: Charm and Kill
How can one man do this much damage? How can he have genuine human emotion, charm and wit and still be a poisoner, a pyromaniac, a con man and a killer? All in plain sight, no less...
Piper Roundtree Killed Fred Jablin
A smart, educated and professional woman becomes a wife and mother. She looses everything because she has low emotional intellegence. She decides that all of her failures are due to her ex-husband so she decides he has to die.
Vincent Brothers, Killer and Con Man
The real Vincent Brothers was invisible. He only came out to lie, con and kill his entire family.
Will Hargrove: The Murder of Anna Repkina
A pathological liar murders his finance and ruins the lives of so many -- including his OTHER fiance. Is he the god of his own universe or will he get caught?
Chandler Halderson : In Cold Blood
A well loved family is dessimated by a son they loved and nurtured. They were just beginning to uncover all of his lies and they wanted to help him get things straightened out. Our killer today was too busy creating his next round of lies…
Christopher Porco
A promising son is beloved and supported, even after he kills his father and tries to kill his mother in an ax murder. To what lengths will this psycopath go to get what he wants?
Fred Tokars: Bad on Bad
An amibittous young lawyer is drawn to the money and power to be had by legally representing drug lords and their criminal enterprises. Then he kills his wife who is the mother of his young children because he suspects she understands who…
The Murders and Motivation of John List
John List is the granddaddy of family annihilation cases. Listen up to why he did it and how he got away with it for 17 years before being brought to justice.
The Christmas Killing of Tim McNamara
The orchardist of age 64 marries his neice, age 42. What can go wrong?
The Caneiro Family Murder
A beautiful and sucessful family is murdered by a leach brother masquerading as a business partner.. How far will this killer brother go to keep his lifestyle. The answer is unfathomable.
Evil Personified: Jim Sullivan
A neuvo rich man marries a beautiful, well-mannered woman in Atlanta and tries to use her to break into old moneu Palm Beach but it doesn't work. He cheats on her and after ten years of loyalty to him, she tries to divorce him. See how t…
The Murder of Ruth Pyne
A perfect family image is hard to convey when one of the family members suffers from severe mental illness. What can a son do to help his little sister in such a situation -- is murder in the realm of possibility? And if so, what price is…
The Murder of Shirley Carter
A son murders his mother...or did he? Justice was served thanks to the father and the killer's brother...or was it. A confounding family murder is a conundrum to consider, and a fascinating story.
The Beauty and Murder of Mary Yoder
A healer, a community builder, a loving wife and mother is murdered by a trusted family member. The motive and the aftermatch is shocking as well as lasting.
The Chilling Case of Rabbi Fred Neulander
Brace yourself. This killer wants to murder his wife of thirty years and be with his lover. He grooms a vulnerable member of his synagogue to get it donw.
The Evil of Stephen Seddon
A loving couple care for a disabled grandson after his mother dies. Their remaining son sees them as a cash cow, even after they bail him out of jail and buy him a house and give him spending money....BTW the son is in his forties. Unbel…
Death by Parchute: Victoria Cilliers
A narcisistic conman exploits the loving nature of a delightful, accomplished, brave woman and tries to kill her to steal even more from her than he has already stolen...Will he be willing to kill their children if he gets what he wants?
The Murder of Dean Milo
A family business in Ohio is catapulted into mega-millions by one of the sons. Every family member has an equal share in the profits. If not money, what then is the motive for a family member to kill the goose that lays the golden egg for…
The Murder of Bonnie Harkey
Bonnie Harkey, the heart of soul of San Saba world-renowned pecan growers, is beloved by her town and everyone who knew her. Then, the aged matriarch of the Harkey family is murdered along with her caregiver. Is it possible that the motiv…
Lois Reiss and David Reiss
A much-loved woman, mother, wife, community member develops a gambling addiction. In order to feed her addiction, she turns to murdering family...then strangers.
Frank Howard and Nancy Shore
A loving husband and father one day decides his wife has to go. But not through -- so he hires a hit man. The hit man decides to take the money and run without fulfilling the hit. So this loving husband and father hires another hit man.…
Murder of Helen Bailey
Helen Bailey -- a beloved writer of books for teens and tweens, is highly successful and happily married for twenty-two years until her husband is suddenly drowned while they are on holiday. She blogs about her pain from that blog called "…
Murder of Helen Bailey
Helen Bailey -- a beloved writer of books for teens and tweens -- is highly successful and happily married for twenty-two years until her husband is suddenly drowned while they are on holiday. She blogs about her pain and from that blog c…
Jacob Nolan: Sledgehammer Puppet
A prominent psychiatrist brainwashes her mentally vulnerable cousin to murder her baby daddy with a sledgehammer. She almost got away with it. This is the story of how much damage one highly trained professional can do when she decides to…
Family Annihilator Erin Caffey
A teenager instigates the annihilation of her family in order to be with her boyfriend and continue having sex. The father survives and his amazing story is at the center of today's episode. He is a religious man who follows his faith in …
Shame: The Murder of Brenda Powell
A daughter leading a double life murders her mother rather than face the truth of what she has done. She has failed at college and when her parents find out, she picks murder as her problem solver. Did her shame turn her from an accomplis…
Collier Landry Mothers Day Interview
Today we have a very special guest, Collier Landry, who tells his story of his mother, Noreen. She gave Collier the self-development and wisdom to provide the key witness testimony in her own murder. The killer? Collier's father. This m…
Witt's End
A single mother by choice is raising a daughter with constant fear of losing her. The child grows up indulged. When this daughter asks her mother for something she wants, she gets it. When her mother finally puts her foot down, she is mu…
Family Annihilator Chris Watts
Chris Watts is infamous for killing his wife and two little girls and his unborn son and disposing them in an unspeakable way. Why, and what was going on in this family before the monster that was the real Chris Watts came out of the shado…
Family Annihilator Chris Watts
Chris Watts is infamous for killing his wife and two little girls and his unborn son and disposing them in an unspeakable way. Why, and what was going on in this family before the monster that was the real Chris Watts came out of the shado…
Gaslight
The most harrowing tale is one that convinces you once and for all that some people are born sadistic, manipulative, narcissistic and murderous. Some of these born-hideous killers use family to get their sadistic kicks and get money and pr…