212: The Whitaker Family Slayings

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In December of 2003, 23-year-old Bart Whitaker had just finished his finals and was about to graduate from college. That night, he went to dinner to celebrate with his parents, Tricia and Kent, and his younger brother Kevin. As they returned home and walked through their door, they were ambushed by a masked gunman. Initially, authorities suspected that this was a burglary gone wrong. But before the funerals had even taken place, detectives discovered that Bart had lied about graduating. And that was just the beginning.

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0:00.0	Southern Fried True Crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners,
0:09.0	and there may also be some explicit language used.
0:13.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:20.0	It was nearly 830 in the evening on December 10, 2003 in Sugar Land, Texas.
0:26.8	The sun had been down for hours. The wind, which reached a whopping 25 miles per hour that morning, had finally calmed down.
0:37.2	And the world seemed almost peaceful, albeit a little chilly at 44 degrees.
0:44.0	It was Wednesday, which was and is church night
0:48.3	in places like Sugar Land.
0:51.1	Many people have some sort of Bible study they would just be getting home from, including
0:56.7	Fort Ben County Detective Marshall Slott.
1:01.4	Slott had barely walked through his own front door after attending church when he was paged.
1:06.8	The sheriff's department needed him at a crime scene.
1:10.2	There was a shooting in an upper class suburban home.
1:14.3	A family of four was attacked by an armed intruder with a gun.
1:18.4	It looked like a burglary gone wrong.
1:22.0	Detective Marshall's slot was shocked. This type of major violent
1:26.7	crime was rare in Sugar Land. Even today, 20 years later, Sugar Land's rate of violent crime is more than 75% lower
1:36.9	than the national average.
1:39.5	It's a well-worn trope to say things like this just don't happen here. But in this case it's true.
1:46.8	As the on-call detective slot rushed into the suburban home, What he saw was devastating. The murder weapon had been
1:56.9	stolen from a gun safe in the house, a locked gun safe that had been hidden in a bedroom crawl space.
2:05.0	How had the intruder known where the gun was?
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