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As the old saying goes, most people murder for love or money.

Add revenge to that, and you've got the perfect evil trifecta.

Today's episode represents all three.

It's a story about brothers and a religious family, which immediately summons images of Cain and Abel, a favored son, a black sheep.

You could also say the murderous brother broke a commandment, several in fact, honor thy mother and father.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not murder.

Except it wasn't his neighbor's wife. It was his brothers.

And their steamy affair tore apart the family.

And as the scandal grew, the patriarch of the clan, Philippide, warned his son that if he didn't stop the affair, he would be disinherited.

In the end, the father and the good brother were dead. The mother was disfigured. The black sheep was in jail, and the wife was banished.

It was a shocking scandal. The heights were pillars of the community in the small town of Springfield, Georgia.

Popular, well respected, godly, and charitable.

Except for Craig Height, the self-professed black sheep of the family, who was in love with his brother's wife, Robin.

And Robin was guilty of sharing her brother-in-law's feelings.

But just how responsible she is for this almost biblical tragedy is up for you to decide.

Welcome to episode 51, a family affair, the Height Double Murder Scandal.

Springfield is located in Southeast Georgia and Effingham County. It's about 25 miles or about 40 kilometers northwest of downtown Savannah.

Created February 5, 1777, Effingham was one of the original counties in the state of Georgia during the American Revolution, from the colonial parishes of St. Matthew and St. Philip.

It is named for Lord Effingham, more properly known as Thomas Howard, the Third Earl of Effingham.

Though he was an English Lord, he was a champion of colonial rights, and he resigned his commission rather than fight against rebel colonists.

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