78: Thanksgiving Triple Homicide: Youth Minister & Murderer: Christopher Gattis

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On Thanksgiving night of 2017, a youth minister in Chester, Virginia did the unthinkable. After heavy drinking and arguments, he shot his family to death. Friends, family and the entire community were shocked. They seemed so happy. Every Facebook post showed a close knit family, laughing and seemingly normal. But Christopher Gattis wore a mask. A mask that slipped in an alcohol induced rage that destroyed his family.

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0:00.0	Southern Fried True Crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners, and
0:06.3	there may also be some explicit language used.
0:09.7	Listener discretion is advised.
0:15.4	Thanksgiving is about family.
0:18.0	It's the time of year we come together, make too much food, and celebrate the ties that
0:22.5	bind us.
0:24.8	Usually, it's a happy holiday, filled with tradition, and a chance to see relatives
0:30.3	we don't see every day.
0:33.4	But for some families, Thanksgiving can be fraught with tension.
0:38.6	Because sometimes, those ties are holding together the facade of a happy family.
0:44.2	It's a front you put on.
0:46.1	You smile for pictures around your perfectly decorated table.
0:50.5	Temperors flare, liquor loosens the tongue, and the truth comes hatefully out.
0:58.0	In Chester, Virginia, on Thanksgiving of 2017, a youth minister did the unthinkable to
1:04.3	his family.
1:07.3	This wasn't one of those families where the hostility was obvious.
1:11.6	From all appearances, it looked like a happy marriage, with grown children who seemed
1:16.3	close.
1:18.3	It happened that Thanksgiving night seemed sudden, shocking, and horrific.
1:24.9	Because it wasn't annihilation.
1:28.2	But there were secrets in that family.
1:31.2	Police had been called to that house many times before.
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