When beloved family patriarch, Gary Ferris went missing, his family looked everywhere on their

property until they came across something horrifying. It's a homicide.

Absolutely. The blame game in this family went round and round. This is Blood is Thicker,

the Ferris Wheel. I don't see how anyone can look at this story and think they were happy.

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Music Every time I'm like on the way to a barn or on my way to see a horse. I want to call my mom.

It's really nice to be able to be around horses that she really love.

I don't get to share that with her anymore.

It's torture.

Jennifer was the best friend that anybody could ever have had.

Yeah, she was my best friend.

I didn't realize that there was trouble in the marriage.

I saw a woman who dearly loved her husband.

She trusted Kirk.

It takes two to keep a marriage, and he was not willing.

He announced that he was leaving.

My mother even went so far as to tell me that he didn't love her anymore.

She was devastated. She was very confused.

She didn't know whether to be sad, angry.

She loved him until that night.

You know, we could spend all kinds of time speculating about why Jennifer did what she did, what set her off.

There's a reason it's called a snap.

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