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True Crime Brewery

Bad Seed: The Bart Whitaker Murders

True Crime Brewery

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True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Please enjoy this premium episode from way back in 2017!  To get more premium episodes, minus the ads, subscribe at tiegrabber.com/subscribe. Sugar Land is a peaceful, upper-class suburb southwest of Houston, Texas. But one quiet evening in December 2003, the community was shattered when a family of four was ambushed by an armed intruder as […]

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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a... Biting cold front. Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

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0:25.5

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0:45.3

Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. Why did you do what you did? I mean, why did you want to kill your family?

0:48.3

I can go back and tell you why I felt so inadequate and why I felt that my parents didn't love me. And I recognize

0:56.3

so many of the errors now. There's a difference between an excuse and a reason. And I don't

1:01.0

try to make excuses for what I did. I try to, you can't. You can't make an excuse for this.

1:06.6

But yeah, there were things that happened that were reasons for it.

1:10.0

From what we hear from friends of the family and so on, you seem like you had very loving

1:15.4

parents who really gave you a lot.

1:17.8

Is there something that we just don't know?

1:20.1

Well, even from a very young age, I believe that what my parents loved was an idealized

1:25.4

version of me and that I kept telling myself

1:28.3

if I worked really hard and I succeeded that I would be that person but I knew in my

1:33.8

heart that I wasn't that person and I felt like if they knew who I really was that affection

1:38.7

would dry up and you can only go through that for so long before you start to bear a grudge against the people you think have set that high standard.

1:47.6

Did you love your family?

1:49.8

Did you love your brother, Kevin?

1:51.3

Yeah.

1:52.3

Yeah, absolutely.

1:54.1

I was envious.

1:56.0

He had so many of the qualities that I tried so hard for over the years.

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