Blood Ties: An Asian-American Gothic

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wished you could undo one moment in your life? One harsh word you can’t take back? One horribly wrong turn? One zig that should have been a zag? I think we probably all have. There’s a theory that there are infinite universes, kind of like the reflections you see in an elevator with mirrors on both sides. But in every universe, ONE little thing is different. One choice went the opposite way—and the effects of that choice bloomed out into time, changing lots of other things in the process. Some big, some small. In one universe, your decision not to stop for that McFlurry means you didn’t get killed in a car crash. Your boyfriend didn’t marry someone else a few years later. They didn’t have kids. One of those kids didn’t grow up to be president, or cure cancer, or blow up a building. You get the idea. In the story we’re about to tell you, one choice made in anger and pain changed the course of several people’s lives, and ended several others’.

Sources:
https://www.washingtonian.com/2005/02/01/love-and-murder-in-great-falls/
Investigation Discovery's "Deadline Crime with Tamron Hall," episode "Ghost of Great Falls"

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0:00.0	Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:05.0	We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.
0:08.0	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.
0:12.0	We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime
0:14.2	campfire.
0:16.2	Have you ever wished you could undo one moment in your life?
0:27.0	One harsh word you can't take back?
0:30.0	One horribly wrong turn.
0:32.0	One zig, that should have been a zag. I think we probably all have.
0:37.7	There's a theory that there are infinite universes, kind of like the reflections you see in an elevator with mirrors on both sides.
0:47.3	But in every universe, one little thing is different. One choice went the opposite way and the effects of that choice bloomed out into time,
0:57.6	changing lots of other things in the process. Some big, some small. In one universe, your decision not to stop for that
1:07.2	McFlurry means you didn't get killed in a car crash. Your boyfriend
1:11.6	didn't marry someone else a few years later. They didn't have kids.
1:16.0	One of those kids didn't grow up to be the president or cure cancer or blow up a building.
1:22.0	You get the idea. In this story we're about to tell you, one
1:26.9	choice, made in anger and pain, changed the course of several people's lives and ended several others.
1:34.8	This is blood ties, an Asian American Gothic. So, campers, we're in Great Falls, Virginia, March 19, 2002. Detective Steve Schillingford, who just happens
2:00.8	by the way to be the first Black Homicide detective in Fairfax County, which is way cool,
2:05.0	was on the phone with a tipster named Vicky Henry.
2:09.0	Vicky had called the police department to report a crime, and one hell of a crime it was.
2:14.2	She said, my ex killed his whole family, his mom, his dad, his brother too.
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