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.

Follow and listen to Blood is Thicker, The Ferris Wheel on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your

podcast. When you're 19, you think you know where you're going to end up, but then life has a way of taking its own turns.

Back in 1993, this young couple was camping.

In the middle of the night, we were awakened to someone hitting the back of our tent.

They were ordered out of their tent by a stranger with a gun.

A towel was put over my head, and my hands and feet were tied up, and then my boyfriend was tied up.

The suspect then carried the female away.

He brought her down to this bridge?

Yes.

You were fighting him as best you could.

Yeah.

I was trying to squirm away, and then I was sexually assaulted.

In the middle of what he was trying to do,

he said that he saw a light and said he had to go.

My boyfriend got me untied.

We called the police.

I told him what happened, and it very much seemed like they maybe didn't believe me.

I reached out to them many times trying to find out, have you guys found anything?

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