What does family mean to you? Is your family your entire world?

Are they just people that you're forced to hang out with because of blood ties?

In the case of Nehemiah Griego, each member of his immediate family was nothing more than a target at a shooting range.

This story goes to show that you can't trust anyone, not even your own son.

As usual, this episode contains extremely graphic depictions of violence and listener

discretion is heavily advised.

You're listening to Murder in America. time. Oh, Oh, It's January 2013.

January 2013 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

There's a sense of motivation in the air

and people are still holding strong to their New Year's resolutions. They're excited for the upcoming

year and they're looking forward to what is to come. You know how it feels when the new

year begins. It's exciting. The gems are full, health food stores are packed, and people are really working on improving themselves in their lives.

But some people that year would never get the chance to live out their New Year's resolutions.

Not because they didn't work towards them, but because their life

would be taken before they had the chance to.

This would be the case for the Griego family because on January 19th, 2013, the entire Griego family would be annihilated in one of the most brutal

murders breeze in New Mexico history by one of their own family members.

On the surface, the Griego family seemed to be just like any other

family. The patriarch Greg Griego was very well known and respected in the South Valley community.

And Greg's story is admirable. After he graduated high school, Greg went on to serve in the US military.

He got married and had five kids, but his life seemed to take a turn in the wrong direction after playing the domestic game for a while.

Greg got heavily into drugs and eventually found himself involved in a local gang.

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