Episode 120

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4 • 61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Everyone loves the idea of having the perfect family and keeping everyone close together. Go to work, come home, play with the kids, eat dinner together. Unfortunately, that isn’t always how things go. In 2015, the Bever family was the perfect example of this. The family of nine stuck close together within the four walls of their home in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

But, stick a family together long enough, and eventually someone will blow their lid. On the evening of July 22nd, 2015, Robert and Michael Bever carried out a savage attack on their family, leaving most of their family dead, but their plans reached further than the closed doors of their home.

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0:00.0	Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences
0:06.1	Listener discretion is advised
0:08.2	You're being brother-celled and he wants to be famous and you guys are making this plan
0:15.2	Surely you want some of that heading to the bride
0:17.2	Welcome to season 5 episode 120 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real
0:31.2	When you picture the perfect family, what comes to mind? Maybe it's the Brady Bunch?
0:53.2	It's probably the Brady Bunch isn't it?
0:56.2	Actually, maybe not because most of you are in the millennial era and I probably don't even know what I'm talking about with that particular show
1:06.2	So it's probably something more like I don't know, Charles and no, Charles and Charge
1:11.2	Malcolm in the middle? Would that be the perfect family? I don't even know
1:17.2	But it probably is some sort of family from a modern day sitcom of some sort, some sort of thing on the Disney Channel perhaps
1:25.2	And most families, they're space and boundaries between each other, I mean that's natural
1:32.2	But what happens when those boundaries don't exist? Can family ties be a little too close for comfort? Well, of course they can
1:42.2	And what happens to adolescence in that type of environment? Please note that today's episode will deal with some violence against children
1:52.2	And you've been warned
2:15.2	In 2015, the family consisted of 52-year-old David Bever, 44-year-old April, and their 7 children, 18-year-old Robert, 16-year-old Michael, 13-year-old Crystal, 12-year-old Daniel, 7-year-old Christopher, 5-year-old Victoria, and 2-year-old Autumn
2:41.2	What neighbors noticed most about the family, besides how big it was, is how the kids never seemed to leave the household at all
2:51.2	They weren't real social, their kids were homeschooled, so we didn't see their kids in school
2:55.2	For years and years, the Bever family lived in the same house, yet one neighbor would state they'd only seen a boy once and only knew there were children because of toys by the pool
3:06.2	And the other time that I would take my kids to the park, my kids would run up to their fans and try to talk to them
3:13.2	And the kids would just turn around and even run for my kids and run back in the house
3:17.2	David and April Bever kept their family close together
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