Episode 218: Murderer In The Family

Not Today

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.4 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On December 10, 2003, the Whittacre family went out to dinner to celebrate their son Bart’s college graduation,but when they returned home they found a masked man in their home with his gun drawn. Kent, his wife, and two sons were shot, however Kent and Bart were the only two who would survive. As the investigation into who attacked the family continued, Kent learned that the killer may be a lot closer to him than he ever could have imagined.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Steph and this is not today.
0:20.0	Hello and welcome. Before we get started, I wanted to remind you that if you enjoy what we're doing over here and you want more stories that you get to vote on, you can head over to patreon.com slash not today podcast.
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0:43.7	time. But our story today is mind-boggling. It is terrifying to know that there could be people in
0:49.4	your life that have so much more evil in them than you really know. I know for myself I like to think the best of people.
0:55.6	You never want to assume that someone you're close to or love could be manipulating you for their
1:00.8	own personal gain because who wants to live like that? But it does happen. And that very tragically
1:07.4	was the case for the Whitaker family. But let's just jump right in because we have a lot
1:12.6	to talk about. In 2003, Kent Whitaker was 54 years old and his wife Patricia, or Tricia, was 51 years old.
1:21.4	The pair lived in the Sugar Lake's neighborhood in Sugar Land, which is a very affluent neighborhood
1:26.4	in a suburb of Houston, Texas, and sounds delicious. And Sugarland, which is a very affluent neighborhood in a suburb of Houston, Texas, and sounds
1:29.5	delicious. And Sugarland is an upper middle class white collar place to live. It's very nice,
1:35.5	everything is new. You hang out with your neighbors, you have a good time, and nothing really
1:39.6	that bad happens there. Kent Whitaker initially met his wife, Trisha, on a blind date. He walked in her
1:46.2	house and said he didn't know what he was expecting, but when she came down the stairs, he knew he had
1:51.4	never had a blind date like this one before. The pair hit it off very well right from the start,
1:56.5	and after only a couple of months, the two had fallen in love. They got married and then came their two boys.
2:03.1	The Whitakers were doing very well.
2:05.1	Kent was a successful accountant.
2:06.9	Tricia was an elementary school teacher.
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