EPISODE 272: "Chopping Down the Family Tree": Amy and Ross Vilardi

Carolina Crimes

Matt Hiers and Danielle Myers

True Crime

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In 2015, a Pendelton, SC called 911 after discovering four senior citizens and family members murdered in their home. Investigators were stumped until a pair of shoes told the tale that was much closer to home than they ever thought.

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0:00.0	For over 350 years, the state of South Carolina has been the setting for some of the most horrendous crimes ever committed.
0:14.0	Some have gained global notoriety. Some have been forgotten. And others have been swept under the rug completely.
0:23.4	Now, two South Carolina natives and true crime enthusiasts have teamed up to examine these heinous acts in detail,
0:31.2	giving their perspective of the evil that has resided in the Palmetto State.
0:36.8	You're listening to Carolina Crimes.
0:42.6	And welcome back to Carolina Crimes episode 272.
0:47.8	I'm one of your host, Matt Hires, along with.
0:50.0	Daniel Myers.
0:50.8	And we're over the moon.
0:52.1	thrilled that you joined us here for this week's episode.
0:55.4	We're going to the upstate.
0:57.0	We haven't been there in a little bit.
0:58.2	I know.
0:58.7	Hadn't been there in a little bit.
1:00.2	But thank you so much in advance.
1:03.6	Well, thank you in retrospect, I guess.
1:06.5	To all those that reached out about last week's episode out of Somerville, you know, the Sarah Moore, Colucci, the kind of mysterious circumstances that still surround that death.
1:20.0	A tragedy all the way around.
1:21.8	Yeah.
1:22.6	And a few other tragedies peppered in there.
1:26.4	That was bananas.
1:28.9	Yeah.
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