Episode 331

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

History, Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture

4 • 61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

When 65-year-old Kenneth Reece returned to his quiet farmhouse, he found a nightmare waiting: a decapitated body in his living room and his estranged son, Kenny McBride, claiming ignorance. But once detectives uncovered the victim’s head, the gruesome truth and deep family scars started to surface.

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0:00.0	Sword and scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:06.3	Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.0	He's laying here, and I can't even see his head, and there's blood all over the place.
0:17.1	There's blood everywhere?
0:18.7	Yes.
0:20.8	This is it for the faint, hearted, for those who easily faint.
0:26.8	This is episode 331 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real.
0:57.0	Yeah. Monsters are real. The The Kenneth Reese was drained.
1:31.1	Another long shift at the Chrysler plant in Detroit.
1:34.5	Another bitter February night in 2020.
1:38.3	The last few years had taken everything from him.
1:41.2	First, he lost his wife to cancer.
1:47.0	Now, at 60-something, he wore the title he never expected to have.
1:54.6	Widower. Weren't women supposed to outlive their husbands? That's not the way it worked out for Kenneth. At 3 a.m., he pulled into the driveway of his farmhouse in Temperance,
2:00.3	Michigan.
2:05.8	The car ticked as it cooled after an hour-long trip home.
2:09.3	He couldn't wait to lie down and just go to sleep.
2:15.5	Kenneth climbed the porch steps heavy with exhaustion and opened the front door.
2:19.4	The moment he stepped inside, he froze.
2:22.8	Art pounding, he yelled for his son upstairs.
2:27.2	Then grabbed his phone and called 911.
2:29.0	Hello, 911.
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