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Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Episode 468: The Daniels Family Murders aka The Santa Claus Murders

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On December 4, 1997, four members of the Daniels family were brutally shot and killed inside their home in the tiny town of Santa Claus, Georgia. The killer was Jerry Scott Heidler, then a 20-year-old man who had previously been acquainted with the Daniels family because they once fostered his sister. Heidler has remained on death row in Georgia since his conviction, and his appeals have been consistently denied.  Click here to join our Patreon.  Click here to get your own Inhuman merch.  Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group.  To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see all sources for this episode: https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up, you guys?

0:01.2

I'm Andrea.

0:02.7

And I'm Haley.

0:04.4

And you're listening to Inhuman, a true crime podcast.

0:55.8

Thank you. Welcome back everybody. Happy day. I hope that everybody had a wonderful Christmas and holiday season, I guess. It's kind of still, we're kind of still in the midst of it with New Year's right around the corner. But I just wanted to say that I hope everyone had good times with their family and their friends and their loved ones. And thank you guys for allowing us to take a week off so we could do the same.

0:57.9

I know we definitely needed it.

0:59.2

Yes.

1:03.3

With all the hustle and hustle of everything in December.

1:09.5

But today's case is still kind of in that realm.

1:12.9

So it was a case that I was going to cover last week,

1:15.9

but I just pushed it back to this week since we took last week off.

1:20.0

And this is the case of the Daniels family murders.

1:21.4

Okay.

1:23.2

And I was like... Heard of this one.

1:24.3

Yeah.

1:24.7

I cannot believe, honest to goodness,

1:27.1

I cannot believe with all of the

1:28.9

cases like this that specifically you have covered, because I feel like that's kind of your

1:34.5

your forte, your niche, that we haven't covered this one, but I'm covering it today and

1:42.5

it is a truly, truly disturbing case.

1:48.2

Okay.

1:49.4

All right.

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