Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of True Crime with Kendall Ray.

Thank you so much for joining me today. And if you're new to the show, then welcome.

So guys, today, oh my God, the case that word me talking, I can confidently say, has just had my head spinning.

This case is just riddled with family drama and dysfunction and lots and lots of finger pointing.

Today we're going to be talking about the murder of Gary Ferris, who is a father of four, a very well-loved man. He was known as

Big Daddy, which I will explain. And you may have heard this case referred to as the Ferris Wheel,

which is the name that their family is not all that fond of, but that is definitely what the

media has dubbed it. We do have a lot to

go over. This one is quite complicated. Like I was saying, we're going to be talking about Gary Ferris,

and he was born on June 27, 1960 in Tuscumbia, Alabama to his parents, Betty and Gene,

along with his three younger siblings, John, Patricia, and Sherry. Now, he was a lot of things,

but one thing that really stood out to me was just how everyone spoke about his work ethic and his

drive. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Northern Alabama and his

jurist doctor degree from the University of Alabama Law School. And while there, he was the editor

and chief of the Alabama Law Review. And on top of that, like I mentioned in the University of Alabama Law School. And while there, he was the editor-in-chief of the

Alabama Law Review. And on top of that, like I mentioned in the beginning of the episode, he was a

husband and a father. And he and his wife actually met when they were just teenagers. And her name is

Melody. And by his sophomore year in college, the two of them were married and pretty quickly

had their first child. Now, Chris was their firstborn son, but he was followed by three more kids, Scott, then

Emily, and then Amanda. And while Melody was home with the kids, Gary was at the office. After graduating,

he first joined the law firm Burr and Foreman as a commercial real estate attorney in Birmingham.

And then in 2013,

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