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Forensic Files

Family Interrupted

Forensic Files

HLN

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A family interrupts a burglary in their suburban home. The gunman kills two and wounds two more. Police suspect the crime is related to a string of thefts in the area, but a closer look at the crime scene reveals the real motive and killer.

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0:00.0

Up next, a masked gunman attacks a suburban family.

0:04.0

Man one whine.

0:05.0

Someone just shot or no one.

0:06.0

He's shot down.

0:07.0

We don't know someone in the map.

0:09.0

This is the most horrible crime I've ever investigated.

0:11.0

The killer leaves several clues.

0:13.0

My first thought with the black glove was not another OJ.

0:16.0

Whoever the crooks were made a mistake leaving behind evidence.

0:19.0

But the forensic evidence reveals something far worse than police ever imagined.

0:24.6

That is a pinnacle moment for me in my forensic career because it doesn't happen that often.

0:29.6

In Sugar Land, Texas, just outside of Houston, everyone knew the Whitaker family.

0:45.3

Fifty-five-year-old Kent Whitaker managed a construction business that had been in the family for a generation.

0:52.3

The business did well. I mean, in construction booms, they did real well.

0:57.1

And when construction wasn't booming, they still held their own.

1:00.3

So it was a great business.

1:02.7

Kent and his wife, Trisha, and their two sons, Bart and Kevin,

1:07.0

were in a festive mood on the night of December 10, 2003.

1:12.0

24-year-old Bart was about to graduate from college

1:15.1

with a criminal justice degree.

1:17.7

They said, let's go out and eat and let's celebrate.

1:23.2

When they returned home from dinner, they were ambushed.

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