Shakespeare wrote in his prologue to Romeo and Juliet, two households both alike in dignity,

in Fair Verona, where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where

civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

This may be the first Shakespeare slash true crime crossover, but that opening explains

this countdown to a T, two families from similar classes with long running grudges, and they

got bloody.

What you won't get a lot of in this episode though, star cross lovers, because there is

no love loss between these dueling families.

There's a lot of deadly dysfunction you're about to be introduced to, but number one may

be THE quintessential family versus family battle, ever.

Hey all you weirdos, welcome to Crime Countdown, a Spotify original from podcast.

I'm Ash, and I'm Alaina.

Every week we'll highlight ten fascinating stories of history's most engaging and unsettling

crimes, all picked by the podcast research gods.

This episode we're counting down the top ten famously fatal family feuds.

I can't imagine feuding with another family, no, honestly everyone's families have enough

going on within them for me to feel like I should feud with someone else's, like we've

all got enough going on in our own, exactly that's what I'm saying, and it just feels

completely pointless because feuds never end with a winner, like there's always a bad ending,

you never hear a feud that's like wow, and then everything turned out really well, and

it was all Holly and John.

And someone lived happily ever after, it's always everyone's upset at the end, no.

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