How Kent Whitaker Forgave His Son for the Murder of His Family

True Crime with Kendall Rae

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

How hard would it be to forgive the person responsible for murdering your family? What if that person was another family member yours? After 24-year-old Thomas Bartlett Whitaker killed his mom, brother, and almost father, it was his father who found it within himself to forgive his attacker–his now only son.

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0:39.0	Today's case is very, very interesting.
0:41.6	I am so looking forward to seeing what you guys have to say on this one in the comments section.
0:46.2	If someone murdered one of your family members or murdered your entire family,
0:52.2	do you think you would ever be able to forgive them?
0:54.2	What about if that person was also a family member?
0:57.3	Would that make it even harder?
0:58.5	Do you think you'd be able to find forgiveness?
1:00.4	Lots of things to ponder as we go into this one.
1:03.2	So let me start out by telling you about Bart Whitaker.
1:06.5	So Thomas Bartlett Whitaker, who went by Bart, was born on December 31, 1979 in Houston, Texas,
1:13.0	to his mother Patricia and his father Kent.
1:15.8	And when Bart was about five years old, his parents had another son named Kevin.
1:19.6	So their family of four lived just outside the Houston area in Sugarland, Texas.
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