When beloved family patriarch, Gary Ferris went missing, his family looked everywhere on their

property until they came across something horrifying. It's a homicide.

Absolutely. The blame game in this family went round and round. This is Blood is Thicker,

the Ferris Wheel. I don't see how anyone can look at this story and think they were happy.

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I'm I think we have to fight hard for our loved ones,

and we have to listen to them and be cautious about the people that we allow into our lives.

I wish so much that I would have fought harder for mom. I'm an only child of Kim Langwell.

She made me her whole world.

She was my best friend.

In July of 1999, I was a normal 15-year-old teenager.

Everything seemed pretty perfect in life.

July 9th, what are your plans for that night?

We were going to go out to eat.

She called me after work just to make sure that I was on track, you know,

ready for dinner that night.

And then I can't get a hold of her.

I immediately start texting her 911. She just never called.

And all I could think about was, maybe there's something, you know, that she's just not telling me.

And you just keep thinking she was just there. She was just on the phone. What do I do? I woke up to my phone ringing and it was Ken Weatherford, my mom's boyfriend.

Hey, did your mom come home?

And I said, no, she's not here.

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