Ruby Ridge Revisited: Fear, Firearms, and Family on the Edge
10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories
Joe Kuner
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The Weaver family retreated to Idaho hoping to protect their kids from a world they saw as collapsing. But their attempt to live off the grid pulled them into a web of suspicion tied to white supremacist groups, federal agents, and a neighbor’s feud. What began as a land dispute escalated into a deadly standoff fueled by mistrust and miscommunication. This episode digs into how paranoia, firearms, and government pressure collided with family loyalty, and how that mix exploded in a way nobody saw coming.
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| 0:00.0 | The Weaver family wanted out of the world's mess, so they moved to the mountains of Idaho to homeschool, grow their own food, and overall try to avoid trouble. |
| 0:10.8 | Trouble didn't get the memo. A land dispute turned federal standoff. Neighbors turned informants, and guns turned everything into a powder keg. What happened next? Well, it's a story |
| 0:24.1 | about family, fear, and a showdown nobody could predict. Before we jump in, if you like your true |
| 0:30.8 | crime brief and bingeable, you're exactly where you need to be. Hit follow now for at least two |
| 0:36.7 | new episodes every week. |
| 0:38.4 | This is 10-minute murder. Let's get into it. In the 1980s, Randy Weaver, an Iowa factory worker and former U.S. soldier, |
| 1:12.7 | decided to take his wife Vicky and their four kids out to Idaho. |
| 1:18.0 | Vicky was the family's spiritual anchor, leading with strong beliefs that shaped their way of life. |
| 1:24.5 | She'd been having this reoccurring dream about living on a mountain. A warning, |
| 1:29.1 | at least to her, that the world as they knew it was heading for trouble. Randy and Vicky saw the |
| 1:35.7 | world around them as a mess of darkness and corruption. Their goal was simple. Protect their kids |
| 1:41.8 | from as much as they possibly could. That led them to Ruby Ridge, |
| 1:46.2 | Idaho, where they could homeschool, grow their own food, and basically unplug from what they viewed |
| 1:52.0 | as a broken system. Even in their isolated corner, conflict found them. They got tangled up with |
| 1:58.9 | one of the few neighbors nearby, Terry Kinnison. Over a $3,000 |
| 2:03.3 | land dispute. Randy won the case, but Kinnison wasn't about to forget the loss. More importantly, |
| 2:10.2 | he made sure some powerful folks knew exactly what he thought of the weavers. Burning over losing |
| 2:16.8 | the land case, Terry Kinnison took things up a notch. |
| 2:20.3 | He fired off letters to the FBI, the Secret Service, and his local sheriff, |
| 2:25.3 | claiming that Randy Weaver had threatened the lives of President Ronald Reagan, |
| 2:30.3 | Idaho's Governor John Evans, and even Pope John Paul II. |
| 2:40.7 | The Weavers somehow got wind of these serious accusations and fired back with letters of their own, |
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