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Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

We're in the series, Bad Seeds.

Where I share cases of parasite or the murder of parents by their children.

On this episode, I'll tell you about one of the most baffling cases of parental murder that I've ever encountered.

Lowly Andrews didn't just kill his mother and father, but wiped out his entire family when he also turned the gun on his older sister.

Andrews confessed motivation for the killings was thin at best, and he never expressed remorse or regret for what he had done.

Was he mentally ill as his defense tried to claim?

Or was this a case of a bad seed?

A child born evil who decided to pick one snowy November evening to enact his murderous impulses.

This is chapter two of Bad Seeds, the case of Lowly Andrews.

Just after 1 a.m. on the morning of November 29, 1958, the Wyandotte County Sheriff's Office received a report of a burglary at 6104 Wollcott Drive.

The caller said he derived home late and found his house ransacked and his family shot.

This was shocking to the deputy to say the least.

Wollcott, a small sliver of Kansas, northwest of Kansas City, was sparsely populated and virtually crime free.

A few small farmhouses dotted the landscape separated by large plots of land.

A burglary was surprising in itself, but a violent crime against the homeowners, the deputy couldn't fathom it, and wondered if it might be a prank call.

In either case, he didn't know what he'd find once he arrived.

As he drove up to the house, he parked his vehicle near the front porch.

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