Shot, Burned, and Betrayed: The Chilling Pettit Family Massacre
Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast By Kelly Jennings
Envision Podcast Productions
4.8 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
What began as an arson call quickly spiraled into one of the most shocking family betrayal cases in recent true-crime history. Investigators uncovered a twisted plot allegedly fueled by greed, inheritance, life insurance payouts, and one prized 1961 Corvette. At the center of it all? A son and the friend he supposedly hired to carry out the unthinkable.
Timestamps
03:34 A Case from Modesto, California
15:02 The Day of the Tragedy
20:30 Investigating the Fire
27:43 Brandon's Background
38:53 Felix Valverde: The Unlikely Associate
41:52 Evidence Found at Felix's Apartment
1:06:49 Brandon's Trial
1:14:17 The True Face of Evil
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell stories of real crimes with real victims, |
| 0:11.7 | whose cases are so shocking that many are left wondering, how is this even real? |
| 0:30.9 | I use my experiences in law enforcement, corrections, and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator, dig deep into complex cases of evil acts. |
| 0:34.4 | Some so evil, many feel they are unspeakable. |
| 0:53.6 | Warning, unspeakable is intended for mature audiences. |
| 0:56.3 | If you are easily offended, then I'm not your girl. |
| 1:01.5 | Listening discretion is advised. Hey, y'all, it's KJ. You're back with another episode of Unspeakable. |
| 1:07.7 | How's your week going? I hope it's fantastic. I have been working so hard on some new content and some new projects that I'm excited to roll out here in the future. But today's episode, it's a little different, not really, I guess, but it's a little different in people that are involved. And I'll get to that in just a second to explain it to you. First, let me do some shout-outs. So I have got three of them I'm going to go through today, and I'm going to start in West Des Moines, Iowa. And I've got Ms. Carrie Issa Brand, that she has joined our crime family. So, Carrie, I'm waving to you on the camera. I appreciate you so much. And I'm so thankful to have you here in the crime family. And then I've got G. Now, just G. That's the letter that my girl, Ginger, goes by. And so I don't have a last |
| 1:47.0 | name for you, Ginger, but you know it's you. And I don't have an address on file for you either, |
| 1:52.1 | but I want to give everybody the opportunity now to hear me out when I say, if you are on Patreon, |
| 1:57.1 | please go in there and make sure you put your address in there, especially if you are at the |
| 2:01.8 | crime family level, because if I go to mail out quarterly gifts and I don't have your address |
| 2:06.6 | or it's an incorrect address, your gift will go nowhere or to the wrong address. And I want to |
| 2:12.5 | make sure that you get them. So please go in there, update your address, but either way, wherever you are in the world, |
| 2:18.2 | my girl, G. Ginger, I'm so thankful to have you. And I know we spoke already on Patreon, and |
| 2:23.4 | I'm excited for our friendship. And then, last but certainly not least, just for today, from |
| 2:28.3 | Prattville, Alabama is Miss Deanna Wren. What is going on over there in Alabama? I hope you're having the best week. |
| 2:35.9 | And again, Deanna, you're the difference. I'm so excited to have you on my Patreon. It means everything and your support is what allows me to keep doing what I'm doing. So if you are interested in joining, you can go to |
| 2:46.9 | patreon.com, p-a-t, P-A-T-R-E-O-N-P-T-R-E-O-N-P-T-R-N-P-T-R-N-P-T-R-N-P-R-N-P-T-R-E-O-N-B-E-a-t-r-e-o-n-patri-on-patri-com, and you can sign up. There's also a free option. Everything's not about money. You can also join for free and see certain things there. So be happy to have you there. There's also a merch link. If you go to unspeakable, the podcast.com, there's a merch link there, a tab. You can go and you can order you some merch. |
| 3:10.1 | Also, because I had some requests for this, I'm getting with my distributor this week, |
| 3:15.2 | and we are going to try to set up maybe a different type of ordering option on there where |
| 3:20.1 | maybe you can build an item and make it more customizable. So stay tuned for that. Whenever I get the answers for that, I will be happy to share them with you. So a few things to look forward to. And I want to make sure that you're all on top of that and you know what is going on. So today, I didn't have any shoutouts in California, but this episode is going to take place in California. |
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