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Murder: True Crime Stories

Crime House

True Crime

4.6 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On Halloween morning 2010, a teenage boy in Sandusky, Ohio, walked into a nightmare — his mother, stepfather, and brother brutally murdered in their beds. The investigation pointed to a troubled family member whose demons had long been kept at bay…until that night.
Five years later, in a quiet South Carolina town, another family’s Halloween turned into horror. Four members of the Scott family were found slain inside their home — a massacre that baffled police for nearly a decade.
In this chilling Halloween special, Carter Roy unravels two stories of family bonds twisted by violence, of killers hidden in plain sight, and of the haunting truth that sometimes…the real terror waits inside your own home.

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0:00.0	Crime House has the perfect news show for Spooky Season, Twisted Tales hosted by Heidi Wong.
0:08.8	Each episode of Twisted Tales is perfect for late-night scares and daytime frights,
0:14.6	revealing the disturbing real-life events that inspired the world's most terrifying blockbusters,
0:21.5	and the ones too twisted to make it to scream.
0:24.8	Twisted Tales is a crimehouse original powered by Pave Studios.
0:29.2	Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.6	New episodes out every Monday.
0:33.4	Music This is We're
0:43.4	This is crime house
0:49.1	We usually think of haunted houses
0:51.0	as creepy manners on misty hilltops.
0:57.2	They have gargoyles covered in cobwebs and old paintings with eyes that follow us wherever we go. But the houses that truly
1:03.2	haunt us are the ones where real loss has taken place. On Halloween morning in 2010, 16-year-old Devin Griffin discovered his mother and stepdad
1:15.9	murdered in their bedroom in Sandusky, Ohio. The tragic events that followed would forever change
1:22.5	how Devin viewed the house his family once shared. Exactly five years later and hundreds of miles away, more lives were shattered in Pendleton,
1:32.9	South Carolina.
1:34.9	On Halloween night, four members of the Scott family were brutally killed on their property,
1:40.6	but the carnage wasn't the only shocking aspect of the crime.
1:47.2	So was the killer's identity.
1:54.5	Both events have served as a terrifying reminder that on Halloween, nowhere is safe.
1:58.0	Not even your own home.
2:10.6	People's lives are like a story. There's a beginning, a middle, and an end, but you don't always know which part you're on.
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