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48 Hours

The Farris Wheel

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.97K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Melody Farris, the matriarch of a wealthy family spins a tale trying to pin the murder of her husband on her own son.  Peter Van Sant reports. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Murders don't happen every day in Cherokee County. The type of murder that happened in this case doesn't happen a lot.

0:55.0

But if it were to happen, it would be in this family.

1:01.0

Was the Ferris family a happy family?

1:07.0

No.

1:09.0

This family was not like every other family.

1:12.6

There was a lot of love there, but there was also a lot of family drama.

1:16.6

Constant infighting, animosity among siblings for money, for their father's money.

1:22.6

And I think that that's where the drama always came back, was who was going to get dad's money.

1:29.3

The Ferris family is made up of Gary Ferris, the Patriarch, Melody Ferris, the mother, and then there were four children.

1:35.3

The oldest being Chris Ferris, then there was Scott Ferris, and then you have Emily and then Amanda.

1:43.3

Gary Ferris was a brilliant commercial real estate attorney.

1:47.0

He was very smart.

1:49.0

He loved his kids.

1:52.0

Melody is a very straightforward person who, for the last 35 years, had been a stay-at-home

1:58.0

mom.

1:59.0

I'm the mother who took care of everything, took care of everybody.

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