The Shocking Murder of Terry King (Part 1)

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

Dark History, Comedy, Paranormal, True Crime

4.5 • 95.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

When firefighters discovered the body of forty-year-old Terry King inside the charred remains of his Cantonment, Florida home in November 2001, they assumed the man had been asleep when the fire broke out and died as a result. Upon further inspection, investigators found that King hadn’t died as a result of the fire, but from severe blunt force trauma to his head. And even more alarming than that was the fact that King’s two boys, thirteen-year-old Derek and twelve-year-old Alex, were missing. Having occurred immediately in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Terry King’s murder could have easily been one of many tragedies lost in the fog of national trauma and grief; however, when King’s killers were arrested and identified in the days that followed, the story was so shocking, and the motive so heartbreaking, that it managed to break through the wall-to-wall coverage of the attacks.

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0:00.0	Hey, weirdos, I'm Ash. And I'm Elena. And this is morbid.
0:06.7	This is morbid. It's a podcast that you listen to to hear scary, cautionary, horrifying, chilling, paranormal tales that are sometimes motivational.
0:35.8	Yeah. And Twilightified. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
0:53.8	And Twilightified. Oh, yeah. You get ready for that, babes. It's coming up quick, actually. Get ready. Yeah. I can't wait. I'm going to reread New Moon. Oh, bitch, I got to reread it. Yeah, I got to order it. Yeah. I have it. I just got to dig it out. I'm so jealous of you having your original copies. Oh, yeah.
0:55.3	I got shuffled around so much.
0:55.7	I know.
0:57.2	It just didn't work out.
0:57.6	I know.
1:11.7	I was lucky. I only really had to go from one house to... That's actually so wild. Yeah. Like, you moved from mom, papas, to one apartment and then, like, with John. Yeah, I was just with John after that. That's cuckoo nuts. One of your kids asked me how many times I moved to the other day and I was like, babe, I don't have time to count right now. I feel like it's a lot. I have no time to count right now. There's a lot here. Yeah. I feel like I'm like still recovering from New York, like in a good way. I had so much fun. I always recover from any kind of travel. Yeah, same. You had a certain age and you're just like,
1:28.8	I'm always thrown off by it.
1:30.9	I forgot to mention. I had so much fun. I always recover from any kind of travel. Yeah, same. You had a certain age and you're
1:28.5	like, yeah, I'm always thrown off by it. I forgot to mention when we were talking about it, though, me and Drew saw Death Becomes Her. If anybody has a chance to go see that show, go see it. Mikey had seen it before me, and he was like, you got to go. And it's like one of my favorite movies. So I was like, oh yeah, like I'll definitely go.
1:49.3	I wasn't, I'm not like a huge musical person usually. I'm going to fight you. I know.
1:56.6	Somebody. It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen in my life, I think. Yeah, I've heard nothing but good things. It was so much fun. We got to see Michelle Williams,
2:06.2	which was like next level. I thought John was very impressed by that. Drew thought that was the funniest thing in the world because we met up with you guys later and Drew was like telling
2:11.0	John about it. And John was like, oh my God, that's so cool. And then that night Drew was like,
2:16.1	John like cares about Michelle Williams. And I was like, yeah, I was like, John, like, cares about Michelle Williams? And I was
2:18.1	like, yeah, I was like, John's a big 90s guy. He's a big R&B guy. It was so funny. Yeah, it was a great show. So if you guys have a chance to see it. And I met a couple listeners there. Oh, I love that. And they were so nice. What a nice place to meet people. I know. It really was. I love when it's like a good vibe like that.
2:33.2	Mm-hmm.
2:33.5	Well, yeah, the vibes are impeccable.
2:34.9	Oh, yeah.
2:35.6	Top-notch.
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