The Shocking Murder of Terry King (Part 2)

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

True Crime, Comedy, Dark History, Paranormal

4.5 • 95.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 61 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 Elena. I'm Ash. And this is morbid.
0:37.7	I need a fridge cigarette and we don't have any. Like, bam. And the episode has started. I think I took the last one. Mikey's looking for me. Mikey's like, I got you, girl. He waved his fist. He's going to punch me. At the fact that there's no fridge cigarette. Mikey's going to punch me and possums. Yeah. You will understand that until you listen to the rewatcher.
0:57.2	Just plug in all our shows. Plug-de-plug-plug. Plug-de-plug. Actually, the re-watcher, just a quick little plug-ty-plug-plug. Now that we're on it. The amount of people that were either like, hey, I never watched True Blood and I'm watching it now because of this, or I didn't initially like True Blood and now I'm loving it. Hell yeah. I've seen some of those and I think that's a pretty good indication that you should be listening to The Rwatching. I think that's a great indication. It's a lot of fun over there. Talking about a lot of vampire sex right now. It's the same kind of vibe. I've never seen True Blood before, so I'm watching
1:11.3	it for the first time. And Mikey and Elena have seen it. Yeah. We need, I'm going to, we should do a
1:16.5	thing that you guys have never seen that I've seen. It would be the most reckless. It would have to be
1:22.1	reality television or like secret life of the American teenager.
1:28.0	Oh, my God.
1:29.0	We should rewatch that show.
1:31.1	Please don't do that to me.
1:32.9	I don't know if I could do that to myself.
1:34.6	No, frankly, I really don't know if I could do that to myself.
1:36.9	Yeah, I could not.
1:37.8	I remember there came a time where my mom made me stop watching that because it got so reckless.
1:42.3	And honestly, that was one of the only
1:44.3	good parenting decisions she ever made. So there's that. Speaking of crazy family dynamics,
1:51.9	we are in part two of the gruesome awful murder of Terry King. Yeah, this one's rough. This one is
1:58.2	very rough. It's very layered.
2:03.5	There's a lot of divisive opinions about this case.
2:08.1	I don't think any of us will really ever know the full truth of certain aspects of this case.
2:12.1	But we definitely know some truths and they're tough to sit with.
2:18.5	But in part one, we talked about how Terry was discovered in a house fire, which they initially just thought was, you know, a house fire. But it turned out that he had basically suffered like
2:23.3	blunt force trauma to his head and then the killer had left and set the house on fire.
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