The Sugar Land Conspiracy
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Whitaker family – Kent, his wife Tricia, and their two sons, Bart and Kevin – returned to their Sugar Land, Texas, home from dinner at a restaurant on December 10, 2003. Upon entering, Kevin and his mother were fatally shot by a gunman inside the house. Police investigation revealed that the murders had been planned by Bart Whitaker, who had enlisted friends Steven Champagne and Chris Brashear to carry out the plot and had intended on being shot himself as part of the scenario. “48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 8/22/2009. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+.
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| 0:09.8 | Join me 48 hours correspondent Aaron Moriarty, on my podcast, My Life of Crime, as I take on |
| 0:17.6 | true crime investigations like no other. |
| 0:21.3 | This season, I'm looking into the secrets within families, cutting straight to the |
| 0:26.4 | evidence and talking to the people directly involved. |
| 0:30.7 | Enjoy my life of crime on the Wundery app or wherever you get your |
| 0:35.7 | podcast you can listen ad free on Wundery Plus. I'm going deep into my wife's |
| 0:41.8 | family history digging up the cold case of her murdered great-grandmother |
| 0:45.8 | And did I mention that I'm looking into whether the murderer was actually the beloved family patriarch |
| 0:50.9 | Binge all episodes of Ghost Story, ad free right now on Wondery Plus. The worker family was a very welcoming godly family. |
| 1:17.0 | Christ was a very important part of what they did. |
| 1:20.0 | Do do do. |
| 1:21.0 | All right. |
| 1:22.0 | The Whitaker home was the place to hang out. |
| 1:25.0 | Did you find one? |
| 1:26.0 | It was the cool house to be it. |
| 1:28.0 | Very safe, very nurturing, godly loving home. |
| 1:32.6 | Every time we went over there you felt loved. |
| 1:36.8 | They were a family who had fun and they traveled and they laughed and |
| 1:40.0 | you know they joked around with each other. |
| 1:41.6 | And everyone loved Trish and Kent. |
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