They Were Expecting Santa Claus, But Instead They Got a Monster
This Is Monsters
Jiles
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Episode 26 : Jerry Heidler
Jerry Heidler lived through a terrible childhood that made him ill prepared when he lost a loved one. The loss pushed him into a rage that left four dead the lives of many children destroyed.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't normally cover cases more than once, but I'm going to do a full episode of someone |
| 0:05.0 | who appeared on my most recent list episode. |
| 0:08.9 | It was the last story on the list, and while looking up info for the episode, I realized |
| 0:13.4 | there was so much more detail about the case, and I was interested in learning more about it. |
| 0:18.0 | So here we go. |
| 0:20.3 | The Daniels family lived in Santa Claus, Georgia, |
| 0:23.5 | and were a family that gave back to the community. Kim Daniels had not only been a foster |
| 0:29.0 | child herself, but when she was struggling in her younger years, her own children were put in the |
| 0:34.3 | system while she struggled to put her life back together. |
| 0:43.3 | Once that was done, she got her kids back and became one of the local social services best foster homes for children in need of a temporary home. |
| 0:47.9 | It was that selflessness that would bring a young man into their home who would go on to |
| 0:52.6 | destroy the family and turn Santa Claus from a |
| 0:55.5 | merry holiday themed town into a place of terror. This is Monsters. |
| 1:05.1 | Music Jerry Heidler was born on June 9, 1977 in Alma, Georgia to George and Lattrell Heidler. |
| 1:34.2 | Jerry was born with a heart defect that was discovered when he was four years old, and though he |
| 1:38.7 | underwent a successful surgery to correct it, his mother often used it as a reason she didn't |
| 1:44.1 | want to punish him for |
| 1:45.1 | acting up. Latrell had been married for a few months when she was 15 years old and had a child |
| 1:51.0 | with that man, but they divorced and the child remained with their father. She married George |
| 1:56.3 | when she was 18 and they would go on to have four children. George Jr., who went by Butch, Lisa, Steve, |
| 2:03.4 | and Jerry was the youngest. When Jerry was eight, his father left the family and moved to Florida. |
| 2:10.4 | The following year, Latrell married a man named Lott Moseley, who was an abusive alcoholic |
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