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Blood is Thicker: The Hargan Family Killings

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Blood is Thicker: The Hargan Family Killings

CBS News

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.1965 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Detectives finally arrest a suspect in the Hargan family murders. But at trial, defense attorneys argue a new theory for how the killings might have happened. And that theory might cast enough doubt to throw the entire trial into question. Get early, ad-free access to episodes of Blood is Thicker: The Hargan Family Killings by subscribing to 48 Hours Plus on Apple Podcasts or Wondery+ on the Wondery app. The series is widely available everywhere else you get your podcasts. Subscribe to 48 Hours+: https://apple.co/4aEgENo Subscribe to Wondery+: https://wondery.com/plus/ 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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0:00.0

This episode contains graphic audio and references to self-harm and family violence.

0:08.4

Please listen with care.

0:10.6

I think that she is contemplating how to murder her family that night.

0:16.0

And she wants to do that for what purpose?

0:19.2

The sole purpose of greed, money.

0:24.5

When Detective Brian Beyerson first walked through the crime scene on Dean Drive in McLean, Virginia,

0:31.2

he saw a macabre jigsaw puzzle. And he wasn't yet sure how the bloody pieces fit together. But now, nearly 16 months

0:41.5

after the shootings, he was ready to make an arrest. Detective Byerson told me he believed

0:48.5

Megan started plotting the murders after her first failed attempt to wire money from her mother's account. And it may have all

0:57.6

come down to, as strange as it may seem, her mother's cell phone. That's how petty this whole thing is.

1:07.2

She knows that she has to have her mother's cell phone because she has to

1:12.5

answer that phone and she has to regurgitate a security number that they're going to give

1:17.4

her on that cell phone. And in order for her to get that phone, she's going to have to kill her

1:21.5

mom. That petty. That petty. But what about Helen? What motivated Megan to also shoot her youngest sister?

1:32.3

Perhaps it was to eliminate a witness even if it was her own flesh and blood.

1:39.3

I think Helen knew what happened.

1:42.3

I mean, I will never understand, I don't think, in any capacity,

1:47.5

why it is that Megan went upstairs and told her

1:50.7

that she had shot their mother.

1:53.2

I have no idea why she did that.

1:55.7

I can only assume that at some point

1:58.3

after telling her that she realized

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