When TikTok Beef Turns Deadly: The Durhams vs The Lathams
10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories
Joe Kuner
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Zachary Latham wasn’t famous—but he wanted to be. So he picked a fight with his neighbors, filmed it, and posted it to TikTok. Over and over. Until one of them ended up dead.
In this episode, we break down the chain of events that turned a teenage grudge into a fatal stabbing. A neighborhood feud, fueled by likes and comments, escalated in real time while police reports piled up and courts stayed closed.
What started with reckless driving ended in a garage, with a knife, a camera, and a man who wouldn’t walk out alive.
Was it self-defense, or a setup disguised as content? And why didn’t the legal system seem to have a straight answer?
This is the case of Zachary Latham—where social media, obsession, and violence collided just past the edge of a suburban driveway.
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| 0:00.0 | You've got one neighbor with a loud truck and a TikTok account, and another with a corrections officer job and absolutely no patience for nonsense. |
| 0:11.0 | Toss in some viral videos, a pandemic that shuts down the courts, and a teenager who treats harassment like a content strategy. |
| 0:19.5 | And yeah, things are going to escalate, fast. Today's |
| 0:23.4 | episode is about Zachary Latham, a kid who thought going viral was worth just about anything, |
| 0:29.5 | including the kind of attention you usually get from a homicide detective. Before we get |
| 0:34.5 | started, if you like your true crime brief and bingeable, you're in the right place. |
| 0:39.4 | Hit follow so you don't miss the two new episodes I drop every week. |
| 0:43.6 | This is 10-minute murder. |
| 0:45.7 | Let's be clear. |
| 1:04.7 | This isn't some medieval tale of knights defending family honor. |
| 1:08.9 | It's not epic. |
| 1:10.2 | It's not noble. It's not noble. It's Suburban South Jersey in |
| 1:13.9 | 2020. The only armor involved is probably Carhart, and instead of swords, it was cell phones and |
| 1:21.3 | pickup trucks. On one side of the property line, you've got the Durham's, a tight-knit family led by 51-year-old William Durham, |
| 1:29.4 | a corrections officer who didn't exactly shy away from confrontation. Husband, father, |
| 1:35.0 | not the kind of guy to let things slide. On the other side, the Lathams and their 18-year-old |
| 1:41.2 | son, Zachary. Loud truck, louder personality, and a TikTok account that basically doubled as a digital middle finger to anyone who didn't find him hilarious. |
| 1:52.3 | Spoiler, the Durham's did not find him hilarious. |
| 1:56.0 | They thought he was a shithead. |
| 1:58.2 | Zachary liked to peel around the neighborhood like it was his own personal racetrack. |
| 2:02.7 | The noise was obnoxious, sure, but it was the way he drove, fast, careless, like anyone |
| 2:09.7 | else's safety was an afterthought that pushed people past annoyed and straight into worried, |
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