[16][17][b] Today, Bart resides in the William G. McConnell Unit, or McConnell for short, in Beeville, Texas. I think this needs to change because in matters of life and death the public has a right to know why, when X has been adjudged by a jury as deserving of death, a panel not unanswerable to the public makes a private decision to overturn. Try Sundance Now free for 30 days by going to SundanceNow.com and use promo code killerListen to The Generation Why Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or you can listen ad-free by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app!If you have any thoughts on this case or any other case, or just want to get in touch with Savannah about the show, email her at killerinstinctpodcast@gmail.com. He began to load the shotgun with bullets when his wife stepped in front of him. Of course, someone rich enough to post $3m bail can afford good representation, buying relative lenience. In February 2018, each of the seven board members separately voted to commute Barts sentence, and the governor concurred. He had dropped out of Sam Houston State University as a freshman, and had been lying to his family about being a student there for three years. [38][13], Whitaker earned an undergraduate degree from Adams State University,[39] and a Master's degree in Humanities from California State University, Dominguez Hills. [16] Prosecutors presented evidence that although it wasn't Whitaker who shot his family members, he was responsible for the murders because he played the leading part in the conspiracy to commit the murders[19][bettersourceneeded], The prosecution's theory of motive focused on financial gain, with evidence variously described as pointing to Whitaker standing to inherit "about $1.5million" after the death of his parents and brother,[4] or that he had wanted to capitalize on a million-dollar life insurance payout. I respectfully wish to express my agreement with Mr Whitakers scheduled execution next month, which I do with a heavy heart. Police first checked out Adam Hipp himself as a suspect, but he had an alibi for the night of the shooting. Alex Murdaugh discovered the bodies of wife Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22, on June 7 near the dog kennels at their sprawling, 1,700-acre home. "But you can't walk around with anger.". got to do with justice (justice includes fair and equal treatment for all under law)? He was having a relaxing evening watching television. I swear I heard a shooting outside.. I am South African. Their oldest son, Bart, whom he had never met, since Bart lived up north in Willis, Texas, was about to graduate on Saturday. Defense attorneys asked that the jury be able to visit the scene of the killings to help them understand how small the storage room is where Paul Murdaugh was killed and the distance between the two bodies. I understand that Mr Whitakers father is requesting your clemency. [18][non-primary source needed] [18], After losing a separate appeal in the federal courts early in 2017,[21] Whitaker's legal team appealed his claims to the U.S. Supreme Court. Hipp said that Kent and Tricia had heard about the plot, but didnt take it seriously. That factor alone may not warrant commutation for someone like Mr. Whitaker who recruited others to commit murder. In this case the Texas parole board can make inconsistent decisions and swerve criticism by never giving their reasoning. One of the problems with clemency is that the decision/reasoning is never in the public domain. I agree with every sentiment, especially family members having the deciding vote as to the Death Penalty or not. I hope so. Hes no longer listed with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. He went through with it even after having two years to think about what his family meant to him following his first attempt to murder them. He had a good start better than most prisoners. [26][non-primary source needed] Board Chairman, David G. Gutirrez,[27] also met with Kent Whitaker for a half hour. At least citizens should expect and demand consistency within the same state (cf Jeffrey Dillingham in my below post). [citation needed] At trial, it was noted that Whitaker had access to an $80,000trust fund from his grandparents, although he testified that he did not know he could access it. remaining immediate family member. While I am torn over the question whether one fewer execution is better than no fewer, I find that if execution is to remain the ultimate punishment it must be applied strictly impartially unless as a principle it is to collapse in disrepute. Nor am I moved by a persons progress in prison. But the fact remains that this has been the case for the loved ones of very many executees: they have been hurt by the offenders actions and will be hurt again by his death. At night, when Kent would return home from his job at the Bartlett Construction Company, the couples would congregate out in the front yard and catch up on the days events. After deliberation the Fort Bend County jury convicted Whitaker of capital murder,[11] under the Texas law of parties. A defense expert said Riemer failed to shave hair from Paul Murdaugh's wound or X-ray his brain after it was blown from his body to confirm her findings. Dr. Ellen Riemer testified Tuesday that she stood by the findings of her autopsy that the fatal shot was fired upward. Andrew J. Whitaker/The Post And Courier via AP, Alex Murdaughs Ego Pushed Him To Kill His Family Rather Than Lose His Good Reputation, Prosecutors Said During Closing Arguments, I Knew Something Bad Was Going On: Alex Murdaughs Brother Described The Phone Call He Got On The Night Of The Murders, Alex Murdaugh Was Days Away From Unraveling Because Of A Boat Crash Lawsuit, But The Killings Of His Wife And Son Changed Everything, Alex Murdaugh Sobbed As Jurors Saw A Snapchat Video From His Son Allegedly Placing Him At The Scene Of The Murders. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Another case of perverse justice we could name many is Rae Carruth, whom youve covered. Chris Brashear pleaded guilty in 2007 and received life with the possibility of parole after 30 years. Quite the opposite, his parents were kind and generous by all accounts. Their son had been upstairs in his room when he peeked in on his parents in the living room. The authorities also directed Adam Tripp to try to get Bart to admit he planned his familys murder. And you are quite right Whitaker had at least two (that we know of) tries; so how doing well in prison makes people seem better is unbelievable. Whitakers father, Kent, also was shot in the 2003 plot at the familys suburban Houston home but survived and led the effort to save his son from execution. He banned drones from flying over. He told the hitman where Kevin kept his gun and asked him to stage a robbery. He and Brandon headed for the front door to see if something was going on. [12][verification needed][third-party source needed] The trial had lasted six days in total; the "jury deliberat[ed] for 2hours, and sentenced Whitaker to death". She was scared. [12][third-party source needed] Bart then ran inside and staged a struggle with Brashear, getting shot in his left arm to divert suspicion. The hurting of the innocent in executing their loved ones is one consideration in the legitimacy of capital punishment but it cannot arbitrarily apply to this case and not so many others that it has not done, nor will do. WebJune 7, 2021: Margaret "Maggie" Murdaugh and Paul Murdaugh found dead at the family hunting lodge. [citation needed] He was named a 2018-2019 PEN America Writing for Justice Fellow,[45] a program that aims to support creation of "written works of lasting merit that illuminate critical issues related to mass incarceration and catalyze public debate". Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Abbott added that Bart Whitaker's father, who "passionately opposes" the execution of his son, would be "victimized again" if the state sentenced his last surviving immediate family member to death. What a waste. [citation needed] In addition, they purchased a lakeside townhouse in Willis, Texas, for his use, and a $4,000 Rolex watch was given to him as a college graduation present hours before the murders. His mother and While out having a celebratory dinner, no one in his family could've imagined the horror that waited for them when they got back home. At it again. As if, for me, the death penalty isnt capricious enough, cases like this make an utter tragic farce of it. Theres also the question of what turned Bart Whitaker into a homicidal fiend. And thanks Rebecca. WebMiraculously, after being shot in the shoulder, Kent Whitaker survived his attacksomething that Bart hadnt anticipated. Marcus I always enjoy reading your reflection on Rebeccas updates and each episode. In 2003, Thomas Bart Whitaker plotted the murder of his family. As the family started filing into their home, a masked intruder inside began shooting them one by one.This podcast is sponsored by BETTER HELP! Fred Felcman, the original prosecutor in the case, said the board made its decision purely because of the fathers forgiveness, and disregarded the large number of others affected by the murders. But Bart also couldnt have the blood of his family on his own hands. The couple relaxed and watched television. Thanks, Rebecca. The laudable desire to hear the victim must not become a means of outcome determination of the magnitude of life and death. So why did Bart kill the people he supposedly loved? Phones bugged. The thought that a man with a gun might still be on the premises did not enter into his consciousness. I dont want you getting shot.. Kent, Cliff called out to his friend. WebBart Whitaker was convicted of hiring a hit man to target his own family. Are you okay?, Im bleeding, Cliff, Kent cried out much louder. 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Visit BetterHelp.com/CREEPERS today to get 10% off your first month.Sources:ArticlesTexas District & County Attorney's Association | A Most Unusual Suspect (Jeff Strange) CBS News | Texas Man Targeted by a Hitman Fights for the Life of the Person Who Ordered the Murder His Son (Peter Van Sant)ABC News | Murder in the Family: 'I Wanted Them Dead' (Harry Phillips & Elissa Stohler)Forensic Files Now | Bart Whitaker: Relative TragedyABC News | 'Murder by Family': Read Shocking ExcerptThe Houston Chronicle | Whitaker Lawyer Attacks Credibility of Witness (Eric Hansen)ABC News | 'Sugar Land' Culprit Made New Life in Mexico (Denise Martinez-Ramundo & Harry Phillips)Wikipedia | Thomas Bartlett WhitakerMedium | The Whitaker Family Murders of Sugar Land, TexasVideoYouTube | 911: The Sugar Land ConspiracyLearn more about your ad choices. Chris Brashear and Steven Champagne denied any involvement in the homicides and provided DNA samples and scent-test specimens. [citation needed][clarification needed], Kent Whitaker had already forgiven his son and his co-conspirators for their parts in the murders (reported on as early as 2007),[20] and had tried at the time of his son's trial, years earlier, to persuade the jury not to deliver a death sentence. The kind-hearted Kent Whitaker forgave Bart and fought for years to stave off his looming execution. For I sent this regarding his clemency plea: Gov. WebTricia Whitaker, a retired teacher, and her 19-year-old son, Kevin, died from their injuries. Thomas Bartlett Whitaker (born December 31, 1979) is an American man convicted under the Texas Law of Parties of murdering two family members as a 24-year-old. [44] Ira Wells, in particular, points to Whitaker's participation in the program to exemplify the questions, declaring Whitaker's prison writing powerful in its ability to "shock readers into a sensory appreciation of the radical strangeness of [his] life lived". He helped himself to $7,000 to $10,000 of his dads cash and fled to Mexico with the help of his friend Rudy Rios. [citation needed] Whitaker had enlisted an individual named Chris Brashear to carry out the shootings, and a Steven Champagne to be the getaway driver for Brashear. The unfurling of this sons web of lies led him to hatch a devious murder plot. It turned out the gun was registered to Kevin Whitaker. Web(Mark Sims for Fox News Digital) Prosecutors have argued that Alex Murdaugh used a shotgun to kill his son, Paul, 22, and a rifle to execute his wife, Maggie, 52, near the property's dog WebThe Whitaker Family Murders True Crime Creepers. He looked up from Tricia into the house, where he spotted someone who he thought was Kevin Whitaker. Regardless, he continued holding the temporary bandage on Kents gushing wound. The main house at the Murdaugh family's Moselle Road property in Islandton, South Carolina, on March 1, 2023. Prosecutors were against the visit, saying the scene looks different than it did in June 2021 as trees and vegetation has grown and no one has lived on the property since the killings. [3][29], Abbott accepted their recommendation and commuted Whitaker's death sentence, noting that Whitaker had "voluntarily and forever waived any and all claims to parole in exchange for a commutation of his sentence from death to life without the possibility of parole." Thats all for this post. A grand jury indicted Bart, then 25, and Steve Champagne and Chris Brashear, both 23, in October 2005. Jurors on Wednesday visited the family hunting lodge where Alex Murdaugh's wife, Maggie, and son Paul were killed as prosecutors made their closing arguments in the weekslong murder trial against the South Carolina lawyer. Yes! Whitaker's parents had bought him several luxury vehicles. [42] He also contributed[clarification needed] to Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement. This WAS the case with the Parole Board here in UK until recently, but due to controversial decisions broad reasons are now to be given. and a Fort Bend County jury. Decisions, as in US, were private, but limited information about decisions will be made public. Where is he now? Murdaugh, who has been disbarred, admitted to the thefts, which could carry decades in prison,on the stand last week. Kinsey testified his opinion was also based on being certain the fatal shotgun wound to Paul Murdaugh was fired from down low and headed up through the head instead of downward with the gun pressed against his head. Bart never paid his accomplices for their hit man services. WebJurors in the trial of accused killer Alex Murdaughs toured Moselle, the family property where prosecutors say the 54-year-old former lawyer gunned down his wife and son in 2021. Clifton, get out of there! she shouted frantically. Homicide detective Marshall Slot, who appeared on both Forensic Files and the 20/20 episode about the murders, recalled that he thought the operator was joking when she said a shooting of four people had taken place in Sugar Land. He and Bart enjoyed biking long distances together. WebBart Whitaker was convicted of capital murder for the shooting deaths of his mother, Tricia Whitaker, and his younger brother, Kevin Whitaker, in an attack he devised at the family's Two years before a masked assailant shot them in their own house, Kent and Patricia Whitaker found out that their son had formulated a plan to kill them. The overwhelming forgiveness offered by one victim is not of the order of distinctness necessary. Cliff spotted Kent Whitaker sprawled out on the concrete front porch next door. The seven-member Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted unanimously to commute the sentence. Bart would later tell ABCs 20/20 that he never felt as though he fit in. Sugar Land had a practically nonexistent murder rate and Kent would later recall that, when he saw the armed intruder, he figured it was one of his kids friends playing a prank with a paintball gun. Your email address will not be published. In September2005, Whitaker was handed over to U.S. authorities at the border town of Laredo, Texas, where he was arrested for capital murder. WebThe Mysterious Saga of the Whitaker Family Murders Family Shot in the Chest. (a common Forensic Files pathology see Barbara Stager and Mark Winger.). As Rebecca describes, heres a privileged man who plotted a number of times to murder at least his parents, eventually achieving death for some of his apparently loving family, for money. We know little about the family due to the Whitakers secretive nature It also held a glove that matched one left at the murder scene and a water bottle with Chris Brashears DNA sealed on the inside of the cap. (Andrew J. Whitaker/The Post And Courier via AP, Pool), Flying bug found at Walmart turns out to be rare Jurassic-era insect. They went out to lunch together, had dinner a few times, and even made it out to the theater once on a double date. First published on February 28, 2023 / 5:23 PM. In 2007, he admitted he was "100 percent guilty" and that he hated his parents and brother at the time. P. O. Judge Clifton Newman is allowing only the jury, attorneys from both sides, security and police, and a court reporter to come. Prosecutors have pounded Murdaugh for various inconsistencies and lies, including not saying he was at the kennels the night of the killing when he could be heard heard on video recorded by his son. Bart. If it is to make a difference there must be distinct characteristics of this case, which I cannot discern. Compare his with another Texas case that ended in death one in which the perp was encouraged by another to kill her parents (no excuse, but not under his OWN initiative, unlike Whitaker), in which there was no significant, repeated premeditation, unlike of Whitaker, where the initiator the daughter didnt get the death penalty, and where this offender is widely considered to have exhibited genuine remorse: https://murderpedia.org/male.D/d1/dillingham-jeffrey.htm, One lives; one dies. Was that on the TV? Brandon asked his parents. [40][non-primary source needed] The masters thesis has been subject of some controversy, as someone appears to have offered it as a book for sale (see also below). Mailer regretted the whole affair. WebEvidence shown in Alex Murdaugh's trial for murder shows the Colleton County, South Carolina, property, known as Moselle. Next up, they focused on two of Barts co-workers from the Bentwater Yacht & Country Club near Lake Conroe. The murders were arranged by Bart Whitaker in an attempt to inherit the family's estate. Finally, as to the question of what turned Bart into such a callous and motivated killer, no mention of any type of abuse or trauma came up. WebThe Whitaker family from Odd, West Virginia, is arguably the most famous inbred family in the United States. "[16] The trial judge's[who?] Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. So, lets get going on the recap of Family Interrupted along with extra information drawn from internet research: Gathering place. I just fixed it thx for the heads-up! WebBartlett Whitakers trial began in March 2007. Red herring. Kent then looked up at his neighbor and said, Cliff, they really could be inside there. [47][48] The name of the blog references "the hour at which executions take place in Texas". A Texas inmate who was due to be executed for masterminding the murder of his family has been granted commutation shortly before he was due to be put to death. The hangar and dog kennels where the bodies of Paul and Maggie were found, pictured on March 1, 2023, A hose in the dog kennels at the Murdaugh family property, March 1, 2023, The dog kennels at the Murdaugh property in Islandton, March 1, 2023. (Photo: Inside Story) On December 10, 2003 the entire Whitaker family Kent, his wife Tricia, and sons Bart and Kevin were gunned down inside their home in Sugarland, Texas, by a masked man who had been waiting inside for them. [citation needed][24] Whitaker withdrew his appeal pertaining to the purity of the drug used, pending at the Supreme Court of the United States, just before a decision by the Texas Governor to grant clemency and commute his sentence. Maggie Murdaugh Facebook. Both victims appeared to be surprised with their hands down. Watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/KillerInstinctYTDont forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: http://bit.ly/KillerInstinctPodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be helpful! Want more true crime books? Jekyll and Hyde. I dont care how much perps have changed, repent, or are model prisoners: the worst crimes, like his, should mean whole-life because theyve earned the punishment they got (inc Whitaker). He felt so frustrated. Thanks, Monica so glad you liked the piece! 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Whitakers father insists that he would be victimized again if the state put to death the last remaining member of his immediate family, said Gov. Cliff met Tricia the day he and his wife had moved in. Texas is fortunate to have you working in their state. Jail records indicate that Buzzard was arrested on Aug. 25, 2021. Abbott also said he took into account that Bart Whitaker voluntarily waived all claims for parole in exchange for a commutation. With that penalty at stake, we must be concerned that justice really is so as much as reasonably possible. We did have one murder from the UK on MD/FF have you seen the one about Graham Backhouse? Partners in crime. His mother Tricia and brother Kevin both died. Along with his second wife, Tanya Youngling, Kent Whitaker visits Bart regularly, speaking to him from behind a glass partition. Blueprint for murder. The exact date and time of the jury trip has not been scheduled because it is dependent on how many witnesses the prosecution calls in its reply case. [citation needed], On Friday, March 2, 2007, the State of Texas[who?] Bart opening up his graduation gift from his parents on the night of the murders. "Manufacturing Anomie"[citation needed] and the essay "A Nothing Would Do as Well". True Crime Creepers The Whitaker family was in celebration mode - their oldest son, Thomas "Bart" Whitaker, had just finished his final It doesnt change what they did and what they have been judged on. Tricia Whitaker continued to moan in agony. The field trip came as prosecutors made their closing arguments in the weekslong trial where Alex Murdaugh stands accused of murdering his wife, Maggie, and son Paul. He always thought a lot of the youngest son who had returned from his first semester in college at Texas A&M University. 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