Blake Bivens said he was alone at an airport when he discovered through Facebook that his wife, Emily Bernard Bivens, their son, Cullen Micah Bivens, and his mother-in-law, Joan Bernard, were dead.
“I’m thankful she doesn’t see JJ…She wants him and for me to disappear. Seriously…,” Charles Vallow allegedly texted a friend just months before he would be killed, followed soon after by son JJ's disappearance.
When Sylvia White was setting up the murder-for-hire of her husband, Billy White, she told the hitman, “It's not that hard to do. I had a stepchild. I put a bag over it until it stopped breathing.”
All of the family members Christopher Stokes allegedly admitted to killing were under the age of 18. Stokes' on-and-off girlfriend was also shot to death in the slayings.
Nancy Crampton-Brophy, a 69-year-old romance novelist accused in the fatal 2018 shooting of her husband Dan Brophy, was allegedly entitled to $1.5 million in insurance policies and home equity should her spouse prematurely die.