With the bodies of her mother, Elizabeth, and sister, Katie, upstairs, Kim Edwards watched the Twilight movies with her boyfriend Lucas Markham, reveling in their unobstructed relationship before police came to arrest them. Having long been jealous of her mother and sister’s close relationship, Kim wanted revenge for how her mother had treated her, and getting Lucas to kill Elizabeth for her was hardly difficult. After all, Elizabeth had never kept her disapproval of their relationship a secret. We're continuing with our theme of daughters who kill as we dig into Kim and Lucas’s relationship and the resulting murders.

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We will be covering two separate cases about daughters who kill this week. First, when Reid and Miriam Beck’s son, Justin, visits their home on January 17, 2023, because he hadn’t talked to his parents in a few days, his sister, Verity, who is also living in the house, tells him things have “been bad.” Justin can see that when he notices what looks like a body covered with a sheet and a chainsaw nearby. Second, local villagers in Bawan Kheri, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, heard crying and pleading late in the evening of April 15, 2008. After making their way to the home, they noticed the patriarch of the family deceased and on the floor. Police would later find six more family members, including a 10-month-old boy, all dead.

Sources for Verity Beck:

https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/mental-health-brief-psychotic-disorder

https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/verity-beck-insanity-defense-murder-parents/

https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news/local/prosecutors-abington-woman-killed-parents-after-stealing

https://www.inquirer.com/crime/verity-beck-murder-abington-theft-montgomery-county-20231201.html

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https://www.inquirer.com/news/verity-beck-jenkintown-charged-murder-dismembering-reid-miriam-20230623.html

Sources for Shabnam Ali:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/24/india/india-shabnam-execution-intl-dst-hnk/index.html

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/the-shabnam-that-i-knew-was-very-different/article33949536.ece

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Daughters who kill … That’s our first ever theme, and today, we’re diving into the case of Virginia McCullough. We’ve all dug ourselves into a hole with our lies before. Most of us, though, don’t see murder as our only way out. However, Virginia McCullough decided that murdering her parents, John and Lois, was her only answer. When the police showed up at the family home, they learned that Virginia hadn’t just been living with what she’d done, she’d been living with the bodies of her parents for the past four years.

Sources:

https://www.unodc.org/documents/gsh/pdfs/GLOBAL_HOMICIDE_Report_ExSum.pdf

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx24g4pq51eo

https://www.essex.police.uk/news/essex/news/news/2024/october/chelmsford-daughter-life-sentence-murdered-parents/

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