These infamous killers had no problem biting the hand that fed them. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re examining the most shocking times someone took the lives of their parents, also known as parricide.
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00:00There were people that were just following this case like a soap opera, like a novella,
00:06because it had so many twists and turns.
00:08Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're examining the most shocking time
00:11someone took the lives of their parents, also known as Parasite.
00:15The sentence came after 31-year-old Henry Chow was found guilty last Friday
00:20of murdering his elderly parents.
00:24Loa Lee Andrews, a student at the University of Kansas.
00:27Andrews was described as the nicest boy in Walcott, his hometown.
00:32However, nothing was further from the truth.
00:34In 1958, obsessed with getting involved in organized crime and being a hitman,
00:39Andrews walked into his family bedroom.
00:41After donning a suit, he grabbed a firearm.
00:44He ended the lives of his sister, Jenny Marie, and parents, William and Opal,
00:48with many, many shots.
00:50After making the scene look like a robbery,
00:52Andrews drove to the cinema near his college apartment for an alibi.
00:56He then returned and called the cops.
00:58However, they were suspicious.
00:59It took a local pastor to get Andrews to admit what he'd done.
01:03In 1962, he was executed for his crimes.
01:06Chandler Halderson
01:08Bart and Krista had vanished from their home in Windsor, Wisconsin.
01:11When we first got the email saying that Bart and Krista were missing,
01:15it didn't compute.
01:16Like, what do you mean they're missing?
01:17Only their son Chandler didn't seem desperate to find them
01:20until Krista's colleague intervened.
01:22After he went around the neighborhood asking if anyone had seen his parents,
01:26a farmer told the cops they'd seen Halderson several days ago on their property.
01:30When officers retraced his steps, they found his father's remains.
01:34Halderson was arrested, but he wouldn't divulge where Krista was.
01:38Chandler Halderson had lawyered up and wasn't talking,
01:42but someone very close to him was.
01:45Using data from his girlfriend's Snapchat account,
01:47they pinpointed his movements and found his mother's remains.
01:51He allegedly did it due to his lies being exposed about dropping out of college
01:55and faking an internship at a SpaceX job.
01:57In 2022, Halderson was sentenced to life.
02:01Halderson was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
02:06Susanne von Richthofen
02:08In 2002, von Richthofen invited her boyfriend,
02:11Daniel Cravinhos, and his brother,
02:13Cristian Cravinhos, into her family home in Sao Paulo, Brazil at night.
02:17For months, she had been planning this moment after her parents disapproved of her relationship
02:22and had a fortune of millions she wanted to inherit.
02:25After the Cravinhos murdered Manfredi Albert and Marisia von Richthofen,
02:29the trio staged a break-in.
02:31Later, when they returned home,
02:33von Richthofen got her brother and, quote,
02:35discovered the carnage.
02:36However, the disconnected alarm system and von Richthofen hosting her birthday party
02:41after her parents' funeral led cops to arrest her and the brothers.
02:44In 2006, von Richthofen and Danielle received 40 years,
02:48while Cristian got 38 years.
02:50In 2023, she was released on probation.
02:54Tyler Hadley
02:55In 2011, Michael Mandel attended a party at his friend's house in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
03:00Well, Michael, it was here inside this Port St. Lucie home that
03:03investigators say Tyler Hadley allegedly murdered both of his parents with a hammer.
03:08However, when he took a walk with host Hadley,
03:10he confessed to Mandel that he had killed his parents, Blake and Mary Jo,
03:14and their bodies were in the bedroom, unbeknownst to the guests.
03:18For several hours, Mandel played it cool.
03:30Once he left, he contacted a crime hotline, and Hadley was soon arrested.
03:35With a history of substance use,
03:37his parents wanted to send him to inpatient treatment, which angered him.
03:40In 2014, due to being a minor at the time of the crime, he was sentenced to two life terms.
03:46After it was overturned on a technicality in 2018, Hadley was re-sentenced to life.
03:52This morning, the judge ruled to uphold two life sentences for Tyler Hadley.
03:57Joel Michael Guy Jr.
03:59In 2016, the police arrived at the home of Joel and Lisa Guy in Knoxville, Tennessee
04:04for a wellness check when she didn't turn up for work.
04:07Police officers visited the Guy's residence and checked in with their neighbors.
04:21After getting inside, they discovered a grisly scene as their remains were everywhere.
04:26During this time, their son, Joel Guy Jr., was getting medical treatment for cuts on his hands.
04:31When he was arrested, the cops found a mountain of evidence,
04:35including a notebook documenting his plan.
04:37The best description of its contents, I would call this a murder book.
04:42The plastic surgeon student was devastated his parents were retiring soon and moving,
04:46taking away the financial aid they'd given him for years.
04:49Looking to cash in on his mother's life insurance,
04:52Guy took their lives and attempted to destroy evidence.
04:55In 2020, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
04:58He was sentenced to life in prison for two counts of first-degree murder
05:02and dismemberment of his parents, Joel Guy Sr. and Lisa Guy.
05:07The Bever Brothers
05:08The Bever family in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, were extremely secretive,
05:12resulting in their neighbors not knowing their full names as they
05:15homeschooled and isolated their children from others.
05:18The only people that were unlike everyone else here
05:21lived at the house where police are now investigating a murder.
05:24It's just shocking, shocking and frightening.
05:28In 2015, 9-1-1 received a distressing call from Daniel Bever
05:33that his brother was attacking them before the line cut off.
05:36When the cops arrived, parents David and April,
05:38along with children Daniel, Christopher, and Victoria had been slain.
05:42When police broke through the door, they found a family slaughtered.
05:45Crystal was severely injured, and Autumn was unharmed.
05:49Teenage brothers Robert and Michael spent months
05:51hoarding weapons and armor to attack the family.
05:54They claimed their father was abusive,
05:56but Robert also stated his desire to be a serial killer.
05:59Both received multiple life terms for their actions.
06:02Robert Bever and his brother Michael Bever are serving a life sentence.
06:06Ronald DeFeo Jr.
06:08In one terrible act of parasite,
06:10DeFeo would inspire the Amityville horror film series.
06:13In 1974, he ran into a bar near the family home
06:17in Amityville, Long Island, New York to get help.
06:19In just a matter of minutes,
06:21Ron DeFeo eliminated his entire family, shooting them as they slept.
06:25DeFeo led a group home to discover his parents, Ronald and Louise,
06:29and his siblings Don, Allison, Mark, and John had all been fatally shot.
06:33While the police were protecting DeFeo,
06:35he suggested his family were victims of a mob hit.
06:38His initial claim that he was in a basement and high on pot
06:41and heard nothing to a later assertion, but the mob did it.
06:44His story began to unravel, leading to his confession.
06:48Over time, DeFeo's story changed many times,
06:51leading some to believe he was set up or questioning his mental health.
06:55Regardless, he was sentenced to 25 years to life and perished in jail in 2021.
07:00He died Friday while serving a 25-year life sentence
07:04at Sullivan Correctional Facility in Fallsburg, New York.
07:06Jasmine Richardson
07:08With him being nearly double their daughter's age at 23,
07:11claiming to be a 300-year-old werewolf and wearing a vial of blood around his neck,
07:16it's understandable that Mark and Deborah Richardson
07:18didn't like their child's boyfriend Jeremy Steinke.
07:20He was from the other side of the tracks,
07:24and he was an unemployed high school dropout who was living in a trailer park.
07:29Yet grounding Richardson did not deter her.
07:31Instead, it caused her to create a terrible plan.
07:35In 2006, she opened a window for Steinke at the family home in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada.
07:40He fatally attacked Richardson's parents and her brother Tyler.
07:44One of the officers noticed a family portrait sitting on a side table.
07:48When he took a look at it, there were four people.
07:51So there was a girl missing.
07:52In 2007, Richardson was the youngest person in Canada
07:56to be found guilty of multiple murders and sentenced to 10 years.
08:00In 2008, Steinke was sentenced to life with possible parole after 25 years.
08:05In 2016, Richardson was released from all conditions and rejoined society.
08:10We all know she'll be out in the community one day.
08:13That's inevitable.
08:14And what kind of person is she going to be?
08:15What kind of adult is she going to be?
08:17Henry Chow Hai-Liung
08:18In 2013, Chow and his older brother desperately sought their parents,
08:22Glory Chow Wing-Chi and Moon-Sue Yuet-Yee,
08:25who'd vanished in Tai Kok Choy, Hong Kong.
08:27In 2013, Henry Chow lured his 65-year-old father
08:31and 63-year-old mother to a flat in Tai Kok Choy.
08:34After going to social media and the press for help,
08:37Chow went to the police.
08:38During questioning, he told his friends through WhatsApp
08:41that he had murdered his parents.
08:43Chow blamed his parents for his failures in life.
08:46The judge criticized Chow for thinking that killing his parents
08:49would solve all his problems.
08:51He invited them to Angus Tse Chung Khoi's apartment,
08:54where Chow murdered them.
08:56Tse then helped get rid of the bodies by making them appear as pork
08:59and storing them in lunchboxes.
09:00In 2015, Chow was found guilty and sentenced to life,
09:04and Tse received one year.
09:06Despite pretending to have mental problems,
09:09he had planned the murder for six months
09:11and was very aware of what he was doing, the judge said.
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09:30The Menendez Brothers
09:31In 1989, Lyle and Eric Menendez opened fire on their parents,
09:36Jose and Kitty, at their family home in Beverly Hills, California.
09:49When the cops arrived, the brothers stated they were out
09:52and came home to discover their parents slain.
09:54Eric later confessed to his psychiatrist,
09:57and the information got back to the police who arrested them.
10:00On March 8th, 1990, after police got their hands on that tape,
10:04Lyle Menendez was taken into custody.
10:07Eric Menendez, who was out of the country at the time,
10:10surrendered to police days later.
10:13While the prosecution pointed at the brothers' greed
10:15and wanting their wealthy father's cash, they had a different story.
10:18They spoke about the years of abuse they sustained from Jose.
10:21They feared for their lives after threatening to expose him,
10:24leading to them slaying their parents.
10:26In 1996, after the first trial was deadlocked,
10:30the brothers were sentenced to life without parole.
10:32At the jury's recommendation,
10:34the brothers were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
10:39Which of these stories shocked you the most? Let us know below.
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