[ woman ] st. jude saved my daughter s life. [ claire ] i love st. jude. [ male announcer ] please call or go online right now and become a st. jude partner in hope today. when you got the definitive news here, it s a family, and they re all gone? it was just one of those. a sinking feeling. to know that something like this has happened. you have seen a lot of bad stuff, and this was enough to sicken you? it was. philip height was a large-scale real estate investor and a prominent name across the town. someone who counted sheriff mcduffie as one of his best friends. but now he was dead. mysteriously and beautifully cut down in his own home in the middle of the night. along with his son, and his
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anything is finances. craig may have been referring to the fact that his father philip, and brother carey, like so many others. had recently been spreading the plunging value in the 2008 real estate market. investigators would learn that the father son team of philip and carey ran a business worth millions. but they were heavily invested. land rich? maybe cash poor. had something gone dangerously downhill in philip heidt s empire? there were some complicated partnerships to examine. once this happened, there were numerous rumors about who did it. and if the market can do it or was it a professional hit? or did someone local do it. and he was a player. he had a lot of interest. how to state money? he did. and it s not unreasonable for investigators to get a deal to go south there? exactly. was this a bad deal that somebody got mad about and came to retaliate for. and craig heidt had perhaps another clue to offer detectives. he had been after the family
property after the shootings and said that he noticed some of his things missing in the shut out back. including, a 12 gauge firearm. the 12 gauge is not there. i have one pair of snakebite boots. that are not there. could the assailant had stolen those items to commit the crime? but, there was something else gbi agents was starting to get wind of. rumors around town of a possible skeleton in the heidt family closet. investigators knew it could be nothing or something. but they would have to run down the scuttlebutt before they could move on to other leads. if only one family member would be more candid with them. after all, the rumors were about him. have you been totally honest with me throughout this entire investigation? yes sir. about everything? yes sir. coming up. maybe if i had went in april, to miss london, mr. philip, and
and mr. philip reached in, took my keys and pushed my arm away. robbyn says that she told her about the incident with his father. the state theorize that it was about then that the tensions in the family became unbearable. of family friend named loretta recalled that carey told her about the fight between the two brothers that turned ugly. he said they surprised him at the house. and craig brings in the run. and he just threatened to shoot carey. and his daddy grabbed the gun. took the gun, and took it away. jurors sound photos of damage to the house caused by the two brothers. a damage, wall damage furniture. in court, loretta testified about what else she said carey told her. that during that fight, philip, the father, had given craig an ultimatum. if you don t leave robbyn alone, i m gonna cut you out of the will. and in fact, phillip heidt s accountant testified that he and philip did discuss taking