Vidar, Delfina, Tabitha and Peter Lillelid were on their way home from a Jehovah's Witness gathering in Johnson City, Tennessee when they ran into trouble at a rest stop in Greenville, Tennessee. Six young people, who called themselves The Wild Bunch, forced the family into their van at gunpoint, and directed them to drive to a dark, desolate road where they were murdered execution style. But why?

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Sources for this episode include:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillelid_murders

https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/25-years-after-gruesome-murders-community-remembers-lillelid-family/

https://www.wbir.com/article/features/lillelid-murders-25-years-later-peter-lillelid-heier/51-2772ef4a-a99d-4ae2-a7cd-9a568a8d99bf

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https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/the-lillelid-murders/id1179629560?i=1000486909011

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https://wordsandpictures.blog/2022/04/06/twenty-five-years-since-the-unthinkable/

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