***WARNING: This episode covers graphic subject matter, including kidnapping, sexual assault, and murder. It may not be suitable for all listeners. Please take care of yourself while listening.***

In the early 1980s, the quiet coastal community of Vero Beach, Florida began to experience a series of unexplained disappearances.

Young women and teenage girls vanished from beach roads, rural highways, and hitchhiking routes that locals traveled every day.

For years, there were no answers.

No suspects.

No bodies.

And no one in the community could imagine that the men responsible were living among them the entire time.

One was a citrus grove caretaker and auxiliary sheriff’s deputy who wore a badge and carried handcuffs.

The other was his cousin.

Together, they created a system built on deception, control, and violence.

Victims were hunted, abducted, assaulted, and murdered in the isolation of Florida’s orange groves.

And for years, they got away with it.

That changed on July 26th, 1983.

When a teenage girl managed to escape.

Running naked down a Vero Beach street in broad daylight.

Her desperate attempt to survive would expose one of the most disturbing serial murder cases in Florida history — and the men who would become known as The Killing Cousins.

In this cinematic deep-dive, we follow the case from the first hidden crimes in the citrus groves… to the escape that finally brought everything crashing down.

And the reckoning that followed.

Six victims.

Two cousins.

A community forever changed.

🎙 Hosted, written & produced by Joe Turino

🎵 Original theme music by Modern Mimes www.modernmimes.com

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👻 And as always… stay weird, Florida.